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Okkervil River have released the video for new single ‘Your Life Past As a Blast‘, the first official promo from their brilliant 2011 album ‘I Am Very Far‘. The video has been compiled by the band’s multi-talented frontman Will Sheff, and features footage from his father’s home movie collection. Related…

Summer’s here and up and down the UK and beyond bands are hauling themselves through rain, mud, occasional sunshine and irritating TV presenters as another festival season gets in full swing. So with 2011 already careering towards July, it seems like a good time to sit back, take stock of…

Okkervil River - 'I Am Very Far' Take a quick scan of all the online articles describing Austin alt-rockers Okkervil River and a certain set of terms will permeate each piece, namely ones like ‘poetic’ or ‘bookish’ or ‘hyper-literate.’  While such language may seem somewhat nebulous when used to describe…

Start your week right here as Live4ever’s music collection offers you all the weekend’s chart news, our pick of the week’s new album releases, and you can also plan your next seven days with our UK Gig Guide where you will find tickets for some of the best shows currently…

Live4ever was lucky enough to catch dozens of memorable shows at the recent SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. For this week’s playlist, check out some official videos from eleven of the best bands we witnessed that took the festival by storm. Related news: The Vaccines, Future Islands among new names …

Okkervil River Day three of the SXSW festival was kicked started by a special talk by Yoko Ono, who is due to perform tomorrow at the Elysium. Beginning with a near 20 minute condensed documentary of her life, Yoko talked through parts of her life with John Lennon, the inspiration…