Watch: Paper Boats Share New Video For "Twelve"

London indie-pop band Paper Boats have shared the video for their latest single "Twelve". Watch it below.

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Watch: Two Door Cinema Club Unveil "Handshake" Video

Two Door Cinema Club have unveiled the video for "Handshake", the fourth single taken from the band's latest album 'Beacon'. The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

Check out the video below.

Pre order the Handshake EP here.

Watch: The Joy Formidable Unveil "Little Blimp" Video

British trio The Joy Formidable have unveiled the video for "Little Blimp", taken from their new album Wolf’s Law, which was released on January 22nd via Warner Bros Records. The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

"Little Blimp" is due for release as a digital single on 8th April. Watch the video below.

Watch: Django Django Share A New Video For "WOR"

Django Django have shared a new video for their 2010 track "WOR," which was also included on the  band’s eponymous album, released last year via Ribbon Music. 

The video, directed by Jim Demuth and based on an original concept by David Macleanwas, was filmed in collaboration with Noisey, who accepted their proposal to travel to India and meet the infamous Indian Well of Death riders in Allahabad.

Watch the new video for WOR below.

Watch: The Vaccines Unveil New Video For "Bad Mood"

The Vaccines have unveiled the video for their new single "Bad Mood", taken from their second album 'Come Of Age' released last year. The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

Watch the video below.

The single was released through Columbia Records on Monday 4th March on download and 7".

The Primitives Share "Always Coming Back" Audio

The Primitives have shared the audio for "Always Coming Back", the b-side of their new 7" single, which will be released on a limited numbered edition of 500 copies [Transparent Vinyl].

Listen to "Always Coming Back" below.

You can buy your copy now on iTunes.

Watch: The Primitives Share Video For "Lose The Reason"

The Primitives have shared the video for their new single "Lose The Reason", the title track on their new 7". The song has been added to our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

This new 7" single also features another new track "Always Coming Back", and will be released on a limited numbered edition of 500 copies [Transparent Vinyl]. You can purchase your copy now on iTunes.

The video was directed by Chris Croft. Watch it below.

Watch: Two Door Cinema Club New Video For "Next Year"

Two Door Cinema Club have unveiled the video for "Next Year", the third single taken from the band's latest album "Beacon".

The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

The video, directed by Giorgio Testi, was filmed on January 19th at the O2 Arena, Dublin. 

Watch it below.

My Bloody Valentine Release New Album "mbv"

My Bloody Valentine have released their brand new album, 'mbv' last night (February 2) via a brand new website for the band.

The site www.mybloodyvalentine.org crashed almost immediately after launching.

The nine-track follow-up to 1991's 'Loveless' is available exclusively from the website and will be sold as a download only, CD and download or as a 180g vinyl, CD and download package. The vinyl and CD packages will be posted within three weeks of purchase date, but the download will be immediate.

The tracklisting for 'mbv' is as follows

01. She Found Now
02. Only Tomorrow
03. Who Sees You
04. Is This And Yes
05. If I Am
06. New You
07. In Another Way
08. Nothing Is
09. Wonder 2

The vinyl and CD artwork is currently being finished and each format will have slightly different but similar artwork to the download artwork that will be attached to your download.

Watch: Suede Unveil "It Starts And Ends With You" Video

Suede have unveiled the video for their new track "It Starts And Ends With You" taken from their first studio album in over 10 years 'Bloodsports' out on March 18.

Brett Anderson said: ''It Starts and Ends With You' is a bittersweet, bouncy pop song with a whole load of choruses stuck together. It's about infatuation and attraction and the fever of falling head first back into the pit."

The song has been added to our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com. Watch the video below.

Watch: Miles Kane Reveals Video For 'Give Up'

Miles Kane has unveiled the video for his new single 'Give Up', the lead single of  his four-track EP due for release next month.

"I wanted the energy and positivity that I’ve felt in the past 18 months to be reflected on the new album – to make it upbeat and uplifting, and to me that’s exactly what ‘Give Up’ does. It doesn’t mess around." Said Miles about the song.

The track is expected to feature on Miles’ second solo album, set to arrive later this year. Watch the video below.

Pre-order Give Up here: http://smarturl.it/GiveUpDigi?IQid=yt

The Vaccines Announce New Single 'Bad Mood'

The Vaccines have announced details of the release of their new single 'Bad Mood', taken from their 2nd album 'Come Of Age' released last year. The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

The single will be released through Columbia Records on Monday 4th March on download and 7” and continues the theme of each band member writing a B-Side – this time guitarist Freddie Cowan provides a song produced by his brother, Tom Cowan of The Horrors.

The band have also announced details of an arena tour in May 2013. Check the dates below:

MAY
1st Margate Winter Gardens
2nd London O2 Arena
4th Carlisle Sands Centre
5th Leeds Millennium Square
6th Llandudno Cymru Arena

Suede Confirm Tracklisting, Release Date For 'Bloodsports'

Suede have confirmed they will released 'Bloodsports', their first new album for over ten years in March 18.

The album will be released on CD, LP and Deluxe and they have also confirmed that 'It Starts and Ends with You' will be released as a single on the same day, following the release of 'Barriers' as a free download last week.

Lead singer Brett Anderson said: "After a year of sweating and bleeding over the record it's finally finished so we wanted to get some music out there as soon as we could. 

"'Barriers' isn't the first single but we are proud of it enough just to chuck it out there and thought that it's pulsing, romantic swell somehow summed up the feel of the album quite nicely .

"The album is called Bloodsports. It's about lust, it's about the chase, it's about the endless carnal game of love. It was possibly the hardest we've ever made but certainly the most satisfying.

"Its ten furious songs for me have reclaimed from ourselves what Suede was always about; drama, melody and noise."

The tracklist for Bloodsports is as follows.

01. Barriers
02. Snowblind
03. It Starts And Ends With You
04. Sabotage
05. For The Strangers
06. Hit Me
07. Sometimes I Feel I'll Float Away
08. What Are You Not Telling me?
09. Always
10. Faultlines

You can pre-order now:
CD: http://goo.gl/lGu1j
LP: http://goo.gl/kudbp
DELUXE: http://smarturl.it/suede.store

Watch: Johnny Marr Shares New Video For "Upstarts"

Johnny Marr has unveiled his new video for "Upstarts", the lead single off his forthcoming solo debut, The Messenger. The song is now part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

The video was directed by David Barnes. Watch it below.

The Messenger hits stores February 26th via Sire/ADA, pre-order here. ‘Upstarts’ will be precede the record on 18 February as a Download, CD single and & 7" Vinyl. The B-side is Psychic Beginner, a non-album track which was a favourite from last years live shows.

James Frontman Tim Booth "I do see Simon Cowell as some kind of Antichrist"

In an interview with Digital Spy, James frontman Tim Booth talked about how pop mogul Simon Cowell has significantly lowered the expectations of the public. 

"Punk brought in a slightly puritanical morality of not selling out. What happened in the early '90s was the media sold out. Q would put Spice Girls on the front cover and Robbie Williams. I'm not knocking them, but those magazines used to be about music, and just about music.

"That seemed like a betrayal. That seemed like a sell-out. They're accusing bands of selling out, it must be able to work the other way.

"From then on it became about money, and how much you sell. Rather than music. There's a crossover with that, obviously, but it shouldn't just be about money and celebrity. It became that when Spice Girls got some kudos.

"It was like, 'You're f**king kidding me!' This stuff was manipulated, created to con the pocket money out of young girls, essentially, and it worked. But it shouldn't get mythologised by the music press, just because it's successful. And by star-hungry journalists."

He added: "I've seen that happen and Pop Idol entrenched that, and all of those things. And I do see Simon Cowell as some kind of Antichrist, in that way. In the kind of Bill Hicks. You've been sent to the planet to lower the standards, so that people will forget that they are actually angels and divine beings. They kind of lose themselves in this s**t. So, yes, I can rant like that now and again!

"I would never say that he should be shot. I would just say that he's probably the Antichrist in my world. To me it's like what Rupert Murdoch did to this country and what Dennis Potter spoke out about. It's about dumbing down and lowering the standards.

"I totally get why people are attracted to it and kids are attracted to it as a shortcut. But it's a shortcut to a short life. I don't think it's very fulfilling. What I want to see is people expressing themselves. From their heart, from their soul. I don't think when you become part of a machine like that you have any chance of that happening."

"I went last night to see a band in Brighton called Soccer 96. Two guys, drummer and keyboard player, and it was genius. It was their own language. It was raw as f**k. There wasn't a chorus to rub together. It was fantastic. Tiny audience, but people going, 'Whoah'. You're watching a band who's going to influence a lot of people. Booth continued.

"They may not become huge - if they stay as bloody minded as they are. But genius. Then you watch Alabama Shakes and you go, 'F**king hell'. That's the music we want. That's the music that feeds us and touches our souls."

The singer added of the media: "The NME particularly sold out. It had to launch a new band to be the great band every two years and then destroy them after two years... it just became clearly an editorial conceit and a strategy to try and keep people interested. Aimed at manipulation."

A few weeks ago, Depeche Mode's Martin Gore also spoke about Cowell saying: "I'm not advocating violence, but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell! His influence in the music industry over the last God knows how many years it's been now... it's just like, so many people think that that's what music is. What happened to bands getting together? They are very few and far between now and the ones that do probably can't afford to get into a studio and make a record."

The Horrors To Release 'Higher' Box Set

The Horrors have announced the release of a limited edition box-set, featuring remixes and videos from their 2011 album, 'Skying'.

"Higher" boxset,  contains remixes from Connan Mockasin, Seahawks, Andrew Weatherall, Blanck Mass, Peaking Lights, Cherrystones, Chris Watson, Daniel Avery, JTC and Andy Blake. Asked about his contribution, Andrew Weatherall said: "One of the pleasures of remixing is seeing how other people construct their music. Re-arranging the bricks in The Horrors wall of sound was a particular joy."

"I used Weddell seals singing at the intro recorded under the Antartic sea ice," said Watson. "The rhythms of the Humbolt current around the Galapagos Islands recorded with DPA hydrophones. Singing grey seals recorded out on the Farne Islands, Northumberland and the processed voices of Orca, killer whales, recorded in the sea of Norway." 

Speaking of how the boxed set came to fruition, The Horrors' Tom Cowan said; "We were driving through the deserts of California when we hatched the plan to release a boxed set of the singles from Skying, unaware that it would balloon into the monster that it did. We started off small, just one version per single. However, through chance encounters and wanting to involve more people whose music excited us, the box soon grew into an impressive collection of sonic tapestries and hypnotic grooves and it became apparent that this was no longer about the singles. It was now about this new music which had used the different elements of Skying as a springboard to other ideas. We encouraged everyone involved to be as obtuse as possible, to get as far away from the original source material as they could. The results are stunning, and I think it's just a shame we couldn't have done more."

'Higher' is out now digitally, and will get a physical release in March 2013 via XL.

The tracklisting is as follows:

12" Vinyl One
A1. Still Life
A2. Still Life (Connan Mockasin Remix)
B1. Still Life (Still Living Still Giving Cherrystones Remix)
B2. Dive In (The Pressure Ridges) - Chris Watson Remix

12" Vinyl Two
A1. I Can See Through You
A2. Monica Gems (Daniel Avery Remix)
B1. I Can See Through You (Blanck Mass Remix)

12" Vinyl Three
A1. Changing The Rain
A2. You Said (Peaking Lights Dub U Mix)
B1. Comes In Waves (Seahawks Skying Suite)

12" Vinyl Four
A1. Moving Further Away (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
B1. Moving Further Away (Andy Blake World Unknown Mix)

CD One
1. I Can See Through You (Blanck Mass Remix)
2. Monica Gems (Daniel Avery Remix)
3. Still Life (Connan Mockasin Remix)
4. You Said (Peaking Lights Dub U Mix)
5. Still Life (Still Living Still Giving Cherrystones Remix)
6. Moving Further Away (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

CD Two
1. Comes In Waves (Seahawks Skying Suite)
2. Moving Further Away (Andy Blake World Unknown Mix)
3. Dive In (The Pressure Ridges)
4. You Said (JTC Remix)
5. Wild Eyed (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
6. Moving Into Blue (Seahawks Skying Suite)

DVD
Still Life Video (Directed by Oliver Murray)
I Can See Through You (Directed by White Rabbit)
Changing The Rain (Directed by Pete Fowler)

Watch: Björk Unveils “Mutual Core” Video

Björk has unveiled the new video for "Mutual Core" taken from her 2011 album Biophilia.

The video was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. Watch it below.

Björk's new Biophilia remix album 'bastards', featuring work by Death Grips, Hudson Mohawke, Matthew Herbert, Omar Souleyman, These New Puritans, and more, will be released on November 19 via One Little Indian. 

Watch: Johnny Marr Share New Video For "The Messenger"

Former Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr has unveiled the video for his debut solo single “The Messenger”.

The song is the title track to his upcoming debut solo album, out on February 26th via Sire/ADA in U.S.  and in UK via Warner Bros. Along with “The Messenger”, song titles include “I Want the Heartbeat”, “The Right Thing Right”, “Upstart”, “Word Starts Attack”, and “European Me”.

Watch the video below.

Watch: The Joy Formidable "The Ladder Is Ours" Video

The Joy Formidable have unveiled their bran new video for "The Ladder Is Ours", taken from the band’s forthcoming album, Wolf’s Law, which will get release on January 22nd via Warner Bros Records. The song is part of our current rotation www.koolrockradio.com.

The video was directed by Greg Jardin. Watch it below.

You can pre-order your copy of ‘Wolf’s Law’ HERE. Check the artwork below.

My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields Confirms New Album By End Of 2012

Kevin Shield has confirmed that My Bloody Valentine will release their long awaited follow-up to 1991's Loveless on his own website before the end of the year.

Shield has also confirmed he will follow that release with another EP of brand new material.

Talking about the sound of the new material in a recent interview, Shield said: "I think with this record, people who like us will immediately connect with something. Based on the very, very few people who’ve heard stuff – some engineers, the band, and that’s about it – some people think it’s stranger than 'Loveless'. I don’t. I feel like it really frees us up, and in the bigger picture it’s 100 per cent necessary."

To support the releases, the band already has five dates lined up in Japan and Australia, including appearances at Tokyo Rocks Music Festival and ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror Melbourne.