MGMT - Weekend Wars (Live at Paradiso)

This band is my favourite at the moment. MGMT (or Management) is their name and their brand is one of easily accessible electronic pop coupled with heavy influences from British prog from the 70's. What they excel at producing the unexpected. Their sound is modern and is as far from the stale, mudanity of the current guitar orientated music scene as possible. Check out a live performance recorded at the Paradiso of their song Weekend Wars which is from their debut album Oracular Spectacular.

Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains (Live on Letterman)

If you loved the 70's you'll love this band. Fleet Foxes have been going down a storm recently, garnering accolades from all corners of the music industry. Their self titled debut album is Ménage à trois of folk pop at its best and rightly should have place in everyones record collection. They quite recently made their American network television debut on Letterman with their song Blue Ridge Mountains which has become a personal favourite of mine.

Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire

The Kings of Leon have returned! Before we even realised they were away, they have come back with their forth album. The first single to be taken from this is the ludicrously titled Sex On Fire (even lead singer Caleb Followill is seemingly 'unsure' about the title). Despite this the song itself a huge, stomping effort that continues the bands inevitable rise to the title of best band in the world. 

You can hear the new song for yourself at their myspace page, the address of which is displayed below.

http://www.myspace.com/kingsofleon

The Week That Was - Yesterday's Paper

From the makers of Field Music comes an exciting new project, this time from the mind of Peter Brewis and after his brother David' marvellous School of Language record the expectation is high. But it does not disappoint, it once again highlights the brilliance that made up the niche pop simplicity of Field Music. 

Below is a link to my favourite track from the new album, entitled Yesterday's Paper.

http://rapidshare.com/files/135504437/06-the_week_that_was-yesterdays_paper.mp3.html

The Verve - Forth

The Verve have not only leaked the first single from their forthcoming album this week, "Love Is Noise", but they've also now given the record the title of 'Forth' and revealed the tracklisting.

It will be released on August 18th in the UK, while North America gets the record a day later (Aug 19th)

30 seconds in and I'm blown away" - Zane Lowe

"Ashcroft and McCabe, the twin lightening conductors of the band, are finally in accord and the results are nothing short of astonishing. The Verve are back-literally-with a bang. This is music? This is seismic." NME

"After playing a mix of older songs and a new track (“Sit and Wonder”), the familiar strains of the orchestrated track had fans sprinting from other parts of the field to watch the band achieve a sort of sonic ecstasy. "The band didn’t disappoint, breaking out epic Britpop anthems that set shimmers of sound across the desert night.
Rolling Stone (Coachella review)

"The Verve are here to provide you with an immaculately calibrated rock experience that will change your life forever..." Spin

'Forth' Tracklisting:

1. Sit and Wonder
2. Love Is Noise
3. Rather Be
4. Judas
5. Numbness
6. I See Houses
7. Noise Epic
8. Valium Skies
9. Columbo
10. Appalachian Springs

The Verve Tour Dates:

06.27 Cornwall, England - The Eden Project
06.29 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07.04 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07.05 Bobital, France - Bobital Festival
07.11 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park
07.16 Livorno, Italy - Italia Wave Festival
07.18 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07.19 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
08.09 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08.10 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08.16 Weston Park, England - V Festival
08.17 Chelmsford, England - V Festival

The Music - Strength In Numbers (Single)

Here is the new video for Strength In Numbers taken from the third album by Leeds based band The Music. Much like this song the album sees a return to the style of their first album and moves away from relative disappointment of their second album Welcome To The North. With a return to dance orientated rock of their debut they have clearly recognised their importance in highlighting new rave sensibilities which they did well before the The Klaxons even came into the picture.