‘Love Interruption’, the first taste of Jack White’s forthcoming debut album, Blunderbuss, is available exclusively to Third Man Records’ Vault members to hear now. It will then become available to the public as a free stream at www.jackwhiteIII.com in 30 minutes  Want to hear it first but not a member of The Vault? Go here to join:  http://modlife.com/thirdmanrecords/signup

Blunderbuss will be released on 23rd April  on Third Man Records / XL Recordings.

The ‘Love Interruption‘ single, featuring exclusive non-LP B-side ‘Machine Gun Silhouette’, will be released as a 7″ on 7th February by Third Man Records, but is available now for pre-order at www.jackwhiteIII.com and www.thirdmanrecords.com.

Following its debut last week on Huw Stephen’s show, Dog Is Dead are proud to announce details of their next single ‘Two Devils’ out on March 5^th through Atlantic Records.  Produced by David Kosten (who worked with them on prior releases as well as with Bat for Lashes and Everything Everything), Rob from the band commented, ‘Two Devils’ is a tale of guilt and insanity stemming from a twisted relationship in which a girl falls sick. It’s a little dark.‘ It was recorded at RAK studios in London and was given its premier on the Bombay Bicycle Club tour. Their tour buddies have even remixed the single.

Over the next few months, the band will be trawling up and down the A1 playing headline shows in every crevice of the country so fans will have every opportunity to see the guys live in action. As part of the tour, Dog Is Dead have also announced a London headline date at the Borderline in London on March 15^th. They’ll also be playing HMV’s Next Big Thing show at London’s Garage supporting King Charles on February 7^th. You’ll also be able to catch them supporting Cloud Control on February 17^th at the Electric Ballroom.

UK dates:

February; 7 – London Garage (supporting King Charles as part of HMV Next Big Thing), 17 – The Electric Ballroom (supporting Cloud Control), 18 – Norwich Arts Centre, 19 – Oxford Academy 2, 20 – Birmingham Academy 3, 21 – Bristol Thekla, 23 – Leicester Academy 2, 24 – Stoke Sugarmill, 25 – Hull Fruit, 26 – Leeds Cockpit, 27 – Newcastle Riverside, 29 – Aberdeen Café Drummonds.

March: 1 – Inverness Hootenanays, 2 – Ullapool The Arch, 3 – Stornoway The Woodlands Centre, 4 – Aviemore Old Bridge Inn, 6 – Glasgow King Tuts, 7 – Edinburgh Electric Circus, 8 – Belfast Auntie Annies, 9 – Dublin Academy 2, 10 – Lancaster Library, 11 – Sheffield Plug, 13 – Manchester Deaf Institute, 14 – Brighton Komedia, 15 – London Borderline, 16 – Southampton Joiners, 17 – Cardiff Arts Institute.

London sister duo 2:54 finished 2011 on a high. They released a critically acclaimed EP, the four track “Scarlet”, on Fiction in November. They then played sold out shows across the nation, including runs with championing fans Wild Beasts and The Maccabees. before landing in countless critics’ tips for the top in 2012, casting a unique spell with their headily alluring and darkly brooding rock.

Currently finishing their debut album, they’ve just announced a very exciting UK headline tour this April, inviting over from Los Angeles a very special supporting guest in Chelsea Wolfe – the ‘doom folk’ singer-songwriter that has been causing quite a stir with her latest album “Apokalypsis”- an otherworldly concoction of haunting chants and forbidding dreamscapes. These will be Chelsea’s first ever UK performances and a more fitting match is hard to imagine, making these already highly-anticipated dates absolutely unmissable.

April: 2 – Waterfront Studio, Norwich, 4 – Deaf Institute, Manchester, 5 – Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, 10 – Thekla, Bristol, 11 – Green Door Store, Brighton.

Having introduced themselves to UK audiences late last year with two intimate club shows and the ‘Nothing But Our Love’ EP, Detroit’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. return to these shores in February to build on their growing reputation.

Their tour includes three London shows as well as their first dates out of the capital in Manchester and Nottingham. Their UK tour schedule is:

February: 12^th – London, The Barfly (HMV Next Big Thing show, supported by WE//ARE//ANIMAL), 14^th – London, Madame JoJo’s (White Heat club night), 15^th – London, XOYO (NME club night headlined by Band Of Skulls), 16^th – Manchester, The Castle (BETA club night), 18^th – Nottingham, The Rescue Rooms (Stealth vs. Rescued club night).

Produced by Sam Frank (whose vocals have featured on both Magnetic Man and Skream solo productions), the new bass heavy single ‘Pixelated People‘ pushes a raw garage undertone for the new generation. Illustrating the songwriting talent that lies behind Jess’s mesmerizing vocals, while also charging us with the spirit of late night city-life delirium.

Watch the video for ‘Pixelated People’:

Jess has made some impressive waves with her solo material including a B list at Radio 1, a Maida Vale session for Annie Nightingale and press support from The Observer, i-D, Mixmag and Times Style. She’s also garnered a flattering line-up of like-minded fans such as Chemical Brothers, Dizzee Rascal, Robert Smith, Skream & Benga.

Jess Mills Live Shows:

January: 13 – Club NME @ KOKO – London (Further dates TBA)

2011 saw Wu Lyf release Go Tell Fire To The Mountain, one the year’s most acclaimed debut albums. Recorded in a disused Manchester church, Go Tell Fire To The Mountain was released in June on the band’s own 100% independent LYF Recordings.

Wu Lyf are now pleased to announce details of a 2012 headline tour. The dates will take in the UK, Europe and USA and will include a 5 UK shows in March. The UK tour will kick off with a 1500 capacity hometown show at The Ritz, Manchester and feature two London shows at the capital’s 1000 capacity Heaven venue. After the UK tour, the band will return to the USA, following this year’s sold out November tour with 6 more headline shows in April, including two New York shows at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg (26th) and Bowery Ballroom (27th)

Tickets for all UK shows went on sale at 9am on Friday 16th December. The full UK and international tour dates are as follows.

February: 28th – Atlas (Voxhall), Aarhus, Denmark, 29th – Pumehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

March: 2nd – Inkost – Club, Malmo, Sweden, 3rd – Kägelbanan, Stockholm, Sweden, 4th – Parkteatret, Oslo, Norway, 6th – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7th – Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium, 8th – Le Bataclan, Paris, France. 15th – The Ritz, Manchester, UK, 17th – SWG3, Glasgow, UK, 19th – Whelans, Dublin, Eire, 21st – Heaven, London, UK, 22nd – Heaven, London, UK, 27th – Benou, Berlin, Germany, 29th – Magnolia, Milan, Germany, 30th – La ‘2’ Apollo, Barcelona, Spain

April: 17th – The Independent, San Francisco, USA, 23rd – Rock’n’Roll Hotel, Washington USA, 24th- Union Transfer, Philadelphia, USA, 26th     Music Hall Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, USA, 27th – Bowery Ballroom, New York, USA, 28th – Brighton Music Hall, Boston, USA.

California native Ramona Gonzalez first began her transcendent minimalist dance-pop escapades in the privacy of her own home in Los Angeles. With the aid of her multitrack cassette recorder and whatever keyboards, drum machines, and other instruments that were available to her, she very quickly developed her own unique sound and began performing live in the L.A. area under the moniker Nite Jewel.

Later teaming up with Cole M.G.N. (formerly of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti), the Nite Jewel act became four piece live act, touring alongside the likes of Little Dragon, DaM-FunK, and James Blake. The Nite Jewel sound has been likened to that of a warped, lo-fi version of Late-80’s Freestyle Electro sensation Debbie Deb and has also found appeal among not just the ‘indie rock’ & ‘experimental’ crowd but also among avid listeners of hip hop, funk, disco, & soul. While very fond of these aforementioned genres and artists, Nite Jewel gathers much of her inspiration from the likes of L.A. Free Music Society’s experimentalist Tom Recchion, obscure UK new age electro-acoustic duo Woo, and the sublime ambient electronic music of groups like Germany’s Cluster and Italy’s Sensations Fix. Nite Jewel never hesitates, however, to cite 90’s R&B pop groups such as TLC & SWV as influences who left an indelible mark on her music sensibilities as a teenager.

In 2008, Nite Jewel released her debut album Good Evening, recorded with the assistance of longtime collaborator Cole M.G.N.. Good Evening was met with critical acclaim, was taste-making record store Other Music’s fourth top-seller of 2009, and was featured on the Greenberg motion picture soundtrack alongside James Murphy, Duran Duran, and Albert Hammond.

Since 2009, Nite Jewel honed its lounge-pop-R&B craft across releases from Italians Do It Better, Mexican Summer and LA/Bay Area labels Gloriette Records and Human Ear, which lead to a wealth of refinement and bold directness in singing and songwriting. Yours Truly’s Love Letters Inc. will release the “‘She’s Always Watching You‘ 7″ in December 2011, with new songs that feature newly minted vocal styles – an extension of the clarity found on the title track of last year’s ‘Am I Real?.” On One Second of Love, the forthcoming Nite Jewel opus, you’ll find a re-imagination of Golden-era R&B pop; future-classic sounds alongside vocal sultriness.  If Nite Jewel’s earlier work brought to mind the likes of Lisa Lisa or Debbie Deb on quaaludes, this new body of work may conjure up clearer images of the likes of Sade, Eurythmics-era Annie Lennox and Tracy Thorn. Pure, confident, singular but intricate and delightfully sophisticated.  This evolution will all come to a head in March 2012 when Secretly Canadian releases One Second of Love. Nite Jewel’s proper full-length follow up to her brilliant 2008 LP.

Prinzhorn Dance School return in January 2012 with ‘Clay Class‘, their much-anticipated second album, on DFA Records…

Back in 2008, Prinzhorn Dance School released a debut album of mesmerising austerity. It stood out from a self-indulgent and socially unconcerned musical landscape like John The Baptist at a hunt-ball. The people who got it, really got it. The people who didn’t, really didn’t. A Guardian reviewer gave it two different star ratings, just to be sure.

Three years later, the very aspects of Prinzhorn Dance School’s music which non-believers previously found most bewildering and divisive – its starkness, its sombre wit – suddenly feel more in tune with the times. Within the context of a global economic meltdown, the band’s long-awaited comeback single ‘Seed, Crop, Harvest’ even seemed to offer listeners a grain of hope – not to mention a chorus – with the infectious P45 sing-a-long “Got off the treadmill, treadmill… got on the breadline, breadline” just one of a series of snappy recessionary catch-phrases.

Kyla La Grange releases her new double A-side single ‘Heavy Stone / Lambs’ next Monday, 17th October through Chess Club Records. Ahead of this, she has made ‘Lambs’ available for free download on her Soundcloud page:

http://soundcloud.com/kylalagrange/kyla-la-grange-lambs-free

Lafayette, Louisiana’s Givers have unveiled the video for their second single ‘Meantime’ over on their YouTube/ Vevo channel. ‘Meantime’ will be released on the 3rd October via Glassnote/ Island Records.

‘Meantime’ follows Givers’ debut single ‘Up Up Up’ and is taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘In Light’, which is released in the UK on the 10th October. Blessed with two vocalists and a million musical ideas, Givers are a band to fill your ears, hips and heart with uplift and sunshine.