[ALBUM REVIEW] Hippo Campus - Bashful Creatures

Hippo Campus are guitarist and vocalist Jake Luppen, bassist Zach Sutton, drummer Whistler Allen and guitarist Nathan Stocker. They are all from Minnesota and signed to Transgressive. Their debut-ep is called Bashful Creatures and it is a journey in a light-indie landscape where exotic sunshine lights up seven beautiful songs.

The ep begins with Sophie So, a charming track where a guitar riff that reminds Bombay Bicycle Club' sound is the perfect ground to a voice with glares of Kooks' Luke Pitchard. Little Grace is a joyful song just like Souls that has inflections of Vampire Weekends. Suicide Saturday is more sad with a dream-pop background, Opportunistic and the title-track maintain the fashination and happyness of the rest of the ep.

Hippo Campus Tour Dates:

Jul 31 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL

Aug 01 LOLLAPALOOZA Chicago, IL

Aug 06 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO

Aug 12 Peabody Opera House St Louis, MO

Aug 13 Starlight Theatre Kansas City, MO

Aug 14 Summer Sounds Festival Cedarburg, WI

Aug 15 Summer Set Music & Camping Festival Somerset, WI

Aug 22 Cultivate Festival Minneapolis, MN

Aug 28 Bramham Park Leeds, United Kingdom

Aug 30 Little John's Farm Reading, United Kingdom

Sep 06 Made in America Philadelphia, PA

Sep 08 Cafe 939 at Berklee Boston, MA

Sep 10 Club Metronome Burlington, VT

Sep 12 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH

Sep 13 The Basement Columbus, OH

Sep 15 The Bishop Bloomington, IN

Sep 16 The Pike Room Pontiac, MI

Sep 17 Ignition Music Goshen, IN

Sep 18 LIVE on King Street Madison, WI

Sep 18 Live on King Street Madison, WI

Sep 19 Vaudeville Mews Des Moines, IA

Oct 03 Bluebird Theater Denver, CO

Oct 06 Neumos Seattle, WA

Oct 07 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR

Oct 09 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA

Oct 10 Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles, CA

Oct 14 The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ

Oct 16 Mohawk Austin, TX

Oct 18 Warehouse Live Studio Houston, TX

Oct 20 One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, LA

Oct 22 Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN

Oct 23 Terminal West @ King Plow Arts Center Atlanta, GA

Oct 24 Deep Roots Festival HippoMilledgeville, GA

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Peace Announce New Album 'Happy People' and Accompanying Tour

B-Town's finest, Peace, have announced details of their second album, 'Happy People', and a tour for the public to drool over it.

'Happy People' is due for release on 9th February 2015 via Columbia and will include the singles, 'Money' and 'Lost On Me'. You can see the full track list below. They announced the release of their album through a witty version of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' which can be seen here.

On top of this, the band have also announced a series of dates across the UK in the new year around the release of the new album, dates of which are also shown below.

You can buy tickets on pre-sale and limited signed albums this Wednesday by signing up to their newsletter here.

The track-listing for 'Happy People' is as follows:

1. O You
2. Gen Strange
3. Lost On Me
4. Perfect Skin
5. Happy People
6. Someday
7. Money
8. I’m a Girl
9. Under the Moon
10. World Pleasure

Tour dates are:

JANUARY
15 Liverpool, Kazimier

22 Bristol, Exchange

24 Birmingham, The Library at the Institute

29 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

30 Sheffield, Queens Social Club

FEBRUARY

05 Nottingham, Bodega

12 Norwich, Waterfront Studio

MARCH

05 Newcastle, Cluny

12 Manchester, Deaf Institute

17 Glasgow, King Tuts

20 Dublin, Whelan’s

26 Brighton, The Haunt

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The Wombats announce massive UK and European Tour

This morning The Wombats announced a huge UK and European tour, set to take place in early 2015.

The band have been off the scene since their second album 'This Modern Glitch' in 2011 but now they're back with a string of dates, including 9 dates in the UK next April.

Pre-sale tickets are on sale as of Wednesday at 9am if you're on their mailing list. If not make sure you're about at 9am Friday when they go on general sale.

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Foo Fighters announce massive UK tour dates for 2015

Rock legends Foo Fighters have announced several huge UK dates for May/June 2015. After playing the closing ceremony of this year's Invictus Games, Grohl and co are back playing some big stadiums. Check out the tour dates below!

 

 

25 May, Sunderland, UK – Stadium of Light

27 May, Manchester, UK – Emirates Old Trafford
19 June, London, UK – Wembley Stadium
20 June, London, UK – Wembley Stadium
23 June, Edinburgh, UK – BT Murrayfield Stadium

London support comes from Iggy Pop and Edinburgh support comes from Iggy Pop and Royal Blood. Not a line up to be missed!

Presale go on sale on 9th November at 9am and you can pick them up here.
The rest of the tickets go on sale on 21st November at 10am and you can pick them up here. 

Stream ANTEMASQUE's self-titled debut right now (don't worry they're cool with it)

ANTEMASQUE is the latest project from brilliant musical madmen, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala who brought us At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta. Their eponymous debut will finally be made available for worldwide release November 10, 2014 (yes, that's a week from today) as it was previously released but only as a limited digital download.

The self-titled album was recorded in Silverlake, CA at The Boat, which happens to be owned by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Incidentally, although not a member of the band, Flea performed all the bass tracks for the album. Currently on tour promoting its release, ANTEMASQUE can be seen at the following places and times:

Nov 05 Rock & Roll Hotel
Washington, DC

Nov 06 Union Transfer
Philadelphia, PA

Nov 08 Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn, NY  [SOLD OUT]

Nov 09 The Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY

Nov 11 Middle East Downstairs
Boston, MA

Nov 12 Water Street Music Hall
Rochester, NY

Nov 14 Mod Club
Toronto, Canada

Nov 15 Magic Stick
Detroit, MI

Nov 16 Metro
Chicago, IL

While some songs were leaked, and previous versions posted then removed, ANTEMASQUE granted Noisey exclusive access to the album in its entirety, which you can listen to right here. 

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ANTEMASQUE self-titled tracklist:

1. "4AM"  

2. "I Got No Remorse"

3. "Ride Like the Devil's Son" 

4. "In the Lurch"  

5. "50,000 Kilowatts" 

6. "Momento Mori" 

7. "Drown All Your Witches"  

8. "Providence" 

9. "People Forget" 

10. "Rome Armed to the Teeth"  

alt-J announce headline Australian tour.

English indie rockers alt-J will return to Australia again in May next year for their biggest tour to date. The five date all-ages tour will be the bands third visit to the country since the release of their second album This Is All Yours.

Recently, alt-J have shown lots of love for Australia. In August they were announced for a run of new years festival dates including Field Day, Falls Festival and Southbound. Days later they announced a surprise two date tour in October for Melbourne and Sydney which sold out in minutes. The quick stopover left fans wanting more.

The arena shows will be in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

Tickets on sale now, information can be found here

Alt-J 2015 Australian Tour

Friday, 8th May 2015
Riverstage, Brisbane

Saturday, 9th May 2015
Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney

Sunday, 10th May 2015
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

Wednesday, 13th May 2015
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide

Friday, 15th May 2015
HBF Stadium, Perth

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Jungle Announce UK Tour Dates!

Jungle have announced a string of UK Tour dates during February and March next year, just a few days after their self-titled debut album was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize.

You can see where they will be playing on the list of dates posted on the bands site below. Tickets are available from here.

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Alt-J announce new tour dates

The week so far has been good for Alt-J fans. Ahead of the release of their new album, they are currently streaming it. Read more here.
They also announced new tour dates, so check out here whether the trio will be coming to your town.

UK:

Sep 18 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sep 19 Manchester, United Kingdom
Sep 20 Manchester, United Kingdom
Sep 22 Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Sep 23 Brighton, United Kingdom
Sep 24 London, United Kingdom
Sep 27 Dublin, United Kingdom

Sep 29 Paris, France
Oct 06 Melbourne, Australia
Oct 07 Newtown, Australia
Oct 14 Vancouver, Canada
Oct 15 Seattle, WA
Oct 16-17 Portland, OR
Oct 18-19 San Francisco, CA
Oct 20 Los Angeles, CA
Oct 21 Pomona, CA
Oct 24-26 Las Vegas, NV
Oct 27 Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 28 Denver, CO
Oct 31 St Paul, MN
Nov 01-02 Chicago, IL
Nov 04 Tulsa, OK
Nov 05 Dallas, TX
Nov 06 Houston, TX
Nov 07-09 Austin, TX
Nov 10 Detroit, MI
Nov 11 Toronto, Canada
Nov 12 Montreal, Canada
Nov 14 Upper Darby, PA
Nov 16 New York, NY
Nov 18 Boston, MA
Nov 19 Washington, DC

2015:
Jan 24 London, United Kingdom
Feb 03 Vorst, Belgium
Feb 04 Paris, France
Feb 05 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Feb 07 Offenbach Am Main,Germany
Feb 08 Cologne, Germany
Feb 09 Hamburg, Germany
Feb 11 Berlin, Germany
Feb 13 Zurich, Switzerland
Feb 14 Milan, Italy
Feb 16 Vienna, Austria
Feb 17 Munich, Germany
Feb 19 Copenhagen, Denmark
Feb 20 Stockholm. Sweden
Feb 21 Oslo, Norway

Foals announce UK & Ireland tour for February 2014

After the success of their Royal Albert Hall shows earlier this year and a headline spot at Latitude festival this year, Foals have announced a tour scheduled for February 2014. American madmen Cage The Elephant will be supporting them throughout the tour which kicks off in Dublin. Foals will be gracing the main stage this Saturday alongside Chase & Status and Eminem.

Yannis and co will play the following;

Dublin Olympia (February 4, 2014)
Manchester Apollo (7)
Glasgow Barrowlands (9)
Birmingham O2 Academy (11)
Newcastle O2 Academy (12)
London Alexandra Palace (14)

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News: The Kabeedies to play new material live

The Kabeedies are the youthful darlings of the Norwich Indie scene, they have built their name upon great songs such as 'Sideburns', 'Lovers Ought To', and recently had a revival down to their song 'Come On' - being featured on the xBox Kinetic advert - and the stunning tropical track called 'Santiago'. Below is a few words from the band they sent out to their fans.

We're playing our farewell gigs to some of the songs from our début album 'Rumpus' that we're unlikely to play again. The mostest specialist gig will be at the Norwich Arts Centre on the 25th October (Buy HERE), where we haven't played in a year. Here are the remaining gigs of this year for us (minus one or two Christmas shows) ....

We'll be back in 2012 with a shiny new album

Love, The Kabeedies xxxx

Remaining tour dates:
Leeds - The Milo - 20th
Leeds - The Milo - 21st
Leeds - The Milo - 22nd
Norwich - Arts Centre - 25th October
Blackburn - Live Lounge (14+) - 27th October
Brighton - The Hope - 28th October

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News: Breton Announce Their Signing

BRETON announce their signing to FatCat Records, the label who discovered Sigur Ros, Animal Collective and No Age. The signing follows a very busy year for BRETON, a year that saw them release a critically acclaimed EP trilogy, as well as creating fantastic videos (Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Penguin Prison, Flats) and remixes (Temper Trap, Local Natives, IS TROPICAL, Chapel Club, Tricky, Esben and the Witch) under their bretonLABS incarnation.



Breton have also announced they will be joining Tom Vek as sole support on his long-awaited UK tour later this month, dates are...

16 June – Heaven, London
18 June – Concorde 2, Brighton

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