http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGV8xCkpXjE
Now this is fun. The Last Shadow Puppets are the brilliant Alex Turner, singer and songwriter of those lovely Arctic Monkeys and his friend Miles Kane of The Rascals, a band I currently know nothing about, but will be checking out in due course. Alex clearly has far too many ideas fizzing around in his [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30w8DyEJ__0
And they’re back! The second album from that damn fine Sheffield band is out in a couple of weeks, and the first single from it is now available[1]. The sound on this track is slightly beefier, but as ever, it’s Alex’s lyrics and delivery that makes them stand out from, well, pretty much everything else. [...]
…that I wasn’t expecting it at all.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arctic Monkeys win Mercury prize
You might recall that back in July I mentioned the nominees for this year’s Mercury Music Prize. At the time, I suggested that my preferred winner would have been Guillemots, but that I’d be quite happy if Editors or the [...]
Aha! A new single from the Arctic Monkeys, that’s what we need. And here it is - another nicely crafted piece, which is out next week. As ever, Alex’s lyrics are sharp, observational and, well, real. It’s all about young lust…
You left before the lights came on
Because you didn’t want to ruin
All the lust that [...]
Well, here it is, the début album from possibly the most talked about band since whoever the last most talked about band was. Personally, I haven’t looked forward to a new album so much since the first Franz Ferdinand CD, and that was nearly two years ago. Even though I was able to download it [...]
Following on from my recent mention of the forthcoming Arctic Monkeys album, their website now has a track listing. Woo and indeed hoo.
The View From The Afternoon
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Fake Tales Of San Francisco
Dancing Shoes
You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight At Me
Still [...]
Hmm. Another preview rather than my usual review. Here it is, officially announced, with a proper title, and maybe even the final artwork: the debut album from the outrageously young and even more outrageously talented Arctic Monkeys. The track listing hasn’t been announced at the time of writing, but that’s a minor detail, innit?
This will [...]
OK, this won’t actually be on sale for about a month, but those nice 6Music people are already playing it a lot, so I thought I’d mention it now. This is a more polished version of the song previously known as Scummy in its widely distributed demo form. And it’s yet more evidence that the [...]
I’ve mentioned Arctic Monkeys before, and now that their second single is out, and actually available in sufficient quantities for people to actually buy, I thought it might be time for an update. The band have been getting a lot of attention, and judging by the number of people googling for them and ending up [...]
I first read about Arctic Monkeys in the ubiquitous[1] NME, and subsequently heard a track on 6Music. I was sufficiently interested to want to buy their single release Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys when it was released in May. The key word there is “want”. It seems it was released in limited numbers, and I [...]
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