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New from Topshelf Records is the new single from Gainesville, Florida outfit, Frameworks, called ‘Time Spent’

The new EP ‘Time Spent’ (due out 5th February) will provide a sneak preview into the band’s future, with their new full length LP due out later next year.

 

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Handmade Festival have announced the new line-up additions for the fourth edition of the Leicester-based festival. Joining the recently announced We Are Scientists and 65daysofstatic are Lonely The Brave, Los Campesinos! and Pretty Vicious

Alongside the new headline announcements three new partners have also been announced to help curate the festival: Upset Magazine, Wichita Records and BBC Introducing East Midlands. Speaking about the new partners for the festival organiser John Helps says:

"We’re incredible excited to welcome UPSET MAGAZINE, WICHITA RECORDS and BBC INTRODUCING EAST MIDLANDS who join LAST.FM, BIG SCARY MONSTERS and ALCOPOP as stage curators for Handmade 2016. We’ve had a long relationship with Dean Jackson and the guys at BBC Introducing East Midlands and are delighted that they’re joining with us this year. Whilst relatively new, Upset have already established themselves nationally with an outlook on music that’s totally aligned with ours - which is about the most important thing, really. Wichita are a label we’ve all been consistently awestruck by - so it’s fantastic that they’ll be contributing to our line-up in a big way this year. We can’t wait to work with them all to put together a great line-up for our 2016 programme.”

Handmade Festival is returning to Leicester’s O2 Academy over May Bank Holiday weekend (29th April - 1st May 2016) for three days of the  music, comedy, art, film, performance and photography, hand-picked and carefully curated.

There are still many more acts performing across multiple stages to be announced. Weekend tickets are on sale now for just £30 on the festival website

 

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Four piece smoky blues rockers Paves have shared their debut track ‘Dancing ‘til The End Of Time’.  A London band well worth keeping an eye on in 2016! 

Paves are Luke Shield – Lead Vocals & Guitar, Mike Whitaker – Lead Guitar, Perry Read –Bass & Backing Vocals and Tom Triggs – Drums.

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Singer-songwriter TanitaTikaram has announced the release of Closer To The People on 11 March, 2016 and is previewing the record with the track 'Food On My Table'.

Speaking about the new track, Tanita says; "I've listened to many soul records and singers from a very young age, and it has shaped me as a songwriter. I don't have a soul voice but I hope the song and the sound of the record shows the deep love I have for that music."

The release of Closer To The People will be backed by an extensive run of European tour dates with a string of UK dates​ also​ soon to be announced. 

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Missed out on Glasto tickets? Well The Netherland’s music festival Best Kept Secret has announced Editors, Beck, Wilco, Beach House, Half Moon Run, Caribou, Two Door Cinema Club , Yeasayer, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bloc Party, Destroyer, Yelawolf and Explosions In The Sky as the first acts for the 2016 event which will be held at the beautiful lakeside arena on 17th, 18th and 19th June. 

New for this year is the promise of more surprises during the festival with temporary pop-up venues, acoustic sessions in the woods, an indie karaoke and much more expected in 2016. The woodland surroundings will also be home to more than with 50 hand picked food trucks which will be the staple diet of Best Kept Secret attendees across the weekend.

The ticket prices for Best Kept Secret festival in 2016 have remained the same as previous years. Weekend Tickets will cost £112 + BF. Tickets are sold through the Eventim UK site. The presale of Weekend Tickets start this Saturday, December 19th, 2015 at 10:00 am, HERE. Single tickets will go on sale in February 2016.

Here is our review of the 2015 festival.

 

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Nada Surf return with their new album ‘You Know Who You Are’ on 4th March via City Slang. The first single from the record ‘Believe You’re Mine’ is below.

Nada Surf have been a band for over twenty years now and this forthcoming album  marks the band’s eighth record in total and fourth for City Slang, It was produced by long-time comrade Tom Beaujour at Nuthouse Recording in Hoboken, NJ. The album marks the band’s first as an official quartet with the core unit – singer/ songwriter/guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot – joined by Doug Gillard on second guitar. 

The band has also confirmed the first leg of a European tour for early next year. Full dates are listed below.

31.03. SE Stockholm, Kägelbanan
01.04. NO Oslo, John Dee
03.04. DE Hamburg, Mojo
04.04. DE Cologne, Live Music Hall
05.04. DE Dortmund, FZW
06.04. BE Brussels, Orangerie
07.04. NL Amsterdam, Melkweg
09.04. UK Manchester, Deaf Institute
10.04. UK Glasgow, King Tuts
11.04. UK London, Electric Ballroom
17.04. DE Stuttgart, LKA
18.04. DE Berlin, Huxley's
19.04. DE Nürnberg, Hirsch
20.04. AT Vienna, Wuz
21.04. DE Munich. Muhffathalle
22.04. CH Zürich, Dynamo
28.04. ES Madrid, Barcelo
29.04. ES Galicia, Pontevedra, Theatre
30.04. ES Bilbao, Antxoki

 

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