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BANKS Announces New Single 'Warm Water'

‘Warm Water’ is the new single from emerging LA-based electronic singer-songwriter BANKS, released May 27 on London label Good Years. It quickly follows her first release featuring the tracks ‘Before I Ever Met You’ and ‘Fall Over’ which introduced her seductively nocturnal electronic pop, existing somewhere between the tempestuous space of the club and the intimacy and lovelorn emotional haven of a candlelit piano room. The tracks quickly attracted heavy airplay online and across BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.  

‘Warm Water’ is a more subtle and spacious affair. Produced by UK electronic pop prodigy Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs who made a name with acclaimed debut album ‘Trouble’ as well as releases on Greco Roman, it flickers of with the emotional directness and fragility of classic soul and jazz vocalists as projected  through a modern day prism of warm synth pads and gently gurgling electronic percussion, leaving a spellbinding melody to shine through.

Three mesmerizing tracks in and it’s clear that BANKS is well on her way to cementing her position as a promising new artist in the landscape of forward-thinking pop.

Listen to 'Warm Water' HERE; https://soundcloud.com/banksbanksbanks/banks-warm-water-prod-by


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Katy B - 'What Love Is Made Of' Single Announced

London’s young queen of rave, Katy B returns with a colossal endorphin rush of a tune that’s guaranteed to be a fixture on the radio and dance floor all summer long, the first single to kick off the soon to be announced second album, due for release on Rinse/Columbia in Autumn 2013.  

Listen to 'What Love Is Made Of' HERE; https://soundcloud.com/katyb/what-love-is-made-of-radio


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TEXAS ANNOUNCE NOVEMBER UK TOUR DATES


 

BRAND NEW ALBUM RELEASED MAY 20TH 2013

Watch the video for The Conversation: http://youtu.be/wDPyMD_CLgc

In their 25th anniversary year TEXAS release their brand new studio album ‘The Conversation’ through [PIAS] Recordings on May 20th 2013. Following the album release, Texas will return in November with a full UK tour including a headline London show at Hammersmith Apollo and a string of dates around the country.

Texas’s eighth album, ‘The Conversation’ is their first in eight years and is the latest in a career that has seen the band sell over 30 million albums worldwide with a succession of multi-platinum albums ‘White on Blonde’, ‘The Hush’ and ‘Greatest Hits’. This overdue return in 2013 clearly redefines and confidently re-introduces the band afresh with tracks written and produced by singer/guitarist Sharleen Spiteri and bassist Johnny McElhone and featuring collaborations with singer-songwriter Richard Hawley and Bernard Butler.

‘The Conversation’ is an album splitting its seams with the joy of a long-proven pop force creating a collection of songs rich enough in melody and emotion to deserve filing beside the best of the band’s previous million-selling hits. The album was recorded in Glasgow, London and at Richard Hawley’s studio in Sheffield where the seven tracks he worked on went on to form the backbone of ‘The Conversation’: a perfect marriage of Hawley’s 50s rock’n’roll frills and the timeless Texas magnetism to cast-iron melodies.

Full UK tour dates:

Saturday 9th November York, Barbican

Sunday 10th November Inverness, Leisure Centre

Monday 11th November Manchester, Bridgewater Hall

Wednesday 13th November Bristol, Colston Hall

Thursday 14th November London, Hammersmith Apollo

Friday 15th November Plymouth, Pavilions

Sunday 17th November Oxford, Apollo

Monday 18h November Birmingham, Symphony Hall

Tuesday 19th November Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Thursday 21st November Brighton, Dome

Friday 22nd November Portsmouth, Guildhall

Sunday 24th November Ipswich, Regent Theatre

Monday 25th November Cambridge, Corn Exchange

Tuesday 26th November Sheffield, City Hall

Thursday 28th November Glasgow, Academy

Friday 29th November Edinburgh, Usher Hall


Presale tickets are available from Wednesday 15th May at 9am until Friday 17th May at 9am. Tickets purchased during this period are available with an exclusive bundle option which includes a signed copy of the album. General tickets are on sale from Friday 17th May at 9am, from this period forward the bundle option remains but with the standard album.

Ticket information is available at http://www.texas.uk.com


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Basement Jaxx Announce New Live Dates


NEW UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

"Tailor-made for a west London street party"
Evening Standard

"'Back 2 The Wild' finds them getting back to what they've always done best: punchy, tropical, pop-infused dance cuts with a slightly unhinged sense of fun, and hooks up to here"
Spin

It’s been nearly two years since we last heard from long-standing godfathers of UK house, Basement Jaxx. Now the legends of dance music are getting back to what they have always done best with a newly announced set of UK tour dates this winter.

These live dates follow the unveiling of their new single “Back 2 The Wild”, which is released on 20th May through 37 Adventures. This new track is quintessentially Jaxx  - a super heavy weight groove featuring vocals from Korean singers Miss Emma Lee and Baby Chay, as well as tribal horns recorded in Kenya.  Having already been widely received as a tent-topping Carnival anthem, “Back 2 The Wild” looks set to re-establish Basement Jaxx at the top of the UK dance scene.

The tour comes at the end of this year, kicking off in Leeds on the 28th November and hitting major venues in the big northern cities before finishing in 02 Academy Brixton, London on the 6th December.

These tickets will go on general on sale on Friday 10th May at 9am at www.basementjaxx.com.

28/11 – 02 Academy Leeds
29/11 – 02 Apollo Manchester
01/12 – 02 Academy Newcastle
05/12 – 02 Academy Birmingham
06/12 – 02 Academy Brixton


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Riva Starr - 'Detox Blues'



'Detox Blues'
(Snatch! Records)

Single - May 20th

'Hand In Hand' LP released June 17th

Riva Starr is pleased to unveil the second single from his forthcoming second album, 'Hand In Hand'. Recently premiered on Gilles Peterson's 6 Music show, 'Detox Blues' deals squarely with modern society's burning predicaments: Life, Love, Drugs, Nature and the Pursuit of Happiness (or lack thereof), all rolled into two deceptively simple hooks...

The Italian producer recently announced details of his sophomore LP, revealing a new and exciting facet of his musical personality and featuring chief partner-in-crime Rssll (previously lead singer of indie darlings The Research) plus a stellar cast of guest appearances from Horace Andy, Roots Manuva, Speech Debelle, Bob Andy and others.

Listen to 'Detox Blues' HERE:

https://soundcloud.com/rivastarr/riva-starr-feat-rssll-detox


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