You should know by now that we love The National and they have just released a new song on soundcloud (listen below) for the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. The soundtrack is not out until Tuesday, but has a decent looking line-up (see below for full track-listing). The movie itself is not out until a week on Friday and is …
Latest Sounds – Band Focus – Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts are an American punk rock band – now at New Music Blog we don’t normally go in for punk rock, but this band caught our ear a couple of weeks ago so we didn’t to go against the grain and give them a listen. They have actually been around a couple of years but their formal debut album …
Soundtrack (revisit) – Official record store chart – Drowners
Submarine Soundtrack (revisit) So, Submarine the film came out three years ago so can’t really be classed as New Music – but here on the blog we’re never afraid to take a look back and enjoy something that was maybe a little bit overlooked at the time. The film was directed by Richard Ayoade (most famous for IT Crowd) and …
Latest Sounds – The Killers – Just Another Girl
So, The Killers have been pretty busy in 2013, they started off the year touring Asia and the Middle East – completing the long tour they had planned for fourth album “Battle Born”. Their focus halfway through this year shifted to a greatest hits album “Direct Hits” – it may seem to some that it way too early in their …
Latest Sounds – Mogwai Remurdered
Studio album number eight is on the way from everyone’s favourite post-rock Scots – Mogwai. Their last “proper” release was in February 2011 with “Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will (Music For a Forgotten Future)” – which entered the UK album charts at number 25, since then there has been a remix album and some soundtrack work before the …