Audacity of Huge, featuring Chris Keating of Yeasayer, is the new single from the UK electro duo, off forthcoming album Temporary Pleasure (out August 17), featuring guest vocals from The Gossip’s Beth Ditto and Super Fury Animals’ Gruff Rhys. SMD is probably best known for dance floor burners It’s The Beat and Hustler.

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Beth Ditto gives Egyptian gold looks in video Heavy Cross, the first single released off forthcoming sophomore album Music For Men by The Gossip. Out June 22.

Antony and the Johnsons are doing an ethereal version of Beyonce’s Crazy In Love as part of a double A-side single.
Aeon/Crazy in Love will be released the US on August 4 on CD and 7” through Secretly Canadian and on August 3 in Europe and the UK on 7” through Rough Trade.
‘Aeon’ is taken from […]

Legendary punk band The Slits are gearing up to release their first new full-length album in more than 25 years.
‘Trapped Animal’ is due out in the US on October 6, and will mark the 30th anniversary of their 1979 debut ‘Cut’. The album’s first single, ‘Ask Ma’, will be released in August.
Although the band have […]

It’s the next single/video release from Kings Of Leon‘s recent album Only By The Night….of course, featuring the newly short-haired version of lead singer Caleb Followill.

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Second video release/single from new YYY’s album It’s Blitz. Directed by original The Mighty Boosh cast member Richard Ayoade, Karen O finds herself decapitated by a dancing, possessed wolfman, after a bloody, glitter-filled massacre.