Artist: We Were Promised Jetpacks

Like a List-errr in the Sun: Yet Another Rambling News Post

May 17, 4:00pm Peenko

Bloody hell, there's a lot been going on lately, since the last rambling news post there have been a shit load of announcements. Some of them good and some of them down right shite. I guess it's best to get the bad news out of the way first, as it's better to end on a high, right?! As I am sure of many of you will already be aware, the BBC have decided to call time on BBC Introducing in Scotland, Northern Ireland and [...]

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Phono Pop Festival 2012 – Stream, Bilder, Videos, Verlosungen und mehr

May 15, 12:54pm In.die Meute | das Indie und Rock Portal

Phono Pop Festival 2012 Freitag 20.07.12 - Samstag 21.07.12 65428 Rüsselsheim Das Line-Up für das 7. Phono PopFestival ist inzwischen auch fast komplett. Neben deutschlandweit exklusiven Headlinerauftritten von Nada Surf und Warpaint sind auch We Were Promised Jetpacks mit dabei. Weitere News [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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REVIEW: We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Black Cat, Washington, DC, 5/2/12

May 7, 6:44pm Mixtape Muse

When We Were Promised Jetpacks performed at the Black Cat in DC this past Wednesday, it marked the 41st date of their current North American tour. And while the Scottish four-piece may have appeared somewhat drained physically, their performance didn't suffer and was rather thunderous. What's more, they took hardly any breaks in their hour-long set, playing as though the comfort of their homeland was embedded deep within the fabric of their post-punk/rock-meets-shoegaze sound. Even with earplugs in, that sound was very loud, making the band's already monumental riffing sound a good deal more pummeling. [...]

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We Were Promised Jetpacks & Breton & Fort Lean: Torn Through The Pages

May 5, 12:00pm A Heart Is A Spade

We Were Promised Jetpacks recently dropped by KDHX. Like We Were Promised Jetpacks on Facebook. Purchase We Were Promised Jetpacks items via Insound. Read my interview with Breton here. Follow 'em on Twitter. Purchase Breton items via Insound. Visit Fort Lean on Bandcamp. Photos by Kenny Shin. [...]

• Fort Lean - Sunsick

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Artist:	Fort Lean
Title:	Sunsick
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Crusades

Apr 27, 1:32pm Bad Fotography

The newly formed 4 piece post hardcore act from Glasgow, Crusades, have sent me a link to their new single, Pseudo Andro and I guess they chose the right blog because I have always been a hardcore kid at heart. Perfectly timed face shredding riffage ala early Every Time I Die with shrill vocals, melodic in some parts while till mantaining a heavy constant, Pseudo Andro is a fucking awesome track. No cheesy "brootal" breakdowns, just all out riot. Have a listen: [Crusades - Pseudo Andro] New 4 track ep, Golden Throats, recorded with Brian Rintoul who've previously worked with [...]

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[Listen] – Castling Queen's Side – "Rise And Fall"

Apr 18, 6:00pm Listen Before You Buy

" Rise And Fall " is the first single from Castling Queen's Side 's long overdue, and on a personal level highly anticipated, album Cinema which will be released next Friday (4-27). I first heard these guys (and girl) from Zürich , Switzerland a little more than a year ago by recommendation from a friend and I immediately found myself drawn to their whole The National meets We Were Promised Jetpacks sound. I love the way each [...]

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What's New Pussycat?!

Apr 17, 5:00pm Peenko

I think it's been a few weeks since I posted up a news post, so without further a do here's another news post. This time round the post has a bit of a feline touch to it, mainly because I am going to ramble about bits and bobs from the Scottish contingent on FatCat Records. To kick it all off we have some new live dates from The Twilight Sad. The band are currently mid way through their European tour and they've just announced a couple of UK dates in May and June, which includes an appearance at [...]

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We Were Promised Jetpacks Share Live Clip From Coachella 2012

Apr 16, 3:30pm A Heart Is A Spade

Watch 'It's Thunder & It's Lightning' below. Catch 'em on their NA tour. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: We Were Promised Jetpacks - A Far Cry

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Coachella 2012: Around Saturday's festival with photographer Scott Dudelson

Apr 16, 3:06pm Buzz Bands

Contributor Scott Dudelson shares images from all around Saturday's second day of Coachella 2012, including some performance that we could not make because of conflicts. Concert photography by Scott Dudelson

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Shows of Interest, April 16 – April 22, 2012

Apr 16, 11:00am owl and bear

Our San Diego picks for the week* // Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

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We've Got It Covered #96

Apr 15, 3:00am Peenko

I am sure that most of you are already aware that the inaugural longlist for the Scottish Album of the Year Award was announced this week and I think it's safe to say that the list took quite a few people by surprise. To be honest with you I don't really know what I was expecting, but from the 20 albums that made the long list there are a few that I was genuinely surprise to see on there and a whole lot more that I had plain old never heard of. I guess it's the eclectic nature [...]

• Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
• Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
• Conquering Animal Sound - Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover)
• FOUND - Eyes So Bright (Cate Le Bon cover)
• Happy Particles - Lovestoned (Justin Timberlake cover)
• King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - I Have Been Losing You (A-ha cover)
• Remember Remember - Twin Peaks theme tune (Angelo Badalamenti cover)
• Steve Mason - Borderline (Madonna cover)
• We Were Promised Jetpacks - Blindsided (Bon Iver cover)

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Artist:	Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
Title:	Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
Link Text:	Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
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Artist:	Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
Title:	Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
Link Text:	Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
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Artist:	Conquering Animal Sound
Title:	Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover)
Link Text:	Conquering Animal Sound - Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover)
File Name:	Conquering Animal Sound-Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover).mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	FOUND
Title:	Eyes So Bright (Cate Le Bon cover)
Link Text:	FOUND - Eyes So Bright (Cate Le Bon cover)
File Name:	FOUND-Eyes So Bright (Cate Le Bon cover).mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Happy Particles
Title:	Lovestoned (Justin Timberlake cover)
Link Text:	Happy Particles - Lovestoned (Justin Timberlake cover)
File Name:	Happy Particles - Lovestoned (Justin Timberlake cover).mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	King Creosote and Jon Hopkins
Title:	I Have Been Losing You (A-ha cover)
Link Text:	King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - I Have Been Losing You (A-ha cover)
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Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Remember Remember
Title:	Twin Peaks theme tune (Angelo Badalamenti cover)
Link Text:	Remember Remember - Twin Peaks theme tune (Angelo Badalamenti cover)
File Name:	Remember Remember-Twin Peaks theme tune (Angelo Badalamenti cover).mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Steve Mason
Title:	Borderline (Madonna cover)
Link Text:	Steve Mason - Borderline (Madonna cover)
File Name:	Steve Mason-Borderline (Madonna cover).mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	We Were Promised Jetpacks
Title:	Blindsided (Bon Iver cover)
Link Text:	We Were Promised Jetpacks - Blindsided (Bon Iver cover)
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Blog Tapes: The Coachella Mix

Apr 14, 11:17am Lost In The Sound

[Blog Tapes] - Coachella from metrojolt on 8tracks . About a year ago, some of us blogger folk decided to band together for a series of Monday Mixer playlists. We've proudly joined forces again to restart the series - bigger and better than ever before. Blog Tapes , the new mixtape collective featuring our favorite music blogs on the Internet today, kicks off today with its very first mixtape: 8 hand-picked songs from artists that are all playing at this year's Coachella festival. Give it a listen above! [...]

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Blog Tapes: Coachella

Apr 14, 7:42am The Blue Walrus

[Blog Tapes] - Coachella We've joined up with a whole host of our favourite music blogs around the world to start putting together a regular mixtape series - Blog Tapes . With Coachella festival starting this weekend in the US, for this first mixtape we've all picked one of our favourite acts playing this year and rolled it all together into a mixtape on 8tracks which you can play above. DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt It's rare in music for something to completely transcend the strict [...]

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We Were Promised Jetpacks w/ Bad Veins @ Headliners – 3/28

Mar 28, 9:30am Backseat Sandbar

Bad Veins + We Were Promised Jetpacks will be at Headliners on March 28th!! Bad Veins is out of Cincy and they are sick. Worth the price of admission alone, but throw in We Were Promised Jetpacks and this show is going to be great. We'll be there for sure! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =C4nZfjQYgEs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =G5ZhBAylbN4 [...]

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ATL Concert Roundup — March 26-April 1

Mar 26, 10:40am Latest Disgrace

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Atlanta Music Roundtable Showcase w/ Nigredo, Lucy Dreams, The Electric Nature Tuesday, March 27 The Earl - 466 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 $5 / Purchase Tickets When we first came up with the idea for the Atlanta Music Roundtable to host a local showcase, the concept was simple: bring together a diverse range of artists that we felt represented the best in Atlanta music. We didn't necessarily have the intention of a recurring event, but [...]

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SXSW 2012: Day 2 – Scottish Music Industry Association showcase at Easy Tiger Patio – 15th March 2012

Mar 26, 10:00am There Goes the Fear

With my previous music festival experiences, time proved to be my greatest enemy. At SXSW this year, I found a new foe: distance. While I'm a native Washingtonian and our town ranks in the top 10 of most walkable American cities, even I was flagging after day 2 in Austin. When you're subsisting on less than 4 hours of sleep per night, dehydrated and hungry, all signs point to you not crossing the road to meet Adam (Duritz of Counting Crows , whose name was on a sign I spotted [...]

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We Were Promised Jetpacks at Varsity Theater, 3/21/12

Mar 22, 10:05am City Pages - Gimme Noise

Facebook.com​We Were Promised JetpacksVarsity Theater, MinneapolisWednesday, March 21, 2012Scottish indie rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks proved here's still room for invention within the genre at t

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We Were Promised Jetpacks - Live at the Rolling Stone SXSW party

Mar 21, 5:30pm Peenko

Track Listing 1. Hard To Remember 2. Roll Up Your Sleeves 3. Boy In The Back Seat 4. Pear Tree Download Stream the Video of the Gig

• We Were Promised Jetpacks - Pear Tree

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Artist:	We Were Promised Jetpacks
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Best Of The Best SXSW 2012

Mar 20, 6:20pm Heycoolkid!

"In their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word the only word I had was 'wow'." - Kerouac The greatest spectacle in music (I've heard they have movies too) has just wrapped up and for all it's brilliance and mind [...]

• Bear Hands - Crime Pays
• Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless
• Hooray for Earth - Surrounded By Your Friends
• Japandroids - Younger Us
• The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles
• Trash Talk - Sacramento is dead
• Tycho - Epigram
• We Were Promised Jetpacks - Roll Up Your Sleeves
• Widowspeak - Fir Coat
• Youth Lagoon - 17

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Artist:	Bear Hands
Title:	Crime Pays
Link Text:	Bear Hands - “Crime Pays”
File Name:	01-crime-pays.mp3
Bitrate:	242 kbps
Genre:	Alternative Rock
Year:	2011

Artist:	Cloud Nothings
Title:	Stay Useless
Link Text:	Cloud Nothings - “Stay Useless”
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Bitrate:	256 kbps

Artist:	Hooray for Earth
Title:	Surrounded By Your Friends
Link Text:	Hooray For Earth - “Surrounded By Your Friends”
File Name:	hooray-for-earth-surrounded-by -your-friends.mp3

Artist:	Japandroids
Title:	Younger Us
Link Text:	Japandroids - “Younger Us”
File Name:	japandroids-younger-us.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Genre:	Indie
Year:	2010

Artist:	The War On Drugs
Title:	Baby Missiles
Link Text:	The War On Drugs - “Baby Missiles”
File Name:	01-baby-missiles.mp3
Genre:	Alternative Rock
Year:	2011

Artist:	Trash Talk
Title:	Sacramento is dead
Link Text:	Trash Talk - “Sacramento Is Dead”
File Name:	trash-talk-sacramento-is-dead. mp3
Bitrate:	129 kbps

Artist:	Tycho
Title:	Epigram
Link Text:	Tycho - “Epigram”
File Name:	09-epigram.mp3
Genre:	Electronic
Year:	2011

Artist:	We Were Promised Jetpacks
Title:	Roll Up Your Sleeves
Link Text:	We Were Promised Jetpacks - “Roll Up Your Sleeves”
File Name:	03-roll-up-your-sleeves.mp3
Bitrate:	207 kbps
Genre:	Rock
Year:	2009

Artist:	Widowspeak
Title:	Fir Coat
Link Text:	Widowspeak - “Fir Coat”
File Name:	08-fir-coat.mp3
Genre:	Alternative
Year:	2011

Artist:	Youth Lagoon
Title:	17
Link Text:	Youth Lagoon - “17″
File Name:	04-17.mp3
Genre:	Pop-Rock
Year:	2011

CONTEST: Win Tickets to See We Were Promised Jetpacks 3/21

Mar 20, 1:16pm Minneapolis Fucking Rocks

The wonderful We Were Promised Jetpacks hit the Varsity Theater tomorrow with support from Bad Veins and New Cassettes . MFR loves these dudes, so we are giving away a pair of tickets for you to see the show! To enter email laura@minneapolisfuckingrocks. com with your answer to this question: What will come first: the ability to time travel, or humans living in outer space? Wednesday, March 21 2012 7pm // 18+ Varsity Theater

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