Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

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Kanye West has premiered a song from his upcoming new record on the side of a building in New York. Kanye projected the video to 'New Slaves' onto a building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn last night, before tweeting his intent for more to follow this weekend: NEW SONG AND VISUAL FROM MY NEW ALBUM BEING PROJECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE ON 66 BUILDINGS, LOCATIONS @ http://KANYEWEST.COM  Some of the locations include London, Chicago, Paris, Toronto and Sydney. Cities include multiple sites also. London, [...]

Two of our favourite worlds collide on emerging disco-house music stars Behling & Simpson ’s edits of R&B honey Ciara’s ‘Surgeon’.  The track that originally appeared on Jackmaster’s 2012 “Master Mix”, is finally seeing a proper vinyl release, which also includes a stellar version of Ciara’s ‘Goodies’. The Bristol duo have been steadily climbing the ranks of the house music world with their smoothed out boogie beats, with recent releases on some of cult favourite dance labels, Futureboogie and Outernational. For their Ciara [...]

• Ciara - Like A Surgeon (Behling & Simpson rebax)

With their new record Trouble Will Find Me out in the UK and U.S next week, The National seem to have their sights and minds focussed firmly on the future, admitting doubts in a recent interview over their long-term plans as a band. "The band has almost ended here and there," singer Matt Berninger told  The Grid . "I think we got past a lot of the ways it could have ended and ended badly." Despite having held it together for over [...]

With their new record Trouble Will Find Me out in the UK and U.S next week, The National seem to have their sights and minds focussed firmly on the future, admitting doubts in a recent interview over their long-term plans as a band. "The band has almost ended here and there," singer Matt Berninger told  The Grid . "I think we got past a lot of the ways it could have ended and ended badly." Despite having held it together for over [...]

Manchester venue Band On The Wall have unveiled a series of music courses and training schemes at their Manchester College-associated Centre for Music. They already offer a BTEC diploma in Music Technology and Live 2 Sound engineering, but starting from September 2013 there will be a host of new courses including Foundation degrees in Popular Music Performance and Music Industry Management, as well as other qualifications. To mark the introduction of these new courses, the venue will host a launch day of live music and talks - with The Charlatans [...]

Musician, writer, actress and now new face of American Express. Carrie Brownstein quite literally can "be whoever she wants to be", as she points out in this new ad. The new advertising campaign for the credit card company features the Wild Flag and Sleater-Kinney member, and Portlandia star, playing a host of different characters in various sketches and scenarios. There's a vinyl fetishist, a business man paying for ice cream on card and a shopping mom. It's basically like Portlandia  with more product [...]

Following her launch of the "world's first app album", Björk has now been announced as one of the speakers at this year's Wired conference. The technology conference, hosted by the American magazine and online periodical, will take place between 17-18 October at London's Tobacco Dock. The Icelandic musician will join a panel full of pioneering technocrats. Björk's latest album, Biophilia released in October 2011, was released with a series of apps, described as a "multimedia exploration of music, nature and [...]

Daft Punk are pretty much the talk of every town at the moment, but one in particular today as the French duo launched their new album at  an agricultural show  in Wee Waa, New South Wales. With Random Access Memories coming out on Monday (20 May), the electro pair have been picking up the pace on their marketing campaign. Now, having hosted a playback at the top of London's Shard building earlier in the week, the band have now thrown at closing party in "Australia’s cotton capital”. [...]

Icona Pop 's signature track and mega-hit, 'I Love It' will finally experience a release in the UK this summer, over a year after it initially dropped. The song, voted our Track of 2012 , peaked at #2 in the group's home country of Sweden, as well as reaching the top ten in the U.S, Germany and Canada, and will now be released as a single in the UK on 1 July. It'll be backed by remixes from Jakwob , Bobby Champs , Fix8 and [...]

The long-running debate and general nuisance of gig-goers recording concerts on their camera phones has reached a peak with the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Savages each speaking out in hope to deter fans from filming their shows illegally. Recent Mercury Prize winners Alt-J , however, feel like they've found the solution, premiering new technology last night which hopes to put an end to the problem. The fourpiece, who also picked up the 'Album of the Year' award at the Ivor Novellos yesterday , debuted [...]

Stockholm duo Eliot Grace have been quietly beavering away for twelve months on a handful of tracks made public via their SoundCloud , but it's with 'Rebecka' that the pair really intend to take off. Sweeping, grandiose pop boasting a forceful romantic tug at the heart strings and a hook that's borderline inescapable. The first 'official' single from the group, 'Rebecka' is doused in sweeping eighties production that's so on point right now, but comes from such an honest and true place, you can't fail to [...]

• Danger Village - Eliot Grace - Rebecka

London indie-groovesters, Theme Park have unveiled details of an upcoming all-day event set to take place during August. The band will headline the early-start event at the capital's Village Underground on 3 August, with Gabriel Bruce , MT , Legoland and Transgressive DJs all confirmed so far. The gig is priced at £12.50, with tickets available shortly here . More special guests are to be announced. Photo by Sebastien Dehesdin .

With a new album coming later this year, influential hip-hop collective  Wu-Tang Clan  have revealed a new track in the form of 'Execution in Autumn'. The group had previously confirmed that they'll celebrate the 20th anniversary of debut  Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)  with new album  A Better Tomorrow,  out in July. The album is thought to be their final ever release, with RZA quoted as saying last year: ”There’s one last job Wu-Tang Clan must do”. Before then however, stream 'Execution in Autumn' below: [via [...]

Having last released an album in 1999 and with no production credits to his name so far this year, it'd be sad to think that Dr Dre may be known more for his branded headphones than his music by the youth of today. But that might all swiftly revert back, with the hip-hop veteran telling  LA Weekly recently that he's about to head back to the studio. "I'm more inspired to go back into the studio now," he is quoted as saying. "Now I'm ready to go back to [...]

Coldplay have been awarded 'Best British Act' by the 2013 O2 Silver Clef Awards. The ceremony was hosted by the  Nordoff-Robbins charity, which uses the proceeds to provide music therapy treatment to ailing individuals. Why Coldplay were selected seems to simply be a matter of their gargantuan musical footprint. In an interview with  Clash Magazine , David Munns, chairman of the Nordoff-Robbins organization, said: "Coldplay are one of the British music industry’s great successes. With over 60 million album sales and five consecutive no.1 albums, I can think of no [...]

Liars have made two new songs available online, one called 'I Saw You From The Lifeboat' and another entitled 'Perfume Tear'. According to Quietus , the band's Angus Andrew said of the decision to release the tracks online for free: "After releasing WIXIW and returning home from touring there was a palpable sense of creative relief and release. We relished in the opportunity to make stuff under no real directive and began almost immediately to produce all kinds of unrelated works. It’s a great position to be in [...]

Currently mid-way through touring his recent solo record Regions of Light and Sound of God , Jim James has revealed that he will return to the studio with band My Morning Jacket after the summer. Frontman, James recently told Rolling Stone that the group were “in the process of nailing down a studio", expecting to start work on the LP in October. He continued to say that he's currently unsure of the musical direction of the forthcoming record, [...]

Dan Carson and George O'Brien ignore temptations to do nothing but sit on the beach all day in the Brighton sunshine and bring us an account of some incredible performances from the first day of this year's Great Escape Festival. Chasing Grace Recent Island signing Chasing Grace kicked our weekend off with an early performance at The Hope. The British four piece conjure-up a light-hearted blend of folk and emotional pop with glimmers of heaviness, that is arguably too shackled. There is no [...]