Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Chicago indie outfit,  Smith Westerns  are streaming their upcoming new album  Soft Will  right now via NPR . The fourpiece are set to drop their third record to date next week (24/25 June), following on from 2011′s brilliant  Dye It Blonde . But before then, you can listen to it in full beneath the LP’s tracklisting below. Read our review of the record here . 1 3am Spiritual 2 Idol 3 Glossed 4 XXIII 5 Fool Proof 6 White Oath 7 Only Natural 8 [...]

Black Sabbath have made history by breaking Bob Dylan 's record for the biggest interval between two consecutive number one albums. The global record had previously stood at 38 years, charting in the U.S, between the singer's 1970 release New Morning and 20092s Together Through Life . But now Black Sabbath 's comeback LP 13 has topped it after their second ever album Paranoid made it to the top spot 42 years and 8 months ago. The album also slashed [...]

Earlier this month we gave you the first taster from The Long Journey Home , the new EP from London based producer Catching Flies . Fuelled by late night, dark introspective beats and soulful vocal cuts - ' Stay Forever' was merely fuel to the fire of what was to be expected from the remainder of the EP. Released today, The Long Journey Home is streaming exclusively here at Best Fit. Listen to the aforementioned 'Stay Forever' alongside 'Grey Skies' and the title track 'The Long Journey Home' below. The [...]

• CATCHING FLIES - The Long Journey Home EP

1 Morning fly by Photographer: Victor Lundmark 2 A$AP Rocky - Blue Stage Photographer: Victor Lundmark 3 John Talabot - Blue Stage Photographer: Victor Lundmark 4 Post rain shower crowd Photographer: Victor Lundmark 5 [...]

Painfully hip avant-garde hip hop newcomer Zebra Katz has announced a super intimate show at London's Madame Jojo's. Taking place tomorrow as part of the weekly White Heat club night (18 June), the show follows on from the 25 year old New Yorker's appearance at XOYO earlier this month. Support comes from William Arcane and Black Gold Buffalo . Tickets are priced at £6 and are available now via Billetto .

Tongues are often fairly loose with words like 'otherworldly' and 'ethereal' when discussing the more unusual side of independent music. Of course, when steeped in the pop-heavy alternative Western music scene it's easy to think of less familiar artists as the above, but overuse of these words means that when something truly, otherwise-indescribably ethereal drops into our laps we're left mouthing comically to find words that reflect just how so it is in comparison to what we've previously branded with said words. So it has been with a few particular Nordic artists of the last few years that veer away [...]

Jay-Z has announced the release date of his upcoming album  Magna Carta Holy Grail , amid details of a partnership with Samsung that will see the comapnys' smartphone users receive the album 72 hours ahead of the official release. The album - his fifteenth studio record and twelfth solo release - was revealed in a commercial that aired during last night's NBA finals game between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. While its title might be as ostentatious and hubristic as Kanye West 's imminent  Yeezus , both albums already look set to [...]

Sky Ferreira takes the Best Fit Q&A and tells us about the different David's she would have to her dinner party, her desire for the power of teleportation and who she'd most like to apologise to. Who would play you in the movie of your life? Willem Defoe or Crispin Glover. Just put a wig on them and call it a day. I think Michael Shannon would play my dad. What would your superpower be and why? Teleportation so [...]

Couldn't make it to Tennessee?  Never fear.  Bonnaroo has been streaming this weekend right  here . With channels continuously filming, Bonnaroo will be presenting select artist performances throughout the duration of the festival via Ustream. Here are the offerings coming up today: Sunday, June 16th: 02:30pm – Delta Rae (1) 02:45 – Father John Misty (2) 03:30 – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (1) 03:45 – Big K.R.I.T. (2) 04:30 – Kendrick Lamar (1) 05:00 – Swans [...]

With his album already leaked online days before its release, there's still some things to still look forward to from Kanye West - who has now debuted a new short film of sorts based around 2000 cult movie American Psycho. The video was premiered at a number of projection events held this weekend, with a clip surfacing online from the L.A screening. The film sees the two characters listening to Yeezus shortly before Christian Bale's character of Patrick Bateman murders the other. [...]

Ane Brun stuck around for a little longer after we filmed her last week for a Best Fit Session to mark the release of a ten-year career spanning compilation  As well as recording a version of ' My Lover Will Go ' from her 2005 longplayer A Temporary Dive , Brun also gave us an elegant take on the classic Newley/Bricusse showtune 'Feeling Good', taken from the 1964 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd but better known [...]

Alabama native Waxahatchee is becoming an increasingly familiar face. You'll find her bleach blonde hair lining the pages of websites and zines, mirroring the anticipation surrounding her sophomore album. Cerulean Salt  is due for release via Wichita records on July 1st and, although nothing more than a lucky coincidence, its punk-infused sound is brilliantly timed for this country, as the genre continues to re-find its feet. Her sell-out Shacklewell Arms show, with full band, was followed by a stripped-back set at Dalston Roof [...]

After Angel Haze 's recent guest spot on a cut of Woodkid 's I Love You, N.E.R.D / The Neptunes  man and Daft Punk collaborator Pharrell Williams has turned in a reworking of the track. Pharrell's trademark groove-infused funk nestles snugly under the French musician's lulling croon on the track, which features on his acclaimed debut record The Golden Age .

• Woodkid - I Love You (Pharrell Remix)

  Warner/Chappell is facing a lawsuit challenging the copyright status of 'Happy Birthday to You', famously the most profitable song in history. The makers of  a documentary about the song claim to have enough evidence to force the song's legal owners to return millions of dollars made each year in licensing the song for films, commercials, radio and theatre. Good Morning To You Productions has filed a lawsuit against Warner/Chappell that effectively argues the copyright held by the American publishing company isn't particularly [...]

CCTV footage has been acquired by TMZ that purports to show the moment rapper 2 Chainz was robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco on June 9th. The enthralling saga of Tauheed Epps continues, and if the footage does indeed show the armed robbery in question, then it's going to be even harder for him to offer fresh denials of the incident. 2 Chainz had been in San Francisco to appear at the KMEL Summer Jam , when he was approached in the street [...]

Scandinavian-Antipodean twins Miranda and Elektra Kilbey, otherwise known as Say Lou Lou , have been signed to Columbia Records. The sisters, whose previous releases ' Julian ' and B-side ' Fool of Me ' gained them significant blogosphere acclaim and over 100,000 plays on Soundcloud, told Billboard last month that they were "in the middle of a very intense recording period," and had material for a début album that they hoped to release late this year- a date that CMU  reports has been pushed back to 2014 while the pair continue to [...]

• Say Lou Lou - Fool Of Me Feat. Chet Faker

Two times Mercury winner PJ Harvey has been named in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours List. The 43-year old Dorset born songwriter and performer will receive an MBE for services to music, recognising a 20-year career. Harvey began performing in her teens as part of Automatic Diamini - her first collaboration with John Parish , who she would work with numerous times over the years including her last record, 20112s Let England Shake . [...]

With just days to go before Yeezus drops, Kanye West 's new album is reported to have surfaced online. Many social networks are a-buzz with people claiming to have downloaded the record, with SPIN pointing to one supposed file. It's also claimed that the below is the final, official tracklisting for the release. 1. "On Sight" 2. "Black Skinhead" 3. "I Am a God" 4. "New Slaves" feat. Frank Ocean 5. "Hold My Liquor" feat. [...]

Uber-producer and Def Jam founder, Rick Rubin has spoken in interview about his role on the new Kanye West album, Yeezus . Earlier in the week, Kanye West had told The New York Times about all the collaborators he worked with on the record, one of which was producer Rick Rubin, who has join forces with everyone from Beastie Boys to Johnny Cash. Rubin is credited on Yeezus as an executive producer and was personally head-hunted to [...]

Berlin- based producer Travis Steward, also known as Machinedrum , is readying his concept album Vapor City  via the Ninja Tune label. Steward has plans to turn each track into a representation of the different districts in a city of his imagination. Vapor City  will be the follow up to widely acclaimed LP Rooms , Steward will be launching a four-track EP to accompany the release. Check out the album artwork above and take a listen to new track ‘Eyesdontlie’ below: Click here to [...]