Blog: Strangeglue

It seems to be a good day to announce one-off shows in London today. The latest is Kele from Bloc Party, who's booked a night at the Electric Ballroom venue on November 19. The frontman, who recently released his début solo album 'The Boxer', also brings out a new single, 'Everything You Wanted', on August 16.

Les Savy Fav have announced they'll play a one-off gig at London's Cargo venue on September 10. The show will come three days before the release of their new album, Root For Ruin, which is coming out via Wichita on September 13.

Last month The Walkmen announced their fifth record of original material to be released this autumn, but we speculated as to who / when / where it would be released in the U. K. The conjecture can now end as the New York band have signed on the dotted line with Bella Union who will release their new album, Lisbon, on October 11.

It's that time of year again. The 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominations have been announced today in London. As usual, there are a few surprises, but overall it's a very safe list of choices. The early favourites are 2003 winner Dizzee Rascal for his album Tongue 'n Cheek, alongside Strange Glue 2009 album winner The XX.

We love Jimmy Eat World. Despite the fact they sit in a genre of bands we'd quite like to bottle, it's hard not to remember with fondness their Mark Trombino-produced genre-hopping album Clarity or the ear candy melodies of Bleed American.

Just a few days ago, Deerhunter announced the name of their new album and how they wanted you to promote it for them. That was kind of them. Now they've partly repaid the favour by announcing a tracklist and a postage-size jpeg of the album artwork.

Inception might be the best movie you see all year, but we seriously doubt anything will compare to the DVD release of Boredoms' 77 drummer ensemble hammering their drum-kits in unison. On July 7th, 2007 at 7:07 PM, Japanese group Boredoms, orchestrated a performance by 77 drummers at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, with the picturesque Brooklyn Bridge setting the perfect background.

Vampire Weekend have revealed a raft of dates for a headline UK tour to take place in November and December later this year. The New York indie-popsters, who released their second album Contra earlier this year, will play six shows, starting off in Blackpool, before concluding things in London.

Hot on the heels of their headlining appearance at this year's Latitude Festival, Belle & Sebastian have announced a tour of the U. K this December. There are seven dates confirmed all sandwiched between their Bowlie 2 ATP Festival, although there's plenty of scope to add dates, particularly as London is left out of the initial tour.

It's one of the most eclectic weeks Strange Glue can remember for many a moon, with nearly every genre covered in this week's interesting album releases. Whether you like the folk pop melodies of Seth Lakeman and Alan Pownall, the catchy indie-pop hooks of Tokyo Police Club or maybe it's Max Richter - a classically trained artist with a fondness for electronica who's fifth album is based upon 25 minutes of music commissioned by London's Royal Ballet in 2008 and inspired by T.

It's hard to believe that The Coral have quietly slipped into the realm of a veteran six album band in an impressively succinct eight years. Tonight the band demonstrated that their repertoire is deceptively full although the band does trade heavily on its material from its début eponymous album.

It's hard to believe two years have passed since the release of Cut Copy's excellent 'In Ghost Colours'. The Australian synth-pop trio are back again, and although their new LP won't be released 'til 2011, the band have unveiled the first track from their third studio album.

The fact that tiny festival Standon Calling hasn't sold out yet must be testament that good taste is rare and elusive. At this point, it's not even about good taste--with the line-up so wide-ranging and the rest of the festival package so action-packed, it's actually just about good sense.

Over the past month, details on the upcoming Corin Tucker album have started to emerge like a Max Clifford-orchestrated tabloid story. We now have the artwork and a tracklist for the hugely anticipated record which is officially an album from The Corin Tucker Band, featuring Sara Lund of Unwound and Seth Lorinczi of Golden Bears.

Manchester's Jim Noir would be close to releasing his third studio album if it wasn't for the fact he'd decided to split an album's worth of material into two EPs. Nevertheless, one of the EPs - 'Melody Junction' is ready now as a free download on the Jim Noir website, with the other following on vinyl shortly.

Teenage Fanclub have announced details of a one-off London show this winter. The show will take place at HMV Forum on December 8, with tickets on sale now. The Glasgow group, who released 'Shadows', their first new material in five years last May, will also playing a headline slot at this year's Truck Festival later this month and once more at the Summer Sundae Weekender in August.

Canadian indie legend Owen Pallett has made his 'Lewis Takes Off His Shirt' EP available to download for free. The 12" includes remixes from Dan Deacon, Max Tundra, Simon Bookish, Benoit Pioulard, and CFCF - as well as the title track lifted from his album Heartland.

The four men that make up Canadian art rockers Women, have confirmed a UK tour for August / September. The tour will plug their second album Public Strain which is scheduled for release on August 23rd via Jagjaguwar. These are their dates, supporting on all dates are Idiot Glee: The band have made available the track 'Eyesore' as a free download, so head on over here to have a listen.

The four men that make up Canadian art rockers Women, have confirmed a UK tour for August / September. The tour will plug their second album Public Strain which is scheduled for release on August 23rd via Jagjaguwar. These are their dates, supporting on all dates are Idiot Glee: The band have made available the track 'Eyesore' as a free download, so head on over here to have a listen.

• Women - Eyesore

Deerhunter have announced their fourth LP called Halcyon Digest, to be released through 4AD on September 27th (28th in the US). They want you to promote it for them though, through an "interactive art project" and if you do you'll get some exclusive goodies.