The second in a new series looking back at classic Britpop albums investigates Kula Shaker's K.

Die Britpop-Band Atomic veröffentlicht heute ihr neues Video zur Single "Heartbeater". Ihr gleichnamiges Album wird am 28. Oktober über Redwinetunes in hiesige Plattenläden gelangen. In dem schwarz/weiß-getränkten Streifen sehen wir das Quintett in klassischer Rock-Atmosphäre ihren Song performen. motor.de präsentiert euch exklusiv das neue Video der Band aus dem Bayrischen Wald:  Atomic – "Heartbeater" In DIY-Manier veröffentlichten die beiden Brüder Thomas (Vocals) und Rainer Marschel (Vocals, Gitarre) sowie Dominik Teubert (Bass), Daniel Mederer (Gitarre) und Thomas Schedlbauer (Schlagzeug) ihre erste EP "The Big Issue". Anschließend folgten Support-Shows für Tomte und Madsen. Um ihren Indie-Gitarren-Sound weiter zu verfestigten, legten Atomic ...

Luke Haines has confirmed plans to release his new solo album 'Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s And Early '80s.’ Popular myths about Luke Haines' career #1: The Auteurs were criminally ignored in their own time. In fact, the band enjoyed critical acclaim and were even nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. However, the press inches afforded to The Auteurs were rather over-shadowed by the acres of coverage lavished on Cast B-sides and whether or not Kula Shaker were Nazis or just silly hippies. Now better known as a scabrous, hilarious writer Luke Haines ...

Photos by Louise Nindi FRIDAY 2011 marked Standon Calling's seventh year of public operation and the three day event promised much by way of bands and festive silliness. Friday morning: after we took one of the festival's easily-arranged taxis from our London flat, a trip that lasted no more than an hour, we arrived in blistering heat around lunchtime and began in good spirits: expedient tent-circle establishment and the drinking of an inaugural ale. Line ups consulted, fancy dress at the ready, the 405 had arrived in style and in this fashion intended to continue. Friday's line ...

At the end of The Flaming Lips’ set at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival where they played their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin, singer Wayne Coyne got two fans up on stage. The bride was dressed as Dorothy from Wizard Of Oz, the groom as a Lion. While the band played a muzak rendition of Do You Realise, Coyne married them declaring “By the power of the Flaming Lips, the universe and LSD, I now pronounce you man and wife!” Remember Hush by Kula Shaker? Frontman Crispian Mills has taken a career turn ...

Brit comic actor to team up with Britpop veteran for 'A Fantastic Fear of Everything'

Brit comic actor to team up with Britpop veteran for 'A Fantastic Fear Of Everything'

As you may or may not recall, almost exactly a year ago I posted two compilation of 90s British music as a tribute to both Britpop and the excellent, legendary, immense, spectacular blog Mars Needs Guitars and its maker Merz. In 2009 he shared dozen and dozens of songs from the wonderful Britpop era in a long, extensive, and impressive series of posts. As an hommage to a great man and a great scene I compiled two sets of these songs here . Volume two has been down for quite some time but is now up again, so do check that ...

Encore une fois, je vais vous parler d’un album totalement incroyable. Une pépite londonienne, encore une fois. A croire que Londres sera toujours un véritable berceau de la musique. Voici donc Kula Shaker. En 1er lieu, un nom de groupe pareil doit avoir un sens, une origine. Figurez-vous que c’est lors d’une discussion avec un [...]

Label: Self-released Release Date: 11/04/11 Link: MySpace Smile are a five piece indie band from Reading who sound like they’ve been locked in a room for weeks listening to nothing but a radio with the dial locked on the US college equivalent of UK Gold. Their debut EP Closer is packed with sweet vocals and chiming guitars that could easily be an echo from another, simpler, age. The title track sounds like an offcut from Mary Star Of The Sea , the debut album from Zwan, Billy Corgan’s shortlived Smashing Pumpkins offshoot. It’s imbued with a ...

tonight’s the last time the band is playing with my brother. he’s won’t be in Bordeaux after that. here’s the setlist of the songs we’re covering for this mini-show. Vaporize -  Broken Bells (2010) Lady d’Arbanville -  Cat Stevens (1970) Peter Pan R.I.P -  Kula Shaker (2010) Tighten Up -  The Black Keys (2010) Baby -  Devendra Banhart (2009) Hard Sun -  Eddie Vedder (2007) Bigmouth Strikes Again -  Placebo (2003) Postcards From Paraguay -  Mark Knopfler (2004) Bohemian Like You -  The Dandy Warhols (2000) Ophelia -  Kula Shaker (2010) Update - Encore included: Nantes - Beirut Viva La Vida - Coldplay Baby - Devendra ...

Perched on shelves, buried in bins, and collecting dust on racks, some of the world’s best music is left to the fate of time. Forgotten and neglected, these artists and albums are now primed for re-evaluation thanks to a world gone digital. Any would-be musical explorer can now plug in, tune out, and turn up. Read more...

In April 2009 and to celebrate 20 Years of 'The Stone Roses' debut album. Clash spoke to the people involved and why that album is important for a whole generation. Below Clash talks to the producer of the band's classic debut album, John Leckie. In addition to his role as producer for The Verve, Radiohead, Muse and, er, Kula Shaker, John Leckie also served behind the control desk for the recording of ‘The Stone Roses’. Sessions took place at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, and in Battery and Konk studios in London. Clash caught up with the esteemed knob-twiddler ...

One of the problems for anyone looking to build a service which uses music is the horrible confusion over who owns what rights for which market. It sometimes means certain tracks can't be used at all; other times, the difficulties in do cross-border deals mean great ideas can never roll out across the world. So it's a useful start that the music industry is finally doing something to help. Reuters reports: Now, consultancy Deloitte is working to develop a global repertoire database (GRD) for the publishing industry following input from Universal Music Publishing and EMI Publishing, some of ...

The band's bid to relive 1996 might fare better if they had an ounce of wit or originality In the summer of 2009, a T4 interview with Raygun did the rounds of the Twittersphere . It seemed to present a real-life Spinal Tap with a fondness for "drinking Mojitos at 11am – what the hell, man!" that displayed a mesmerising lack of self-awareness. Last year produced nothing quite so cringeworthy, though a promo film of the hotly tipped Brother came close. Documenting the lad-rock band's attempts to play for "the people" , it showed the quartet setting up their equipment at ...