This Welsh septet arrived four years ago on the coattails of similarly energetic U.K. bands (Bloc Party, The Go! Team), blending clamor with sweetness. "You! Me! Dancing!," off their 2008 debut, Hold On Now, Youngster, boasts such bracing pop attack, Budweiser used it in a commercial last year. T...

Los Campesinos! have been fighting the descriptor "twee" since their beginnings at university together in Cardiff, Wales. That's a common problem for bands that deal in dancey, confessional, sugar-fueled indie pop; throw in a glockenspiel, seven Urban Outfitters-model-esque band members wi...

Welsh septet Los Campesinos! are currently on the North American leg of their tour in support of their fourth album, Hello Sadness. Intrepid Ca Va Cool correspondent Kevin Kania caught up with guitarist Neil Campesinos! before their show at London Music Hall in London, Ontario to discuss growing up with fans, destination recording, and the [...]

Hospitality Hospitality [Merge; 2012] by Nick RS Rating: With Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) , The Kinks built the ideal pop concept album by cannily constructing an entirely convincing post-colonial landscape out of a collage of musical idioms and cultural signifiers from across the Anglophone world. By layering tambourine and twanging guitars over hymnlike structures and juxtaposing kazoo with harpsichord, Ray Davies made scarcely 50 minutes of wax feel like it might contain centuries of world history. Indie pop crew Hospitality’s self-titled debut hints at that sort of thaumaturgy, although its subject — the directionless inanity ...

I'm So Unclean by EVANS THE DEATH [ Spotify - Facebook - tumblr ] Super music friend Ariel over at Chromewaves Radio , knowing my tastes all too well, told me to give this new London outfit a listen. Glad I did. Their lively pop/rock sounds bring to mind a bit of The Long Blondes meets Ida Maria meets Los Campesinos! , and by the sound of this single, the debut album from Evans The Death (expected in April) will be one to anxiously await. Promising.

With fourth album Hello Sadness (released November 2011 on Wichita) confirming them as one of the UK’s best-loved indie bands, Cardiff’s Los Campesinos! are set to release Songs About Your Girlfriend as a single. Before its 19 March release, a video for the chunky-riffed, euphoric...

While currently knocking US audiences for six, Los Campesinos! have announced details of the third song to be taken from one of last years best albums, Hello Sadness . 'Songs About Your Girlfriend' will, rather poetically, be released on Valentines Day and you can stream the track below. The above still is taken from the video, and we look forward to airing the video on 405tv as soon as it's available to us!

Check out Josh Darr’s photos as he spent the day with Los Campesinos! at The Metro in Chicago, Ill. on January 27, 2012.

‘Songs About Your Girlfriend’ will be released on 19 March ahead of the band’s UK tour.

Welsh indie rockers Los Campesinos! have been on these shores recently, on a jaunt that included a trip

Fun fact of the day: Did you know that Los Campesinos in English means “The Peasants”? Maybe it’s more fun to listen to this short song but full of energy.

Watch ‘By Your Hand’ below. Catch ‘em on their North American tour. MP3: Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand

WOAH. February already? It only seems a few days since we were all glum about taking down those Yuletide decorations for another year… Well, in some cases it actually was a few days, which is possibly a lesson in arsing yourself to Actually Do Stuff. Those new year resolutions about being POSITIVE, PROACTIVE and PRODUCTIVE are evidently falling by the same wayside they disappeared down last year. The only possible solution is to ensure that our gig schedules are as full as possible for the next few weeks. And given how skint we’ve all been throughout January, it’s ...

In the mid 90’s a scene born out of fanzine culture, glitter, glamour and d-i-y attitude called Teen-C punked its way across the UK for a few brief but exciting years. The likes of Bis, Dweeb, Disco Pistols, The Period Pains and most notably Kenickie, featuring a young Lauren Laverne, created a wave of short lived enthusiasm for a whole bunch of teenagers with no musical ability but plenty of style / attitude to create their own bands. It even helped give birth to this blog, albeit in a shabbily produced paper fanzine form called Breaking Waves. That’s where ...

All that's missing is the Campbell's Soup. Pixies frontman Frank Black and his wife, Violet Clark, make a whole bunch of direct allusions to Andy Warhol in "Silver Boys," the propulsive, synth-buzzing advance track from their upcoming second album as Grand Duchy, titled Let the People Speak (out April 10). Directed by Art Brut and Los Campesinos! video whiz Alex de Campi for production company gravitysleeps , the "Silver Boys" clip drives home the Warhol connection even further, featuring Black and Clark amid Warhol-style imagery, Warhol quotes, and plenty of hedonistic scenes worthy of the artist's old Factory ...