Having just returned from a successful US tour, Peggy Sue are pleased to announce that the next single to be taken from their highly acclaimed third album Choir of Echoes will be Figure of Eight, which is set for release on April 14th.

Peggy Sue are set to embark on a full UK tour in April following the recent US stint and have also just been announced for the End of the Road festival line up.

In the words of the band, Figure of Eight is “the exception to most of our rules. It was written almost entirely in practices by the whole band and it is about as upbeat as a Peggy Sue song gets. It appears in my head as a sort of balancing act where each of the four instrumental parts is holding up the rest. Some kind of musical Escher diagram.

“It is about indecision and friendship and the danger of keeping your options open for too long.”

Listen to Figure of Eight here.

Catch Peggy Sue at the following shows:

March

27 – Ideal Bar @ VEGA, Copenhagen

28 – Kulturhaus III & 70, Hamburg

30 – Privatclub, Berlin

31 – Kranhalle, Munich

April

1 – Blue Shell, Cologne

2 – Botanique (Witloof Bar), Brussels

3 – Ekko, Utrecht

7 – Green Door Store, Brighton

9 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester

10 – Broadcast, Glasgow

11 – Leaf, Liverpool

12 – The Harley, Sheffield

14 – The Old Bookshop, Bristol

15 – Oslo, London

August

29 – 31 – End Of The Road festival, Dorset

Listen to Psychic Trauma by Cloud Nothings here: https://soundcloud.com/cloudnothings/psychic-trauma 

“I have a tendency to over-think things, which is generally a bad idea.” says Cloud Nothings front-man Dylan Baldi, echoing something most of us can relate to in an over stimulated world. “‘Psychic Trauma’ is an exaggerated phrase that refers to that tendency. The whole record, lyrically and musically, is about simplifying and more or less discovering yourself through that simplification.” he explains further. “Keeping thoughts simple and in the present, as opposed to the ruminating ‘Psychic Trauma’ sort of zone, is a much better way to live. for me, at least.”

The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album Here And Nowhere Else, out on 31st March. Pre-order now on itunes or on deluxe LP and CD formats

Do not miss Cloud Nothings on tour across the US and Europe in the coming months:

March

12 – 14 – SXSW, Austin, TX

April

4 –  Iron Works, Buffalo, NY
5 –  The Low Beat, Albany, NY
6 –  Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Ontario
7 –  Il Motore, Montreal, Quebec
8 –  Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA
10 –  Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
11 – Tolles Pavilion, Clinton, NY
12 – The Space, Hamden, CT
13 – Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
14 – Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
16 – Black Cat, Washington, DC
17 – Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
18 – Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA
19 – Masquerade (Hell Stage), Atlanta, GA
21 – The Social, Orlando, FL
22 – Crowbar, Tampa, FL
23 – Club Downunder, Tallahassee, FL
24 – Gasa Gasa, New Orleans, LA
25 – Fitzgerald’s, Houston, TX
26 – The Mohawk, Austin, TX
27 – Club Dada, Dallas, TX
29 – The Riot Room, Kansas City, MO

30 – Gabe’s, Iowa City, IA

May

1 – Turf Club, Saint Paul, MN
2 – High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
3 – Mahall’s, Lakewood, OH
5 – Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL

12 – Landmark, Bergen

13 – John Dee, Oslo

14 – Debaser Strand, Stockholm

15 – Loppen, Copenhagen

16 – Molotow, Hamburg

17 – Underground, Cologne

18 – Les Nuits Botanique @ Orangerie, Brussels

19 – Melkweg, Amsterdam

20 -  La Fleche d’Or, Paris

22 – The Deaf Institute, Manchester

23 – Stereo, Glasgow

24 – Button Factory, Dublin

25 – Cyprus Avenue, Cork

26 -  Gold Sounds @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

27 – Scala, London

29 -  Vera, Groningen

30 – Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz

31 – Primavera Sound, Barcelona

June

1 – Primavera Sound After Party @ Sala Apolo, Barcelona

7 – Primavera Sound, Porto

July

6 – 7 – Sasquatch Festival, George Amphitheatre, George, WA

The February edition of the Wichita podcast is now available! It features an interview with Cheatahs, a chat with Veronica Falls about how they met Wichita and Swearin’ pick their favourite Wichita releases!

Listen on soundcloud or download via itunes.

Cloud Nothings have unveiled a live video of I’m Not Part Of Me, filmed in NYC:

The track is taken from their forthcoming album which is now available for pre-order.

The band will return to Europe in May for a string of headline dates as well as festivals including Primavera and Gold Sounds. All details below:

May

12 – Landmark, Bergen

13 – John Dee, Oslo

14 – Debaser Strand, Stockholm

15 – Loppen, Copenhagen

16 – Molotow, Hamburg

17 – Underground, Cologne

18 – Les Nuits Botanique @ Orangerie, Brussels

19 – Melkweg, Amsterdam

20 -  La Fleche d’Or, Paris

22 – The Deaf Institute, Manchester

23 – Stereo, Glasgow

24 – Button Factory, Dublin

25 – Cyprus Avenue, Cork

26 -  Gold Sounds @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

27 – Scala, London

29 -  Vera, Groningen

30 – Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz

31 – Primavera Sound, Barcelona

June

1 – Primavera Sound After Party @ Sala Apolo, Barcelona

7 – Primavera Sound, Porto

Cheatahs have unveiled a new video for Get Tight which you can watch here.  

The track is taken from their debut album which is available to buy now on CD/LP and download.

Praise for the album:

“Cheatahs is a gleaming pop wrecking ball taken to the sonic cathedral” 8/10 – NME

“An uber-melodius debut” 4/5  – Mojo

“Cheatahs debut sets the bar for debuts for 2014″ 4/5 – Artrocker

“Dazed, yearning melodies over driving rhythms, all swaddled in comforting layers of fuzz” – Uncut

“Best Album Of The Month” – Vice

8/10 – Clash

8/10 – Drowned In Sound

The band have also announced some new European tour dates, including shows with Cloud Nothings. Their UK tour starts tonight with a headline show at Birthdays in London. Full list of upcoming shows below:

February
12 – Birthdays (NME Awards), London
13 – Banquet Records/New Slang, Kingston
15 – The Harley, Sheffield
16 – Prince Albert, Brighton
17 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
18 – Broadcast, Glasgow
19 – East Village Arts Club, Liverpool

April
9 – Hafenklang, Hamburg     Germany
10 – Urban Spree, Berlin    Germany
11 – Re, Krakow    Poland
15 – Freakout Club, Bologna    Italy
16 – Lo-Fi Club, Milan    Italy
18 -  Sala Stereo, Alicante    Spain
19 – La (2) Apolo, Barcelona    Spain
20 – Festival MU, Dijon    France
25 – La Peniche, Lille    France

May
19 – Melkweg, Amsterdam    Netherlands (With Cloud Nothings)
20 – La Fleche, Paris    France (With Cloud Nothings)
22 – Deaf Institute, Manchester    UK (With Cloud Nothings)

June
22 – Best Kept Secret Festival        Netherlands

August
9 – Beacons Festival        UK

Sky Larkin have unveiled a new video for Newsworthy – watch here: http://youtu.be/EgYzSFUFwWg

The song is taken from the band’s recent third album, Motto. The video is produced by visual artist Dan Tombs (collaborator with Gold Panda, Jon Hopkins and Factory Floor). It utilizes footage taken from Prelinger Archives of educational, industrial and amateur films, and has been visually treated by the artist. The end result is a beautiful and rather hypnotic take on the song’s title theme.

The band will be heading out on a UK tour in April – ticket for all shows on sale now:

April

8 – The Bull’s Head, Birmingham (Tickets)

9 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (Tickets)

10  – Ledgendary Labour Club, Northampton    (Tickets)

11 – The Old Bookshop, Bristol (Tickets)

12 – Edge of the Wedge, Portsmouth  (Tickets)

16 – Kazamier, Liverpool (Tickets)

17 – Fibbers, York (Tickets)

18 – Cluny 2, Newcastle (Tickets)

May

25- Sneaky Pete’s Edinburgh (Tickets)

26 – Gold Sounds @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds(Tickets)

Stream the self-titled debut album by Cheatahs now over on Pitchfork Advance.

The album is available to pre-order now:

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/cheatahsitpre
Wichita shop: http://smarturl.it/CheatahsPre

The band will be touring the UK and USA over the coming weeks – catch them at the following shows:

February

11 – Rough Trade East, London (Free instore)
12 – Birthdays, London (NME awards show)
13 – New Slang, Kingston (w/ Temples)
15 – The Harley, Sheffield
16 – Prince Albert, Brighton
17 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
18 – Broadcast, Glasgow
19 – East Village Arts Club, Liverpool
22 – Bunk Bar, Portland
23 – Tractor Tavern, Seattle
27 – The Echo, Los Angeles

March

1 – Noise Pop @ Brick & Mortar, San Francisco (w/ No Age)
4 – Rough Trade, Brooklyn
5– Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia
6 – U Street Music Hall, Washington DC

Following the release of the third album Motto last autumn and a run of celebratory dates, Sky Larkin will be expanding their touring history with shows through April as well as a soon-to-be-announced run through Europe later in the Spring.

Also in May, the band will be joining labelmates Cloud Nothings as part of new Leeds festival Gold Sounds, appearing at the Brudenell Social Club on May 26^th.

Tickets for all shows are on sale now.

April

8 – The Bull’s Head, Birmingham (Tickets)

9 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (Tickets)

10  – Ledgendary Labour Club, Northampton    (Tickets)

11 – The Old Bookshop, Bristol (Tickets)

12 – Edge of the Wedge, Portsmouth  (Tickets)

16 – Kazamier, Liverpool (Tickets)

17 – Fibbers, York (Tickets)

18 – Cluny 2, Newcastle (Tickets)

May

25- Sneaky Pete’s Edinburgh (Tickets)

26 – Gold Sounds @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds(Tickets)

Cloud Nothings have announced details of their next LP Here And Nowhere Else, out on 31st March and recorded with John Congleton. The tracklisting for the album is as follows:

Now Hear In
Quieter Today
Psychic Trauma
Just See Fear
Giving Into Seeing
No Thoughts
Pattern Walks
I’m Not Part of Me

Utilizing every possible opportunity to write while on the road for 18 consecutive months following the release of 2012′s Attack on Memory, Baldi presented an album’s worth of new material to his bandmates with just days before they’d enter the studio. “I’m pretty sure every song was written in a different country,” he says. “It’s the product of only having a couple of minutes here and there.” But Cloud Nothings would enjoy a full week with Congleton at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey, followed by three days of mixing at his own studio in Dallas shortly thereafter. The result is Cloud Nothings, refined: impossibly melodic, white-knuckle noise-rock that shimmers with sumptuous detail, from Baldi’s lone, corkscrewing guitar to his dramatically improved singing to bassist TJ Duke’s piledriving bass lines and drummer Jayson Gerycz’s volcanic fills.

“It’s more subtle,” says Baldi. “It’s not just an in-your-face rock record. There’s more going on. You can listen to a song 20 times and still hear different little things in there that you didn’t notice before. Every time I listen I notice something that I didn’t even realize we did.”

Hear I’m Not A Part Of Me here:  https://soundcloud.com/cloudnothings/im-not-part-of-me

The band will be returning to Europe in May for a run of headline shows and festival dates:

May

12 – Landmark, Bergen

13 – John Dee, Oslo

14 – Debaser Strand, Stockholm

15 – Loppen, Copenhagen

16 – Molotow, Hamburg

17 – Underground, Cologne

18 – Les Nuits Botanique @ Orangerie, Brussels

19 – Melkweg, Amsterdam

20 -  La Fleche d’Or, Paris

22 – The Deaf Institute, Manchester

23 – Stereo, Glasgow

24 – Button Factory, Dublin

26 -  Gold Sounds @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

27 – Scala, London

29 -  Vera, Groningen

31 – Primavera Sound, Barcelona

June

1 – Primavera Sound After Party @ Sala Apolo, Barcelona

Peggy Sue release their new album Choir Of Echoes on Monday – listen to the album in full now over on the NY Times.

A very limited number of pre-order bundles including tote bags and screen prints are available via the band’s shop.

Praise for the album:

“The delicate tools that are Slade, Young and drummer Olly Joyce continue to punch well above their weight” – **** Mojo

“Beautiful” – 7/10, Uncut

“The band’s finest to date” – Loud & Quiet

“A record of soulful depths and heady, emotional highs” – 8/10, NME

“An album obsessed with voices may prove to be the turning point where Peggy Sue found their very own.” ****, Time Out

Upcoming Peggy Sue tour dates:

January

27 – St. Pancras Church, London (SOLD OUT)

29 – Grand Stafford, Bryan, TX

February

1 – Mohawk, Austin. TX

3 – Yucca Tap Room, Tempe, CA

5 – Soda Bar, San Diego, CA

6 – The Echo, Los Angeles, CA

7 – 3^rd Space, Davis, CA

8 – Starry Plough, Berkeley, CA

10 – Holocene, Portland, OR

11 – Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA

13 – Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY

15 – Ortlieb’s, Philadelphia, PA

March

27 – Ideal Bar @ VEGA, Copenhagen

28 – Kulturhaus III & 70, Hamburg

30 – Privatclub, Berlin

31 – Kranhalle, Munich

April

1 – Blue Shell, Cologne

2 – Botanique (Witloof Bar), Brussels

3 – Ekko, Utrecht

7 – Green Door Store, Brighton

9 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester

10 – Broadcast, Glasgow

11 – Leaf, Liverpool

12 – The Harley, Sheffield

14 – The Old Bookshop, Bristol

15 – Oslo, London