Cheatahs start their UK dates with Metz tonight in Manchester! The Wytches will also join the bill for all UK shows. Catch them at the following shows:

November

22 – Deaf Institute, Manchester

23 – Broadcast, Glasgow

25 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

26 ^– Start The Bus, Bristol

27 – The Haunt, Brighton

28 ^– Village Underground, London

Cheatahs have also announced they will play the opening reception of Colony which will take place at 14 Warren Street on Wednesday 4^th December, 6pm. The daily programme of events will be launched with an epic performance, XI, presented by Cheatahs throughout the space. Paying homage to Ryhs Chatham’s Guitar Trio and the No Wave movement, “XI” is a one off avant-garde work for 11 guitars. Taking a guitar drone in the key of D as a starting point, the 11 players – made up of members of Cheatahs and fellow London bands Mazes, Male Bonding, Great Ytene, Novella and Omi Palone – will each take it in turn to improvise and explore tonal possibilities within the drone.

More details at: http://www.anarch.co.uk/colony/

Gold Panda is currently on tour in Europe and will be heading to the UK later this month – tickets are available now for all dates.

Gold Panda’s Reprise EP is out now digitally – available on itunes and the Wichita store. The limited edition hand-stamped vinyl will be in shops on 25th November – order via the Wichita store  and the Ghostly store (US) to receive your copy early!

Leeds’ Sky Larkin have announced details of their new single, Newsworthy’ The track, taken from their third album Motto, is to be released on December 9th through Wichita Recordings. The release will be backed by a new track, Parapet and available digitally. Orders via the band’s website and also the Wichita Recordings shop will receive a specially-curated Newsworthy newspaper, created and edited by the band.

In the words of singer and guitarist Katie Harkin, “the scale of the disembodied digital world can numb us into passive awe, but it doesn’t have to be like that. Keep it newsworthy; it helps. I’ve always wanted our records to be immediate at their most accessible, and at their most expansive, inhabitable. This sense of a vast but private scale is what I was chasing whilst mapping the ebbs and flows of this song. While the avenues for communication continue to multiply, it’s the duty of the craftsman not the tools to keep ourselves actively engaged.”

The release co-incides with new shows for the band; they will be joining The Wedding Present for a show to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the legendary Brudenell Social Club in Leeds, their home city. Sky Larkin also play with Yuck and Dutch Uncles as part of the All Years Leaving Event in Birmingham this month.

Listen to ‘Newsworthy’ here: https://soundcloud.com/weareskylarkin/newsworthy-1

Forthcoming Sky Larkin live shows:

November
16th – Birmingham – Hare & Hounds w/ Yuck
December
1st – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club w/ The Wedding Present
7th – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club – special event TBA

Cheatahs have announced they will release their self-titled debut album on 10th February 2014.  The long-awaited album is first and foremost an exploration of the possibilities of modern guitar music. A blend of ecstatic noise, ambient drone and visceral, ear-splitting alt-rock, combined with lyrics that touch on the complexities of relationships, nature, the city, memory, dislocation and self-identity, the self-titled record displays a giant creative leap from the lo-fi fuzz of the band’s first two EPs.

To make the record, Cheatahs, headed first to the country, spending a week in an old stone-floored cottage in Cornwall, where recording was punctuated by walks in nearby forests and evenings whiled away at an isolated pub. The second location, Dropout studios in Camberwell, home of friends Part Chimp, was perhaps the polar opposite, but no less conducive to the creative process – not surprising given that the band were given access to the full arsenal of ridiculously loud vintage amps that help create the brutal majesty of Part Chimp’s recordings. As with Cheatahs’ previous work, all tracks were recorded and mixed by bassist Dean and produced by the band.

The album is available to pre-order now on CD, LP and digital download on the Wichita store.

The band are currently on tour with Metz – catch them at the following dates:

November

6 ^– Beta, Copenhagen *

7 – Debaser Medis, Stockholm *

8 – John Dee, Oslo *

9 ^– Henriksberg, Gothenburg *

11 – Bi Nuu, Berlin *

12 -  Hydrozagadka, Warsaw *

13 ^– Bezsennosc, Wroclaw *

14 ^– 007 Club, Prague *

15 ^-  Cafe Cairo, Wurzburg *

16 ^- Le Romandie Club, Lausanne *

17 -  Lo Fi Club, Milan *

19 – Marche Gare, Lyon *

20 – La Gaite Lyrique, Paris *

22 – Deaf Institute, Manchester *

23 – Broadcast, Glasgow *

25 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds *

26 ^– Start The Bus, Bristol *

27 – The Haunt, Brighton *

28 ^– Village Underground, London *

(* w/ Metz)

Surfing Strange by Swearin’ is out now on CD, LP and digital download. Order via the Wichita store or Itunes.

Watch the video for Dust In The Gold Sack taken from the album here.

“a record that is full of energy, zeal and ideas” 8/10 – NME

Watch the new video for Avocado, Baby by Los Campesinos! here.

The track is taken from the band’s new album NO BLUES which is out now on iTunes!

Stream Surfing Strange by Swearin’ now over on NPR. 

The album is out on Monday on CD, LP and digital download and available to pre-order now on the Wichita store and iTunes.

Veronica Falls have unveiled a new song recorded as a tour single for their upcoming dates in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore. You can listen to the track here: https://soundcloud.com/veronica-falls/nobody-there. The band recorded the track in London in September and it is the new first new material to emerge since they released their second album Waiting For Something To Happen back in February.

The single will be released with an exclusive new bside on limited edition (300 only) 7” single in screenprinted sleeve and digital download on 9^th December 2013. The 7” is available to pre-order now via the band’s store:  http://veronicafalls.bigcartel.com/

The band are currently on a UK tour with Bleached which will hit London tonight for a sold out show at The Dome and finish in Brighton tomorrow – they’ll then be heading to play their first ever shows in Australia and Japan. These dates will round off a year which has seen the band garner critical acclaim for their second album Waiting For Something To Happen as well as playing sold out headline shows across UK, Europe and USA.

Upcoming tour dates:

October

23 – The Dome, London (w/ Bleached) (SOLD OUT)

24 – Green Door Store, Brighton (w/ Bleached) (Tickets)

30 – GoodGod Small Club, Sydney (Tickets)

31 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne (Tickets)

November

2 – Camp Symmetry festival, Singapore (Tickets)
6 – Voice Space, Bangkok
7 – Freeman’s Sporting Club, Tokyo (Tickets)
8 – Cay, Tokyo (Tickets)
9 – Est, Tokyo (Tickets)
10 – Noon, Osaka (Tickets)
12 – Backstage, Hong Kong (Tickets)

No Blues by Los Campesinos! is available to stream now over on Pitchfork Advance.

The album is out on 12th November in US and available to pre-order now:

CD/LP: http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/los-campesinos-no-blues.html
Bundle: http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/los-campesinos-no-blues-bundle-pre-order.html

Digital:  smarturl.it/noblues

Or if you are outside the US, CD, LP and bundle options are available via the band’s store: http://loscampesinos.bigcartel.com/

The band have also announced a string of US headline shows – details below:

January

21 – Paradise, Boston MA (w/ Speedy Ortiz)

22 -  Irving Plaza, New York NY (w/ Speedy Ortiz)

23 -  9:30 Club, Washington DC

25 -  Metro, Chicago IL