[News] Egyptian Hip Hop Announce UK Tour

The wonderful Egyptian Hip Hop have announced that they'll be playing some dates in the UK come 2013. Set for March they'll start off in Glasgow before finishing up with a homecoming show at Manchester's Gorilla. Check out the dates below to see if they're stopping in a city near you.

As well as that why not treat your ears to a Lone remix of their track "Yoro Diallo" below. 

Egyptian Hip Hop 2013 UK Tour

01/03 Nice n' Sleazy's - Glasgow

02/03 - Electric Circus - Edinburgh

04/03 - XOYO - London

05/03 - Fleece - Bristol

06/03 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds

08/03 - Gorilla - Manchester

[News] SXSW 2013 Announces First Round of Artists

South by Southwest 2013 amps things up with the announcement of first round of artists set to perform during the music portion of the Austin festival, which takes place from March 12th-17th. Included in the first round are Alt-J, Haim, Said The Whale, Thurston Moore, Toddla T, Why?, The Trews, Klaxons, White Lung, Of Mice and Men, and many more. Check out the full lineup after the jump, and head here for more details on the festival.

Akron/Family (Los Angeles CA)
Albatross (Kathmandu NEPAL)
Alt-J (Cambridge UK-ENGLAND)
Lauren Aquilina (Bristol UK-ENGLAND)
Atlas Genius (Adelaide SA)
Attomica (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Authorities (Vancouver BC)
Autosalvage (Santa Cruz CA)
The Away Days (TURKEY)
Daniel Bachman (Fredericksburg VA)
BADBADNOTGOOD (Toronto ON)
Baishui (CHINA)
Bastille (London UK-ENGLAND)
Battleme (Portland OR)
Bernhoft (Nittedal NORWAY)
The Black and White Years (Austin TX)
The Blackout (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Black Pistol Fire (Austin TX)
Blackstone Rangers (Dallas TX)
The Blue Van (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers (San Francisco CA)
BNegão & Seletores de Frequência (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Boats (Winnipeg MB)
The Boxing Lesson (Austin TX)
Jesse Boykins III (New York NY)
Brendan Benson (Nashville TN)
Broncho (Norman OK)
Brothers In Law (Pesaro ITALY)
Brutality Will Prevail (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Brutal Juice (Austin TX)
Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown (Nashville TN)
Buck 65 (Toronto ON)
The Bug (London UK-ENGLAND)
Eric Burdon (Brooklyn NY)
Tego Calderon (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
The Calm Blue Sea (Austin TX)
Campo (Montevideo URUGUAY)
Cave Painting (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Cayucas (San Luis Obisbo CA)
Cello Fury (Pittsburgh PA)
Chaos Chaos (Brooklyn NY)
Cheers Elephant (Philadelphia PA)
The Chevelles (North Fremantle WA)
Charlotte Church ( UK-WALES)
Churchill (Denver CO)
CINE (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Civil Twilight (Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA)
Chris Cohen (Shaftsbury VT)
Coldcut (London UK-ENGLAND)
Congo Natty (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Congregation (Chicago IL)
Constantina (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)
John Cooper Clarke (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Crooks (Austin TX)
Current Swell (Victoria BC)
Dash Rip Rock (New Orleans LA)
Sammy Decoster (Grenoble FRANCE)
Dels (London UK-ENGLAND)
Mac DeMarco (Montreal QC)
Luther Dickinson (Hernando MS)
DJ Edu (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dolores Boys (Brooklyn NY)
Doyle (San Antonio TX)
Driver Friendly (Austin TX)
Drop The Lime (New York NY)
Ben Dukes (Hollywood CA)
The Dunwells (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Dusted (Toronto ON)
Eagulls (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Tim Easton (Nashville TN)
Elias Haslanger (Austin TX)
Ronnie Fauss (Dallas TX)
Fear Of Men (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Fister (St Louis MO)
Follakzoid (Santiago CHILE)
fo/mo/deep (Columbus OH)
Forests (Taipei TAIWAN)
Fredda (Paris FRANCE)
Funeral Suits (Dublin IRELAND)
Ezra Furman (San Francisco CA)
Galaxy Express (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Gallows (Watford UK-ENGLAND)
Gato 6 (Austin TX)
Ghost to Falco (Portland OR)
GHXST (New York NY)
Colin Gilmore (Austin TX)
Gliss (Los Angeles CA)
Gold Fields (Ballarat VIC)
Jenn Grant (Halifax NS)
Guards (New York NY)
Haim (Los Angeles CA)
Hashback Hashish (New Delhi INDIA)
Hawthorne Heights (Dayton OH)
Heidi Happy (Luzern SWITZERLAND)
Ryan Hemsworth (Halifax NS)
He's My Brother She's My Sister (Los Angeles CA)
Hexvessel (Helsinki FINLAND)
Highasakite (Oslo NORWAY)
Hiss Golden Messenger (Chapel Hill NC)
The Holydrug Couple (Santiago CHILE)
Holy Esque (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
HolySexyBastards (Valencia VENEZUELA)
Howling Brothers (Nashville TN)
Peggy Hsu (Taipei TAIWAN)
Huehuetl (Tonala, Guadalajara MEXICO)
Humans (Vancouver BC)
Il Pan del Diavolo (San Lorenzo Colli ITALY)
Immanu El (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
In-Flight Safety (Halifax NS)
Tiago Iorc (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Islet (Cardiff UK-WALES)
ITAL (Brooklyn NY)
Sarah Jaffe (Denton TX)
Jonathan Toubin (New York NY)
Matthew Perryman Jones (Nashville TN)
Jung People (Calgary AB)
Grace Kelly (Brookline MA)
Kill It Kid (Bath UK-ENGLAND)
Klaxons (London UK-ENGLAND)
Jess Klein (Austin TX)
La Chiva Gantiva (Brussels BELGIUM)
La Cuneta Son Machín (Managua NICARAGUA)
Language Room (Austin TX)
Marit Larsen (Oslo NORWAY)
The Last Bison (Chesapeake VA)
League of Extraordinary G’z (Austin TX)
Lecrae (Atlanta GA)
Les Mentettes (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
The Linus Pauling Quartet (Houston TX)
Los Bunkers (Concepcion CHILE)
the Lost Maples (Nashville TN)
Emma Louise (Toowong QLD)
Lu Horta (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Luke Sital-Singh (London UK-ENGLAND)
Mahogany (Chicago IL)
Massive Scar Era (Cairo EGYPT)
Mavin All Stars (Lagos NIGERIA)
Mike and the Moonpies (Austin TX)
Andy Mineo (New York NY)
Derek Minor (Nashville TN)
Modestep (London UK-ENGLAND)
Mompox (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
Monster Cat (Singapore SINGAPORE)
Ian Moore (Seattle WA)
Thurston Moore (Northampton MA)
Daniel Mustard (New York NY)
Muthoni The Drummer Queen (Nairobi KENYA)
My Education (Austin TX)
My Jerusalem (Austin TX)
Nerves Junior (Louisville KY)
NO CEREMONY/// (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Nubes en mi Casa (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
Of Mice & Men (Costa Mesa CA)
Pacific Air (San Diego CA)
PAJARO (Gelves SPAIN)
Doe Paoro (Brooklyn NY)
Paper Lions (Charlottetown PE)
Triana Park (Riga LATVIA)
Peterson Brothers Band (Bastrop TX)
Pokey LaFarge (Ballwin MO)
The Postelles (New York NY)
Promise (Toronto ON)
Pumcayo (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Quiet Company (Austin TX)
David Ramirez (Austin TX)
The Relatives (Dallas TX)
Remate (Madrid SPAIN)
Reptile Youth (Copenhagen DENMARK)
The Rocketboys (Austin TX)
Roge (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Said The Whale (Vancouver BC)
The Sam Willows (Singapore SINGAPORE)
San Cisco (Fremantle WA)
Satchel Grande (Omaha NE)
Danny Schmidt (Austin TX)
Seth Sentry (Melbourne VIC)
Shakey Graves (Austin TX)
Silencio (Pittsburgh PA)
Six60 (Dunedin NEW ZEALAND)
Sizarr (Mannheim GERMANY)
Small Black (Brooklyn NY)
Sahara Smith (Wimberley TX)
Social Studies (Phoenix AZ)
Soley (Reykjavik ICELAND)
Somebody's Darling (Dallas TX)
The Sour Notes (Austin TX)
Spain (Los Angeles CA)
Spindrift (Los Angeles CA)
The Spring Standards (New York NY)
Star & Micey (Memphis TN)
The Staves (London UK-ENGLAND)
Marnie Stern (New York NY)
Jake Stone Garage (Tokyo JAPAN)
Suie Paparude (Bucharest ROMANIA)
Supersubmarina (Madrid SPAIN)
Suuns (Montreal QC)
Swamp Cabbage (Savannah GA)
Swim Deep (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Tako Lako (Copenhagen DENMARK)
TAM (Plateau Mont-Royal QC)
Hudson Taylor (London UK-ENGLAND)
Tedashii (Dallas TX)
Kristian Terzic Band (Rovinj CROATIA)
Tesoro (Tucson AZ)
The Harlequins (Cincinnati OH)
Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic (Richmond CA)
Thi'sl (St Louis MO)
Tipo Uísque ( BRAZIL)
Amon Tobin (San Francisco CA)
Toddla T (Sheffield UK-ENGLAND)
The Trews (Toronto ON)
Truth Universal (New Orleans LA)
Turbina (Mexico City MEXICO)
Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN)
Two Hours Traffic (Charlottetown ON)
Vaudeville Smash (Melbourne VIC)
The Vespers (Nashville TN)
Virals (Worcester UK-ENGLAND)
Zak Waters (Los Angeles CA)
While She Sleeps (Sheffiled UK-ENGLAND)
Glenn White (New York NY)
White Lung (Vancouver BC)
Why? (Cincinnati OH)
Wild Cub (Nashville TN)
Wizkid (Lagos NIGERIA)
Carolyn Wonderland (Austin TX)
WonFu (Taipei TAIWAN)
Woodpigeon (Vienna AB)
Young Von (Houston TX)
The Zombies (St. Albans UK-ENGLAND)

[News] Foals Announce New Album, Release Lead Single "Inhaler"

Foals are back, following up 2010's Antidote with a new LP set for release in February of next year. Entitled Holy Fire, the album sees the band taking their brand of rock in a "swampy" direction, and the lead single "Inhaler" is a definite example of this. With a dirty, funky bassline, the song builds into a catchy and anthemic rock number. The cut is also accompanied by some visuals, which sees what seems like a flash mob dancing passionately in an abandoned building. Check it out below.

Holy Fire is out on February 13th on Sub Pop.

[News] Wu-Tang Dropping New Album Soon

This year has been good for a lot of things, but one of the better moments was seeing Wu-Tang Clan perform as a group on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It was one of those smaller moments that stood out, and after seeing RZA's The Man With the Iron Fists my Wu-Tang excitement levels have been at an incredible high. The group isn't done, though, as their long rumored sixth studio album has now been confirmed. Taking to their Facebook page, the group gave us this short yet tantalizing sentence: "New WU TANG CLAN Album coming soon." That's all that has been said, but given the 20th anniversary of Wu-Tang is next year, this seems pretty legitimate. RZA seems to think so too:

There’s one last job Wu-Tang Clan must do. The 20th anniversary is next year. And we need to, one time, completely, efficiently, properly, professionally represent our brand. One more time. But this time, showing up on time for press and for concerts and studio. Do it one time, perfect."

(via The New York Times)

[Watch] Check Out the Trailer for Kanye West's 'Cruel Winter' Short Film

Following the release of the so-so Cruel Summer, members of G.O.O.D. Music have been hinting at a possible follow-up titled, wait for it, Cruel Winter! Sarcasm aside, Kanye West plans to make an accompanying documentary also entitled Cruel Winter, and the trailer for the short film hit the web today. The film will be directed by Austin Christianson and features some biocentric visuals—just think lots and lots of trees. Watch the trailer above (via Hypetrak).

UPDATE: The trailer has been confirmed as being unaffiliated with Kanye West or G.O.O.D. Music, as Austin Christianson, the director of the short clip, said to Forbes: "Without getting into many details, I will say that the trailer was independently made and the video is essentially a concept trailer... It's used for pitching an idea and/or concept to a client." It seems Christianson just wanted to get Kanye's attention, and I'm sure it worked. More details to come.

[News] XFM's Winter Wonderland Announces Line-Up

XFM's Winter Wonderland gigs are set to take place in December in two cities. Manchester and London to be more precise. For each gig a stellar line-up has been announced and you can check them out below. The likes of Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Editors and Temper Trap will be gracing the stages and tickets are available over here. Grab them quick as these shows are sure to be sell-out events!

Manchester - December 4th - O2 Apollo

Bloc Party

Maximo Park

Everything Everything

Delphic

Spector

Findlay

London - December 17th - O2 Academy Brixton

Editors

The Courteeners

The Temper Trap

Lucy Rose

[News] Deftones Announce European Tour

Late last night Deftones hit up their Facebook page to announce a European tour that sees them hit up the UK, France and Germany in February 2013 in support of their upcoming album, Koi No Yokan, which is set for release on November 13th. 

From the album we've already got to enjoy two track in the shape of "Leathers" and "Tempest" as well as a few in a live setting which sounded absolutely huge. Tickets go on sale this Friday. I know I'll be hitting refresh come 9am!

Deftones 2013 Tour

Feb 15 Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
Fed 16 Nottingham, UK – Rock City
Feb 18 Manchester, UK – Academy
Feb 19 Birmingham, UK – Academy 
Feb 20 London, UK - Brixton Academy 
Feb 22 Paris, France – Trianon 
Feb 25 Hamburg, Germany – Grosse Freiheit
Feb 26 Berlin, Germany – Huxley's

[News] Toro Y Moi Announces 2013 Tour Dates

2013 looks to be a big year for Chaz Bundick, aka Toro Y Moi, as he is set to return with his third studio album Anything In Return on January 22nd. Supporting the album, Bundick will embark on a massive headlining tour across North America, with proceedings kicking off on January 30th in Phoenix, AZ. The winter tour will last over a month, with an impressive total of twenty-four performances across the continent. Check out his full tour schedule after the jum.

Below you can stream "So Many Details", the lead single from Anything In Return. The single will be released on 7" vinyl on November 23rd, backed by Bundick's own remix of the track featuring Hodgy Beats.

Toro Y Moi 2013 Tour Dates:
01/16 – Istanbul, TR @ Babylon
01/18 – Athens, GR @ Bios
01/19 – Bucharest, RO @ Roman Arenas
01/20 – Dublin, IE @ The Button Factory
01/22 – London, UK @ Village Underground
01/23 – Paris, FR @ Trabendo
01/24 – Amsterdam, NL @ MC Theater
01/25 – Berlin, DE @ Comet Club
01/26 – Vienna, AT @ FM4 Festival
01/30 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
01/31 – El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls *
02/01 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
02/02 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s East
02/04 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
02/05 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
02/06 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Heaven Stage)
02/08 – Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
02/09 – Richmond, VA @ The National
02/10 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
02/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
02/13 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
02/15 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
02/16 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
02/17 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
02/19 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
02/20 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe
02/21 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada Theatre
02/23 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
02/24 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
02/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
02/27 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
02/28 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
03/03 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
03/29-31 – Sao Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil
04/06-07 – Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile

* = w/ Wild Belle