Having set the agenda with the phenomenal "Invisible Giving" and the singles "The String Of Everything" and "Something Else", Mariam The Believer kicks off 2014 with a new release and a European tour. Taken from her intoxicating album Blood Donation – "..free jazz colliding with psychedelia, folktronica with the musical influence of her Iranian ancestry” Sunday Times – "Above The World" is another unbridled example of Mariam’s extraordinary talent. Watch it below...

Best known as one half of the critically acclaimed Scandinavian pop duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Mariam Wallentin takes on the guise of Mariam The Believer for her first solo outing. Blood Donation has won plaudits across the board with the likes the likes of MOJO calling it “..a fertile new style of blues-soul shakedown....leaving Wallentin room to let fly with a spread of vocal incantations.”

“I was influenced by Alice Coltrane”, says Mariam “and this sort of free, spiritual warm music. I think quite a lot in images when I’m writing a song..if it’s cold, if it’s warm, light, dark…Alice Coltrane was one thing and Mark Hollis (Talk, Talk) too”.

Mariam's European tour includes three shows in London this month:

FEBRUARY

15 - Luxembourg (EXIT07)

16 - Amsterdam (Paradiso)

17 - Cologne (Theater der Wohngemeinschaft)

18 - Brussels (Witloof Bar)

19 - London (Electrowerkz) (Tickets)

20 - London (NME Awards Show @ The Garage w/ Au Revoir Simone) (Tickets)

22 - London (Rise Festival @ Roundhouse) (Tickets) 

24 - Berlin (Privatclub)

25 - Prague (Palac Akropolis)

26 - Numberg (MUZ)

27 - Schorndorf (Manufaktur)

MARCH

1 - Zurich (Theater Moods)

2 - Bern (Bee-flat)

3 - Offenbach (Hafen 2)

4 - Hamburg (Aalhaus)

Karawane is the new band of multi-instrumentalist, sound artist and songwriter Anne Caesar van Wieren.


After ten years and three albums with his former band LPG, Anne Caesar decided to take a break to work on his new solo album.
Two years of writing and recording followed, in which Anne Caesar experimented with a broad range of sounds and instruments. 
In keeping with his love of experimental music and search for fresh inspiration the album was recorded at many different locations (an old cinema in the centre of Groningen, an abandoned high school, a former military complex in a forest in the Dutch countryside and even a small living room in London at his girlfriend’s house).

All sides of his creative mind meet in Karawane. Alongside playing and creating music Anne Caesar is working as a visual and sound artist too.

Initially, the debut album of Karawane will be released in a unique way: Each track along with a video –made by Anne Caesar himself- will be presented on the first Monday of each month. This is the moment at which the sirens - that are placed all over the Netherlands, to warn people in case of emergency- go off as a test. This all kicks-off with the first song ‘Survive’ in January 2014. The physical album will be released later this year on the well-known Dutch indie label Excelsior Recordings.

Here you can hear some songs.

Only 11 months after the successful "FH4"-album, Faderhead is back once again to release his new CD "Atoms & Emptiness".
This new record chronicles a period of time in the private life of the German producer where almost everything went wrong - which apparently provided endless inspiration and intensified the songwriting process. Musically, "Atoms & Emptiness" must definitely be considered the darkest and most melancholic Faderhead record.
Although the typical Faderhead trademark mix of club electro, popsongs and ballads defines this album, you'll be hard-pressed to find fun-tracks like "Dancers" or "Coke For My Ass" this time around. On "Atoms & Emptiness" Faderhead impressively shows how a mixture of EBM, Industrial, Elektro and Synthpop needs to sound in the year 2014 and once again leaves the competition in the dust, wondering how he did it again!? Clubtracks like "Stand Up", "When The Freaks Come Out" or "You Can't Resist" are fluently mixed with Future Pop songs like "Someone Else's Dream" and "Every Hour Kills" (written in cooperation with Daniel Myer of Haujobb) as well as cinematic sounding Ballads like the title track "Atoms & Emptiness". Writing about music is like discussions on the internet: completely useless - so check out "Atoms & Emptiness"!
 

Atoms & Emptiness will be released worldwide February 7th.

"4:14 Scream" is the successor of "4:13 Dream" and will be the 14th album of The Cure.

This new album will be released in the next months, followed by a new tour, where, by analogy to the Trilogy Tour, the band will perform 3 albums in their totality. This time, "The top", "The head on the door" and "Kiss me kiss me kiss me" will be played.

Hurray for the Riff Raff release their new album 'Small Town Heroes' through ATO Records on 31st March.
Produced by front-woman Alynda Lee Segarra and engineered by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes), 'Small Town Heroes' features 12 new, original songs all written or co-written by Segarra with support from a vivid cast of Crescent City musicians, including her longtime right-hand-man on fiddle, Yosi Perlstein, keyboard player Casey McAllister and two members of the Deslondes: Sam Doores on guitar and Dan Cutler on bass.