DEER TICK. WE’VE FUCKING SIGNED DEER TICK!! HELL YEAH!

More gratuitous swearing ahead as we’re clearly very excited about this. And rightly so as their new album, Divine Providence, is pretty fucking amazing. Divine Providence will see its European release through Loose on 2nd April, just ahead of their London show at The Garage on the 4th April. (Tickets HERE.)

The best way to get a little taster of the album is by checking out THIS awesome video for Main Street. However, if fireworks, destruction and urinating on burning drumkits aren’t really your thing, you may prefer THIS version on Letterman. Less pissing & explosives, more suits & ties. Something for everyone. And HERE‘s the band playing Funny Word live on Conan O’Brien last month. Also pretty awesome.

Find out more about at deertickmusic.com.

The Felice Brothers are amongst the first set of bands just announced to be playing the fantastic Green Man Festival in August.

Other top bands confirmed this morning include Feist, The Walkmen, Yann Tiersen and Jonathan Richman. Check out the full line-up so far here or listen to Green Man’s 2012 Spotify playlist here.

Held from 17-19 August, in the rather stunning location that is the Black Mountains in Wales, this will be the festival’s 10th anniversary, so expect it to be an extra specially good one this year!

Tickets are on sale now - www.greenman.net

The Champs’ returned from Spain & France last week, having totally rocked the shit out of each venue, debuting some brand new songs along the way.

Check out THIS acoustic session they did for Spain’s Radio 3. 24 minutes in is a good place to skip to.

The band also appeared on the front page of MSN España. Oh, hang on, what was that title? “The new Springsteen is English” ? Yes, that’s definitely what they said. (That’d be Danny then.)

You may also like to read some of the reviews, which we bring to you via a handy, 85% accurate, translation tool:-

Madrid! Wish you were there? Someone’s kindly uploaded a whole load of videos from the show. Take your pick here. Or click here for one of those brand new songs.

Bilbao! Where “Springsteen was flying around the concert“.

And a video from Barcelona too.

Next stop – PUBS ROCK TOUR! Dates on the right.

R2 magazine (or Rock ‘n’ Reel if you prefer) has reviewed Danny & The Champions Of The World’s Hearts & Arrows album and Dawes’ Nothing Is Wrong in the latest issue. And here they both are:-

Dawes have confirmed that the will be returning to Spain next month for their first headlining dates in Madrid, Valencia and Vigo, supported by Robert Ellis.

29/02  MADRID, El Sol
01/03  VALENCIA, Sala El Loco
03/03  VIGO, La Iguana Club

Find the full list of European tour dates here.

Loose’s first release of the year will be Jim White‘s new album Where It Hits You, on 20th February.

Whereas last year’s Sounds Of The Americans was more of a soundtrack/side project, this will be Jim’s first “proper” album since 2008′s Transnormal Skiperoo, which was released on David Byrne‘s Luaka Bop label.

We can of course confirm that the album is absolutely brilliant and, needless to say, we can’t wait for y’all to hear it. If you fancy a little taster, head over to Jim’s Facebook page for a FREE DOWNLOAD of Infinite Mind.

Tracklisting:

1. Chase The Dark Away
2. Sunday’s Refrain
3. The Way Of Alone
4. State Of Grace
5. Infinite Mind
6. What Rocks Will Never Know
7. Here We Go
8. My Brother’s Keeper
9. That Wintered Blue Sky
10. Epilogue To A Marriage
11. Why It’s Cool

Brett & Rennie are set to return to the UK in May, along with some brand new Handsome Family tunes. For a little taster of the new material, make sure you download the free Loose Sampler, which contains an exclusive of the fantastic Come Outside And See.

We strongly advise you to snap up some tickets sharpish as they will sell out! Here are your options :-

MAY 2012

16/05   LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club
17/05   GLASGOW, St Andrews In The Square
19/05   BELFAST, Spring & Airbrake
21/05   BRISTOL, The Fleece
23/05   LIVERPOOL, Leaf
24/05   MANCHESTER, St. Clement’s Church
25/05   OXFORD, Bullingdon Arms
27/05   LONDON, 100 Club

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With the upcoming Dawes shows at The Borderline & Windmill Brixton now sold out (!!), a third London date has just been added – Tues 6th March at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am from www.gigsandtours.com.

In addition to this, the band will also be performing in-store at Rough Trade East, when they touch down in the UK on 16th Feb. Free – no wristbands required, just make sure you’re down there for 7pm. More details here.

A full list of European tourdates can be found here.

The latest edition of Word features interviews with the men behind some “one-man record labels”. One of these men is Tom. He talks about Loose and lies about his age. Check it out below!

Already a breathktakingly fantastic live band, Danny & The Champions Of The World have been going from strength to strength. Every time we see them play we come away from the show with big smiles and high praise for just how good they are. However, it’s in the intimate surroundings of a pub which makes for the most rocking shows. So clearly, what we needed was a pub tour. Well here it is folks – the PUBS ROCK TOUR!

Danny & The Champs, accompanied by  those “dirty folk” rockers Billy Vincent will be taking the following pubs by storm next month :-

The date Feb 14th rings a bell? Yes! It’s the release date of Hearts & Arrows on vinyl through Diverse Records! Coincidentally, Valentine’s Day also.

In celebration, we’re offering a FREE DOWNLOAD of You Don’t Know (My Heart Is In The Right Place), available up until the 14th Feb. Find it HERE.