Mike's Mad4these
Choice new music - w/c 4 Oct 10
1 - JOHN LENNON Working Class Hero from the 9 CD John Lennon 70th birthday box set 'Power To The People' released 4 October 2010
2 - WILDER Skyful Of Angels new single 22 November 2010
3 1 PLACEBO Trigger Happy Hands new single 27 September 2010
4 2 CARL BARAT Run With The Boys new single 4 October 2010
5 - INNERCITY PIRATES Seen It All Before new single
6 3 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Heart Is Strange new single 27 September 2010
7 4 TING TINGS Hands (Michael Woods Remix) new single Sunday 10 October 2010
8 6 B.o.B & RIVERS CUOMO Magic new single 25 October
9 7 I BLAME COCO In Spirit Golden new single 25 October 2010
10 8 WE ARE SCIENTISTS I Don't Bite new single 11 October 2010
10 9 CHIDDY BANG The Good Life new single 11 October

This week's post ...

The Concretes
All Day new single 18 October 2010
Lushly understated and ready for bed... The Concretes return with a lilting refrain which is nice but... like so many not strong enough to breakthrough. Sexy though. Here's the pr....'All Day' is the first single taken from The Concretes' new album 'WYWH', which is released by Something In Construction on 18th October. It features the band's trademark melodies with added disco shizzle - The Concretes are back!!
What happened to The Concretes??, people asked. Not a single new song in three years from a band that had been as reliable as a Swiss watch, releasing a new album every year since 2005. Time passed and even the band started to wonder, Whatever did happen to The Concretes? Well, of course, there was a lot going on; life, cycling, egg poaching, gardening, travel, children. And other side projects. One member even joined the circus. And then songs began to appear. A new album formed. 'ALL DAY' is the first single taken from this album, titled 'WYWH', which comes out on Something In Construction in October. It?s disco in the crack between a smile and a tear. Disco dreaming of being elsewhere. With less guitar, more keyboards, more bass, deep languorous vinyl grooves, twitching percussion and some good old cowbell but still with those trademark melodies the band is finally back.

Fenech Solar
Lies new single 20 September 2010
A chunky listen this, good record "Lies sleeping with another man..." Should make plenty of new fans with its plentiful remix package. Top tune

Foals
Blue Blood new single 4 November 2010
The word for this is... 'nice'.... and as all nice guys know... the girl is elsewhere... I like Foals 'Hummer' really was a groundbreaking sound, but they seem to my ears to have lost the cutting edge and drifted into melancholy... too much so for me anyway... good tune but nothing to suggest a big breakthrough, sorry.
Foals release their next single 'Blue Blood' on 8th November. Their album 'Total Life Forever' was released in the UK this May entering the charts at No 8 before being nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Award and being recognised as one of the Top Ten albums of the year. Album opener 'Blue Blood' has found its feet as a live favourite over the festival season with its slowly building layers. The band tour the UK next month.

Huski Vs Arcade Firl
The Suburbs / Girl Kill Smile new single 27 September 2010
Maple Bee and Pike aka Huski are back. They had an intriquing debut album 'Love Peace Pain' out in July 2006 with some superb artwork. Still together and somewhat spunkier on 'Girl Kill Smile' they could pick up enough airplay to make a breakthrough.. the production and arrangement is a little off-beat so maybe. I'm not sure the Arcade Fire 'Suburbs' is so good... it's a good song so maybe it's enhanced by the female vocal but then again the original seemed to struggle as a single. Jury's out... good but not sure of impact.
Press... Electro-pop-shock duo Huski will be returning with a new album 'Strangelove' early next year. In the meantime they're teasing us with a timely version of the title track from Arcade Fire's new album 'The Suburbs'. Also included here is a new Huski track 'Girl.Kill.Smile.' which is available as a free download from www.huskimusic.com. Check out the website later in the week as they're promising to upload a video to accompany the Arcade Fire song. Don't forget to leave your reactions at the usual www.wild-uk.com place, not on here.

Klaxons
Twin Flames new single 25 October 2010
I hope this Top 40's for them, it's a strong alternative edgy bent from a top outfit
Here's the pr.... Klaxons have stamped their mark all over summer 2010 with their second Top 10 album ‘Surfing The Void’ and triumphant festival performances all over Europe. Autumn looks set to up the pace even further with full UK tour preceded by the release of the brilliant ‘Twin Flames’ on October 25.
The tour kicks off in Manchester on November 11 and takes in a show at London’s HMV Forum on the 16th.
Tour dates:
11/11 Manchester Academy –
12/11 Norwich UEA
13/11 Bournemouth O2 Academy
14/11 Nottingham Rock City
16/11 London HMV Forum
20/11 Birmingham HMV Institute
21/11 Glasgow Barrowlands
22/11 Leeds 02 Academy
23/11 Dublin Tripod

3OH!3
Double Vision new single to be confirmed
3OH!3 have got a formiddable edge to them, they are right on the cutting edge of pop meets the next phase and this is another great track. Top Twenty at least.
Here's the pr... Taken from the top 20 album ‘Streets Of Gold’, ‘Double Vision’ follows their current hit single ‘My First Kiss (Feat. Ke$ha)’ which spent three weeks inside the top ten and is still riding high in the Top 40, the track has sold in excess of one million copies worldwide. The companion video has just received a prestigious MTV Video Music Award nomination as “Best Collaboration”, pitting 3OH!3 and Ke$ha against such superstar pairings as Beyonce & Lady Gaga, B.o.B & Paramore’s Hayley Williams, and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. The album also features the massive smash hit singles ‘Starstrukk (Feat. Katy Perry)’ and ‘Don’t Trust Me’. The duo were in the UK whipping the masses at T in The Park and Oxegen festivals into a gang-sign-throwing, finger-licking frenzy, they also played a rapturously received sold out show at London’s Kings College and played storming sets at Reading/ Leeds. 3OH!3 are Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte.

new trax
our weekly a to z of new cd review's is listed below

this week
The Concretes 18/10/10
Fenech Solar 20/9/10
Foals 4/11/10
Huski v Arcade Fire 27/9/10
Klaxons 25/10/10
3OH!3 to be confirmed

27 Sep
Innercity Pirates 4/10/10
Pure Reason Revolution 11/10/10
TingTings 10/10/10
Robbie & Gary 4/10//10

20 Sep
Chapel Club 11/10/10
Devlin vs Kid Adrift
Spokes
Wilder 22/11/10

13 Sep
Carl Barat 4/10/10
Black Soul Strangers LP
Foals 13/9/10
Gyptian 31/10/10
The Lines 23/8/10
Mona 13/9/10
School Of Seven Bells 27/9/10

6 Sep
Chapel Club 11/10/10
Clinic 20/9/10
Dinosaur Pile-Up 27/9/10
Dutch Uncles 11/10/10
Ed Drewitt 25/10/10
Grinderman 6/9/10
Mr Fogg 23/8/10
We Are Scientists 11/10/10
Yeasayer

30 Aug
BoB & Rivers Cuomo 25/10/10
Chiddy Bang 11/10/10
Placebo 27/9/10
Professor Green & Example 3/10/10
Tinie Tempah 27/9/10

23 Aug
Bombay Bicycle Club
Robert Plant

16 Aug
The Bees
The Wombats

9 Aug
Bashy
I Am Arrows
I Blame CoCo
Jimmy Eat World
Katy Perry
Tokyo Police Club

2 Aug
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

26 Jul
Detroit Social Club
Die Antwoord 13/9/10
Example 12/9/10
Gemma Mewse
Linkin Park 12/9/10
Maroon 5 12/9/10