A song from each of the bands playing the second night of Fortuna POP!'s birthday shows at the Scala, London on Nov 3rd. Includes Allo Darlin's super limited last single on their own label "Darren"; the new single from the man that single makes reference to, Sir Darren Hayman, "I Taught You How To Dance" from his "The Ship's Piano" album; an exclusive new song from Tender Trap recorded in session for the wonderful Dandelion Radio; and the stand out track from The Ladybug Transistor's latest album "Clutching Stems", entitled "Breaking Up On the Beat".

Tickets here - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/131297

15 Years Of Fortuna POP! - Nov 3rd, Scala, London

Old Rooms

indie pop

Chiringuito

shokelectrik

Pre-order on iTunes

Red Eyes

"G Stands For Go-Betweens Volume One" documents the band’s origins in an ambitious box containing four vinyl albums, four compact discs and an extensive 112-page book, featuring a trove of archival photos and extensive historical liner notes from founding member Robert Forster, along with additional pieces from guest essayists, fans and contemporaries.

For more information and to pre-order, visit: http://www.dominorecordco.com/gobetweens/

The Go-Betweens - Cattle And Cane

Ever since she migrated from pitching editors on the little-known music of Robert Nesta Marley to becoming one of the foremost chroniclers of the perfect storm of reggae, punk, hiphop and Afro-Beat, the London-born, New York-based Vivien Goldman has made documenting music her primary life work.  But between 1979-82, Goldman was also a working musician, creating songs that, years later, would be sampled by The Roots and Madlib. These rare girl grooves are now collected for the first time on 'Resolutionary', courtesy of Staubgold Records.

Vivien Goldman: Launderette

Darren Hayman - I Taught You How To Dance

A new song from Tender Trap, especially recorded for Rocker's show on Dandelion Radio.

http://www.dandelionradio.com

Tender Trap - Clockwork

The latest single from Allo Darlin'. It's about listening to records when you're embarking on a new romance. I think we know who the Darren in question is right?

You can buy it here:

http://allodarlin.bandcamp.com/album/darren

Allo Darlin' - Darren

An exclusive B-side from the single "An Arcade From The Warm Rain That Falls", from the album sessions with Brian O'Shaunghessy at Bark Studios.

Comet Gain - You're Just Lonely

The wonderful Evans The Death with a song from the sessions from their forthcoming album that didn't quite make the cut. You can only imagine how good the album is!

Evans The Death - Hello Seems To Be The Hardest Word

The stand out track from The Ladybug Transistor's latest album "Clutching Stems", entitled "Breaking Up On the Beat".


The Ladybug Transistor - Breaking Up On The Beat

From the 4-track 'A Hiccup In Your Happiness' EP and the 12-track 'Warmer Corners' album on Matinée Recordings.

A Hiccup In Your Happiness EP

The Lucksmiths - A Hiccup In Your Happiness

Default - Out Now
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/default-ep/id487005655?uo=4
Remixes from Dan Carey, Tom Furse (The Horrors), JD Twitch and Walls out January 16th.

Debut album out 30th January 2012
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/django-django/id485436065?uo=4
Because Music

Django Django - Default

Practicing some Cash tunes in the studio this morning.  This one needs a little work but I hope you enjoy it.

Get Rhythm

Comin' Through

"Love Is Hard Enough" is the first taste of Tender Trap's new album 'Ten Songs About Girls'. It's a song about a girl who just can't get any sort of reaction out of the person she loves. 

The album was recorded at Bark studios with Brian O'Shaunghessy, after the band fell in love with his production work on the last Comet Gain LP, and is the Tender Trap recording debut of the punk rock guitar-playing and fantastic singing of Emily Bennett, from Betty and the Werewolves, who has replaced Elizabeth Morris from Allo Darlin' in the Trap line-up.

Tender Trap - Love Is Hard Enough

Hail Bop taken from Django Django's debut album. 
Out Now - iTunes: http://smarturl.it/djangodjango.album

Django Django - Hail Bop

Tender Trap's Christmas gift to you is the storming pop tune “Leaving Christmas Day”, a festive number about a girl who discovers that her boyfriend is a creationist Christian. 

Lead by indie legend and feminist icon Amelia Fletcher (formerly of Talulah Gosh and Heavenly), Tender Trap also feature Emily Bennett (ex-Betty and the Werewolves) on ebullient rock guitar playing, fantastic singing, and endless enthusiasm, Katrina Dixon on stand-up drumming and singing, John Stanley on guitar and original Heavenly bass player, Robert Pursey, on, er... bass.

"Leaving Christmas Day" is taken from the album Ten Songs About Girls, Amelia & Co’s most complete-sounding effort yet, filled to the brim with resounding backing vocals and glorious fuzz. The album’s artwork comes in green, purple and white ¬– the suffragette colours, sharing the original feminists’ concern for aesthetics as well as politics. With three strong female voices on the record, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes calling and responding, sometimes singing alone, Tender Trap draw on the dynamics of the original girl group songs, but aim to show what happens when those girls aren’t in thrall to the male Svengali.