War on Drugs- New video

The War On Drugs have released the video to brothers this week. The band have been enjoying critical acclaim with the release of their second album earlier last summer, which ended up on many a Top 10 of 2011 lists (including my own.)
The Americana band debuted the video on Vulture. The band are also set to go back on tour in a month.
The dates can be found here.

The War On Drugs - Brothers from benjamin brewer on Vimeo.

The National curate and headline ATP Festival

After a report was leaked last week, rumours started circling that The National were set to curate the All Tomorrows Parties festival at Butlins, Minehead. Today ATP confirmed with a statement on their website. The National are set to headline the three day event with The Antlers, Owen Pallett, Sharon Van Etten, My Brightest Diamond and Megafaun just some of the artists set to join them. In total 40 live acts will play the three indoor stages. Only 5500 tickets are available with prices at £170.00pp for room only apartments and £180.00pp for self catered apartments, that go on sale this Friday 20 January at 2pm via www.Gigantic.com and this website.  The event will also feature DJs until late, Cinema chosen by The National and Book Club curated by The National.
For more information visit the website here.

LCD Soundsystem documentary

Yes it's less than a year after their break-up (sniffle) but that hasn't stopped a documentary being made about LCD Soundsystem and more specifically what surrounded their last ever show at Madison Square Garden and their split. The documentary, directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace will be shown next month at the Sundance Film Festival. The tagline simply says, "If it's a funeral...let's have the best funeral ever"

Coachella Lineup revealed

The Line up to one of the biggest music festivals, Coachella, hosted in Indio in the Californian desert has been released. And it looks beautiful! The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg are headlining and Pulp return once again as a surprise addition. For the first time the festival will also take place over 2 weekends, April 13-15 and 20-22.

Arcade Fire release new video

Arcade Fire have (finally) released the video to the song Sprawl II (Mountains beyond Mountains) and contains some great moves from everyone's favourite female dancer, Regine Chassagne. Yet another reason to fall in love with Arcade Fire

Song of the day- Sharon Van Etten

The first I heard of Sharon Van Etten was when she collaborated with The National on their song, Think You Can Wait for the film Win, Win. That song has gone on to make the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song. It was then released a while back that The National guitarist Aaron Dessner was set to produce Van Etten's album which got the blogosphere buzzing and we now know that the album is set to be released this Autumn. The lead single, Serpents, features just about everyone in the Brooklyn indie scene; Aaron and his twin brother Bryce, Zach Condon of Beirut, the Walkmen's Matt Barrick, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Thomas Bartlett of Doveman.