Florence + the Machine's new track unveiled

Following weeks of writing and recording new material, Florence + the Machine unveiled yesterday the first taste of their forthcoming second album, a new track called What the Water Gave Me, which the band had performed live in concert, but whose studio version is now released for the first time.

The as yet untitled album will be released on November 7th in the UK. Check up the video after the cut.

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Track of the week: Destroy Everything You Touch, by Ladytron

In anticipation of Ladytron's new album Gravity the Seducer, which will be released on September 13 in the US and a day earlier in the UK, Imitation of Life features the band's signature song Destroy Everything You Touch from their 2005 album Witching Hour as song of the week. 
The band will be touring in the States from early September, but unfortunately no dates for an European tour have been announced so far, with the exception of the two shows in Hungary and Spain which have already taken place in July.
If you happen not to know the band but the tune sounds familiar, you might have heard it at the beginning of The September Issue, the famous documentary about Anna Wintour.

Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch by nettwerkmusicgroup

David Bowie performs Starman in Top of the Pops (1972)

One can't help but look back in envy at the 70s, a period in which mainstream and avant-garde coexisted without so much as noticing each other. Here's a clip of David Bowie performing Starman, in my opinion one of the best pop tunes ever written and the song that launched his Ziggy Stardust persona on, of all places, Top of the Pops in July 1972. Don't miss the boy from the audience in the colour stripe motif sweater and his tra la la  dance to one of the most influential, innovative and experimantal artists of all time.

Track of the week: These New Knights, by Où Est Le Swimming Pool

Ever since lead singer Charles Haddon's tragic death at last year's Pukkelpop festival in Belgium, Candem-based band Où Est Le Swimming Pool has been understandably absent from the music scene, sadly with no prospects of follow-up any time soon.

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Yelle et moi

 The guys from Yelle gave a fantastic concert last night at Botanique. They were presenting Safari Disco Club, the very good follow-up album to their 2007 debut Pop Up.
Maybe the bigger Orangerie hall would have been better for the very enthusiastic crowd of listeners.
Here's a picture of mine with the very energetic lead singer Julie Budet.
Clip of the album's first single after the cut.

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