Everybody’s favourite mischevious sea dweller is doing something extra special to celebrate the Yuletide season this month, with the launch of his debut single ‘A Call To Arms For Hippies’, released through Kind Canyon Records on Monday.
The track, which features contributions from a myriad of notable London nu-folk residents, is being released as a charity single in aid of MAP – Medical Aid for Palestinians.
You might remember that we featured Olly back here and here when his amusing antics first caught our eye. With the release of this debut single …

We’ve made no secret of our love for Crystal Fighters and their basque-influenced electro delights here at Walrus Towers, but they have outdone themselves with their latest “I Love London”. Kitsune (MySpace) decided to put this on their Kitsune Maison 8 compilation (which incidentally I think is their best in a little while), but have now released it as a single and wow what a single it is – and yes I was unbelievably upset I couldn’t go to the launch party (stupid degree pfft!).
This was released a week or …

My interest in Goldhawks was sparked by Tim’s recommendation back here, and so when I heard they would be visiting Norwich last Sunday, I made sure I was available.  After a weekend spent in the capital, riding the tube and continuously passing the road that gave the boys their name, it really seemed a natural progression to end my Sunday in the confines of one of Norwich’s most out of the way venues for a band recommended by my editor and who sound just a bit too good to be …

The shops may think that Christmas starts in mid October, but we all know that in reality you should only start preparing on 1st December with that first choccy in the advent calendar.
So as a way of starting off the musical advent (and I’m in no way religious, but enjoy a reason for a gluttonous festival as much as the next man), we have a little Christmas/winter indie mixtape from the kind folk over at XO Publicity. A little change from the Slade/Wham/East 17 that you”re all hearing elsewhere.
We’ve always …

The lovely boys from Mumford & Sons are launching their biggest UK tour yet next spring, with a selection of tour dates at much bigger venues than before…
The dates are as follows:
3rd March – Glasgow ABC
4th March – Manchester Academy 2
6th March – Wolverhampton Wulfrun
7th March – Newcastle University
9th March – Liverpool Academy
10th March – Cambridge Junction
12th March – Brighton Corn Exchange
13th March – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
16th March – Edinburgh Queen’s Hall
18th March – Dublin The Academy
20th March – Belfast Spring & Airbrake
If you didn’t catch them last time …

Othello Woolf is starting to garner a good bit of attention at the moment, and for damn good reason, as demonstrated in his debut single “Stand”, which will be released by the consistently impressive Young & Lost girls on January 18th on oh so pretty white vinyl. It’s pop perfection with a wistful lover’s soul. An LCD Soundsystem-influenced crooner making waves that are uplifting, understated, and undeniably British.
We might not have the original “Stand” MP3 to share with you right now (but you cans till find it over at Transparent, …