Rejoice As Downtown Boys Announce Their Debut European Tour

You need to see Downtown Boys live. Over the past two years I’ve listened and watched with awe-inspired excitement as they’ve encountered mad praise from Tom Morello (he wondered if they were America’s greatest punk band, a question to which I would still answer ‘yes’), toured their asses off the old school way by schlepping around North America in a crappy bus to play shows with the likes of Sheer Mag, and grown into a fantastic, ballsy act with shedloads to say. The songs, too, are wonderful:

Car Seat Headrest Maintains The Hype On New Single 'Fill In The Blank'

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New Music Of The Day: Bishop Nehru – ‘It’s Whateva’ (Video)

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New Music Of The Day: Jalen N’Gonda – ‘Holler (When You Call My Name)’

God knows Jalen N’Gonda’s got his work cut out if he wants to become a genuine big deal in the current climate of nu-soul “sensations”. In 2016 it’s already a heaving, varied and massive-selling genre, stretching from Adele to Anderson. Paak via Charles Bradley, Leon Bridges, St Paul & The Broken Bones, Michael Kiwanuka and many, many others.

New Music Of The Day: LA Girlfriend - 'XIV'

“To the wild I surrender.”

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