Free new Pontiak track – World Wide Prince
This morning The Line of Best Fit premiered the Pontiak track World Wide Prince, which is taken from their upcoming record Sea Voids.
Click HERE for the track
Oh yes, a bit of an exclusive for Dirty Boots today as we give you a little gift from Pontiak’s latest long-player. The track is the immense wall of sound [...]
DUM DUM GIRLS are coming to the UK!
We wanted to let you know that on February 15th Dum Dum Girls will release ‘Jail La La’. This is the first, and rather fine, blissed-out pop 7” single taken from the Dum Dum Girls debut album, I Will Be. The single will be backed with ‘Play With Fire’ a track which is exclusive to this [...]
Free Download of ‘The Eternal Return’ by Jason Urick
So here you have it. A gift from us here at Dirty Boots! Here’s a FREE DOWNLOAD of the track The Eternal Return, by Baltimore mover and shaker, Jason Urick.
This track is taken from Jason’s new LP, Husbands, which comes out in late October and will surely appeal to fans of ambient sound-sculptors like Mountains, [...]
BBC Sound of 2010 – Ellie Goulding
Of all the acts on this year’s BBC soundpoll it is Ellie Goulding who we see crossing over to the masses. We know that 2009 has been inundated with solo female artists and it almost feels as though there may be no more room for another in 2010 but Ellie’s work with Starsmith has a [...]
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night – New 12″ and LP in 2010
The Besnard Lakes, the Montreal collective fronted by husband-and-wife duo Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek, has returned, crafting a majestic, sprawling vision of guitar bombast and captivating pop experiments.
On March 8th of 2010, Jagjaguwar will release The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, a twisting chronicle of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods [...]
Field Music return with DOUBLE ALBUM!!
This really is a heart-warmingly beautiful record and when you get your little mits on a copy it deserves a listen with your full attention. We suggest a nice glass of wine of a evening (other alcoholic/non alcoholic drinks are available) and treat yourself to one of the albums of 2010! For a little preview [...]
James Mercer and Danger Mouse create new supergroup Broken Bells
Oh. Yes. Please. Now that he’s parted with most of the old Shins lineup, James Mercer is free to do what he wants… and what better way to start this off than teaming up with super-producer Danger Mouse to form a new band called Broken Bells. The duo will be putting out a full-length album sometime next [...]
Band of the day – Deathray Trebuchay!!
It just dawned on me that in the haste to move on from Glastonbury and in our quest to make Dirty Boots something bigger and better than ever before, we forgot one of those truly wonderful moments at Glastonbury, when Deathray Trebuchay came to play. It was just the most unexpected 30 minutes of wonderfulness, [...]
Glasto Episode IV – A New Hope
July 15, 2009 by Adam
Filed under General Boots
Somehow we’ve made it to Saturday and, as legions of Springsteen fans are still getting on-site this morning, we’re wading into the mire of the 4th full day of the Dirty Boots stage. It feels like we might never leave this place.
While The Broken Family Band are waking up most of the site from the [...]
Glasto Day 3 review
June 30, 2009 by Adam
Filed under General Boots
At 11am the Dirty Boots tent is all about people chilling out in the diner deckchairs, catching up with the daily paper and dealing with the best bacon sandwiches on site. And then a beautiful lady in shiny trousers and theatre mask sashays on the stage with three all-black-clad mysterious men and they make a [...]