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Britain’s biggest celebration of emerging talent is coming back to Brighton this weekend.

China Rats will be there and perform not one, not two, but three shows. Catch them at the following:

Thursday 16th:
The Mini Escape @ Belushi’s Below – 9:30pm

Saturday 18th:
Sticky Mikes Frog Bar – 12:15pm
Old Ship Paganini Ballroom – 8:15pm – w/ Tribes & The 1975

Don’t miss that last show, bound to be one of this year’s highlights, and check out the lyric video for China Rats’ latest track ‘Nip It In The Bud’ below:

As Elephants Are will be playing west London’s Bushstock Festival on June 1st.

The High-Wycombe crew will be performing with Theme Park, Willy Mason and Maricka Hackman, alongside several other exciting new acts.

Organised by the team behind label and live promoter Communion, the festival will be held in various venues around London’s Shepherd’s Bush. Tickets are already on sale on the brand new Bushstock website.

The band recently premiered the video for their punching new track ‘Youth Blood’ on Nylon Magazine, watch it below:

China Rats will be supporting The Cribs at London’s legendary 100 Club on Wednesday 17th April!

Organised by Converse the show will be part of ‘Get Dirty’, an 11-city music series featuring performances by renowned international artists and up-and-coming local talent.

It will be the first of three London shows featuring acts such as Ghostaface Killah, Gallows and Doom.

Register here and don’t miss your chance to win a pair of tickets for this unique event.

Once Upon A Time artists shook the French airwaves last week, while the music world was looking towards Austin:

Monday on Le Mouv’, French radio-show-host Nico Prat made As Elephants Are’s stellar ‘Lucifer’ his first ever single of the day during the premiere of his brand new show Popcorn.

On Tuesday, Crash & The Coots took the cherished spot over and made “the entire studio dance” with ‘Bottle Rhythm’ (watch the song’s video on Youtube).

On Wednesday, China Rats was third in a row with their blasting ‘Nip It In The Bud’. After a detour in Texas the band will be in Paris next week for a Kitsune Maison En Vrai show at La Maroquinerie alongside Australian band Jagwar Ma (Wednesday 27th March) and will be Popcorn’s special guests on Le Mouv’ the following day (Thursday 28th March).

A big thanks to Nico Prat and his team for making those three songs the first three single of the day of their great new show, and thanks to Vincent Theval from France Musique for playing ‘Nip It In The Bud’ on his Label Pop show last Monday.

Still in France, but in writing, As Elephants Are’s ‘Youth Blood’ was made ‘Song of the day’ on cult magazine Les Inrocks’ website on Thursday:

“ardent lyricism on a leash (…)

makes you equally want to jump in the air or crash on a bed”

“Put China Rats on the top of your SXSW must-see list” (Nylon Magazine)

China Rats recently revealed their brand new track ‘Nip It In The Bud’

Available as a free download until South By Southwest and officially released on April 15th.

The band is now headed to Austin, TX to play a series of shows during South By Southwest 2013. Catch them at the following events:

Wednesday 13th – 6pm – Beautiful Buzzz Party – The Brew Exchange
Thursday 14th – 3.30pm – Beautiful Buzzz Party – The Brew Exchange
Thursday 14th – 5:30pm – The British Music Embassy – Latitude 30
Friday 15th – 10pm – The British Music Embassy (Official) – Latitude 30

“Breaking new ground” (Earmilk, US)

“A perfect piece of indie pop” (The Line of Best Fit, UK)

“These guys are unbounded, utter loons with tongues firmly in cheeks. And that’s why we love ‘em” (This is Fake DIY, UK)

Crash & The Coots reveal their new song ‘Bottle Rhythm’. Premiered on Earmilk last week, the track is now available as a free download for a limited time.

It is the second track taken from the band’s new EP, Hill Rise which will be officially released on March 24th. The first track, ‘Don’t Kill Bugs’, was premiered last month on This Is Fake DIY.

For those who can’t wait to hear more, there will be plenty of opportunities to catch Crash & The Coots live in the next few weeks:

An unusual start to an exciting year…

On Sunday (20/1) Declan and Sean of Coastal Cities starred as part of YSL’s Paris Fashion Week show. The guys appeared alongside members of Egyptian Hip Hop, Swim Deep and Ty Segall amongst others, in a music-dominated cast set to reaffirm the fashion house’s deep rock ‘n’ roll spirit.

Coastal Cities are currently working on new material to be released in early Spring. Watch the video for ‘The Voyage‘ here.

After their outstanding (and unexpected) performance at the festival last year, China Rats will be back on the eastern shores of Spain in July.

This year’s edition of the ‘Festival Internacional de Benicàssim’ will be held between the 18th and 21st of July.

China Rats will be performing alongside acts such as The Arctic Monkeys, Palma Violets, Swim Deep and AlunaGeorge, with many more yet to be announced.

The band is currently finishing up their highly-anticipated new single, to be released in March.

In the mean time, note that China Rats will be supporting Sons & Lovers this Friday (January 25th) for the Club NME night at London’s KOKO.
They will also play the Old Blue Last on February 5th, and will be back at KOKO on March 8th, this time to headline the Club NME night.

Only a few weeks from now, As Elephants Are will be releasing their highly-anticipated new single ‘Youth Blood / Lucifer’. In the mean time, the band premiered the record’s double A-side track ‘Lucifer’ on The 4O5

“(‘Lucifer’) may make you want to grab the sky by its chin and surf on it for a bit” (The 4O5)

Accompanied by the single’s artwork (above) the song sparked-off feverish reactions form blogs around the globe:

“We just have to bow down and accept the magnificence of this track, As Elephants Are, thank you!” Track of the Week (It’s All Indie, UK)

“Shockingly good” (Handclap Movement, US)

“After a stellar first single, ‘War Cry’, As Elephants Are have released another knockout with the track, ‘Lucifer’” (The Peel, US)

“As Elephants Are have just stolen my heart! This music is what my dreams sound like!” (Beautiful Buzzz, US)

The band will be playing Shoreditch’s Hoxton Bar & Kitchen on January 23rd, alongside Dexters and My Youth.