No show for Emmy as Stars of Sunday League launch EP

Emmy the Great’s much hinted at appearance at The Stars of Sunday League EP launch show last night was not to be.

Stars of Sunday League’s Euan Robinson put on the show in conjunction with Platforms to launch his debut EP The Boy’s Got Prospects. And he used his contacts to create a stellar line-up of big names and new finds. Euan said on the night: “I asked a lot of bands that I like, but I had no idea so many would say yes.”

St Vincent to tour with Grizzly Bear this Autumn

Ed Droste has announced, via Twitter of all news conduits, that the forthcoming Grizzly Bears tour will be graced by the incredible, ethereal presence of St Vincent, whose latest album, Actor is utterly splendorous and one of our nominees for the Schmercury Prize.

EP: Peggy Sue – Lover Gone

Too many modern love songs are built on the shakey foundations of cliches, done-to-death themes and dodgy rhymes. This makes the originality of Peggy Sue’s new ‘Lover Gone’ EP all the more impressive and delighting. The title track is a love song that’s not a love song, to a person who was a lover, but is one no longer, about a four year relationship that’s very much over.