The Aliens have put the video to new single Magic Man (directed by John Maclean and Christian McKenzie) up on MySpace. The single is released on 15th September, and features on the new album ‘Luna’, which is released two weeks later on 29th September 2008
You can pre-order The Aliens new album Luna from HMV for [...]

Just spotted a copy of The Beta Band’s debut 12" vinyl EP Champion Versions for sale on eBay.co.uk
The current bidding at time of writing is £30 with 6 bids. The eBay auction ends on Sunday 24th August at 13:45pm
Click here to view the auction on eBay.co.uk

Update: the winning bid on the auction was £59.00

Black Affair are playing a live set this Saturday (23rd August) at the Eastern Electrics event ("A 15 hour celebration of cutting edge DJ’s and bands from the East side of town")
More details can be found at www.easternelectrics.com
The official site lists the venue for the event as:
Ewer Street Car Park on Great Suffolk Street [...]

We’re pleased to bring you news of a newly confirmed show for Black Affair. Steve will be playing in Shoreditch on Monday 25th August 2008. You can find a flyer for the night below, but in case you can’t see it here are the details:
SUSO and Vice give you
MUSIC KNIGHTS
BLACK AFFAIR live
GENTLE FRIENDLY live
THIS IS [...]

Thanks to stontt on The Aliens board for finding this Youtube gem…
Thom Yorke covered the The Beta Band tune ‘Dr Baker’ during the intro to ‘Everything in its Right Place’ at a recent Radiohead show in Indianapolis, Indiana (at the Verizion Wireless Music Center on 3rd Aug 2008).
Check it out below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0idxJSS_1A

The Aliens second album Luna is available to pre-order from HMV right now for just £7.99 delivered

On the HMV site, they have the tracklisting for the new album as:
1. Bobby’s Song
2. Amen
3. Theremin
4. Everyone
5. Magic Man
6. Billy Jack
7. Luna
8. Dove Returning
9. Sunlamp Show
10. Smoggy Bog
11. Daffodils
12. Boats
13. Blue Mantle
The release date is listed as 29th [...]

Here’s a couple of Black Affair live videos I spotted on Youtube today:
Black Affair at Crawdaddy, Dublin (Friday 25th July 2008)
Japanese Happening
8m12, uploaded by peteeed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue__G7Vd2mo
And here’s a small video of Black Affair playing You And Me at the Sonar Festival (in June 2008)
1m25, uploaded by stasgunko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgWw4040AUo
If you’ve spotted any Black Affair videos please leave a [...]