White Lies 'Ritual' out now.

White Lies 'Ritual' out now White Lies sophomore album ‘Ritual’ is out today and to celebrate we will be giving some posters away on twitter shortly – follow us @fictionrecords for your chance to win. The band are playing a live instore gig at HMV Oxford Circus at 6pm today, entry is free and the band will be sticking around to sign copies so head on down, the Fiction office will be down the front somewhere! If you missed the mini-film ‘Ritual’ on Channel 4 on Friday night, you can watch the full length video online now, showcased by Future Shorts The album is Amazon’s download of the week, download, cd, vinyl and box set from the below retailers: WWW.WHITELIES.COM WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WHITELIES

Elbow first play!

Zane Lowe’s HOTTEST RECORD IN THE WORLD tonight was ‘neat little rows’ – the first single from elbow’s new album ‘build a rocket boys!’. You can listen back to the world exclusive first play at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1
Pre-order your copy of the single at Recordstore here http://bit.ly/dSeZUX

or another sneak preview on the album don’t forget the live studio footage of ‘Lippy Kids’ is up at www.buildarocketboys.com

Maximum Balloon - Art Vinyl 2010

The Maximum Balloon album cover has been chosen as one of Art Vinyl’s Top 30 album covers of 2010 - Art direction and design by Morning Breath, photography Michael Lavine. Check out the other nominees here http://bit.ly/4u2g

White Lies are back

White Lies are back White Lies are back with their new single 'Bigger Than Us', out now. Download from iTunes here or order up a limited edition 7" blue vinyl format from Recordstore. Plus if you can't wait until their February tour to see the band playing new album 'Ritual', the band have confirmed an instore performance at HMV Oxford Circus in London on Monday 17th January. To celebrate the new album release, they will be playing live followed by a signing session. Entry is free, kicking off from 6pm.  FREE MP3s! Amazon.co.uk are giving away Walls' 'Hold Me' remix of 'Bigger Than Us' here and NME.com are giving away a Factory Floor reworking of the single too - get it here. COMPETITION TIME Play.com are running an awesome competition for one of you lucky people to win an exclusive signed framed album print, plus tickets to a White Lies gig of their choice (from Feb tour dates on their website) PLUS a meet and greet with the band before or after the show! Comp closes 17 Jan so head to www.play.com now and look out for the competition banner on the Music homepage to enter. WWW.WHITELIES.COM WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WHITELIES

build a rocket boys!

Elbow will be releasing their fifth studio album 'build a rocket boys!' on 7th March 2011.

The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Salford and was again produced 

and mixed by keyboard player Craig Potter.

You can preorder your copy now at Play HMV or Amazon

If you’re not already on there, sign up to the mailing list at elbow.co.uk and 

check your emails on Boxing Day for more..

www.buildarocketboys.com

www.elbow.co.uk

White Lies - Full Album Format Details Announced

'RITUAL' - FULL ALBUM DETAILS ANNOUNCED The time is fast approaching... White Lies' long-awaited second album is released in the New Year. Entitled 'Ritual' the record will touch down on Monday 17th January. The album can be yours in a number of formats, here's a full rundown of what's on offer: 7" BOXSET VERSION The 7" boxset features the album spread over 5 x white 7" vinyls and comes in a deluxe foiled box complete with an art print signed by all three band members. In addition to the album, a 6th 7" features two exclusive and very different demo takes of the album tracks 'Strangers' and 'Come Down'. And that's not all - a bonus remix CD is also included featuring the following remixes: 1. 'Bigger Than Us' (Factory Floor remix) 2. 'The Power & The Glory' (Bibio remix) 3. 'Is Love' (Stereolab remix) 4. 'Bigger Than Us' (Walls Hold Me remix) 5. 'The Power & The Glory' (Wax Stag remix) To complete the package, every copy comes with an insert card with a unique code to download all audio as free mp3s. Pre-order now: iTUNES DIGITAL ALBUM + BONUS VIDEO Fans who pre-order the album at iTunes will receive an exclusive 'Ritual' companion film, featuring the band members talking viewers through selected tracks on the record. HMV ALBUM + FREE TRACK Pre-order any format of 'Ritual' at HMV.com or HMV Digital and you'll get an exclusive free track delivered to you digitally the week prior to release of the album. That track is the band's remarkable reworking of Scott Walker's classic '30 Century Man'. WWW.WHITELIES.COM WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WHITELIES

The Bees - Winter Rose

The Bees new single ‘Winter Rose’ is out NOW

A message from The Bees: “check out the extra special remixes too... we've done a proper old school dub version ourselves as well as asking some amazing producers to rework the track ... we love the results, they bring new flavours to our sound... nicolas jaar takes it down low with a beautiful atmospheric electronic rework... tim goldsworthy turns in an uptempo club version with killer drums and synth & dan the automator takes time out from producing the new Kasabian album just to remix us , giving the track a Gorillaz vibe... enjoy!!”

Get the 7” from Recordstore

Get the remixes from iTunes


Plus check out the video made by Tim Watkins (designer of the artwork too) here

PLUS Every Step’s A Yes has been nominated as iTunes Editors Choice 2010 – check out the rest of the nominations here


For more info on live shows for next year check www.thebees.info