Ian Brown adidas ZXZ by Kazuki

To celebrate the launch of the Ian Brown ObyO ZXZ's by Kazuki, the adidas store at No6 Newburgh St in the West End of London has a very special Ian Brown installation, including Ian's reel to reel recorder used in the making of Unfinished Monkey Business (the cover of which is emblazoned on the shoe's tongue), original tapes used and several promo items.

Check it out HERE at Crooked Tongues.

Kate Nash in The Observer

build a rocket boys! out today

The day has finally arrived.. elbow release their 5th album, follow up to the Mercury Prize winning ‘the seldom seen kid’, titled ‘build a rocket boys!’, and its bloody amazing. After a room full of grown men crying and hugging at the Cambridge show last Wednesday, we all can’t wait for the tour to start next week, especially the O2 shows at the end of this month (www.elbow.co.uk for tickets) – we’ll try and give away some tickets on Facebook that week (don’t worry, we’ll remind you). So, you can get your copy of the brilliant new album on CD from Amazon, Play.com and HMV. We’ve made a lovely iTunes LP deluxe album that includes 3 live at blueprint studios versions if you’re a digital bod, and if like us you are a fan of heavyweight gatefold vinyl, order that here at the elbow shop. Let us know what you think of the record @fictionrecords. Really hope you love it like we do. Fiction x www.buildarocketboys.com www.elbow.co.uk

Young Blood On MXP4 – remix it up

The Naked and Famous have posted their new single ‘Young Blood’ on Facebook for your remixing pleasure. Head to their Facebook page here http://on.fb.me/gRz9Nn to access the MXP4 music gaming app, plus there are prizes to be won (you have to read that bit in the Funhouse theme tune voice). There is 12" vinyl, deluxe 3CD album or artwork signed by the entire band up for grabs.

The Breakfast Song – new video + free track from Matthew P

Matt has been beavering away playing around the country and working on some new material – as a taster for his new EP check out new tune ‘The Breakfast Song’ for free, just text ‘Breakfast’ to 80010.

Matt has also gone DIY on the video side of things, sneaking a camera into Asda much to the consternation of the security guards... read all about it and watch it here www.matthewpmusic.com

If you need a slice of summer to get you through this arctic March,  Matthew P is playing some more dates, below for your diaries:

March 4th - The Living Room, Cambridge
March 6th - Notting Hill Arts Club (Communion Club Night), London
March 10th - Bungay High School, Suffolk
8th April - Fisher Theatre, March - In Aid Of Medicinema
24th April - Studio 2, Liverpool (w/ Thomas J Speight)

elbow on Ping. Fiction take a road trip

If you’re a Ping-user, get following the elbow boys this week as they are posting some exclusive playlists and you should be able to find them here

While you’re perusing itunes you can get the single right now http://bit.ly/hsVhWl, and preorder the album so as soon as you start up your computer on Monday morning it will be waiting for you – we’ve even made a snazzy LP version for you http://bit.ly/geymYh

The band played a storming set at Koko last night to record their channel 4 album chart show special, which will be on tele in a few weeks. It was a good warm up for tonight’s tour warm up show, at the Junction in Cambridge. The Fiction office are setting out in a 3 car convoy to the gig, any suggestions for the mixtape or to join the sherbet lemons vs sherbet bonbons argument, find us @fictionrecords on twitter.

neat little rows OUT NOW

‘neat little rows’ is now available to buy on itunes by clicking on the below link. This is the second single taken from Elbow’s highly anticipated new album, ‘build a rocket boys!’ out 7th March. Check out www.buildarocketboys.com to unlock more animations and album clips
http://bit.ly/hsVhWl