March 1st, 2010LoveLikeFire – Worldwide Release Today!
After announcing last week that we would soon be releasing the fantastic LoveLikeFire album on CD in the US on April 12th we have now agreed a deal to have the album released worldwide digitally on March 1st. So…that’s TODAY! Get onto your download site of choice and get listening to Tear Ourselves Away. There is also a bonus remix by a certain RonnieVannucci Jr of The Killers fame.
Here’s a list of sites in the US which will have the album:
24-7 entertainment
Play.com
7Digital
Amazon
Bleep
Boomkat
Deezer
DJTUNES.com
eMusic
iTunes
Juno records
Lala.com
Medianetdigital
Mflow
Napster
Nokia Music Store
Spotify
Vidzone
There’s also a bunch of LoveLikeFire shows coming up as the band travels to SXSW. These dates are as follows:
11th March – Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco
13th March – Kilby Court, Salt Lake City
14th March – Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City
15th March – Burt’s Tiki Lounge, Alburquerque
16th – 19th March – SXSW
23rd March – Silverlake Lounge, LA
September 14th, 2009LoveLikeFire – Album Out Today
Oh yes. You lucky lucky people. From today LoveLikeFire’s debut album ‘Tear Ourselves Away’ is unleashed on the whole of the UK and iTunes. As the nights draw in and we all invest in a giant winter coat, this will be the perfect album to hibernate to. Powerful, epic and full of tunes we are so proud of this album.
To celebrate LoveLikeFire are playing the following UK shows. See you there!
September
15th – The Portland Arms, Cambridge
16th – Louisiana, Bristol
17th – The Social, Nottingham
18th – Friends of Mine @ KRO Bar, Manchester
19th – Southsea Festival, Portsmouth
20th – The Flapper, Birmingham
21st – Fibbers, York
22nd – Capitol, Glasgow
23rd – The Cluny II, Newcastle
24th – Madame Jojos – London
25th – Pure Groove Records Instore – London – 1.15pm
26th – 93ft East, London
27th – Brixton Windmill, London
28th – Ten Ft Tall, Cardiff
29th – Freebutt, Brighton
30th – Joiners, Southampton
October
1st – Boiler Rooms – Guilford
2nd – Cargo, London
August 19th, 2009The Answering Machine Artrocker Cover Stars
The ever lovely and super cool Artrocker have been so kind as to let The Answering Machine grace their cover for the current issue. Sir Martin Colclough in his first of many cover photos we hope!
Available in good record stores/newsagents now!
July 6th, 2009Another day, another copyright infringment
There are few things we at Heist Or Hit dislike more than sending out email’s asking blogs/torrents/dodgy Russian sites to stop leaking our music. I have spent a good amount of time today doing a sweep to see what I could find and basically it’s people who don’t understand how releasing music works. Or more so think they have a right to take something for nothing.
Let’s be totally honest with you, from time to time we download albums for free but our moral compass means we will go out and buy the album afterwards. Here’s a good example, I gave the new Horrors album a listen after all the praise it has been receiving. Fair enough, it’s great so I’m going to buy it soon, plus my brother will be getting it as a birthday present. Just because we can take something for nothing, does not mean we should.
You can give it all the ‘major labels are scum of the earth’ spin as you like. Ultimately taking someones hard work for nothing is illegal and wrong. More so, what does it say of your appreciation of this art form. I know that LoveLikeFire and The Answering Machine have spent years learning their instruments, practicing, writing songs, channeling all their efforts into their music. Not only has money gone into recording these albums but hours of hard work. But hey, if you can download the results in 10 minutes for free why shouldn’t you?!
If anything we are getting less out of the music by having too much of a good thing. Remember when you had to save up for an album and it meant so much more to you? When you didn’t have a computer with a hundred new releases you can maybe give half a listen to as you are too busy? When you persisted with something and realised how great it was because you had spent time and energy and money buying it? Would I enjoy Neutral Milk Hotel as much as I do now had I just given it a casual download listen? No fucking way. Are they one of my favourite bands in the world as a result of the work I put into their music? 100% yes.
Falco from Future Of The Left is a great man and put his point across well in this blog which is well worth reading.
The Heist Or Hit Honesty Box is open now to help people put right their wrongs.
Thanks a lot
Heist Or Hit
January 30th, 2009Decadence as a way of life – overrated? discuss.
The Heist team experienced the last days of decadence last night and feel muchly better for it.
Those smart and sexy, fresh and wild, budding young indie bunny rabbits, The Answering Machine play Bloody Awful Poetry night at The Last Days Of Decadence in a chilly Shoreditch last night. Nice to see lovely adoring Machine fans from the yu ess ov aye as well as Japan, Holland and France in the audience; their fame is clearly spreading. Your esteemed Heistman could have done without the trawling of the cold streets of Shoreditch for a post show Makers on the rocks, all to no avail.
However, the end of a good week for Heist and The Machine with kudos going out to John Kennedy of XFM, Mike Taylor of US station WOXY.COM and also the legend that is the BBC’s Huw Stephens for all playing Cliffer on air, The Answering Machine’s first single from Another City, Another Sorry.
January 27th, 2009New Year, New Tour
Hello Hello
We are very excited to say that we will be out on the road sooner than we thought, thanks to Ra Ra Riot who have agreed to let us tag along on their headline UK tour.
We’ll be making the following stops througout February
11th Feb – Birmingham Barfly
12th Feb – Glasgow King Tut’s
14th Feb – Newcastle Academy 3
15th Feb – Manchester Night and Day
16th Feb – Nottingham Bodega
17th Feb – London Kings College.
If you haven’t heard of Ra Ra Riot then you’re in for a treat, they went on this fancy talk show in the USofA and played this. If this doesn’t convince you of their brilliance, then nothing will.
Hope to see some people down there
Gemma x
