The Drums // Money (Chad Valley Remix)

After their much debated hype, The Drums' debut album was never going to quite match the expectations many had placed upon the Brooklyn foursome. Following the loss of a member and rumours of a split, their second record is released today. To mark the occasion (or perhaps just because he fancied it) Chad Valley has recrafted Portamento's lead single Money in his own image, which you can check out and download below.

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The Drums // Forever and Ever Amen

Ahead of the release of their debut full length on June 7th, The Drums are steadily maintaining the magnificently high quality of both song and video with Forever and Ever Amen.

Grainy and effete, as if lifted wholly from British 80s new wave, the video sees the band cruising around and climbing on tables looking chiseled while a couple of kids bash stuff up. Great! Plus, their site has a free download of It Will All End in Tears for further listening pleasure.

The Drums // Best Friend

The Drums, the world's next big thing and, according to the never knowingly meiotic sphere of the NME, "New York's official coolest new band", have just issued the video for new single Best Friend on Moshi Moshi.

In line with Let's Go Surfing it's pretty simple stuff, but captures the captivating moves of Jonathan Pierce perfectly. The entry through the window? Not sure. The 50's film credit outro? Delightfully and ridiculously adding a sense of drama where really none exists.

The Maccabees feat. Edwyn Collins

Something great, courtesy of the NME tour's final bow of 2010, took place at Brixton Academy. Following a hype-fulfilling, tambourine fuelled performance from NYC's The Drums, a feedback drenched set from The Big Pink and a coming of age performance from a visibly gleeful Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees tore through a frenetic hour of new wave hit after hit after hit.

Orlando Weeks' voice and on stage presence has progressed beyond comprehension since the band's early days and, having picked up a guitar himself, the band's sound is noticeably more physical on Young Lions than their debut's spiky punk shudder of X-Ray. It's the combination of the two that keeps the kids dancing, with full time ring-leader and part-time guitarist Felix White leading the Brixton faithful through a soaring Precious Time before the misanthropic noir drama of No Kind Words highlights the flaws in most of this year's 'Best ofs' in their Maccabees related oversights.

While the encore was inevitably going to feature Wall of Arms highlight Love You Better (which it did, along with the equally inevitable yet no less exhilarating or joyous re-appearance of the other bands), no-one could have predicted Mr Weeks' introduction of new-wave icon and one of the most distinctive voices in British music Edwyn Collins. A thrilling Rip It Up was the cover of choice, with Collins taking centre stage and proving that while his body may be letting him down his charisma and vocals remain as sharp as ever they were. Collaborations are one of the many things The Maccabees do right, but this one was more right than most.

While the much, and often rightly, maligned NME may be in something of a decline, the bands on tonight's bill are definitely on their way to even greater triumphs.



Edwyn in his youthful pomp.