who the fuck are arctic monkeys?

Alex Turner, photographed by Focus Creeps for Pitchfork.

Read the article if you still haven’t. Alex sounds off on Deep Purple, Oasis, Roots Manuva, The Kinks, and Townes Van Zandt (!!!) A lot of good bits to quote, too.

My favorite part has got to be the last sentence of it—

“I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they’re not like that to me because I know where they come from— I know the secret.”

Arctic Monkeys, Matt and Nick, talking in Edgefest 2012 They talk about the supposed Don Valley DVD, sorry guys but they were just rumours.

Arctic Monkeys, Matt and Nick, talking in Edgefest 2012 They talk about the supposed Don Valley DVD, sorry guys but they were just rumours.

Coachella weekend is almost upon us folks. Heads up to everyone planning to watch the live stream— Arctic Monkeys are set to perform at the Coachella Stage, 6:30PM PST (convert timezones here).

Just like before, the three-day festival will be streamed worldwide via YouTube. For set times of all Weekend One performers, proceed to the official website. I’ll setup a chat party for this one, like when they played at Olympia. Will keep you guys posted.

P.S. Conan tonight - 11/10 Central!

And so we begin…

The boys are back in California and today is the beginning of some sort of madness: three days of non-stop Arctic Monkeys. Do me a favour… hold on to your heart—

11 April - Sold out show at Glass House, Pomona
12 April - AM to perform on Conan (R U Mine, perhaps?)
13 April - COACHELLA

shes-thunderstorms:

amlatestnews:

Didi: So what are you guys planning to do?
Alex: We are going to work on our next album.
Didi: Will it be ready in 2012?
Alex: I don’t think so, We don’t know yet. We hope so.

New album possibly already?! I love you guys, really I do.

No rest for Arctic Monkeys fans. Not that I’m complaining. Betting on a 2013 release.

Overheard in Lollapalooza Brasil

Arctic Monkeys will be recording material for album #5 over the summer, as per Alex Turner.

…we are kind of into the idea of doing a record that is like “Evil Twin” and “R U Mine”.

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—	Matt Helders (via arcticmonkeysus) Obviously catching up on missed news/updates. This is my favorite. I’d very much like that direction, thank you very much. (Full interview here, thanks duplexseven)

I have to make an effort not to take a moment to think about what I’m doing up there. That’s when you look down at your guitar and feel like it’s something you’ve never seen before. I try to avoid that moment. Like all these actions I’ll do now, it’s built in. I can’t fucking do the Macarena again tonight but if I don’t do it, I’ll fuck the next line up. There are a lot of words in our songs. I don’t want to make it seem like I have it hard or anything, but you start thinking about it too much and step out of that zone, you don’t know where you are. What is this? What is this place? You spend all day in your head and then for that one hour, you don’t. Especially the old songs, if I tried to sing a verse from one right now, I couldn’t do it. But in that moment, when I’m there and they’re all around me, playing, it’s built into me. I can do it.

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—	Alex Turner (via arcticmonkeysus) Garden Party: Backstage at Arctic Monkeys’ MSG debut. Read the entire interview here.

April 21 is going to be a good day: R U Mine + Electricity in a limited ed 7” purple vinyl. This better be in your RSD pile.

Click here to see if you’re near a participating record shop. Also, note that Electricity will be the last song in the SIAS era. We’re almost at the end, and it’s starting to feel bittersweet.

ELECTRICITY is the title of the next bside

Record Store Day just got better. R U Mine? in 7” purple vinyl. Gimme, gimme. April 21st!

Here’s the schedule to all the Coachella sideshows that is set to happen all over L.A. prior to the festival dates. Californians are a lucky bunch.

Arctic Monkeys will kick things off on 11 April at the Glass House. Tickets on sale 16 March.

R U Mine? on RSD 2012

In case you missed it… the standalone single R U Mine? will have its physical release on Record Store Day, 21 April 2012. One b-side will accompany this single. So, you know what to do—mark those calendars, darlings.

NME AWARDS 2012 LIVESTREAM »

rhysjoejoshtomfaris:

The NME Awards 2012 will be held in London, England, on February 29, 2012, at the Brixton Academy and will be hosted by English comedian Jack Whitehall. The nominations were announced exclusively on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show on January 30, 2012. The main categories were dominated by Arctic Monkeys with seven nominations, followed by Kasabian, Lana Del Rey and Muse with three apiece.

Performances: Noel Gallagher
The Horrors
Florence and the Machine
The Vaccines
Kasabian

Here’s a link to the show’s livestream, if you care to watch. Note that Arctic Monkeys won’t be there for the ceremony but, as you may know, are nominated for several awards.