coup de main - noun
kü-də-ˈmaⁿ
Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Listen: Drowners' new song, ‘Pick Up The Pace’.

Ahead of the release of their upcoming album, ‘On Desire’ - due out on June 24th - Drowners have released ‘Pick Up The Pace’, an upbeat danceable song.

In an interview with Nylon, lead singer Matt Hitt described the song as: “It’s sort of a stream of consciousness around the idea of encouraging someone who’s become [too] lazy or despondent to pull their finger out.”

Listen to ‘Pick Up The Pace’ below…

James Blake feat. Bon Iver - 'I Need A Forest Fire' music video.

Everyone’s favourite song on James Blake’s new album, 'The Colour In Anything', is 'I Need A Forest Fire', and now the Bon Iver featuring song has an equally beautiful music video.

"The video was directed by United Visual Artists: Matt Clark in collaboration with Chris Davenport. It evokes the standout track’s stunning soul and spirit with an equally powerful visual, directed by the visual arts company who will be collaborating with James Blake on his headline tour in 2016 and beyond."

Coup De Main presents: Twenty One Pilots’ March 2017 New Zealand tour.

YUP, they’re coming back!

Just a month after their sold-out show at Vector Arena, Twenty One Pilots have announced that they’ll be returning to New Zealand in 2017 to play two arena shows - playing Wellington’s TSB Bank Arena on March 24th, and Auckland’s Vector Arena on March 25th.

These tickets are going to go fast, so get ready.

There’s a Fan Club pre-sale starting tomorrow (May 11th) at 10am until Thursday May 12th, before a Spark pre-sale from Thursday May 12th at 4pm until Sunday May 15th at 4pm.

Introducing: Alexandra Savior.

Few facts can be found online about Alexandra Savior - the artist that Tame Impala's Cam Avery recently declared to be his "favourite singer in the whole whirl" - but what we do know about her, i.e. the couple of songs floating around online, all points to a prodigious musical talent that we're majorly excited about.

Exhibit A) The below is Alexandra's contribution to the 'True Detective' Season 2 soundtrack - co-written with none other than the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner.

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