You can now pre-order the CD and LP of The Walkmen’s upcoming album Heaven, released this June on Bella Union.

Follow the link to pre-order now!

Stream the title track below:

The Walkmen – Heaven by Bella Union

You can now pre-order Bloom in the Bella Union store on both CD and vinyl. With the vinyl comes a limited t-shirt exclusive to the Bella Union store.

Pre-order here.

Bloom is released May 14th on Bella Union. Hear Myth and Lazuli below.

The band play their biggest UK headline show to date this November 2nd at London’s Roundhouse.

Fresh from performing as Daniel Johnston’s backing band at his recent show in their hometown of Belfast, Cashier No.9 have just announced a busy spring/summer schedule of UK headline shows and festival appearances culminating in a performance at Bella Union’s 15th Birthday Celebrations at the End of the Road Festival.

Tour dates:

Wednesday 2 May – EDINBURGH – Electric Circus (£6)
Thursday 3 May – GLASGOW – Stereo (£6)
Friday 4 May – CHESTER – Telfords Warehouse (£4)
Saturday 5 May – LEEDS – Live at Leeds
Sunday 6 May – LONDON – Camden Crawl
Tuesday 8 May – BRISTOL – Thekla (£7)
Wednesday 9 May – OXFORD – The Bullingdon (£7)
Friday 17 August – LEICESTER – Summer Sundae Weekender
Saturday 18 August – POWYS – Green Man Festival
Friday 31 August – DORSET – End Of The Road Festival

Ever generous to their fans, Cashier No.9 have made a resplendent new track “Death Of Fun” available to download for free.

Cashier No.9 – New track ‘Death Of Fun’ –

Cashier No.9 – Death Of Fun by Bella Union

With the release of new album Bloom now just four weeks away, Beach House have revealed another of the album’s stunning tracks – ‘Lazuli‘- which is streaming on their website now. ‘Lazuli’ will be released on a very lovely blue opaque 7″ vinyl as part of Record Store Day this coming Saturday; available in all good independent record stores.

Follow the link below to sample its beauty:

Listen to ‘Lazuli’ by Beach House

Live dates:

Wednesday 23 May – Brighton – The Haunt **(SOLD-OUT!)**
Thursday 24 May – London – Village Underground **(SOLD-OUT!)**
Friday 2 November – London – Roundhouse (£16)

‘Bloom‘ will be released on Monday 14th May on CD, LP, DL & very limited CD & T-Shirt bundle, those links below:

Bella Union limited edition CD & T-Shirt Bundle – HERE
Amazon – HERE
iTunes – HERE

We are thrilled to offer one lucky winner a pair of tickets to No Direction Home Festival. Information on the lineup and the festival is here. The lineup features many Bella artists, including –

Andrew Bird, The Low Anthem, Dirty Three, Father John Misty, Lanterns On The Lake and Veronica Falls.

And we’d love it if you could be there to watch them! Question below.

Question: What’s the name of the cinema at No Direction Home Festival that will be screening anything from George Melies through to 60s psychedelia to David Lynch and Werner Herzog?

Tip: the answer can be found on this page:  http://nodirectionhomefestival.com/line-up-2012/

Please send your answer to: ndhcomp@gmail.com and please put ‘Bella Union’ in the subject header.

Deadline: 1 week from today!

No Direction Home is brought to you by the wonderful folks at End of the Road.

Hannah Cohen’s debut album Child Bride is available on vinyl today, ahead of the full release next week. You can find the album in our store now.

Listen to Crying Game (which appears on the album) and the Active Child remix (not on the album!) below:

Hannah Cohen – The Crying Game by Bella Union

Hannah Cohen – The Crying Game (Active Child remix) by Bella Union