…in comic form!
It seems we’re mentioning L.A. Record pretty often in these blog posts, but they’re just so lovable, we can’t help ourselves!
And now, on their behalf, we’ve done a live review of Wild Beasts‘ first-ever Los Angeles show, February 11th at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. But it’s not just any live review; it’s [...]

For one month only, get 10% off our debut 7″ (that’s vinyl, for those not in-the-know) from the wonderful people over at insound.com.

This is thoroughly bizarre… but we like it.
We met Kim Fowley, probably best known for being The Runaways’ svengali, at the L.A. Record xmas party because Luke had drawn him for the magazine (the portrait appears on the video),,,
Obviously he took a shine to us!
My favourite line is the one about our "magic [...]

Welcome to the new popnoir.org. We’ve gone for more of a blog vibe, and I think you’ll agree that it looks quite fetching. Now that the main focus of the site is on our comings and goings / witty repartee, we’ll do our best to keep this thing updated.
Some parts of the site are still [...]

Happy Christmas from Pop Noir! Here’s our “Adam Ant meets Bing Crosby” musical Yuletide greeting and suitably absurd video.

We’re also giving the song away as a FREE DOWNLOAD, if you’d like it…

Pop Noir grabbed the interest of French listeners because of their name and get noticed here in the States because of their similarities to New Order—and because their father designed Joy Division’s album covers. These twin musicians-slash-illustratorsand their drummer Nico Saavedra will be releasing their single ‘DIY’ today, and they explain here about making music, [...]

Here’s the Wombats after their set on the main stage at Scotland’s RockNess Festival with DJ Jim Gellatly, representing Pop Noir!

Tord wearing the shirt onstage. Brilliant!

(Photo by Aaron Sneddon)
Also, we’re featured on Jim Gellatly’s New Music Podcast on radiomagnetic.com!
Click this link to listen… It’s also available on iTunes…

Our shows with Doves this past weekend were BRILLIANT. Loads of fun.
And I don’t think we can speak highly enough of the Doves guys. They were all dead cool, dead friendly, definitely one of the best groups we’ve had the pleasure of working with.
We’d also like to thank all the Doves fans who gave [...]

Hello, all!
We’ve really been terrible about updating this blog, but we’ve been incredibly busy, so that’s our excuse!
I’m going to struggle to brief you on everything we’ve been up to the past few months, so I’ll just give you the highlights of the last couple weeks.
At the end of March, we played a brilliant show [...]

This past week has been excellent… Our show last Saturday with Adult. went really well (sold out, rumour has it) and the following night, Factory Records legends, A Certain Ratio, were in town to headline the Part Time Punks festival at The Echoplex. Because we’re so brilliant (haha), Ratio’s drummer, Donald Johnson, stayed at our [...]