Download Two Door Cinema Club's "Something Good Can Work" for free

I mentioned this song last year, after hearing it on Steve Lamacq's 6Music show. Now Two Door Cinema Club's smile-inducing "Something Good Can Work" is due to get an official single release (whatever that's worth these days) through Abeano, an imprint of XL Records. It comes out 2nd March.

BUT none of that really matters, because I have the track right here for you to download, legally and for free.

If you're having a bad day/week/month, this jangly, chiming little two and a half minutes might just turn your mood around in time for the weekend. And if there is any justice left in this here world, by the end of the year it will be soundtracking every Freshers Week indie disco from now until Armageddon.

Download link after the jump.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on January 30, 2026 9:40 AM in Music News| Up-And-Coming Acts
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Coldplay's Chris Martin to play live on Absolute Radio TODAAAYYYY

This is a short post to let you know that the people at "real music" perpetuators Absolute Radio (Virgin Radio as was) are in a bit of
a tizz today, because Coldplay's Chris Martin is popping in to do a live session.

If that sounds like something you'd like to experience as you eat your sandwich at your desk, be sure to point your internet to this page at 1pm today.

My Chemical Toilet was offered the chance to email over some questions to be put to Saint Chris, but to be honest the ones I submitted were a bit silly due to me extending that invitation to the site's Twitter followers.

Come back here on Monday to see if any answers were forthcoming...

Posted by Stuart Waterman on January 30, 2026 9:00 AM in Gig / Tour News| Music News
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Solange Knowles: Twitter nutter

Posted by Stuart Waterman on January 29, 2026 12:16 PM in Twitter reviews| Your New Favourite Weirdo
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Ryan Gosling shows us his Dead Man's Bones

So this week we've mentioned Schwartzman and Phoenix encroaching on our land of music, and now here's another Hollywood type having a go.

This time we have Ryan Gosling, him from girly slush-epic The Notebook and splendid drugzrbad high-school drama Half-Nelson.

As part of Dead Man's Bones pretty Ryan plays piano and sings in a rather foreboding timbre, with "In The Room Where You Sleep" featuring a simply darling children's choir who prove you don't have to be a singing child and scare the whoopsy out of people.

Watch the video after the jump - if you're a fan of Nick Cave-style drama-rock you will probably find your ass smitten.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on January 29, 2026 11:30 AM in Music News| Video
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Joaquin Phoenix's rap career may/may not be a hoax

By now I'm sure you've seen Joaquin Phoenix's first tramptastic public performance as a rapper, complete with pratfall, after supposedly quitting acting. (And if not, why not? See it over the page.)

Unsurprisingly, many people are finding the notion that this Hollywood star would pack it all in to work with Diddy, even if it is as part of a video project with his brother-in-law Casey Affleck, rather hard to believe. And overnight, the RSS update you see to your left popped up in my reader.

"Hmm," I thought. "Hmm." Then I stopped "hmm-ing" and clicked the thing, only to be taken to a page that no longer exists. Was the hoax outed? And then inned? Are NME in on the whole thing? Has this "friend" been bumped off?

Posted by Stuart Waterman on January 29, 2026 10:25 AM in Music News| Naughty Rappers
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The Prodigy's "Omen" hopefully not an omen

I still get excited at the prospect of new material from The Prodigy, and I loved the title track from forthcoming album Invaders Must Die.

However, "Omen", to me, sounds like Liam Howlett on autopilot. Even worse, if I didn't know it was The Prodge I would have sworn it was Pendulum. The Prodigy as a pale imitation of another act? That ain't right, surely?

Posted by Stuart Waterman on January 28, 2026 11:40 AM in Music News| Video
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Alela Diane is another one of those folk types who likes wood and streams and stuff

The esteemed editor of Shiny Shiny, Susi Weaser, writes:

Posting duties for this song have been passed on to me by the infinitely lazy Stuart, presumably because the phrases 'violin and rustic percussion' and 'woozy folk flourishes' appear in the press release. Just reading those terms has brought him out in armpit hives, while they've done something altogether more pleasant to me.

"White As Diamonds" is by someone called Alela Diane. I suggest you say that name aloud right now. Personally speaking, it's probably the most pleasing thing to have come out of my mouth since I half-swallowed a wasp and then coughed it up. But of course that was pleasant because it was so unpleasant having it in there - I have not been hiding Alela Diane (say it!) in my mouth all this time. (Er, good to know - Ed)

Posted by Susi Weaser on January 28, 2026 11:10 AM in Dispatches From Beardsville| Music News| Video
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