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You should well be aware of 4AD's sessions now. Y'know, the ones where they get one of their bands to perform a few tracks live, film it in an arty way and then post it to the internet and what not. Well Blonde Redhead did one recently. It's been popular - only up a few days and already 160,000 views. Stratos'.»
So, the Mercury Prize happens soon. Recently the names were announced. Were there many surprises? Not a great deal, although I Am Kloot seemed to be nominated for an appreciation of their overall career. All a bit Ryan Giggs. We, along with Barclaycard'»
Thrash metal pioneers Slayer will release a 10-album box set of all of their American Recordings albums, starting with 1986's Reign In Blood and finishing up with last year's World Painted Blood. Lots of stuff about blood in these here albums, yes.»
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is out now and comes from the director of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz. That's Edgar Wright to you and me. It is both a hilarious and unique blend of action, comedy, romance and fantasy and an epic of epic epicness. »
New video. Low budget. »
A new Wild Nothing track for you to download!»
This week's content mashed into the form of a Spotify playlist, featuring the likes of Orange Juice, Ghostface Killah, Mogwai, El Guincho, Arab Strap, Flying Lotus and Klaxons.»
New stuff. »
Returning conquerors of the UK music scene Klaxons have just confirmed a UK tour for November. Everyone's doing it recently. This'll be in support of their new album, Surfing The Void, which has been quite some years coming.»
So, just days after surprising us with the immediate release of a new EP Sufjan Stevens is giving us another pleasant update, now announcing the release of another full-length record, his first since the opus that was Come On Now Feel The Illinoise*»
You'd be forgiven for forgetting about former Beta Band frontman Steve Msaon. Actually, you won't be forgiven for forgetting him, especially not after the release of Boys Outside, almost certainly his best piece of solo work, to be sure. »
Nils Frahm released his next single earlier this week. On Monday in fact. It came out through Erased Tapes records, which is usually a good stamp of approval and indication of quality. It's called 'Unter | Über' and was recorded on Nils' piano in his Berlin studio flat. Now there's a video for the first part of it 'Unter', which can be viewed below: »
Following on from the pretty-well massive success (in indie terms, anyway) of their debut record, Bethany and Bobb aka Best Coast have confirmed a fuller European tour for later in the year, following on from a pretty-packed date at London's Cargo. This time they return with three English dates in the country's three biggest cities. »
This year's Manchester-based In The City festival has announced another substantial raft of artists who will play across the city this year and, no joke, it is going from strength to strength, with some corkers added in this time. Joining the previously announced bands will be:»
Fresh from a one-off London date at the Lexington, the Canarian wonder that is El Guincho will return to the UK to grace us with his presence and his talent in what would commonly be known as a tour. Excellent news. »
With their newest album False Priest on the way, of Montreal have revealed that there's another release in the pipeline already, an EP. It already has a title, too, and it's called The Controller Sphere and is apparently the final part in the trilogy of releases which includes Skeletal Lamping and the forthcoming False Priest.»
If you thought Yeasayer's video for 'Madder Red' would be the last video with a weird-looking latex character of some kind then you'd be wrong. You would have been fairly silly for thinking this, but not even we expected another one to pop up so soon. In some ways the one in MGMT's video is even more disturbing, perhaps because it's more 'familiar'. In a way.»
Some more bands have been announced for this year's Iceland Airwaves festival, at which we have a stage as part of our 10th anniversary celebrations. It's going to be a good one. It can't not be. Really (via This Is Fake DIY.»
We return to the Medieval Park in Oslo for the final two days of the festival.»
A newish Beach House track!»
Interpol have confirmed another London date for their forthcoming European tour, at the end of September. They'll play London's Heaven on September 15, which will kick off the tour. Tickets are priced at £30 standard and a bargain £32.50 if you want to get the album as well. Really, for the extra £2.50 you'd be silly not to. I'd go as far as to say idiotic. »
Edwyn Collins may be in the process of releasing a single, album, and all of that sort of stuff, but his former band will have a great deal of material (re)released in the coming weeks, as Domino have announced the arrival of Coals To Newcastle, a 7CD box set of the band's material over the course of their career.»
Get creative?»
The Twilight Sad release a new 12" on September 27. It's called The Wrong Car and that is also the name of a track from the record, for which there is a video. It's seven-and-a-half minutes long ferchrissakes! That's amibitious. Anyway, you can watch it below, and see the tale unravel in the best way.»
The line-up and billing for this year's ATP Release The Bats Halloween show has been altered slightly, with new headliners coming into place. This is because, you might be aware, that Battles have lost a member and subsequently this put an end to much of their plans for touring and playing live and a few other things, too.»
Brooklyn's Small Black will release their debut album, entitled New Chain, on October 25 through Jagjaguwar, following on from the quite frankly great and critically praised self-titled EP. Wonderful stuff.»
Who saw this one coming? Not us. Sufjan Stevens has announced the release of a new EP, today. As in it's out now. It's called All Delighted People and, as well as being available to buy now, is available for you to listen to, without purchasing as it's up on BandCamp.»
Watch the new (in a way) video from Antony and the Johnsons.»
UK shows are go! In November.»
