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And so, as we mentioned in our Green Man competition last week their annual competition to find someone to open up the festival runs again in 2010. The first round of voting has just finished, with over 650 bands entering.»
Told you it was a good time for free EPs from artists of a high quality. Now for the third in the last day or see, as John Frusciante and Mars Volta man Omar Rodriguez Lopez have made available their latest EP entirely for free. Again. They did this before, you remember.»
Yes, it appears it's 'give away an EP' week, what with Efterklang doing so with Slaraffenland and now (well, before actually) Trent Reznor's new project are doing similar. You might be familiar with them already, but if not...they go by the name of How To Destroy Angels. »
Tom Jenkinson may be more well-known in his guise as the basstastic Squarepusher for his face-melting compositions than his videos and that in itself is no shame. Although his 2008 album Just A Souvenir was released ummm...in 2008, he's only just got round to releasing a video for the most mind-bendingly awesome track from it, 'Delta-v'.»
We all know just how fertile the Danish music scene is, so we don't need reminding of it, though we frequently are, with bands like Oh No Ono, Mew, Efterklang and Slaraffenland knocking on our doors at regular intervals, almost forcing their way into our»
One thing that you can't say about M.I.A is that she doesn't chat an awful lot of nonsense and rubbish. It's been a busy few days for her, what with the ultra-petty, childish and insecure actions of posting New York Times journalist Lynn Hirschberg's phon»
Manic Street Preachers have announced a spate of UK dates for later in the year, in September and October to be precise. This is good news for their fans, but the perhaps-better news is that they're currently finishing off recording/mastering/mixing their new record - their tenth studio LP in total. They've been working with Dave Eringa, who they previously joined up with on Send Away The Tigers a few years back (via XFM).»
Earlier last month we announced the headliners for the 2Poor2Pitch weekender, as curated by ourselves, Drowned in Sound dot com. It was exciting news given that we managed to secure Johnny Foreigner, Sky Larkin and Clinic, who all rank in the upper echelons of "bands we really actually quite like an awful lot" at DiS.»
A free 46-minute mix from Nathan G. Wilkins.»
The use of the term 'boutique' when describing a festival is immensely annoying. Not to mention confusing. I mean, what the hell does it really mean? What we're talking about here are the smaller festivals. The ones with no, or certainly less, sponsorship»
Though the worsening exchange rates and general economic bad times will have put some people off shelling out for flights, accommodation and perhaps overpriced booze, there's nothing to suggest that the habits of Brits abroad have significantly moved away from experiencing just that – and plenty of the good stuff, scenery, culture, good weather – whilst we continue to dot various parts of the continent and even further afield with our red faces and whining about the cost of beer. »
Hunktastic.»
Flying Lotus imprint Brainfeeder release the debut full-length record by Lorn, a 23-year-old who, surprisingly, comes not from Los Angeles, but from the "middle of nowhere" in Illinois. Since we heard 'Cherry Ghost' a little while ago, we've genuinely struggled to stop listening to it. This makes us excited for the release.»
It is Festivals Friday, and although we've got our other competition running, we thought it'd be a good idea to see if anybody wanted to win tickets for this year's Green Man Festival, which takes place in Glanusk Park, The Brecon Beacons, Wales from 20-22 August.»
Another weekly instalment in our content-themed Spotify playlist, as ever on a Friday. Featuring: The Cure, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gaggle, Stornoway, Slipknot, Slow Club, Klaxons, Cold Pumas, Rolo Tomassi and more. »
New Arcade Fire album. The Suburbs. August 2nd. »
A couple of weeks ago Nathan Williams a.k.a Wavves announced that he'd release a new album, his third LP in total and the first since last year's Wavvves - with one extra V. A much publicised and analysed breakdown since that came out, and the next one is ready. The new record is called King Of The Beach and will see release through Bella Union on August 2. »
Free download. »
Ooh-wee. A potentially fantastic way to finish off the day, as DOOM and Madlib collaboration Madlib have unveiled/revealed/unleashed a brand new cut into the wild, entitled 'Papermill'. You can listen to and download it over at Adult Swim (Via Pitchfork).»
Welcome to the 12th edition of our weekly(ish) festival news round-up, featuring the news and updated line-ups from some of the UK and Europe's best festivals, and some which aren't quite as good. Despite last week being Number 10 (twice) this week is definitely 12. I think. Anyway, off we go...»
Philadelphia's Kurt Vile was signed by Matador around this time last year, and has since released Childish Prodigy on the label. We reviewed that here. He's a productive being in general and has spent a good chunk of the last year touring, touring, touring, though he has also been finishing off his next LP for Matador, which is yet untitled. More details in the future on that one.»
You may know Karen Elson as a model. You may also know here as Jack White's wife. But she's also a recording artist in her own right and yesterday released her debut album, The Ghost Who Walks, which came out through XL Recordings. »
The last that we heard from Gang Of Four was that they were funding their new record and tour by auctioning of various pieces of memorabilia along with other 'prizes', such as a helicopter trip to and/or from Glastonbury with the band. To or from London. That new record is called Content and that's what they've been working on recently, obviously.»
We've told you about Future Islands before. Sam Breen bemoaned the overuse of reverb in their debut record In Evening Air but let's take you away from that, and give you a song which is, for want of a better term 'stripped down' and, as said elsewhere, 'nearly acoustic'.»
It's been three long years since Klaxons took the musical world by storm and some might say surprise, and those years have seen a lot of upheaval and annoying confusion over the follow-up to Myths Of The Near Future. »
MOREtechre! This electronic duo are certainly not in the practice of messing around, ambling or generally being unproductive as they've announced the release of a new LP later this year, following on from the highly acclaimed Oversteps. The new release will be called Move Of Ten and will be available through Warp and Bleep from July 12. Neat-o.»
