Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia continue their build up to September with a further round of artists spanning the head music cosmos. Californian beatniks Allah-Las visit the festival in support of their sensational second LP, Worship The Sun, which drops in September and expands on their fusion of West Coast garage rock and roll, Latin […]
After the release of 2012’s Circles LP, Moon Duo’s Sanae Yamada and Ripley Johnson relocated the band for the second time since its 2009 formation in San Francisco, this time from Blue River, Colorado to Portland, Oregon. Though the band had been initially conceived as an experiment in maximal sonic possibilities with minimal personnel and […]
Wherever we go, birds are all around us. But in our busy everyday lives most of us fail to notice the rich variety of species. Bird crazed Danish act Dans & Lær (translates to “dance & learn”) have set out to change this in their very own way. Their unique combination of dusty old wildlife […]
Sticking his hand deeper into the machines all around him, Ty is reaching ever further to the outer limits of inner space orbited throughout Twins and Sleeper. And now more than ever, the chunks of the world that came before are like asteroids formed in his image, picking up speed. Still fighting the power with […]
alt-J will release their second album ‘This Is All Yours’ in September which is coincided by a full UK tour including two dates at Manchester O2 Apollo. ‘This Is All Yours’ is the highly anticipated follow-up to their million-selling Mercury Prize-winning debut record, An Awesome Wave. It’s available to pre-order in the UK immediately; the […]
After a whirlwind year touring Europe with WIRE, completing a UK and EU headline tour of their own, as well as smashing SXSW on the dusty, drunken streets of Texas, Chichester based three-piece TRAAMS return rejuvenated and bloodthirsty with their first release of 2014 ‘Cissa’. Their debut album ‘Grin’, produced by fuzz loving tastemaker Rory […]
Mute have announced the release of Plastikman’s new album, EX, his first album release since 2003’s Closer. Plastikman, aka Richie Hawtin recorded EX at the Guggenheim, New York’s iconic art museum. This very special performance was at the invitation of influential Belgium fashion designer and artistic director at Dior, Raf Simons, for the Guggenheim’s annual fundraiser, […]
Mark Barrott has shared a new video from his new album, Sketches From An Island. ‘Island Life’ is one of the more trippy, spacier numbers from the LP, and has been paired with Super 8 foortage depicting religious life, tribal life, island life, and dancing. Recorded in the island’s northern hills using “weird percussion, some […]
Guardian Alien, led by drummer Greg Fox, are an integral part of a new wave of New York avant-garde musicians. Taking inspiration from those that came before, such as Milford Graves (with whom Fox has studied), and the great minimalist composer Rhys Chatham, Guardian Alien rejects previously established forms while selectively contorting elements of many into a […]
The waste campaign group, Love Your Tent and Buckinghamshire New University are making a call to festivals organisers and retailers alike to end the shocking wasteland culture at festival campsites. This call follows the publication of a Bucks New University survey – on behalf of Love Your Tent – into festival-attendees behaviour and attitudes, which highlights the […]