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Is Tropical - I'm Leaving

Fri, May 17 2013 7:06am - Source: The Four Oh Five

Intrepid London party-merchants Is Tropical are returning from a worldwide jaunt of capers, cavorting and caracoling with a spanking new LP, I'm Leaving.

Flash & Blitz: Beyoncé Live In London, By John Calvert

Mon, May 13 2013 10:58am - Source: The Quietus

Beyoncé drinks Pepsi, wears the clothes she's selling, asks us "What is seduction?"

Hoodie Allen – No Interruption

Sun, May 05 2013 10:29pm - Source: One A Day

On Friday afternoon, I had the distinct displeasure of seeing Hoodie Allen live in concert.

Coachella 2013: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wu-Tang Clan Brave Sandstorm

Mon, April 15 2013 3:31pm - Source: Rolling Stone

The first weekend of Coachella 2013 ended with an anticlimactic super bummer when the weather deteriorated into a blinding sandstorm by the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers started their headline set to close the festival yesterday.

Franka De Mille

Sun, April 07 2013 3:45pm - Source: Music-News.com

Well it looks as if we have another sub-genre to add to the list: Chamber-folk!

Swans Leader Michael Gira On Aging, Social Networking, And Life After The Seer

Tue, March 12 2013 3:40pm - Source: Stereogum

Swans founder Michael Gira isn't afraid to let songs wander around the half-hour mark.

Benoît Pioulard - Hymnal (Album Review)

Mon, March 11 2013 4:56pm - Source: Stereoboard

Benoît Pioulard, real name Thomas Meluch, has always had a penchant for music that is anything but clear cut.

Stems: Phone Tinkering, MRI Beatboxing, Ambient Journalism …

Mon, February 18 2013 7:28am - Source: Disquiet

The deadline for signing the White House petition to "Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal" is February 23.

Album of the week: Girls Names – The New Life

Fri, February 15 2013 1:18pm - Source: Nialler 9

Since their appearance in 2010, Girls Names' music has mostly taken its inspirations and palette from the fringes of rock music of the '80s and early '90s.

Fleetwood Mac: Searching For Gems Beyond The Hits

Wed, February 13 2013 9:48pm - Source: The Quietus

Danny Kirwan's lead guitar propels 'Trinity', perhaps the greatest Fleetwood Mac track consigned to an outtake, with a reckless intensity, playing like a wayward troubadour testing the limits of a new found toy.

Fleetwood Mac: Seaching For Gems Beyond The Hits

Tue, February 12 2013 12:14pm - Source: The Quietus

Fleetwood Mac have brought in 2013 with the reissue of their super-mega hit 1977 album Rumours last month and the announcement that they'll be bringing their world tour to the UK and Ireland later in the year.

Sheila Moeschen: 5 'Crimes' Perpetrated Against Women in Rock Music

Thu, February 07 2013 2:49am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Most people agreed that Beyoncé's incendiary halftime show was the highlight of Sunday's Super Bowl.

Happy Jawbone Family Band: Tastes the Broom

Wed, January 30 2013 6:26am - Source: Pitchfork Media

There's been no shortage of endearingly sloppy, blues-inflected garage rock in recent years, but Brattleboro, Vt.'s Happy Jawbone Family Band uses the template to create its own mythical world.

Black Vase: January 2013 edition

Mon, January 28 2013 7:52am - Source: The Four Oh Five

Recently I've started buying tapes again.

Talk Talk - Natural Order 1982 - 1991

Wed, January 16 2013 12:42pm - Source: Uncut.co.uk

Talk Talk have enjoyed a fractious relationship with the compilation album.

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Tue, January 08 2013 11:31am - Source: Uncut.co.uk

A recent Notes & Queries in The Guardian asked if any band had lasted as long as Hawkwind while having such little success.

From Warehouse To Web: Electronic/Dance Tracks Of 2012 & Mix

Thu, December 20 2012 9:51am - Source: The Quietus

"This is a glorious muddle," said tQ's Luke Turner in his introduction to the Quietus' albums of 2012 list, referring to the current scattered state of popular music.

Ravi Shankar: the man who took Indian music global

Wed, December 12 2012 4:43pm - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

My first encounter with Ravi Shankar came decades ago, through a much-played LP in my parent's record collection.

Scraping Genius Off The Year: Gary Suarez’s Top Fifteen Metal Albums of 2012

Tue, December 04 2012 7:10pm - Source: Metal Sucks

I've earned a bit of a reputation here at MetalSucks for raging against sacred cows and asking provocative questions.

Ani DiFranco Plays One of Her Last Gigs Before Extended Break -- Live Review

Sat, November 17 2012 8:35pm - Source: Spinner

Covering up the beginning of her pregnant belly with her acoustic guitar, Ani DiFranco paused for a moment to acknowledge the incessant squeals and running commentary shouted from various disembodied voices at the sold out Brooklyn show on Friday night.

Blank Realm: Go Easy

Fri, November 16 2012 6:31am - Source: Pitchfork Media

The music of Australian quartet Blank Realm is pretty shambling, and that's a big part of their charm.

Album Of The Week: Roc Marciano Reloaded

Tue, November 13 2012 7:15pm - Source: Stereogum

Rah Digga, the female rapper with the supremely tough and husky voice, who went on to a pretty decent solo career years after she came close to bodying Lauryn Hill on the Fugees' own "Cowboys."

LA Vampires & Maria Minerva - The Integration LP

Mon, November 12 2012 10:30am - Source: The Quietus

Imagine The Integration LP was a dub record, so the title set the collaboration somewhere, as per King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller In A Tenement Yard or Scientist Meets The Space Invaders.

Our Week In Spotify Bangers No. 3

Sun, November 11 2012 2:59pm - Source: The Quietus

With Mali once more riven by political strife and, in some areas music banned by extreme Islamists, a benefit compilation featuring Tinariwen and Quietus-favourites Tamikrest has just been released.

Ultraista's Nigel Godrich: 'Pop Doesn't Always Have to Be Crass'

Wed, November 07 2012 7:20pm - Source: Rolling Stone

"It's not my wish to be a performer in life," explains Nigel Godrich, "but this is an interesting challenge."

Andrew Loog Oldham: The Svengali who set the Stones rolling

Mon, November 05 2012 8:36am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

As the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th birthday with a blizzard of activity culminating in two shows at the O2 Arena this month, it feels as if this may finally be goodbye — the last hurrah of "the world's greatest rock & roll band".

Peter Gabriel - So (reissue)

Tue, October 30 2012 4:31pm - Source: The Quietus

We knew roughly who Peter Gabriel was in 1986, of course.

Devin Townsend Project presents The Retinal Circus

Mon, October 29 2012 2:08pm - Source: The Music Mix

It takes a mind as unhinged as Devin Townsend to pull together a three hour set spanning the majority of his output, tie it into a story (of sorts) and persuade the right people to stage it as a one-off pseudo musical.

Japandroids' 'Celebration Rock': Why Your Favorite Rock Record of the Year Won't Save Us

Fri, October 26 2012 8:10pm - Source: Spinner

This week marks the release of Jersey punks Titus Andronicus ' Local Business, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2010's massive The Monitor.

Gwar Talks "Fate or Chaos" Tour, Addition of Pustulous Maximus, Next Album, and Look Back on "Scumdogs of the Universe"

Mon, October 15 2012 7:28pm - Source: ArtistDirect

"We just packed the truck," smiles Dave Brockie a.k.a. Oderus Urungus of GWAR.

The Graduation Of Kris Van Assche

Wed, October 03 2012 8:15am - Source: ClashMusic.com

In terms of metaphors, let's forego the Greek, the mythological, the high culture and assess things in terms of the American high school movie hierarchy.

Yoko Ono / Kim Gordon / Thurston Moore: YOKOKIMTHURSTON

Fri, September 28 2012 5:36am - Source: Pitchfork Media

The most surprising thing about YOKOKIMTHURSTON is that it took until 2012 to happen.

REVIEW: David Toop's Star-Shaped Biscuit

Mon, September 24 2012 12:51pm - Source: The Quietus

Under a clear night sky, with bats flapping overhead and stars glinting in the firmament, surrounded by the ruins of a derelict building in Snape's famous Maltings, a handful of hardy but lucky souls are treated to an "opera" of such mysterious proportions it seems reductive to name it as such.

Industrial Resonance: The Roots of Industrial Music

Wed, September 19 2012 3:29pm - Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

"The abandoned motorway ran off into the haze, silver firs growing through its sections. Shivering in the cold air, Talbot looked out over the landscape of broken overpasses and crushed underpasses. The pilot walked down the slope to a rusting grader surrounded by tyres and fuel drums."

Old music: Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart

Thu, September 13 2012 2:52pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

A car key turning the ignition, a disembodied female "Hey!", and three descending sampled orchestra stabs: that was how the future sounded in 1984 on the Art of Noise's genuinely groundbreaking Close (to the Edit).

A Place to Bury Strangers Put Amps in Ovens, Take Music to Extremes on 'Worship'

Tue, September 04 2012 8:18pm - Source: Spinner

Noise and darkness are not just fun for A Place to Bury Strangers ' frontman Oliver Ackermann.

Bookshelf: Kevin J. Anderson, “Clockwork Angels”

Fri, August 31 2012 9:15pm - Source: Pop Dose

If Neil Peart didn't drop out of high school to follow his bliss as a musician, he could have easily lived a life of the mind as a college professor or travel writer.

Matthew Dear: Beams

Wed, August 22 2012 2:00pm - Source: Prefix Magazine

If we were, in 2003, to place bets on where nine years would take Matthew Dear, few if any of us would put money on the minimal techno producer putting out the best disco song of any summer.

Holy Other - Held

Tue, August 21 2012 8:47am - Source: Drowned In Sound

For my money, Holy Other 's debut EP With U was one of the finest electronic records of 2011.

Roxy Music – The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982

Tue, August 14 2012 7:26am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Roxy Music are a band who always seemed to inspire in spirit rather than in sound; as any '70s music documentary worth its salt will tell you, Roxy were punk before punk was punk.

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