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Mogwai, Godspeed, Low For ATP Festivals

- Source: The Quietus

ATP have announced that Mogwai, curators of the very first Pontins event back in 2001, will be closing their very final holiday camp festival, on the second weekend of their two-part End Of An Era festival.

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Mogwai: Les Revenants

- Source: Pitchfork Media

"Les Revenants" ("the ones who came back"), a French TV program for which Mogwai provides the soundtrack, is a gorgeously subtle, harrowing drama that explores the reality of loved ones returning from the grave.

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LISTEN: Damo Suzuki's Network At Incubate

- Source: The Quietus

But also, yes, this year's Incubate Festival is in the far-flung horizon, a heaving seven-day Hercules of a festival buoying up the year, and to help you keep that in mind, here's a reminder of 2012's event, a full-length recording of Damo Suzuki's Network's first set at the festival, recorded on Friday 14 September: Suzuki started DSN ten years after he departed Can, and the group's ever-changing cast of musicians having been taking in all comers since, currently numbering around 450 members.

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INTERVIEW: Mogwai On New Soundtrack

- Source: The Quietus

This time, though, the turbulence on the other side of the Channel isn't at a football match, but something more unusual and creepy - Stuart Braithwaite explained it as "horrible, but not really horror."

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Mogwai and Balam Acab @ Webster Hall (night 1 pics)

- Source: Brooklyn Vegan

"There was an amazing quote from Andrew Eldritch from the Sisters of Mercy who said, "The best thing about never being cool is that you're never that uncool." No, I'd rather we go on with our music and people who like it, listen to it and the thought that people turn out because it's in some way relevant or trendy, is kind of depressin.' I'd rather people just, like, came and heard the music because they like it or because it kinda had some sort of emotional connection to them. I also think that when, say, like ten years ago or whenever it was, when lots of instrumental music was really trendy, people were sick of it! It got to the point where we'd bring our record and some people would be like "Oh, no. Not another one of these records!" It was like "Really?" But it's gotten to the comical point now where like I'll meet people in bands making completely different kinds of music and they'll be like "I used to be in a band that sounded like you." I'm like "Oh, god." [laughs]" [ Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai ] You already saw a set of pictures from the 6/15 show at Webster Hall , though without opener Balam Acab. Here's a set from the first of two Mogwai shows at the NYC venue, opener included.

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Mogwai - Earth Division

- Source: Drowned In Sound

In an interview with DiS published last month, Stuart Braithwaite revealed that the four tracks which make up the latest Mogwai release were recorded in the sessions for the ultra-successful, borderline chart-bothering Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. Considering the consistency and quality of that album, it could be assumed that the disparate parts assembled to form Earth Division simply weren't up to scratch.

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DiS in Australia: Splendour In The Grass 2011

- Source: Drowned In Sound

Festival season is generally fraught with tales of calamity or serious incidents (these usually include Field Day and on rare occasion, an actual Zoo Thousand) and sad postponements or cancellations – as in Offset, Beacons and Truck this year.

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Slottsfjell Festival 2011, Tonsberg, Norway

- Source: ClashMusic.com

It's hard to imagine that in only a 2-hour plane journey away from the UK's north lies a festival so remote and eclectic, so free and so friendly, so well catered for and yet so lacking in all the usual mudfest ned-infected turnoffs to be found elsewhere.

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Mogwai covers Pixies

- Source: Chromewaves

Amazon For two bands whose aesthetic can reductively be summed up as "loud QUIET loud" (or "QUIET loud QUIET"), Pixies and Mogwai don't have all that much in common.

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Is it me you're looking for?

- Source: in ALL caps

Perhaps the really provocative area for future development lies... in cyborg rock; not the wholehearted embrace of Techno's methodology, but some kind of interface between real time, hands-on playing and the use of digital effects and enhancement.

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Mogwai Interview

- Source: ClashMusic.com

Watch an interview we did with Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow on the eve of the release of their latest album, 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will'.

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Mogwai Discuss 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will'

- Source: Spinner

Possessed of a sonic ferocity that can cause as much pain as it does pleasure, their reputation as one of Britain's most creative bands is one that's likely to increase with the release of the splendidly named, 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.' Employing a newly-found sense of subtlety, Mogwai's new music is characterised by stealth as much as it is by a degree of light and shade and the result is an album that will satisfy the purist as much as the tourist.

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Foals giddy-up back to America

- Source: Chromewaves

Steve Gullick The last time Oxford's Foals were in town back in September , guitarist Jimmy Smith's constantly malfunctioning amp and pedals provided frontman Yann Philippakis with enough rage-fuel to transform a technical disaster into a seething, edge-of-violent triumph, much to the delight of the completely jam-packed Lee's Palace.

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