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Laura Marling adds eight more dates to run of 'immersive' London shows

Fri, May 24 2013 9:20pm - Source: NME

Laura Marling has added a further eight dates to her run of 'immersive' live shows which are set to take place in London next month.

Laura Marling to stage 'immersive' live shows with Secret Cinema

Tue, May 21 2013 9:51pm - Source: NME

Laura Marling is set to stage a series of 'immersive' live shows in London next month.

Deep Inside: Daft Punk 'Random Access Memories'

Tue, May 21 2013 3:19pm - Source: XLR8R

Hype is a necessary, though often dangerous tool for marketing music in the digital age.

The 405 meets The Ravonettes

Mon, May 20 2013 10:36am - Source: The Four Oh Five

The Queen Mother passed away, Argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt, and the nation became experts in a hitherto insignificant little bone when David Beckham broke his metatarsal.

The Scaramanga Six - Phantom Head

Thu, May 16 2013 12:09pm - Source: The Quietus

If there were any justice in the pop music world, Scaramanga Six would be in for some well deserved kudos right about now.

'Everything Is Choreography': The Knife Interviewed

Tue, May 14 2013 12:00pm - Source: The Quietus

The Knife's Shaking The Habitual show has been one of the most divisive live performances of the year.

The Knife - Live At The Roundhouse, London

Mon, May 13 2013 4:50pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

If there's one word you wouldn't use to describe The Knife , it would be "predictable".

Simon Price on The Knife: Is this a gig? A performance? Or a rubbish aerobics class?

Sat, May 11 2013 6:44pm - Source: The Independent - Music

The best claim that can be made for this show, executed with a collective called Sorkklubben, is that it "challenges preconceptions of what a concert is".

Editors' Picks: Our Favourite Albums And Tracks

Fri, May 10 2013 4:53pm - Source: The Quietus

The worst aspect of music journalism, in some respects, is its tendency to encourage lists.

In praise of the short song

Fri, May 10 2013 12:14pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

The Knife 's recent, divisive 20-minute drone track, Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realized, is a surprising development in an era when attention spans have supposedly dwindled to bulletpoint length.

Spreading The Privilege: The Knife Live In London

Fri, May 10 2013 10:23am - Source: The Quietus

The Knife's most recent album Shaking The Habitual has been a jolt for fans of their stellar but increasingly safe electronic pop.

Pro Skateboarders Don Nguyen & Justin Figueroa -- MASSIVE SKATE PARK BRAWL ... 'He's Got a Knife!'

Fri, May 10 2013 7:37am - Source: TMZ

Don't mess with pro skateboarders -- just check out this insane video shot in Illinois this weekend, showing pro boarders Don Nguyen and Justin Figueroa unleashing fists of fury on a bunch of locals ... and someone even pulls out a KNIFE.

The Knife bring new album 'Shaking The Habitual' to London

Thu, May 09 2013 2:43pm - Source: NME

The Knife brought their new album 'Shaking The Habitual' to London's Roundhouse last night (May 8).

Music review: The Knife, Roundhouse, London

Thu, May 09 2013 9:38am - Source: The Independent - Music

These are their first shows for years, long slavered-for, but reaction has been violently mixed.

The Knife: At the cutting-edge of oddness

Wed, May 08 2013 6:15am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

The stampede to visit the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A – like the veterans line-up for this year's Meltdown festival at the South Bank curated by Yoko Ono – seems to suggest that fantastically avant garde, fascinatingly alien pop stars are thin on the ground right now.

Album Review: Grandchildren – Golden Age

Wed, May 08 2013 4:33am - Source: Consequence of Sound

The title and cover art of Philadelphia six-piece Grandchildren' s sophomore LP Golden Age imply – okay, they flat out declare – a revisiting of '60s and '70s Western culture, that magically forward-thinking era you may have lamented showing up too late for while re-watching your Woodstock DVD every night between 13 and 16.

The 405 meets Young Galaxy

Thu, May 02 2013 8:18am - Source: The Four Oh Five

They acknowledge themselves that they've "grown very slowly in their six years as a band," but Canadian dream-pop band Young Galaxy are finally coming into their own as a band. 2011's Shapreshifting seemed to light a fire under them, and their new record is arguably their most confident and assured set of songs yet.

DEATH RATTLE

Tue, April 30 2013 11:12am - Source: The Recommender

There's an enormous stack of electronic pop duos around.

Festival line-up update: Reading & Leeds, Hard Rock Calling, EXIT and more

Tue, April 30 2013 11:01am - Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

Ah, festivals, what a lark. ,Well, we have that all listed and itemised below, starting with The Prodigy, who'll headline their so-called Warriors' Gathering, a festival-within-a-festival at Serbia's EXIT.

Cat Power, Grimes, Steve Mason added to Øya Festival 2013 line-up

Mon, April 29 2013 1:49pm - Source: NME

Cat Power , Grimes, Steve Mason and Phosphorescent have been added to the lineup for Øya Festival 2013.

(Ensemble Pearl) - (Ensemble Pearl)

Mon, April 29 2013 10:30am - Source: The Quietus

No wonder, as a period of musical innovation morphs into an era of refinement and recontextualisation, that a refined sense of context nudges ever closer to poll position on the starting grid of critical tools favoured by some writers.

The Knife’s Shaking the Habitual tour is “misanthropic, challenging and artful”

Sun, April 28 2013 5:42pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

The Knife returned to the stage for the first time in three years in Bremen, Germany on Friday night.

Arrows of Love - New Waves

Sat, April 27 2013 7:42am - Source: Breaking More Waves

Everything these days has to be an 'experience' doesn't it?

Films For Music: Neil Young's Human Highway Reappraised

Fri, April 26 2013 1:22pm - Source: The Quietus

December 1985, a courthouse in Los Angeles.

First headliners announced for Oxegen while Electric Picnic release discount ticket info

Mon, April 22 2013 8:41am - Source: Nialler 9

Calvin Harris, Rizzle Kicks, Jack Beats and Duke Dumont, indicating the shift.

Baths – ‘Miasma Sky’

Sat, May 25 4013 2:03pm - Source: One A Day

I interviewed Will Wiesenfeld, the guy behind Baths, once.

The Knife release an admittedly unpleasant video for ‘A Cherry On Top’

Thu, April 18 2013 3:34pm - Source: Death + Taxes

Everything about The Knife's "A Cherry On Top" is a little tough to take.

The Knife - Shaking The Habitual

Tue, April 16 2013 2:17pm - Source: The Quietus

"No habits! There are other ways to do things," read a line from the press text sent out a few weeks before the release of The Knife's first solo album since 2006's Silent Shout.

Album of the week: James Blake – Overgrown

Fri, April 12 2013 1:41pm - Source: Nialler 9

In his short time as a prolific musician, James Blake has made music that could be called post-dubstep, experimental electronica, experimental singer-songwriter, IDM balladry, remixed classic rap and R&B tracks and collaborated with Bon Iver and Trim. On his self-titled debut, Blake's soulful meditative voice was to the fore of his electronic gospel productions.

Shaking the Habitual

Thu, April 11 2013 12:51pm - Source: XLR8R

In all honesty, XLR8R doesn't really need to weigh in on whether or not the new LP by Swedish duo The Knife is any good.

Liam Gallagher promises new Beady Eye album 'Be' will have 'none of that crap from the 90s'

Wed, April 10 2013 12:23pm - Source: NME

Beady Eye have announced details of their brand new album, which will be titled 'Be'.

The Knife: 'Our new album asks, what can a protest song be today?' – watch

Wed, April 10 2013 10:23am - Source: NME

The Interview to promote the newly released album of the same title – scroll down to watch.

Watch The Knife’s 13-minute film about the creation of Shaking The Habitual

Tue, April 09 2013 6:16pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

If you're having difficulty getting deep into The Knife' s Top Star-earning new album Shaking The Habitual , you're certainly not alone.

Out This Week 4/9

Tue, April 09 2013 5:28pm - Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

To call James Blake 's second LP "greatly anticipated" may be a bit of an overstatement, but only because it's been hardly two months that we've even known that a new album would be available some time this year.

The Knife - Shaking The Habitual

Tue, April 09 2013 7:00am - Source: The Four Oh Five

In the mystery-o-meter rankings, with well over a decade of experimental and provocative electronica to their name, The Knife have long since occupied a spot alongside enigmatic and unconventional musicians and producers such as MF Doom, Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. Summarising the Swedish duo's output beyond that description is a little tougher.

Album Review: The Knife – Shaking the Habitual

Mon, April 08 2013 4:34am - Source: Consequence of Sound

Don't call it their Kid A. It owes nothing to Radiohead.

The Rockometer: Shaking the Habitual by The Knife

Sun, April 07 2013 10:12pm - Source: I ROCK CLEVELAND

Before there was EDM, our modern shorthand for electronic dance music, there was IDM, or intelligent dance music.

Album: THe Knife, Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)

Sat, April 06 2013 5:44pm - Source: The Independent - Music

In the seven years since Silent Shout , Swedish siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have ventured unfathomably far from the towering synth pop with which they made their name.

Shorties (The Best Roger Ebert Shoutouts in Rap, Literary Beers, and more)

Sat, April 06 2013 1:19pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

BuzzFeed lists the eight best Roger Ebert shoutouts in rap music.

Listen: The Knife - “A Tooth For An Eye” (Pursuit Grooves Remix)/(Cooly G Remix)

Fri, April 05 2013 4:34pm - Source: Under The Radar Magazine

With just a few days left before The Knife unleash their massively ambitious new LP Shaking the Habitual , the Swedish electronic duo have shared a pair of remixes of their lead single "A Tooth For An Eye." Matching Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's feminist advocacy the duo has tapped two female producers, with the first coming from Brooklyn's Pursuit Grooves, the second from London's Cooly G.

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