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Looking for something a bit different to do this evening? I recommend a night at Future Shorts in 4 Dame Lane tonight. Basically, you get to watch some interesting and engaging short films in a nice relaxing space and have some beers while you’re doing so.
Upcoming films include satire from Tokyo, a documentary from Cape [...]
A fresh release from the wonderfully eccentric emcee Busdriver, aka Regan Farquahar, hit the shelves today. Roadkill Overcoat (the prolific LA artists seventh release in six years!) comprises of twelve quite diverse numbers, each with their own unique individual charms. Production from Boom Bip and Nobody ensures captivating pads & melodies and solid beats [...]
Looks like The Avalanches are preparing to emerge from the studio once again. There’s a new temporary website up at theavalanches.com with free bootleg/remixes for download.
It’s been five years since the group released Since I left You and since then, two of the original members - DJ Dexter and Gordon, have left to pursue other [...]
Just a few weeks after Stones Throw dropped the free Talib Kweli / Madlib album The Liberation , we’ve get another free compilation worth downloading from the most generous label around. This time, Chrome Children 2 features all the regulars - Madlib, J. Rocc, Percee P, Aloe Blacc, Oh No alongside contributions from Four Tet, [...]
French hip-hoppers and all around mentalists, TTC released their third album 3615 a few weeks back. This is no regular hip hop album though and certainly has little in common with most people’s peception of French hip hop. It’s closer to the electro sound of Berlin’s Modeselektor who produce the album’s closer, returning the [...]
Perhaps the catchiest song I’ve heard since the start of the year (close is The Klaxons - “Golden Skans”), the ex-Ash guitarist is distancing herself further from her former band, with the release of the Behave EP and on her own label too.
Behave is an indie-pop wonder, the kind of understated song which reveals [...]
Yes, you. Do you lack discipline in finishing your songs? Are you an unemployed musician who lacks a deadline in finishing an end product? Always wanted to record an album but never got around to it? Even if you’ve only dreamt about it, I’m talking to you too. Well, there’s this thing called the [...]
Nas claimed Hip Hop is Dead with the release of his latest album last year and it sounds like RJD2 agrees. He told Pitchfork back in September “I’ve gone rap free in 2006” and he’s making good on this promise with the release of his third album The Third Hand on March 5th.
Once signed to [...]
Or Podgram, if you prefer Gruff’s term. Times Online has Gruff Rhys and Lisa Jen talking about the Candylion album and performing “Cycle of Violence”, “Lonesome Words” and the best song about driving ever bar none “Gyrru Gyrru Gyrru”.
Gruff also talks about how he wanted the Fingerbob-inspired Candylion artwork to be “a little bit [...]
If you’re wondering what the Brooklyn synth-pop trio will be like when they play Whelans next month - here’s a video of the girls performing “Dark Halls” in France on their last tour.
Awww… cute as fuck. Anyway their new album The Bird of Music is released on the 3rd of March and I’ll do a [...]
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