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News: Tramlines Announces New Acts
Summer is coming. It won’t be long until we can sit outside in beer gardens with our favourite tipple. And you know what else goes hand in hand with the summer? Festivals! Sheffield is blessed with one of the most interesting in the summer line up. In past years we have boasted hugely eclectic line-up, …
News: LUH release details of new album, watch album trailer here plus UK/European dates
LUH, or Lost Under Heaven as it stands for, are Amsterdam based duo Ellery Roberts, better known as frontman of WU LYF and audio visual artist Ebony Hoorn. Over the past two years they’ve been releasing all manner of art, music, photography, film and more, including the rather beautiful ‘Lost Under Heaven’ music and accompanying …
NEWS: Independent label Tympanik Audio comes to an end
Tympanik Audio the independent electronic music label with the slogan “Electronic music for the rest of us” has apparently come to an end according to a short Facebook post on the labels page yesterday and with it one of the most interesting independent labels in music disappears. The Chicago based label ,started in 2007 by …
News: Bureau B to release Box-Set “Cluster 1971-1981” in April
Influential German label Bureau B are to release a 9-album box set on both vinyl and Cd charting the career of groundbreaking electronic band Cluster. Originally called Kluster, the trio – Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two albums, before Roedelius and Moebius continued as a duo, replacing the K with a C. …
Win: Tickets to Dream Koala at Birthdays, Dalston 4.3.16
The ethereal beauty of French-Brazilian singer-songwriter/producer Yndi Ferreira, better known by his sept age name ‘Dream Koala’is coming to Birthdays in Dalston for a no doubt dreamy set on March 4th next year, and we have been given a couple of tickets to give away courtesy of those brilliant people over at Soundcrash. This year …
News: Tortoise announce new album, plus Vinyl reissues and new video
Seems there’s a burst of activity in the camp of Chicago quintet Tortoise, with the news that the band will be releasing a new album, titled ‘The Catastrophist’ and out on January 22nd next year via their label, the brilliant Thrill Jockey. They’ve garnered the support of friends such as Maple/Dead Rider’s Todd Rittman who …
Track: Yip Deceiver – Red Line, plus UK tour dates
Yip Deceiver revel in some funky synth-pop with their new single Red Line. The Georgia-based “two man boy band” have a new EP titled YPD coming out on 6 November (via New West Records) and this is the lead single, which “mutates Davey and Dobby from an indie-dance duo into rock ‘n’ roll aliens. Embracing …
Tour News: Prides announce Autumn 2015 UK tour dates
If you haven’t heard of Prides by now then I’d have to wonder what kind of rock you’ve been living under. The synth-pop band released their debut album The Way Back Up in July, reaching #24 in the UK album charts, then headed out to T in the Park, Belladrum, and Reading and Leeds festivals …
News: Susumu Yokota dead at 54
Prolific Japanese composer/producer Susumu Yokata passed away earlier in the year, his family have announced. Yokota, who also released albums under aliases such as Ebi and Prism as well as his own name, came to prominence with releases on Germany’s Harthouse label, before moving onto the likes of Lo Recordings and Leaf, where his path …
News:Second ‘Beat:Cancer’ LIVE event set for November 2015
Fans of darker and harder sounds might want to clear their calendar for November as Beat:Cancer LIVE puts on a night of Industrial EBM Noise to remember in Manchester and London. Taking place Friday 13th November at Zoo in Manchester and Slimelight in London Saturday 14th November the night is set to feature a host …