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MELBOURNE’S Floodlights, the next wave of great Australian indie guitar bands who’ve just released their debut album, From A View, via the joint offices of Woo Me! and Spunk Records, will be appearing in a live stream session for Rough Trade tonight, Wednesday, September 9th, at 6pm British Summer Time. If they’re a new name …

YOUR favourite Orcadian psychogeographer and acclaimed forger of musical atmospheres, Erland Cooper, is to give a special performance at London’s Barbican on Saturday, October 10th. The event, designed for live broadcast, is part of the autumn Live from the Barbican series: a dozen events which will also feature Nubya Garcia, Richard Dawson, The Divine Comedy …

NOW that’s a brilliant turn-up for the books as summer sadly wanes; Spiers & Boden, the folk duo of John and Jon who announced they were splitting up back in 2014, have made an unexpected return; and they’re performing tonight, August 31st, as part of the ‘Folk on Foot’ all-day celebrations. The pair said: “Well, …

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, the massive voice behind such The Walkmen hits as “The Rat” and “In The New Year”, has announced a new album – a live set – and to go alongside, a live stream launch party from Woodstock. He said: “I didn’t realize at the time that the five shows I played in January …

TANYA DONELLY, who’s forged a career of alt.pop brilliance through Throwing Muses, Belly and just as Tanya herself, is set to release a seductive LP of close-harmony bluegrass covers with the Parkington Sisters tomorrow, August 14th called simply Tanya Donnelly and the Parkington Sisters. Listen below to the gorgeous harmonising, the simple, heart-stealing beauty of …

YORKSHIRE’S shoegaze princes-in-waiting, bdrmm, who have a rather lovely debut LP under their belts for Sonic Cathedral in the shape of this summer’s Bedroom (stop by and read our review, then proceed forthwith to Sonic Cathedral to get thee a copy), are to live-stream a free show tonight, August 11th. The show will be relayed …

A CERTAIN RATIO have shared a new track, “Yo Yo Gi”, from their eagerly anticipated new album, ACR Loco – and it comes with a dazzling video; watch below. Culled and edited with visual distortion and colour casting from rapid transit systems, railway interchanges, road junctions, flickering at speed through timelapse, it’s a dizzyingly urban …

AT 4.15AM Japanese time on August 6th, 1945, the world changed forever. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, of the USAF 393d Bombardment Squadron and named after the pilot Colonel Paul W Tibbet’s mother, operating under call sign Dimples 82, arrived over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and discharged the world’s first atomic strike. An …

THEY’VE been quietly releasing a track a day all week over on their Bandcamp page; and today Hoboken’s finest, Yo La Tengo, have gathered all five together for the first time as a downloadable EP, We Have Amnesia Sometimes. A physical release will follow later. But not only that: this weekend Georgia, James and Ira …

HOT on the heels of Nick Cave’s live stream from Ally Pally, announced yesterday, comes news from Iceland: Björk is to stream three matinee performances from Reykjavík’s Harpa Hall, to take place on August 9th, 15th and 23rd. The event, which has been put together with Iceland Airwaves, intends to  raise money for a domestic …