Not one to rest on his laurels, Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi, is set to release the follow up to the stellar Underneath The Pine album. The release will come in the form of a five tracks recorded by Chaz over the past month and bundled into an EP entitled Freaking Out… – tracklisting

New York band The Forms are re-recording tracks from their first two albums, Icarus from 2003 and a self-titled long player from 2007; a selection of tracks are being reworked into a new EP entitled Derealization….
‘Redgun’ from their last album is now ‘Fire To The Ground’, with The National’s Matt Derninger lending his

There’s barely three weeks to go for Indiependence 2011 as the festival returns to Mitchelstown, Cork on July 29th running through to the 31st.
This year organisers are promising new on-site facilities including boutique camping, a dining tent, a cinema tent, campsite DJs and a comedy area.
There’ll be four music stages with Editors, Dan…

The Polyphonic Spree, the Dallas symphonic pop collective lead by Tim DeLaughter, are set to return with a new single.
‘Bullseye’ will be the first of a batch of songs to be released on the band’s own Good Records Recordings label, home to Tripping Daisy and Preteen Zenith (also DeLaughter).
The video for the ‘Bullseye’…

So we are all well aware that Bon Iver’s acclaimed debut, For Emma, Forever Ago…, was born out of three months of Winter seclusion in a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin, but what of the follow up?
In this short documentary, shot for Spin.com by Dan Huiting, Justin Vernon discusses recording the latest Bon Iver

Having just released his debut album, Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm… – ten folk songs showcasing an elegant and fragile vocal, simple guitar lines and delicate melodies – UK singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich will return to Ireland, playing Roisin Dubh in Galway with Fionn Regan on Sunday 17th and Upstairs in Whelan’s on Wednesday 20th.

From their origins of a media whoring comedy goth band, The Horrors have been given a chance few are afforded – to mature and develop as a band with full label support (XL Recordings, having left Loog Records in 2007). It wasn’t all style over substance, Strange House… had the retro-punk gems ‘Gloves’ and ‘Sheena

What better way to celebrate July 4th than with Bill Callahan’s ode to the U.S. of A, ‘America!’. Laced with Callahan’s characteristic irony, the song sits in the centre of his latest album Apocalypse.
The music video is preceded by the fourth episode of online variety show Friday Night Somewhere…, where presenter Cabby

Zola Jesus will follow last year’s striking Stidulum II album with Conatus. The third LP from Nika Roza Danilova was co-produced by herself and Brian Foote (Jackie-O Motherfucker, Cloudland Canyon) in Los Angeles and will released in late September via Souterrain Transmissions.
Lead single ‘Vessel’ dropped today. It follows the gothic balladry of Stridulum…

As previously reported, Beirut recorded a cover of Caetano Veloso‘s ‘O Leãozinho’ for Red Hot & Rio 2, a tribute album of late ’60s Brazilian Tropicália.
The record was compiled by The Red Hot Organization to raise funds for HIV/AIDS, the organization having previously commissioned Dark Was The Night, Red Hot & Riot…

Taken from the world’s first orchestral rap album, The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales, ‘Party In My Mind’ is a bongo-centric bust rapping blast.
The video was directed by serial Chilly-collaborator Jonathon Barré and is as hilarious as the song itself with our protagonist banging the skins and busting rhymes (sorry).
The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales… drops

Update: Stage Times are here!…
Time to get planning, the Oxegen 2011 day and stage breakdown has been unveiled.
The Main Stage is typically heavy hitting as Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters and Coldplay headline Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively, also boasting slots from My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys and Beyoncé no less, with The

Biophilia… is the latest album from the perpetually experimental Bjork. The LP is the recorded accompaniment to her latest multi-media project in which she attempts to to answer: Where do music, nature and technology meet? Or more specifically “how sound works in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic

2009 marked the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. As part of the celebrations Hotel Pro Forma, a progressive theatre production company based in Denmark, commissioned Tomorrow, In A Year…, an opera based on Darwin’s life, work and theories, under the direction of Ralf Richardt