Between the shadows, flashing lights, flying paint and glitter explosion, it’s hard to work out how famous they are but they are mostly naked – and they seem to be very much enjoying it too. Nothing too blue but enough to earn a NSFW tag.
‘The Sun’ is the latest single from New Zealand’s The…

Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum will play Whelan’s in Dublin on November 30th before going on to ATP in Minehead and London after that – dates below.
If you want a taster of what’s to come, Canadian music site Southern Souls have shared songs from his show at Trinity St. Paul’s, Toronto on August 13th…

At least 3 5 people are reported dead and dozens injured as a result of a weather storm at Pukkelpop. The storm swept through the festival only hours after the festival opened. High winds and rain caused trees to uproot, knocking down tents and stage equipment.
Pukkelpop is held in Hasselt, Belgium with an average…

A few months back Radiohead recorded a special show with Nigel Godrich as part of the From The Basement series. The session included songs from The King Of Limbs as well as ‘Staircase’ and ‘Daily Mail’.
Tracks have been leaking one by one but now the whole recording is available to watch online.
Here’s the …

Spirit of Folk festival is a new 3-day festival is set to take place in Dunderry Park, County Meath on September 23rd, 24th and 25th showcasing acts from the UK and Ireland folk scene while offering “a whole range of sounds, from chilled out folk singer-songwriters, to upbeat, expansive folk-rock, to some traditional seisún tunes”.…

In typical abstract style, last week Sigur Rós released a teaser video entitled Inni but with no other details.
The video is artful black and white shots and live footage set to an industrial turning ambient drone. As implied, Inni is a live album and film. Here’s the announcement from the band’s website.
Inni is…

The truth is you have read the bulk of this story in the headline. All we know is James Blake tweeted “24th August 2011 – James Blake & Bon Iver “Fall Creek Boys Choir”” earlier today. Well twice in fact, he tweeted the same message a few seconds before hand with the date in American…

Genero.TV is a platform for independent filmmakers interested in the music video industry. The platform was created by Mick Entwisle and Andrew Lane in 2009. It enables musical artists to showcase a song or an entire album by inviting filmmakers to compete in creating the relevant original music video. Viewers vote for their favorite video,…

As reported by Jim over at On The Record, Body & Soul have revealed the full list of acts that will play the various stages, enclaves, nooks, crannies, valleys and curious constructions at this year’s Electric Picnic – it’s like a festival within a festival.
In alphabetical order: …
Alle Farben
Andy Barlow
Angkorwat
Austra
Barley

David Lynch has announced details of his upcoming solo record LP. The album is called Crazy Clown Time… and is set for release November 8th on Sunday Best Recordings (Rob da Bank’s label) and PIAS America.
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s singer Karen O opens the record with guest vocals on ‘Pinky’s Dream’, with all 14 tracks

Veteran DJ Pete Tong has been granted a restraining order on Shara Nelson. Nelson is a former singer with Massive Attack. The voice of their breakthrough single ‘Unfinished Sympathy’, Shara sang on 10 songs from Massive Attack’s debut record Blue Lines….
In a recent hearing, Pete Tong told the magistrates that Nelson harassed him

Sigur Rós have posted a video on their website called INNI. Wiktionary tells us “inni” means “inside” in Icelandic but that doesn’t explain much about the film, which is artful black and white shots and live footage sound-tracked by an industrial drone that turns ambient.
There’s has been no noise of a new studio album,…

In a four part 12″ series, Radiohead have been releasing remixes of tracks off The King Of Limbs over the past couple of months.
Remixes by Caribou, Four Tet, Nathan Fake, Lone, Jamie xx, SBTRKT and more, have been collated into a double album called TKOL RMX 1234567.
TKOL RMX 1234567… will be released

An unlikely choice for video game sountracking, The National’s ‘Exile, Vilify’ provided music to Portal 2, “a first-person puzzle-platform video game” developed and published by Valve Corporation.
Valve Corporation held a competition for the best fan made video to the song. The band helped pick the winner, and a very close second – 1.00000000001th to…