Charlotte Gainsbourg and Connan Mockasin have confirmed a show at London's Somerset House on Thursday 19th July. Continue reading →

Charlotte Gainsbourg is set to play a special show at Somerset House on July 19th. Every summer, Somerset House throws open its doors to usher in a series of live concerts. This year will prove to be no exception, with organisers lining up a number of one off shows from a broad range of artists. Charlotte Gainsbourg is the latest addition to the line up. The French singer is set to perform in the confines of Somerset House on July 19th, following on from the acclaim lavished upon her double album 'Stage Whisper'. Released earlier this year, the double disc ...

French singer to play one-off show in London this summer.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is the latest name to be announce for the Summer Series at Somerset House , which already includes the likes of Katy B and M83. Gainsbourg will be performing tracks from her curent album Stage Whisper , as well as her back-catalogue (with help from Connan Mockasin). July 07 Tim Minchin (Sold Out) July 08 Katy B July 09 Jill Scott July 10 Jill Scott July 11 The Temper Trap (Sold Out) July 12 Anna Calvi July 13 The Enemy July 14 Dj Abrantee Presents Afrobeats Featuring Olu Maintain, Capo Snoop, Atumpan, May7ven And Vibe Squad July 15 Tindersticks July ...

Sunshiney New Zealand crooner Lawrence Arabia is back with a third album of 60s-influenced pop on Bella Union. The Sparrow is the follow-up to 2009’s Chant Darling , which won the hearts of even the most charcoal-souled critics and put the fellow who toured as Okkervil River’s bassist and supported Feist on a jaunt or two front and center. Of course, James Milne (as Lawrence Arabia’s birth certificate calls him) has been doing the music thing for nearly a decade, so he knows his way around a stage, having been a member of both The Brunettes and Ruby ...

Hamburg calling - wieder einmal erweitert das MS Dockville seinen Timetable mit neuen Künstlern. Zuletzt vergrößerte sich das vielfältige Line-up bereits in Form der Pop-Newcomer Me And My Drummer, sowie des britischen Indietronic-Trios We Have Band ( motor.de berichtete ). Auch der neue Bandschwall zeigt eine große Bandbreite an Musikstilen. Für den hanseatischen Singer/Songwriter-Charme sorgt Niels Frevert mit seinem aktuellen Langspieler "Zettel Auf Dem Boden" im Gepäck. Daneben bringt der geheimnisvolle, maskierte Elektronik-Künstler o F F Love die Tanzmeute zum Kochen. Außerdem zeigen Boy & Bear mit ihrer Mischung aus rollenden Drums, krächzenden Gitarren und schwärmerischen Melodien weshalb sämtliche Konzerte von ihnen ...

Music is at the heart of every and anything Parisian imprint A.P.C. does, which makes their latest Band T-Shirts that much more appropriate. Working hand in hand with bands like Veronica Falls, The Rapture, Paradis and Connan Mockasin, the collection is truly a collaboration as each musical faction had a huge part in the design [...] Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast.com

For our 100th Best Fit Session, the French singer and actress teams up with our favourite Kiwi psych merchant.

What: The Sparrow by Lawrence Arabia. When: July 13 through Spunk!. Key notes: Third solo album for New Zealand songwriter James Milne, following Chant Darling , which won the Taite Music Prize (New Zealand’s equivalent of the Australian Music Prize) in 2010. Written mostly “in borrowed lounge rooms and rehearsal spaces” over a summer in London. Recorded live in October 2010 at a large house in Surrey, England, with Elroy Finn and Connan Mockasin. Strings and horn overdubs were added during 2011 in a couple of sessions at Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios in Auckland. From the presser: “Venturing away ...

“Cool” – or at least the hollow approximation of it – has risen inexorably up London’s Kingsland Road and festered ungainly around Dalston for what seems like an eternity. A grubbily disordered wonderland that serves as a byword for “au courant”, it’s a place where you could likely find yourself watching a gauche indie troupe, a surrealist live art collective and a woman smashing pint glasses into a microphone in the name of “art” within the same evening. The multi-venue extravaganza Land of Kings attempts to accumulate such varied curios across a two-day stretch. Crotchless high-visibility leggings and designer drugs ...

Bank holiday weekend dawns and it’s off to a Baltic Dalston for the optimistically-named Land of Kings festival. First stop on our stumble through the grimy kingdom of cool is the cavernous Magnolia for some fortifying Desperados, trippy projections and experimental electronica from the Public Information DJs. From thence we make our way back down Kingsland Road to the Eastern Curve Garden where Clash has decided to sock one in the eye to the British weather and hold a May day fete and reggae party, temperature be damned. We’ve sadly missed the maypole dancing, but we do arrive ...

Lawrence Arabia has finally announced he'll be releasing the follow up to Chant Darling this July. The album, titled The Sparrow , will be released via Bella Union on July 16th. The album was recorded in late 2011 in Surrey with Elroy Finn and Connan Mockasin. Watch the trailer for the album below, which showcases the album artwork too.

OFF Festival has expanded its line up once again, with Metronomy, The Antlers and more being added. Held in Poland, OFF has rapidly developed a reputation for producing left field bills of an extremely high standard. Mixing experimental music with some tasteful mainstream fare, the Polish event recently expanded its bill yet again. Amongst the latest additions are Joe Mount's Mercury nominated collective Metronomy. Since the release of 'The English Riviera' the band have spent considerable time on the road, honing their live set in the process. Clad with those distinctive lamps on their chest, Metronomy are set to ...

Metronomy and The Antlers have been added to Poland’s Off Festival , joining the likes of Iggy and the Stooges, Kurt Vile and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins. The award winning “best mid sized” festival takes place in Krakowice over the weekend 3rd – 5th August and tickets are still available ( here ) starting from around 50 euros. Other names added in this latest announcement include High Places and Andy Scott as well as Bardo Pond Apteka and Beneficjenci Slendoru. Unfortunately the band Swietliki will no longer be playing the festival. Full line up so far: Africa HiTech, AfroKolektyw, Akron/Family, Alva Noto ...

Einmal mehr versüßt uns das Hamburger MS Dockville das Wochenende und macht mit neuen Bestätigungen Lust auf den Open Air-Sommer. Zuletzt erweiterte sich das vielfältige Line-up bereits in Form von Deutsch-Rapper Marsimoto, sowie den norwegischen Indie-Rock-Newcomern Team Me ( motor.de berichtete ). Auch beim neuen Bandschwall wird Abwechslung geboten. Me And My Drummer, die Newcomer vom deutschen Label Sinnbus, beehren die Bühnen mit Songs ihres demnächst erscheinenden Debüt-Albums. Selbiges haben die australischen Newcomer The Jezabels, welche ebenfalls neu bestätigt wurden, bereits kürzlich unter dem Namen " Prisoner " veröffentlicht. Und selbst das britische Indietronic-Trio We Have Band schließt sich dem munteren Reigen an ...