The sister event to the long established All Tomorrow's Parties festival, I'll Be Your Mirror returns to London's famous Alexandra Palace from Friday 25th until Sunday 27th May. Following on from last year's successful event curated by Portishead and ATP, this time around Mogwai have joined with ATP to assemble the music line-up, with a cinema programme curated by Mogwai, London's Prince Charles Cinema, Louis Theroux and ATP. The headliners on each of the three days are festival exclusives – these will be the only UK shows of 2012 for Slayer (Friday) and the specially reformed ...

by Joseph Burnett With a title like Ghosts , it seems obvious that Robert Henke, best known as Monolake, has been casting a beady eye over the numerous and varied developments in the hauntology and horror noise scenes of late, from the Ghost Box guys to Demdike Stare , via Failing Lights and Burial . The... Read More

Fill your ears with metal and more by listening to this mixtape put together by the curators of this month's I'll Be Your Mirror festival Fans of South Park, as well as anyone with an interest in metal, will be familiar with the Slayer tune Raining Blood: on an episode called Die Hippie, Die it was used to drive a hippie festival from town. It's the record that kicks of this mixtape, produced by the All Tomorrow's Parties team to herald their second I'll Be Your Mirror festival in the UK. These are a new ...

On June 5 (May 28 in the UK), Miles Whittaker, the cute member of Demdike Stare — just kidding; they’re both hot! — is releasing Ascetic Ideals , his second solo release as Suum Cuique. The album, limited to 700 vinyl copies, was created in between the sessions for Demdike Stare’s Elemental ( TMT Review ) and will be released via Modern Love (not Young Americans, as previously reported). In an effort to both dedicate your life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practice extreme self-denial or self-mortification, feel free to not listen to the album. Or you can listen to the ...

Following on from last year's inconceivably wonderful, inaugural London leg of All Tomorrow's Parties' city-dwelling sibling  I'll Be Your Mirror , the show this month rolls on as Glaswegian guitar heroes Mogwai  team up with Barry Hogan & co. for what look set to be three days of aural devastation (look no further than Slayer  churning out seminal '86 LP Reign in Blood  in its entirety on the Friday) and slightly more dainty sonic delights (ATP Recordings' very own Tennis  and the Tall Firs  for instance, both playing Sunday). Taking place within Alexandra Palace atop remote north London mound, here's who we'd insistently advise on experiencing, having of course already implored the acquisition of entrance... The Afghan Whigs Who: The aspirational, stadium-styled alt. rock band it's not only OK but advised to adore, Greg Dulli's The Afghan Whigs  fly into the capital for a UK exclusive. Why: Now or never. Maybe... Irrespective, when news broke of Guided By Voices' retraction from rundown it hit pretty hard although arguably nowhere near as heartily as the soulful swagger of Gentlemen should do come Sunday. Stream below and indulge daydreams of hearing the thing resound around the salubrious environs of the Great Hall. Then dread the drudge back to reality come Monday. When: Sunday. Antoni Maiovvi Who: The latest pseudonym of barking Bristol resident Anton Maiof, expect Italo-disco propensities sprinkled with a touch of abrasion thieved from this intrepid sonic adventurer's noise rock past. Why: Depending on emotion and level of intoxication, Maiof may split off into yet another personality in the randy, rampaging, whisky-swilling and veritably Hydian 'Detective Maiovviwitz' . Something surely worth witnessing, no? When: Saturday. Codeine Who: Soporific NYC slowcore stalwarts appositely named after the narcotic never not close at hand to, nor buried in the handbag of any clandestine over-the-counter addict it's an intensely numbing pleasure to have them back. When I See The Sun –  the remastered discography – is sounding loose and yet more lucid than ever before too. Why: Absent for longer than they were ever active, this could well be the Once in a Lifetime you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with this stupefying band... When: Saturday. Death Grips Who: Acerbic Sacramento hip hoppers currently propping up the R'n'B LP chart with ingenious major label debut The Money Store , the filth-mouthed Stefan Burnett and his backup production boys are must-sees of the forthcoming estival season that stretches well beyond I'll Be Your Mirror. Why: If the record alone may pertain to such visceral raucousness then one can only recoil in horror-struck wonder [read worry] at what it may become in the Palace's darkest crevice. Forget the lethargy of DOOM's lacklustre showing of yesteryear ; this year's solitary hip hop act promises to inject some steroidal anarchy into proceedings. When: Friday. Demdike Stare Who: So-called 'hauntologists' Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty combine to compute Demdike Stare  whose brisk and bone-tingling techno obscurantism is intensely stimulating without ever overindulging nor elaborating much beyond ratchet clanks and the evoking of an ominously industrial gloaming. Why: The titanic ...

While the bigger names on any festival billing may be the ones to pique any initial intrigue, neglect to wade through any deeper recesses there may be at your own ignorance. Indeed All Tomorrow's Parties is, needless to say, an organisation rightfully revered for its dedication to carving out intricate niches within its every endeavour: from flinging the proverbial fingers at the intrinsic disappoints of every New Year's Eve with a Sonic Youth blowout to attracting an arsenal of saxophones originating from the world's every corner to Butlins, Minehead on an annual basis, as far as ATP ...

Albeit not quite approaching the sparse horrors of Demdike Stare  with whom she soon tours, Camella Lobo's latest under the guise of Tropic of Cancer , The One Left, is an irrefutably minimal work that teeters on intense genius. Penetrative twangs of guitar feature although less than a handful of notes are ever struck; Lobo's exhalations are more evocative of spectral drone than human vocal; its flat, exhausting and ultimately deflating snares sound like a vitriolic afternoon down the local butchers. The One Left is to feature as the A-side to forthcoming 12" Permissions of Love  (out May 28th ...

Miles Whitaker, better known as MLZ or as one-half of Demdike Stare and Pendle Coven , is set to release a new full-length record on Modern Love as Suum Cuique . read more

Oh lord, just when I had personally resolved the uncertain pronunciation of the “Demdike” in “Demdike Stare,” Miles Whittaker has to go and revisit his Suum Cuique project, which premiered in 2010 with the limited-edition release of an LP titled Midden . Rather than speculate on the pronunciation of this particular moniker (which, by the way, looks pretty crude if you’ve been perusing the darker side of the internet lately), let’s take a gander at its actual meaning. “Suum cuique” is the Latin equivalent of the well-known idiom “to each his own.” More recently, the idiom itself has been ...

by TMT Staff • April 2012 This year marked the third installment of the New York edition of Unsound , an offshoot of the annual Kraków fest (which will have its 10th installment in October). From April 18-22 and across five different venues — BAMcinématek, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Public Assembly, Lincoln Center, and ISSUE Project Room — Unsound New York 2012 featured music that included everything from warped dub and ambient metal to bass-heavy club music and techno. This meant we were treated to the likes of TMT favorites like Hype Williams, Sun Araw, Heat Wave, Laurel Halo, Peaking Lights, Actress, Demdike Stare, and ...

To designate the debut Twin-Hand Movement  and the follow-up Nootropics  suggests, if nothing else, a confidence in full bloom. Named after smart drugs and nutraceuticals aimed at aiding in the enhancement of intelligence, if the title suggests Jana Hunter has furthered hers through forming Lower Dens , growing into its skin and whereby surrounding herself with merchants of harmonies to haunt even the most equilibrated of minds then its contents numbering ten intimate she's furthered functions sonic as well as academic. We've already experienced so-called 'single' Brains and that sultry little number by the name of Propagation  although plucking ...

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Recommended Show: FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 LIGHTS & SAVOIR ADORE @ IRVING PLAZA 17 Irving Pl New York, NY 10003 $18, 7PM It feels pretty awesome when a band you saw at a small venue years ago is now opening up at Irving Plaza. Such is the case for Savoir Adore tonight. Woods & Mmoss @ Maxwell's Wolfgang Gartner @ Webster Hall The Greyboy Allstars @ Brooklyn Bowl Lights & Savoir Adore @ Irving Plaza Lambchop @ The Bell House (early) Chilly Gonzalez @ The Bell House (late) Andrew Jackson Jihad @ Knitting Factory Hull, Caltrop, & Family @ Saint Vitus Bar Sun Araw, Pole, & Mark McGuire @ Le Poisson Rouge Rodrigo y ...

by Andrew Frisicano Julia Holter @ Le Poisson Rouge in March (more by by Amanda Hatfield) Unsound Festival New York, the Poland-based series of avant-leaning, ambient and experimental music, kicks off five nights in NYC with two events tonight (4/18):...

Unsound Festival, the electronic music festival that first started in Poland, is happening for the third year in various locations around New York City from Wednesday, April 18 through Sunday, April 22nd. The event features performances by a diverse group electronic artists, as well as lectures, film screenings and other events that explore the giant world of non-standard electronic music. The performers include Julia Holter, Julia Kent, Jenny Hval, Demdike Stare, Sepalcure, Peaking Lights,...