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 ...

WHAT: End Of The Road goes north, heads to the start of the season rather than the end and reconnects with its smaller-scale roots WHY: Because they know how to run a niche festival and have brought some of their old friends along to help out WHEN: 8th-10th June WHERE: Welbeck Abbey, near Worksop HOW: Weekend tickets £105 WHO: FRIDAY: Dirty Three, The Low Anthem, Diagrams, Peaking Lights, Austra, Django Django, Veronica Falls, Lanterns On The Lake, Dad Rocks!, Wet Nuns, SATURDAY: Andrew Bird, Gruff Rhys, David Thomas Broughton, Other Lives, Beth Jeans Houghton, The Cornshed Sisters, The Shark">Joe ...

Nick Cave’s latest foray into screenwriting has made its international premiere at Cannes. The 52-year-old singer has adapted Matt Bondurant’s novel The Wettest County in the World for the John Hillcoat-directed Lawless , which tells the story of three infamous bootlegging brothers in prohibition-era Virginia. It stars Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman and Shia LaBeouf, with an original score co-written by Cave with partner-in-crime and former Grinderman bandmate , The Dirty Three’s Warren Ellis. The film has already been dubbed a “wangster” – a mixture between a western and a gangster – much to the chagrin of its cast. But ...

The gigantic record fair  Independent Label Market  will take place this Saturday, May 19 at Old Spitalfields Market  in London. Participating labels, many of which will offer exclusive or rare releases, include Domino, Warp, R&S;, XL, Ed Banger, Bella Union, fabric, Soul Jazz, Soundway, Fat Cat, Because, Fire, Double Denim, Full Time Hobby, Lucky Number, Wichita, One Little Indian, Ninja Tune, Lex, Lanark, Sunday Best, Moshi Moshi, Fortuna Pop!, Transgressive, Rocket Girl, Sounds of Sweet Nothing, Something in Construction, Angular, and many more. Exclusive releases will be announced throughout the week at the market's Tumblr . A number of artists ...

ATP have announced that the legendary Louis Theroux will be curating the cinema on the Sunday at the forthcoming I'll Be Your Mirror event. He'll be joining Mogwai who will curate the Saturday, and the Prince Charles Cinema who will curate the Friday. Pretty incredible, right? Head here for ticket details/line-up info (which features the likes of Slayer performing Reign in Blood, Sleep, Melvins, Mogwai, Dirty Three, Codeine, Mudhoney, The Afghan Whigs) and check out the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror 2012 Mixtape below.

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 ...

The Independent Label Market: London takes place this weekend (Saturday 19th May - Spitalfields) and alongside the news that Brownswood, Buzzin’ Fly, Rocket Girl, Sounds Of Sweet Nothing, Something In Construction, New Music Club, Analogue Enhanced Digital and O. Genesis have been added to the long list of labels involved, the organisers have unveiled some of the exclusive releases you'll be fighting over on Saturday. Check them all out below, and head here for more information on the event. Because / Ed Banger Records Because / Ed Banger / Phantasy Remix 12" Vinyl Compilation Mixed by Daniel Avery (Free with any purchase from ...

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 ...

David Pajo, best known for playing in every post-___ band to be formed in the 90s and early aughts, is about to embark on a jolly ol’ tour of the British Isles under his best-known personal moniker, Papa M. He’ll probably put on his Aerial M hat to make his way across the ocean, but once properly landed back on solid ground, it’s back to being Big Papa (as he likes to be called). What’s Pajo going to play on this tour? No one knows, though don’t be surprised if he joins a different local band ...

No bank glitches + reduced capacity + decent line-up + Byron Bay + no Kanye = the fastest Splendour In The Grass sell-out in history. Forty-three minutes after going on sale this morning at 9am, all tickets for the festival – from the $135 single-day tickets to the $350 whole enchilada – have now sold out. The news will be a relief for organisers, who endured a torrid morning this time last year. A Westpac bank glitch – which affected the festival’s ticketing gateway, as well as Westpac and Westpac-affiliated debit and credit cards – lead to an unprecedented suspension of ticket sales for a 12-hour period. It ...

As anyone who has seen their inspiring live show will attest, Dirty Three are a force of nature churning out their down-home post-rock steeped in the American Gothic. While their members are spread across the globe doing various projects, Dirty Three is at it's core a Melbourne band and they...

Jacob Gosfield returns after an unexplained absence to bring us music from The Shins, The Great Lake Swimmers, Dirty Three, Yppah and the Decemberists Live. Read all responses to this article

Greetings music lovers! After weeks of speculation, the time has finally come. In 2012 SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS embarks on a new chapter in the life of Australia’s favourite winter festival. Back home at Byron Bay, from July 27 to 29 Splendour will once again transform Belongil Fields into the ultimate playground for music and arts enthusiasts. Splendour returns to Byron Bay with 3 full days of knockout talent from around the globe! And while the site will feel familiar to many, it will also include all the bells and whistles from 2011. “The show has grown over the ...

Hey! So the Splendour In The Grass line-up is out of the bag, and it’s a return to awesome line-ups with Jack White (playing a whole lot more than just his solo album), Smashing Pumpkins (!), unknown live-quantity Lana Del Rey, and the amazing Azealia Banks! Splendour exclusives offer the impeccable At The Drive-In, Bloc Party (pictured),The Kooks and Dirty Three (hopefully closing out the Grant McLennan tent one foggy night). Metric return, as do Band Of Skulls,Ladyhawke, The Afghan Whigs and ...