Pop im Sarg Im Booklet des Debüt von Django Django ist eine ellenlange Liste mit Bands abgedruckt, denen die Schotten danken. Am Ende der 13 Songs ihres Debüts klingen Django Django aber nicht wie die Summe ihrer Einflüsse, sondern einzigartig aufregend und aufregend einzigartig. Mehr Pop

British festivals appear and disappear quicker than X Factor contestants, but Stag and Dagger looks like it’s here to stay. Starting out five years ago as Shoreditch’s answer to the Camden Crawl, they quickly incorporated Glasgow on the tour, and the festival now feels something like an institution. The opportunity to see the most exciting new bands alongside underground heroes around the best venues in your city is a hard one to resist. The Glasgow leg opened early at the Captain’s Rest, but we saved ourselves for the ABC, where White Denim were opening. It may have ...

After a week in New Orleans and an expedition to Brighton for The Great Escape, my musical May adventures have come to an end in the UK city of Liverpool (no stranger to musical celebration with streets of Beatles related memorabilia) for the annual industry conference and festival, Liverpool Sound City. Like The Great Escape the weekend before, Liverpool Sound City takes over its city for three days and nights, with a mix of brand new, up-and-coming and established artists gracing its stages. Let's waste no time and start looking back at these artists... My Sound City kicked off ...

The stage times for this year's Field Day festival have been unveiled, and you can check them out below. Eat Your Own Ears Stage 12:00 - Eat Your Own Ears DJ 12:40 - Last Dinosaurs 13:10 - Eat Your Own Ears DJ 13:40 - Savages 14:10 - Eat Your Own Ears DJ 14:40 - POND 15:10 - Eat Your Own Ears DJ 15:40 - Liars 16:40 - Justin Spear DJ 17:10 - Andrew Bird 18:10 - Justin Spear DJ 18:40 - METRONOMY 19:40 - Huw Stephens DJ 20:20 - Beirut 21:20 - Huw Stephens DJ 21:50 - Franz Ferdinand ...

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 ...

If you're a regular reader of this blog then you know that I sometimes get obsessed with songs for no particular reason, only to forget about them a couple of weeks later. I'm currently in the blissful first phase of this process with Django Django's song 'Default', taken from their 2012 self-titled album. I may be a bit behind the hype curve with this track, which has been floating around online for ages, but I don't really care: it's a fantastically fun track and if you haven't heard it yet then you're in ...

In news that should get you going for the weekend, the East London Field Day Festival has released special playlists for each stage that'll be at the musically varied extravaganza. Each stage will have several genres of music represented with such artists as Andrew Bird , Franz Ferdinand , SBTRKT , Laurel Halo , Django Django and much more. To get you caught up on who you should expect to see and what you should expect to hear at this year's Field Day , below are links to individual Spotify playlists where you can listen to music from the acts you'll see ...

The eighth annual Great Escape Festival took place last weekend in Brighton, U.K., with many amazing bands gracing the local stages in the charming seaside English town. Here's a gallery of photos from the festival, including photos of Grimes, EMA, Beth Jeans Houghton, Django Django, Slow Club, When Saints Go Machine, Porcelain Raft, and others.

Going to Stag & Dagger in Glasgow on Saturday? You'll probably want to know who is playing, at what venue, and when then, won't you? Here's a handy dandy guide, with my favourites highlighted in  red and everything. SATURDAY 19 MAY O2 ABC1  19:15-20:00 White Denim 20:15-21:00 The Phantom Band 21:15-22:15 Django Django  O2 ABC2  18:00-18:30 Passenger 18:45-19:15 A Plastic Rose 19:30-20:00 To Kill A King 20:30-21:00 The New Piccadillys 21:30-22:15 Vigo Thieves CCA 5  19:00-19:30 Chasing Owls 20:00-20 ...

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 ...

WHAT: The hip kids of East London come out to play WHY: There may be annual grumbles about sound/food/toilets and it may have the overwhelming air of 'those sorts', plus it's the same day as the great Long Division , but that location and that bill... WHEN: 2nd June WHERE: Victoria Park HOW: £45 WHO: Mazzy Star, Liars, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Friends, Franz Ferdinand, Summer Camp, Errors, Beirut, Toy, Gold Panda, Papa M, Sleigh Bells, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Austra, Django Django, Theme Park, The Men, Grimes, Peaking Lights, Outfit, Zulu Winter, Baxter Dury, Citizens!, Revere, Metronomy, R ...

Die Hangars des ehemaligen Tempelhofer Flughafens füllen sich zusehends mit neuen spannenden Acts. Bisher haben sich mit Sigur Rós, The Killers oder Paul Kalkbrenner bereits einige Schwergewichte der Branche angemeldet. Nun erweitern unter anderem die Indie-Senkrechtstarter Of Monsters And Men mit den Songs ihres Debüts " My Head Is An Animal " das Spektrum. Mit Clock Opera und Django Django haben sich zwei weitere begehrte Newcomer angekündigt. Außerdem wird die schwedische Experimental-Popperin Jonna Lee einen exklusiven Auftritt ihres Projektes iamamiwhoami hinlegen. Vervollständigt wird die Liste der neuen Künstler durch die US-amerikanischen Rave-Fachleute Dada Life. Das aktuelle Line-up der Veranstaltung und seine Verteilung ...

The Great Escape can be a strange beast of a festival. Year after year hundreds of bands flock to the seaside in order to grab the attention not just of the punters who've paid good money to spend a whole weekend walking from venue to venue until their feet hurt but also a whole host of industry professionals. What is undeniable though is that Thursday got off to a rotten start thanks largely in part to the weather. When you arrive at Brighton station the last thing you expect to see is mist across the countryside and drizzle but ...

The organisers of Field Day have made the final additions to this year's line up. Held in Victoria Park, Field Day is one of London's most sought after one day events. Returning this summer, the festival has just confirmed the final details of its typically wide-ranging line up. Ticket holders can expect DJ sets from Amateur Best and Blackest Ever Black as well as Radio 1 host / all round music enthusiast Jen Long. Elsewhere, newcomers Novella will sit behind the decks while a set is also expected from The Haxan Cloak. Blanck Mass will bring their ambient electronics ...

Tell us which bands were best at the Brighton festival As Brighton sets about getting on with its daily business following the seventh annual Great Escape festival, here's some of our coverage from the weekend. Music Weekly podcast: Great Escape festival special We take a trip to the coast and talk to festival acts Django Django and AlunaGeorge The Great Escape festival – in pictures Including Niki & the Dove, Violet and Savages The Great Escape: highlights of the Guardian's New Band of the Day gigs Paul Lester, curator of the guardian's New Band of the Day stage, talks ...