“Hang” significa “mano” en idioma bernés. En el hang confluyen el gong, el gamelan, el steelpan y el ghatam. Lo cierto es que no, nuestra última pretensión es querer despistar a los lectores, así que mejor que comprueben por sí mismos de qué estamos hablando.  Felix Rohner y Sabina Schärer, crearon este instrumento en el [...]

This is gonna seriously piss of some Slayer fans. Dave Lombardo is without question the greatest drummer in metal today and has been for a few decades now. But he's also no stranger to playing outside of the metal realm, whether it's with Fantomas, John Zorn or bashing his way through Vivaldi's Four Seasons. His new trio PHILM not really like anything like he's done before. He's stripped down his massive kit to a small 4 piece (but thankfully has kept the gong) and plays a more restrained style in this psychedelic trio. Note I ...

Looking for something fun and worthwhile to spend your money on for Bank Holiday Monday on the 4th of June? Then consider FestiFeel, an all-day festival for charity taking place at London’s Queen of Hoxton that will be featuring an all-star line-up curated by 2012 Sony broadcasting gong winner and Radio1 presenter Fearne Cotton. All proceeds from ticket sales to this even will go towards CoppaFeel!, a campaign to encourage women to do self-examinations to... Continue reading WIN / Tickets to FestiFeel 2012 (one-day charity music festival event for CoppaFeel!)

Watch ‘Eg Anda’ below. Catch Sigur Ros on their North American tour. MP3: Sigur Ros – Gong

This is bonkers, and without doubt one of the best in this series so far… a wonderfully surreal jig-a-thon of chopped source materials… a peculiar beast, of bent, filtered and thoroughly jittery phonics… The tubey brain fodder of the first track Dilligence is a Fish a mischievous play of percussive cut ins, a wash with Max Headroom automata and channel flipping distractions... It sets the benchmark for the tracks that follow in a tight klankenhaus of loopage... giving you a bad head day of circular-sawed trapeze... that ends in glistening gong molestations… Next up Eruption of the 106 , quickly fills ...

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J Dilla | Official | Foundation                                                         The Rebirth of Detroit is super official with LP art work a trailer a single and the launch of the Official J Dilla website along with the J Dilla Foundation website Ma Dukes is gong in. (You can see where Dilla got that amazing work ethic) Plus the new LP is gonna be the first  release from the new label Ruff Draft Records named after the classic EP. Stay connected to the Official J Dilla website for news photos videos t-shirts and other cool merch and the J Dilla Foundation to do your part to keep ...

Exclusive: The Washington D.C.-area emcee explains about the oppressed Falun Gong practitioners, and his new album with Swedish producer Direction made in solidarity.

Imagine you have a film with a cast of established international names like John Cusack, Chow Yun-fat, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Franka Potente, Gong Li, David Morse and Ken Watanabe, a director who’s done some respectable work on Hollywood thrillers like "Derailed" and “1408,” a ‘40s period setting, and the prestige of producer Harvey Weinstein to boot. Sounds like Oscar fodder at the very least, right? The thing is, you don’t have to imagine, because this film exists, it's called "Shanghai," and it's been sitting on Weinstein’s shelf for almost four years since it wrapped in ...

Mark Lanegan has recorded four stripped down live tracks for the ongoing 4AD Sessions. Mark Lanegan's return was worth celebrating. A renowned songwriter and vocalist, the American artist threw himself into 'Blues Funeral' resulting in one of the finest full length statements of his solo career. Announcing a series of North American shows, Mark Lanegan recently interrupted rehearsals to visit Pull Studios in Manhattan's Hudson Square. The thirteenth instalment of the 4AD Sessions, the singer performed four tracks from 'Blues Funeral'. Directed by Robert Semmer, Mark Lanegan opens with 'The Gravedigger's Song' before running through three cuts ...

Following the release of Blues Funeral back in February, Mark Lanegan Band have recorded four songs for the thirteenth installment in the 4AD Sessions series. Pull Studios in Manhattan's Hudson Square played understated host to a session that leans heavily on Mark's indelible voice and undeniable presence, as well as the intensity and precision of his band. Filmed during a break in rehearsals for a New York City show that was to herald the release of the album, the session captures a band fully sharpened and itching to hit the road (US dates begin May 10 and are ...

*Matt Mottel* and *Kevin Shea*'s official statement: ---Quote--- "GONG ACCIDENT LEADS TO RAP ALBUM: If you went to rap school, you wasted your money. *Talibam!*’s #noschoolrap is the result of circumstance. They never studied old or new school rap. Rap found them. In 2009, a falling gong broke...

As dubstep continues to assimilate all forms of electronic music into one Borg-like monolith, it was inevitable that the trail would lead back to the Jamaican dub roots of all things low end. Leave it to the scene's biggest star, Skrillex , to make the bold move of teaming up with Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley to produce the newest single by the reggae scion, who has already proven his ability to jump genres by collaborating with everyone from Nas to Bobby Brown and Gwen Stefani. Read more on Beatportal

Everyone knew this was eventually coming, right?! If some of you thought you could keep on escaping tUnE-yArDs and go the rest of your natural life without listening to them, you were dead wrong. The fact of the matter is that the hype is all true and this band is amazing. So, let’s all give in and give our souls over to w h o k i l l (this band’s penchant for stylization is a typing nightmare haha) Chances are tUnE-yArDs is going to take good care of our souls. Actually, I know they will! tUnE-yArDs is ...

OK Liverpool, we’ve had a sucky few months for local music. The disappointing loss of both The Masque and Mojo inspired a variety of responses from ‘this is a tragedy’ to ‘big fucking deal’, but Static Gallery’s closure hit pretty hard. No, it wasn’t the best place in the world. Yes, it could’ve done with, say, a second toilet. But as a lovingly-operated arts centre, not to mention host to some of the best damn shows this fair city has seen over the last decade, it was pretty special. And even more recently, Le Bateau – home ...