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 ...

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 ...

WHAT: The boutique, family-friendlier self-answer to Field Day WHY: High quality handpicked music, plus comedy, art, magic and a food market WHEN: 3rd June WHERE: Victoria Park HOW: £35 WHO: Scritti Politti, Billy Bragg, Josh T Pearson, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad & The Lovely Posse, Beth Jeans Houghton, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Penguin Café, Marques Toliver, Noah & The Whale, Jamie N Commons, Gaz Coombes, Lianne La Havas, Stornoway, Marcus Foster

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 ...

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 ...

We recently sat down with Here We Go Magic’s passionate front man Luke Temple on his trip through Paris to talk about the formation of the Here We Go Magic project, the majestic new release A DIFFERENT SHIP, and working with Radiohead producer / “sixth member” Nigel Godrich. Having studied visual arts in Boston, Luke moved to New York City to pursue painting.  However, becoming disenchanted by the painting culture and its financial realities, he began to explore music.  Luke began performing at open mike nights on Mondays at the East Village’s Sidewalk Café, alongside the likes of Kimya ...

by Paulb • May 2012 At this point in his musically inclined career, you could probably build a small brick and mortar building devoted entirely to the catalog of James Jackson Toth. With nearly 100 releases to his name (and varied pseudonyms), Toth is one of the more prolific musicians of the last two decades. He’s recorded and released hours of solo material under his own name (as well as WAND and Wooden Wand), but he’s also played with countless bands and groups over the years and recorded and released nearly all of it. Last month saw the re-release ...

2 mai - Alabama Shakes @ Fleche d'Or ** Thomas Mery @ International ** 3 mai - Ghostpoet + Micachu @ Trabendo 4 mai - Chelsea Wolfe @ .FMR Amon Duul + Zombie Zombie @ 104 Michel Cloup @ Batofar 8 mai - Sic Alps @ Mecanique Ondulatoire 10 mai - Laura Gibson @ Cafe de la danse Holy Strays + High Wolf @ .FMR 11 mai - Terror Bird @ Espace b Sir Alice + Avant Garde + Wagner + Splash Wave @ Maroquinerie Thousand @ Espace B 13 mai - Lower Dens @ .FMR Sir Richard Bishop + Ignatz @ Les Voutes 14 mai - Fanfarlo @ Fleche d'Or Jeffrey Lewis @ .FMR 15 mai - Hunx and His Punx + James Chance @ .FMR 16 mai - Arlt @ Cafe de la danse ...

The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Festival 2012 happens all day 4/28 & 4/29 at the Lexington Ave Armory in NYC. The Klein Award is being presented to Gary Panter. The afterparty which is also a Harvey Pekar's...

This month’s Mojo magazine cover CD is a re-imagining of the Beach Boys classic Pet Sounds. A tribute to their seminal 1966 album, it features The Flaming Lips, Neil Cowley Trio, Saint Etienne, Jodie Marie, Gaz Coombes, Tim Burgess, Jeffrey Lewis with Wooden Wand, Here We Go Magic and more. Two of our favourites below [...]

Toby Goodshank made his high-profile musical debut playing acoustic guitar in The Moldy Peaches. That I already knew. He has touring extensively Stateside and abroad with artists including Jeffrey Lewis and Kimya Dawson. Well, yeah, that makes sense. That Goodshank has a prolific solo career, recording 14 albums in a five-year span - that just about blew my mind. Apparently he is prominent in the underground NYC music scene, which I of course wouldn't be privy to, but based on his background and the strength of latest record Truth Jump Fall , Id fully believe it. Anti-folk is bandied around pretty ...

The ongoing wave of folk-textured songwriting has produced more than its fair share of anaemic, dungaree-clad wannabes. Tom Williams & The Boat are not amongst them. Hailing from Tunbridge Wells, the band's music has plenty of acoustic whims but alongside this are shades of an art rock heritage. There are flecks of cult indie outsiders The Triffids on new album 'Teenage Blood', while the guitars have a crisp edge which recall elements of alt rock dons Sebadoh. More anti-folk (in the Jeffrey Lewis sense) than nu-folk, 'Teenage Blood' is due to be released on April 16th. ClashMusic have obtained an advance stream - listen to the album below and then check out a track by track guide from the band. - - - Teenage Blood This is the title track to the new album. A big country rock stomper, this track opens the album with a big ambient count in, testament to the space in which the album was recorded - a working brewery. This place served as the bands HQ in the center of the Kent country side. With a country fiddle and lilting harmonies, the track shows a more melodic & constructed approach to the songwriting on this album, as well as exhibiting newer influences, from Teenage Fanclub and Big Star, to The Band and Tom Petty. Teenage Blood was a song that came late in the process of writing the album, a project that amassed over 100 songs, with the band eventually recording 23 over a 12 day session in the Summer 2011. Teenage Blood was one of a handful of re-written or, 'Frankenstein-ed' songs that were some of the last to be recorded for the forthcoming second Tom Williams & The Boat album under the same name. Lyrically the song dwells on a sense of genetic inevitability to the woes of relationships broken and lost, and establishes a theme for the new album, the post relationship aftershock apocalypse! Too Young Another late comer to the party, Too Young was one of the last songs to be recorded for the new album. As straight forward a pop song as the band have penned to date, Too Young represents a pop sensibility and clarity, newly found on this album. Musically referencing anything from a tearful The Cure, to a Subterranean Bob Dylan, the song sees the band break free from previously exhausted folk references into a fresher sounding British guitar pop sound, more typical to the most recent material. Little Bit In Me The first song to be written for the new album, Little Bit In Me re-establishes the dark musical and lyrical content of previous Tom Williams & The Boat singles such as See My Evil and Get Older. The lyrics meander and stagger through a landscape of scarred and pitted characters, all ever present in a nightmarish gene pool that I yearn to escape from! With the violin referencing a Rolling Thunder era Dylan, and the guitar a Bends era Johnny Greenwood, Little Bit In Me is one of the more aggressive moments on the album, and is already a firm live favourite. Trouble With The Truth Trouble With The Truth was written early on in the writing of the new album. Lyrically it returns to characters from an earlier TW&TB; track Wouldn't Women Be Sweet, whilst establishing a new found darkness and righteous anger. Recorded completely live, it's one of two tracks on the album to retain the initial live vocal, and demonstrates nicely the sprawling warehouse barn space of the brewery in which the album was recorded. Lyrically deranged and menacing, the narrative centers round the escape of the protagonist from a basement leaving, 'the bodies and the bones'. The track charts the escape from a demented and ...

Jeffrey Lewis @ Space Ducks party (more by Greg Cristman) Jeffrey Lewis, who is on tour and opened for Pulp on April 11th, was added as the special guest to the Gary Lucas show happening at Joe's Pub on April...

Veteran performers and recording artists Jimmy Dillon and Lorin Rowan have been playing music for many years, and now they rejoin forces with a group of talented singers and players to form San Francisco Music Club. Their new album, titled "Love and Freedom", is a journey through the back roads of some of the great music traditions and cultures in the US, Caribbean, and Africa. The group’s official CD release party will be held at the legendary Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, California on May 5th, 2012, and will feature a myriad of guest performances by some very ...

Courtney Barnett isn’t the first person to record songs in a lounge room with some friends. And while the self-described “slacker garage pop” of her first EP has a shambling, psych-waggled continuity that makes the six songs blend into one winding road, the music isn’t the reason for sticking around. It’s Barnett’s lyrics that set her apart, right from the opening line: “I masturbated to the songs you wrote.” But she’s not going for shock value, or for naked confession. She’s more like US “anti-folk” songwriters Jeffrey Lewis and Kimya Dawson, sighing off lyrics ...