It's not a new complaint, but a particularly frustrating aspect of the always-evolving electronic-music spectrum is how quickly trends can be started, initially used for good, repeated across the board by legions of copycats, and eventually become hopelessly overworked. The pace of this disheartening process has only quickened over the years, but, alas, there are always names ready to carry the torch and push the envelope just enough to find fresh, new ground. San Gabriel , the solo project of Pit Er Pat co-founder Butchy Fuego (who has also served as a notable drummer/studio man for the likes of ...

Following the release of her recent album Ekstasis and in advance of her appearance at Field Day on 2nd June, Adam Bychawski catches Julia Holter out-and-about on the phone in LA, and talks capturing the essence of environment

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 ...

gerade mal 19 jahre alt ist die aus dem schottischen carrbridge stammende sängerin, ihre letzte ep "black currents" erschien bereits im januar, muss hier aber noch erwähnung finden, bevor mit "eggshells" dieser tage (21.05.) eine neue single erscheint: rachel sermanni : the fog by rachel sermanni breathe easy by rachel sermanni ihre april tour hat sie leider nicht zu uns geführt, da stand nur das uk auf dem plan, aber dennoch ist die erwähnung hier nicht ohne hintergrund, denn die anfang april erschienene "obituaries ep" ist aller ehren wert: laish : obituaries by laishmusic der kopf der mercury rev benannten band ...

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 ...

The L.A.-to-Berlin experimental label  Human Ear Music  has released an 18-track compilation of previously unreleased live recordings from 2006-2010, as Dummy reports. These tracks are culled from HEM-curated events and feature a mix of avant icons and younger artists, including  Morton Feldman ,  William Basinski ,  Linda Perhacs ,  Ariel Pink , Julia Holter , Gary Wilson , Geneva Jacuzzi (as Bubonic Plague), and more. The archives highlight a 2009 collaboration between Julia Holter, Nite Jewel, and Godiva Green on Holter's track "Goddess Eyes" off  Tragedy . ("Goddess Eyes II" made it onto her recent album  Ekstasis .) Last year, HEM posted another collaboration between ...

Listening to Julia Holter discuss music school, you sense mild survivor’s trauma. “A typical piece I would hear there would be, like, ‘I’m writing a string quartet, and there’s a salsa rhythm in the middle, … read more »

È complicato l’universo di Julia Holter. Lei è californiana, eppure la sua musica ricorda… Julia Holter – Ekstasis pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Rockin’ college town(s) Champaign-Urbana, Illinois has/have a lot to be proud of. They’re home to a major university, were named one of the Top 25 Green Cities in the US, and spawned (or served as home base for) such notables as Roger Ebert, Ang Lee, David Foster Wallace and… Ludacris. (I love Ludacris.) So it’s easy to see how the cities’ Pygmalion Music Festival got its name — I mean, who’s to blame a place for falling in love with the supercool music festival it built with its own hardworking hands? Because for eight years, Pygmalion ...

Photo by  Colin Kerrigan In conversation with  SPIN , Ariel Pink revealed some details about his as-yet-untitled upcoming LP with Haunted Graffiti , tentatively scheduled for release in late August via 4AD . The album, recorded in the band's native Los Angeles, has been in the works for the past six months, and is their followup to 2010's  Before Today . Pink told SPIN : Sonically, it's comparable... There are definitely not any links to my lo-fi origins. It's so diverse but so different from anything I've done before. In a sense, it's really the record I wanted to ...

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Although Sacramento's finest punk rap outfit may no longer be penned garishly into this year's Field Day  billing (all Death Grips dates are off as they conclude their second Epic LP of 2012 ), it regardless remains one of the forthcoming estival season's finest. Having proffered our subjective highlights on this month's I'll Be Your Mirror , here be our Fest Bests for Field Day, June 2nd... Blanck Mass Who: Benjamin John Power, the one of two Fuck Buttons seamsters now threading the glitchy, swelling glories of  Tarot Sport  into this swell solo project by the moniker ...

alabama shakes : lee's palace, ontario, canada (april 17, 2012) julia holter : le poisson rouge, n.y.c. (2012) laura gibson : epitonic saki session 2012 lower dens : s.x.s.w. 2012 raincoats, the : london acklam hall (may 10, 1979) wild flag : coachella 2012