Japandroids  and  Chromatics  have been added to  Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 , which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes  Beach House ,  Vampire Weekend ,  Feist ,  Godspeed You! Black Emperor ,  Hot Chip ,  Sleigh Bells ,  Dirty Projectors ,  Flying Lotus ,  AraabMUZIK ,  A$AP Rocky  and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14. In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased!  Individual day tickets  are on sale now right  here , but hurry, because they're ...

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[Photos by Robert Kidd. Check out more of his excellent work [HERE]] The band Liturgy are no strangers to controversy. And given the band’s latest change in sonic direction, the Brooklyn “transcendental black metal” band can count on more of it. As with artists like Horseback, Liturgy, and particularly frontman and founder Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, refuse [...]

In perhaps the most epic triple header since Florida’s Liturgy/Sleigh Bells/Diplo shows earlier this year, it has just been announced that Grimes, Diplo, and Skrillex will be touring across Canada on a train. They won’t be coming to Seattle at all, but if you don’t mind the drive, the Full Flex Express, as they call Read more...

If you’re unfamiliar with the alchemist John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, advisor to the Virgin Queen and supposed inspiration for both Shakespeare’s Prospero and Marlowe’s Faustus, you’ll learn little of his life from this album. But that’s not really a criticism; Albarn never set out to write a conventional operatic libretto. ‘Dr Dee’ is instead a magical mood piece, a celebratory yet plaintive Elizabethan masque about a spectacular fall from favour and grace. It incorporates the structures of 16th century polyphony utilising lutes and dulcimers, the African kora and contemporary orchestration courtesy of the BBC Philharmonic ...

Recommended Show: FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 MIRACLES OF MODERN SCIENCE @ MERCURY LOUNGE 217 E. Houston Street New York, NY 10002 $10, 7:30PM There are two shows at Mercury Lounge tonight. This is the early one. You may have time to see a show later, but you might be so awed by Miracles of Modern Science 's set, that you probably won't have to. Runaway @ Le Bain Dan Friel @ The Stone Alela Diane @ Sycamore Dub Trio @ Bowery Electric The Cranberries @ Terminal 5 Christina Perri @ Webster Hall Bare Mutants & Outer Minds @ Union Pool Old Ceremony & Daniel Wayne @ Littlefield Andrew Bird ...

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 ...

I love that Markus Popp, a.k.a. Oval, is making music again. After a lengthy hiatus, Popp returned a couple years ago and has already released well over a hundred songs, spread across two full-lengths ( O , OvalDNA ) and two EPs ( Oh! , Oval/Liturgy split). His latest release is called Sophioko , a four-track EP that continues his meticulous, stuttering electronic explorations, made available for free this morning via SoundCloud. No embed, but you can stream the entire EP here . • Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com • Shitkatapult: http://www.shitkatapult.com

Occupy This Album is a fundraising project for the Occupy Wall Street movement, which will be available as a four-disc album or in a digital version on May 15. Musicians who have contributed songs include Amanda Palmer (pictured), Anti Flag, Deborah Harry, Immortal Technique, Jill Sobule, Ladytron, Lucinda Williams, Mogwai, Thee Oh Sees, Third Eye Blind, UNKLE, Yoko Ono and New Party Systems, a supergroup containing members of TV On The Radio, Liturgy and the Notekillers. The album will be avail ...

Music For Occupy are offering a preview of their new Occupy Wall Street benefit album. The Occupy movement has spread across the globe. The Clash office sits close to the site of the (former) School of Ideas, while Occupy London is well within walking distance. It's something the team pass and ponder everyday, so it's only appropriate that we flag up a new release. Music For Occupy is an American led project, with the aim of compiling a box set featuring artists sympathetic to the cause. A 78 song box set will be released later this year, with ...

Mogwai: "Earth Division" (via SoundCloud ) The organization Music for Occupy will release a compilation of music inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement on May 15. ( May 1 is the designated day of re-occupation worldwide.) The massive compilation, titled  Occupy This Album , features Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Yo La Tengo, New Party Systems (featuring members of TV on the Radio, Liturgy, and the Notekillers), Mogwai, Ladytron, Tom Morello, Debbie Harry, Thee Oh Sees, Amanda Palmer, UNKLE, Girls Against Boys, Willie Nelson, filmmaker Michael Moore (covering Bob Dylan), and more.

Liturgy at Webster Hall in February (more by Amanda Hatfield) If you've noticed a handful of interesting shows at The Stone happening next week, like the acoustic Vaura show (4/20) or the Amen Dunes and Guardian Alien show (4/17), they're...

Friday, July 13: A$AP Rocky Willis Earl Beal Big K.R.I.T. Clams Casino Dirty Projectors Feist Tim Hecker Lower Dens The Olivia Tremor Control Outer Minds Purity Ring Saturday, July 14: The Atlas Moth Atlas Sound Danny Brown Cloud Nothings Cults Flying Lotus Godspeed You! Black Emperor Grimes Hot Chip Nicolas Jaar Liturgy Lotus Plaza The Psychic Paramount Schoolboy Q Sleigh Bells Wild Flag Youth Lagoon Sunday, July 15: A Lull AraabMUZIK Beach House Chavez Dirty Beaches The Field Iceage King Krule Kendrick Lamar The Men Milk Music Thee Oh Sees Oneohtrix Point Never Real Estate Ty ...

Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi Imikuzishi [Black Truffle; 2012] by Nick RS Rating: Much of the loud music we value as forward-thinking or cool — black metal, doom, shoegaze, drone, noise — concerns itself with being ‘monolithic.’ The sound that exits the amps of sunn 0))) or Earth comes at its audience in an undifferentiated mass like hot, moist air hitting a mountain range or, I dunno, the locust swarm scene from Days of Heaven . Production choices in the more stylish strains of metal tend toward the homogenizing and bedimming, with blast beats becoming nearly indistinguishable from vocal gurgling and ...

Earlier this year organizers of the annual Pitchfork Music Festival revealed a handful of the acts scheduled to perform at Chicago’s Union Park from July 13 – 15 to an underwhelming response from music fans. Well today the full lineup has come out and it should get a better reaction thanks to the addition of many impressive bands such as Real Estate, Beach House, Cults and Atlas Sound. Here’s a look at the full lineup as it stands today… Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, Beach House, Wild Flag, Real Estate, Atlas Sound, Big ...