WHAT : Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival WHEN : May 4-6 WHERE : Memphis, TN WHO : Girl Talk, My Morning Jacket, Big K.R.I.T., Jane's Addiction, Florence + the Machine, Black Lips, Wiz Khalifa, Al Green, the Cult, Lupe Fiasco, War Kids">Cold War Kids, Little Richard, more WHAT : Camden Crawl WHEN : May 4-6 WHERE : London, England  WHO : Actress, Charli XCX, Rustie, Kwes, Niki & the Dove, the Raincoats, the Cribs, the Big Pink, Veronica Falls, Loney Dear, the Futureheads, Shelly in Athens">Keep Shelly in Athens, Glasvegas, Young Man, more WHAT : Asymmetry Festival WHEN : May 3-5 WHERE : Wroclaw, Poland ...

Nah, it’s not a dream team if you just remix tracks separate from collaborative works. But, yo, there’s potential here. I mean, what a grouping that would be: Cale, Minerva, Actress, and Hecker. Holy shit. (Saw Minerva live on Sunday and it was the bee’s knees. Here is another one of her efforts live as crooner-collaborator.) What do you think? Think they should all smash together they’s music styles? It might be hot. Maybe not video hot, but audio — I don’t mind ripping my ear buds to shreds. So, yeah. Hear are some remixes. Can ...

Today's Mix/Cover/Live includes Racket">Housse de Racket, Röyksopp and Maria Minerva.

Maria Minerva and Nite Jewel’s Ramona Gonzalez are singers on similar retro-reverb roads, but in New York this week only Ms. Gonzalez seemed to have a destination in mind.

Fresh from assembling a troop of some of the underground's most promising visionaries including Actress, Maria Minerva & Tim Hecker to remix his recent Extra Playful EP for Record Store Day...

by TMT Staff • April 2012 This year marked the third installment of the New York edition of Unsound , an offshoot of the annual Kraków fest (which will have its 10th installment in October). From April 18-22 and across five different venues — BAMcinématek, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Public Assembly, Lincoln Center, and ISSUE Project Room — Unsound New York 2012 featured music that included everything from warped dub and ambient metal to bass-heavy club music and techno. This meant we were treated to the likes of TMT favorites like Hype Williams, Sun Araw, Heat Wave, Laurel Halo, Peaking Lights, Actress, Demdike Stare, and ...

On Record Store Day this past weekend, the former Velvet Underground member John Cale released Extra Playful Transitions, a 12″ EP of artists like Tim Hecker and Maria Minerva remixing his tracks. Below, download a remix of Cale’s 2011 song “Perfection” from aqueous post-techno producer Actress. John Cale – “Perfection (Actress’ Reflection Mix)” Actress’s album [...]

by Andrew Sacher London-via-Estonia's Maria Minerva made her US live debut at Glasslands last night (4/22) as part of the Unsound Fest closing party. The stage was lit up by an original video montage which included clips of highway driving,...

Actress has been busy, providing a remix for John Cale and appearing in a fashion film. For the past month or so, the ClashMusic office has been resonating to the meditative, beautiful tones of Actress' 'R.I.P.' Finally available to buy from today (April 23rd) the album is a work of rare sincerity, matching murky bass tones to clear, spirited electronics. The reclusive producer has been in demand, with John Cale recently invited Actress to provide a remix. 'Extra Playful: Transitions' was released on Record Store Day, and found the Welsh born composer being remixed by Maria Minerva, Leyland ...

Recommended Show: SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 SHELLSHAG @ SHEA STADIUM 20 Meadow St Brooklyn, NY 11206 $TBD, 8PM If Shellshag are playing a show in the City, there's a pretty good chance that we will encourage you to go. It will easily be one of the best shows you've seen in a while. John Forte @ Bowery Ballroom Celestial Shore @ Manhattan Inn Refused & Cerebral Ballzy @ Terminal 5 Maria Minerva & Napszyklat @ Glasslands Washed Out & Memoryhouse @ Highline Ballroom Cousins, Weird Rivers, & Duzheknew @ Cake Shop CFCF, Fur, Eddie Mars, & Justin Strauss @ Le Bain The Drums, Craft Spells, & Part Time @ Webster Hall Claire's ...

Double Six are releasing a pretty cool John Cale 12' tomorrow for Record Store Day, and it features remixes of tracks taken from his Extra Playful EP. The first taster of the 12" was the stunning 'Suffocation Raga for John Cale' by Tim Hecker, then we got Maria Minerva's Freaky Del Mar">Cafe Del Mar remix of 'Whaddya Mean By That' - but today we're presented with Actress' 'reflection mix' of 'Perfection. Listen to all three of them below, and join us in the queue at various record stores tomorrow when we fight our nearest and dearest to nab ...

Tomorrow, 21st April, is Record Store Day. To celebrate, we asked some of our favourite people to tell us the story behind one of their most treasured vinyl records, from Jerry Dammers (pictured) and Stewart Lee to Neneh Cherry, Aidan Moffat and Maria Minerva

Sun Araw Band at BV SXSW (more by Amanda Hatfield) Heat Wave, who is in NYC this week for the Unsound Festival for which he will participate in a 'Sun Araw vs Heat Wave' DJ set at Glasslands on Sunday...

Tim Hecker - ‘Suffocation Raga for John Cale’ Here’s a very special one  for Record Store Day. Tracks from John Cale last EP,   Extra Playful,  have been lifted and adled by collection of artists as magnificent as they are wide-ranging; namely Actress, Maria Minerva, Tim Hecker, Leyland Kirby & Alva Noto. Entitled  Extra Playful: Transitions , the record will be pressed on white vinyl with packaging d esigned by audio satorialists Satomi - tracklist below.  Unsurprisingly  Tim Hecker rinses his contribution through a static wash of white noise,  distant broken chords and glitchy nuances. Yes. It’s stunning.    Double Six will release  Extra ...

On Record Store Day (which goes down on April 21), Double Six will release Extra Playful: Transitions , an EP featuring remixes of material from art-rock elder statesman John Cale 's most recent release, last year's Extra Playful EP. The new EP features contributions from Actress , Maria Minerva , and Tim Hecker , who turns in this very Hecker-y missive of static ambient noise. Check out Maria Minerva's contribution here. Tim Hecker: "Suffocation Raga for John Cale" (via SoundCloud )