The Velvet Underground man will appear at London's Royal Festival Hall on August 10

Lou Reed is amongst the latest additions to the line up of this year's Meltdown festival. Held in the Southbank Centre, Meltdown is an annual celebration of the arts. Handing the keys to Antony Hegarty, this summer's instalment of the cross-discipline event promises to be something special. Judging by the latest additions to the line up, some big hitters look set to be involved. Iconic songwriter Lou Reed will be on hand, making a return visit to the UK for a one off performance at the Southbank. The two artists have a lengthy relationship. Antony Hegarty first reached ...

Lou Reed performs with his band for this year’s Meltdown, curated by his friend and collaborator Antony. Tickets on sale to Southbank Centre Members at 10am on Tuesday 29th May, and to the general public at 10am on Thursday 31st May.

Rolf Tanzius – guitars Silver – vocals Tomcat Kintgen – bass guitars Toni Pinciroli – drums  Usually I like to listen to a new album by jumping to the middle. Most bands will flood the first four tracks with the best songs and fill the back end with some filler or not so good tunes. So much to my surprise with Gun Barrel when I shot into “Diamonds And Bullets” I got a smattering of 70’s ish new wave of heavy metal mixed with modern production values. This was a great opening to this band. I was not disappointed with the rest of ...

1990: Incapacitants - Feedback of N.M.S. by Marcos Hassan on 05-23-2012 Everybody loves Merzbow. Or what the name of the noise genre would be if it was a sitcom, right? I, for one, do love the ‘bow – most of what he does anyway – but noise in Japan, and certainly noise in general, doesn’t end with Masami Akita’s oeuvre. For me, nothing beats the soundscapes of pure aural meltdown that Incapacitants conjure. The project started in Osaka as something Toshiji Mikawa would do during times Jojo Hiroshige didn’t need him for his main outlet, Hijokaidan. Fumio Kosakai ...

Dancehall star Busy Signal has been served extradition papers in Jamaica as part of an ongoing court case. The past 12 months have seen the Dancehall scene outstrip Hip Hop in terms of sheer braggadocio. Vybz Kartel was arrested on suspicion of murder, and - such is the strength of his reputation - rumours of a potential jail break sent Twitter into meltdown. Now Busy Signal has been served extradition orders. Born in Jamaica, the artist lived as a resident alien in the United States for almost a decade. Despite not having a valid US visa, Busy Signal was able to tour ...

The odd couple pairing of free jazz maestros The Thing (Mats Gustafsson on saxophone, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on double bass, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, percussion, and sampler) and dance pop maven Neneh Cherry is hitting the road to promote their forthcoming LP, The Cherry Thing , out June 18 on Smalltown Supersound! After two initial shows in Stockholm on May 17, the collaborative foursome are set to take a host of club spaces and festivals by storm. Given the band’s limited time spent together rehearsing, let alone playing together at all, they should make for pretty interesting engagements. So how ...

It’s news worthy of a siren’s song! Yes, hold on to your parasol and try to ward off the vapors: Antony and the Johnsons have announced the upcoming release of a live album titled Cut the World ! Out August 7 on Secretly Canadian, the album was recorded live in the Denmark Concert Hall in Copenhagen on September 2 & 3, 2011, and reflects Antony’s continued search of the ultimate macho aesthetic, an exploration of the importance of the Westernized male self. This recording is sure to be another benchmark on Antony’s journey through the male stereotype and ...

Artist: Enter Shikari Album: Live in London NW5 2012 EP Released: 2012 Style: Hardcore Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 56 Mb Tracklist: 01 – System Meltdown [Live] 02 – Gandhi Mate, Gandhi [Live] 03 – Destabilise Motherstep Mothersh...

The Southbank Centre in London has curated this playlist on Spotify to mark the Meltdown 2012 festival in August, curated by Antony of Antony and the Johnsons This year's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London is curated by the musician and visual artist Antony Hegarty . He first emerged from the New York underground scene with Antony and the Johnsons in 1998 and shot to prominence with the Mercury Prize-winning album I am a Bird Now . Since then, critical acclaim has followed each of his projects including the albums The Crying Light and Swanlights . And he's collaborated ...

Enter Shikari have released live EP called Live In London NW5 2012 here . Check out the track listing for the EP below by clicking “Read More.” System / Meltdown Gandhi Mate, Gandhi Destabilise Mothership Arguing With Thermometers

Cut The World , a live album by Antony and the Johnsons , is to be released August 7 on Secretly Canadian (August 6 UK). The album was recorded in Denmark on September 2nd and 3rd, 2011 at the DK Concert Hall in Copenhagen with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Tracks: Cut The World Future Feminism Cripple and the Starfish You Are My Sister Swanlights Epilepsy Is Dancing Another World Kiss My Name I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy The Rapture The Crying Light Twilight Live dates: 05/19 México City, México @ Festival de México w/ Orquesta Filarmónica de la ...

UK rockers Enter Shikari have released a free EP, entitled Live In London NW5 , and can be picked up by simply heading right here ! View the track-listing for the EP below and enjoy. Read a short message from the group and then go download Live In London NW5 for no cost at all! “Here are five tracks recorded live in London in Feb 2012. Please take them for free and enjoy them. Keep checking back to the site for more stuff soon.” Track-listing: System / Meltdown Gandhi Mate, Gandhi Destabilise Mothership Arguing With Thermometers…

Enter Shikari have released a live EP titled, "Live In London NW5 2012" as a free download, which can be found here . Track listing: System / Meltdown Gandhi Mate, Gandhi Destabilise Mothership Arguing With Thermometers

Photo by Inez & Vinoodh Antony and the Johnsons will release the live record  Cut the World  August 6 on Rough Trade  in the UK and August 7 through Secretly Canadian  in the U.S. The album is made up of symphonic versions of songs primarily from the band's four full-length studio albums, recorded last September in Copenhagen, Denmark with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. That's the cover art, above. The title track, which has not been released before, is from the stage show  The Life and Death of Marina Abramović . The track "Future Feminism", which can be heard below, features a speech made by Antony promoting a shift away from patriarchy and toward a more feminine mode of global governance. He spoke about these ideas in our recent interview about the Meltdown Festival he's curating; read it here .  Antony and the Johnsons are on tour this summer (dates after the tracklist). Cut the World : 01 Cut the World 02 Future Feminism 03 Cripple and the Starfish 04 You Are My Sister 05 Swanlights 06 Epilepsy Is Dancing 07 Another World 08 Kiss My Name 09 I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy 10 The Rapture 11 The Crying Light 12 Twilight Antony and the Johnsons: 05-19 México City, México - Festival de México with Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México 06-02 Moscow, Russia - Ahmad Tea Festival with Novaya Opera Orchestra 06-05 ...