The sister event to the long established All Tomorrow's Parties festival, I'll Be Your Mirror returns to London's famous Alexandra Palace from Friday 25th until Sunday 27th May. Following on from last year's successful event curated by Portishead and ATP, this time around Mogwai have joined with ATP to assemble the music line-up, with a cinema programme curated by Mogwai, London's Prince Charles Cinema, Louis Theroux and ATP. The headliners on each of the three days are festival exclusives – these will be the only UK shows of 2012 for Slayer (Friday) and the specially reformed ...

There’s a band out in Melbourne named Husky. Here’s what they do: play some smooth, rootsy indie-folk. When you do such things, clearly you’re going to have some Sub Pop dreams. But what happens when Sub Pop dreams… become Sub Pop realities!? What happens is that you put out a record called Forever So through Sub Pop and give it a US release on July 10. You also let your buddies in the UK and Europe have that record a little earlier, namely May 28. And you let them have it in digital, CD, and vinyl formats ...

Welcome to the second edition of ' Behind The Art ', which has been taken over by writer Stuart Fowkes. He explores the latest work by Amon Tobin, Gunning For Tamar, Kogumaza, Sleepy Sun & more. If you have any suggestions for us, please send them to hello@thefourohfive.com . Amon Tobin – Amon Tobin (box set, Ninja Tune, released May 2012) Amon Tobin has always been an artist who takes the most meticulous care over how his music fits in with its accompanying artwork and visuals, so how do you go about developing that kind of vision as a designer? His latest release ...

ATP have announced that the legendary Louis Theroux will be curating the cinema on the Sunday at the forthcoming I'll Be Your Mirror event. He'll be joining Mogwai who will curate the Saturday, and the Prince Charles Cinema who will curate the Friday. Pretty incredible, right? Head here for ticket details/line-up info (which features the likes of Slayer performing Reign in Blood, Sleep, Melvins, Mogwai, Dirty Three, Codeine, Mudhoney, The Afghan Whigs) and check out the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror 2012 Mixtape below.

Fill your ears with metal and more by listening to this mixtape put together by the curators of this month's I'll Be Your Mirror festival Fans of South Park, as well as anyone with an interest in metal, will be familiar with the Slayer tune Raining Blood: on an episode called Die Hippie, Die it was used to drive a hippie festival from town. It's the record that kicks of this mixtape, produced by the All Tomorrow's Parties team to herald their second I'll Be Your Mirror festival in the UK. These are a new ...

Guys, let’s just face it: I’m not going to stop talking about Splendour in the Grass 2012 until Splendour 2013. I don’t have a problem with that, and you shouldn’t either, because despite all the naysayers, you and I both know that this year’s line-up is three different kinds of awesome with a cherry on [...]

Seattle's long-running (since 1971) Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival has announced the lineup for this year's event, which ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/bumbershoot-reveals-2012-lineup-includes-skrillex-/65099/

El-P and The Music of Can are the latest additions to this month’s I’ll Be Your Mirror festival, hosted and curated by Mogwai and ATP. The 25-27 May festival will boast the aforementioned Mogwai alongside Slayer performing their entire 1986 album Reign in Blood and The Afghan Whigs . 25 May will feature Slayer’s only 2012 show in the UK, along with legendary punk band The Melvins and emerging punk-rap act Death Grips . Saturday will feature Mogwai, 90s grunge band Mudhoney , among others. And Sunday will boast The Afghan Whigs playing their only UK show this year as ...

While the bigger names on any festival billing may be the ones to pique any initial intrigue, neglect to wade through any deeper recesses there may be at your own ignorance. Indeed All Tomorrow's Parties is, needless to say, an organisation rightfully revered for its dedication to carving out intricate niches within its every endeavour: from flinging the proverbial fingers at the intrinsic disappoints of every New Year's Eve with a Sonic Youth blowout to attracting an arsenal of saxophones originating from the world's every corner to Butlins, Minehead on an annual basis, as far as ATP ...

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 ...

Ho sempre adorato la voce di Norah Jones. Perché? Non so perché. Don’t know why. Ritorno al passato. Anno 2002. Dal nulla arriva questo incanto di voce vellutata. È una tizia novellina che incide per la Blue Note, storica etichetta jazz. Io non amo molto il jazz, né il jazz-pop, eppure questa Norah Jones mi strega. L’album “Come Away With Me” fa sfracelli nelle classifiche mondiali, nonostante la sua proposta non sia certo vicina al puttan-pop che va per la maggiore. A volte, cose del genere succedono. Per quanto mi riguarda, un ringraziamento per avermela fatta scoprire va ...

They’ve just been announced in the mammoth Splendour In The Grass line-up (for Sunday Jul 29), joining fellow Sub Pop-alumni (The Shins and Mudhoney, also playing SITG), but first Husky (pictured) return to local stages. The quartet’s pastoral pop heads north on their Woods tour calling into The Zoo on Thursday Apr 26, The SoundLounge on Friday Apr 27 (with Trouble With Templeton">The Trouble With Templeton) and The Woombye Hotel on Saturday Apr 28. It may be the last time to see them before they tackle the Belongil ...

Whilst the streets of EC1 may be lined with windowlickers gazing through to luminously televised football pitches, the doors of The City Arts & Music Project remain slammed shut, bolted down by electromagnets. It's a late kickoff on this side of the street and a damp wait while scuzzy Stoke Newington four-piece Fanzine "just do a verse." As per it's ludicrously warm within thus the globules and droplets of lukewarm rain soon slide from sodden facial bristle and flung out early to push both tempo and temperature is opener I Wanna Touch Your Hand. A hunk of fuzzy euphoria equally suited to this subterraneous cavern as it would seemingly be to excessively vast stadia, it's a heartwarming introduction to a show that is – albeit subtly – rather revitalising. That's not to say that Fanzine are ploughing furrows unblemished by the mechanised hand of the human; far from it. Their sonic aesthetic recalls Yuck and before them Weezer and before them Mudhoney and somewhere in amongst all that, occasionally, Fountains of Wayne. In back-to-front baseball caps, beanies and smoky lumberjack threads the imagery conjured is as infused with a glamorised Americanisation as the songs themselves although when they're as irresistibly engaging as Roman Holiday is in this swanky(ish) cesspit the Hooters tees merely serve to convincingly augment the unabashedly transatlantic vibes ...

Greetings music lovers! After weeks of speculation, the time has finally come. In 2012 SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS embarks on a new chapter in the life of Australia’s favourite winter festival. Back home at Byron Bay, from July 27 to 29 Splendour will once again transform Belongil Fields into the ultimate playground for music and arts enthusiasts. Splendour returns to Byron Bay with 3 full days of knockout talent from around the globe! And while the site will feel familiar to many, it will also include all the bells and whistles from 2011. “The show has grown over the ...

The Splendour in the Grass 2012 lineup has landed and what a lineup it is!