Blessed Feathers – Everglades / Turner Hall Blessed Feathers – Stinging Nettle, Honeysuckle / Turner Hall I’m so proud to be the first to share two new live videos My friends in Blessed Feathers. This was during their show opening for Youth Lagoon and Porcelain raft at Turner Hall, and it was filmed by their [...]

Underrated or overrated? New York’s Porcelain Raft does need not apply. Accompanied by some exceptional and wonderful musical tones, Mauro Remiddi relinquishes nothing – and imparts love and fantastic incredulity.

WHAT:  HoZac Blackout Fest WHEN: May 18-20 WHERE: Chicago, IL WHO:  Roky Erickson, Redd Kross, Davila 666, Human Eye, Bare Mutants, Rayon Beach, Fungi Girls, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Ketamines, White Mystery WHAT:  Electric Daisy Carnival New York WHEN: May 18-20 WHERE: East Rutherford, NJ WHO:  Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Armin Van Buuren, Tinie Tempah, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Richie Hawtin, Borgore, Art Department WHAT:  London Calling Fest WHEN: May 18-19 WHERE: Amsterdam, Netherlands WHO:  Grimes, Japandroids, Austra, King Krule, Willis Earl Beal, Porcelain Raft, Au Palais, Spector, Outfit, Trust, Evian Christ WHAT:  Piknic WHEN: May 20-September 30 (Sundays) WHERE:  Parc Jean-Drapeau ...

The eighth annual Great Escape Festival took place last weekend in Brighton, U.K., with many amazing bands gracing the local stages in the charming seaside English town. Here's a gallery of photos from the festival, including photos of Grimes, EMA, Beth Jeans Houghton, Django Django, Slow Club, When Saints Go Machine, Porcelain Raft, and others.

Nauseating splatters of discoball speckle the floors of Madame Jojo's as fairy lights add yet more glisten beyond an arsenal of elaborate equipment. 'Tis a setting as picturesque as any opaque, barely starry and scarcely black night draped over the capital although this evening's White Heat rundown is a little less idyllic. It's an odd combination of flavours and one you assume few would have the necessarily acquired taste for. For having Jana Hunter's eruditely wistful Baltimore clan Lower Dens slopped on the same plate as Porcelain Raft and Trust  is a little like the sonic ...

The 405 team was out in force for The Great Escape this year, so rather than bringing you a band-by-band account of our time in Brighton, our editors/writers have chosen their five favourite bands from the event. Who came out on top? Read on to find out... Photos by Tim Boddy James Canham Swords">Forest Swords - Tim and myself arrived partway through Swords">Forest Swords set (they started at the same time AlunaGeorge finished) to a stunned and mostly silent crowd. The two of them on stage (one at the mic, laptop and electronics and another on the bass ...

The Great Escape can be a strange beast of a festival. Year after year hundreds of bands flock to the seaside in order to grab the attention not just of the punters who've paid good money to spend a whole weekend walking from venue to venue until their feet hurt but also a whole host of industry professionals. What is undeniable though is that Thursday got off to a rotten start thanks largely in part to the weather. When you arrive at Brighton station the last thing you expect to see is mist across the countryside and drizzle but ...

As the sun sets on the third and final day of Brighton’s Great Escape Festival we offer up 10 more thoughts on the 2012 event and some of the bands that played. More musings both here and here from the previous days. 1. Established artists sometimes steal the show at 'new' music festivals Admiral Fallow is hardly a new band, just about to release their second album, but their Great Escape gig was everything you could ask for from a live music performance. Beautifully played, evocative and capable of bringing a tear to the eye. 2. Venues with low ...

Am 18. Mai erscheint das Drittwerk "A Different Ship" des amerikanischen Quartetts Here We Go Magic via Secretly Canadian. Als Vorgeschmack präsentieren sie nach dem Stream ( motor.de berichtete ) das Video zur Single "How Do I Know". Vor kurzem zeigte die Band um Sänger Luke Temple bereits ihren ersten Clip zu " Make Up Your Mind ". Die Platte der New Yorker wurde von Nigel Godrich produziert, der zuvor bereits für Künstler wie  Radiohead an den Reglern saß. Herausgekommen ist auf dem aktuellen Langspieler eine Melange aus melodiösem Elektro und Folk, der zwischen hypnotischen Synthie-Klängen sowie Lo-Fi-Akustik changiert. Die Zukunftsvision von Regisseur ...

WHAT: Up to 15,000 people, 300 bands, 30 venues WHY: It's become a one-stop shop for big names with something to prove to themselves, up and coming acts getting set for big summers and the little men fighting their corner WHEN: 10th-12th May WHERE: Across Brighton WHO: THURSDAY: Maximo Park, Friends, Niki & The Dove, Jonquil, Toy, Mystery Jets, Eugene McGuinness, Zulu Winter, Django Django, Willy Mason, Cloud Nothings, Fever Fever, Deaf Club, Jamie N Commons, Bastille, Ben Kweller, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, White Arrows, Weird Dreams, Gross Magic, Cut Ribbons, Shabazz Palaces, Sunless 97, Gemma Hayes, Tribes, Gaz ...

A wonderful study of lighting and cinematography, this live clip is more of a music video than a session.

Minneapolis' City of Music often makes performance videos that seem like actual music videos, and this recent clip of Porcelain ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media/porcelain-raft/unless-you-speak-from-your-heart-live-on-city-of-m/64959/

Founded in 2006 the raison d'être for Brighton’s Great Escape Festival is new music. Often billed as the UK’s answer to South by South West in Austin, Texas, the reality is that as an event it is far smaller in scale and therefore far less overwhelming. It’s possible to stroll round the bustling seaside city’s odd mix of historic and new architecture and not even notice the odd pockets of wristband sporting music enthusiasts navigating their way between the towns venues, pubs, clubs and bars catching the cream of not only British but worldwide emerging ...

OK Liverpool, we’ve had a sucky few months for local music. The disappointing loss of both The Masque and Mojo inspired a variety of responses from ‘this is a tragedy’ to ‘big fucking deal’, but Static Gallery’s closure hit pretty hard. No, it wasn’t the best place in the world. Yes, it could’ve done with, say, a second toilet. But as a lovingly-operated arts centre, not to mention host to some of the best damn shows this fair city has seen over the last decade, it was pretty special. And even more recently, Le Bateau – home ...