A collection of 4AD  music and artwork is being auctioned on eBay  to raise money for  Natasha Laflin , a British artist and illustrator who suffered a near fatal bain aneurysm in 2008. Funds will go towards helping Laflin move from a care-home back in with her family. Read more about her life here . The auction items include a Grimes cassette single, a test-pressing of the reissue of Dead Can Dance's 1988 record  The Serpent's Egg , a 2009 Japanese label sampler CD featuring selections curated by various 4AD artists, a vinyl compilation of 4AD Session performances, and a book ...

Read the first part of Kris Needs' Fifty Outsiders, a departure point for your own investigation into outsider artists. 1. SUN RA Claiming to come from Saturn, Sun Ra was an outsider all his life, whether experiencing abhorrent racism growing up in Alabama to fearlessly reconstructing jazz, pioneering the modern independent label releasing (literally) countless albums on his El Saturn imprint. Ra left this planet in 1993 but is increasingly hailed as one of the last century‘s greatest musicians and composers. 2. MOONDOG Through the 1950s and ’60s, blind New York street legend Louis Thomas Hardin, AKA Moondog, ’The ...

Buttonhead , a rampaging rainbow of noise-pop with a penchant for polymesmeric song structures and fractured melodies, is a multi-headed beast with one shivering b’glittered body; comprising Ross Blake, Tobias Warwick Jones, Valentina Magaletti, Eloise Goulder and Daniel John Boyle. The group’s wildly disparate influences of tropicalia, avant pop, spacious psyche, experimental rock, yé-yé and anthemic film music have been decisively distilled into their long-awaited debut album 3D Opera Whale , to be released on London based Horse Arm this coming June 30th 2012. The digital release of the LP is slated for July 30th 2012. The result is a ...

La histórica cantante y fundadora de Stereolab Laetitia Sadier muy pronto lanzará un nuevo disco. Silencio verá la luz el 24 de julio y contará con las colaboraciones de Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake), James Elkington y su compañero en Stereolab Tim Gane. Silencio es el sucesor de The trip, bien recibido debut discográfico [...]

London's Nathan Jenkins initially came to the attention of many through a 2008 project entitled Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee : an ambitious mash up that belied the influence of mercurial beatmaker J Dilla on his work as Bullion - blending the late Detroit native's productions with the Beach Boys' classic. Bits and pieces of wonky post-Dilla/Flying Lotus-type beats followed the likes of 'Get Familiar' and 'Young Heartache' demonstrating a mature and confident approach to production, leading to the multi-faceted genre dodging of last year's You Drive Me to Plastic album for Young Turks. Now Jenkins ...

La voce degli Stereolab annuncia un nuovo disco. “Silencio” uscirà il 24 luglio via… Laetitia Sadier: nuovo disco pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier has announced a new solo album. Sadier released her first solo record, not counting the side project, Monade, two years [...]

Stereolab  frontwoman  Laetitia Sadier is readying a new solo album to follow up 2010's excellent record The Trip . Silencio is out July 24 on Drag City , and features former Stereolab member Tim Gane, the Zincs' James Elkington and the Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop. A tour is planned for this fall.

Luego de que Stereolab anunciara en el 2009 que se iba a tomar un descanso indefinido para que cada uno de sus integrantes pudiera dedicarse a sus proyectos personales, no hemos escuchado mucho de los mismos excepto por Laetitia Sadler, quien casi de inmediato presentó su primer álbum solista, The Trip, al que ahora le seguirá un segundo intento con el nombre de Silencio. La placa saldrá a la venta el próximo 24 de julio a través de Drag City y es descrita por su disquera como: “un álbum que...

Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier is forging ahead with her solo career. Sadier released her first proper solo record ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/stereolab-singer-laetitia-sadier-releasing-silenci/64855/

Laetitia Sadier has announced the release of her sophomore album.  The former Stereolab member will release Silencio  on July 24th. Here's the track list for the album: Continue reading »

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Miró Belle (a.k.a. San Diego-based Jeff Tuyay) is dropping today his new EP , six short and playful tracks that will remind you sounds a-la AraabMuzik, Stereolab or Monster Rally. Premiered on PRTLS, Kiss This (Vol. 0) is the final episode after the (free downloads!) Vol.1, Vol.2 and Vol.3. Get them all and follow him wherever you [...]

I was having trouble describing what Lower Dens are trying to do on their new album Nootropics so I looked up the definition of “nootropics”. It is the collective term for 'smart drugs'; the narcotics that supposedly can enhance memory and intelligence, and it is derived from two Greek words which mean “mind” and “to bend”. This fact certainly helped me get a better handle on this 51 minute, shifting, dream-like collection of songs that manages to move between lengthy but intricate post-punk, folk melodies, drone and motorik repetition with a deceptive ease. Lower Dens were formed in 2009 by ...

Saranno passati almeno quindici anni (ma è solo un modo per non dire quasi venti) dalla prima volta che mi portarono al Velvet Club di Rimini. Non saprei dire che serata fosse, forse i Marlene Kuntz al primo tour, forse gli Stereolab, i Delgados, i Supergrass o forse una delle mille date dei Motorpsycho tra quelle mura amiche. O magari era solo una serata dove si ballava con il veterano Thomas Balsamini al mixer. Così, è con un po' di emozione che stasera, grazie ai Moscova Dreamers e ai ragazzi di Stereo:Fonica avrò il piacere di mettere anche io ...