The hard rocker has handpicked a veteran Dutch post-punk group to open for him at Hammersmith. Is this the strangest support choice ever? Sometimes, even in music, it's wiser to go with your head than your heart. The big romantic gesture is all very well, but think about the consequences before you make it. This week's big romantic is Slash, whose hand-picked support for his Hammersmith Apollo show on 6 June has just been announced. Take a moment to think about who it might be. You want a clue? An 80s band. No, not Dogs D'Amour or ...

"It's all in sound" cries the first track on Bullion's mini-album, a weirdly prescient declaration of exactly what this record does best. It's the non-verbal where Bullion's genius really comes to the fore. Only recently has the producer ventured into putting his own voice down on tracks, with previous vocal-laden single 'Say Arr Ee', released on the mighty R&S.; It's an approach that's worked well for other electronic artists, James Blake being an obvious example. Lyrically though, the two couldn't be further apart. Where Blake is all poetic turns of phrase and trembling ...

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Email collaborations – a phrase to make any music fan shudder. Sure, the web is bringing us all closer together but in artistic terms little can top sitting eyeball to eyeball with your musical collaborator. There are exceptions, though, as newcomers Cymbals seem destined to prove. Hooking up with Tough Love, Cymbals delivered a fantastic mini-album earlier this year. All off-kilter guitar lines, shuddering, homemade electronics and surreal lyrics ‘Sideways Sometimes’ earned a place on the Clash stereo from the off. Recently taking some down time, the band parted company. Keeping in touch online, Cymbals quickly started to dissect new ideas ...

The Starkers are a fresh indie rock trio of musicians joined together to bring a new sharp edge to music. The band is from Swindon and is preparing for their first gig on June 9th in their hometown. 1. Hello The Starkers, tell us all about yourselves and how you got together. Toryn: Well weve all been in different various bands before and known each other for a while through friends of friends. I contacted Callum (drums) about starting a little project and he was keen and up for it so we started throwing ideas at each other.. well not ...

All this time I thought it was Deep Purple. Anyway, Tim Burgess talks about a “missing chapter” from his autobiography, Telling Stories , and the Wu-Tang influence. The Quietus : When I started writing Telling Stories I wanted to take the chance to let everyone know where I came from musically, from the first songs I ever listened to and the beginnings of my record collection. Certain albums and bands have had a profound and obvious affect on what I’ve done as a musician – before I was in a band, Sandinista! by The Clash let me know the possibilities of what ...

Lurpak have launched their new Foodbeats project, allowing you to soundtrack your dinner. Here's an unexpected confession: the Clash team are massive food fans. Our office is situated 100 yards from one of London's finest food markets, allowing us to gorge ourselves on meals which span the globe. So Lurpak's Foodbeats.com project has naturally piqued our interest. A new website, the project allows fans to type in the meal of their choice - the programming will then match your recipe to a playlist. According to Lurpak, Britons most often turn to Queen and Adele when in the ...

I have had Television Youth , the ace record from Canadian punks Sonic Avenues , in my inbox for months (it came out in January). I was meant to post about it for The Styrofoam Drone (amongst a plethora of things - sorry Zac, I'll be back on top of things in the upcoming week!), yet it fell through the cracks (expect to see the Happy New Year/Nite Fields split 7" soon though). This is a great album though, and it has jumped on my hunched back and beat me around the ears insistently this week, so I thought I better ...

Es un privilegio poder enviarles de nuevo —vía sus receptores de radio , la mejor música de la galaxia ... es viernes , tiempo del Friday Night con la programación estelar de nuestros archivos... Zael estará en control de cabina, apoyado del último playlist de Silent Roy , el número 143 ... sintonízano en frecuencia modulada, a partir de las 8:20 de la noche ... Galaxy fm ® en Los Mochis transmite con toda su limitada potencia...  Playlist 143 Galaxy fm ® 18/19 mayo 2012 www.myspace.com/galaxy_fm www.twitter.com/galaxy_fm galaxyfm@gmail.com 105 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:32 Playlist ...

Virna Lindt The Windmills Of Your Mind Virna Lindt The Dossier on Virna Lindt Virna Lindt Attention Stockholm The Woodentops Get It On Before Portishead and other vitamin-D deficient Anglophone producers set to a wholesale plundering of the work of film composers  John Barry and Bernard Hermann , in turn giving the world the unwelcome gift of Trip Hop and the adjective "cinematic" as a critical term denoting the addition of vinyl pop & hiss sounds and postmodern ennui - the equivalent of a sepia filter (or hey, Instagram!) - a relatively gorgeous Swede translator by the name of Virna Lindt  infused the icy cold archness & languid irony of Cristina and Amanda Lear (ex-models' musical output, a genre unto itself) with human warmth and her own appreciation of the big-room orchestral pop of soundtracks gone by. The three songs here don't accurately represent the range of Ms. Lindt's output - the lumbering cover of Michel Lagrand's The Windmills of Your Mind , the absurd dead-eyed naivete of  The Dossier on Virna Lindt , and  finally, her Tot Taylor-produced debut single, Attention Stockholm -  virtually a template for 3/4 the output of  Belle and Sebastien ...  Great songs, yes, but there are other songs, more adventurous, sort of like Sparks and Yello Magic Orchestra, especially on 1985 Play/Record, which was, predictably, a hit in Japan. Had Lindt's influence been felt more deeply, Trip Hop might have a more noble pedigree and not reached its nauseating limit in the studied melancholy of Mono's 1996 sap-fest Life in Mono   The song, a barely concealed rewrite of The Windmills of Your Mind , was a prominent part of (the not-unloveable overwrought) fever dream melodrama of Alfonso Cuarón 's film adaptation of Great Expectations .  Or not...  Who knows if we would have been spared the existence of Black Box Recorder - an ignoble and wholly reprehensible musical clusterfuck that has forever tarred the name of Jesus & Mary Chain 's John Moore .  (The wholly calculated effort to get famous and to get into Sarah Nixey 's pants succeeded on one count, at least.) But Trip Hop will continue to live on forever, along with drum & bass, in the scores of police procedurals on American network television, and in the dusty CD-piles buried in the back of a closet by Unmarried Women of a Certain Age. Note: When I think of Dickens style of writing, I think of the Book of Mormon, a tedious a Holy Book as I've ever read...  An entire post-Christian mythology written by a group of autistic people sitting around a table playing Exquisite Corpse - and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass... I've spent countless hours, if not days, searching through the Trouser Press , dollar bins and the back-alleys of Discogs.com , and it's very rare that I come across a chart-topping song or artist in the new wave/post-new wave pop genre that I've got no familiarity with.  (Even rarer that I actually enjoy the song).  In this case, I came across the Woodentops in Oliver Assayas ' 1986 film Disorder - a film that presents with weightier issues than those that make up a subgenre of post-punk trainspotting films- the Clash's  Rude Boy , Penelope Spheeris ' Decline of Western Civilization and Suburbia .  As anthropological curios & points of reference for context-hungry teens they serve their purpose -  as an illuminating or even halfway interesting piece of art, not as much.  Assayas' meditation on the corrosive of guilt and murder without consequence , each in their own way, are Cliff-notes Dostoevsky for their respective class/subculture. This song shares the same manic urgency of  The Feelies  or  Human Switchboard , but has more adventurous production and instrumentation.  The obvious touchstone for Rolo McGinty's brashly confident voice is Echo & The Bunnymen 's Will Sergeant. Alright, it's back to R&B; for a little while, so I don't end up investigating bands that shared bills with the Housemartins .

Last year, the video's co-director Ryan Henriquez was directing a web series on the making of Deer Tick's last album Divine Providence in Providence, RI. Ryan spent several days with the band and the album's two producers, Adam Landry and Justin Collins, both of whom were interviewed for the series. During a break from recording, Justin Collins played Ryan the demo for "All The Beer Is Gone" by The Buddies, a band in which Justin sings and plays guitar, comprised of members from Chicago and Justin's hometown of Nashville. Ryan's mind was instantly blown by ...

On this day (May 14) in 1982 The Clash released their swansong album, Combat Rock. The record would be the last album of new [...]

I recommend the track by The Maharajas. One of the most underappreciated pop bands of the last decade. Also, why aren't Of Verona as big as Lana Del Rey or Adele or whatever over-hyped bullshit the kids today listen to? Where's the justice in that? (mp3) The Maharajas - Medication Available on Unrelated Statements (2004) (mp3) Stevie Wonder - Something out of the blue Available on Where I'm Coming From (1971) (mp3) The Clash - Guns on the roof Available on Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978) (mp3) Of Verona - They will fall like roses Available on Fall Like Roses (2011 ...

Photography by Tim Boddy I was somewhere in the midst of Camden, on the edge of a lock, when the rum began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded, maybe we should go and see some folk music…" and suddenly there was a terrible roar all around and a wall of noise, swooping and screeching and diving, was blaring forth a nightmare post-punk ruckus. And a voice was screaming, "Holy Jesus! Who are these goddamn animals?" These animals were Toronto-based trio Odonis Odonis , a guttural temple punch that may have not been the most ...

FutureDeluxe have stepped in to complete a video for Modeselektor and Thom Yorke's collaboration 'This'. In case you didn't notice, the Clash team fell a little in love with that last Modeselektor album. A collection of feral, fucked up electronic hymns, it defied categorisation and generally rocked our socks for 12 months. The many high-points included Thom Yorke's guest turn on 'This'. Now that track has been given visual accompaniment from FutureDeluxe, featuring a lone puppeteer and her rather creepy puppet... - - - ClashMusic spoke to Modeselektor last year, asking them about that fateful Thom Yorke collaboration. “I don ...