Charlotte Gainsbourg is set to play a special show at Somerset House on July 19th. Every summer, Somerset House throws open its doors to usher in a series of live concerts. This year will prove to be no exception, with organisers lining up a number of one off shows from a broad range of artists. Charlotte Gainsbourg is the latest addition to the line up. The French singer is set to perform in the confines of Somerset House on July 19th, following on from the acclaim lavished upon her double album 'Stage Whisper'. Released earlier this year, the double disc ...

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Emmy The Great has been added to the line-up for the Truck Festival, which will already feature The Temper Trap, Mystery Jets, Villagers, and The Low Anthem among many others. Emmy, who played at Hill Farm in 2008 and 2006, is one of a number of late additions to the line-up that have caught FFS’s eye, with Lucy Rose, Michele Stodart and Kill It Kid the others. Truck Festival 2012 takes place on July 20th & 21st at Hill Farm, Steventon in Oxfordside. To see the full line-up, and get details on tickets – which will cost £69 inc camping for ...

Emmy The Great , Lucy Rose and This Town Needs Guns are just some of names added to the Truck Festival line up. They join the likes of The Temper Trap and Mystery Jets, Tim Minchin, British Sea Power, Villagers, The Low Anthem and 65 Days of Static to the billing. The weekend event is held in Hill Farm, Oxfordshire over the weekend 20th/21st July and celebrates its 15th Anniversary this year. Tickets are still available, priced just £72.95 with booking fees. You can buy yours and get further information from the official site here .

Rich in darkly comic humour and Catholic guilt, a very precise element of Irish culture resonates throughout Misterman. Written by Hunger / Disco Pigs screenwriter and playwright Enda Walsh and performed by current Clash cover star Cillian Murphy, it recalls Pat Shortt’s hilarious and tragic role in 2007’s oddball comedy Garage, or an otherworldly Father Ted in which Dougal slowly loses his mind as Ted and Jack decompose on the sofa. Unburdened by the nine-hundred souls who will glare relentlessly at him over the next ninety minutes, Murphy wastes no time in marking his territory over the sprawling, quasi-industrial ...

Who is/are Steezy Ray Vibes ? I demand that everyone stops what they're doing and finds out who's behind this briliiant demo 'Empty City', so that we can use the name to describe all future tracks by artists that are definitively fluttery, whimsical acoustic ballads. Beginning as what sounds like a raw, acoustic cover of a track by 90's emo band Mineral, 'Empty City' suddenly veers off the road appears to end up in a little village made of small, cutesy straw huts and villagers dressed all in monotonous cloth as the sun sets in the background ...

I didn't see Analog Underground on the "official" Record Store Day list, but that may have been an oversight. I got the following oddly formatted message from the mysterious Mr. Analog Underground in my mailbox, looks like he will have some interesting stuff: Where do your records come from? I get this question alot.  I have a number of stock "record store guy" answers for this: The record tree, The Record Gods, Another dimension. I Usually go with "anywhere and everywhere," not only because it's true but  it's vague enough to confuse people.  Even though I truly ...

Girl Band don't feature any girls. Of course. What the Dublin band, who've just released this single on a label responsible for early Villagers and Vincent McMorrow">James Vincent McMorrow, do is buzzing, frenzied post-punk meets post-hardcore roar and thrash with more than a nod to prime Sonic Youth, sounding as if it's done really well to get to two minutes before collapsing violently in on itself. In My Head by Girl Band

Domino Records are one of our favourite labels. The British independent think outside the box, toss the box aside and then continue pushing forward. So when Record Store Day comes around, you can feel safe in the knowledge that Domino will produce something special. This year, the label have really upped their game. 'Smuggler's Way' is a new flexi-zine - a fanzine created by pasting together a number of flexi discs. An almost fiendishly difficult thing to execute, the label managed to rope in assistance from Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs, John Maus and Villagers. James Yorkston has supplied ...

Truck Festival have announces a whole load of new additions to this year's line up, including the likes of Future Of The Left and Frightened Rabbit. Tim Minchin, John J Presley, The Last Republic, The Hi & Lo, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou, The Dreaming Spires, Delta Alaska, Spring Offensive, Flights Of Helios, Crash Of Rhinos, Turbowolf, Man Like Me, Black Hats and Dubwiser will join the likes of Mystery Jets, Villagers and more at Hill Farm in Steventon, Oxfordshire this July (20/21). For more information/tickets, please head to thisistruck.com .

Most festivals claim to have a community feel, but few are actually prompted by a relationship with the surrounding community. Prompted by the Barge Inn Community Project, OneFest is the exception to the rule. Starting life at HoneyFest, the event grew out of a BBC docu-soap which followed Sandra Bhatia as she adjusted to village life. Somehow managing to pull the event off, the re-titled OneFest returns this weekend (April 14th) with a new name, a fresh location and a packed bill. ClashMusic got on the phone to the festival MD to discuss how the festival was coming along - and ...

THE TEMPER TRAP, BRITISH SEA POWER, THE LOW ANTHEM, GUILLEMOTS, KING CHARLES, THREE TRAPPED TIGERS, LITTLE COMETS and more join the already-announced MYSTERY JETS, VILLAGERS, 65 DAYS OF STATIC, GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY! and even more delights on the bill for Truck Festival! Here's new Truck...

Alert! New(ish?) John Maus song! ‘No Title (Molly)’ is a track from an upcoming  Domino/Ribbon Record Store Day special called “Smugglers Way”. It’s a zine that comes with five flexi discs of unreleased songs by John Maus, Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs and Villagers. Since Maus’ We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves [...]

On Record Store Day, April 21, Ribbon Music and Domino are releasing an exclusive, limited-edition “FlexiDisc Zine” called Smugglers Way. The 24-page zine will feature contributions by artists ranging from Alex Bleeker (Real Estate), Owen Pallett, and Bjorn Copeland (Black Dice), to Jon Hopkins, Ade Blackburn (Clinic), and Jana Hunter (Lower Dens). It also includes unreleased songs by Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs, Villagers, and TMT favorite John Maus, all spread across five individual, multi-colored Flexi Discs. The transparent orange disc, naturally everyone’s go-to color choice, features Maus and his unreleased track, “No Title (Molly).” Stream it here ...

Here's "No Title (Molly)", a previously unheard track from John Maus that will be released as a limited-edition flexi disc for Ribbon Music / Domino 's Record Store Day project , " Smuggler's Way ". It's a remixed, remastered, re-recorded version of a previously untitled demo that Maus previously posted online. As previously reported, "Smuggler's Way" features tracks from Maus, Real Estate, Dirty Projectors, Cass McCombs and Villagers, each on a flexi disc. There's also an accompanying 24-page zine made up of contributions from artists like Real Estate, the Kills, Owen Pallett, Lower Dens, Black Dice, Twin Sister, and ...