Field Day Festival is fresh from announcing the final additions to its 2012 line-up, and to celebrate we've teamed up with them to give you the chance of winning tickets to this year's event. Bringing together many of London's alternative concert and club promoters (Eat Your Own Ears, Bugged Out!, Bleed, Lanzarote) to produce a day of music and dancing set in London's heartland at Victoria Park over the Diamond Jubilee, June bank holiday on Saturday 2nd June 2012, we're giving you the chance the chance to see the likes of Grimes, Chairlift, Jessie Ware ...

Bon soir! Welcome back to The 405 Film Digest, in the week that, yes, Cannes happened. So read on for some tips on what's been going down, some lovely posters, a lush, lush trailer, and of course the most intriguing news of the week that was. Lots to keep your eyes busy with next week too, so make sure to check back in between watching that trailer over and over again. Danny - Film Ed. Cannes You Dig It? Now that Sundance is well done and gone, all eyes inevitably come to rest on Cannes. We've not gone ourselves ...

Latvia isn’t the first place that springs to mind when talking about music. Often overlooked, this region deserves a second glance. Positivus – the largest music and arts festival in the Baltic States – places together some brilliant internationally renowned acts with exciting talent from the provinces. This year you can see Manic Street Preachers, The Vaccines, Wild Beasts, and The Sound Poets all for a meagre 57 Euros (£45), camping included. Beginning in 2007 with 4,000 attendees, the two day event has grown exponentially, now housing a 20,000 strong crowd each day. It’s no wonder the festival ...

On Saturday May 5th, The 405 headed down (well...up) to Leeds to cover Live At Leeds festival, which is a multi-venue city festival full of relatively new bands such as Novella, all the way through to big hitters such as Los Campesinos! (or Example if you fancied buying a separate ticket...which we didn't). With other festivals such as Camden Crawl, Sounds From The Other City, Simple Things and Land of Kings (all of which were city festivals) all taking place on the same weekend, how did LAL hold up? Read on to read about some of the ...

Sie gehören zu den interessantesten Newcomern der aktuellen Musikwelt und veröffentlichen am 25. Mai ihr selbstbetiteltes Debüt-Album: die beiden Schwestern Hannah und Colette Thurlow alias 2:54. Mit ihren melancholischen LoFi-Indie-Sound, dem stets eine gewisse sinistre Note innewohnt, erinnert das Duo an eine etwas morbidere Variante von Warpaint , lässt aber auch Vergleiche zu The xx und The Cure in den späten 80er-Jahren zu – und selbst eine Prise 90er Alternative Rock lässt sich heraushören. Produziert wurde der Langspieler dabei von Rob Ellis, welcher in der Vergangenheit bereits mit PJ Harvey und Nick Cave zusammenarbeitete. Mit "Creeping" gibt es jetzt eine erste ...

The Great Escape (Brighton, 10-12 May '12) // Words: Saam Das There are quite literally hundreds of bands playing at this year's The Great Escape , the self-confessed leading new music festival in Europe. With that in mind, we've narrowed down a list of just ten recommended acts to catch across the three days of the festival, as well as throwing in some more general tips seeing as this is the third time we've been down to Brighton. Keep reading, and come along. I've neglected to include recent Camden Crawl picks like BASTILLE, Swiss Lips and Clock Opera ...

Genre: Indie/Pop/Folk Country: USA Tracklist 01. Mind Game 02. Atlanta 03. Ruhl 04. Fighters 05. Hegelectic 06. The Prayer Of St. John 07. St. Thomas 08. España 09. Why For Here 10. Holiday Home 11. Simulacra 12. Summer Theme 13. Wild Beasts band [mp...

The Sunday headliner for the Stool Pigeon stage at Beacons festival this year will be none other than Toots and the Maytals . The legendary act will join the likes of Wild Beasts, Junior Boys, Patrick Wolf & many more at Funkirk Estate, Skipton 17th-19th August 2012. Head to greetingsfrombeacons.com for more information on the line-up, as well as tickets.

Tom Vek has stepped in to supply a deft re-working of alt-J's new single 'Breezeblocks'. Dance music is supplying a subtle, but profound shift in the way guitar bands operate. Take alt-J: the band's material contains few explicit electronics, but their song structures, the way each part interlocks betrays the influence of dance culture. So upcoming single 'Breezeblocks' is ripe material for potential remixes. alt-J handed the stems over to Tom Vek recently, and the forward thinking London based producer supplied a typically imaginative re-working. Stream / download Tom Vek's take on 'Breezeblocks' below. - - - Due to be released ...

“Every Morning” is the new single from the recent album from The Rosie Taylor Project entitled Twin Beds. Well received by critics, The Rosie Taylor Project have made a sophisticated record, full of heartfelt honesty and romance. Produced by Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Herman Dune) and with a...

Estamos imparables con las confirmaciones de bandas para Latinoamérica y ahora ha llegado el turno para la gente de Argentina, quienes el próximo 24 de mayo en el Anfiteatro de Puerto Madero verán llegar una nueva edición del Moviestar Free Music, una serie de conciertos organizados por la compañía telefónica del mismo nombre, que en esta ocasión ofrecerá tres bandas inglesas de insuperable manufactura. La primera de ellas será los Happy Mondays, una de las agrupaciones más reconocidas de la movida rock ochentera que ha pasado por numerosos cambios y...

I'm obsessed with year end lists.  It's always exciting to sit down at the end of the year and rank your favorite records, share with your friends/readers, and also see what others deemed the best of the year.  One problem always arises: give it a few months into the new year and three-four records for the past year will pop up and make you wish you had given them proper due.  I've decided to put an end to this "list regret" and will be doing an annual piece called "I've Made A Huge Mistake" where ...

At its best, these 80s imitators sounded like Ferry">Bryan Ferry singing “More than This,” except with all the charm and twinkle sucked out, leaving a residue that stunk of congealed Spandau Ballet, When in Rome, Haircut 100—and before you start to think “Wow, I love those bands, and that sounds awesome,” remember that the best singles by those bands were great because they had such strong personality! Drain the personality, and you’ll have Wild Beasts. Henri Matisse wants to paint their noses red… with blood.

Absolutely beautiful song from the most recent Wild Beasts album. Have a listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGoqAFvsYs4

Wednesday’s shows — are we spoiled, or what? ► Tonight is about all things Miike Snow. The Swedish/American indie-pop mind-meld of Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt is riding high after the late-March release of their second album, the eclectic “Happy to You,” and their set Saturday night at Coachella was bonkers. They do [...]