Tim Burgess knows a thing or two about festivals. Lead singer of The Charlatans, the frontman has spent the best part of two decades entertaining crowds across the UK, Europe and beyond. Gaining more than a few memorable stories along the way, Tim Burgess recently put down some of his more intriguing anecdotes into an autobiography. Logically titled 'Telling Stories' the book is available to buy at all good book shops. To celebrate, ClashMusic invited Tim Burgess to curate his Dream Festival - here's what he came up with... - - - The first thing I was thinking when putting together the line ...

After the bleak years dominated by news of endless record shop closures, the arrival of the first of Rise's four stores at the end of 2007 was a welcome signal of hope to music retailers and fans alike. Over the last four and a half years, managing director Lawrence Montgomery has established the youthful indie chain in Cheltenham, Worcester, Swindon and Bristol, where its flagship store occupies two floors and vinyl is given joyous prominence. ClashMusic caught up with Lawrence to find out how Rise continues to be on the up. All four Rise shops are relative newcomers to ...

Artist: Wooden Shjips Album: Remixes 12 Released: 2012 Style: Experimental Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 65 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Crossing Remix [Andy Weatherall] 02 – Wiking Stew (aka Red Krayola-ing) [Sonic Boom] 03 – Ursus Mar...

Parade of Flesh scored an impressive bill from the spillover of the fifth annual Austin Psych Fest, as area favorites Widow">True Widow and Eyes, Wings and Many Other Things open for New York's Psychic Ills and San Francisco's Moon Duo (Wooden Shjips frontman/guitarist Ripley Johnson and keyboardist San...

UTR have teamed up with Live House in Wellington to capture some of the best local and international gig action. Our first collaboration is this clip of Wooden Shjips buzzing out audiences at Bodega in Wellington last month......

5th Annual Austin Psych Fest / APRIL 27-29 2012 / Emo's East & Beauty Ballroom The full 2012 lineup: Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, The Black Lips, Meat Puppets, Olivia Tremor Control, Thee Oh Sees, Dead Meadow, Bombino, The Telescopes, Wooden Shjips, Pink Mountaintops, Woods, Golden Dawn, Psychic Ills, Disappears, Peaking Lights, Entrance Band, Night Beats, Spindrift, Sun Araw, Pure X, Dead Confederate, Amen Dunes, Quilt, Prince Rama, Ringo Deathstarr, Sleep Over, Lotus Plaza, Moon Duo, Mind Spiders, The UFO Club, Headdress, Asteroid #4, Acid Baby Jesus, Blue Angel Lounge, Singapore Sling, Allah-Las, Federale, Quest for Fire, Feathers, High Wolf, Cosmonauts ...

WHAT : New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival WHEN : April 27 - May 6 WHERE : New Orleans, LA WHO : Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the Beach Boys, Bon Iver, Foo Fighters, Cee Lo Green, My Morning Jacket, Al Green, Florence + the Machine, Feist, Janelle Monae, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Iron & Wine, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Glen Hansard, many more WHAT : CMKY Festival 2012 WHEN : April 24-29 WHERE : Boulder, CO  WHO : Laurie Anderson, Zammuto, Peaking Lights, Sun Araw, MEN, Biosphere, David Last, Ivy, Jacaszek, Lustmord, Pole, more WHAT : Austin Psych Fest WHEN : April 27-29 WHERE : Austin, TX WHO : The Black Angels, Woods ...

Sydney’s The Laurels have joined the likes of Richard In Your Mind, Seeake, Donny Benet and Straight Arrows at boutique indie Rice Is Nice. The deal will see the release of the band’s long-awaited debut album in the second half of 2012. The follow-up to last year’s Mesozoic EP, the album is currently being recorded with Liam Judson (Cloud Control, Belles Will Ring). “All the songs have been recorded and some have been mixed,” the band said in a recent Facebook post. “It will most likely have twelve songs and be out around July/August, just in ...

I’m beginning to get my teeth stuck into this pile of recordings left over from last summer, and finding some real gems… Wooden Shjips Somehow I missed this recording, again made by my good friend Marcus, again at End of the Road.  As before, can’t say a whole lot about the set, other than that [...]

Ripley Johnson talks to Wes Holland about how Wooden Shjips may just be the most un-psychedelic psychedelic band going.

Wooden Shjips transformed the Oxford Art Factory into psych rock heaven with their droning, repetitive, head trip music.

The great shows continue tonight, with SF psych legends Wooden Shjips sailing into The Zoo to deliver what will most likely be an incendiary tripped out performance. Ably supported by Secret Birds and Nite Fields , this is going to be one of the best shows of 2012, HANDS DOWN. Wooden Shjips - Lazy Bones

OMAR AHSANUDDIN , drummer for San Francisco-born psych rockers, WOODEN SHJIPS , tells KRISSI WEISS about stripping it back to the basics.

Almost two years to the day since he pulled the pin on his fledgling festival, the founder of Brisbane’s Lost Weekend speaks for the first time about what went wrong and why punter apathy is the biggest threat to would-be promoters. Interview by ANDREW MCMILLEN . Billed as a three-day camping event located at a conference centre 45 minutes south-west of Brisbane, a 2010 music festival named The Lost Weekend seemed a worthy contender for the interests of Queensland rock fans who couldn’t afford to head south for Golden Plains . Headlined by Dinosaur Jr, The Dirty Projectors, Wooden Shjips ...

The global financial meltdown has proven disastrous for many, but for Ripley Johnson it's been beneficial. Losing one's job isn't normally a good thing, but for the Wooden Shjips guitarist it forced his hand and made the band his...