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Following Bjork's ananouncement that she ain't playing, the festival organisers of Wild In The Country have announced the festival has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. No doubt it is the fault of the credit crunch and not the promoters.

Free Ghost Box

Nab your sen some freebies from British deep psych label Ghost Box just by signing up to the mailing list. Includes a free 3 track EP featuring songs from The Focus Group and The Advisory Circle.

Zacks Back

Mr. de-la Rocha, front man of the recently re-formed Rage Against The Machine has announced he will now be working under the alias of One Day As A Lion alongside ex Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. 5 track, self titled EP is due on July 22nd and apparently "It's a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socio-economic realities it attempts to mask."

Face Off

Slipknot, yeah your favorite masked up, boiler suit dwelling metal monsters, have just revealed that they'll be donning new masks for the new era of the band and their forthcoming 'All Hope Is Gone' album.

The Chart Show

Hell yes. Uber limited 7" subscription purveyors Uncharted Audio have published an online mixtape for your listening pleasure. Gives a little incling of the direction this secret label is taking.

Burying The Rumours

Seems to be a bit of confusion around the proposed Burial DJ Kicks compilation forthcoming on !K7. After the inital announcement apparently a fake tracklist got posted somewhere by someone and now Burial has come out of his hiding to say...

Getting The Bjork Out

Musical queen of all that is Icelandic Bjork has had to pull out of the Wild In The Country headline slot claiming that the festival organisers were unable to provide the equipment required for her to perform properly.

Damn You Warp

Friday, 27 June 2008

Another way to make you spend money... The first of the 3 limited edition (only 400 copies in the UK) Flying Lotus 12"s is available now from Warpmart. Features 4 non album tracks no less.

Make Yourself Big Like An Eagle

Friday, 27 June 2008

...or at least let people listen to your new album before you let them buy it. UNKLE have made 4 downloads available via 4 seperate websites, maximizing their target area and hopefully increasing their gross profit when their new LP 'End Titles... Stories For Film' comes in the first week of July.

Reviews

Sister Bliss - Nightmoves

Friday, 04 July 2008

A principle member of an act who have seen over 10 million records go under the till scanner and adored by the doe-eyed masses in her own right as a headline DJ. “What’s your name? What have you had?” Reach for the lasers, safe as fuck ... it’s Sister Bliss...

Ratatat - LP3

Ratatat touch on a few things across their third album, ‘LP3’, with He Man, The X Files, Santana and Paul Simon being amongst the most prevalent on the first listen; yet the Brooklyn based duo manage to hold the door open in a dinstinctly chivalrous manner for all their bundles of influences.

Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I have to start by saying that Weezer’s first two albums – ‘Blue’ and ‘Pinkerton’ – got me through much of my teenage years and so Rivers Cuomo and company do hold a special place in my heart. Regardless of this ‘The Red Album’ only manages to rise above mediocrity and into the category of listenable a handful of times.

Life Beyond Mars - Bowie Covered

I love cover versions, obviously it helps when they're done well, but I do find a strange enjoyment in hearing another artist's interpretation of a fellow musician's work - whether it's a cover of a classic or a minor tune. As long as they put their own spin on the track and don't just produce a rather pointless cookie-cutter copy.

White Denim - Workout Holiday

Friday, 27 June 2008

For many ‘Workout Holiday’ has been a while coming. After storming SXSW over in Texas the WD trio jetted the ocean to unleash a slew of high octane shows on UK audiences this April and since then the press has been set alight with their antics.

Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Learning about pseudo doom from friends can be very rewarding. Harvey Milk to me previously seemed like some kind of Scott Walker type figure of milk bottle hue who wailed about Christmas ghosts over an ambient backdrop of gamelan noodles. How wrong can one be?

LATEST FEATURE

Martyn - Meditating On Bass Weight

If you’ve been following the creative path of dubstep over the past two years, you’ll know there has been some seismic cross pollination of musical genres which have all fed and bled into each other like an osmotic dub membrane. The Dutch born, USA dwelling Martyn, a 33-year-old producer and DJ, has been very much at the forefront of this exchange, helping redraw definite lines between the houses of techno, 2 step, jazz and dubstep.

Ruffhousing: Channel R

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Apologies for our frankly unacceptable delay in bringing you the latest instalment of Channel Ruffhousing. Since the football has started, we’ve done little else but gawp incredulously at Alan Shearer’s shirt collection on the BBC, while simultaneously wishing a plethora of tropical sexual illnesses upon ITV's resident dullard, David Pleat: a man who manages to make even the most exciting game of football seem about as interesting as a black and white photograph of Snow Patrol.

Media

Pram - Beluga

Pram is set to release a remix EP of this track, 'Beluga', later this month, its a wonderfully ambient, synth wander and has an impeccably well shot, directed, edited video to accompany it.

Cool Kids - Black Mags

New clip from The Cool Kids. 'Black Mags'. This is all...

Incite & Breach - [dissident] June Mix

In this month's installment of 'Amen', the drum and bass themed soap opera, Goldie comes clean to Shy FX and admits he used his butter to grease up his bagel before he slept with his mother, whilst Grooverider begins tattooing his arms in a desperate bid to escape musical obscurity.

Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason