Looking back to a successful summer, Berlin-based record label !K7 offers its supporters some free downloads. Most of the tracks, including a dub version of “My Piano” by still-hyped Hot Chip or “Brainfreeze” by grandmaster Carl Craig, can be fou...
Our favorite German festival (besides our own, that is!) just unveiled a shockingly comprehensive initial lineup. Running in its twelfth year, the Melt! festival is known for finding and booking indie rock and electronic music luminaries. This ye...
Germany's Melt! festival just announced the exciting final acts of their celebrated three-day-long event, which takes place July 17-19. As previously reported, the lineup is awesome. We already knew Aphex Twin, Klaxons, Foals, Oasis and Bloc Part...
***UPDATE*** Good news for pig lovers, bad news for Matthew Herbert. The go-ahead for Herbert’s concept album The Pig has been creatively stifled; recordings of a pig’s death have been disallowed since no farmer would allow it. According to Herbe...
One of Australia’s finest independent labels, Future Classic, will release electronic popster Jamie Lloyd’s Beware of The Light next month. Emanating from Sydney’s Mad Racket scene, Lloyd moved into the limelight after his 2006 debut Trouble Wi...
Global auction house Phillips de Pury & Company will be staging a music-inspired contemporary art sale. This is the third time the English company has organized such an event, but this time they’ve invited avant-garde electronic luminary Matt...
Japan-based Mule Musiq has set up a new label called ‘Endless Flight’. This label will feature releases that will crossover the borders of music. And who’s more appropriate to kick off the label’s first release, than Glasgow crossover wizards Opt...
It seems as if a new way of thinking (in the music industry), initiated by New York-based bands like Hercules And Love Affair, TV on the Radio and Antony And The Johnsons is moving over to Europe. These bands all stand for openmindness, individua...
Micachu, a.k.a Mika Levi is a 21-year old musician from the UK. Her debut album "Jewellery", produced by influential electronic musician Matthew Herbert and released on Rough Trade, was tipped by many critics to become the album of the year. She...