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...
Matthew Herbert will be the next artist to release an edition of the excellent ReComposed series on Deutsche Grammophon.Previous contributions to the series have come from Matthias Arfmann, Jimi Tenor and, of course, the unforgettable third editi...
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...
I don't minding putting my neck on the line and stating that there are very very few musicians with the skill, breadth (and to use an english phrase) nous of Matthew Herbert. His latest album - the first part of a trilogy that should include One...
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...
English artist Matthew Herbert has never been one to shy away from taking risks. He (also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, Wishmountain) constantly leaps at the chance to create works of individuality and dist...
From the outside looking in, Jamie Lidell is impossible to figure out. The English singer-songwriter-producer has worn a dazzling array of hats throughout his 20-year musical career, and it’s tough to imagine anyone else pulling off half the look...
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