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The Walkmen announce brief tour of UK in January
Following on from their highly recommended new record, Lisbon, The Walkmen have just confirmed a set of tour dates across the UK for January, where there'll be playing a variety of material, as you do.»
Joanna Newsom not appearing on The Simpsons
Gutting news for all those around the world who had held out hope that the high priestess of all-things folk would make an appearance as herself on the cult TV cartoon show The Simpsons. Joanna Newsom - who had previously been rumoured to be turned into a four-fingered, yellow-skinned creation, won't be...well, turning up at any point in the near future (via Pitchfork.»
Nordic Talking Pt III. ft. Oh No Ono, Ólafur Arnalds + Amiina
Rather than just us choosing our favourite Nordic records of the last ten years and compiling them into some boring and dry list, we thought we'd ask the natives to do the talking (or writing, but that doesn't fit so nicely into a pun...). It's going along with the theme of our Favourite 50 series and hopefully doing it this way will provide a more enlightening and insightful experience than otherwise might have been. Anyway, here's Part II featuring contributions from Amiina, Oh No Ono and Efterklang. T»
Watch: Blood Command - 'Alarm All Assassins'
As we're still very much in the middle of our ongoing Nordic series at Drowned in Sound (click to read through the articles here we thought we'd take the opportunity to give you even more audiovisual delights from the north western direction.»
Listen: Download The Chap - 'Nevertheless, The Chap' Family Fodder remix
The Chap are an odd...bunch. But we love them so. We love them because of their oddness and lyrical playfulness and all sorts of other reasons. That's why it's certifiably GOOD NEWS that they've just announced the release of a new EP, which is called Your Latest Breakdown.»
DiS meets Susanne Sundfør
We have to admit that Susanne Sundfør wasn't on our radar before this year's Great Escape. Having seen the queue for Wild Beasts and summarised that there was no chance of getting in, we decided to pop opposite the road to catch the Norwegian songwriter, playing solo at the Unitarian Chapel. What we saw and heard a) made us revel in the sincerity and haunting nature of the music and lyrics and b) want more. »
Listen: Download new Gruff Rhys track
You may recognise Gruff Rhys as the man behind - or in front of - The Super Furry Animals, but in recent years he's found himself fronting and being involved in a varying array of bizarre projects, one of which involved trekking across much of South America, Patagonia to be precise. That was an enlightening experience.»
Watch: Broken Records - 'A Darkness Rises Up'
4AD-signed Edinburgh six-piece Broken Records release their second record - the follow-up to 2009's Until The Earth Begins To Part - at the beginning of next week. It's called _Let Me Come Home. October 25 is the release date, for the calender-challenged of you out there.»
Nordic Talking Pt II: Haukur S. Magnússon of Reykjavík!
As part of our 10 Years Of Nordic Series we asked a bunch of artists who we like from said region to produce some words on their favourite - or most interesting, most controversial, most fun, most whatever - record of the past decade, and which came out of their country of origin. Part I can be read here and features slices of wisdom from Ungdomskulen, Hjaltalin and Pacific!. Haukur S. Magnússon, however, wrote us something that deserved its own article. So here it is!»
Watch: Grapevine TV's Day 1 of Airwaves
Yes, we are stealing (read: re-appropriating) much material from Reykjavik Grapevine this week and last, but that's only because there's an awful lot of good and relevant shit (read: content) to be found on their website and it is (read: was) Iceland Airwaves after all!»
Listen: A Nordic-themed Spotify playlist from Ja Ja Ja
As part of our Nordic Music series we asked those wonderful promoters of such music Ja Ja Ja to put together a playlist of songs – what else? – from some of the best and most exciting artists to emerge from the region in recent years. Here's what they came up with. It includes Ungdomskulen, by the way, which I don't need to tell you is almost a necessity as far as we're concerened.»
Watch: The Twilight Sad play three acoustic songs
Earlier this week The Twilight Sad were announced as the support for Mogwai on their UK tour. That's pretty important stuff, y'know. Anyway, well done them and all that. To help celebrate that announcement (not really, it's just a coincidence) we've got three videos of Andy and James from the band performing three tracks acoustically.»
Spotifriday #65 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist featuring tracks from Belle & Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, Esben & The Witch, Efterklang, Magnetic Man and some more.»
A Reykjavík Retrospective 2000-2005
As may have briefly been pointed out in other articles we thought - what with Iceland Airwaves being this week and all - that our Nordic Series would be best kicked off with a focus on that very country. It makes perfect sense. So we have tried to do that.»
Listen: Download new Times New Viking track
Noisy-but-very-fun trio Times New Viking have a new album lined up for release early next year and they've been working hard on it in the past few months. They've also been touring their arses off, and on these tour dates the band have been selling 7" records containing material which will feature on the new album. You may already have one of these, but perhaps not.»
Nordic Talking Pt. I: Our favourites choose their favourties ft. Hjaltalín, Ungdomskulen + Pacific!
Rather than us choosing our favourite Nordic records of the last six years and compiling them into some boring and dry list, we thought we'd ask the natives to do the talking (or writing, but that doesn't fit so nicely into a pun...). It's going along with the theme of our Favourite 50 series and hopefully doing it this way will provide a more enlightening and insightful experience than otherwise might have been. Anyway, here's Part I of many, featuring contributions from Hjaltalin, Pacific! and Ungdomskulen.»
Efterklang announce "Efterkids" initiative + DiS show
Ho ho ho! The Nordic Series is off and running and the related news stories just keep rolling in! Well, to some degree anyway. This time it's that Danish lot Efterklang who have announced a new project, entitled 'Efterkids'.»
Listen: Download Reykjavik Grapevine's 38-track Airwaves compilation
We decided to kick off our 10 Years Of Nordic series on the very week that Iceland Airwaves takes place, for quite obvious reasons. Partly because things like this happen and by "things" I mean "a massive, comprehensive 38-track compilation being given away entirely for free". Pretty good, yeah?»
Watch and Listen: Ólöf Arnalds plays the SoundCloud rooftop
Back last month we reviewed Icelandic chanteuse Ólöf Arnalds' new record Innundir Skinni, giving it a rather glowing 8/10. So, it's with great coincidence that we stumbled across her SoundCloud Session quite recently, just on the eve of kicking off our Nordic week and in particular a small focus on Icelandic artists, previewing this year's and this week's Airwaves festival.»
10 Years of Nordic: An Introduction
So, why run a week of Nordic music to look back over the past ten years? Well, aside from being a Nordic fetishist, this series gives us a chance to look at the diversity within a geographical area and in particular one which has been such a deep well of significant quality over the past decade – and one which is surely only going to get richer. This is worth celebrating.»
Watch: The Joy Formidable - 'I Don't Want To See You Like This'
The Joy Formidable release a new single today, for 'I Don't Want To See You Like This'. We've got the video for it, which apparently led to the destruction of a £200,000 camera. So you'd better watch it, otherwise it's all in vain. The video was filmed in»
Watch: The making of Hauschka's Foreign Landscapes Part III
As promised, here is the third and final instalment in the making-of series for Hauschka's upcoming record, Foreign Landscapes, which comes out on October 25 through Fat Cat. It'll be a good one, if 'Children'and indeed these videos are anything to go by.»
The Thermals UK album release date finalised
Finally, eh?»
Listen: worriedaboutsatan release free album of b-sides and remixes
Not to overload you with worriedaboutsatan news this week, but we do love them everso and this is really worthy news. Especially if you happen to like free stuff. Why the hell wouldn't you. So yes, they're giving away a compilation record of various offcuts, b-sides and lost tracks from their inception to the present day (via The Line Of Best Fit.»
Squarepusher collaboration with Andre 3000 still on
Super-collaborations, however seemingly unlikely, are always on the cards. There's also plenty of speculation about them. Sometimes they do come to fruition but one which we all hope will materialise is that of Squarepusher and Outkast bloke Andre 3000.»
Caribou announces Swim remixes, ft. Gold Panda, Fuck Buttons + more
You know how Caribou's Swim is one of the greatest and biggest records of the year. Well it's not finished just yet, as there's a remix album on the way, featuring some of the finest reworkings and knob tweakers in the whole wide world. It'll come out on October 26 over here on City Slang and contains the following tracks»
New Cat Power record in the making
It's been nearly two whole damned years since Cat Power's last record - and that wasn't enough a full-length, more a collection of covers. There will be some more new material in the not-too-distant future, however. Miss Marshall (that's her real name, by the way) told Rolling Stone over the weekend about her plans and whatnot (via TwentyFourBit.»
Watch: Cloud Control - 'Meditation Song #2'
Sydney's Cloud Control release a new single on November 22 through Infectious Music. It's called 'Meditation Song #2' and is also the band's debut album opener, just for your information. We've got the video for it, and you can duly watch it here.»
Spotifriday #64 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring hand-picked tracks from British Sea Power, No Age, Uffie, Peter Broderick, Small Black, Errors and some more. »