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Somewhat of a Santigold news round-up for you here today. Firstly, and foremostly, the Philly cross-genre rappist is cross the genre boundary once more in producing legendary weirdos Devo. Pretty amazing, huh? Yeah.»
Listen to it! In full!»
Hmmmmm. Surprise, surprise?»
It's time for another ATP line-up announcement, only six days into the New Year and decade. Whilst many of you folks will have been habitually wetting your pants in the build-up to the Pavement-curated ATP, you should NOT forget that there's another one in May, too, curated by Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Nice.»
Some people like 'em, some people don't like 'em. I quite like 'em. Regardless of your position on these Portland pop-noiseniks, Times New Viking will be heading (approximately) your way in the next few months. Specifically in late March.»
Sad news.»
Everyone favourite Swedish brother-sister electronica combo The Knife are to return in 2010 with a new album, of sorts. It's a collaboration between them, Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, and is a studio version of their Darwin-inspired opera, Tomorrow, In A Year, (which was performed in collaboration with Hotel Pro Forma which will be released on March 1. »
This is probably no great surprise to most of you who read this website on a semi-regular basis, but Solange Knowles (sister of the more famous singer and wife of Jay-Z, Beyonce) is to feature on of Montreal's forthcoming LP, False Priest (via Stereogum).»
More fun and games from Malkmus and co.»
Whilst a large percentage of this country is experiencing conditions which are certainly more familiar to our Nordic cousins, it seems like there's not a better time to bring the good news to you folk. That, and I've just finished watching an episode of Wallander. »
Damn. If there's been one article written about the music industry going the same way as Wayne Mardle's darts, then there's been a hundred million of them. It's TOUGH out there, and folks want something for nothin'. Enter Shearwater.»
Purveyor of lovely beats who goes by the name of Flying Lotus has announced a new record, coming out in a few months, on Warp, obviously.»
This news article is going to do roughly what it says on the tin/front page/headline. Here's a video from Danish wonderlings Efterklang, wishing you a very happy start to 2010 and previewing some new material from their new album.»
Post-Christmas goodies. Or something.»
That rather brilliant ambient duo with a slash and a flick of post-rock influence that go by the name of Worriedaboutsatan have just announced a mini UK tour, ably backed by the equally brillig, Her Name Is Calla. »
Listen to Brian and James!»
So, what a year it has been for news. Hasn't it? Above average? There was some good stuff, right? Yes, there was, and in light of my first six months or so doing the news for Drowned in Sound, I thought it'd be a good idea to run through SOME of the very most exciting and interesting and sometimes "WTF!" news stories of the year. Or at least nobody stopped me when I mooted this suggestion...I guess that gives me free reign then?»
They help dispel various myths about the Scottish.»
Owen Pallett, who for so many years went by the pseudonym Final Fantasy, will retire that moniker with immediate effect, it was revealed today. He will henceforth be known as...Owen Pallett...in every capacity, possibly with the exception of his mother.»
Unhappy with how things were progressive, he thought he'd get a longboat over and stick his miniature oar in. Someone's gotta do something, I guess. Here's a video of what he had to say for himself.»
Download Oh No Ono's new single, 'Helplessly Young'.»
What with all that singles chart hullabaloo going on with X-Factor vs. Rage vs. a few other notable entrants, we thought we'd bring you news of ANOTHER chart, but perhaps one we can relate to a little better this time - the last.fm yearly charts.»
We like WHY?, you probably know this very well, so we won't bang on about how GREAT they are for much longer. What we will say, however, is that they've just confirmed a brief-ish UK tour for late winter/early spring next year.»
Ho ho ho, another round up on which to end the year. This time, though, instead of just WORDS and occasional pictures, we have moving images, videos for singles released this year, and it is our aim to present here the best NINE videos of 2009.»
I'm not YET getting fed-up of wangling a festive angle every time anyone gives away something in the month of December, honest! Regardless, it can only be GOOD NEWS that the people at one of the finest labels in the land, 4AD, have decided to dip into their 2009 archives and release a sampler of their best releases of the year.»
EXCITING TIMES AHEAD!»
ondon-based Italian fellow Alessio Natalizia, a.k.a Banjo Or Freakout has made available an Christmas album, entirely for freeeeeeeeee. Filled with Christmas songs it is, too, as you'd expect. You can get it by clicking through to his official blog or by clicking directly to the download.»
It's a simple fact that, as us humans deal in definite blocks of time with little or no bleed from one to the other, at the end of every year there's going to be an onslaught of musical predictions and tips from every Tom, Dick and Debby. That's just the way we work.»
It's not often that we get to write news stories about the much-loved and equally much-missed Elliott Smith, but today is such one of those days, as Kill Rock Stars will be adding the LPs Roman Candle and From A Basement On The Hill to their catalogue. There's also a new (OK, it was recorded in 1997!), unreleased track, 'Cecilia/Amanda'.»
As if it wasn't cold enough today, we've got a sub-zero slab of post-rocky goodness for you all - it a Silver Mt. Zion (or whatever name they're touring on now, probably with the silly suffix of 'Tra La La Band' or some such nonsense) track, taken from their new record Kollaps Tradixionales, their first since 2008's Thirteen Blues For Thirteen Moons.»
