So what brings Wilbur crawling apologetically back from the woodwork? Tramlines of course! Sheffield's annual sprawling, slightly incoherent, festival is again poised and ready to take the city by storm. With the official programme just released into the wild here I thought I'd lend a kindly hand and highlight some of the acts I've so graciously deemed worthy of your attention. For part I I'd like to shine the spotlight on..... Castrovalva [...]
Do you remember that video for 'Lotus Flower' that Radiohead put out to promote their recent King of Limbs album? Y'now, the one where Thom Yorke dances like a lunatic? Well, Leeds-based noiseniks Castrovalva have gone and done something similar, only with growling angry noise instead of limp-glitch indie, and a mad-limbed ginger fellow instead of [...]
Live at Leeds have announced their final wave of acts for the festival. The three day festival of music and art will take place on Friday, April 29th to Sunday, May 1st at various venues around the city. One wristband will get you into most gigs, costing only £17.50. Villagers will commence festivities on the Friday night with a special show at The Brudenell Social Club, seperate tickets are needed for this one. James Blake, Glasvegas, Frightened Rabbit, The Futureheads, Pulled Apart by Horses, Anna Calvi, The Duke Spirit, Young Knives and Aloe Blacc [...]

As you may know, "We Don't Go to Ravenholm" is the an infamous chapter in the critically acclaimed 2004 video game Half-Life 2 . Involving a perilous journey through a trap- and zombie-infested Eastern European mining town, the chapter was praised for its atmosphere, tension and subtlety. "We Don't Go to Ravenholm" is also the title of a track on Castrovalva's 2010 debut album We Are A Unit , which can be praised for very little, with the possible exception of its merciful brevity. Let's be clear - I've nothing against messy, mercilessly loud, chaotic music. [...]

Pictures for British Wildlife Festival at Leeds' Nation of Shopkeepers are up! Yeah it was quite a messy night. Ultimate Thrush destroyed the stage yet again, but this timeround, it was really Divorce that took control of the whole the show. Christ, this was probably the best set they've ever played (and I've seen them 3 times). Fucking brutal. I'd be surprised if these guys don't yet have a cult following. Bought Ultimate Thrush's and Divorce's tees. Been waiting ages for them to get [...]
Castrovalva - " Pump Pump " from We Are a Unit (mp3) J Dilla - " Safety Dance " (mp3) from Donut Shop on Serato/ Stones Throw What Laura Says - " Training " (mp3) from Bloom Creek on Terpsikhore Records SPEAK - " Carrie (Mindfull) " (mp3) Hooray For Earth - " Surrounded By Your Friends " (mp3) from MOMO EP on Dovecote Records
1. Standing Shadows - "Get Together"2. Grovesnor - "Taxi From the Airport"3. Yukon Blonde - "Rather Be With You"4. Skaka Ponk - "Do"5. Slow Six - "The Night You Left New York" (radio edit)6. Echo and the Bunnymen - "Proxy"7. High Places - "On Giving Up"8. Castrovalva - "Donut"9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - "It's Thunder and It's Lightening" (my favorite)10. Fangs - "Cos I Said So" (Kid Gloves
I don't want ruin the surprise, but we'll be unveiling something rather massive on Monday. (If you follow us a Twitter , you've probably read a few hints). So as a sort of thank you to our current setup, we wanted to cap things off with a bang by putting together our best Friday Mixtape yet. Of course, we stuck to the newest and best mix of singles, remixes, covers, but, this time around, we tried to pack in as many as possible. Please enjoy! We'll see you on Monday! NEW Singles: [...]

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. " - Friedrich Nietzsche Late due to dodgy internet connections but here we go, nonetheless..... MP3: When Planets Align - Radio Silence Heavily FM rock blend of 90's style emo ( Shudder to Think ) and more classic influences like [...]
Last.Fm ve MySpace'in Türkiye'de engellenmesinin ardından zamanımın büyük bir bölümü bu konuda mücadele etmekle ve Netdaş hareketinin gelişimine katkıda bulunmaya çalışmakla geçti. Bu sebeple 2 haftada bir yayınladığım Promos Weekly bölümü bir hafta gecikmeyle geliyor. 1) Bullion - Are You The One? Bullion @ MySpace 2) Dark Mean - China Dark Mean @ MySpace 3) Local Natives - Airplanes Local Natives [...]
Castrovalva @ The Packhorse, Live At Leeds from Roach Productions on Vimeo .
Hailing from Leeds, Castrovalva take their inspiration not from the Leeds music scene, but from some of the noise drum/bass duos America has to offer, acts like Lightning Bolt, Health and Death From Above 1979. Their self-titled mini-album will be out May 4th. It's loud, it's gritty and it's in-your-face. The album opens with 'Max Rhodes' where its sample of a quiet radio broadcast is harshly overshadowed with roaring bursts of heavily distorted bass, carving its way into a song. The drums pound and crash their way though the tracks, accompanying the bass in and between [...]

I missed last week's MM so here's an extra helping of MAGTASM. Dirty Projectors ' upcoming album, 'Bitte Orca', leaves where 'Rise Above' left off, only this time around it's all original songs (Rise Above was an attempt to remake the Black Flag album, Damaged, from-memory). It's definitely their most accomplished and accessible album to date. 'Remade Horizon' is a stand-out song for me, with a sweet chorus line. Yeahhh I wanna! Mp3: 'Remade Horizon' Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dirtypr ojectors [...]

Castrovalva are yet another heavy rock band playing mainly instrumental stuff that manage to fall within the genre of math rock, which seems to be making a resurgence in popularity since it first raised its melodic head in the 1980s. Based in Leeds in the UK, this is the band's follow up to their debut, self released album Live at the Library. The album is full of cool ideas and moments, such as the intro which starts with the sound of an ancient, crackly radio show which then gets bombarded by distorted bass and heavy drums that jut [...]