The first wave of acts for the east London festival have been announced...
Every year, Platt Fields Park in Manchester is turned into Festival Central with the Parklife Weekender playing host to some of the worlds top musical talent and the initial line-up has just been announced and boy is it going to be a fun weekend! Taking place on the weekend of June 9th-10th, Wayne Coyne will bring The Flaming Lips gang to headline the Festival along with Dizzee Rascal . Other acts announced include Justice , Crystal Castles , Noah and the Whale , TEED , Azealia Banks , The [...]

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Listening to Saturday Night Gym Class , my first thought was WOWOWOW. Yes, sweet synths, chilled out, blissed out, textured electro loveliness. Saturday Night Gym Class's lush synths envelope you like a warm blanket in winter. The ambient track is taken from their debut EP "How To Build A Life Raft", from which the leading track is "I Know ft. Ellie Walker". Drawing comparisions to M83 and other electro outfits of the same ilk such as Crystal Castles and Ladytron , this young four piece met while studying at University. The band [...]
Así es. Otro grupo que se sube al carro de los que lanzan discos en 2012. Crystal Castles es un grupo que nos dejó muy buen sabor de boca con sus dos trabajos, titulados apropiadamente como el propio dúo, y que nos hace preveer que el tercero podría llamarse igual. Crystal Castles III (dejemoslo así) comenzará a grabarse el mes que viene en Warsaw, o al menos así lo han confirmado ellos mismos en una entrevista en la que hablan que podría lanzarse en los meses del verano boreal, [...]

El dúo electrónico Crystal Castles está preparando el sucesor de Crystal Castles II (2010), y en diálogo con NME el productor Ethan Kath dijo que él y la cantante Alice Glass estarán grabando en Croacia el próximo mes. "Estuvimos tocando ahí a principios de este año y pensamos que sería un buen lugar para escapar y aislarnos a nosotros mismos" dijo Kath sobre el remoto lugar elegido para la [...]

According to a recent print edition of NME , electronic duo Crystal Castles will be recording their new album in Warsaw and plan to release it sometime this summer. The new album will be a followup to their great sophomore release, Crystal Castles (II) , and like all their other albums, it will be self-produced by Ethan Kath. Regarding the bands sound, Kath states: "every song we write feels bleak to me. I don't get it when people think it's beautiful. I think it [bleakness] is the only emotion we do. We don't [...]
An untitled new record should be out this summer.

El Festival Internacional de Benicàssim ya tiene cartel con una lista preliminar de artistas confirmados. Encabezando la lista se encuentran The Stone Roses, New Order y Florence and the Machine. Este festival se llevará a cabo del 12 al 15 de julio en Benicàssim, España. Las entradas al festival ya están a la venta y tienen un costo de €165 euros. La lista confirmada: The Stone Roses New Order Florence And The Machine Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Crystal Castles The Vaccines [...]
It's almost two years since Crystal Castles released their manic second record, and it looks like a follow-up ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ crystal-castles-planning-new-a lbum-for-summer-rele/61110/

It doesn't stop does it? Everyone's releasing albums this year with Crystal Castles adding to the pile toting an album for 2012. By everyone we're talking about Bloc Party , La Roux , Breakbot , The Temper Trap , Sebastien Tellier and Hot Chip ! In a recent print-only interview in NME with lead-lady Kath, she spilled details on the album dropping "sometime this summer" (Australia's winter) with a majority of it being recorded in Croatia. [...]

Photo by Philip Cosores In an interview from NME's print edition (that apparently didn't make it onto the website), Crystal Castles' Ethan Kath confirmed that the duo is beginning work on their third full-length album next month in Croatia, and that we can expect the record to be released "sometime this summer." Kath will be self-producing the record again. This is the follow-up to 20102s (second) self-titled record, and will see "elements" from that release carried on to the new affair. As to why the pair has chosen Croatia to record, Kath answered that [...]
De lujo. Sólo así se puede describir la configuración del FIB 2012 , la cual está quedando como la de una de las mejores ediciones que han pasado por tierras valencianas, y yo diría, por España, a nivel general de festivales, en mucho tiempo. De hecho, se trata de una parrilla envidiable para cualquier festival internacional. Hace tan sólo unos días confirmaban asistencia Noel Gallagher (bajo su nuevo proyecto High Flying Birds) y Miles Kane, a los que había que sumar los primeros artistas anunciados: The Stone Roses, Florence And The Machine y The Vaccines. Por si [...]
In the mid-eighties, the Canadian New Wave band Platinum Blonde released a song called "Not In Love." While they achieved hometown success, they remained relatively obscure to the masses. At best, consider them kitschy, but they were never the front-runners of New Wave. And it's tempting to suggest Platinum Blonde caught a revival when Crystal Castles, featuring Robert Smith, covered "Not In Love" last year. However, Crystal Castles made a far more popular, better-crafted version of the song, leaving Platinum Blonde to remain largely unknown. So perhaps that's why California band PK decided to cover the Crystal Castles version. It [...]
Dark Mother : Glass Cast The first time I saw Crystal Castles play live, they were supporting C.S.S. and they were mercilessly booed by a crowd of punters who just wanted to see Lovefoxxx in spandex. 6 months later, I was at underage festival, seeing Alice Glass adored by a group of young'uns at Underage Festival, who couldn't quite believe what had just hit them. It was the first sight of what Crystal Castles performances have come to be; huge, ritual-like experiences in which people faint, climb over barriers, out-doing to be part [...]
Tarot Chords lay before you to conjured more then what we currently have. They tell of a future unlike our own. A future we're in dire need of. The tale of renaissance and the cold rediscovery of the creative spirit. Witch house, drag, ghost drone, dark wave, dark snyth, witch bass, zombie rave and sometimes even seapunk will [...]

PK - Not In Love [Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith] | bx watch the original

Do you ever lay awake at night wondering what would happen if Crystal Castles and SALEM got together and formed a supergroup? Well wonder no more because CRIM3S is here. Part Alice Glass screaming barely intelligible heavily distorted vocals and part witch house, CRIM3S is music you want to turn up so loud the sound's shaken out of your speakers. The London-based girl-guy duo has recently debuted a five track EP via Black Bus . You can stream the track 'FADE' below along with rest of their EP off the group's Soundcloud . STREAM: CRIM3S - "FADE"

Já pensou em ver ao vivo, no mesmo palco, o pequenino rei do dubstep e do hype Skrillex e a dupla canadense Crystal Castles ? Em um mashup postado no youtube, é possível ter um pequeno gosto de como seria esse encontro. As músicas misturadas foram Intimate e The Devil's Den . A qualidade do som ficou perfeita, e, apesar de não sabermos quem fez o mashup (aparentemente foi o dono da conta bitaly , que postou o vídeo), a track foi muito bem mixada. Vale lembrar que o Crystal [...]
Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. A semana não trouxe muita actividade a esta página e continuou a ser preenchida com algumas músicas constam da minha lista pessoal das 40 músicas que mais curti em 2011. Refiro no entanto alguns temas extra que poderiam eventualmente ter sido incluídos na lista mencionada e que