Dot To Dot Festival takes over the bank holiday weekend for another year this coming weekend. There are, once again, a huge number of bands playing across Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester and we've selected a few that we think you should spend your valuable time on... Black Books Making their debut appearance on the UK live scene, the band will be arriving here fresh off the back of playing two support dates with none other than The Flaming Lips. Not a bad way to start, eh? Beautiful [...]
Betaworks describes itself as "a company that builds companies," but really it's a start-up incubator and the most interesting media technology company at the moment. Lately, it has scooped up a bevvy of smaller companies. We know they are working on a Google Reader replacement . It bought the much-maligned Digg last year and gave the site a nice facelift, doing the impossible - it revived a dead corpse and made it better. Last month, the company bought a majority stake in Marco Arment's [...]
By Ryan Lake May 7, 2013 Less than four months after their debut album And That , Mike Skinner ( The Streets ) & Rob Harvey ( The Music ) return as the The D.O.T with Diary . The D.O.T are a vanity project by two musicians well esteemed in their respective fields. It's apparent that both of these guys are trying new things in music, but this whole album sounds like development. If there is a finished product to arrive at, this is [...]
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I think we all were a bit bummed when Mike Skinner called an end to The Streets. That's probably why we've been a little antsy about getting hold of the second album from Mr. Skinner and Rob Harvey, previously of The Music. Under their moniker of The D.O.T , Next week they'll finally release Diary , but as is the norm these days, you can stream the album in full prior to release next Monday (May 6th) on Cooking Vinyl. Check out the record that mixes together a bit of this and a bit of that [...]
Let's contextualise capital trio London Grammar's spiralling ascent to the vertiginous apices of mainstream intrigue a moment, shall we? Their latest, Wasting My Young Years, was uploaded to the band's SoundCloud some fifteen hours ago, has been aired 17,297 times at this acute point in time and has been snagged by no less than sixteen blogs plugged into the Hype Machine. That's over a post an hour, inclusive of a nighttime. And those are some incontrovertibly impressive figures right there. Personally, I'd have scribbled something or other of it sooner had I not (somewhat ironically I suppose, given its title) [...]
Les presentamos a London Grammar, un trio de... Londres, haciendo música muy interesante. Dan Rothman se encarga de la guitarra, Dot Major el piano y las percusiones, y Hannah Reid de hipnotizarnos con su hermosa voz. Sacaron un EP Metal & Dust , hace unos meses, y ahora nos presentan un track nuevo "Wasting My Young Dreams", enjoy.
After Mike Skinner put The Streets to rest after 5 albums I didn't think I would hear much from the bloke. I waited for some time, and nothing... I followed Skinner on his blog http://mikeskinner.so and watched for him to put out something new. Nothing happened... I mean, there were some new posts and interesting photos, and words, but no music. And then-a few months back, I became aware that I was literally on Mike Skinner's personal emailing list. A message popped up from one of my favorite anti-mainstream mainstream artists. I had received an email from [...]
It was an all-local show-stravaganza this Saturday at the Firebird. Locals Palace, Union Tree Review, Dots Not Feathers and Wildeyed played sets. Union Tree Review and Dots Not Feathers debuted n... Continue reading "Dots Not Feathers, Palace and More at the Firebird 2/23/2013: Photos" >
The second last Thursday of January saw an alluring bunch of pixels pop up on Club Cheval's Facebook page. They showed Theophilus London in the studio with Myd of Club Cheval and Brodinski . For those who are excited over the continued blurring of the walls between hip hop and electronic dance music, this track is definitely going to get your ears erect. More than that, London claimed via his Twitter account that the track will make the world "say goodbye to that trap shit like [...]
So this is it. Whilst John Lewis, and Nigella Lawson, and all those other odious household bods and sods build up to Sufjan Stevens' excessively beloved time of the season , here's us stealing their mistletoe and smooching with your attention. Right? Below be ten veritably bulging gifts from we to you. There: have at 'em. Early Christmas pressies. Free of charge. Or that's at least 'til the BMI enforce the absurd licensing regulations long since menaced, when we'll henceforth trawl the annals of our analytics and embark upon a marathon knock-a-door dressed as Mr. C circa Sycophant Slags, [...]
And now, the end is nigh. We tug away a little more at Sinatra's bloody red curtain, and unveil the penultimate ten in our Tracks of 2012 series. Saying it clear and stating that case of which we're certain, in our combined mind few MP3s and other assorted ones bettered the below, which this time encompasses entries born Under the Westway, drifted in from Japan, spawned in New York, and oozed Raclette-like out of Switzerland. The Avalanches also finally found it in themselves to return – and did so with a disconcertingly calm Silver Jew in the trim shape [...]
Another Monday and to commemorate the crushing mundanity the day embodies with a most despairing inherence, we're back here divulging a further ten tracks from our 2012 ranking. Our previous instalment took in a Fuck Button, the irrefutably inimitable Bobby Womack, and a lo-res JPG of a cat in a box . This one, meanwhile, clicks through a smattering of woebegone London lo-fi, a couple snared from the Captured Tracks roster, the inevitable Hot Chip entry, and something ever so slightly special from Sam Willis who was once, all in all, just another [...]
In this, the first instalment of Dots & Dashes' Tracks of 2012, we initiate the rundown from forty through one, vicariously reliving the glory days of TOTP, rampaged Woolworths racks of any given Monday morn, and so forth. Novelty Christmas number ones and such. Though as we approach the season to be jolly – blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah – here begins our catalogue of tracks to have made the year that was, and most certainly still is 2012, commensurately merry. Comprising odes to toddlers, strippers and charlatans alike, numbers 31 through 40 take [...]
Cocoon Recordings is back in full force with the follow up to last year’s superb vinyl compilation ‘ Dots & Pearls ’. Providing a tracklisting that is nothing less than the modern interpretation of House, Techno and Tech-House ‘Dots & Pearls II’ eschews monotonous loops and predictable formulas and rather delivers a selection packed with energy and depth . Tracklist LP: A1. Ilario Alicante & Todd Bodine – Modern Apocalypse A2. Subb-an feat. Jacob Phono – In The Night B1. Mark Reeve – Carry Me B2. [...]
From all the wonderful submissions NEXTBiGTHING & A Music Blog, Yea? have gathered so far, here are a few to check out! Be sure to contact us to see your band here soon too! Band: The Detours Track We Really Dig: Feeling High Artist: Perry Manning Track We Really Dig: My Arrogant Ignorant Side [...]
Uncle Skeleton - Dot Serious business. If hold music were always like this, I would ask them to put me back on hold. Directed by Ken Tsui from the brilliant album All Too Human . Previously
Marc over at A Little Bit Louder reviewed The D.O.T.'s recent show in Manchester! Click the article photo & read away! Alicia Atout
If it seems like Mike Skinner’s been away from the game for a spell, it’s because he has been. The British hip-hop maestro, celebrated for his tales of working class banality with The Streets, has been sidelined from recording and touring with chronic fatigue issues, but listening to his new dance-influenced project The D.O.T. , it would certainly seem he’s gotten the best of whatever’s been ailing him. Whereas The Streets propped Skinner up front and center as your typical blunt-blazing bloke next door, The D.O.T., the rapper’s collaboration with The Music’s Rob Harvey, finds Skinner taking [...]
After keeping a close eye on the Rob Harvey and Mike Skinner project, The D.O.T., today marks the release of their debut full-length titled And That . I'm currently on spin number three of the entire album and simply can't get enough of it. There's this delicate balance between Skinner's beats roughhousing with my ear drums and Harvey's vocals making a punching bag out of my heart throughout the course of the record that keeps me connected and in tune with their whole vibe in a way that I haven't felt about a new album in months. Not to [...]
The first album from The D.O.T. Mike Skinner, formerly of The Streets and Rob Harvey, formerly of The Music, launch their new musical project. You can listen to their debut album below. Read more »
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