Blog: New Ears

Time to delete some of those WebCameron podcasts and make room for this new episode of moving pictures. New Warp signees, antipodean trio Pivot, release their new In The Blood EP on Monday with a Jaws dropping video featuring puppets, sharks and gore galore. Like first UK release 'Didn't I Furious', Pivot's new single marries Autechre's bleeps and Talking Heads' new wave post-punk together in a way only your well schooled muso vicars can. Pivot - 'Didn't I Furious' (download here or [...]

In contrast to our domestic music festivals, the lineup for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California is the stuff that dreams are made of. Our intrepid reporter, jobot, found a blueprint for musical heaven on earth, we asked her to fill us in and recommend her favourite new bands from the festival… En route to Indio my taxi driver was so desperate for my business that he offered to help disassemble my tent on the Monday after the festival before driving me back. Such a unique situation set amongst a landscape of [...]