If you ever wished you could attend UK fest All Tomorrow Parties, Facets Cinémathèque , 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., has a rare treat for you, Chicago. The Lincoln Park multi-media center will premiere a unique documentary on the festival featuring performances by Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Shellac, Les Savy Fav, and Portishead to name a few. The documentary All Tomorrow's Parties was compiled from footage taped by over 200 festival attendees on everything from traditional cameras [...]
Here is day three of my favorite albums of the aughts. There's a lot of good stuff here (in my opinion). I hope you are taking advantage of the full album streams via LaLa.com . I will continue with the posts next Monday. I hope you enjoy. View 50-41 After the Jump… 50: Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street (2004) [...]

Nudge is a slightly loose collective lead by Los Angeles based musician Brian Foote. When he's not busy recording bands from the Deerhunter family, namely Atlas Sound and Lotus Plaza, he gets together with a few talented friends to record beat-heavy electronic music with an unique style that ranges from dub and rocksteady to psychedelic rock and jazz. "Two Hands" comes from the latest Nudge album, As Good as Gone , released earlier this year via Kranky . This one kind of sounds like early Portishead meets psychedelic rock... Nudge - "Two [...]

As part of Warp Records' 20th anniversary London event, Warp Films present a night of visuals, film and music at a secret Bethnal Green Warehouse Location on Friday 4th December, 7pm-4am. The event is the final in a global series of events (New York, Paris, Sheffield, Tokyo, Berlin) celebrating 20 years of Warp. The night will play host to a mash-up of Warp Films' eclectic projects, comprising of classic features, shorts and music videos. Event details can be found here: Facebook | Warp Website | Tickets [...]
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck - Heaven Can Wait from the album Irm [out Dec. 8] Recently on Comfort Radio: Nino Moschella - Are You For Real Portishead - Roads (kmotiv monk mix) Richard H Kirk - Poets Saints Revolutionaries...

Arms and Sleepers: Matador Trip-hop duo, Arms and Sleepers have produced a prolific amount of material for only three years of activity. After a touring schedule that brought them to Europe, the group decided to focus on a new proper full length. The result is Matador , released by Fake Chapter Records. To produce the record, the duo teamed up with a plethora of musicians including Tom Brosseau , Shelley Short , Ben Shepard and Catherine Worsham of Uzi and Ari , Philip Jamieson of Caspian , and Mona Elliot of [...]
Photo by seany t Great rework by HavocNdeeD of one of my all time favorites. I get goosebumps at mark 2:25. "Roads (HavocNdeeD remix feat. Matt Downs" | download Portishead |... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
After it took Portishead ten years to make their third album, their output is picking up at a rapidly. Geoff Barrow hooked up with Billy Fuller and Matt Williams to form the band Beak>, and their debut album is pretty awesome. It's got some Deerhunter aesthetic to it in the drums and bass ("I Know" especially), which is why I said I'd call it Atlas Sound day... well, I guess Deerhunter day would make more sense. Whatevs. I'd label the album as progressive rock, but it has a lot of slower moments, so maybe just rock [...]

Mass Fiction: Genre Fans of Dubious Ranger should knowledgeable of Jonathan Eccles. He's the guitarist. When Eccles isn't jamming out with Dubious Ranger, he's playing in Mass Fiction. Eccles produced Genre with the band and released it November 10th through The Nothing Room. Most of the band is apparently classically trained. But the only way to describe the band is Power Pop mixed in with some good old rock. Lead singer Greg Hoffman plays piano, and his voice sounds like a young Billy Joel. In fact, the third track "Slow Fat Animals" sounds like [...]

Unusual Canadian quartet mixes progrock, classical and more One spin of this Montreal band's second full-length made me belatedly realize that my infatuation with Stereolab and Portishead traces a straight line back to an earlier infatuation with Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, and many other '70s prog-rock giants. It's not that these bands share the same exact melodic, rhythmic or instrumental sensibilities, but they each temper rock elements with something progressive, such as jazz, classical, and world music. Flotilla augments their keyboards, electronics, bass, and drums, with ethereal, delicate touches of fingertip plucked [...]
"And though it's hard for me to say, I know you're better off this way Get away, get away". Vous avez très surement du entendre parler des Horrors , vous savez ce groupe au look ultra goth que lorsque vous les avez vus pour la première fois, vous n'avez pas pu vous empêcher de penser "on dirait trooop les Tokyo Hotel, han han". Laissez vos à priori de côté (les apparences sont bien souvent trompeuses) et plongez vous dans [...]
Tru Thoughts Records out of the UK has been around for almost 10 years now and many people are probably reading that name for the first time. I'll be honest and admit that before I got back into writing for the site I didn't either. With that being said I highly urge everybody to check out what this label is putting out. One of their most recent releases is from a band called Stonephace . I'm really trying to catogorize this band in some genre, I'm reaching more in the Jazz Genre, but I'll just make up my [...]

'T Nieuwe Werck Only exclusive mixtapes! This time no Wiskind serie by The New Worck resident Dj √69! But what a great 3 hour trip in deep psychedelic trippy electronica! Don't expect freaky soundscapes, this contains more beats! All different styles! A good trip on 'Designer Drugs'! http://tnieuwewerck.blogspot.c om/2009/11/new-worck-283-of-dj -69.html - Fog - The Smell Of Failure - Kid Loco - Calling Aventura King - Mubles - The Catch - Kinesthesia - Triachus (Aphex Twin Mix) - [...]
What did we tell you? Just last month we featured She Is Danger after ramdomly stumbling upon their myspace site by chance. We know we've hit gold. When you think about dubstep, you don't really think about women behind the decks / laptops, making the music. You usually think about them at the front, trying to get close to the DJ guy, you usually think about women as subjects of either abuse or sexual objects in the lyrics of most grime songs. And that's why, when we found out that the people behind She [...]
Think of us as providers of a weekly public service announcement. Whatever we can do to help you steer clear of unnecessary items and edge you closer to the greener grass of the path less traveled, well, that's what we're here for. So this week, we'll wheedle, entice, cajole, whatever's necessary in order to make you put down that Katy Perry Unplugged album and the umpteenth in-concert job by some Beatle guy, and seek out some dubby electro-drone damage, a little screwy jazz mind-bending, an old-school stomp-rock raveup, and to make it all go down easy, a surefire, [...]

One of the best things about making mixes based on a theme is discovering songs in your own collection. In making my Halloween mix, I came across this promo mp3 from the Horrors second album, Primary Colours , which was released in May. If you went only by a 30-second sample, you might dismiss it as a rip-off of Echo and the Bunnymen-the same guitar-driven, muddy shoegaze and deep-voiced vocals. But "Sea Within a Sea" has a seven-minute arc, and things happen in that time that overcome that first impression. At about the 4-minute mark, [...]

La scorsa settimana abbiamo terminato il nostro viaggio attraverso gli album più importanti del decennio che si sta concludendo. Abbiamo quindi pensato di riassumere il tutto in questo post che non è altro che la lista completa, tappa per tappa, degli album che di volta in volta abbiamo approfondito, in modo tale da avere una sorta di indice delle varie puntate. Dopo il salto trovate anche la listona di tutti gli album che di anno in anno sono stati inseriti fra "gli album da salvare". [...]
Progressive experiments of time and sound? Must come out of Bristol, then. Bristol has a deep-rooted history of acts that innovate and experiment in blending past genres and forming new. Beak>'s own history is entwined within this, with ties to two of the city's biggest success stories. Geoff Barrow is more prominently known as the producer and founding member of seminal trip-hop act Portishead, and it's of little surprise that the other tie, albeit loose, is with the eponymous Massive Attack. Now, any avid Portishead fan may...

Tune in every Saturday night 9-10:30 MST to catch me spinning (digitally) the latest and greatest... You can listen to a replay of the show whenever you would like for the next two weeks right here . If you are an artist/producer or whatever and want to do an interview on the show sometime please contact me. Scene Not Heard 11.14.09 Playlist Surf City - Headin' Inside Surfer Blood - Swim (To [...]
Recently took in the well-conceived All Tomorrow's Parties documentary- a film incorporating Super8, camcorder and mobile phone footage contributed by filmmakers, fans and musicians from the cult festival's history with major contributions from Jonathan Caouette and Vincent Moon. Featured in the film are performances from Battles, Sonic Youth, Belle And Sebastian, Patti Smith, Animal Collective, Grinderman, Iggy and the Stooges, Portishead, Mogwai, Slint, Grizzly Bear, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip, Daniel Johnston and The Boredoms. The ATP festival is unique for its band and fan curated lineups, lack of corporate sponsorships, and country club [...]