" Chelsea Light Moving isn't just a band – it's an inventor of games. I mean just wood, and coloured plastics. But we're not selling it. It won't be available in any digital formats. It's most decidedly not a war game." War has, however, been publicly waged by onetime wife Kim Gordon: the very nucleus of Sonic Youth apparently irreparably split, in a recent and rightly lionised interview with Elle , she told of Moore's conversely inseparable intimacy with one of his literary collaborators and it was this which eventually forced the wheels from [...]
Here at Consequence of Sound , we live for music festivals. Whether the event of choice is located in a favorite city or on a field in the middle of nowhere, even the act of getting there inspires an unbearable sensation of anticipation, comparable to Christmas mornings from childhood. Over the past decade, the festival climate has changed from a handful of events to nearly every major market having a musical destination to call its own. While the likes of Lollapalooza and Sasquatch! sold out in record time and Austin City Limits followed Coachella's example and expanded [...]
Hebronix has shared another track titled "Viral" which will be on their debut LP Unreal . The former frontman of Yuck , Daniel Blumberg started Hebronix just 10 days after breaking up with his old band. It is sad to see that happen to a band as great as Yuck after their amazing self-titled debut in 2011. This is the second track that Hebronix has released, the first one being " Unreal ", which serves as both the [...]
English trad-indie revivalists Yuck publicly parted ways with frontman Daniel Blumberg in mid-April, and less than 10 days later, Blumberg's new solo project, Hebronix, released its excellent first single, " Unreal ." It remains to be seen what will be delivered by Yuck - who will indeed carry on sans Blumberg - but either way, Hebronix seems poised to satisfy fans of Blumberg's old band. The album will (rather appropriately) be produced by Royal Trux's Neil Hagerty, and we've got its second single now. "Viral" is a lilting, layered bit of summertime pop full of baroque instrumentation and [...]
ATP is hosting its final holiday camp weekend, curated by Loop. The post Loop, Mogwai, Comets on Fire playing ATP End of an Era 2 appeared first on Treble: Music news, reviews, interviews and more .
Ahead of the forthcoming ATP curated by Deerhunter festival (Camber Sands, UK from June 21st-23rd), Bradford Cox has unveiled a mixtape he's put together featuring music from many of the artists set to play the event. Check that out below, and head here to purchase tickets. 0.00 Steve Reich - Drumming (excerpt) 2.04 Deerhunter - Desire Lines 8.43 The Breeders - Drivin' On 9 12.00 Dan Deacon - True Thrush 16.44 William Basinski - 92982.1 [...]
There will, in the none too distant future, come a day when All Tomorrow's Parties' beachside shenanigans are no more. Presently, there remain three occasions in which to get deep down (and dirty as a Pontins bedsheet) down Camber Sands before Barry Hogan and Deborah Kee Higgins roll up the roadshow and take ATP to as yet uncharted territories this coming winter. Recent reconfigurations within the company are then to make themselves unmistakably manifest, as the two final weekends in November are to commemorate The End Of An Era . Petitions have been signed in favour of the protraction of [...]
Fresh from blowing the Thursday of last week's Primavera Sound clean out the of course only gently proverbial waters, Fuck Buttons today deign to enlighten as to how forthcoming third, Slow Focus , may yet sound. Although only an abridged edit, The Red Wing proved a thunderous powerhouse live in full and comes across similarly destructively on record, even when condensed down into three and a bit supremely abrasive minutes. Gritty in bits as Barcelona itself, Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power otherwise lace the track with faraway gurgles and grizzly snaps; punitive crackles and cinematic crescendoes to [...]
In the space of a few recuperative days, we relocate from the stones of Brighton to the sands of Barcelona. During transitory stints over the past few summers I've sat with the Mediterranean shoreline between my toes, gazing forever longingly over toward the exotic gleam of the iconic, angular slant of the Parc del Fòrum's placa fotovoltaica as it juts out into the great unknown in the general direction of all the more peculiar continents. Then, it sat beside the sea an intangible dream; now, it becomes an intense reality. Life even, if only for a few [...]
"It's better when it's short! I mean, we can have a nice, long conversation but I like it when the pieces are relatively short. Unless it's supposed to be an in-depth piece centred around a certain idea – the way in which the writer looks at the world, or something. Then maybe it's interesting." So spake Alex "Agor" Cowan of Blue Hawaii now some weeks ago at the somewhat insalubrious end of Holloway Road and although this won't be the so-called "snapshot kinda: 'Blue Hawaii come from Montréal, and their favourite game is billiards, and they love drinking [...]
The littoral British retreat that is Brighton may be better renowned for saccharine tat and chish and fips still swimming in gristle and grime than it may be for musics and the manic frenzy their festivals so often entail, although the city becomes a bloody hive of hype for the one weekend of the year. That is this, and this is the 2013 edition of The Great Escape . So let the buzz begin! Away from the unrelenting bustle of the capital – a restive kind of agitation capable of bludgeoning even the irrepressibly ebullient [...]
Os TV on the Radio foram os curadores do último festival da All Tomorrow’s Parties no passado fim de semana. Como parte integrante do cartaz, a banda de Brooklyn apresentou novo material ao vivo durante o seu concerto.
By this time next week, we'll already have (albeit only ephemerally) relocated to Barcelona for day upon day of decadent overindulgence and musical extravagance, for this year's edition of the quintessential left field festival, Primavera Sound , is now upon us. I can practically taste the Estrella Heineken fizzling away at the rear of my palette and, truth be known, the way this British springtime's currently panning, out I'm almost relishing the prospect of inevitable sunburn. Almost... Storms are currently forecast for the week though that can't be right, right..? Anyhow – as is so often our wont [...]
TV On the Radio. El fin de semana pasado, TV On the Radio se presentó en el festival All Tomorrow's Parties en Inglaterra, mismo que ellos curaron en esta edición. Durante su presentación, el grupo de Brooklyn estrenó una canción nueva llamada "Mercy" en la que podemos escuchar guitarras más fuertes, baterías más rápidas y una esencia más punk que en sus grabaciones anteriores. Un fan de TV On the Radio grabó esta canción y la compartió con el mundo.
Why ATP's demise comes as no surprise... - by Benjamin Bland
"Summer is coming, and I hope I feel better by the time it does" or so Charlotte Hatherley once sang some nine years ago and nothing quite makes you sense the onset of the at least purportedly sunniest term like a !!! show. Though how might a tout pronounce the purposefully unpronounceable, I hear you ponder? They don't, in response to said proposal. They instead skulk innocuously opposite the Village Underground in vain hope the oversized flashes of white protruding forth from clenched fists serve as magnetic beacons of intrigue. "Tickets for tonight?" they mumble, voices nigh on [...]
It'd been nigh on twelve long months since I'd last found myself clambering up the vertiginous inclines of Alexandra Park toward Ally Pally – a timescale no sooner contemplated than it'd been calculated, for each extreme was bookended by something utterly scintillating. Each was an I'll Be Your Mirror . This time taking place toward the beginning of an altogether merrier May, Karen O and her resurgent Yeah Yeah Yeahs plastered Saturday in a fluoro hue of glee, cherry-picking the likes of Dirty Beaches & The Field & Anika from a group filed [...]
It's with a faint sense of trepidation we hike forever upward toward Alexandra Palace, not least as the sweltering trudge seemingly represents the metaphoric arrival of festival season which begins in earnest in but a few short weeks' time. It's the time of the season for early starts and later nights, lager glugged from the moment morning stumbles into afternoon as liver, lobes and inner ears quiver as one. Which painfully reminds me I've neglected to bring the old in-ears. Shite. Though Karen O & co. haven't opted for anywhere near as ruinous a line up as ATP [...]
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A quick note on the passing of the holiday camp iteration of All Tomorrow's Parties, and two perspectives on it. Catriona Gray in the New Statesman sees a positive: Founder Barry Hogan’s desire to preserve the festival’s authenticity – by calling a halt to it before it has a chance to stale or mutate into another commercial-driven affair – is manifested in his unusual choice of headliner for the final weekend: eighties alt-rock band Loop, who are temporarily reforming for the event. The Quietus , though, suggests it might have been [...]
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