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A little like the optical illusion centred upon the visual dichotomy between the rabbit and the duck, the scatty, lo-fi work of Kamal Rasool's Flamingods may either be perceived as directionless lo-fi thuddery permeated periodically by wooded flute harmonies or as genuinely progressive, genre-banishing brilliance. Irrespective of whether you see a bill or a pair of ears, within the heavily percussive stuff to have already fallen out of their Soundcloud there's ample excellence to admire: from frantic piping and thumping of ethnic skins on Spirit Away Away to the mesmeric glitters and muffled vocal samples of [...]

Over the last few years HT faves Wilco have launched their own music festival, started their own label, played innovative tours in their hometown of Chicago and even sold their own brand of coffee, but the one thing that they haven't done, at least since 1999, is make a music video. That changed yesterday as Jeff Tweedy & Co. released a new animated video for the tune Dawned On Me, but this isn't your straight up clip. For their first video in over a decade the band teamed up with the folks at King Features for [...]

La banda liderada por Matt Berninger será la encargada de seleccionar el line-up de la edición de diciembre de All Tomorrow's Parties , reconocido festival con la premisa de que los curadores sean los propios músicos. "ATP se enorgullece en anunciar que nuestro festival anual de diciembre, un evento de 3 días en el Butlins Holiday Centre de Minehead, Inglaterra, será curado y encabezado por The National. Esta será su única presentación en Inglaterra de 20123 , explicó la organización del festival en la [...]

Filed under: News Frazer Harrison, Getty Images Having wrapped up 2011 with a week-long string of New York City dates, the National will curate and perform at this year's All Tomorrow's Parties set for Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, England from December 7-9. The first batch of artists confirmed includes the Antlers , Sharon Van Etten , Kronos Quartet, Boris, Tim Hecker and Owen Pallett . Wye Oak , [...]

The Dessner brothers will schedule programming in May and December.

The National have been confirmed as curators and headliners for the next All Tomorrow's Parties, which will take place in December.

Este diciembre, la banda norteamericana The National será la encargada de curar el festival All Tomorrow's Parties en el centro vacacional Butlin's Minehead. La banda, aparte de encabezar algunos sets ellos mismos, ha anunciado la participación de Kronos Quartet, The Antlers, Owen Pallett, Boris, Tim Hecker, Sharon Van Etten, My Brightest Diamond, Wye Oak, Lower Dens, Megafaun, Suuns, Dark Dark Dark y Buke and Gase. También han prometido que en total, el lineup contará con 40 actos en vivo que se llevarán a cabo durante el fin de semana [...]

Albeit 11 months away, All Tomorrow's Parities has announced The National as the curator of their annual three-day music festival in December. Set for December 7-9th at Bultins Holiday Centre in Minehead, UK, the Brooklyn outfit will also deliver their only UK performance in 2012 during the festival. Joining The National on the bill are Sharon Van Etten, My Brightest Diamond, The Antlers, Owen Pallett, Boris, Tim Hecker, Wye Oak, Lower Dens, Megafaun, Suuns, Kronos Quartet, Dark Dark Dark, Buke and Gase, and more. In total the lineup will feature 40 live acts playing across the weekend on [...]

Irrespective of the continued entanglement of the various ones of the Dirty Three with a contemporary artistic conscience (paths have previously led to painting, Peej and Ally Pally ), their collective presence has been gravely missed. Six years, three months, and a further six days have passed since the release of Cinder, a nimble-fingered beast of gentle disposition, one capable of untangling the most obstinate of emotional knots and although perhaps not a direct consequence of their absence, times since they've been a-troublin'. However next month, quite fortuitously for anyone and everyone feeling fragile around [...]

Top 10 Albums 1)Good Night & Good Morning – Good Night & Good Morning (Own Records) 2)Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Rock Action) 3)Bill Callahan – Apocalypse (Drag City) 4)Birds Of Passage - Without The World (Denovali) 5)Thank You – Golden Worry (Thrill Jockey) 6)Low – C'Mon (Sub Pop) 7)Efrim Manuel Menuck – Plays "High Gospel" (Constellation) 8)Remember Remember - The Quickening [...]

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British Sea Power once wasted elegiac stanzas on a rapport destined to be 'ended on an oily stage'. However, many wonderful musical happenings of a more positive nature have coincidentally occurred over the course of the past twelve months on stages small and large; sticky and pristine; smooth, sweaty, and indeed oily (for which see that of Tivoli de Helling above). Here's the deal: we'll run through our most enjoyable for reasons varied (and in some cases pretty well unknown), and you can reminisce or wish you'd been there in a more composed state of mind or rejoice in the [...]

All Tomorrow's Parties has confirmed their return to Asbury Park, New Jersey USA where they will follow 2011 debut in that city with a 2012 I'll Be Your Mirror event, the Saturday night of which will be headlined by The Afghan Whigs and curated by the Whigs' frontman Greg Dulli. Tickets & accommodation for the three day event running September 21st-23rd will go on sale in early January 2012 when the start of the fantastic line-up will also be announced - fans can sign up now to receive info about a pre-sale via this link . [...]

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Back in the day, Greg Dulli's wailing soul-rock band the Afghan Whigs lent a much-needed air of sex and danger to an alt-rock era dominated by Seattle-style self-flagellating. The band broke up in 2001, but next year, they'll get back together to headline two big shows for All Tomorrow's Parties. Read More...

On the same day it was announced Greg Dulli would be reuniting his band The Afghan Whigs for shows at All Tomorrow's Parties in London and New Jersey in 2012 , Guided by Voices have announced they've broken up again. It was fun while it lasted, wasn't it? Before, what we'll call the inevitable dissolution of the "Classic" Guided by Voices lineup, we got one really long tour, one new album with a scheduled release date, another that's all but done, and a third that may or may not ever see the light of day. And things [...]

Lana del Rey/Lizzy Grant/whoever she's choosing to be contemporarily, the artificial product of anti-inspiration, may well be shuffling about, spluttering, and muttering calculatedly and choreographically if awkwardly in front of regurgitated Tumblr GIFs a few hundred metres down the road, yet exceedingly more cataclysmic furore is to unravel tonight up towards the anything but heavenly Angel, à la upstairs at The Lexington. More twisted and crazed than the minds of del Rey's coldblooded label dictators are Gentle Friendly , who trash out an almost constant, unabating stream of [...]

Ahead of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, Caribou has put together a mixtape of some of his favourite tracks to get you in the mood for the Nightmare Before Christmas party. The festival is to be curated by three artists: Les Savy Fav will curate Friday, Battles take Saturday and Caribou Sunday. Caribou's selection of tracks for this mix has been designed to showcase a lot of the artists chosen for his night. Among them are Toro Y Moi, Four Tet, Theo Parrish and Silver Apples. Also featured on the mix is a brand [...]

The full list of the 19th Annual Asbury Music Award winners is listed below. Congratulations to all! Top Male/Band Acoustic Act: Thomas Wesley Stern Top Female/Band Acoustic Act: Emily Grove Top Male Vocalist: CM Smith (The Amboys) Top Female Vocalist: Eryn Shewell Top Guitarist: Tommy Strazza Top Bassist: Justin Bornemann (No Wine For Kittens) Top Drummer: Wills Weller (Toothgrinder) Top Keyboard Player: Matt Wade Song Of The Year: The Amboys "One Of Those Nights" Top Local Release: River City Extension [...]

Last month, we reported that the version of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that the formerly reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum was curating had been postponed from a planned December date to a weekend in March. The festival, which will now go down 3/9-11 in Minehead, England, now has a lineup, and the ATP folks were not playing around with this one. The festival may be happening a little later than planned, but the lineup looks pretty sick. In addition to headliner Mangum, it also features Joanna Newsom, the Magnetic Fields, the Boredoms, Sebadoh, the Jon [...]

Tonight's a fairly special night for Calgary's BRAIDS , as it marks the remarkable quartet's final headline show in support of their truly spectacular debut record, Native Speaker. If this already sounds all too gushing, bear with me, for it was equally special merely to have crammed into Cowper Street's prime subterraneous haunt, XOYO. Prior to their deservedly heaving, hot as heck headline show, Secretly Canadian signings Exitmusic warm things up nicely, not that an increase in temperature within a room already at Amazonian humidity is altogether [...]