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After successfully hosting two sold out shows last October at Brooklyn's Barclay Center, Sensation has announced that they will be not only returning to the New York, but will be extending the tour to include major cities such as Miami, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. Originally launched in 2000 by ID&T (a Dutch company specializing in global dance music events), Sensation has become a signature electronic dance music phenomenon: over 80 shows have been produced worldwide.  Sensation  is known affectionately by many as 'Sensation white', as patrons are asked to dress only [...]

Cardiff's  Sŵn Festival have revealed the first details surrounding this year's leg of the annual music showcase event. The fest will return later this year, running from 17-20 October, with Deerhunter unveiled as the first headlining act. More artists will be announced on 10 June, when wristbands are set to go on sale. But before then, they've given us a little taster of what calibre of bands to expect, with Bradford Cox and co scheduled to play the Friday night. Deerhunter's [...]

Despite closing its doors in 2006, iconic New York venue CBGB relaunched last year as a music festival. Now, celebrating its 40th year since initially opening, it's back for a five-day event. The second CBGB Music & Film Festival will run from 9-13 October in the Big Apple, proclaiming to be "NYC's largest ever showcase of music, film, art, social awareness, entertainment industry workshops and conferences." It'll also feature 700 acts performing across 175 venues in the city. Last year saw the likes of Guided By Voices, Cloud Nothings and The War on Drugs appearing [...]

Having been a bit quiet on the release front the past twelve months of so, electronic producer Star Slinger seems to be gearing up to something, announcing a series of live dates for this coming summer. Confirmed via his Tumblr page , the cut-and-splice musician has revealed he'll play a handful of UK dates in London, Dublin and Nottingham during June, before heading across the pond in July. Among the North American dates are stop-offs in Miami, Seattle and Chicago. You can check [...]

Following the enormous, and somewhat unexpected, success of their debut album, Leeds fourpiece Alt-J have confirmed they'll begin working on its follow-up over the next few months. Speaking to the Daily Star recently, the band's keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton said that they will enter the studio during the summer, with a handful of tracks already in the works. "Some songs have been started and almost finished," he told the tabloid. "It’s feeling good." Unger-Hamilton went on to talk about the relief of finding time to buckle down and [...]

Hot off the back of their new album release, which garnered some fantastic press  as well as some less favourable , Daft Punk look keen to collaborate on new music with Nile Rodgers once again. Rodgers has apparently, according to the Daily Star , found some lost music that he believes "they'd love to work on". The unreleased material dates back his Chic days and has been stored away - until now. The veteran musician [...]

The 17th annual Webby Awards was held earlier this week, celebrating the best in online culture and "excellence on the Internet". The web and music have long gone hand-in-hand, so much so that Tumblrcore is now conisdered a valid genre. Among the musical guests at the ceremony this year were Grimes , awarded 'Artist of the Year', Frank Ocean ,  receiving the 'Person of the Year' accolade, and Tanlines [...]

With most festival-goers barely recovered from last weekend's events, Brighton's The Great Escape festival have plotted the dates for their 2014 outing. The premium UK music showcase will return next year from 8-10 May. This follows 20132s leg which saw the fest sell out for the first time in its eight year history. “A huge thank you to everyone who made TGE 2013 so brilliant," festival director Kat Morris said. "To all the incredible artists that played, to the panellists and keynote speakers who blew our delegates away, to every person that [...]

Few could find a place for a Wii Remote or Sega Genesis controller in music but one-man band and musical prodigy Robert DeLong 's seamlessly pilots his brand of bubblegum-EDM with these very tools. The Seattle-born, LA-based musician, who mashes together an early 21st century indie-electro sound with the kind of pulsating dance that the US has taken to heart of late, once played in his high school jazz band but now finds pleasure in the kind of positive, musical expressionism that could only come from the [...]

Following the release of Monomania earlier this month, Deerhunter have revealed that they'll head to Europe for a flurry of live dates this October. As The 405 point out, although no official announcement has yet been made, a series of shows have been posted of various ticketing and listing websites. Among those which have surfaced so far are UK dates in Leeds, Liverpool and Belfast. More dates are expected to be announced shortly, with ticket sales details coming with it. [...]

German-born American rapper, J. Cole has brought his new album due date forward a week in a call of arms to Kanye West . West's preposterously-named Yeezus is set to come out on 18 June in the States, with Cole's effort Born Sinner previously expected a week later. That all changed once he found out Yeezy had a new record on the way, however. "I'm not going to sit [here]... I worked too hard to come [...]

Antony and the Johnsons ' Antony Hegarty is to stage a solo art show from the end of the month at the Sikkema Jenkins gallery in New York. Hegarty, known for his ventures into other artistic mediums, will host an exhibition called The Cut , based around themes surrounding his 2012 album Cut the World . The work, a press release from the musician says, was inspired by Hegarty's poem of the same name and attempts to "address universal artistic or social ideas and poetically suggests [...]

Ever outspoken, former Smiths frontman Morrissey has penned an open letter asking his fans to stop eating famously extravagant French dish foie gras. Foie gras is a dish made from the liver of a duck or goose, which Morrissey - and avid vegetarian - has taken a certain disliking to. In the statement released via his semi-official fansite True To You , he applauds Prince Charles' decision to stop serving the food at his formal gatherings, while turning his sights on [...]

Tomorrow is the highly-anticipated memorial tribute for Slayer guitarst Jeff Hanneman, who died earlier this month due to liver failure. The celebration was mildly dampened when the Westboro Baptist Church confirmed they would be protesting across the street from the memorial. We were amongst the many who assumed this is a bad recipe for a ... The post SLAYER Advise Fans To Ignore Westboro Baptist Church At Jeff Hanneman Memorial appeared first on Metal Injection .

"You just sit in your apartment watching Saved By The Bell and eating ramen noodles, and sometimes you spice things up by having Lucky Charms ," says U.S talk show host Conan O'Brien in his mock video response to Taylor Swift 's recent single '222. Not entirely happy that the representation of what it's like to be a newly-graduated, perpetually-confused post-teen is truly depicted in Taylor's track, O'Brien decides to hark back to what things are actually like when you're at that [...]

With their first album in nigh eight years dropping next month, Boards of Canada have continued their guerrilla marketing campaign by airing a first instalment of music from the record on a video screen in central Tokyo. Following a series of now highly valued secret decoder vinyl releases, the electronic outfit premiered a new video earlier today in the Japanese capital at exactly midnight local time. You can check out some fan footage of that below, via CoS . Meanwhile, new record Tomorrow's Harvest [...]

So a few weeks ago I wrote an article about Chino Moreno saying Deftones' Eros would be out now that Chi has passed on, but not when. Now he's understandably saying it might be a while. According to an interview The PRP found, Chino spoke to Musicfeeds and stated: “We’re actually not entertaining anything. I ... The post Chino Says DEFTONES Lost Record Eros Not Coming Out Anytime Soon appeared first on Metal Injection .

Summer Camp have confirmed they've completed their second full-length and follow-up to 20112s Welcome To Condale . "It's official. Our album is finished. The masters have been signed off, the B-sides have been mixed. It's on", singer Elizabeth Sankey wrote on her personal blog . "There is always a waiting period of a couple of months after you finish an album," she continues. "And that means we have ample opportunity to think back over the past year of writing and think about everything." Sankey proceeds to run [...]

The  Scottish Album of the Year Award  (SAY Award) have announced that they'll let the public help them decide on their final shortlist for this year's accolade. The ceremony, akin to the Mercury Prize, returns for its second year, with organisers revealing today that a public vote will be held to pick one of the ten-strong shortlist. The shortlist, which cuts the longer list already revealed in half from 20 acts, will be made public on 30 May. The public vote will be held on 27 May via the SAY Award website , [...]

Following a series of reissues recently on Domino Records , Julia Holter is set to release her first album on the label later this summer. Loud City Song is due for release on 19 August, the follow-up to 20122s  Ekstasis . You can check out its opener, 'World' streaming below, with the album's tracklisting as follows: 1. World 2. Maxim's I 3. Horns Surrounding Me 4. In The Green Wild 5. Hello Stranger 6. Maxim's [...]