News Archive
News posted in 2011
December
- The world's oldest temple may also be the world's coolest musical instrument
- The Stop Online Piracy Act: what is it, and how will it affect the music industry?
- Hip Hop is taking a stand against authority in Somalia
- The Design Museum is to host a talk on sound design
- Diplo to release new EP
- Sam Rivers, influential jazz musician and composer, has died
- Jay Z, P Diddy and 50 Cent are still the world's richest rappers
- Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig and more at Boiler Room Berlin
- The Weeknd to release mixtape package
- 6Music to go vinyl-only on New Year's Day
- Clams Casino gives away 320kbps version of mixtape
- Legendary mastering engineer Nilesh Patel dies
- Hype Williams, Burial and DVA: Hyperdub outlines first quarter plans
- Spend Christmas with Katy B on Rinse FM
- DJ Earl to release debut album in February 2012
- Gil Scott-Heron to be honoured with Grammy
- The Weeknd releases third free mixtape, 'Echoes Of Silence'
- Watch someone get really, really into Ni--as In Paris
- Stoke Newington's The Drop bar taken over by Field Day / Shacklewell Arms / Lock Tavern holding company
- Central London club Cable opens sister venue
- Brick Squad rapper Slim Dunkin killed
- Joy Orbison launches record label
- Tri Angle's Robin Carolan to release debut EP
- Jhene Aiko is going to be huge
- White Car announce debut album
- Beach Boys get back together
- Kindness announces debut album, himself as a bit of a hippy
- Zomby, Mazzy Star and Death Grips added to the Field Day bill
- Gil Scott-Heron memoir due in January
- Loud music makes us drink more, says science
- araabMUZIK, Grimes, Justice and Napalm Death added to Primavera Sound bill
- Indonesian police arrest punks
- R Kelly has a cruise ship (and you're invited)
- 10 best examples of landscape-related music in 2011
- Nicki Minaj - Roman in Moscow
- Alan Braxe thrown out of club for wee-ing against a curtain during his DJ set
- Florence and The Machine 'No Light, No Light' [Deluxe Edition]
- Earth announce new album
- Drake announces UK tour for 2012
- Bobby Womack collaborates with Damon Albarn and Richard Russell
- Radiohead to release new single
- Pulp's first three albums re-released
- Bon Iver to release workout DVD
- The Wire lists all lists since 1994
- Jazz pianist to release his debut album at 85
- Pharrell and veteran composer Hans Zimmer named music consultants for 2012 Oscars
- Demdike Stare release epic 4-way vinyl gatefold
- How to set up an indie label market
- New location-aware app soundtracks Central Park
- 1Xtra radio documentary on UK club culture
- John Talabot announces debut album
- Kronos Quartet to take up week long residency at the Barbican
- New Burial EP announced
- Illuminated manuscripts fan and superlative musician-composer Julia Holter announces second album
- Sonar announces São Paulo and Tokyo dates
- Blur honoured with lifetime achievement award at 2012 Brit Awards
- Spiritualized return with seventh album
- Vinyl Factory Christmas Fair
- Soul Jazz Strike a Pose
- Dance music shake-up at Radio 1
- Scion releases free Skream and Benga EP
- Adele: "North American beer is NOT acceptable"
- Live-stream Thom Yorke DJing at Occupy London, right now
- Franz Ferdinand, SBTRKT, Gold Panda and Metronomy announced for Field Day 2012
- New Nite Jewel, Gang Clours and Charlotte Gainsbourg albums on the way
- Sebastien Tellier back with 'My God Is Blue'
- Jonny Greenwood to score 'There Will Be Blood' follow-up which definitely is not about Scientology
- Animal Collective spill beans on new album
- Oneohtrix Point Never brings A/V show to the MoMA
- DJ Shadow, King Midas Sound, Cooly G and Scratcha DVA to play Boiler Room
- Massive Attack start radiostation for Occupy movement, Phillip Glass appears in New York
- Nicki Minaj is a doll, actually
- Perfume Genius announces second album
- BBC Sound of 2012 list announced
- James Murphy to make his movie debut
- Konx Om Pax preps first exhibition
- Chemical Brothers live film 'Don't Think' gets full theatrical release
- R Stevie Moore film in the works
- TLC biopic in the works
- Trevor Jackson adds to the 80s industrial, post-punk and EBM compilation pile
- LuckyMe make MP3 advent calendar
- Blondes announce debut album for Feb 2012
- Trent Reznor reveals full details of brutal Girl With Dragon Tattoo soundtrack
- The xx, Bjork, Codeine and Spiritualized announced for Primavera Sound 2012
- Altered Zones to cease publishing
- Kanye, Bon Iver, Skrillex and Adele up for Grammy awards
- Tri Angle signs The Haxan Cloak, prepares allstars world tour
- D'Angelo literally returns
- Spotify brings in apps to further world expansion
November
- PJ Harvey collaborates with war photographer for film version of 'Let England Shake'
- Breaking news: Vybz Kartel has not escaped from jail, is not Jamaica's most wanted man
- Gil Scott-Heron's thank you letter
- Breaking news: Vybz Kartel escapes from jail, is now Jamaica's most wanted man
- Feist and Mastodon, sitting in a tree
- Autechre's ultra-rare debut EP finally rereleased
- Grooveshark's toothless business strategy revealed in stream of internal emails
- Mark E Smith is with Gaddafi on the whole London riots thing
- Fugazi to launch 'Fugazi Live Series' website
- Justice announce world tour
- Korn invented dubstep, according to Korn
- Jovan Coleman, Drummer with Dam-Funk's Master Blazter, dies
- Pinch mixes Fabriclive 61
- Independent Label Market to open at Spitalfields for Christmas
- Blanck Mass to make live debut
- Synth pioneer Daphne Oram releases due out in 2012
- How the drum machine changed pop music
- Soundway’s musical map of Colombia
- Broadcast planning tribute album to Trish Keenan
- Air announce new album 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune'
- Kanye West closer to Nietzsche than songwriter
- Terre Thaemlitz to perform in London this sunday
- Nile Rodgers interview on NTS Radio
- AraabMUZIK debut live show in London
- Nicki Minaj announces second album on Twitter
- Expensive Looks announces debut album, gives away track
- London gallery to host pop-up record shop
- Musical memory not like normal memory
- JME launches phone network
- Bon Iver makes 10 films
- Florence + The Machine announces arena tour with The Horrors, unveils new video
- US law threatens sharing music
- Antony Hegarty art show to open in Los Angeles
- Music therapy works
- Former Clash bassist Paul Simonon arrested on oil rig protest
- Dance labels leave Spotify
- Full details of the Big Pink's new album, 'Future This'
- Salem release 'I'm Still In The Night', release Gisele Bündchen-starring video
- Watch out, photographers! Odd Future are touring the UK and Ireland in 2012
- Kurt Vile to tour Europe
- Main Attrakionz release physical of '808s And Dark Grapes' and remix Peaking Lights
- Rave kills dolphin
- Lil B makes AIDS awareness song
- Jay-Z tries to make a buck off Occupy movement, then hides
- Grouper releases collaborative EP
- Rihanna samples The xx on new song
- Kwes signed to Warp, releases a new MP3
- Mark Fell preps album with silly title
- Death: Southbank Centre’s Festival for the Living
- Carl Craig, Friendly Fires, Paul Woolford and Axel Boman to play Boiler Room
- Boredoms and 111 drummers to play Boadrums on 11/11/11
- The Maccabees set to release third LP next year
- Heavy D (1967 – 2011)
- Lindstrom announces new album
- "Europe <3 America," says MTV EMAs
- Is the CD era finished?
- Blondes set to release Wine/Water 12"
- A day in the life of Lex Luger, hip hop producer of the moment
- Honest Jon's to release collaboration album by Pinch and Shackleton
- Hear Drake's album title track, featuring Gil-Scott Heron, Jamie xx and Rihanna, and a new song with Rick Ross
- Juan Aktins's dusts off Metroplex, releases single, hints at Model 500 album
- Kevin Shields sets up label, releases EP, which is not by My Bloody Valentine :(
- James Blake makes play for Christmas #1 with new single
- Oh, wow! The xx are working on their next album
- Bandcamp wants some of that MySpace dollar
- MoMa New York commissions Antony Hegarty
- Berlusconi delays album release
- Premiere: Lady Gaga – Marry The Night (The Weeknd & Illangelo remix) [stream]
- Frankie Knuckles interview
- Addison Groove preps new album, forthcoming on Modeselektor's 50 Weapons label
- Nicolas Jaar announces tour details and gives away free EP
- Behind the scenes and backstage at Jay-Z and Kayne West's Watch The Throne tour
- Ariel Pink, No Age and Girls contribute to Heidi Slimane exhibition
- Runners cover Minor Threat for Our Band Could Be Your Life charity gig
- K-Pop superband SHINee comes to London for film festival premiere
October
- Bjork, DJ Spooky, Anti-Pop Consortium and Sonic Youth to remix Meredith Monk
- A$AP Rocky slams homophobia, makes $3 million
- The record industry makes mistakes
- Brian Eno to programme Norwegian festival Punkt
- Oneohtrix Point Never announces UK and Europe tour
- The internet has made a Tumblr out of Saved By The Bell and Kanye West
- Vybz Kartel charged with second murder
- Actress readies new single on Honest Jon's
- Final Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid live collaboration released
- Thank God, Chromatics are back with new album and single
- Amy R Klein leaves Titus Andronicus in the nicest possible way
- What we hear scares us
- Zomby preps new album 'Nothing'
- Software & NNA Tapes unofficial CMJ party
- Regis preps vicious rhythmic electronics compilation called 'Vicious Rhythmic Electronics'
- Worldwide Festival 2012 - dates announced
- Dinosaur L's '24→24 Music' LP will be reissued this month
- The music industry is officially saved, as digital market set to top $20 billion and vinyl sales boom
- Jeff Mangum-curated ATP rescheduled
- Tom Vek, Best Coast and Au Revoir Simone collaborate with Johnny Marr
- Morrissey attempts to sue the NME
- Grimes announces new record on Arbutus
- Kerching! Florence charges £3.99 to stream Hackney gig online
- Rick Ross released from hospital after suffering second seizure
- A$AP Rocky is absolutely certain to be huge
- New York Times even snootier than us about American rave explosion
- Pitchfork announces New York festival
- Jarvis Cocker to be Faber and Faber editor-at-large
- French electro compilation roundup: Kitsuné ready 12th installment & Brodinski to mix Fabriclive.60
- Everyone who is anyone loves the Manic Street Preachers
- Occupy Wall Street in music media
- Nokia like dubstep (a bit more than dubstep likes Nokia)
- araabMuzik working Eminem, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and more
- Burial and Massive Attack make a gold 12"
- Pearson Sound plays our man Cadenza's night
- Lady Gaga announces The Weeknd to feature on remix album
- Frank Ocean announces mini tour
- Being hip doesn't pay the bills
- XL to release Portishead's 'Chase The Tear' on vinyl
- Irish Indie Label Market will take place in Dublin this Saturday
- Rihanna announces new album details
- Bert Jansch, Pentangle guitarist (1943–2011)
- Nite Jewel signs to Secretly Canadian
- Dam Funk, Wormrot, Omar S and The Melvins sign to car company's record label
- Oneohtrix Point Never to start magazine
- Almost all pop songs are about, ahem, "reproduction"
- First Afghan music festival in over 30 years opens under-the-radar
September
- Daft Punk sell coke
- Nicolas Jaar album is being pulled from shops
- Serato have made DJing on a laptop even easier
- Flaming Lips to release human skull and 24-hour long song
- Sylvia Robinson, "the mother of hip hop" (1936-2011)
- Holy Other, Nite Jewel, Pearson Sound, Hype Williams and so on play Elevate Festival in Graz
- Justin Timberlake more likely to star in a movie about music than make any
- Awkward! Bloc Party reform without telling Kele
- Michael Jackson's doctor to be tried for his death by jury of Michael Jackson fans
- Hype Williams' Dean Blunt releases solo tape
- Extraordinary songwriter Zoo Kid comes back as King Krule
- Tim Hecker is releasing a spin-off album to 'Ravedeath, 1972'
- Space Dimension Controller is releasing a (wonderfully dorky) "prequel" record
- Drake shows off the saddest artwork of year
- How Kanye West's '808s and Heartbreak' changed hip hop with sadness and autotune
- Facebook launches music sharing thing
- R Kelly has a new album on its way, due out soon (it's literally called 'Black Panties')
- Music and Troy Davis
- Rush Hour present 'Amsterdam All Stars', due out in November
- REM split
- Odd Future's Domo Genesis releases free mixtape
- R&S announce details for their latest compilation
- Lana Del Rey reschedules tour, invites controversy, soundtracks Rooney
- Jonny Greenwood collaborates with famous Polish composer
- Actress does an interview
- The Tea Party, Canadian band, sell teaparty.com to Tea Party, wacky Americans for millions of dollars
- The Beatles banned segregated audiences at their shows
- Take a quiz to test your knowledge of grunge
- Famous singer Rihanna is releasing another album this autumn
- M83 want you to be in their band
- Bugged Out are launching a festival
- The Golden Filter are releasing a short film
- Arthur Russell's 'Let's Go Swimming' is finally getting a proper release, and Walter Gibbons-directed video
- The Knife have made a Spotify playlist of inspirational women
- Nokia totally ripped The xx off
- London Philharmonic Orchestra suspends players for expressing anti-Israel views
- Only the police can sell records now
- Nas is writing an actual autobiography
- Britney Spears announces second remix album
- DJ Screw's record collection donated to the University of Houston
- More details on the death of DJ Mehdi
- Richard Hamilton, pop art pioneer, has died
- Unsound add Model 500, Rustie, Legowelt and more to its lineup
- Police hunt alleged rapist after 15-year-old girl reports sexual assault at Bestival
- Kraftwerk to guest edit 3D issue of Wallpaper* magazine
- Kate Bush announces her second album this year
- DJ Mehdi (1977-2011)
- Gang Gang Dance, Hype Williams, Kode9 and more rework King Midas Sound
- The Barbican's Transcender season will feature Emeralds and a Bulgarian folk choir
- Bonnie Prince Billy has a new album out next month
- Berlin is a very good city
- Creation Records boss Alan McGee was in favour of the PIAS warehouse fire
- PJ Harvey wins her second Mercury for 'Let England Shake'
- Forest Swords and Maria Minerva will do some cool things in Liverpool
- Pulp might have played their last ever gig
- Grouper is set to play a gig in an 18th century church in London
- Can's ground-breaking album 'Tago Mago' is getting a re-release
- PJ Harvey is odds on to win the Mercury Prize
- New Order to reform without Peter Hook
- Berghain doorman interviewed
- Books get soundtracks to become a little bit more like TV
- Police will not face disciplinary action over the death of Smiley Culture
- MOBO nominations are dominated by Jessie J, Adele and Tinie Tempah
- Björk and Dirty Projectors 'Mount Wittenberg Orca' to get physical release
- Was the PIAS fire a professional job?
- Dropbox valued at billions of dollars below expected, but is still worth billions of dollars
- P Diddy hits a bum note with new book
- David Lynch has opened a nightclub in Paris
- All nominated artists will perform at the Mercury Prize Awards Show
- Justice release sneeze-and-you'll-miss-them album clips
- Hessle Audio are touring Europe this autumn
- Jacques Greene to play live this autumn
- Jack White produces Insane Clown Posse and Mozart collaboration
- James Blake announces 'Enough Thunder' EP
- The Bey-by boom
- Korallreven to release debut album in November
- Cubic Zirconia album finally gets a release date
August
- Patti Smith and Kronos Quartet win Polar Music Prize
- DRC Music to drop a charity album this October
- David Borden, 0PN, Laurel Halo, James Ferraro & Samuel Godin's synth supergroup to play live
- Hear a new song by The-Dream, probably from his free album out tomorrow!
- Tupac's homeboys smoked his ashes
- New Charlotte Gainsbourg material inside
- Bloc Party return?
- AIM announce Bjork and Domino boss Bell as Independent Label Awards winners
- Legowelt gives away new album as a free download
- Karen O stops the virgens
- Atlas Sound announces new album
- Michael Jackson fans are mad, again
- Wolfgang Voigt's Kafkatrax EPs, based on chopped recordings of Kafka, compiled
- Steve Jobs resigns as head of Apple
- Flying Lotus maps countries yet to come
- Florence returns
- Tom Waits has an album coming out, hear a track now!
- Unsound add more acts in a fourth wave of announcements
- Lil Wayne breaks face on skateboard, announces new album
- Read Nick Cave's polite decline of MTV's offer to be included in "bloody cart of severed heads"
- Reading and Leeds stage times
- Biophilia gets tracklisting and album cover
- Brandy gets a new label, preps a new album
- We're DJing a night for the 10th anniversary of Aaliyah's passing
- Mary Anne Hobbs to present new weekday show on Xfm
- Brian Wilson to release an album of Disney covers
- Smith Westerns talk about the Pukkelpop tragedy
- Richard Turner, trumpet player for Friendly Fires, has passed away
- New Dummy Records release – Cadenza's The Darkest Hype
- Tragedy strikes Pukkelpop as tent collapses in storm
- Download The Weeknd's new album Thursday
- YouTube and music are putting aside their differences and making up
- Independent magazine 'The Stool Pigeon' has more readers than the 'NME' and 'Kerrang!'
- The $5 million monument to illegal downloading
- A James Blake and Bon Iver collaboration might exist
- Remixes no longer Hard To Find thanks to new compilation
- Sigur Rós are releasing a live film and double live album called 'Inni'
- Oneohtrix Point Never announces new album
- How a rapper soundtracked the Arab Spring
- Patti Smith is adapting her memoir 'Just Kids' into a screenplay
- David Lynch is going to release an inevitably weird debut album
- Billboards counts 50 best indie labels in America, are big fans of Tri Angle
- Radiohead's 'King Of Limbs' is the best selling vinyl album of the year
- Justus Köhncke's techno covers of pop songs to be reissued
- The Game is unsurprisingly in trouble with the law after making his 500,000 Twitter followers prank emergency services
- Warpaint on their "minimal" new album
- Daniel Blumberg from Yuck has a record label called Boiled Egg
- Not Not Fun news round up
- 1991 was a long time ago
- Listen to a 7-minute loop of Trent Reznor's soundtrack for Girl With The Dragon Tattoo while staring at Daniel Craig's cold, steely eyes
- Three teenagers charged over Sony warehouse fire, campaign launched to aid labels effected
- Forbes list the 20 richest people in rap
- Last drops of reissue blood squeezed from Factory Records stone with new compilation
- Music helps cancer patients feel better, it seems
- Listen to 'Watch The Throne' in full
- The PIAS fire is really, really bad news
- Justice announce new album for October
- Details of Radiohead's upcoming remix album leaked
- OFWGKTA's photo Tumblr is to made into an art book
- Fearless, now famous, Hackney woman who told off the rioters is a local jazz singer
- Here's some really dumb stuff people have said in the last few hours.
- PJ Harvey to play one-off show at London's Royal Albert Hall
- Blood Orange and Beirut album streams
- Trailer Trash Tracys announce debut LP
- New Omar S album might be out in six days
- Major indie music stock centre burns in London riots
- The music world responds to the London riots on Twitter
- What we'd be doing if we were in Edinburgh
- R.I.P. Conrad Schnitzler
- Big Boi arrested for drug possession
- Field Day tickets up for grabs
- Apple might be developing earbuds that charge your iPod
- Al Jazeera's flagship music documentary returns for second series
- The Wire launches a Tumblr of their favourite album sleeves
- As Turntable.fm rakes in Kanye and Gaga's money, an ex-Google engineer releases a copycat open to the UK
- Plaid are releasing a new album called 'Scintilli'
- Damon Albarn and co have shared another snippet of their DRC Music project
- John Maus apologises after angering the internet with speech against record stores
- Spectrals announces debut album
- Cee Lo Green is to play Raekwon's on-screen dad
- Deftones doing witch house
- Hear Thom Yorke's collaborations with Modeselektor
- Soma Records have uncovered a tape of an unreleased Daft Punk song
- The-Dream to release free album under own name at the end of this month
- Field Day have announced stage times
- Danish punks Iceage are releasing an album and coming to the UK
- The Chelsea Hotel closes to guests, rock & roll basically over
- The Clash are being used to promote the 2012 Olympics, weirdly
- Underage Festival schedule announced
- What are you doing after Field Day?
- Ben UFO is set to take on the next Rinse mix
- The SWN line-up just got even better
- A member of Franz Ferdinand has written a puppet show based on Shakespeare's The Tempest
- xxxy, Om Unit and Krystal Klear are going to the Red Bull Music Academy this year
- Joker announces debut album details
- Sleep ∞ Over has a new album coming out
July
- Riot breaks out at LA premiere of a rave film
- Perfect punk band Zounds and 60s Italian electronica reissued
- US record stores have written a letter of complaint to The Throne
- If you're at all interested in electronic music, you have to go the Science Museum this summer
- Active Child to finally release debut album in October
- Elite Gymnastics, a great band, signed to Acephale Records, a great label
- Hip Hop Chocolate is a thing that exists
- The 'Nevermind' reissues actually look really good
- Rustie to release debut album 'Glass Swords'
- Othello Woolf to release free debut album
- Damon Albarn and co have shared some music from their Congo project
- Feist announces new album for October release
- Andrew McDonnell to create live improvised opera magic with 11 vocalists
- The long wait for new D'Angelo material could be almost over
- What we can learn from recent events in Norway
- Radiohead reveal Illum Sphere and Shed will feature in fourth instalment of remixes
- Nine free tracks available to download from grime kid S-X
- Jamie xx to collaborate with Quayola for one-off event in London
- Drake "hates singles", plans to release some anyway
- Bjork announces new shows in Iceland, while Bon Iver covers her in Milwaukee
- Amy Winehouse: the tragedy and the tributes
- Aphex Twin and Autechre remixes of Saint Etienne reissued
- Yes Way, Upset the Rhythm's really real festival of DIY culture, returns next month
- Brands edge closer to patrons as Converse opens free recording studio in New York
- Damon Albarn is in the Democratic Republic of Congo right now making music for Oxfam with Actress
- High Places set to release new full-length in the Autumn
- Bjork's 'Biophilia' is getting close
- Future Islands announce third album, which you should not ignore
- Clockwork Orange: The Musical to be performed next year!
- The Vaselines, EMA, Titus Andronicus and Amanda Palmer star on Nirvana covers album
- The Warehouse Project full lineup revealed
- Hudson Mohawke announces XOYO headline show and other live dates
- Diplo releases 'Mad Legit' DJ set through new platform 'Legitmix'
- R Kelly undergoes emergency throat surgery, forced to stop performing
- Beloved Brooklyn venue the Silent Barn falls tragically silent
- We're media-partnering Bloggers Delight at Field Day
- Jens Lekman has a new EP, which will be wittier than this headline
- Grouper and Jessica Rylan join Hype Williams, Bill Orcutt and many more for Tusk Festival
- Prefix explains why DJ Khaled is the best
- Martin Clark explains why Trim is the best
- Hype Williams put USB sticks into apples, apparently, and actually tell the truth sometimes
- M83 are releasing a new album this autumn
- Lady Gaga hacked by radical Lil B internet fan group SwagSec
- Timbaland and Pharrell's high school band
- Pitchfork throws festival, changes music journalism and books Aphex Twin for Paris
- Mercury Prize nominations
- John Maus "and the truth of pop" considered in new, bright pink monograph
- Unsound festival is our favourite
- Not Not Fun and 100% Silk releases roundup
- James Murphy and comedian Reggie Watts are making music together
- Plastikman announces 2011 tour
- Four Tet mixes Fabriclive 59
- Actress drops a ton of new music
- John Cale to release solo EP
- Be in the next Mount Kimbie video
- Lil B to play his first ever UK show this Saturday
- Bookie backs PJ Harvey for Mercury Prize, even though the shortlist hasn't been announced
- Toro Y Moi has a new EP
- Walls unveil second album details
- Water Borders announce debut album 'Harbored Mantras'
- Lunatics take over asylum, Wired reports
- Luomo readies new album 'Plus'
- L-Vis 1990 unveils debut album details
- Gui Boratto to release his third album on Kompakt
- Radiohead remixed by Lone, Pearson Sound and Four Tet.
- Soon you will be able to get music from your Xbox and your facebook
- Human Ear are here to save, or at least improve, your day, with help from Julia Holter, Nite Jewel, etc
- How to become the most successful DJ on Turntable.fm
- Friendly Fires to host 'We Love Art' night in Paris
- Fabric 59 will be mixed by Jamie Jones
- Grimes's debut album re-issued by No Pain In Pop
- Michael Eavis thinks festivals are totally over
- South Sudanese national anthem composer interviewed
- Mogwai will never end
- Download Cold Cave's anti-traffic mixtape
- Trim announces new EP
- Tri Angle Records announce new tour dates
- Yoko Ono, Lady Gaga (and Alexis Petridis) on performance art and pop music
- Music sales figures are not as totally terrible as they were
- Gucci Mane drops new mixtape from prison
- Hype Williams' album 'Untitled' is re-pressed
- Bold Tendencies 5 host Fucked Up, Stravinsky, etc on a car-park roof in Peckham
- Festival of "post-digital culture" to take place in London in September
- The 'K' in 'K-Pop' is for Kruel
- Spotify set to launch in the US
- Girls announce second album 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost'
- Steve Reich prepares new album
- Listen to two great BBC mixes from Washed Out and Jam City
- Hessle Audio's appearance on the Benji B show is great
- Google and WIPO team up to help West African countries break into global music industry
- Ashley Cole, Giggs and Jason Statham feature on out-today Wiley mixtape
- Stream Pure X's new album
- Workaholic Wiley announces second full-length album this year
- Radiohead drummer Philip Selway announces new solo EP
- Brian Eno is helping develop a clock that will tick for 10,000 years inside a mountain.
- Flying Lotus bares his soul in free mix
- What Turntable is, why they won't let us in and why we're bummed out
- Matthew Herbert announces meaty next album
- Swagger Security hackers threaten to take on Bieber and Gaga, make the internet even more fascinating
- 'Watch the Throne' is available for pre-order
- Lil' B, Pictureplane and Xiu Xiu to feature on new Sole and The Skyrider record
- Stream The Horrors' new album
- Hear a special half-hour set from Ariel Pink
- Pitchfork announce Music Festival in Paris
- Stream Brian Eno's new record
- You can go to bed with Washed Out
- Pulp announce one-off London show
- John Foxx & The Maths, Laurel Halo and Sun Araw announced for Unsound Festival
- Tyler and Unknown Mortal Orchestra repurpose R&B on two free mixes
- A James Blake stream and a Zomby interview exist
- Bjork headlines Bestival
- Radiohead choose Nathan Fake and Mark Pritchard / Harmonic 313 as next remixers
June
- Lil B's 'I’m Gay (I'm Happy)' drops out of nowhere
- Jarvis Cocker to publish a collection of lyrics
- Björk's new show – the first report
- Read Myspace CEO Mike Jones's goodbye email, as Justin Timberlake buys slice
- Clams Casino's Instrumentals mixtape will be released on vinyl by Type
- Hype Williams's Igna Copeland goes solo and readies 12"
- Listen to a track from Zola Jesus's new album
- Beck designs Francis Ford Coppola's magazine
- James Franco's collaboration with DJ /Rupture and Kalup Linzy is actually incredible
- Laurel Halo, Oneohtrix Point Never, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin and minimal master David Borden form synth supergroup
- Spoek Mathambo signs to Sub Pop
- Is there a formula for the perfect hit song?
- Someone in Belgium has the new Bjork song (and you can hear it)
- Radiohead to play Glastonbury's Park Stage tonight
- Kingdom has started a label, and he's signed Nguzunguzu
- New James Blake release on its way
- Underground Resistance finally repress their best music
- Steve Reich to play Proms in London
- Magic Kid arrested for helping teachers
- Hear Zinc, B.Bravo, Jullian Gomes, Kidkanevil and Daisuke Tanabe live at Sonar
- Stream SBTRKT's album
- How To Dress Well has a new EP called 'Just Once'
- Wiley is releasing an EP of all new material with Diplo made in Jamaica
- Brian Eno reveals two tracks and artwork for his next album
- A James Blake / Drake mash-up is a thing which exists
- The Flaming Lips' next album is a giant gummy skull you have to eat
- iCloud: What it means for your music
- Preview Major Lazer's new album
- Chris & Cosey, Hype Williams and Joy Orbison in first wave of Unsound announcements
- Drinking coffee makes music weirder, say experts
- Scott Walker scores a dance piece for the Royal Opera House
- Real Estate sign to Domino
- Warm Up 2011 lineup announced
- Bleep and Sonar give away free tracks by TIger & Woods and Rone
- HMV may be off deathwatch, as £220m cash injection agreed
- Listen to a complete history of Grime Tapes
- The-Dream's fourth album will be out on his birthday
- RUNNERS will be Dummy's next release
- M83 album news
- Watch Brian Eno interviewed by Al Jazeera
- Jacques Greene and Caribou remix Radiohead
- Listen to Jamie xx's solo single here!
- 'Ancient Romans' will be Sun Araw's next album
- St Vincent returns with 'Strange Mercy'
- Zomby - Dedication [album stream]
- YouTube opens the floodgates on Creative Commons remixing
- Hudson Mohawke returns!
May
- Goldie mixes Fabriclive 58
- Hype Williams' next release will be called 'Kelly Price w8 gain ep vol II'
- Karen O and Trent Reznor cover Immigrant Song on the trailer for David Fincher's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Gil Scott-Heron has died
- Watch Justice's Civilisation video
- Save The Duke of Uke
- Omar Souleyman tours Europe this summer
- Come see Actress play in New Cross tonight
- Fair Ohs to release debut album this summer
- Gayngs take bus company to the cleaners
- Hear the new Horrors single, Still Life, right now
- The Rapture return to DFA for their next album
- Independent Label Market mixtape
- Hear Drake rapping over SBTRKT and read about him working with The Weeknd
- A new James Blake song
- Free mixes from Flying Lotus, Visions Of Trees and No Pain In Pop
- Battles' Ice Cream 12" in three flavours
- Merok to release Deptford Goth's debut EP
- Tri Angle's Lindsay Lohan tribute 'Let Me Shine For You' gets physical release
- Domino launches radio station
- Forest Swords returns with rarities EP 'Fjree Feather'
- Washed Out to release 'Eyes Be Closed' Remix 12"
- Dizzee Rascal to curate photo gallery for Bing.com
- New on Tri Angle, something that may well be Balam Acab
- Watch Gang Gang Dance in session for 4AD
- Free music roundup – stream stuff from Kate Bush, James Blake, Blondes and Theo Parrish
- Big Boi does the sweetest thing for his daughter
- Memory Tapes's new album – free MP3, cover and tracklisting
- Stream Friendly Fires' new record here
- Amazing online archive of vintage recordings opens
- New Battles! New song, Ice Cream! New video!
- Zomby album details and free MP3
- Soundcloud do some pretty cool stuff
- Lil Jay Based Electronica God?
- Check out Planningtorock's blue video for The Breaks
- Tyler, The Creator seems a bit tired as he performs a new song, Analog
- James Ferraro is releasing a record called 'Far Side Virtual'
- Clams Casino's Gorilla has an awesome video made out of magic
- Chinese rock musician detained for supporting Ai Weiwei
April
- 0.093 seconds is the shortest possible sound
- Bid on eBay for a DJ slot at Sonar Festival
- There is a company which exists that turns your ashes into a playable record
- Mount Kimbie announce new EP and free download
- Odd Future sign to Sony, kind of
- Exclusive video: Mount Kimbie perform Maybes live on Abbey Road Debuts
- Laurel Halo new EP and tour dates
- The Knife announce new album in progress
- Gerard Smith, TV On The Radio bassist, passes away
- Our label returns with a digital single from Lower, streamable inside
- Watch Friendly Fires' new video, Live Those Days Tonight
- Washed Out unveils debut album 'Within and Without'
- Watch These New Puritans' live video and download a free live MP3
- New Eno!
- Stream Matthewdavid's 'Outmind'
- Listen to Beyonce's new single, Girls (Who Run The World)
- New Tom Vek record surfaces
- Hear Radiohead's Record Store Day single, The Butcher / Supercollider
- Watch Wiley's new video, Numbers In Action
- Hear a track from John Talabot's forthcoming 12" on Young Turks featuring Glasser
- Download Prefuse 73 and Zola Jesus' mixtape
- Glastonbury lineup revealed
- Clams Casino EP on Tri Angle – cover and tracklisting
- New York Magazine slightly awkwardly asks James Blake (the singer) about James Blake (the tennis player)
- Listen to some stuff that people in the Sahara listen to on their phones
- Listen to a rare Harald Grosskopf live session
- How To Dress Well is remixed by Pariah, wins film acclaim
- James Murphy, Four Tet, Dizzee, Eminem and oOoOO are playing at Sónar
- Kompakt release benefit compilation for Japan
- Salem remix Interpol
- Grimes's Vanessa video and d'Eon's Transparency video
- Wu Lyf announce tour
- Drake's best jumpers
- Gatekeeper tour EU!
- Pure X to release album, 'Pleasure', on Acephale
- Mount Kimbie, live at SXSW
- Stream LCD Soundsystem's final show in full, again, at Self-Titled
- Zomby signs to 4AD
- Indie label allstars congregate for records fair
- Hessle Audio to release 2xCD/3x12" label compilation on May 16th
- Tri Angle confirms Clams as latest signing
- Don't Die Wondering's "Tumblreality" mix
- Watch Wild Beasts' new video, the first from their new album!
- Listen to DJ Rashad's juke mix for Rinse FM
- John Tejada signs to KOMPAKT
- Dave I.D. unveils debut album 'Response', out 13th June
- Odd Future added to the Camden Crawl bill
- Field Day 2011 latest announcement
- Listen to a podcast by Dorian Concept (via XLR8R)
- Quick, download a Gang Gang MP3!
- Apparat signs to Mute, gives away free track Ash Black Veil
- Hear Sigur Ros's early demos
- Vice is about to get huge
- Jay-Z is jealous of us
- NPR have Panda Bear's album 'Tomboy' available to stream
- Olde English allstars pay tribute to Creed on free compilation, 'Should Have Been Dead On A Sunday Morning'
- Listen to a new mix from The Golden Filter
- Details of Jackmaster's 'Fabriclive 57' CD
- Porcelain Raft, Oupa (Daniel from Yuck) and A Grave With No Name play in a flat with heartbreaking elegance [videos]
- Music students wanted for photography feature
March
- Hype Williams live session on the Benji B show
- Hear Panda Bear discuss his new record and play some records
- Download Emeralds live
- Hyperdub releases roundup, featuring Hype Williams, Ossie, DOK
- No Age score fashion flick
- Video premiere: Wool & Spoek - Kult Leader
- Editions Mego pulls together rare works of Emeralds' Mark McGuire
- Rinse 14: mixed by Youngsta
- Mark E releases Spectral Sound album, Stone Breaker
- Watch EMA's new video: California
- Everywhere Else, 30th March 2011
- New Wu Lyf song – L Y F
- Radiohead announce Record Store Day release, Supercollider / The Butcher
- Holy Other to release 'With U' EP on Tri Angle, download a new track
- Everywhere Else, March 28th
- Hear new Hype Williams track 'Bad Mind'
- Mary Anne Hobbs snapped up by Xfm
- Planet Mu announce Footwork Tour
- Everywhere Else, 24th March 2011
- Stream Burial's Stolen Dog and Street Halo
- Wiley advertises Ko Lee Noodles
- Stream: Live Those Days Tonight by Friendly Fires
- Bok Bok B2B Jam City on Rinse FM
- Stream Metronomy's new music video: The Look
- Ford & Lopatin reveal debut album details
- Listen to Actress' remix of Panda Bear's 'Surfers Hymn'
- Everywhere Else, 23rd March 2011
- New Burial 12" to drop on Hyperdub next week
- Battle's second album 'Gloss Drop' out this June
- Stream a video feature of Gold Panda
- Watch CYMBALS' debut video Summer Escaping
- Friendly Fires announce new album
- Everywhere Else, 22nd March 2011
- Wu Lyf post a trailer for their debut album, out 13th of June
- Bestival line up adds Public Enemy, Emeralds, James Blake, Mogwai & more
- Video: Becoming Real - Antarctic City
- Download a mixtape from The Weeknd
- Everywhere Else, March 21st
- Thom Yorke and DOOM collaboration pending
- Lil Silva's EP launch tonight
- Björk will perform 'Biophilia', a multimedia residency at Manchester International Festival
- Everywhere Else, March 18th
- Oh God, you can hear a bit of a song from Tyler, The Creator's new album Goblin!
- Everywhere Else, 16th March 2011
- Hear Justice's new track, Civilization, on an Adidas ad
- Nate Dogg dies aged 41
- Listen to new Burial / Thom Yorke / Four Tet!
- Exclusive download: Physical Therapy remix of Lloyd's Lay It Down
- Hear Hudson Mohawke's rework of Jamie Woon's new single
- Junior Boys return with album and free track
- Pictures Music team up with Off Modern and release Koreless
- Everywhere Else, 14th March 2011
- Video premiere: Halls - Solace
- Everywhere Else, 11th March 2011
- Everywhere Else, 10th March 2011
- Hear Jamie xx's tremendous grime mix
- Everywhere Else, 9th March 2011
- Lone's latest EP, 'Echolocations', drops 28th March
- Jamie Woon readies debut album 'Mirrorwriting'
- Jacques Greene, Mumdance & Skull Juice to play our next London party
- Hear Fever Ray's contribution to the Red Riding Hood soundtrack
- Everywhere Else, 8th March 2011
- Oh wow, look at our SXSW party!
- Listen to some new James Blake songs
- Everywhere else, 7th March 2011
- Video: Connan Mockasin - 'Forever Dolphin Love'
- Gloss Drop will be the next Battles album
- Video: Gil Scott Heron / Jamie XX – I'll Take Care Of U
- Hear Clock Opera's forthcoming single 'Belongings'
- Everywhere Else, 4th March 2011
- CREEP announce European tour!
- CYMBALS' debut album drops this May
- Katy B announces new single 'Broken Record'
- Wiley unveils new Big Dada album, 100% publishing
- Hyetal readies debut album
- Everywhere Else, 3rd March 2011
- Stream Gang Gang Dance's new track from their forthcoming album
- Listen to a remix of How to Dress Well's Ready For The World by xxxy
- Mount Kimbie announce UK tour
- Listen to Jacques Greene's Another Girl and a remix of Holdin' On by Braiden
- Festivals Roundup: Snoop Dogg headlining Lovebox/ Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav to curate ATP
- Everywhere Else
- Download Toro Y Moi's remix of Tyler, The Creator's 'French'
- Download How To Dress Well's heartbreaking R Kelly cover
- Everywhere Else
February
- Listen to a new Four Tet song
- Listen to Rainbow Arabia's 'Boys And Diamonds' here exclusively
- Lone to release an EP on R&S
- TV On The Radio album details and new track
- Grime 2011 gathers pace Trim spits over TRC's skipping rope
- Panda Bear to release limited 7" with a remix from Actress
- SO BONES present Tri Angle, Brenmar, Girl Unit, Romy xx, DJ T€ARJ£RK£R, Tom Lea
- Kompakt does Southbank Centre
- Smith Westerns unveil new album 'Dye It Blonde'
- Live like SBTRKT does
- Zomby drops four new tracks
- Wild Beasts return
- Listen to new Becoming Real material
- Download an exclusive Brenmar track!
- MIA, Die Antwoord, Shackleton & Nicholas Jaar among Sonar new additions
- Dummy's teething problems explained
- Watch Jamie Woon sing 'Lady Luck' in a canoe in Cambodia
- Video: Radiohead – Lotus Flower
- Listen to Jamie XX's Newsnight version
- Becoming Real and Jam City crossover
- Stream Gold Panda's Marriage Gold Panda [Notown]
- Download Hype Williams' Businessline
- Jeff Mangum to curate ATP UK December 2011 and play live solo shows
- Liturgy ready new album 'Aesthetica'
- Jamie xx remixes BBC Newsnight theme tune
- New Hype Williams 12'' 'Rise Up' to be released on Second Layer
- Field Day announces first acts for 2011 festival
- Dazed Live: a new festival of music, art, and ideas
- Download Physical Therapy's garage remix of Laurel Halo
- Download Zoo Kid's remix of The Streets 'Puzzled By People'
- Download Koreless track 'Up And Down' from Pictures Music
- Listen to Bullion's mix for Benji B
- Jamie Woon's new single 'Lady Luck' out February 20th
- Download Othello Woolf's 'The Broken Hearted'
- Pre-order Radiohead's new album 'The King Of Limbs', to be released on XL in March
- Video premiere: Jessie Ware & Sampha 'Valentine'
- Actress will be playing our party on the 25th February at XOYO in London
- Giggs gives away a mix tape
- Video: Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
- Stream Erykah Badu's new video directed by Flying Lotus Erykah Badu [Motown]
- Julian Lynch unveils new album details
- Games and Joy Orbison in name change news roundup to release new music
- Planningtorock readies 'W'
- Bullion drives you to plastic
- Watch Toro Y Moi's new video 'New Beat' Toro Y Moi [Carpark]
- Oneohtrix Point Never and Games: April Tour
- Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers blasts library closures
- Gil Scott Heron / Jamie XX album streams in a rather complicated way
- Gang Gang Dance's new album, Eye Contact, will be out on the 9th of May
- Pantha du Prince's Black Noise remixed by Four Tet, Moritz Van Oswald, Animal Collective &c
- Watch a great Dilla documentary
- Here is a picture of Lady Gaga's bottom and the lyrics to her new single, which is out on Friday
- Steve Reich, Killing Joke, The Field, James Blake for Ether Festival
- Download: New mix from Anneka
- Standon Calling continues as founder Alex Trenchard is jailed for fraud
- Say goodbye to The White Stripes
- Stream two videos: How To Dress Well's Suicide Dream 1 & 2 How To Dress Well [Tri Angle]
- Juan Maclean, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pantha du Prince, oOoOO and Games play Southbank Centre
- Video Premier: Young Silence by Echo Lake Echo Lake [No Pain In Pop]
- D/R/U/G/S and Chad Valley to play live at Off Modern
- Factory Floor single 'R E A L L O V E' out in April
- Listen to the new Abeano podcast
- Micachu & The Shapes and The London Sinfonietta present 'Chopped & Screwed'
- Stream Blondes' track from the upcoming Harald Grosskopf reworking
- Video: James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream
- Will Oldham interviews R Kelly
January
- James Blake album tracks available for preview
- Konx-om-Pax announces new album featuring Laurel Halo and Stuart Braithwaite
- Download a new remix of Banjo Or Freakout's Go Ahead by Snoretex
- CREEP new video - Days featuring Romy XX CREEP [Young Turks]
- Stream Toro Y Moi's New Music Video: Still Sound Toro Y Moi [Carpark]
- Ramadanman/Pearson Sound's 'Fabriclive 56' tracklist out
- About Group’s new single: You’re No Good About Group [Domino]
- Sinden: Gucci Mane mixtape drops Friday
- Visions Of Trees new video: Sometimes It Kills Visions Of Trees [Moshi Moshi]
- Rise Music launches new website
- Katy B's debut album 'On A Mission' out March 28th
- Cold Cave announce second album 'Cherish The Light Years'
- Carl Craig Planet E turns 20
- Blondes: new limited 12”, Europe tour and mixtape
- Friday 25 February will be the next Dummy night
- FaltyDL readies new album on Planet Mu, who also have a compilation out soon
