News Archive
News posted in 2012
May
- Dollop announce The Detroit Series, with Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson
- How To Dress Well returns
- The xx announce north American tour dates
- Laurel Halo's European tour dates
- Cooly G announces debut album
- London's Science Museum has invented a virtual orchestra you can conduct
- Field Day stage times announced
- Dave Invisible electrocuted onstage in Nigeria
- Carl Craig has a new project!
- New albums from Antony & The Johnsons, The-Dream and Cooly G announced
- Donna Summer (1948-2012)
- Guy Gerber compiles himself for Fabric 64
- German techno label plans exquisitely packaged, very expensive compilation
- Bleached announce European tour dates
- Moritz Von Oswald Trio to release a new album on Honest Jons
- Joanna Newsom and Philip Glass are working together
- J Dilla's mother starts record label for her son's unreleased music
- John Peel arts centre proposed for Bradford
- TNGHT announce EP and first UK live headline show TNGHT [Warp/LuckyMe]
- Azealia Banks announces EP, video and song
- Nite Jewel to cover Kraftwerk's Computer World album on June 1st
- DJ Rashad announces new album
- Four Tet curates Fugazi-inspired £5 Brixton all-nighter
- Inmates forced to dance to Usher
- Adam Yauch (1964-2012)
- Suzanne Ciani's first album reissued
- Cassie a new song out and its name is Balcony
- Mark Leckey's ghostly masterpiece Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore finally released on vinyl
- Bok Bok, L-vis 1990, Jam City and more, to perform at Night Slugs 4th birthday
- The xx announce European tour dates
- The xx announce three intimate London shows
- Grimes is playing Boiler Room
- New pledge site allows fans to choose artist's live event promotion
- Frank Ocean and M. Ward to play Bestival
- Hegarty's Meltdown festival announce first line up details
April
- Pirate Bay will be blocked following a UK High Court ruling
- First 100 discs of John Peel's record collection open online tomorrow
- J Dilla's huge legacy returned to his mother
- Grimes launches new jewellery line
- Azealia Banks cancels summer festival appearances
- Joy O's 2011 YouTube hit Ellipsis due for release, finally
- DJ Shadow reveals 'Hidden Transmissions' release
- The Avalanches return with lullaby mixtape
- Detroit record store unearths (and flogs) J Dilla's record collection
- Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare prepares second album 'Ascetic Ideals' under Suum Cuique alias
- Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin unveils new Airbird EP
- Can release 3CD set of unreleased material
- The Very Best return with second album 'MTMTMK'
- Indie Label Market returns to London
- Evian Christ releases limited edition 4-track 12'' vinyl
- Kevin Martin returns as The Bug with new Acid Ragga label
- 17,000 capacity Eastern Electrics festival is homeless :(
- Listen to Generation Bass documentary
- Wonderful Geordie R&B producer and Vondelpark collaborator Slime announces new EP on Get Me!
- Purity Ring announce debut album 'Shrines' on 4AD
- Cat Power announces release of new album
- CFCF’s ‘Exercises’ EP will be the next Dummy release
- Humans and music – who made who?
- Electronic pioneer Pauline Oliveros to perform at Tate Modern
- Street dance festival returns to Sadler's Wells this May
- AlunaGeorge announce Tri Angle EP
- Nick Höppner mixes 'Panorama Bar 04'
- Boiler Room presents Kompakt and Cómeme live from Berlin
- Azealia Banks and Missy Elliot are working together
- 4AD signs British trio Daughter
- Andy Stott, JD Twitch and patten remix The Hundred In The Hands
- Shacklewell hosts benefit for imprisoned anti-Putin Russian punk band Pussy Riots
- Laurel Halo announces European tour dates
- Festival updates from The Great Escape, Mutek, Lovebox and more
- Nicolas Jaar is taking to the Essential Mix decks tonight
- Kindness has a new single which is called 'House'
- Tanlines announce UK and European shows
- 2.0Pac was "completely synthetic human being", may tour
- M.I.A did the theme for Julian Assange's new talk show
- Hot Chip's new single Night and Day debuts online
- Night Slugs stands tall with news of Jam City album and Girl Unit EP
- Disclosure announce new EP on Greco-Roman
- Julio Bashmore, The Felice Brothers, Andrew Weatherall and more added to Beacons Festival
- Grimes will be on Jools Holland next week
- Kuedo announces new Planet Mu single
- Theo Parrish releases second volume of Sound Signature Sounds
- Lunice to release new EP, play a special London gig
- CFCF – Exercises (full EP stream)
- New Order's ultra-rare, 18-minute requiem for Ian Curtis finally sees vinyl release
- Editor Krissi Murison leaves NME
- Newsflash: Adele's net worth is officially "balling"
- Lil B's NYU lecture – full transcript
- 700 7" sleeves stuffed with 7 secret 7"s sell
- Odd Future interviewed on BBC'S Newsnight
- Shangaan Electro announce European summer tour and new video
- Westway to the world: Rough Trade expands to Brooklyn and Paris
- Great new website Ad Hoc launches out of Altered Zones
- Talk Talk's 'Spirit of Eden' reissued
- Diplo debuts on BBC Radio 1 with Canadian producer Lunice
- Moodymann releases new EP for car brand, listen inside
- Juke star DJ Rashad starts new label Lit City
- Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland give away 33-track album
- Gatekeeper announce debut album 'Exo'
- Drexciya's second compilation on Clone Records
- Tyler The Creator interviewed on BBC Radio 1
- Win a guest spot on GZA's new album
- Bestival, Camden Crawl and more festival news
- 'Diplo & Friends': a brand new weekly show on BBC Radio 1
- Walls remixed by Holy Other, Perc and Voigt
- Late 70s electronic music bible archived online
- 4AD signs Purity Ring
- Micachu announces second album and Kwes collaboration
- Charmain Kato plays London art show
- A$AP's label has pulled that Lana Del Rey and Rocky collaboration
- London beats at exactly 122.86 beats per minute, according to David Bryne
- A blog about David Cameron dressed as Cam'ron has been made by the internet
- Maurice Fulton, Factory Floor and Connan Mockasin added to Land of Kings festival
- Laurie Anderson plays music, talks about Moby Dick in London
- Watch Florence + The Machine's Royal Albert Hall gig from literally many angles
- West Africa art and music festival announced in Manchester
- Death Grips make infinite GIF sampler album
- Lana Del Rey and A$AP Rocky collaborate
- Swedes go clubbing on their lunchbreak, are more fun than you
- Penderecki's 'Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima' comes to sweaty basement club in London
- It's official: Jay-Z invented swag
- German politicians set up €1m fund to save Berlin's nightlife
- Dirty Projectors have announced details of new album 'Swing Lo Magellan'
- Hieroglyphic Being to perform at TUSK Festival
- Red Bull Music Academy 2012 Lecture with Frankie Knuckles and James Murphy
- Spotify's new Timeline details 1,000 years of pop music history
- Patti Smith is back with new album 'Banga'
- The Ray Charles Foundation is suing Ray Charles' kids
- Original Sugababes sign a £1million record deal
March
- MF DOOM has announced a one-off London show
- Lana Del Rey and Tyler, the Creator want to work together
- Bubbling to the world
- Miami rapper Rick Ross won court battle over his controversial name
- Nicolas Jaar has two albums on the way, a high opinion of his music
- Songkick adds 100,000 new members through Spotify app
- Bullion is releasing a new 6-track EP
- Ariel Pink and R Stevie Moore announce offensively titled, 60-track, hyper-limited album
- 100% Silk announce European showcase tour
- Untold is back with Change In A Dynamic Environment EP
- Azealia Banks releasing new EP in April
- Night Slugs launch new "strictly dancefloor" series
- Lil B is giving a lecture at NYU
- James Murphy and Frankie Knuckles will be chatting about stuff in London today
- New Order, James Murphy, Untold join Sonar lineup as RBMA announces artists
- David Shrigley's 'sort-of-opera' comes to London
- Julia Holter plans UK live dates
- Air France split up
- Peaking Lights Announce New Album
- Diplo credits "bubbling" artist behind that great Azealia Banks song
- Actress is launching his new album at Plastic People in April
- Fake Blood to soundtrack a screening of cult horror film Suspiria
- Bobby Womack has been diagnosed with colon cancer
- Aretha Franklin is recording new music with Clive Davis
- More releases announced for Record Store Day
- Boiler Room will make you wish you were in Berlin this Thursday
- A$AP Rocky's LiveLove chopped and screwed
- Lauryn Hill to perform live in London
- 4AD signs SpaceGhostPurrp
- Spaceghostpurrp on the Trayvon Martin tragedy
- Another line-up announcement from Field Day
- The Invisible sign to Ninja Tune
- Pantha Du Prince to release Krautrock-inspired new album
- Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras and The Congos to play London
- Death Grips reveal upcoming album cover
- Clark to hold live-stream 'Iradelphic' workshop tonight
- Laurel Halo album – full details
- New Album from Motion Sickness of Time Travel
- Nicolas Jaar designs new digital player / musical paperweight for his label
- MIT build a huge modular synthesizer you control through the internet
- Laurel Halo releases debut album with Hyperdub
- Nicki Minaj releases details of the next album plus UK tour dates
- THEEsatisfaction album stream
- Pirate Bay promise to launch low-orbit drones to carry their servers
- Read an interview with Azealia Banks by Will Self
- A$AP Rocky got into a fight with his audience at SXSW last night
- Odd Future's 'OF Tape Vol. 2' has leaked online
- K-Pop is changing the dialogue of the music business, may take over the world
- Brilliant producer Lorca is throwing a brilliant release party
- Legendarily extreme art band Laibach performs retrospective at Tate Modern
- Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire signs to Universal Republic
- Croatian Stop Making Sense festival making a bit of it right now
- Jacques Derrida vs Ornette Coleman interview from 1997
- Possible release date for Daft Punk album
- Full details of Levon Vincent's Fabric CD announced
- Geoff Barrow busy with new Portishead album, another based on Judge Dredd
- Clubbers will literally snort anything
- Antony Hegarty announced as Meltdown 2012 director
- Spotify pays out $260 million, expands into Germany
- Sounds Of The Internet – Embedded autoplay music gets its own special mixtape
- Boards of Canada promise us a new album
- Jon Savage's pictures of 1970s London displayed
- Record Store Day Releases Round-Up
- Big announcements for Bloc Weekend and Camden Crawl
- Mira Calix makes music you can touch for Olympics 2012
- Huge archive of feminist music opens
- Tribute to Arvo Part at the Barbican late-April
- Dozens of 'emo' youths murdered in Iraq
- HEALTH soundtrack computer game
- Play a game that involves bumping Kanye West on the head
- Bob Dylan is working on a new album
- Metallica and Katy Perry are both making 3D movies about themselves
- Gilles Peterson is getting a new show on BBC 6 Music
- Telepathe release new tracks; we get very excited
- Hudson Mohawke and Lunice to collaborate
- Next Land of Kings line up announced
- Lemonade are releasing a second album, finally
- Nick Zammuto of The Books is releasing an album about a farm
- Bjork remixed by Death Grips, These New Puritans, Alva Noto and Matthew Herbert
- Berghain launches new label blessed by Villalobos and Efdemin
- Spotify reveals UK divisions
- Rock makes you racist, claims study
- Apollo relaunch with new EP
- Newsflash: Russian punk bands are more tough and more cool than you
- Radiohead announce UK tour dates
- Today's breaking news – Monday 5th March 2012
- Today's breaking news - Friday 2nd March 2012
- Hot Chip announce new album
- Peter Saville, Trevor Horn and Peter Hook on Paul Morley's Radio 4 doc on the 12" single
- Today's breaking news – Thursday 1st March 2012
February
- Black Cab Sessions opens in America
- Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Joy Orbison remix)
- Man found dead at Rick Ross's Miami mansion
- Today's breaking news – Wednesday 29th February 2012
- Dummy will be hosting a party at SXSW
- Field Day announcement – Zomby, Laurel Halo, Kassem Mosse, Julia Holter etc play BleeD tent
- Today's breaking news – Tuesday 28th February 2012
- araabMUZIK is a Hollywood motherf*cker
- Today's breaking news – Monday 27th February 2012
- Weekly festival news roundup
- NTS to celebrate 1st birthday in April
- Seatwave responds to accusations, Viagogo stays quiet
- Azealia Banks' debut album is due in September
- Google launches new feature that helps you see more gigs
- Music bosses continue to make excuses for Chris Brown
- Bloc Party have announced comeback live dates
- Friendly Fires and Foals launch new club night at London's Plastic People
- Yet another imprint from Editions Mego
- Sónar announces Cape Town date
- Dispatches defeats injunction to uncover massive touting by ticket website Viagogo
- New Squarepusher album coming soon
- Hype Williams and King Britt coming out on Hyperdub
- John Peel's record collection to be made available online
- Chris Brown has a bounty on his head
- Grimes takes over Gorilla vs Bear for weird Canadian pop
- Two volumes of chip tune Daft Punk exists, unsurprisingly
- Christopher Reimer, Women guitarist (1986-2012)
- Alby Daniels - Her About Something
- Full details of Actress's 'R.I.P.'
- Obama sings the blues, proves he doesn't have the blues
- Lone announces R&S album, 'Galaxy Garden'
- BRITs awards 2012 – full winners list
- Mystery Jets ready 'Radlands'
- Play Brit Awards 2012 Bingo
- New album from Simian Mobile Disco
- Lana Del Rey meme roundup
- Blur to play London 2012 Closing Ceremony
- Watch the Throne European and UK Tour Announced
- Jacques Greene announces new signing Arclight to Vase
- Actress to play live at Tate Modern's Kusama exhibition
- Traxman and DJ Earl announce European tour dates
- Mega German industrial park festival Melt! announces first names
- Saint Etienne will tour this May
- Modern world a strange, nasty place for everyone apart from Chris Brown
- Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder to perform at Whitney Houston's funeral
- Black Strobe at work on new material, reissues Italian Fireflies
- Brille signs Random Impulse
- AP to livestream Whitney Houston's funeral
- PiL record first new music in 20 years
- Kraftwerk to perform 3D retrospective at the MoMA
- Gorillaz, Andre 300 & James Murphy – Do Ya Thing (making of)
- Detroit in May sounds nice
- Adele is hard working, says things she doesn't mean
- Beacons Festival books good bands, hopes not to flood
- Joy Division and New Order masters unearthed in cellar by Jamie Oliver
- First names for 2012 Lovebox Festival announced
- Night Angles sign to Tender Age
- Jessie Ware's single is really wonderful
- New Order to headline Bestival
- Adele cleans up at Grammys
- Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012)
- Main Attrakionz will feature on Jam City's next release
- Mount Kimbie's 'Crooks & Lovers' reissued on vinyl
- Rustie wins Guardian first album award
- Barack Obama reveals his Spotify playlist
- Kanye West launches fashion line in Paris, could design for TopShop, may be in east London right now
- Micachu & the Shapes' Raisa Khan plugs in with new solo material
- Earl Sweatshirt is back (right?)
- James Murphy collaborates with Gorillaz and Andre 3000 for Converse
- Death Grips to release two albums in 2012
- Madonna announces huge world tour
- Sonar announces acts and showcases for Barcelona, Tokyo and Sao Paulo
- Bestival announces The xx, Justice, Sigur Ros, Azealia Banks and Adam Ant will play
- Missy Elliot and Timbaland albums due in June, Timbaland promises
- Lorca is going to release a 12" on Dummy
- Nile Rodgers: "Daft Punk are hanging at my house"
- Turner-prize winning artist Jeremy Deller makes £100 12" with busker
- Girls on tour
- BTJunkie gets the heck out of Dodge
- Maya Jane Coles will mix the next DJ Kicks
- A$AP Rocky is literally going to be in the UK
- Russian protests soundtracked by ex-paratroopers
- MIA literally flips the "bird" during Madonna Super Bowl half-time show
- Moodymann hints that he'll be releasing new material soon
- Bon Iver refuse to perform at the Grammys, and perform on SNL
- BBC 6 Music had more listeners than ever before in 2011
- Drake is being sued by his ex-girlfriend
- Madonna's Super Bowl collaboration with MIA and Nicki Minaj!
- Lana Del Rey, Jack White and Florence among headliners for free Hackney Marshes festival
- James Murphy wants his own coffee and he wants it now
- Proto-punk artist/musician Mike Kelley dead at 58, apparent suicide
- Orbital – New France (Zola Jesus)
- New oOoOO EP on the way
- Evian Christ exists, signs to Tri Angle, releases free mixtape
- Soul Train creator dies in suspected suicide
- Future Islands announce European tour dates
- Jamie xx track premieres as Young Turks take over Australian radio
- British reggae label Fashion Records to relaunch
- Bestival - "Dress like animals and watch Orbital"
- Folk hero Alan Lomax's archive digitised
January
- Zomby accused of plagarism by fellow producer Reark
- Honest Jon's announce Shangaan Shake compilation
- Hood to re-issue Cold House and release 6-CD anthology box-set
- New venture from Altered Zones folks seeks cash
- Brainmaths Vol 1 featuring James Blake, Zomby and more
- Drake to headline Wireless Festival
- Levon Vincent helms next Fabric mix CD
- Kompakt stars Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger release ambient debut as MOHN
- Blondes – Blondes [album stream]
- Jack White announces solo album, streams first single
- Ed Sheeran has the lowest-selling number 1 album for 17 years
- Primavera Sound adds A$AP Rocky, Girls, The Rapture, Iceage and James Ferraro to bill
- Garbage announce return
- Feist, Scritti, Ghostpoet, Peaking Lights etc play Green Man Festival
- The Southbank Centre announces year-long contemporary classical music festival
- Jay Z and Beyonce are the thirteenth most powerful people in music
- Drake wants to play Obama on the big screen
- Carlos Giffoni is releasing a 12" featuring Laurel Halo
- Steve Reich to perform Radiohead-inspired piece
- Open call for next run of 33 1/3 books
- Hot Chip headlines Camp Bestival
- Grouper & Tiny Vipers – Demona
- Odd Future tour UK
- Festivals to Watch
- Laurel Halo releases EP under new name on brand-new Mute imprint
- MIA to Release New Single
- Simon Cowell and Jada Pinkett-Smith announce new ‘X-Factor for DJs’ show
- Shem McCauley dies in Bangkok
- Pan Records showcase this weekend
- Justice – On 'N' On ("ruined" by Rick Rubin)
- Sean "Diddy" Combs to launch cable network
- Cocteau Twins best-of released on vinyl
- YouTube censors Perfume Genius promo
- Winston Riley (1946 – 2012)
- Grimes tours Europe
- Mickey Mouse x Joy Division t-shirt out now
- As two more music-sharing sites are taken down, who will be next?
- Pitchfork reviewed
- Field Day 2012 annonces Blood Orange, Julia Holter, Koreless, Kindness, Liars etc
- Teeth and Desto launch new label Signal Life, release first single
- Maria Minerva to headline gig at the Royal Albert Hall
- Lone announces new album on R&S
- Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom found in safe room with shotgun by NZ cops
- Etta James (1938 - 2012)
- Jamie xx's Radiohead remix to get white label release
- Unsound New York – dates and artists revealed
- Megaupload raided by feds, geeks go HAM
- Actress reveals details of new album 'R.I.P'
- Best Music Writing on KickStarter
- Shadowy London cartel LHF are behind the first totally incredible EP of 2012
- Azealia Banks signs to Universal
- Paul Simon 'Graceland' documentary to premiere at Sundance
- Happy Mondays Reform
- Grouper soundtracks new feature film
- New Odd Future album due March
- Bloc confirm London Pleasure Gardens for 2012 venue
- Frank Ocean, Pusha T and Kanye West work on Yeezy's G.O.O.D. Music compilation
- Liars leave clues
- Addison Groove debut album announced
- Obama kills the Stop Online Piracy Act
- Wandering round the city listening to music on headphones is a dangerous thing to do
- Grouper gets away from that whole "song" thing on tour of European churches
- New strain of weed named Blue Ivy
- “You can imagine how devastating it is to know you had a hand in that” – man whose iPhone went off during concert
- A&Rs, charge your weapons: SXSW announces more attendees
- Orbital work with Zola Jesus on new album
- Death Grips, Grouper, Flowdan and Gonjasufi – full guestlist of the next Bug album revealed
- AraabMUZIK to release a new mixtape
- Robert Mapplethorpe, legendary music and art photographer, gets the biopic treatment
- Teengirl Fantasy sign to R&S Records
- Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos for FRKWYS Vol. 9
- Islamophobic band nominated for prestigious Norwegian music award
- Beyonce is also a horse fly
- BRIT Awards realise dubstep exists
- Lil Wayne is writing a book about his time doing time
- Ariel Pink in "still batty" shock, as he makes a werewolf movie and two albums, one with a fairly offensive name with R Stevie Moore
- Blondes launch album in London
- The Bug and Grouper collaborate on follow-up to London Zoo
- JLB will remind you what's great about, ahem, future garage
- Kickstarter made you give $20 million to music start-ups
- Read a story by Oneohtrix Point Never, Robert Wyatt, Ian Rankin, The Horrors and many more
- Mala from Digital Mystikz has an album of Cuban music
- Vincent Clarke and Martin Gore from Depeche Mode have made a techno album
- John Foxx and the Maths announce new album
- Diplo has written a coffee table book
- Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell are working together
- At 8pm on Thursday in Dalston, a clever man will predict the next 1,000 years of music
- Bon Iver launches record label
- Coachella/money makes Refused and At The Drive In reform
- Stones Throw release even more minimal wave into the ether
- RBMA moves to New York
- Shlohmo and Salva announce European tour
- Beyonce has a baby girl
- 90s industrial band Black Rain's (incredible) soundtrack work compiled by Blackest Ever Black
- Original Sugababes reform; please remain calm
- James Ferraro tours Europe
- Thom Yorke made some music for a fashion label last year, which you can now hear
- Michael Kiwanuka tops BBC Sound of 2012 poll
- Angola in "serious" shock, as his promoter gets kidnapped for Nas's no-show
- Chris and Cosey record album with Nik Void of Factory Floor
- Kanye West launches new creative group, DONDA
- You could perform with the Weeknd
- Jacques Greene has his own record label
- BFI hosts Chemical Brothers film
- Lady Gaga in "probably doesn't bathe in blood" shock
- Scuba and The Caretaker announce new albums
- Type to re-release long-lost dub techno classic 'Biokinetics'
- How synths and sci-fi are totally linked
- Bloc Party in "back and happy" shock
- Goodbye to all that: Sandwell District and The Studio end operations
- Grimes signs to 4AD
- Youssou N'Dour runs for Senegalese pesidency