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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Music Links Roundup - Update - July 29th

Some links of interest:

dubstep discussion: DUBSTEP ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION | NOT READY

Forthcoming albums: Best Of 2009 1/2: Most Anticipated Albums :: The Rawking Refuses To Stop!

David Sylvian: David Sylvian: The Video Playlist - Videos - Mojo

Major Lazer mix on listen again bbc iplayer at the mo: BBC - Radio 1 - Essential Mix and Electric Zoo: Major Lazer Essential Mix

Listen to 2 hours of Derrick May in the mix: BBC - 6 Music - 6 Mix

Listen again to techno legend Derrick May's 6 Mix, showcasing the sound of Detroit's Hi Tek Soul and one of his renowned club mixes.

New issue of Metal Hammer on sale this week in the UK: Metal Hammer - Magazine

On your free CD this month are exclusive tracks from BEHEMOTH and SATYRICON as well as brand new tracks from CRADLE OF FILTH, CTHONIC, VADER and SWALLOW THE SUN as the first part in our series of extreme CDs – Necrolust! Aiiieeeee!

Metal Maniacs coming back online: Lambgoat: Metal Maniacs set to return online

Call for Papers: Metal Jew: Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures

Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures
Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris & Mark LeVine (eds.)

Artists

Arsis

2009 album: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - ARSIS: New Album Title Announced

Virginia's melodic/technical death metal band ARSIS has set "Starve For The Devil" as the title of its fourth studio album, tentatively due in early 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Datarock

video: Watchingz: Datarock Unveil New Video Bearded Magazine: The Home of Independent Music

Khoma

2010: Khoma wakes up | NEWS | ITSATRAP2009

Khoma(feat. members from Cult of Luna) are back from the dead and working on a new album for release in early 2010

Octopus Project

video: New Octopus Project Video - "Wet Gold" (Stereogum Premiere) - Video - Stereogum

Paradise Lost

track online: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - PARADISE LOST: New Album Artwork Unveiled; Title Track Posted Online

A brand new PARADISE LOST track, entitled "Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The song is the title cut of the British gothic metal act's new album, which will be released via Century Media Records on September 28, 2009 in Europe and October 6, 2009 in the U.S.

Sunn O)))

interview: Pitchfork: Interviews: Sunn O)))

Wild Beasts

album stream: Listen to Wild Beasts' new album on NME.COM now – audio | News | NME.COM

Zoot Woman

2009 album: RA News: Zoot Woman are what they used to be

Zoot Woman will release Things Are What They Used to Be in August 2009.

# posted by DJ Martian 12:24 AM

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Superfamily Announce New Album: Guns Tonight

Norway's sensational pop-rock band SUPERFAMILY announce album number 3:

SUPERFAMILY'S NEW ALBUM WILL BE ENTITLED 'GUNS TONIGHT' AND THE RELEASE DATE IS SET TO THE 24TH OF AUGUST 2009.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:48 PM

Mojo - New Issue

New issue of Mojo magazine now on sale in the UK. Unfortunately that simpleton NME band Arctic Monkeys are on the front cover.

However:

FREE CD! AFRICA RISING: 13 mind blowing summer grooves from the likes of Tinariwen, Ali Farka Touré, Tony Allen, Toumani Diabete, Oumou Sangare, Konono No. 1 and more!

including:

DAVID SYLVIAN: From glam-pop king to free-jazz explorer, David Sylvian has spent the last three decades pushing himself to the limit. But where next for this latter-day Scott Walker? Phil Alexander looks for the answer in this month’s MOJO Interview.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:45 PM

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Music Links Roundup - Update - July 26th

Some links of interest:

new all-time list worth browsing through; ATEASEWEB TOP 1000 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (2009) - Rate Your Music

Results of the annual ateaseweb Music Forum Top Albums of All Time poll. Reasonable inclusions of compilations were allowed.

Shortcomings of the Mercury Prize: The Mercury Music Prize 2009 - Bleep43

Andrew Collins: The Mercury Prize is in danger of becoming hot - Times Online

2 best of 2009 albums lists:

* BLEEP - The Best Albums of 2009... so far.

* SPIN's 20 Greatest Albums Of 2009 ... So Far - List - Stereogum

interviews

Fever Ray: The Quietus | News | Fever Ray Talks About Motherhood And Opera

Riverside: Riverside interview (07/2009) - Metal Storm

Siouxsie Sioux: The Quietus | Film | Film Reviews | Siouxsie Sioux Interviewed: The Banshees And The BBC

3 albums on the experimental electronic label, Tympanik: Gothtronic | News: New Releases on TYMPANIK AUDIO

mix compilations:

RA News: Modeselektor mix Body Language - Get Physical will release Modeselektor's Body Language on September 25, 2009.

RA News: Modular leaves them all behind - Modular will release Leave Them All Behind Vol. 3 on August 7th, 2009.

Artists

A Place To Bury Strangers

2009 album: The Quietus | News | A Place To Bury Strangers Album Details

A Place To Bury Strangers have announced details about their new album. Exploding Head will be released on October 5.

Baroness

2009 album: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - BARONESS: New Album Track Listing Revealed

Savannah, Georgia's BARONESS will release its second full-length album for an October release via Relapse Records.

Blut Aus Nord

new label deal: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - BLUT AUS NORD Signs With DEBEMUR MORTI PRODUCTIONS

Burst

Indefinite hiatus: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - BURST To Go On 'Indefinite Hiatus'

Sweden's BURST has announced plans to disband following a "best-of" performance in the group home country in the fall.

Commented BURST: "Following a band meeting at the end of June, we have decided that it is time to let BURST sleep.

Celestial

2009 album: Bravewords.com News: CELESTIAL Nearing Completion Of Sophomore Effort Where Life Springs Eternal

Minnesota doomsters CELESTIAL, featuring AGALLOCH's Jason Walton, are nearing completion of their sophomore effort entitled Where Life Springs Eternal. The album, to be released by Bindrune Recordings, is being described as a 'groundbreaking release in the doom realm with its dense beauty and innovative/eclectic style.'

DJ 3000

2009 album: RA News: DJ 3000 boards the Galactic Caravan

Motech will release DJ 3000's Galactic Caravan on October 1st, 2009.

Future Beat Alliance

2009 album: RA News: Future Beat Alliance revels in patience, distance

EevoNext will release Future Beat Alliance's Patience and Distance on August 10, 2009.

GusGus

2009 album: GusGus Returns... on Kompakt | XLR8R

Jong Pang

2009 album: New Jong Pang gets new release date | NEWS | ITSATRAP2009

Jong Pang's delayed sophomore album "Love" is now set for release on August 10 via Tigerspring.

Junius

2009 album: Comments // News // Lambgoat: Junius to release new album in October

Junius has announced plans to release a new full-length this fall. "The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist," a concept album inspired by scholar Immanuel Velikovsky, will be available on October 13th via The Mylene Sheath.

Katatonia

2009 album: Katatonia - Album Title, Release Date Confirmed - Metal Storm

"Night Is the New Day" will be released on October 19th (US - October 27th) on Peaceville Records.

Kings of Convenience

2009 album: More details on the new Kings of Convenience album | NEWS | ITSATRAP2009

EMI Norway has confirmed that the new Kings of Convenience album "Declaration of dependence" will be released on October 2. The new single "Boat behind" was released to radio today (July 20).

Rain Machine

mp3 New Rain Machine (TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone) - "Give Blood" - MP3 - Stereogum

Requiem Aeternam

2009 album: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - REQUIEM AETERNAM Completes Work On 'Destiny-Man'

Melodic black metallers REQUIEM AETERNAM — originally from Uruguay but most recently based in Tampa Bay, Florida — have completed work on their third album, "Destiny-Man".

Rotersand

2009 album: Gothtronic | News: New ROTERSAND Album Random is Resistance - The title is ''Random is Resistance'' October 23rd

Scar Symmetry

2009 album: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - SCAR SYMMETRY: New Album Title, Artwork Revealed

Swedish melodic progressive death metallers SCAR SYMMETRY have set "Dark Matter Dimensions" as the title of their new album, due in October via Nuclear Blast Records.

John Tejada

compilation: RA News: John Tejada to release recovered data

Phthalo Records will release John Tejada as Lucid Dream's Recovered Data 95 on August 11th, 2009.

Vitalic

2009 album: RA News: Vitalic preps Flashmob, performs in London

PIAS/Different will release Vitalic's Flashmob on September 28, 2009.

Wodensthrone

2009 album: Bravewords.com News: WODENSTHRONE - Details Of Debut Full-Length Loss Available

UK black metallers WODENSTHRONE are set to release their debut album, Loss, via Bindrune Recordings. A press release from the label reads as follows:

# posted by DJ Martian 11:57 PM

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Mercury Prize 2009 - Reactions & Reports

I will continue to update this post:

Mercury Prize 2009 - Reactions & Reports

BBC's microsite: BBC - Mercury Prize including:

profiles: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Mercury Prize 2009: The nominees

The shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for best British or Irish album of the last 12 months has been announced.

Find out more about the 12 nominees below.

The Guardian: Mercury prize 2009 nominations announced | Music | guardian.co.uk and debate: Who do you think is missing from the Mercury prize 2009 shortlist? | Music | guardian.co.uk

We want to hear who you think should have made the selection for this year's Mercury prize

Drowned In Sound: Mercury Prize 2009 shortlist in 'some predictable announcements and some not so predictable ones' SH / Music News // Drowned In Sound

NME: Mercury Prize - The NME Team's Tips

Neil McCormick: Mercury Music Prize nominees 2009 announced - Telegraph Blogs

Clash Magazine: Clash Comment - The Mercury Prize | Clash Music Exclusive General

Strangeglue: with artist profiles: Mercury Music Shortlist Revealed - Strangeglue - Music News, Views and Reviews

# posted by DJ Martian 3:54 PM

Mercury Prize 2009 - Nominations

they got the scoop first: Muso’s Guide - Articles Events Features - Barclaycard Mercury Prize: nominations revealed!

Mercury Prize 2009 - Nominations:

Bat For Lashes – 'Two Suns'
Florence And The Machine – 'Lungs'
Friendly Fires – 'Friendly Fires'
Glasvegas – 'Glasvegas'
Lisa Hannigan – 'See So'
The Horrors – 'Primary Colours
The Invisible – 'The Invisible'
Kasabian – 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'
La Roux – 'La Roux'
Led Bib – 'Sensible Shoes'
Speech Debelle – 'Speech Therapy'
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – 'Twice Born Men'

# posted by DJ Martian 11:44 AM

Mercury Prize 2009: to be announced at 11.30am ish

The Mercury Prize 2009 shortlist of 12 nominations will be announced at 11.30am in London today.

Twitter is the king of real-time search, so expect the nominations to reported on Twitter first: mercury prize - Twitter Search although Twingly Microblog search has a better interface: "mercury Prize" - Twingly Microblog Search

The BBC have a Mercury 2009 microsite in place: BBC - Mercury Prize 2009

Over the past couple of weeks BBC Music Blog has asked various music bloggers of their opinions of what albums should make this year's Mercury Prize shortlist.

Consensus turns out to be rather bland: BBC - BBC Music Blog: The Mercury Prize Shortlist of Shortlists

I have tagged links related to mercury prize 2009 @ mercury2009 [including many bloggers predictions lists]

The NME wade in to the debate, with a list of mixed quality: Who will be nominated for this year's Mercury Prize? | News | NME.COM

Here are NME.COM's 35 contenders - not counting the traditional folk, classical and jazz entries:

Bat For Lashes – 'Two Suns'
Bombay Bicycle Club – 'I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose'
Camera Obscura – 'My Maudlin Career'
David Holmes – 'The Holy Pictures'
Doves – 'Kingdom Of Rust'
Florence And The Machine – 'Lungs'
Friendly Fires – 'Friendly Fires'
Gallows – 'Grey Britain'
Glasvegas – 'Glasvegas'
Graham Coxon – 'The Spinning Top'
Jack Penate – 'Everything Is New'
James Yorkston – 'When The Haar Rolls In'
Jarvis Cocker – '"Further Complications"'
Kasabian – 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'
La Roux – 'La Roux'
Late Of The Pier – 'Fantasy Black Channel'
Lily Allen – 'It's Not Me, It's You'
Little Boots – 'Hands'
Manic Street Preachers – 'Journal for Plague Lovers'
Maximo Park – 'Quicken The Heart'
Micachu – 'Jewellery'
Monkey – 'Journey To The West'
Nitin Sawhney – 'London Undersound'
Oasis – 'Dig Out Your Soul'
Peter Doherty – 'Grace/Wastelands'
Robert Mitchell 3iO - The Greater Good
Roots Manuva – 'Slime And Reason'
Stuart Murdoch – 'God Help the Girl'
Take That – 'The Circus'
The Horrors – 'Primary Colours'
The Hours – 'See The Light'
The Phantom Band – 'Checkmate Savage'
The Week That Was – 'The Week That Was'
White Lies – 'To Lose My Life…'
Wiley – 'Grime Wave'

With the Mercury prize there are 3 sets of questions pre the shortlist that spring up. what you think will make the shortlist, what albums you would like to make the shortlist? and your own personal idealist list?

the first question of second guessing the judges, doesn't particularly interest me this year, unfortunately i expect the hyped Florence and the Machine to be in the shortlist.

probably will make it The Horrors, La Roux, John Paris & Pj Harvey

This year pre the shortlist: I would like too see the following artists: The Week that Was, Bat for Lashes, The Invisible and Mothlite

Other questions that be will be answered soon:

Will Lily Allen make it?, Patrick Wolf has previously been overlooked, maybe this time? will the twee Camera Obscura make it? will Diagonal represent prog rock, which hipster album will make it Late of the Pier or Friendly Fires? Will Pet Shop boys be included? looking for a newcomer try Speech Debelle? Michacu seems to be tipped by many bloggers as an outsider? jazz maybe Curious or Get The Blessing, although both Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland have eligible albums.

Other possible outsiders: The Emperor Machine, The Mummers, Official Secrets Act, Rolo Tomassi, Polly Scattergood

Will any of these make it: Paul White, David Holmes and Jon Hopkins

All will be revealed soon !

I have developed this list of over 200 albums: Mercury Prize 2009 Eligibility - Rate Your Music

Some Eligible Albums for the Mercury Music Prize 2009. i.e British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 28th 2008 and July 20th 2009.

Updated: July 21st 2009

Note: I am not endorsing all these albums ! This list is just an indication of some albums that are eligible. I have omitted some higher profile artists that I particularly don't rate.

I don't know which albums entered the competition.

# posted by DJ Martian 11:07 AM

Monday, July 20, 2009

Music Links Roundup - Update - July 20th

Some links of interest:

3 blogs to check:
The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party
Sonic Frontiers
Max Tundra's Rotogravure Playlists

Simon Reynolds on some of his 2009 fav music: blissblog: FEELING >>> REALLY FEELING

This Month's: Music Alliance Pact, July 2009, – 26 blogs from 26 countries present 26 bands and 26 songs | Eardrums Music

Pitchfork metal column: Pitchfork: Show No Mercy: Show No Mercy - This month we talk to Code [pictured], Hiems, Magrudergrind, and the reformed YOB.

another music list: The 50 albums that changed music | Music | The Observer

take a music trip back to 2002: The Allmusic Blog - AllMusic Loves 2002

label interview: Bleep Interviews Touch | Bleep Blog

To coincide with Bleep’s feature on Touch, we caught up with founder, Jon Wozencroft, and asked him a few questions behind his “not a label” that has been releasing music for over 25 years.

Joy Division: The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Jude Rogers On The Right Way To Remember Joy Division

As Unknown Pleasures reaches its 30th anniversary, Jude Rogers looks behind the commercialisation and Paul Morley's jowls at Joy Division's eternal truth

Rough Trade Shops in London: FT.com / UK - Rough Trade tracks the lapsed music buyer

article: Eighteen Streaming Music Resources

Norwegian Jazz in Scotland: Norwegian jazz invation of Edinburgh (Norway - the official site in the UK)

Like Scotland, Norway has managed to develop a great jazz scene, partly due to its remote geography, and the Edinburgh Jazz Festival sees performances from some of the finests Norwegian musicians.

early 90s free party scene: Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the early 90s free party scene | Music | The Observer

For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the dream

interview with jazz artist Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian

Icarus interview: The Silent Ballet: Icarus

ex Cure member interviewed: Side-Line: Roger O'Donnell

interview: themilkfactory - INTERVIEW: RIVAL CONSOLES The Mood And The Melody

latest releases marketed by Cargo distribution:
Cargo Records Distribution UK: Cargo Collective: August 09 and
Cargo Records Distribution UK: Cargo Collective: July 09 and
Cargo Records Distribution UK: Cargo Collective: June 09

compilations:

* RA News: Chromeo get their DJ Kicks - K7 will release Chromeo's DJ-KiCKS in early October.

* RA News: M.A.N.D.Y. prep Get Physical's 7th Anniversary compilation - Get Physical will release M.A.N.D.Y.'s Get Physical 7th Anniversary Compilation on September 28th, 2009.

* RA News: N-Type preps Rinse:09 - Rinse will release N-Type's Rinse:09 on August 3rd, 2009.

* RA News: Spooky mix Tales of the Unexpected

Spooky, AKA Charlie May & Duncan Forbes, will enter into the mix arena for the latest edition in the Tales of the Unexpected series.

Artists

Alcest

plans: Alcest - To Record New Album - Metal Storm

Apse

2009 album: Treble : News: Apse to release new album this fall

The band's second album, Climb Up, is scheduled for release on Oct. 20 on ATP Records.

Basement Jaxx

2009 album: RA News: Basement Jaxx prep Scars - XL will release Basement Jaxx's Scars in October 2009.

Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras

long lost album: RA News: Catholic tracklist and artwork unveiled

Macro Recordings have just revealed the full details of Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras' Catholic album. Macro will release Catholic on October 5th, 2009. .

The Crêpes

new signing: FACT magazine: Fresh Crêpes served on Studio's Information label

We don't know a hell of a lot about The Crêpes ; only that it's one of the worst band names ever, and that it is in fact the very tasty solo project of the chap pictured above, who's based on the west coast of Sweden.

Deadmau5

2009 album: Deadmau5 to release fourth album in September. | Mixmag

Delphic

2010 debut: RA News: Modular signs Delphic - The English three-piece will release their debut in 2010.

Mathias Kaden

2009 album: RA News: Mathias Kaden preps Studio 10 -

Vakant will release Mathias Kaden's Studio 10 on September 21st, 2009.

Kings of Convenience

back: No Music - Kings of Convenience name comeback single

Lindstrom

track: Pitchfork: Track Reviews: Lindstrom - "The Magnificent"

Mew

tour dates: Mew Announce UK Dates - Mew news on Clickmusic

NOVEMBER
5 Glasgow ABC
6 Manchester Academy 2
7 Leeds Metropolitan University
10 London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

Mission of Burma

2009 album: Mission of Burma - new album, single, MP3 & Pool Party pics - BrooklynVegan: "On October 6, Matador will be releasing Mission Of Burma's fourth studio LP, The Sound The Speed The Light."

Jim O'Rourke

2009 album: FACT magazine: - Jim O'Rourke LP out next month; tasty cover art revealed

Jim O'Rourke - iconic avant-guitarist, studio whizz, super-producer, laptop-basher and pop songwriter - is to release a new album, The Visitor, on August 31 via Drag City.

Paradise Lost

track from forthcoming album: Paradise Lost - New Song Online - Metal Storm

Porcupine Tree

now on myspace album sampler mix: Porcupine Tree - New Album Samples Online - Metal Storm

Port Royal

new album in October: port-royal - dying in time

2 Years have past in all our lives since the release of the port-royal's “afraid to dance” (Resonant) but the royals have been keeping very busy with writing, recording, touring the EU and Russia, as well as creating remixes for the likes of Ladytron and Felix Da Housecat. For “Dying in time” port-royal have expanded their sound to encompass the more electronically skewed perspectives of synth-pop and even techno while still holding steadfast to their roots and original core sound that has always laid somewhere between shoegaze and emotively soaring ambient. As the title may suggest there is an undercurrent of aching melancholy to the album, as if the band are expressing the feelings they have for the temporality of life's situations and feelings.

Rain Machine

2009 album: scenepointblank: Rain Machine Tracklisting Announced - Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio's new solo project...The album is due out September 22nd via Anti Records.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Andrew Weatherall: Interview

New interview: RA: Andrew Weatherall: One lone swordsmen - Interview

RA's Todd L. Burns talks to one of the most renowned remixers and unpredictable jocks about trying to remember his own productions, warming up a room and knowing when to stop.

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ROCK-A-ROLLA: ISSUE 21 - The Mars Volta

New issue of Rock-A-Rolla magazine features The Mars Volta on the front cover: ROCK-A-ROLLA ISSUE 21 OUT NOW!

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The Wire: #306 | Madlib | August 2009

New issue of The Wire features Madlib on the front cover.

On The Cover: Madlib - The 'human record crate' behind Quasimoto, Yesterdays New Quintet and Beat Konducta tells Lisa Blanning about ancient grooves and future hiphop. Plus: Hypnagogic pop, British visionary jazz Primer, Sleazy Peter Christopherson's Invisible Jukebox, Andrea Parkins, Nisennenmondai, Diana Rogerson, Rolf Julius and more...

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Zero Tolerance Magazine - New Issue

New issue of Zero Tolerance Magazine features Behemoth on the front cover. On sale in the UK now.

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Altair Nouveau - New Signing to DFA Records

Altair Nouveau - new signing to DFA Records: similar to Lindstrøm: Altair Nouveau on MySpace Music - futuristic cosmic space-disco

Press Release:

Altair Nouveau consists of one Brandon Mitchell, a young producer from the west coast currently residing in San Francisco. Altair Nouveau’s music, though designed with the dance floor in mind, still evokes a personal element. It is the combination of these elements that give Altair Nouveau his indistinguishable larger than life, spaced-out future disco sound sure to cause a dance floor frenzy.

Raised in the sprawling city of San Jose, California to musical parents. Mitchell grew up with the encouragement of his father, an electronic music teacher at the local community college. Brandon began educating himself by collecting albums from the likes of Giorgio Moroder, Vangelis, Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter. This gave way to newer acts such as In Flagranti, Prins Thomas, Lindstrom and several artists on DFA.

The title track ‘Space Fortress’ marks a bold and exciting introduction into the sonic landscape of Mr. Nouveau, combining G Funk, P Funk and a 4/4 disco foundation that adds up to something otherworldly altogether.

‘Showdown’ is a lush and melancholy electro track, with gentle chugging rhythms carrying you along and depositing the listener onto a bed of rich vocal harmonies.

The swirling jazz funk of ‘Sorcerer’ shines bright and shimmers with sharp and punchy synth melodies, sounding like Money Mark trying to teach Herbie Hancock to break dance. You know what I mean. This single is being co-released with the very talented Maelstrom (Eskimo, Mindless Boogie) via his own dance label called Solar Disco.

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2009 Albums Tracking List and Expected List: Update 11

Have a browse through...2009 Albums [1701 Albums] - 2009 A - Z Albums Tracking List - a starting guide to new & forthcoming album releases.

also: 2009 Expected [686 artists] - Artists that are expected to release new albums in 2009 - awaiting announcements of album titles and release dates.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

BBC Radio 1 - Essential Mix - Dubstep mix by Caspa

Now on listen again: Caspa with a Dubstep mix: BBC - Radio 1 - Essential Mix

Two hours of dubby dubstep this week from the man behind Dub Police and Sub Soldiers. He's the West Londoner who along with Rusko mixed one of the first commercially available dubstep compilation CDs for Fabric Live and he's recently sprinkled his magic on Deadmau5's 'I Remember'.

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Terrorizer - New Issue #186 Aug 2009

New issue of Terrorizer magazines features Municipal Waste on the front cover.

Looks a rather disappointing issue.

MUNICIPAL WASTE - JOB FOR A COWBOY - SUFFOCATION - VOIVOD - ASPHYX - ANAAL NATHRAKH - SHINING - ABGOTT - SCENE REPORT: Christian metal

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Catch Up - Music Interviews

Interviews:

some recent interview features:

Artery

The New Thing: Interview: ARTERY - reformed Sheffield post-punk band

Augury

Augury | Interview | Lords Of Metal metal E-zine - Issue 94: July/August 2000

This month sees the mighty return of the French-Canadian progressive death metal band Augury. Their new opus for their new employer Nuclear Blast is titled ‘Fragmentary Evidence’ and is filled to the brim with a perfectly executed mix of technical death and symphonic black. LoM found guitar player Mathieu Marcotte willing to go into the long hiatus between the predecessor ‘Concealed’. Moreover Mathieu gives us all the info we could want on the concept as well as the conception of ‘Fragmentary Evidence’

William Basinski

Ambient legend: FACT magazine – Interview: William Basinski

Bibio

Warp recording artist: Interview With Bibio - Strangeglue - Music News, Views and Reviews

Emperor Machine

The Quietus | Features | Escape Velocity | Emperor Machine: Dark Room Dynasties And Roman Stoned

Fever Ray

Louis Pattison enters the freaky electro-pop world of Fever Ray | Music | The Guardian - Louis Pattison enters the freaky electro-pop world of Fever Ray

Lindstrom

Lindstrom: "Hey, wanna make some music today?" | Dummy - Features

Kevin Saunderson

Techno legend: FACT magazine: Interview: Kevin Saunderson

Prins Thomas

Q & A: Prins Thomas | XLR8R

Wolves In The Throne Room

US black metal band: Wolves In The Throne Room | Interview | Lords Of Metal metal E-zine - Issue 94: July/August 2000

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Catch Up - Music Links Roundup - Assorted Links

Back Blogging after an extended break ! Over the next few days, I will be publishing a series of Catch Up blog posts.

First with this assorted links, then the following over the next few days: interviews, artist news, metal news, festivals update and 2009 Music lists. [the order may change]

music blogs to check:

ilictronix
this is myModern
Velvet Coalmine

also: BBC - BBC Music Blog

most recent blog posts on the MOG network: Most Recent Posts For The Last 24 Hours

Vice UK (viceuk) on Twitter - Vice UK
DPRP (dprpnet) on Twitter - progressive rock

and Musicians on Twitter: 100 Artists That Tweet

Hype Machine analyzes music on twitter: Machine Shop: The Hype Machine Blog about Hype Machine (and things we love) and Twitter Music Chart: Hot Songs Tracks MP3 on Twitter in 3 Days / The Hype Machine

UK Music portal: welcome to tourdates, where music is unleashed

I should have mentioned this much earlier Andy Hughes: Andy Hughes (The Orb), RIP - BrooklynVegan

Top 1000 Albums of 2009 @ rateyourmusic.com has been updated, Animal Collective still at Number 1.

Another boring issue of Uncut magazine.

check the Canada's Polaris Prize Gets Shortlist - Strangeglue - Music News, Views and Reviews

revamped: ROWLA.MUSIC DIRTYRADIO

new web tool: Charts.fm :: Mix your own charts

Cloudspeakers, a music aggregator of reviews, audios and videos

UK based music webzine: Music Mule - Stubbornly Supporting Live Music

Sonar 2009 reviews: Sonar 2009: The DiS review / In Depth // Drowned In Sound and RA: Sonar 2009 in review - Interview

Joel McIver: Joel McIver | Interview | Lords Of Metal metal E-zine - Issue 94: July/August 2000

We usually publish interviews with bands and occasionally an interview with an organizer of a festival or something like that. It’s not that common to interview a writer. Since we review books that might be interesting for the readers of Lords of Metal on a monthly basis in the form of a special, we got the idea to conduct an interview with Joel McIver. We reviewed his book on Slayer this month and in the past we reviewed two other books by his hand. Since Joel is one of the more important writers of books on metal at this moment, we contacted him and it was no problem for him to tell a bit more about himself.

John Harris on music writing: John Harris asks whether the best writing about pop music hails from a different era | Music | The Guardian

As veteran musicians headline Glastonbury this weekend, does the best writing about rock music also hail from a different era? Is anybody today as good as Greil Marcus or Lester Bangs? Having spent 20 years as a pop journalist, John Harris asks whether music writing has lost its way

Following the announcement that Conor McNicholas is to step down as editor of the NME, questions will no doubt be asked about the future of the magazine.: Breaking More Waves: The Future Of The NME

More recent NME bashing: Sleeping with the NME: how the British music press picked up a dose of the crap - Velvet Coalmine

New book by Phil Freeman [from The Wire magazine]: Sound Levels: Profiles in American Music, 2002-2009 by Philip Freeman (Book) in Arts & Photography

New book: Equinox - Books - Book Details: The End All Around Us

The End All Around Us
The Apocalypse and Popular Culture
Edited by: John Walliss, Kenneth G.C. Newport

2 books from Mick Mercer: mickmercer: THE BATCAVE – two exclusive booksTHE BAT

THE BATCAVE remains the best known Goth club in the history of the genre, and here we have two huge photo books of classic images, of exciting bands, covering its original existence.

take a trip back to the UK Charts 27th June 1981, at the time I was just finishing Primary School aged 11: :Sweeping The Nation: One day in his life

Woebot mix: FACT magazine: FACT mix 61: Woebot - FACT mix 61 comes from Matt Ingram, a seminal music writer and unique recording artist who mainly works under the moniker of Woebot.

Woebot interviewed: FACT magazine - Interview: Woebot

This Monday’s FACT podcast was the work of Matt Ingram, one of the last decade’s seminal music writers, blogging and contributing to FACT, Stylus, The Wire and more under the name WOEBOT.

Dubstep artists links: Bluntforce's DubstepArtists Bookmarks on Delicious

Compilation from Mary Anne Hobbs: FACT magazine: - Mary Anne Hobbs releases new compilation with silly name - Radio 1 Experimental Show host Mary Anne Hobbs will release her third compilation for Planet Mu, Wild Angels, on September 7.

Eskimo label compilation RA News: Eskimo get cosmic - Eskimo will release Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 2 on 7th September 2009.

feature on UK 90s techno: FACT magazine - 20 best: UK techno and download: FACT magazine: 20 best UK techno

Dance/Electronic Singles roundup – July 2009 - State Magazine | Music | News | Reviews | Live

latest column: Pitchfork: Grime / Dubstep: Grime / Dubstep - by Martin Clark

Brazilian music: FACT magazine: 20 best: Brazilian records ever made

Canterbury Rock music: BBC - Kent - Entertainment - Canterbury Rock

Forthcoming release info:

* Top Ten - Forthcoming 2009 Albums | Clash Music Exclusive Best of Clash

* July Release Dates | DOA

* A Few Forthcoming Releases (July 2009) - Music Musings and Miscellany

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Collection of 2009 Music Lists

Chilling out at the mo, due to the intense Heatwave, so in the meantime check this collection of 2009 music lists: 2009 Music Lists

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