Summertime means many thing, but if you’ re in the music biz, it just means festival season. With the nice weather comes an endless stream of live music, parties, entertainment, and poor life decisions. It’s a great time of year. The months immediately preceding summer (i.e. right now) mean lineup …
British dance-pop songstress Little Boots – aka Victoria Hesketh – has unveiled plans for a follow-up to her much lauded 2009 debut Hands. Nocturnes, a record that Hesketh describes as being “indebted to the night”, is set for a May 6 release through her recently launched On Repeat …
UK electronic stalwarts Simian Mobile Disco have announced plans to release a live album on April 15. The rather aptly-titled Live will be dropping courtesy of the band’s own Delicacies imprint and is being distributed by none other than legendary German label Kompakt.
Culled from a performance in Philadelphia …
Right now, we seem to be spoilt for choice when it comes to Baltic-based festivals this summer offering eclectic but awesome line-ups and picturesque, beach-adjacent settings. We’ve already told you about Croatia’s Garden Festival and Bulgaria’s Horizon; well, just in case you’re still unsure about where you want to …
London Warehouse Events, or LWE, has hosted such names as Skrillex, Glitch Mob, and Pendulum. Now they’re backing Simian Mobile Disco‘s performance at Shoreditch Warehouse on February 22nd.
Simian Mobile Disco started as a side project called Simian, taking the talents of band members Jas and James and …
XOYO describes themselves as “first and foremost a nightclub,” but it’s a lot more like a nightclub/world-class live music spot. They recently had a massive relaunch and have in just a few months established themselves as a fantastic, next-generation level venue. So they’re throwing a New Year’s Eve party…
Yeah, we didn’t think it was possible either. It seems, however, that a few choice additions have actually made the Pitchfork Festival Paris lineup more incredible. New acts include the many syllabled Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Cloud Nothings, Disclosure (who have a shiny new video) and our latest BOTW, AlunaGeorge…
Where? Platt’s Fields, Manchester
When? 9-10 June
Cost: £40-£100
Size: 30,000 (day)
Age: 3
In a word: #funtimez
More info: www.parklifeuk.com / @Parklifefest
This year’s Parklife Weekender promises to be another impressive affair, possibly even more laid back. The unusual concoction of ‘veteran rockers’ The Flaming Lips topping alongside big-time …
Returning with another instrumental techno 12”, Simian Mobile Disco offer up the fifth release on their own label, Delicacies, entitled Gizzard.
Named after the specialised second stomach in birds, and eaten the world over, the single is part of a collaborative pair of releases with Irish producers, Psycatron (Planet …
They thought they were done, but to commemorate five years of bringing amazing mini-raves to Lock Tavern, Blogger’s gang will bring Bloggers Delight Cinq. The night on Sunday 10th July, also guarantees to get you excited for their stage at Field Day. Past Bloggers Delight have seen such craziness as …
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