News //

Enigmatic Numbers producer SOPHIE has unveiled new track Lemonade. From what you can hear of the preview, the Bipp producer’s latest release follows the same super glossy, hyper-digital, J Pop-influenced template of his previous work. Lemonade / Hard will be released digitally and on limited 12″ vinyl via Numbers on 4 August. Preview Lemonade below.  

Untold has announced his forthcoming album, just four months on from his debut Black Light Spiral. His new LP Echo In The Valley is limited to 100 physical copies on a wooden USB key. The full release, according to the Boomkat listing, comes as follows: “hand-finished box, oil stamped, tied with leather rope, lined with… Read more »

Joy Orbison took the reigns of BBC Radio 1‘s Essential Mix over the weekend. The mix was heavily focused on debuting brand new material from his own Hinge Finger label – including a back to back of forthcoming Barnt tracks and a release from Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan – as well as unheard material from… Read more »

DOOM and Bishop Nehru have announced that their collaborative album NehruvianDOOM will be released 22 September via Lex Records/Noizy Cricket!!. That’s the artwork above, and the album’s track list can be seen after the jump. The duo have also shared new track Om, which features vocals from both Nehru and his masked mentor. You can… Read more »

Another track from his keenly anticipated album Green Language, Rustie has dropped new single Attak. The single features Danny Brown, which is not the first time the two heavyweights have collaborated, with Rustie producing a handful of tracks on Brown’s superb 2013 album Old. Listen to Rustie’s Attak below. Green Language is set for release… Read more »

Fresh from detailing her upcoming LP Tough Love last week, Jessie Ware has shared a new song called Share It All which was co-written by Romy Madley-Croft from The xx. The tune is a bonus track on the album and it follows the release of the record’s title track last month. Jessie has also announce a string of intimate… Read more »

Vessel has revealed details of his second album. The follow up to 2012′s widely acclaimed debut Order of Noise, Punish, Honey sees the Bristol-based experimental producer go to some challenging methods to produce “organic” sounds. According to the press release, “Vessel sought to create something that felt more organic even if the sounds themselves didn’t… Read more »

Since touring in support of their sophomore album You’re Nothing, Iceage have been relatively quiet. They’ve broken the silence now though, and it looks like they have been busy working on new material. No details have been reported in regards to release dates or full albums, but the Copenhagen band have shared a video for their new single… Read more »

UK experimental producer Lee Gamble has detailed the release of his forthcoming album. Double album KOCH – pronounced ‘cotch’ – is due out in September on Berlin label PAN, and follows his 2012 techno-oriented LP Dutch Tvashar Plumes. Speaking to Resident Advisor, Gamble confirms that KOCH will to some extent continue to explore his interest… Read more »

Kentucky’s singer/songwriter Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is coming to London in November for two nights at Hackney’s Church of St John as part of a string of European dates. He’ll be playing with a full band who will tour with him to Brussells then to Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Bonnie ‘Prince’… Read more »

Following previous reports that Adam Horovitz from the Beastie Boys would be starring alongside Ben Stiller, Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver in the upcoming Noah Baumbach film While We’re Young, SPIN has now pointed out that DFA Records label-head James Murphy will be providing the score. Murphy previously worked with Stiller and Baumbach on 2010′s Greenberg. Once While We’re Young had… Read more »

On the latest episode of his talk show CGN, Snoop Dogg admitted to smoking a blunt in one of the bathrooms at the White House. Speaking to his guest Jimmy Kimmel (while smoking a blunt), Snoop claims to have told security that the smoke coming from the cubicle would be from a napkin he’d lit… Read more »

50 year old rap star Coolio is making new music. If you’re a fan, then the music will be readily available to you as a freebie – providing you have a membership to the largest pornographic website in the world, PornHub. In an interview with TMZ, Coolio confirmed that the website offered to provide all the “talent”… Read more »

Manchester’s The Warehouse Project has announced it’s full lineup for the 12 week series of events based at the more intimate Store Street venue. The line-up includes sets from James Blake, Hudson Mohawke, Nina Kraviz, Dixon, Chemical Brothers, Caribou, Four Tet, Richie Hawtin, Bonobo, Ricardo Villalobos and many, many more. The series runs from 27… Read more »

Flying Lotus has announced that his new album You’re Dead! will be released on 6 October via Warp. The album follows up 2012′s Until The Quiet Comes, and the announcement comes with a new string of dates including a one-off UK show at London’s Roundhouse on 7 November. FlyLo has previously stated that he will release a full-length under his… Read more »

Channel One soundsystem’s spot at this year’s Notting Hill carnival is under threat. The legendary soundsystem have performed at the festival for the past 32 years, in the same spot for 20 of them. However, as they told Red Bull, due to council restrictions the outfit’s spot is at risk of being pulled. “Every year… Read more »

Fabric have unveiled the line-up for their Autumn fabriclive series. Expect leftfield techno from the likes of Hessle Audio, Livity Sound, Xosar (live), Shed and Objekt b2b Call Super – whose forthcoming album is due on fabric’s Houndstooth label in September. The grime contingent includes Big Narstie, Mumdance and Novelist while the drum’n’bass all-star cast… Read more »

Earlier this week, the Westboro Baptist Church were unwittingly owned by Las Vegas pop rockers Panic! At The Disco. The church recently took direct aim at the band with a parody cover of their song I Write Sins Not Tragedies after singer Brendan Urie announced he was bisexual. The controversial group then threatened to picket one… Read more »

In a remarkable twist of irony, a tree planted in memory of George Harrison has been killed after being infested by beetles. The tree stood in Griffith Park in LA and was planted in 2004 after Harrison died in the city in 2001. The plaque with the tree said, “In memory of a great humanitarian… Read more »

A fan of ASAP rocky has demanded that he hand over $75,000 in damages after allegedly slapping her at a concert in Philadelphia. The case originally appeared last year when fan Lisamarie Wade accused the rapper of assaulting her in a private criminal case but could not locate him to serve the charges. Wade has… Read more »