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EELS have recruited talent from Starburn Industries to put together the glossy, creaky stop motion video for latest single 'Bone Dry'.The video was produced by Duke Johnson and Dino Stamatopoulos, the team behind Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, and directed by Sofia Astrom, who noted, “E really liked Duke Johnson’s idea of dancing skeletons for 'Bone Dry'. My co-producer and art director Tony Candelaria and I knew that we needed the best skeleton animator in the world, so we brought in Anthony...

Bloody hell. Each year we always reach this point with the ArcTanGent line-up. There's the slow-burn trickle of bands for the first coupe of months, maybe one must-see. The murmurs start: "I reckon 2000 Trees has got the edge this year". Then a care package like this drops and picking up a ticket for Bristol annual post rock, alt and tech metal gathering becomes a no-brainer. Just look at the state of that:   Right off the bat there are...

March was a mellow one, wasn't it? So much so I had to put a special call-out to our followers on Twitter to get in touch with some heavier jams (thanks for bringing Greyhaven to my attention, peeps!). Not that there isn't joy to be had in some of this month's gentlest releases. 'bless ur heart' has us hyped for serpentwithfeet's silky and soulful debut soil, while new Grouper sees the Oregon-born ambient artist enveloped in tangible keys and ephemeral reverb....

Venue: KOKO, London Date: 23.3.18 Support: Youth Code Photos: Jez Pennington (@JezPennington) French synth artist Carpenter Brut smashed his London date last week, stopping into KOKO to air tracks from his Latest album Leather Teeth. Brut, who has continued his rise to prominence soundtracking ultra-violent indie game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, insisted on silhouette shots only while he performed, to maintain the mystery around his identity. Photographer Jez Pennington was on the barrier to capture the moody, searing-hot synthwave...

Green Man Festival has announced the key speakers heading up the Talking Shop area when the gathering returns this August. One of a trio of headline guests, the BBC Radio 1 presenter Annie Nightingale will discuss her broadcasting career and how events have unfolded since being named the first female presenter on the station in 1970. Four decades in the job, Nightingale will reflect on the ever-changing industry with her inimitable mixture of irreverent humour and punk enthusiasm. Green Man’s...

Self-confessed "ugly" popstar ZAND has been announced to play at this year's Loud Women Fest. The one-day festival takes places at both The Dome and Boston Music Room in Tufnell Park on Saturday 15 September 2018. Speaking about the festival, ZAND says: "I'm so excited to be on the bill for a festival with such an important message, along with playing alongside some of the sickest female and non-binary punk bands about in music at the moment! Feminism is lit." Known online for speaking out...

London soul quintet Mama's Gun are heading out on a week jaunt around the UK in June. The 4-date headline UK tour will start at The Jam House, Birmingham on June 21, 2018 and finish at the Omeara, London on June 29, 2018. The dates arrive as part of a wider world tour in support of the band’s forthcoming album,Golden Days which is due for release on May 18, 2018 via Candelion.  ‘You Make My Life A Better Place’ follows in the footsteps of the Lauren Laverne-supported...

Some off-the-wall budget weirdness from London, now. Sorry today released their second visual mixtape Home Demo/ns Vol II, and it's a trip. Expanding on the idea of Sorry as a collaborative, and strictly DIY affair, the band said: Asha said, " have been making videos for fun for years and feel like the videos have built up our personality as a group. The themes just came together by things we had, found or cheap props we bought.” “We try and just make...

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor has shared the video for brand new track ‘Oh Baby’, and it's got us a bit creeped out. Opening comments: try to keep your eyes in your head, sir. They'll only get sticky and covered in dust and fuzz, and that thought basically makes me want to be sick. Alexis says of the song: “‘Oh Baby’ is an exuberant love song, with a nod to the music I love by the likes of Alex Chilton and Paul McCartney....