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As we are now well into April and past what some mentally unhealthy people may term "Q1", it seems like a pretty good time to take stock of what's been happening in the Nordic countries over the past few months, aside from it being dark and cold. Once more we are not disappointed with the musical wares on offer or, at least, we left the disappointing bits out as it wouldn't befit the tone of this piece. »
Long before Bonnie 'Prince' Billy was a 'thing', Will Oldham released records under the names Palace Music, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs and just Palace. Anyone looking to delve further back in time to Oldham's career could do a lot worse than starting with these five re-issues. »
A week today (February 27) DiS favourites Shearwater released their new record, Animal Joy, through Sub Pop. Now you can listen to it in full, via the SoundCloud player below. Is it as good as the last one? Or even the one before that? You decide. »
We all know Pulled Apart By Horses are one of the most devastating live acts on the planet, so we won't bother mentioning it any more. It should really go without saying. Well we've got a video of them performing live, at their album playback last year. The track is from the album - obviously! - and is 'Wolf Hand' and was performed at the Buffalo Bar in London. Here it is.»
Some free stuff from one of our favourite labels.»
In March The Shins finally return with a new record, Port of Morrow. It's been a long time coming, but you can find out more information about it here. We can't wait. Nor can we wait for their London show on March 22 and 23, afraid we're going to have to though. What concerns us today is a new song. It's the b-side to new single 'Simple Song' and is called 'September' (via Pitchfork).»
On April 2 2012 Killing Joke will release a new album, their second since the line-up of Jaz, Youth, Geordie and Paul Ferguson re-united, back in 2008. It's called MMXIIand students of classics may note that is "2012" in Roman numerals. »
One of the most un-Googleable bands in the history of bands, Girls, have just announced a very small number of shows in Europe for later in the year. At the moment there's only one date in the UK, but it's at a significantly large venue. I remember seeing them in a small one, how ahead of the curve...»
The last thing we heard from Danes Efterklang was around the full DVD release of their wonderful music documentary-film-project with Vincent Moon, An Island. The news today is two-fold. The first is that they are now down a member, after Thomas Husmer left the band after a decade.»
It was not all that long ago that people were fighting to save BBC 6Music from closure. That, of course, turned out rather well and the station is going, with 2012 marking its tenth anniversary. Naturally, when you have a birthday party of anniversary you'll want to celebrate and some of those plans have been unveiled. »
In a couple of weeks' time (February 20) a new Perfume Genius record is released, through Organs (Turnstile). It's the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed and largely excellent debut, Learning. This one's called Put Your Back N 2 It and now there's a batch of UK and European tour dates in May. »
Last night the Super Bowl happened. The Giants won, so well done to them. As always, there's a lot of half-time entertainment and this year it was up to people like Madonna and M.I.A. to provide it. Unfortunately - as with Janet Jackson' weird star-shaped nipple a few years ago - there was some "controversy". »
Back in December The Magnetic Fields announced the release of a new record, called _Love At The Bottom Of The Sea _ and out on March 5 through Domino. One of the tracks on the album is 'Andrew in Drag' and now there's a video for it, being the first single from the album.»
A new track from M.I.A. surfaced earlier this week. Called 'Bad Girls' it's taken from her Vicki Leekx mixtape. Now, as is often the case, there's a video for the single, directed by Romain Gavras (who has worked with her on 'Born Free') and filmed in Morocco. It was premiered over on VICE's new video channel, Noisey but you can also watch it here.»
Chaz Bundick aka Toro Y Moi will release an archival vinyl box set in April. The vinyl will be of the 7" variety, with two tracks on each of the 5 plates. It's going to be released on April 23 and is called June 2009, somewhat confusingly. »
Let's not beat around the bush here - legendary doom/noise/drone band Sunn O))) have announced a batch of dates in Europe, two of which are in England - London and Manchester. So, have a look for the full details.»
Anyone for a cup of Joe?»
Some remixes and that.»
Rufus Wainwright and Mark Ronson are two pretty big names in their own right but when put together that perhaps veers a little bit more towards massive. Anyway, that is exactly what they have done and will be releasing a record together later this year, with Rufus doing the musical bits and Mark on the production side of things.»
Following on from the release of their Onwards To The Wall EP (February 6) - which was described as "unmistakeably A Place To Bury Strangers...giving us what we want. - A Place To Bury Strangers have confirmed a batch of shows for Spring this year. There's not a ton of them, but more than enough for people all across this fine land to get to.»
Most excellent folk-pop duo Slow Club have announced a fairly extensive set of tour dates for Spring this year. There are 20 in total which can all be seen below, they span England, Scotland but no Wales. »
Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon will release her new album on April 30. It's called CYRK and will come out through OVNI (Turnstile).»
A new track from diskJokke. »
When Sweet Billy Pilgrim were unveiled as Mercury Prize nominees back in 2009 the people who were aware of them may have been surprised and the rest probably thought "who?". But now we know. That record Twice Born Men was quite great. The news now is that there's a follow-up to it, to be released this year. »
It's been well over a month since we've heard anything from now-Manchester-based electronic duo Ghosting Season. So we reckon it's time for a bit of a news re-cap of what's been going on in the last week or so in their world. Firstly - and most excitingly»
Back in "the day" Cool For Cats was a label which had a singles club and released many 7" singles over a period of time, as you do. They included releases from the likes of Thomas Tantrum, The Kabeedies and Fight Like Apes. Now they are returning, digitally. Yep. It'll be releasing a single every month as a free download - available for 30 days at a time from the BandCamp.»
Some good stuff right here. »
We've had a few bits of news relating to The Twilight Sad in the past few months, what with the release of various singles and albums. Today sees another video, which is taken from their new album, No One Can Ever Know. It's for the track 'Another Bed' and can be seen here.»
On March 19th Anja Plaschg aka Soap&Skin releases a mini-album, following on from the mystical 2009 debut album Lovetune For Vacuum. Anyway, this new one is released through PIAS on March 19 and is named Narrow. You can listen to a track from it, 'Wonder', which is also released as a single on the same day. »
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