Following widespread speculation that Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) might also be the individual making music under the pseudonym of Burial, a series of new developments in the theory have confirmed that Hebden is indeed the man behind both aliases. A Tumblr blog which was launched last year outlined many pieces [...]
SYDNEY — A recent announcement coming from ABC For Kids Australia has detailed plans for a new full-length collaboration between children’s music veterans The Wiggles and Montreal-based electronic musician Lunice. The album, entitled THSMRNNG, will be a ten-track work of music for children guided towards helping them develop proper morning [...]
REYKJAVIK - Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós suffered embarrassment this week as their management admitted it had sent the wrong album to distributors. “I thought I was listening to the band’s new album Kveikur but it was actually the tapes for Valtari,” admitted their manager Thor Einarsson. The mistake unfortunately was [...]
LONDON — British post-dubstep pin-up James Blake has announced today that he will be launching his own range of stylish-but-minimal button-down shirts to be sold in H&M stores across Europe and North America. Blake’s brand, Measurements, is due to be launched at the end of the month and will begin [...]
NEW YORK — The stresses of running a multi-day music event are still in their earliest stages for Mike Hayworth, the audio-visual coordinator at New York’s annual Electric Zoo festival. Hayworth is one of the festival’s primary contacts for performing artists and agencies; he is responsible for liaising with artists [...]
LOS ANGELES - In an announcement coming shortly after the North American debut of the sixth Fast and Furious movie, Fast & Furious 6, director Justin Lin has publicly stated that there will be another sequel to the original 2001 film entitled 7ast & 7urious, which he hopes will be [...]
BERLIN - Shabiza Shazri, owner of the popular laundromat Das Soap Maschine located in central Berlin, says she is disappointed that her son shows no interest in pursuing a career in techno; the lifeblood of the German city. Despite her constant prodding, Samir, the youngest of her two sons, seems [...]
MONTREAL — “He would have been 84-years-old this July,” Ryan Horowitz thought to himself, while letting the romantic melodies of Nils Frahm’s Mutek performance permeate his consciousness. The 22-year-old slowly melted into the looping drones of Frahm’s pianos, closing his eyes for the majority of the performance. “I think I [...]
BALTIMORE — Twenty-five-year-old college graduate David Virenzi has been patiently parsing the job market, regularly visiting Craigslist and Kijiji’s jobs sections and sending out one or two resumes per week in response to postings that he feels he might possess adequate credentials to obtain. After three weeks of no responses [...]