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Yoko Ono to curate Meltdown

4222 days ago
Guardian MusicTokyo-born musician and activist 'deeply honoured' to organise 10-day Meltdown arts festival at Southbank centreYoko Ono has been named the next curator of the Meltdown festival at the Southbank centre in London. The musician, artist, author and acti... more info

Yoko Ono named Meltdown festival curator

4223 days ago
Guardian MusicTokyo-born musician and activist 'deeply honoured' to organise 10-day Meltdown arts festival at Southbank centreYoko Ono has been named the next curator of the Meltdown festival at the Southbank centre in London. The musician, artist, author and acti... more info

Ultraísta: Ultraísta – review

4228 days ago
Guardian Music(I Am Fortified)You can hear echoes of Radiohead in Ultraísta's debut, which is unsurprising given that head honcho Nigel Godrich is the band's producer. Drummer Joey Waronker plays alongside him in Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace project, yet the ba... more info

DSTVV – “Ariel’s a Punk”

4237 days ago
The Bay BridgedAccording to DSTVV‘s “official” bio, frontman Joel Cusumano “swears he’s only listened to MINISTRY and COCTEAU TWINS during the months before creating the songs that appear on DSTVV’s debut.” While that may sound a bit ridiculous, when ... more info

Egyptian Hip Hop: Good Don't Sleep – review

4240 days ago
Guardian Music(R&S)For all their tender years, Manchester four-piece Egyptian Hip Hop don't want for ambition: their debut album sets indie, prog rock, 80s pop and most points in between to hypnotically pulsing rhythms; at times they evoke the lush beauty of Cocte... more info

Dirty Projectors – review

4246 days ago
Guardian MusicGorilla, ManchesterWhen Alice Cooper recently accused today's rock stars of lacking testosterone and "playing from the brain", he could have had David Longstreth in mind. The 30-year-old Dirty Projectors frontman is an almost comically exaggerated po... more info

Ummagma: Ummagma + Antigravity

4252 days ago
Here Comes The Flood Ummagma is a Canadian-Ukrainian shoegaze post-rock duo. Shauna McLarnon (vocals, composition, lyrics) and Alexx Kretov (composition, instruments, arrangement, recording, vocals) met in Moscow in 2003 and fell in love. They have just released two f... more info

Cuushe (No 1,364)

4258 days ago
Guardian MusicMeet a Japanese shoegazer/chillwaver who's been sending bloggers into ecstasies over her take on what we might, if we were so inclined, call sepulchral raptureReading this on mobile? Listen to Cuushe hereHometown: Kyoto, Japan.The lineup: Mayuko Hito... more info

How to invent shoegaze without trying

4272 days ago
Guardian MusicA week after joking at a party that he was in a band, Rudy Tambala found himself at the start of a journey that produced some of the 80s' most extraordinary musicThe way Rudy Tambala tells it, his band AR Kane should never really have existed. Surely... more info

DJ Becka Diamond's New York fashion week tunes

4285 days ago
Guardian MusicWe asked NYFW It girl – and in-demand DJ – Becka Diamond to give us her top five songs that she'll be playing on the runwayWhether it's an up-tempo chart song, an old skool rap beat or classical music on loop, the music on the runway matters. It'... more info

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