Gorilla vs. Bear — The eclectic lineup includes Gang Gang Dance, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Lee Scratch Perry, Broadcast,... Read more » more info

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Gigwise — Organisers confirm first acts... more info

Guardian Music — Like some weird hybrid of Red Hot Chili Peppers and MGMT, these brothers of invention mix melodic majesty with cosmic funkHometown: Miami.The lineup: Michael John Hancock (vocals) and Brian Robertson (keyboards, drum machines).The background: ANR pro... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Avey Tare @ Governors Island this summer (more by Erez Avissar) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, tonight announced the top 25 videos, selected from 23,358 online video submissions and 91 countries, for... more info

Guardian Music — Swans, James Blackshaw, On tourMichael Gira is a musician who has spent his career discovering a gentler side no one had any reason to suspect in him. His first major group, Swans, specialised in a live show of legendary volume, only to evolve into a... more info

Guardian Music — (Paw Tracks)It's best to think of Baltimore's freak-folk quartet Animal Collective – of which Avey Tare, aka David Portner, is a member – as less a band and more an evolving musical project with changing line-ups and names. He may be the second m... more info

Guardian Music — The 'new, improved' Simon Cowell is still light years away from understanding great musicIt's funny and awful watching how the sneaky Simon Cowell has tweaked himself this year, physically and conceptually. He's sliding through certain changes that a... more info

Guardian Music — (Chemikal Underground)For this follow-up to the Glasgow sextet's debut album, Checkmate Savage, the band have decided not to tame their propensity to cherrypick from practically every genre available to them. Instead, they've celebrated it by juxtapo... more info

Allmusic Blog — Leave it to a member of Animal Collective (Avey Tare) to release an album (Down There) with a cover so hideous that you’ll want to run full speed to the nearest emergency eyewash station after even a brief glance. From what I heard this morning, th... more info