Guardian Music — Director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom is keeping indie pop alive by featuring new music and remixes by his favourite bandsThis week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his m... more info

Guardian Music — Does it matter if this London band's miasmic music is a retread of a copy of a facsimile? Not when it sounds this good ...Hometown: London.The lineup: Thom Hill (guitar), Linda Jarvis (vocals), plus band.The background: Echo Lake are a five-piece fro... more info

We Like it Lossless! — Kompakt / 2000Difficult to know how to write about an LP that has sat in our player for quite a few weeks now and has simply refused to be removed...Yep, 'Oasis' is one of those albums that will absorb you to such great depths that your other CD's an... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley,. Listen to Com Truise - Galactic Melt, released on June 14th Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New Y... more info

KEXP Seattle — A lot of people seem to be digging on folky music with acoustic guitars and stomping and clapping and harmony vocals these days. And I get that, I do. Especially as the weather warms, there’s something about these sounds that just feels comforting ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Nobody in their right mind would question the overall quality of Canadian music, but if you're one of those few with the wrong mind, here's a sampler to get you on the right track. The occasion is of course Liverpool Sound City - 19th, 20th, 21st ... more info

XLR8R — It’s easy to think of dubstep as its own fully evolved form, as though the off-kilter child of drum & bass and 2-step garage was born in one epic bass drop, written in Platonic form as an unchanging genre forever. But like any well-defined and exci... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Slowdive, Cocteau Twins and Ride - three names most musicians would give their right arm to sound like. Stockholm singer Maria Lindén, AKA I Break Horses, is one of the lucky ones has been likened to all three of those legends already. Her album... more info

Guardian Music — A Scandinavian singer who eschews Sweden's veritable history of pop for a touch of effects-laden shoegazeI Break Horses, aka Maria Lindén, hails from Sweden but, unlike most Swedish female singers that appear on this blog, she doesn't make slightly ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ice said... Santiago a Capella - The Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner - 2004, 2010. Santiago a Capella Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Alonso Lobo (1555-1617) John IV of Portugal (1604-1656) Tomas Luis de Victoria (1... more info