Brooklyn Vegan — BEAUTIFUL NOISE is an in-depth exploration of a music movement in the late 20th century, a fascinating period when some innovative musicians mixed guitar noise into conventional pop song structures while maintaining a philosophy of letting the music ... more info

betterPropoganda — Posted at 11:40am, 11/19/2012 Beautiful Noise is the definitive documentary about influential 80’s and 90’s guitar bands who harnessed massively loud sounds using a sea of effects pedals and delivered some of the most Beautiful Noise ever r... more info

Guardian Music — Tokyo-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

Guardian Music — Tokyo-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

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

The Bay Bridged — According 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

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

Guardian Music — Gorilla, 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

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

Guardian Music — Meet 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