Stereogum — Our most recent Band To Watch profile was on Laetitia Tamko, the Brooklyn-based musician who records as Vagabon. Tamko’s debut album, Infinite Worlds, is due out next year by way of Father/Daughter, and we heard its first single “Fear & Force” ... more info

XLR8R — Throwing Snow will release another album on Houndstooth early next year. Ross Tones (a.k.a. Throwing Snow) put out his debut album, Mosaic, with Fabric-affiliated Houndstooth back in 2014. He is now set to release a second with the label—14-tr... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Recently, Portland-based composers Shawn Parke and Kim Menninger released the original soundtrack for Embers, director Claire Carré’s science fiction film starring Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva, and Greta Fernández.  Currently streami... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In “Embers,” a fittingly thoughtful sci-fi meditation on memory loss and identity, a virus has rendered the not-so-distant future in a state of recurring amnesia, leaving most of humanity grappling to form tentative connections that evapo... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In 1982, the Ethiopian American director Haile Gerima released a feature-length film on the struggles of a black veteran in the wake of the Vietnam War. "Ashes and Embers" told the story of Ned Charles, a man contending with the psychological scars... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — In the week that the BBC announced the results of their poll for the Sound of 2014 the Blog Sound of 2014 was also published as an interesting counterpoint. Fifty Nine music bloggers (including yours truly) from throughout the UK voted on the acts th... more info

Metal Injection — WEAPON - "Embers and Revelations" taken from the album 'Embers and Revelations'; out now on CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records. Director: Dan Wilberg The post WEAPON Embers and Revelations video appeared first on Metal Injection. more info

Metal Injection — MUTINY WITHIN has partnered with Tommy Jones (the studio) in a brand new anti-piracy movement called Industry Embers. In a society where “downloading” music for free has become accepted and even the norm, people on the outside rarely are ab... more info

Guardian Music — Meet the Manchester band making rock as visionary as the Verve and as massive as MuseReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Manchester. The lineup: George Agan (vocals, guitar), Will Clutton (bass, keyboards), Steve Mclnerney (guitar) and Nathan How... more info

Guardian Music — To celebrate Africa Express rolling out across the UK, here's a guide to 10 classic films to have come from the continentAfrica played no part in the invention of cinema. For decades, in Tarzan movies, it was the subject of fake Hollywood fantasies. ... more info