Guardian Music — Huntleys & Palmers, LondonEstablished just under four years ago in Glasgow, Huntleys & Palmers – named not as a homage to the biscuit-makers, but after the codenames used for homosexuals and prostitutes in the 1957 Wolfenden report – are club pro... more info

XLR8R — It was unfortunate news that the Red Bull Music Academy had to withdraw from hosting this year's events in Tokyo in the wake of the devastating tsunami, but things started looking brighter once Madrid was named as the new locale RBMA 2011 would ... more info

Stereogum — The new commercial for the video game FIFA Soccer 12 perfectly chops up “Ice Cream,” the Matias Aguayo collab from Battles’ new album Gloss Drop, with footage of random people (including Steve Nash, Hope Solo, and Seth Meyers) playing the video... more info

Guardian Music — Chilean DJ-producer and his Cómeme label conspirators make tunes specifically for flashmob-style urban eventsIf you want to get an insight into a country, advises Matias Aguayo, if you want to get a sense of how it imposes law and order, how it seek... more info

Guardian Music — If you like us, ask the New York experimentalists, then try a bit of Breadwinner, Black Dice or NisennenmondaiThere's an exclusive Spotify playlist featuring all these artists hereIf you've traipsed through 2011 so far without seeing the video to Bat... more info

Guardian Music — On this week's show, we hear from the remaining members of Battles on how they got round to making their second album, Gloss Drop, following the departure of founding member Tyondai Braxton. The trick is, apparently, to employ guest vocalists such as... more info

Guardian Music — (Warp)Battles are an experimental rock band who treat the studio as a playground rather than a laboratory. Their 2007 debut, Mirrored, combined virtuoso precision with disorientating humour, with singer Tyondai Braxton warping his voice until he rese... more info

XLR8R — Fresh off his collaborative track with NYC genre-benders Battles, the world-travelling Matias Aguayo has just announced he will soon drop a brand-new EP via the illustrious Kompakt label. read more more info

Altsounds — The immensely anticipated release of Battles forthcoming album "Gloss Drop" has battled through various obstacles and obstructions just to get to the stage of finalising the stable effort. In the past few months the band have been slowly unveiling... more info

Nialler9 — Canada, the directors behind the WTF? clips for El Guincho’s ‘Bombay’ and Scissor Sisters’ ‘Invisible Light’ are responsible for this similarly random visual yet entertaining clip for Battles’ ‘Ice Cream’. The song features Kompakt ... more info