Guardian Music — Hello podders, and welcome to this week's edition of Music Weekly. To kick off proceedings, we begin with a word in your collective ears from the inimitable Michael Gira. Here with the recently "reactivated" Swans, Gira tells Louis Pattison why he ge... more info

Guardian Music — Antony Hegarty's fourth musical tip performs the magical trick of making quietness speak volumesHometown: New York.The lineup: Matteah Baim (vocals, instruments).The background: Matteah Baim is our guest editor Antony Hegarty's penultimate New Band O... more info

Guardian Music — Guest editor Antony Hegarty's third pick of the week is ambient experimentalist Daniel Lapotin, who creates 'amorphous, rhythmless' noisescapesHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Daniel Lopatin (music, production).The background: Having Antony Hegarty as ... more info

Stereogum — When we included Games in Stereogum40, we mentioned the Brooklyn duo of Oneohtrix Point Never mastermind Daniel Lopatin and childhood friend Joel Ford of Tigercity were set to release the That We Can Play, an EP filled with their slowed-down R&B-infl... more info

Altsounds — Sistol releases his most straight techno-leaning album yet, made for the club "On The Bright Side" fuses the thump of 4/4 tech-house with the sound pallette of the contemporary post-dubstep movement. A welcome return for his Sistol moniker, the n... more info

XLR8R — We've been following the work coming from the side project of Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford of Tigercity, Games, for a good while now (you can find those tunes here and here), so we're pretty excited to hear abou... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Erez Avissar DOWNLOAD: Arp - White Light (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Arp - Summer Girl (MP3) Oneohtrix Point Never @ Coco66 There were several peculiar sights at the Oneohtrix Point Never performance on Friday night, but none more so than... more info

XLR8R — Austrian music, art, and politics get-together Elevate Festival is all set to go down in the town of Schlossberg this fall. The festival will host not only innovative and established musicians and artists, but politically and socially active speakers... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Out-there warped-soul enigma Autre Ne Veut will put out a self-titled album digitally August 30 and September 3 on vinyl, courtesy of Olde English Spelling Bee and Upstairs, the label run by Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin. Check out a night-l... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Erez Avissar Gatekeeper / Games Games celebrated the release of their new 7", Everything Is Working (out now via Hippos In Tanks) with a release show at Glasslands on 8/19 alongside Gatekeeper, D'eon, Blissed Out, and DJ sets... more info