Guardian Music — Inspired by a trip to the Joshua Tree, the new conceptual double album by M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, is likely to polarise fans'I am very happy," Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83, reassures me twice during our interview, lest the recurring themes of solitud... more info

Guardian Music — Swirling garage rock'n'roll, plenty of stentorian booming and a music industry in thrall to their organs (all three of them)Hometown: Guildford.The lineup: James Geard (vocals, organ), Nick Benton (guitars, organ), Jack James (guitars, organ), Ed Kir... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Those of you interested in distorted guitar mantras -- the kind that the Velvet Underground, Can, Spacemen 3 perfected, in which a relentlessly circular groove is established and its innards are examined over the course of the song -- could... more info

We Like it Lossless! — Holy Mountain / 2009f potential were a physical substance, it would've dripped like melted wax from Wooden Shjips' 2006 debut 10". The three-song slab of raw, noisy grooves was so bursting with ideas, it suggested a lifetime of musical possibiliti... more info

We Like it Lossless! — Holy Mountain / 2007Wooden Shjips, a four-piece pysch combo from San Francisco, feature a bassist named Dusty, a guitarist named Ripley, and an organist named Nash. On their debut release for Holy Mountain, the Shjips, like the Jefferson Airplane and... more info

Stereogum — “Founding member of the influential band Animal Collective” Noah Lennox’s has upped his live game by including producer and founding member of the influential band Spaceman 3 Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember onstage. Folks at Panda Bear’s 3rd of... more info

Guardian Music — You don't have to play spot the influences to enjoy the Horrors' new album, writes Dorian LynskeyIn his new book, Retromania, the critic Simon Reynolds revisits his damning mid-80s coinage "record collection rock". Inspired by the relentless forward�... more info

Let's Get Cynical — Burning Fences are a relatively new local band with a decidedly retro sound – their fuzzed-up, psychedelic rock draws inspiration from both 60′s psychedelia and more recent groups such as Spacemen 3. Comprising of Si Mickelthwaite (Guitar... more info

Guardian Music — 25-27 August 1989: Number 33 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith new promoters Mean Fiddler keen to erase memories of everyone from Meat Loaf to Bonnie Tyler getting bottled the year before, in 1989 the Reading festiv... more info

Guardian Music — Was George Formby a time traveller? If so, then maybe he inspired this band on a trip to 1981Hometown: Bologna.The lineup: Gianlorenzo and Chiara.The background: The last time we wrote about an Italian act, it was March 2009 and we were in thrall to ... more info