Music For Ants — Martin de Thurah, the auteur behind a number of amazing videos like Fever Ray’s “When I Grow Up” and James Blake’s “Limit To Your Love” directs this ravishing, cinematic video for “The Bad In Each Me”, the best track on the Feist’s... more info

Impose Magazine — Ghostly International recording artist and dark-pop maestro Matthew Dear guides us further into the unknown with the Headcage EP. Functioning as a lead-up to his full-length Beams, Dear's new appendage in the evolution of his black orchestrations... more info

KEXP Seattle — The three young students who make up Samaris are barely of age, but have already won the Iceland Music Experiments (the country’s renowned battle of the bands competition). The youngsters draw their influences from the likes of James Blake, Fever R... more info

Guardian Music — Whether it's theatrical sets or performing in costume, bands are taking stagecraft seriously in a bid to stand out from the crowdFin Greenall has spent more than a decade working in front of live audiences – first as a DJ for the Ninja Tune stable,... more info

The Quietus — Swedish synth duo, featuring member of Fever Ray, to play at London's Cafe Oto in September more info

Music is Art — From the forests of Merrill, Wisconsin, Zola Jesus a.k.a. Nika Roza Danilova creates dark, entrancing and powerful music. She’s recently toured with the XX, Warpaint, and Fever Ray, and is known as someone special to look out for, especially come t... more info

We Like it Lossless! — 2011ItM,ItC, their first full-length with Atlantic Records, sees P0rtugal. The Man reprise the sort of vaguely insurrectionist hippie jams they’ve cranked out over the years on such memorable tracks as “The Woods” and “60 Years”. Rather tha... more info

Guardian Music — (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)Elizabeth Walling could be Brighton's answer to Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Andersson, with her queer masked costumes and avant-garde electronica. Her repertoire draws from sci-fi film scores, choral music, underwater life and the ... more info

Guardian Music — Apple's 2011 iTunes festival unites gigs and gadgets to a whole new degree, writes Chris SalmonSuch is the dominance of Apple's iTunes in today's music market that it has, once again, persuaded some of the world's biggest acts to play at its annual i... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)Canadian trio Austra have been lumped in with the synth-gothisms of Zola Jesus and Fever Ray, but there's a cleanliness and sharpness about them that belies those associations. Katie Stelmanis sings with a cut-glass voice, and the precision ... more info