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Moby Wait For Me, Album, Little Idiot Recordings, June 29 *** A decade on from the 10 million selling Play, the king of ad' endorsement has swapped the house beats of his last effort, Last Night, for a more sophisticated, and marketable, sound.

In this 30 minute short you can listen to an interview with the band members in which they talk about each song on Takk individually.

On Ensemble mashes Japanese taiko with jazz, rock and hip-hop on Ume in the Middle .

Looks like this is the time of year when some of your favourite artists knuckle down and work on their new albums.

Victoire, a quirky Brooklyn-based band founded by composer Missy Mazzoli, combines strings, clarinets, keyboards and lo-fi electronics to create their "minimalist, post-rock bliss.a As much a child of composer Philip Glass as of instrumental post-rock ensembles Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Sigur Ros, the "band-semble" joins host John Schaefer ...

Good thing the world's northernmost metropolis offers enough distractions to fill several bright days -- and nights.

ICELAND'S financial system might be in a dire state, but in musical terms at least, their credit's still good around here.

After a busy year recording and touring, Columbus band The Receiver is releasing its second album on Friday with a show at Skully's Music Diner in the Short North.

'The sweetness of the gentle breeze/brings back precious memories,' sang the 20-something brunette Lay Low in a Pacific Palisades backyard on April 25.

BEST CONCERT ATTENDED: Sunny Day Real Estate, the Masquerade, Atlanta, 2000. "At that particular time, they were my favorite band, and I just couldn't get enough of them." BEST SHOW: Joe Graves the Dirty Left Hand, The Soul Bar, 2006.

Amidst all the Americana, folksiness, and indie-rock moves of the almighty, compilation-for-a-generation Dark Was the Night , few songs seemed so radically 'other' as "Happiness," that eight-and-a-half-minute burbling ambient blow-out from Riceboy Sleeps.

Sigur Ros frontman JA3n AzA3r Birgisso Sigur RA3s frontman JA3n AzA3r Birgisson and his partner, Alex Somers, have announced plans to release their self-titled debut album as Riceboy Sleeps, the side-project they formed in 2003.

Artist - De La Mancha Album - Atlas Label - Crying Bob Why to get yourself this album? Well, you're a fan of Sigur Ros but likeJesus and Mary Chain's shoegazy tendencies and you're looking for a new object of your affection.

Soft music proves its value with Japanese outfit Mono's soon-to-be-released fifth CD, just in time to meet a 10-year anniversary deadline.

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WEDNESDAY: The Antlers are the kind of band that music blogs swoon over. The Brooklyn-based trio has a familiar sound similar to that of indie bigwigs like Broken Social Scene and Sigur Ros , but remains ...

As an arthouse cinema is to dedicated film-fans, the independent record shop is a haven to like-minded music fans enlarge Many of my teenage days were spent in Camden, at tiny, sweaty gigs or in independent ...

Neil Jordan has always been a strange sort. At times he can be a brilliantly distinctive director, helming such memorable and progressive films such as The Crying Game , The Butcher Boy , and the homoerotic ...

THE GOOD FEELING MUSIC OF... BRUNO COULAIS DREAMING CORALINE SOUNDTRACK AQUEDUCT PISTOLS AT DAWN PASSION PIT SLEEPYHEAD CHUNK OF CHANGE SIGUR ROS INTRO AGAETIS BYRJUN SUNDIALING CARIBOU ANDORRA THE BRAN FLAKES ...

Mathew Ward and Zooey Deschanel . We fully admit to our jealousy of Mathew Ward.