- Does SonyBMG owe you some cash?
With SonyBMG midway through making its amends to North American customers who bought CDs that contained that much previously reported dodgy ‘rootkit’ copy-protection technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation have announced they will be staging a promotional campaign to make sure that as many people as possible affected by the contaminated CDs claim their compensation – […]
- L’Pierre album due in 2007
Arab Strap’s Aiden Moffat is to release a new L’Pierre album next year. The long player, entitled ‘Dip’, will be out 15 January. Moffat : “The album had a concept from the beginning. Its theme is nature and the great outdoors, and particularly the sea, hence ‘Dip’, a title I stole from the movie of […]
- Bass Clef Announce live dates in 2007
Blank Tapes are proud to announce the debut release by Bass Clef, aka RLF, aka Ralph Cumbers. Hailing, unsurprisingly, from Hackney, the Bass Clef sound is an ingenious hybrid of contemporary and retro dub-styles seen through the eyes of an IDM connoisseur. The resulting fusion being neither one nor the other, instead a fresh, mesmorizing […]
- Acoustic Ladyland album launch and gig
Just when you thought it was safe to close your 2006 Best Of¦ lists, Acoustic Ladyland deliver their brilliant third album Skinny Grin. Featuring James Chance, mixing from Scott Walker and production by Paul Epworth and Robert Harder, who worked on their highly praised previous effort, Last Chance Disco in 2005, this London quartet of […]
