Electronic provocateur Matthew Herbert is no stranger to combining food and music: aside from creating some of the most delicious house records ever made, Herbert has previously released an album made entirely of the culinary sounds (2005’s Plat Du Jour),… Read more
Baltimore electronic experimentalists Animal Collective are no stranger to immersing their audience in visual art and music, having previously collaborated with artist Danny Perez for New York’s Guggenheim Museum 50th anniversary. And now, they’ve chosen you as their next visual… Read more
In what some are describing as “the weirdest drone record of the year”, Spiritualized leader Jason Pierce has recorded an album alongside… bees. Pierce- one of “the last great outsiders“– may have long moved on from the heady days of Spacemen… Read more
There’s really not too much to say about this one! Through the course of its extensive television run, The Simpsons has provided countless musical memories. While the Michael Jackson’ penned “Do The Bartman” is probably not a favourable one, we are very impressed with the… Read more
No doubt a few people were grinning when pharmaceutical executive and notorious villain Martin Shkreli was recently arrested on charges of fraud, especially after being revealed as the buyer of the one-copy-only Once Upon a Time In Shaolin by The Wu… Read more
Whether it is an act of technological performance art, civil disobedience or social commentary is hard to tell… Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is something of a techno anti-hero. When he was sentenced to one year in prison and fined… Read more
Limp Bizkit? Maybe if they’re lucky. But the answer (this time) is surprisingly, hip hop Royalty the Wu-Tang Clan. Designed as a piece of art and not a consumable music product, the long-island legends intentionally made just one copy of… Read more
It’s a question every pet owner has asked themselves, and while there have been many scientific (and not-particularly-scientific) dissertations on the musical preferences of animals, one composer- David Tiei- has taken it further, developing a musical genre specifically another species.… Read more
Norwegian prog-rockers Gazpacho have included an interesting bonus in their latest release, embedding code at the end of the CD release of Molok that causes the listener’s CD player to sound a strange signal theoretically capable of destroying of all life as we know it. We’re… Read more
It turns out that Misty’s musings about Lou Reed telling him to adios his Swift covers were full of fantasy. When the songs that he recorded in an hour started to soar into the stratosphere, appearing on USA Today, and… Read more
Legendary grinch Steve Albini has provided an interesting – if unintentional- promotional vehicle for UK Techno mainstay Powell, who “experimented” with the producer’s voice on his latest single. When asked for permission to release the song, which sampled a live… Read more
Kurt Cobain has scored another strike against Jeff Buckley in the battle for most posthumous releases, as Montage of Heck, the new documentary about the little known moments of Kurt Cobain’s life, is set to the soundtrack of Cobains’ own… Read more