Dark Room Notes – Let’s Light Fires

Having been impressed with the quality of the first two releases from Dark Room Notes…

Introducing: DM Stith

All of a sudden, I’m feeling a bit of a buzz around David Michael Stith…

Metric’s Fantasies

While Emily Haines is one of the most singular vocalists in indie thanks to her…

Kaboom! Dub and other stories

In this week’s D&N update: Kaboom Dub, Freestyle rap explained, a look at the wonderful…

OMG! Jape wins Choice Music Prize

Jape with his Choice music Prize trophy by Loreana Rushe. A deserved winner in Jape…

Freedom of Choice

So tonight I’ll on the panel for the Choice Music Prize – Irish album of…

Kraftwerk’s forgotten ‘Autobahn’ video

This is an amazing and trippy 11 minute music video short film (in two parts)…

Skream mix for Mishka Keep Watch series

The latest in Mishka’s excellent Keep Watch series sees Croydon dubstep producer Skream mix it…

Video: Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (live in Whelan’s)

This video makes the gig look and sound much better than I remember from where…

White Antelope (Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes)

I didn’t get a broner for Fleet Foxes as much as many, many other people…

Dry County return as Alias Empire

You probably know by now that Dry County have changed their name to Alias Empire…

Weekend Jukebox #5

Image from Sexy People. I’ve been listening to loads of tunes from electronic beatmakers; the…

Pluggy McPluggerson

This week’s Day and Night section examines The Pirate Bay case in Sweden, Videos from…

Video: MJEX – Turn the Magic On

The unofficial video for the MJEX’s poptastic positive single uses the The Monkees to represent…

Two Fingers (Amon Tobin, Double Click and Sway) mashups

Coming soon on Big Dada is a new group called Two Fingers with Amon Tobin,…

Flight of the (rubber)bandits

If you’ve been watching the (frankly going downhill rapid) second series of Flight of the…

45 seconds in.. heavy

This is a wobbler. Zinc feat Foreign Beggars – Move.

Selected Ambient (and Electronic) works

News has reached that in these times of cuts and shakeups, Belgian electronic music label…

I ♥ Marina and her Diamonds*

If I had to pick one artist as “one to watch” for this year, it…

The Catchup Mashup – Post-Awards edition

Time for another short trawl through some music news, audio and linkage. More details on…