It’s the stuff indie dreams are made of – Bjork’s вЂ?people’ have announced the new single from the Icelandic chanteuse features Thom Yorke of Radiohead on backing vocals. Nattura, due out in the US on 20 October, takes its name from the free open-air festival Bjork and Sigur Ros staged in ReykjavГk this June. The two vocalists have pooled their considerable powers before for I’ve Seen It All from the Dancer In The Dark soundtrack (the film of course featured a flooring performance from Bjork in the lead role). This collaboration, like the festival, is part of the effort to “highlight a grass roots movement in Iceland to reclaim the country’s natural resources and wilderness from the hands of big business and pollution.” We wait with breath a-baited for the song’s release. RSS del.ici.ous Digg Facebook
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October 17, 2008 - 12:53 am
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Some of the facilities being used at this weekend’s (July 11-13) Oxegen Festival will be recycled by 12,500 Scouts. The youth organisation is holding an international jamboree to celebrate 100 years of the Scouts in Ireland. Lighting, showers, toilets and other infrastructure is being donated by promoters MCD for the event, which takes place between August 2-10, reports the Irish Times. Around 150 Scouts have been on site this weekend helping festival goers to put up tents in exchanged for charitable donations. Oxegen continues today (July 12) with The Verve, REM and Amy Winehouse among those set to play. Keep up with all the action from T In The Park and Oxegen Festival this weekend (July 11-13) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM’s T In The Park and Oxegen pages. Plus make sure you get next week’s issue of NME – on UK newsstands from July 16 – for the ultimate T In The Park and Oxegen Festival review.
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July 14, 2008 - 2:49 am
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Photo by Kathryn Yu M83’s stunner "Kim & Jessie"– plucked from the many other potential singles on the gorgeous, Best New Music’d Saturdays=Youth LP– is getting its moment in the sun. Mute will release the "Kim and Jessie" single July 21 in Europe and July 22 in North America. Arriving digitally and on a 12", the tune will be joined by remixes from Montag and DatA. Having recently wrapped a jog through North America, M83 will return in the middle of next month to play a couple California dates as part of the traveling Download Festival. M83: 07-19 San Francisco, CA – Download Festival 07-20 Los Angeles, CA – Download Festival
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June 24, 2008 - 10:24 pm
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Photo by Daniel Cantó Welcome to the big (indie) leagues, El Guincho! As the latest signing to XL Recordings/Young Turks (according to a Drowned in Sound report confirmed by the Beggars Group), you join a label family that includes Thom Yorke, M.I.A., and Vampire Weekend, just to name a few heavy-hitters. May they be merciful in their hazing. The deal covers both the UK and U.S., and XL/Young Turks plans to deliver El Guincho’s genre melting pot of a debut, the Best New Music-inducted Alegranza!, later this year. (For the moment, it’s available on import outside Spain via Discotea Océano.) We hope it’s just in time for his set at the Pitchfork Music Festival! Before then, folks on El Guincho’s side of the pond have ample opportunities to catch their new hero in action. Find out where below. Los conciertos: 03-23 Brighton, England – XXJFG Party @ Barfly 03-24 London, England – Durrr 03-26 Dublin, Ireland – Antics @ Crawdaddy 03-27 London, England – Moshi Moshi Night @ Hoxton Square Bar 03-28 London, England – The Old Blue Last 04-01 London, England – White Heat @ Madame JoJo’s 04-03 Barcelona, Spain – La Pedrera 04-12 Valencia, Spain – Excuse Me? 04-26 Tenerife, Spain – La Laguna 05-02 Seville, Spain – South Pop Festival 05-30 Barcelona, Spain – Parc del Fòrum (Primavera Sound) 06-14 Gothenburg, Sweden – Clandestino Festival 07-11 Cartagena, Colombia – La Mar de Músicas 07-20 Chicago, IL – Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) * * with Spiritualized, M. Ward, Boris, Extra Golden
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March 23, 2008 - 8:28 am
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The inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, which aims to feature rock, blues, reggae, jazz, hip-hop, world, soul, Latin and electronic on five stages, will take place August 22-24 at the 1,000-plus acre venue. Additional acts will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets will go on sale at the end of March, with pricing still to be worked out. Organizers hope to draw about 60,000 fans on each of the three days. Johnson, who has ruled the U.S. pop charts for the last three weeks with his album "Sleep Through the Static," is one of the headliners at the Coachella festival in southern California (April 25-27). Additionally, he and Radiohead top the bill for the inaugural All Points West festival near New York City (August 8-10).
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March 5, 2008 - 9:20 pm
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