I cannot believe I just found this out but as the title suggests, Charlie Cooper died 01.27.

Damn

found out via califaudio

Yay! Syntpop outfit Junior Boys will be releasing their third (and hopefully best!) album titled ‘Begone Dull Care’ in the US on 04.07.

If you aren’t familiar with this quality act, be sure to visit thier MySpace page to hear some of their work.

Cranes have released a new album, Cranes, after four years of spotty co-written material and guest appearances. My first impressions are that the tracks follow the Forever album with a bit more space and ambiance. It is certainly a Cranes album through and through, but I still long for something more experimental, something less accessible and entirely new… something that turned me onto the Cranes in the first place. Rest assured that the Siblings Shaw deliver a full serving of themselves worthy of fans old and new… but imagine them cannibals, more ritualistic and self indulgent. I want more variety. I want another Adrift or Starblood… hell, I’ll even be ecstatic for another Casablanca. Or, perhaps, I haven’t listened to this release enough. Particles and Waves was like a virus afterall….

Visit the MySpace page, first two tracks are from the new album

Electronic musician Apparat has just announced the lineup for his new band!

Click here for pics of the fortunate 5 - for some reason I am hungry now

The latest Squarepusher album ‘Just a Souvenir’ is now available as a DRM-free, ten dollar download over at Bleep ahead of the full-blown CD/LP release on 10.27. You can a heaer sample track over at Warp’s Myspace page. The sound seems to be similar to ‘Music is Rotten One Note’ in it’s physical, traditional ‘band’ sound.

Strangely enough, Cranes announced a day after the previous post that they will be releasing a new album in October as well as a small Euro tour. Yay!

One of my fave producers, AGF, has released a really interesting, free album on her site full of glitchy broken beats similar to Matthew Dear and Plateau. Grab it now by clicking the pic above and please donate if you can to show your support for independent artists that are unafraid to offer works for ‘free’

Get it here

To download the 128k mp3  you must ‘register’ but doing so also enters you into a drawing to win the new album on all formats. At this point I am willing to do what I have to to hear anything from the new album - not a bad trade off.

The song? it’s no ‘Shake a Fist‘ but it’s a good listen. Please do.

A sad day, indeed

Yup, Bauhaus just can’t seem to keep their shit together. It was fun while it lasted, boys… see you again when you’re all on catheters

At least we get a ‘final’ album of new stuff

Yup, you read that right.

Paul Raven of Ministry has had a heart attack.

So, Portishead is working on a new album, huh?

It’s about fucking time.  Jesus fucking christ I am so very much looking forward to this.

Hurry up already

I just checked the calendar and, nope, it’s not the first of April. Halloween? Not that either…

OH! That’s right, hell just froze over. Well, it’s going to on April 25th of next year.

Litany.net - the unofficial-official Skinny Puppy website - reports that everyone favorite blood covered stilt-walker is in talks to star in an upcoming film… a musical… with Paris fucking Hilton?

‘The lead singer of the band “Skinny Puppy” - is in final talks to star in Darren Lynn Bousman’s hotly anticipated horror-musical, Repo! The Genetic Opera, which begins production September 10 in Toronto, Canada. He joins Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino and the luscious Paris Hilton. “Repo!” focuses on a cruel entrepreneur who creates genetically perfect organs that everybody needs in 2056, and who is content to send in a repo man if the recipient can’t make payments. Lionsgate will release this unique blend of genres in theaters on April 25, 2008.’

Huh?