While many online performance shows have gained a lot of traction in the last few years; everyone’s seen at least one episode of NPR’s Tiny Desk Series, COLORSxSTUDIO’s unique aesthetic took socials by storm, triple j’s Like a Version consistently goes viral with its genuinely great (Denzel Curry’s take on ‘Bulls on Parade’ sticks out to me) and wackier (it’d be rude not to mention The Wiggles cover of Elephant…) covers. But From the Basement strips back the gimmicks and charges straight in with the music. No audience, no time wasting… just get in there and show us what you’ve got. That’s what makes this show special; the music.

In a statement, Godrich commented on the return of the basement, “What a pleasure it has been doing this again!” adding, “I’m still just a fan, still super excited to have the opportunity to film all these great artists and have loved making these new shows. After being so busy doing other things I felt that the time was right to rekindle this idea… to somehow bring it into the present, but the same rules apply now as they did then… no audience or presenter… just a direct connection with the viewer and a chance for us to take some time to do something special in a controlled environment… the priority being to make it sound and look great….”

The series comes in association with Sonos Radio and We Transfer, while the streams will all be available online for free here, We Transfer will offer an additional song for each artist with a subscription to the site. Sonos Radio will also be broadcasting complete sets, both new and old, for the foreseeable future.

WeTransfer has partnered with @nigelgod‘s From The Basement and Sonos Radio to bring you six new performances from some of the world’s most extraordinary artists and bands. First episode premieres June 1. See you there. pic.twitter.com/WjS3tZhgaY

— WeTransfer (@WeTransfer) May 25, 2022

And there will be drinking! A small selection of the various breweries announced as providing the goods include Braybrooke, Two Tribes and Verdant, so there’s plenty for everyone.

Some of the supporting line-up includes artists such as Self Esteem, Working Men’s Club and Erol Alkan, more of which can be seen below. A third headliner is also set to be announced sometime soon so keep a look out for more information. Further updates can be seen on their website here.

THE FIRST LINE-UP DROP IS HERE

Check out this ABSOLUTELY UNREAL line-up of artists, brewers and chefs!

Pre-sale tickets go on sale at 9am THIS Thursday. Sign-up now to get a limited £30 discount and entry into our VIP prize draw.

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— Bigfoot Festival (@BigfootFest) February 8, 2022

If you’re interested in attending the festival, tickets go on general sale this Friday, from 9 am GMT, and can be gotten here. It’ll be happening at Claydon Estate in Buckinghamshire and promises to be a good weekend for all. They’ve prepared resources for both experienced campers and those more used to the comforts of home, so take your pick.

From general camping (for the most steely and enthusiastic of campers) to the Tangerine Fields (with their pre-pitched tents), they’ve got everything. However, if you prefer your countryside with a bit of luxury, the boutique camping option might be more your style.

As for the headliners, if you want another opportunity to see Caribou in action, he’ll be attending the Wide Awake Festival in May, running from the 27^th-28^th of the month in London’s Brockwell Park, tickets for which can be gotten here.

As for Happy Mondays, they’ll be treating fans to a UK tour running throughout October and November later this year (as well as some dates from May to July). If you want more details on getting tickets, you can look here. If you want to see the tour dates, you can look below.

Happy Mondays UK Tour Dates

07/10/2022 – Corn Exchange – Cambridge
08/10 – Rock City – Nottingham
09/10 – Su Asylum – Hull
13/10 – Roadmender – Northampton
14/10 – Mountford Hall – Liverpool
15/10 – O2 Brixton Academy – London
21/10 – O2 City Hall – Newcastle
22/10 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
27/10 – Dome – Brighton
28/10 – Glive – Guildford
29/10 – O2 Academy – Sheffield
03/11 – Academy – Manchester
04/11 – Academy – Manchester
05/11 – O2 Academy – Leeds
12/11 – O2 Academy – Bristol
13/11 – Kings George’s Hall – Blackburn
18/11 – The Nick Rayns LCR – Norwich
19/11 – O2 Academy – Bournemouth
20/11 – O2 Academy – Oxford
24/11 – Alhambra Theatre – Dunfermline
25/11 – Fat Sams – Dundee
26/11 – Barrowlands – Glasgow
27/11 – Barrowlands – Glasgow

WIDE AWAKE 2022 ANNOUNCEMENT

We’re expanding to two days! ⁰@ScreamOfficial headline Sat May 28, playing Screamadelica in full live for the first time in a decade, with @feelmybicep headlining Fri May 27!

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— Wide Awake (@wideawakeldn) December 7, 2021

The festival has now expanded to two days, as opposed to the inaurgural one-day fixture from last years iteration. Bicep are set to be the headline act for the Friday night, with Primal Scream closing the Saturday, treating us with a perfomance of their iconic Screamadelica in full.

Wide Awake boasts a musically diverse lineup, spanning genres with artists including Caribou, Leon Vynehall, Fat White Family, Connan Mockasin, The Comet is Coming, and Kevin Morby. Organised by the co-founders of Field Day, Wide Awake maintains the same ethos of musical diversity, appealing to fans from across the spectrum. Last years iteration, however, was more rock oriented, with acts such as IDLES and Goat Girl.

In a four-star review of last years event, NME wrote: “Though the music at Wide Awake largely skew towards the recent trend of bands with sardonic, sprechgesang vocals and wiry guitars, there are some welcome – and necessary – detours across the day’s programme.” 

The progressively-minded festival stresses the importance of environment consciousness and gender equality. On their website, they write: “We strive to have an equitable gender split across our line-up and 2022 will see the continuation of our ‘Positive Policy’, set up to help change the way in which live music events take responsibility for actions towards our planet.”

In tandem with this social interest, they are additionally adopting a Positive Policy which debuted at last years festival. “The positive policy aims to build action, change and partnerships in climate, carbon, local causes and air pollution. The Positive Policy debuted at the 2021 festival created positive actions in an effort to help our ecosystem and change the way in which live music events take responsibility for actions towards our planet.”

The set of ground rules for the Positive Policy are as follows:

• Bury zero waste in landfill
• Leave no trace of litter
• Ban single use plastic across the site
• Only use compostable plastic and cutlery
• Only provide ethically sourced food
• Operate a cup deposit scheme that doesn’t rip fans off
• Recycle all trader & back of house waste
• Only permit biodegradable stage effects
• Eco-toilets
• HVO Fuel

+ much more

Tickets are starting at £39.50 and can be purchased here.

The festival took to Instagram to announce news of the line-up confirmations, each act was announced in separate posts. Within one of the posts, NOS Alive celebrated the return of  ‘What You Know‘ performers Two Door Cinema Club to the event.

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The festival will take place between 6th-9th July 2022. After two cancellations, including this year, music fans will again flock to the festival’s location Passeio Marítimo de Algés in Portgual.

The latest acts to be confirmed include English indie rockers Alt-J and Two Door Cinema Club, both acts were previously announced within the 2021 line-up and will be honouring their billing within the 2022 event. Ticket holders will get to see Mercury Prize winners Alt-J perform on the second day, 7th July 2022. The group bagged the award in 2012 for their debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’. Irish rockers and NME award nominees, Two Door Cinema Club are set to perform on the event’s last day, 9th July 2022.

Also included within the recent line-up announcement was singer St. Vincent. The Grammy award winner will perform on the Sagres Stage and her set will be on the festival’s third day, 8th July 2022. Ticketholders will be treated to the singer’s classics as well as material from her newest album ‘Daddy’s Home’, released 14^th May 2021. The artist known as Annie Erin Clark won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album for her 2014 album ‘St. Vincent’. Accelerating her accolade further, St. Vincent was the first woman to win the award in 20 years. Before her 2015 win, the last female to win the category was Sinead O’Connor in 1991 with her second album ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’.

The festival, which was once ranked within the top 12 European festivals by NME, has been running for over 14 years. NOS Alive was first organised under the different name of Oeiras Alive! In 2007 with an explosive line-up of Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys. The next year, the festival’s name changed again to Optimus Alive!, the 2008 event saw a range of headline acts, Rage Against the Machine, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The festival was named its current title of NOS Alive in 2014 and premiered the new name with a superb headline list of Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys and Indie darlings The Libertines. The event’s name is seemingly taken from the festival’s main sponsor, the telecommunications company NOS, which was also previously named Optimus

The full line-up includes Alt-J, Caribou, Da Wesel, Dino D’Santiago, Faith No More, Hobo Johnson, Imagine Dragons, Inhaler, Metallica, Manel Cruz, Parcels, Parov Stelar, Phoebe Bridgers, Royal Blood, St. Vincent, Seasick Steve, Tom Misch, The Lovemakers and Two Door Cinema Club.

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We’ve added a special UK show at Dreamland in Margate on Aug 26th with @kellyleeowens, @mariedavidsn and L’Oeil Nu.
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— Caribou (@caribouband) May 18, 2021

Caribou will play tracks from his latest critically acclaimed album ‘Suddenly’ for the first time in the UK. The album came out in February last year after five years of break. His two most successful records so far were ‘Swim’ from 2010 and ‘Our Love’ from 2014 which landed on UK Chart Top 10. In summer 2019 he released a dancefloor led EP ‘Sizzling’ under his other name, Daphni.

Caribou’s latest release gained great reviews, with The Guardian commenting: “‘Suddenly’ ended up somewhere exciting: in a niche of its own, where electronic auteur meets singer-songwriter, where an innate feel for pop music and the dancefloor co-exists with experimentation”. NME added in their review: “Snaith has found the perfect balance between intimate songwriting and extroverted sonic decisions”.

Tickets to Dreamland will be on sale on 21st May at 10am and can be purchase here. Doors to the event will be open from 6pm.  

Caribou starts his UK tour this October. See full dates below. Tickets are available to purchase here.

26/08/21 – Dreamland – Margate
30/08 – All points East – London
20/10 – Invisible Wind Factory – Liverpool
22/10 – O2 Academy – London
24/10 – Rock City – Nottingham
25/10 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
26/10 – O2 Academy – Leeds
27/10 – Depot Mayfield – Manchester
22/01/22 – Sage Gateshead – Gateshead
24/01 – Borrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
25/01 – O2 Academy – Bristol
30/01 – Brighton Dome – Brighton

Among the artists that will feature on Suddenly Remixes is UK’s hot artist Four Tet on his version of the track Never Come Back. Among the artists who will feature for the first time on the new album are Toro y Moi, Jessy Lanza, Prince Nifty, and Koreless, all who have produced remixes for Never Come Back, Home, You and I and others.

When discussing the upcoming Suddenly Remixes, Caribou stated that, ‘Sometimes remixes are commissioned to be marketing tools or to make the music functional in a club. But for me, there’s only one reason to get remixes done: because I’m a giddy fan of the remixer. Looking down the tracklisting of this remix album, it’s a thrill to see a list of producers whose music I find so inspiring collected there. Some are established artists, some are just starting out; some I messaged, begging a remix, right after coming across their music for the first time; and some are dear friends whose music I’ve loved for a while—but in every case, I feel very lucky to hear their music and mine connected on this remix album.

The original album Suddenly was released Februrary 28th, 2020 and in October of that year, Caribou released the first round of remixes for the album via EP. The remixed EP consisted of two remixes for the song Sunny’s Time, one by Kareem Ali and the other by Logic1000.

Like I Loved You by India Jordan and Shanti Celeste produced Ravi. The remixed singles Sister and Never Come Back were however released 3 months earlier, which was the beginning of the long slew of remixes to come for Caribou in the years 2020 and 2021.

Suddenly Remixes Tracklist:

01 Never Come Back (Koreless Remix)
02 Never Come Back (Four Tet Remix)
03 Home (Toro y Moi Remix)
04 Sunny’s Time (Logic1000 Remix)
05 Sister (Floating Points Remix)
06 Ravi (Shanti Celeste Remix)
07 You and I (Jessy Lanza Mix)
08 Sunny’s Time (Prince Nifty Saddle Up Mix)
09 Never Come Back (Floating Points Remix)
10 Never Come Back (Morgan Geist Remix)
11 Sunny’s Time (Kareem Ali Remix)
12 Like I Loved You (India Jordan Remix)

The remixed EP consisted of two remixes for the song Sunny’s Time, one by producer Kareem Ali and the other by Logic1000. Like I Loved You was mixed by India Jordan and Shanti Celeste produced the mix for Ravi. The remixed singles Sister and Never Come Back were however released 3 months ago and likely inspired Caribou to continue this mixed-up idea in the form of the EP that released today.

The album Suddenly was the Canadian-composer’s first released full-length album in 6 years and dealt with themes of the reality of love over an electronica dream-pop sound. Though mixed by various producers, tracks on the new remixed EP only enhance the neo-psychedelic/folk-tronica sound that the artist is so well-known for.

Caribou is critically acclaimed for his unique instrumentation on his various albums, beginning in 2005 with the break-out album The Milk of Human Kindness, and has been awarded multiple Polaris Music Prizes for his work. Suddenly, the Polaris Music Prize’s 2020 shortlist nominee, is now among the long list of his musical accomplishments.

The typical live concert for Caribou would include the performance musicians, Ryan Smith, Brad weber, John Schmersal and Snaith himself on percussion. A Caribou show is unique in that audience members are shown complex video projections on a very large screen behind the performers. The artist is known for these artistic projections and every music video that has been released has strictly been set to these.

Fans however were disappointed when Caribou was forced to announce this July that all 2020 UK tour dates were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic safety concerns. However, tickets bought for those shows will be valid for the rescheduled 2021 tour that will take place throughout the month of May next year.

It is currently unclear is Caribou will perform the new remixes and/or if it will include the original album tracks off Suddenly. The newest remixed EP is available today on all streaming platforms and videos with Caribou’s unique projections are available on YouTube today as well. Tickets are on sale for the upcoming UK Tour but fans are encouraged to purchase quickly as they are rapidly selling out.

Caribou UK and Paris Tour Dates:

06/05/2021 – L’Olympia – Paris, France
08/05 – Invisible Wind Factory – Liverpool
09/05 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
10/05 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
11/05 – O2 Academy – Bristol
12/05 –  Barrowland – Glasgow
13/05 – O2 Academy – Leeds
14/05 – Academy 1 – Manchester
16/05 – The Dome – Brighton

However, as the months wore on and the dreaded coronavirus worsened, Caribou had no choice but to be responsible and postpone his shows further. Caribou, real name Dan Snaith, will pick up the UK tour plans next year instead. Other 2021 performances confirmed for Caribou include music festivals Primavera Sound in Barcelona, BBK Lives in Bilbao, also in Spain, and NOS Alive in Portugal, all of which are scheduled for next summer.

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Out now: not one, but two amazing remixes from Sam @floatingpoints. Also a 12” with Sam’s mixes and another with Kieran @fourtetkieran and @morgangeistnyc are available for pre-order now. (Release date July 31st). Link in bio and stories. Art direction @jasonevansfoto . Design @mistermrbcooper

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Caribou released the news to their official Twitter account yesterday, to the great dismay of the musician’s expansive fanbase. The Odessa composer confirmed the last thing that his devoted fans wanted to hear, writing in a heartfelt statement that “unfortunately it’s clear we have to reschedule our UK + Paris tour dates again. Caribou continued on to say that: “Like all of you, we want nothing more than to gather and enjoy live music again, but clearly we have to wait until it’s safe to do so.” One fortunate piece of news, though, is tickets previously purchased by fans will remain valid for Caribou’s 2021 tour and will roll over to next year free of charge. 

Last month, Caribou revealed some fresh new remixes of their hit tracks, Never Come Back and Sister. Mixed by the talented electronic musician, Floating Points, the Rabbit Hole hitmaker shared the news with his 44,000 Instagram followers. Featuring animated designs by graphic designer Matthew Cooper, colourful shapes move to Caribou in a hypnotic fashion. Caribou wrote on the 30th June: “Out now: not one, but two amazing remixes from Sam @floatingpoints.” Obtaining over 10,000 likes and views, the post was met with an excited response from fans. 

A composer, recording artist and producer, sonic triple threat Caribou burst on the scene in 2001 with their memorable debut album, Start Breaking My Heart. Snaith initially began his career under the moniker Manitoba, but following a lawsuit, changed from Manitoba to their current name. 

Since then, the production wizard has put out six sensational studio albums, their most recent being Suddenly, that dropped February of this year. Consisting of encapsulating synthes and soft vocals with a psychedelic twist, the twelve-track record is a calming body of work that, yet it still contains that Caribou kick. Containing widely different tracks like Home, New Jade and Filtered Grand Piano Suddenly is a divergent new spin on an artist that always delivers. 

Dates for Caribou’s 2021 UK and Paris tour are as follows:

06/05/2021 – L’Olympia – Paris – France
08/05 – The Invisible Wind Factory – Liverpool
09/05 – The O2 Academy – Birmingham
10/05 – The O2 Academy – Brixton – London
11/05 – The O2 Academy – Bristol
12/05 – Barrowland – Glasgow
13/05 – The O2 Academy – Leeds
14/05 – Academy 1 – Manchester
16/05 – The Dome – Brighton

Suddenly by Caribou is out now.

Although Pick A Piper were originally formed in 2008, it has taken five years for them to put together and release their debut album. In this time they have released two E.Ps, which have served their purpose to raise the anticipation ahead of the release of the self titled record. It is full to the brim of the different styles of dance music, with each track containing the potential to fill a dance floor to it’s maximum capacity. Featuring the vocal talents of Ryan McPhun (Ruby Suns) and Josh Schmersal (Enon/Brainiac), there’s enough variety in here to make a pick n mix bag jealous.

To give you a taster of what to expect from the album, Pick A Piper have released a slightly nuts video for All Her Colours. It all starts out simply enough, with a young lady strolling round her room, when a splash of black sludge appears on her arm. She looks up the symptoms in a book, and then it gets a little strange. She then releases her inner child by making a den, sitting inside it, concocting a potion of sorts, mixing it up, then gets warped into a fantasy, slightly comic-esque world, not too dissimilar to the works of Tim Burton. The rest of the video resembles the acid trip we all yearn for. If this doesn’t catch your attention, then I’m not entirely sure what will.

Pick A Piper is just what you would expect to hear upon finding out that the touring drummer for Caribou has made a record. You will not discover all it’s glories on it’s first listen. Nor the second, or the third. You could listen to this album a dozen times and still be discovering new bits of gold, with the X mark constantly shifting. A record that is perfect for the after party, it will probably keep you going right up till the next one.

Pick A Piper play the Shacklewell Arms in London on the 25th of November. To get an idea of what to expect, check out the video for All Her Colours below. Pick A Piper, the album, is released on November 4th.