Brandt Brauer Frick have done it again. Last year, the German trio’s debut album, ‘You Make Me Real’, successfu lly fused techno and classical music. The two forms are so different - regimented rhythms and laptop production on the one hand, complex musical theory and virtuosity on the other - you’d be forgiven for thinking a true hybrid was impossible. But tracks such as ‘Bop’, a gently building pulse of shuffling polyrhythms, rich, resonant pianos and warm synth bass, saw them pull it off in some considerable style. ‘You Make Me Real’ may have been built from classical sounds, but the result didn’t sound out of place in a minimal techno set. Now Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick have taken their genre-defying experiment to the next level with the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble. Think of it as BBF V2.0. They’ve ditched the computers they used to arrange ‘You Make Me Real’ and expanded the band to a ten-piece so they can play handcrafted dance grooves completely live. Earlier this year at the Eurosonic conference in Holland, they recreated ‘You Make Me Real’ on stage using 80 pages of sheet music per track. The result was weird, compelling and unlike anything else. ‘Mr Machine’ sees the group reinterpret five tracks from ‘You Make Me Real’; "Mi Corazon", "Bop", "You Make Me Real", "Caffeine" and "Teufelsleiter". There are also two cover versions -‘Pretend’ by Emika and ‘A 606 N Rock N Roll’ by James Braun - although they’re so different they amount to new songs. A completely new track rounds things off.

Dark Captain make shimmering experimental folk, and give it the kind of epic scope we last witnessed in the days of post rock. That’s no bad thing either; with the grandiose wail of Godspeed and the heart and soul of Fairport Convention the band are on to something really special, and coming from the LOAF camp you know you’re in for a delicious treat. Somehow there’s a very defiant British streak to ‘Dead Legs & Alibis’, and deep beneath the gorgeous production and noisier elements there’s a record that even my dad could hold near and dear. I can’t for the life of me work out why more people aren’t listening to Dark Captain instead of plumping for arch-twats Mumford and Sons, but then the world isn’t very fair, is it now? Well good.

Joseph Lee Henry is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He has released 13 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums.

New Look is the debut album from Candian future pop band New Look. The band, based in Hamilton, Ontario, was formed by singer/model Sarah Ruba and her husband Adam Pavao. The album features the single "The Ballad".

For fans of: Spacemen 3, Phantom Payn, Ariel Pink,Wooden Shjips... Sacred Bones Records is proud to present Hazed Dream, the new long-player from fellow New Yorkers, Psychic Ills. Since their formation in 2003 as a home-recording experiment, the Ills have evolved into a live band, in their element playing the extended jam. Musically, it also marks a departure from some of the band s more recent sonic explorations. The raga rumbles and synthesizer space-outs aren t gone all together; the singular blasted musical perspective of the Ills remains. Fans new and old will find it totally dreamy. Tres Warren, 4th of July, 2011: Some developments in our lives led to new approaches. The music came out the old fashioned way...a way that had been avoided for a while. It was about putting some words to some chords and keeping it simple. Getting back to something. Feeling a feeling. Shaking out the NY brain boil. Movin away from some old bad vibes, by creating some new good ones. Dreaming out the bad. Takin it easy on ourselves, and those around us. This album lives in a sunny place. A half memory. A hazed dream. Band has released 3 full-lengths and several limited-edition 12 s on Social Registry, Spring Press (Australia), Skrot Up (Denmark) and RVNG INTL since 2003. Have toured and collaborated w/ the Butthole Surfers, Damo Suzuki, and Excepter.

2011 debut album from this Swedish duo comprised of Maria Lind‚n and her musical partner Fredrik Balck. Residing in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, the duo have quietly been crafting the nine tracks that make up Hearts throughout stolen moments gathered up over the past three years. Songs were written, committed to tape, destroyed. The task of capturing the sonic density of Lind‚n's compositions was painstaking. Balck's lyrics constantly teasing the senses are at times insular, cold to the touch. It's only when interpreted by Maria's effortless croon that a warmth is added, like the first rays of sun on a cold winters morning. A balancing act of light vs. dark that reveals a beauty within the darkness. Bella Union.

Written and recorded in Spring 2011 at Andy's grandmother's Chicago-area house while she was away on vacation, Gauntlet Hair is a subtle refinement of the sounds we've come to associate with the band the trunk-rattling bass; the ecstatic, tinny post-punk guitar; the din of ecstasy. But what was once simply jarring in its audacity is now also bursting with new colors. While the band continues to mine the pulse-and-clap cues of modern club rap, the intricacies of Andy's Durutti Column-inspired, circular guitar lines come a bit more to the fore on Gauntlet Hair.

My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Nova. The band has released five studio albums and a remix album, five studio EPs and four remix EPs, and made several tours across the United States.

Coming off his debut album "I'm Alive, I'm Dreaming," which produced top single ,Love Like Woe,. The Ready Set is preparing to release a brand new EP, "Feel Good Now." According to Jordan Witzigreuter, the creative force behind The Ready Set, the first song from the EP, ,Hollywood Dream. is "pretty much a story about being a kid from a small town with a simple life, who falls in love with a famous, Beverly Hills-style girl. I think everybody has, at some point in time, been or wanted to be a part of that sort of world, or that sort of relationship. It's always a fun thing to think about, if that's what you're after!"

Andrew Mayer Cohen, better known by his stage name Mayer Hawthorne, is a Grammy-nominated American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. Cohen also performs and records in the groups Tuxedo and Jaded Incorporated.