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Tyondai Braxton Leaves Battles as Band Plans New Album

Epic rockers Battles will be sans one member on their upcoming tour, according to a statement from the band:...  read more

New Brian Eno Album Gets Some Details

Ever since we caught official word of an upcoming album from Brian Eno early this month, we’ve been eagerly waiting for more details. Now, the wait is over....  read more

New Brian Eno Album Due This Year

Rumors of a new Brian Eno album have finally been confirmed. The legendary musician/producer is scheduled to release a record with guitarist Leo Abrahams and electronic composer/producer Jon Hopkins via Warp Records with a tentative release date of this fall, Exclaim reports....  read more

Jamie Lidell: Compass

Neo-soulster does what he does best On his fourth album, Jamie Lidell pays homage to everything from ’60s funk to ’90s R&B, blending pastiche with the glitchy production for which his record label has become known. Compass is as eclectic and bugged-out as his last album, Jim, was subdued, and there are plenty of throwbacks: “Enough’s Enough” is blatant Jackson 5 worship, complete with one-two-threes and bouncing flutes, while “She Needs Me” evokes Boyz II Men with a cascading piano intro and Lidell’s layered vocal swells....  read more

Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma

MC transcends jazz, hip-hop, space and time The third album from Los Angeles-based producer Flying Lotus (nee Steven Ellison) is an engrossing exploration of sonic possibility. Featuring contributions from Thom Yorke, vocalist Laura Darlington, bass producer Thundercat and jazz instrumentalist Ravi Coltrane, it’s a study in contrasts: provoking but reassuring, kinetic but focused, clean but clattering....  read more

Jamie Lidell Gets Help From Beck, Grizzly Bear, Feist and Wilco on New Album

[Photo by Doug Seymour] On May 18, new-soul singer Jamie Lidell new record, Compass, will come out on Warp Records. But he’s not going it alone. Compass will feature contributions from Beck, Feist, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Pat Sansone of Wilco....  read more

Warp Records Celebrates Twenty Years With Warp(20) Box Set

Twenty years ago, Warped Records opened its doors as a shop and record label in Sheffield, England. Too difficult to distinguish the "-ed" over the phone, they eventually dropped the last two letters and Warp Records was born. In the decades since, Warp has brought us the likes of sixty-something artists, among them Aphex Twin, Jamie Lidell, Gang Gang Dance, Squarepusher, LFO, and, more recently, Grizzly Bear and Battles. Now, the label is spending all of 2009 celebrating two decades of Warp—the perfect excuse for a premium box set....  read more

Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest

Having spent 2008 opening for Radiohead, appearing on late night...  read more