Crystal Castles

Review - T in the Park 2011

All the rain, mud and rock action from Scotland's biggest music festival

8 Aug 2011

Saturday Ke$ha proves trashy entertainment with a set that refuses to take itself seriously. A party up glam stomp though a series of electro pop hits that while low on art is high on glitter and cheap thrills (and inexplicably includes a six-foot…

Spotify playlist: T in the Park 2011

Highlight from the line-up, including Pulp, Friendly Fires and The Streets

24 Feb 2011

It's that time of year again and as yet another blisteringly cold winter shows signs of giving in, we can once again start to dream of the greenest pastures, cold refreshments and a beating sun to boot. Alternatively, we can look forward with a hopeful…

Pulp, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys confirmed for T in the Park line-up 2011

Foo Fighters also joined by Deadmau5, Bright Eyes and Beady Eye

22 Feb 2011

Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Tinie Tempah, Jessie J, Deadmau5, Friendly Fires, Bright Eyes, Eels, The View, Script, Kesha, Manics, Tom Jones, Death crew 77, Eliza Doolittle, Stornoway, Vitalic, Diplo, Imelda May, Miles Kane, Noah And…

All Tomorrow's Parties: Bowlie 2 - Butlin’s Minehead, Somerset, Fri 10-Sun 12 Dec

Ten year anniversary of pioneering chalet-based holiday camp festival

11 Jan 2011

Ten years after pioneering the chalet-based holiday camp festival with their Bowlie Weekender, Belle & Sebastian have returned to the scene (not literally, because it’s now in Somerset) of one of their greatest creations with this decade-on celebration…

Various Artists - Fuck Dance, Let’s Art

26 Oct 2010

(K7) For all of its swearing and sloganeering, Fuck Dance Let’s Art: Sounds from a New American Underground comes on less like a counter-cultural snapshot and more like a cash-in on the hipster genres variously tagged as chill-wave, dream-pop…

Crystal Castles find The Cure

Music Gossip

26 Oct 2010

Crystal Castles have recorded a track with The Cure singer Robert Smith. The song, a reworking of 'Not In Love' from the group's second album - which was released earlier this year - will be available from December 6. The Cure frontman is known…

Crystal Castles embark on UK tour

The 8-bit punks are back, but just who are Alice Glass and Ethan Kath?

6 Oct 2010

Crystal Castles are notoriously hard to pin down. They rarely do interviews, and when they do, they make those interviews difficult. Over half a decade of grumpiness, reticence and insouciance they’ve done little to promote their own work in the…

Music festivals 2010: Ones to watch

28 May 2010

Unicorn Kid Aka Oliver Sabin – Edinburgh-based electronic wunderkind, this year playing festivals including T in the Park, Wickerman, Belladrum and Bestival Hudson Mohawke He makes super sweet futuristic jams. I loved last year’s album Butter. I…

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

6 May 2010

(Fiction) Things are never straightforward when you’re dealing with this Toronto twosome. For a start, the follow-up to their 2008 debut has exactly the same title (causing a whole heap of iTunes bother), and they claim to have recorded the album in…

T In The Park – Friday

13 Jul 2009

Chris Cope reviews the acts making a big splash at the first night of T.

Sonar 2009, Barcelona, Thu 18 to Sat 20 Jun

3 Jul 2009

After months of agonising waiting it was finally upon us – Sonar 2009! Arriving at Barcelona’s supercool Sonar Village in the complex of Centre de Culture Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB) near Las Ramblas on Friday afternoon, we were like kids on…

Hydro Connect Festival - Acts you might not know

Fresh Connections

21 Aug 2008

Friendly Fires Their biggest influences are the Kompakt label, Carl Craig and Prince, and they’re named after a track by Blackpool post-punk confederacy Section 25. St Albans trio Friendly Fires (Ed MacFarlane, Jack Savidge and Edd Gibson) are one of…

Hydro Connect Festival 2008 - lineup in detail

17 Jul 2008

Oyster Stage Kasabian There’s a new album on the way from this swaggering fivesome so expect first plays of recently penned material alongside their by-now trademark electro-rock anthems. Manic Street Preachers Following the return to form of last…

Hydro Connect festival line up 2008

17 Jun 2008

The Hydro Connect Festival takes place in the stunning countryside around Loch Fyne within the grounds of Inverarary Castle between Friday 29th and Sunday 31st August 2008.

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

10 Apr 2008

INDIE/RAVE/GRIME/PUNK/ELECTRO The so-called new rave scene has been responsible for spewing out a load of old meaningless tosh since it was coined by desperate music journalists two years ago, but its latest wrong comes in the form of the debut album…

Hadouken! - Music for an Accelerated Culture

10 Apr 2008

INDIE/RAVE/GRIME/PUNK/ELECTRO (Atlantic) The so-called new rave scene has been responsible for spewing out a load of old meaningless tosh since it was coined by desperate music journalists two years ago, but its latest wrong comes in the form of the…

Crystal Castles to headline NME New Noise Tour

12 Mar 2008

Electro-rock noiseniks Crystals Castles have been announced as headliners for the NME New Noise Tour which calls in at the Arches, Glasgow on 10 May. Joining them on the jaunt will be fellow indie up-and-coming talent Friendly Fires, Team Waterpolo…

Foals - Vinyl virgins

28 Feb 2008

Scarlett Johansson What does your average Hollywood doll do on her days off? Record an album of Tom Waits covers of course with Dave Sitek (see main piece) called Anywhere I Lay My Head. So wrong it could actually be right. (22 May) Wild Beasts…

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

18 Oct 2007

• LCD Soundsystem James Murphy (pictured) is no stranger to these parts and this welcome return visit comes hot on the heels of their Stateside tour supporting Arcade Fire... Barrowland, Glasgow, Mon 22 Oct. (Rock & Pop) • Arcade Fire... who, luck…

The best new bands to check out

4 Oct 2007

Akron/Family Signed to Michael Gira’s Young God Records in the US – one-time home of such fellow avant-folk weirdos as Devendra Banhart – New York quartet Akron/Family are probably strange enough to even freak out their own stable mates, prone as they…