Four Tet

Spotify playlist: Young guns

The best tracks by young artists, featuring Prince, Depeche Mode, Laura Marling and more

3 Mar 2011

Spotify playlist: Young Guns Many artists spend years honing their craft, slowly carving out a reputation though relentless touring, learning as much as they can from serial failure and rejection. There are some however that just hit their stride…

Caribou, Four Tet, James Holden, Nathan Fake and Rocketnumbernine tour UK

Electronic/rock/dance quadruple header tours UK

16 Nov 2010

Sonic and mathematical sage Dan Snaith is busy browsing a Slow Food market in Italy. ‘It’s great – I’m in Torino!’ he beams, while The List languishes in the Central Belt rain. ‘We had an awesome gig last night. Now we’re eating bourgeois…

T in the Park 2010: Black Keys, Frightened Rabbit and Eminem

T in the Park blog

11 Jul 2010

Saturday 10th July For the obsessive music fan, it’s one of the eternal frustrations of festivals that sometimes the bands you love don’t get the attention they deserve. This was very much the case with Broken Social Scene, who took to the stage at…

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…

Four Tet

The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sun Mar 14 2010

22 Mar 2010

Things have gone well for Mr Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) this decade. Having started out as an acoustic guitar-loving ‘folktronica’ talent, he’s progressed through mix albums and collaborations to end up somewhere more grounded on latest album, There Is…

Five reasons to go and see Four Tet

5 Mar 2010

1: He knows a good collaboration when he sees one Whether performing with improvisational jazz drummer Steve Reid, collaborating with dubstep wonderboy Burial, making B-sides for Radiohead or remixing Nathan Fake, Boom Bip or Matthew Dear, Hebden’s…

Fence Homegame 2010

4 Mar 2010

You know you’re in safe hands when Fence Records are involved. And Fife’s weirdy, folky, lo-fi, indie, little bit electronic-y collective are once again taking over every gig space they can cram a stage into across Anstruther this year with a line-up…

Muse, Eminem and Kasabian are T in the Park 2010 headliners

The Prodigy, Jay-Z and Vampire Weekend also on Balado festival bill

23 Feb 2010

Muse, Eminem and Kasabian will headline the main stage at T In The Park 2010. Other major acts on the bill include Black Eyed Peas, The Prodigy and Jay-Z. The festival dates are Friday 9th. Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July 2010. The campsite is…

Fence Homegame 2010 line-up

20 Jan 2010

‘We’ve got the incredible Four Tet headlining on the Sunday night. His live sets are always spectacularly electric – so we’re really excited. Kieran has been to Homegame before, playing guitar as part of One Little Plane – so we’re delighted to have him…

Four Tet - There is Love in You

15 Jan 2010

(Domino) Thank you, Kieran Hebden, for the giddy homage to Jean-Michel Jarre. There is Love In You is Hebden’s fifth long-player under the quixotic Four Tet designate (he’s also an erstwhile member of post-rockers Fridge, an improv ally of…

Skeletons & the Kings of all Cities

24 Apr 2008

Leftfield weirdo popsters who have drawn comparisons to everyone from Sonic Youth to Boyz II Men. Matt Mehlen has drawn together a mixed bag of talents including classical horns, punk drummers, multiple guitars and more for a truly unique bombastic…

Also Released - Music

10 Apr 2008

USSA - The Spoils (Fuzz Artists Inc) Jesus Lizard’s Duane Denison and Ministry’s Paul Barker join forces in a new four-piece which is reminiscent of their previous endeavours but throws in added Killing Joke-esque bombast. Damn fine. Quentin Harris…

Trocabrahma

17 Jul 2007

TROCABRAHMA Latin sensation What do you get if you throw a bunch of top Brazilian and British musicians together? David Pollock finds out (Image: Os Mutantes) Thanks in no small part to the popularity of endearingly loud-mouthed São Paulo…