Beirut, Perfume Genius and Gruff Rhys all confirmed for End of The Road Festival 2011.

Wooden Shjips – Vol. 2
Wooden Shjips’ sound is an archaic snub-nosed fuzzy roar that sounds older than its antecedents – The Doors, The Stooges, The Grateful Dead, Suicide – and Vol. 2, which collects a bunch of extra-album material and live tracks from the last couple of years, sounds exactly as you’d expect. Which is no bad thing really…

Wooden Shjips ready Vol.2
Wooden Shjips have announced plans to release a second compilation of their hard to find tracks, cunningly entitled Volume 2!
The Green Man Festival – Brecon Valley, 21st-23rd August 2009
TLOBF takes a trip to the Brecon Valley in Wales to witness one of the most impressive festival lineups 2009 has to offer.

Wooden Shjips – Dos
The Wooden Shjips’ manifesto is a simple one – to make fuzzed up improvisational psych rock, fuzzed up improvisational psych rock you can dance to. And to keep it simple, Dos is about as perfect a rendering of that ambition as you could hope for. It’s fuzzed up improvisational psych rock that you can bloody well dance to. Is that clear?

Wooden Shjips ‘Dos’ via Holy Mountain in May
Wooden Shjips have announced plans to release a new album in May via Holy Mountain. Expect more psychedelia but with an added groove.

Sonic Youth, MBV, Aphex Twin and Bloc Party annouced as headliners of Primavera
Check out the lineup for this years Primavera Festival. Full details in the official press blurb inside.
ATP Release The Bats – The Forum, London 30/10/08
TLOBF slips on a pig mask and heads down to The Forum for some spooky ATP shenanigans. Words by Ama Chana with photographs from Lucy Johnston.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
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