Exhibition set to run from August 11 to August 29

Charity campaign will help raise awareness and support for young people with cancer

-- Earlier this year, Devon Clifford, the drummer for the Canadian dance-punk band You Say Party! We Say Die!, died of a brain hemorrhage after an onstage collapse. The band will continue on without him, but they've changed their name, quite understandably, to simply You Say Party. (No exclamation mark, even.) Also, keyboardist Krista Loewen has left the band. Robert Andow and Bobby Siadat, members of the Vancouver band Gang Violence, will take over on keyboards and drums.

-- As previously reported, Admiral Radley is a new band made up of members of Grandaddy and Earlimart, including former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle. They'll release I Heart California, their first album as a band, on July 13, and you can hear the title track here.

-- On July 13, the Canadian indie duo PS I Love You will self-release their self-titled debut EP. It'll include an early version of the BNM'ed track "Facelove".

-- Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia has maybe the coolest name I've ever seen on a live music venue. The space (an actual fortress,...

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Group lend their support by providing the soundtrack to a new charity video

The Maccabees, Local Natives and Ellie Goulding also offer a helping hand for special pop-up shop

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Are you 16 or over?The band are playing a show at the Village Underground in London on June 18th and the only way to get tickets is to win them from here:http://stage.outsideline.co.uk/becks/facebook/...

Madness, Crystal Castles and The Horrors also feature at the Murcia festival

It might be more than 30 years old, but krautrock, Germany's experimental music from the 1970s, still has a freshness that sixth-generation British indie bands can't match

It began out of nothing, was given a joke name, and became the pop influence du jour: krautrock, kosmische musik, elektronische musik, or whatever you wish to call German experimental rock from the 1970s. Cited and adapted by artists as diverse as Q-Tip, the Horrors (whose epic Sea Within a Sea convincingly updates that Neu! motorik), Foals, Deerhunter, even Kasabian and Oasis (but don't let the last put you off).

The list is so long as to be almost meaningless, but a new Soul Jazz compilation, Elektronische Musik, reinforces just how wild German music from that period was. It also raises the question of why kosmische musik, which has impacted on pop for the last 30 years (just think of Afrika Bambaataa, Brian Eno and David Bowie, to name but three), is still so popular today.
 
It began out of the revolutionary student movement of 1967 and 1968: one strand formed communes and became political activists, others began to attempt a new German music that was not schlager, the mainstream music of the day. Their quest was given added impetus by the fact that many of these war babies knew their history had been erased. They had nothing, but that meant freedom.

This was their year zero. Informed by Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Mothers of Invention, the Velvet Underground...

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