Chop Up!

Damon Albarn will bring his Honest John's Chop Up to Dublin's Vicar St on November 1st to help Choice Cuts celebrate 10 years. The line up features Tony Allen, Flea, Fatoumata Diawara, Kelan Phil Cohran Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Theo Parrish, Actress and more artists to be announced. Tix are on sale this Friday.

Damon was recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to create a new album for Oxfam in seven days.The DRC group includes Albarn , Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell (XL Recordings), Actress, Marc Antoine, Jo Gunton, Rodaidh McDonald, and Kwes. Check out a taster below

Hallo (clip - featuring Tout Puissant Mukalo) by DRC Music

Decisions

How to Dress Well delivers a stunning new e.p today titled Decisions on Tri Angle Records.It features 3 orchestral versions of tracks taken from his Love Remains LP and one spankin new one. Below is a behind the scenes video and interview with the Yours Truly crew. This is proper chills down the spine stuff : ) Enjoy!

Yourstru.ly Presents: How To Dress Well "Decisions" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Slow Motion

It took me a while to get into Animal Collective but once I gave them a blast I was hooked. Their front man Panda Bear has some wicked solo albums too. Check out an interview with the man himself and the video for his track Slow Motion from his excellent Tomboy album below.

Belong

I stumbled across these guys recently and they have a nice My Bloody Valentine vibe about them. From New Orleans Belong..

Trish Keenan R.I.P

Very sad news this week to hear that Trish Keenan from Broadcast had passed away. She had a beautiful and unique voice. R.I.P.

Limit To Your Love

Some beautiful music from Mr James Blake for a nice Sunday soundtrack. Big things are gonna happen for this man in 2011. Enjoy!

These Days

I discovered this track only recently when I flipped over Joy Division's "Love will tear us apart" single. "These Days" is a tune that just blew me away. How they did not think think was worthy to appear on "Unknown Pleasures" bewilders me. It shows how Joy Division were pioneers of electronic/indie music but it show even more what a genius their producer Martin Hannett was. Joy Division and Hannett were a dream combination in a pre pro tools era I find the way Hannett used Joy Division like his own instruments amazing. Check out "These Days" below.

These Days - Joy Division