Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to play show at London's Cafe Oto
Kim Gordon is playing a duo show with Bill Nace – as Body/Head – at London’s Cafe Oto venue on Wednesday 22 February. The Sonic Youth member and Boston free noise icon Nace have released a cassette together on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label and contributed to an Ultra Eczema compilation, whipping up a processed [...]
Sunn 0)))'s Stephen O'Malley and Keiji Hano take up residencies at London's Cafe Oto
London’s foremost experimental music venue, Cafe Oto, has two particularly exciting series of events planned for 2012. The first is a run of concerts programmed by Sunn 0))) guitar hero Stephen O’Malley. The first event, which takes place on February 4, showcases the talent on Ideologic Organ, the label he runs through Vienna’s Editions Mego. In [...]
Grouper embarks on Violet Replacement European tour
Liz Harris aka Grouper will next month embark on an exhaustive – and no doubt exhausting – European tour, presenting a new live work, Violet Replacement. Unlike her usual song-based live shows, Violet Replacement is apparently “comprised of tape loops, field recordings and submerged atmospherics presented in a set of naturally resonant and specially customised [...]
Azari & III to play headline show at London's Heaven
Azari & III will play live at Heaven on Thursday 2 February. The Toronto duo of Dinamo Azari and Alixander III are set to bring their extended ensemble of players and personalities to the London venue for a headline performance. Not since early Hercules & Love Affair has a group brought such sparkle and pop [...]
Wu Tang's GZA to tour UK
Wu Tang Clan elder statesmen GZA will play five UK shows next month. The “head” of the group, as he was immortalized in the Wu’s classic debut album 36 Chambers, will start the run of shows at the O2 Academy in Sheffield in January 17, before running through Oxford, Liverpool and Bournemouth, and finally closing [...]