Fuck Buttons

UK duo Fuck Buttons return this week (7/23) with their new record, Slow Focus. It's a great record of electronic psychedelia, which, like the new Jon Hopkins album, creeps up on you with surprisingly strong melodies, rather than being as immediate as, say, Disclosure...

Noisy UK duo Fuck Buttons are set to return with Slow Focus, their first new album in four years, which will be out July 24 on the ATP label...

Blanck Mass (aka Benjamin John Power aka 1/2 of Fuck Buttons) is heading to NYC this weekend for ATP NY, which goes down on Pier 36 from September 21 - 23...

words and pics, additional Sonic Youth pics Unlike Friday (and Sunday), people weren't throwing devil horns on Saturday. With the Saturday lineup dominated by indie acts, including many longstanding ones (Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Dave Pajo/Papa M, Shellac, The Breeders, etc etc) there were less shirts that repped the heaviest of the heavy, like Dystopia, Grief and Electric Wizard, and more "vintage look" Judas Priest and Dio with bowl cuts, and 80's style librarian glasses...

Kurt Vile at Brooklyn Masonic Temple (more by Lori Baily) It's almost final and official, ATP New York is ruling. The best Hudson Valley festival to ever be held in a 1960s time capsule has announced the "final additions" including two comedians chosen by Syd Butler of Les Savy Fav (more to come...

DOWNLOAD: Oneohtrix Point Never - Pelham Island Road (MP3) They make noise; sometimes the soundtrack to a heart-pounding mental breakdown, sometimes that of eyes-rolling-back blissed-out ecstasy, but they make noise...

DOWNLOAD: Holy Fuck - Latin America (MP3) Holy Fuck in Austin (more by Tim Griffin) Holy Fuck played a show at the Cake Shop on April 23rd...

"The 2010 Lollapalooza line-up is official: Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, and Phoenix will headline, joined by Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, and The Black Keys...

Boris @ ATP NY 2009 (more by Ryan Muir) There aren't many music news items that get me excited as ATP lineup additions. This one is no different...

All Tomorrow's Parties will return to Kutsher's Country Club, Monticello for the third ATP New York festival over Labor Day weekend, running from Friday 3rd September - Sunday 5th September...