John Digweed - Bedrock Eleven

Bedrock Records lays out the 11th installment of its eponymous mix series, this time with label co-owner John Digweed behind the blender. Bedrock Eleven collects a wealth of fresh gems: previously unreleased tracks from people like Mutant Clan, Guy Gerber, James Zabiela, Giorgos Gatzgristos, Pete Heller, Guy J and Digweed himself are gathered on the first two discs, while the third shines with all things spanking new.

To mark the release of Bedrock Eleven, Digweed has put together a special podcast, featuring highlights from Disc 1 - download that beauty here. Look out for Disc 2 in the next few weeks!

Bedrock Eleven hits the streets on 12 October.
Catch John Digweed on our shores when he plays Zouk at the Esplanade Waterfront on 27 September! Woo!
www.johndigweed.com

HEALTH - "Die Slow"

The kids writhe, crowd-surf, die bloody and slow.



www.healthnoise.com

Chairlift - "Ceiling Wax"

Interpretive dance routine - complete with garbage bags! that move! - from Brooklyn's indie pop tarts.



www.chairliftmusic.com

Nirvana's 20-Year-Old Bleach

You know these guys, just as you should know about their sludge-y debut, Bleach - chaotically recorded in 1989 in 30 hours for only $606, gifting us grunge buttons like "Love Buzz", "Negative Creep" and "Blew". Since it's turning 20 this year, its mother Sub Pop is giving it the full reissue treatment. Bleach: Deluxe Edition will come re-mastered, in sweet-ass packaging (Double LP! White vinyl! 48-page booklet!) and bunched with a raw and rare live performance from 1990 at Pine Street Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Relive it.

Bleach: Deluxe Edition gets a release on 3 November. If you can't wait, you can pre-order it by asking Sub Pop.

Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words"

Hot and fresh goodness from Radiohead's oven! Get it here for free - of course you want to!

www.radiohead.com

The Horrors - "Mirror's Image"

The Horrors, in all their art-schooled psychedelic glory.



www.thehorrors.co.uk

Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure

Somewhere between pain and pleasure lies Temporary Pleasure, a concept Simian Mobile Disco are exploiting to the max on their sophomore album. This one digs deep down into James and Jas' tech house and electro roots to emerge with more things for the dance floor. Cue:



Temporary Pleasure is at all good record stores.
www.simianmobiledisco.co.uk

Noise Singapore 2010

Noise Singapore basically does what it says on the tin in its efforts to create the biggest racket for our young and budding creative talents. An initiative of the National Arts Council, Noise hits the road for its fifth year to drum up entries for its 2010 edition. The new year will see Noise offering a Noise Singapore Prize of a $5000 grant to the top artist in each open category. So whether you're wielding a guitar, paintbrush or camera, sign up, make some noise and get yourself heard.

Youths under 35, drop your submissions for art & design, music and photography at www.noisesingapore.com from now till 1 November.

Also don't miss these upcoming Noise roadshows -
19 August: Lasalle College of the Arts
21 August: Republic Polytechnic
1 to 3 September: School of Art, Media and Design, Nanyang Technological University

For the scoop on Noise's other creative workshops, showcases and apprentice programs, check up on www.noisesingapore.com.

Scenes From Summer Sonic '09

We went there and saw these things.

Soulwax, live and dangerous

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, 4eva

The Flaming Lips' stage set

More Sonic Youth, from the back this time

"Death Valley 69", followed by this

No Age - Losing Feeling EP

The LA noiseniks who gave us last year's triumphant racket, Nouns, are sneaking back with their Losing Feeling EP. There, you may find more pre-recorded arrangements, samples and other magic moments like that. This stuff is due out in October, but if you leave your email at the Sub Pop website, you'll get to hear all of it now. You might like that.

www.myspace.com/nonoage

Muse - The Resistance

Muse is back, y'all! Oh yes, these wielders of epic chords and chops have lined up album number five, The Resistance, and you can already view its artwork up there. Get ready for more space rock symphonies and stadium-sized wails, all finely and loudly produced to set your emotions on the edge. And resistance will be futile, haha.

The Resistance drops on 14 September.
www.muse.mu

Gossip - "Love Long Distance"

Gossip, high on helium and on skates.



www.thegossipmusic.com

It Might Get Loud

In view of the dearth of Jack White news on here, check this: he, along with The Edge (U2) and Jimmy Page (your grandfather), will be the subjects of It Might Get Loud, a documentary that traces their various inspirations and learning curves. These guitar virtuosos will be waxing lyrical on their weapons of choice and how they each developed their own sounds and styles, with the whole thing culminating in one big guitar jam - of course.

Keep your fingers crossed for a local release! But for now, you can view its trailer and be its Facebook friend here -
www.itmightgetloudmovie.com

Mambo Jambo: Now & Forever

For those who live for the mid-week teenage line-dancing party that is Mambo Jambo, you're in luck. Zouk and its resident DJs have compiled Mambo Jambo: Now & Forever, a giant three CDs' worth of retro classics, from people like Rick Astley, Cyndi Lauper, Bananarama, A-ha and the like, to recall the best of Mambo Jambo (17 years, and counting!). And since this thing is almost three hours long, that's more than enough time to get your dance moves sorted. Hells yeah.

Get Mambo Jambo: Now & Forever at all good record stores.
www.zoukclub.com

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Since we last heard from these boys, they've grown up nicely and stopped cutting their hair, while keeping the fine company of one Josh Homme. Yup, the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman loves them Monkeys enough to have half-produced their third album, Humbug (the other half is produced by familiar face, James Ford). Surely some hard rock potential is bound to be fulfilled here. Just have a gander at their first single "Crying Lightning" and prep yourself for something along those lines.

Humbug hits the stores around 24 August.
www.arcticmonkeys.com

The Fiery Furnaces - "Charmaine Champagne"

The Friedberger siblings' latest idiosyncratic statement, I'm Going Away, saw them chirpily proffer more of their quirky pop - now relatively stripped back, but no less breezy and catchy. It's an effect they love so much that they're both recording separate cover/tribute versions of/to that album. What? Yes. For something equally arty, watch their Phillip Niemeyer-directed, Mike Reddy and Hannah Cole-illustrated video for sexy new tune "Charmaine Champagne".



www.thefieryfurnaces.com

Clash The Disko Kids - Hot Hot Summer Mix

Here to answer all your electro/dubstep/mash-ups prayers this summer are Clash The Disko Kids, the local trio who've got their hands on decks and fores to the floor. Check out their Hot Hot Summer Mix, collecting hits and remixes ranging from Major Lazer to Zombie Nation, Jack Beats to Prodigy. Hotx2, indeed! But enough from us, help yourselves to it -

clashthediskokids.mypodcast.com

The Big Pink

Straight up from London's fuzzy underground comes The Big Pink, two English dudes with a shared love for My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain and other things like that. Their sound naturally recalls that same woozy and distorted dream pop, channelled through their dark hearts to emerge as a big and bewitching narcotic. See how they do it on "Velvet".



Look out for their debut, A Brief History Of Love, in September.
www.musicfromthebigpink.com

JUICE August: Peter Doherty

In your next JUICE, Peter Doherty tells us:
"You don’t have to be a musician to have a good old knees-up. What was it someone said to me the other day? This girl I was trying to talk to, she said to me, 'Oh, my daddy was the greatest musician there never was.' I said, 'What do you mean?' She said, 'He was a hardcore junkie and he just let the drugs get the better of him and he never fulfilled his potential. But man, he was the best.' And I’m thinking, 'Well...'"

More in JUICE August, which hits the streets next week.

The Dead Weather Explain And Apologise

Spend the next seven minutes of your life well -



www.thedeadweather.com

The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights

After bringing us the bright lights of Blackpool, The White Stripes have now gone over to the other side of the pond to light up and film their journey across the Great White North. As part of their Icky Thump tour package, the Canadian trek saw the duo play in every province, on top of highlights like their surprise gigs on a bus and in a bowling alley, as well as their one-note show (the note was F) and 10th anniversary concert. Expect all that, plus some backstage FUN, on this Emmett Malloy-directed doc, which will more than likely deliver the goods.

The film hits the Toronto Film Festival in September. If you can't be there, cross your fingers for a DVD release. See more teasers.
www.whitestripes.com

Has - "Inaia"

See this guy here? He's our bro, Has, one of Singapore's main deck hands who's been actively molding nu jazz and broken beats into submission. He now comes armed with "Inaia", his prime production especially tailored with a smooth 4/4 beat, cool grooves and warm stabs. It'll make your night (and day), whether it's being spent on the dance floor, in your bedroom or on the street.

Get it on Onewithmusic.
www.rawjak.com

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Snakesweat

Watch the Yeah Yeah Yeahs play act, in this Barney Clay-directed short, as The Scientist, The Philosopher and The Black Widow, who engage in an assortment of surreal and bizarre activities on drugs their quest to "the purity of truth". Your mind will never be the same.



From www.pitchfork.com/tv.

The Observatory - Dark Folke

Dark Folke is The Observatory's fourth album, with these local sound samplers once again straddling new musical horses. Recorded in Norway, the album is a fluid extension of the band's prog ambitions into starker and darker depths. Accompanying the record is a luxe picture book, with illustrations by Justin Bartlett aka Vberkvlt (whose done work for Sunn O)))). The overall effect is stunningly noir, like your worst type of nightmare soundtracked by elves playing magical harps.

Get Dark Folke at all good music stores.
www.theobservatory.com.sg

Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts

Once purveyors of that clattering punk racket (on What's The Time Mr Wolf?), Noisettes have now refined their act to take in stuff like soul, disco and just the smidgen of electro on Wild Young Hearts. It's not the most adventurous of outings, but all the better to showcase frontwoman Shingai Shoniwa's unparalleled set of pipes. See how she flies on this solid live rendition of lead single "Don't Upset The Rhythm".



Wild Young Hearts is now out everywhere.
www.noisettes.net

Rock Candy

To celebrate a decade of Coachella, the most indie-fashionable thing to take place in the LA desert, the NY Times recently gathered a couple of indie darlings, stuck them in expensive bohemian gear and got Sebastian Kim to capture them on film. The results are a lush, monochrome spread of people like The Kills, No Age, Lykke Li, Vivian Girls, White Lies, Beirut and Late Of The Pier lolling about the desert looking their most elegant/wasted.

See more on how this entire business turned out here.

Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong

One half '60s girl group and the other half punk, Vivian Girls make a sweet lo-fi garage pop sound about all things terribly teenage. It's an equation that's worked on their eponymous debut, charming the pants of anyone who's ever been young. And they're doing more of it on their sophomore, Everything Goes Wrong. "When I'm Gone" is already getting an airing, showcasing a harder and fuzzier edge, the girls' noise-laden harmonics bordering on divine. This is one beat that's definitely happening.

Everything Goes Wrong is due for an August release.
www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc

Julian Casablancas

You're just gonna have to wait a little longer for a new Strokes album, because right now, Julian Casablancas (the sexy one) is just a tad busy with his newest project. Yes, the guy's gone solo, with his debut, Phrazes For The Young, yez, already set for an Autumn release. Look out for tracks like "River of Brake Lights", "Glass" and "Ludlow St". But if you can't wait - naturally, because this is freaking cool - then feast on this preview.



Also check out other solo fliers from The Strokes:
Albert Hammond Jr, Little Joy and Nickel Eye.
www.juliancasablancas.com

The Dead Weather - Horehound

Of all of Jack White's side projects, The Dead Weather has the best swagger . It's also got the sickest names in the biz, from Alison Mosshart (The Kills) to Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age, The Raconteurs) to Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs). Nice scowls, guys! Together, these kids are resurrecting blues straight out of the swamp, with enough grind and grit to put the dirt back on your bumper. Look into their debut, Horehound, for reference.

Also look at their latest video for "Treat Me Like Your Mother", directed by Jonathan Glazer (who's helmed vids for Radiohead and Jamiroquai), which is all kinds of splendid - even the bullet holes.



Horehound is now available at your favourite record store.
www.thedeadweather.com

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

The most bizarre thing to happen to Earth and Oklahoma, The Flaming Lips will be coughing up album number 12, Embryonic, on us soon. This time, Wayne Coyne has settled on nothing less than a double album, so that there's "more room to be strange". Of course: the more the merrier. He's also got Karen O, MGMT and "a weird mathematician guy from Germany" guesting on it. And that's just good company.

Embryonic is set for a September release.
www.flaminglips.com

La Roux

It's finally here: La Roux's sizzling hot debut has just dropped so get cued in. La Roux is Elly (with the hair) and Ben (producer/composer), and their music unabashedly recalls the big bleep of '80s synth-pop. That sound may be all kinds of hyped up right now, but in La Roux's hands, it finds a new warmth and class. In any case, that haircut had to come from somewhere, eh?

Also check her sweet acoustic rendition of "Bulletproof" at last weekend's Glastonbury Festival.



La Roux's self-titled debut is now out everywhere.
www.laroux.co.uk

MGMT - "Kids"

Complete with scary monsters, Mark Twain quote, Joanna Newsom and possibly, one traumatised kid.

Jemina Pearl

As you might have heard, Be Your Own Pet is no more (RIP), but its frontispiece, the irrepressible Jemina Pearl, has taken things into her own hands with a brand spanking new solo project. With John Eatherly (also BYOP), she's re-emerged with a couple of stunning live shows and now, three mint tracks, that are a little garage, a little melodic and a little Karen O. And hell, if it's good enough for Thurston Moore, it's good enough for you too.

www.myspace.com/jeminapearl

Emmy The Great

Emmy The Great looks every inch the gamine folkie, but her still waters belie dark and twisted tales. Prone to tunes like "Edward Is Dedward" (where a woman attends her lover's funeral only to end up in bed with his father) and lines like "Every time that I think of you, I have to go to the toilet", the girl has built a steady portfolio juxtaposing her soothe-swaying guitar sound with an unblinking honesty. Sugar and spice, indeed. You can now hear it all on Emmy's debut, First Love, which will charm, shock, make you laugh and break your heart all that once. And well, they don't call her The Great for nothing.

Get First Love at all good record stores.
www.emmythegreat.com

The Dex Romweber Duo + Jack White

In his bid to drop in on every band in America, Jack White has recently joined the ranks of The Dex Romweber Duo. The rockabilly siblings have enlisted the guitar, bass and saw-playing services of White for two tracks, recorded in his Nashville studio. On top of all that, Dex has been a long-time hero of Jack, who refers to Dex as the rock 'n' roll underground's best kept secret, so you can imagine the kind of fun he was having. The 7" single of "Last Kind Word Blues", with a B-side of "The Wind Did Move" is dropping sometime in late May.

More from Jack White will come from The Dead Weather's June debut, Horehound. A White Stripes release is also slated for a 2010 release. The man obviously doesn't sleep much.

www.myspace.com/dexterromweberduo

Local Sound Art

If you think Singapore's music is somewhat nothing beyond the box, we will prove you wrong. Introducing sound artist, Sonicbrat, who has been doing us proud, but quietly and humbly. Having been influenced largely by the ambient grooves of Brian Eno, Thom Yorke and Kraftwerk, the lad musician has for the past couple of years, shared a perfoming moment with Radiohead at Sziget Festival, performed in various other stints throughout Europe, and of course, was Singapore's representative to the esteemed Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) in Barcelona last year.

He will be performing at SONAR Festival in Barcelona (June 18-20) this year at an arena curated by RBMA so if you're in Spain this summer, please wave a national flag and be proud.

www.myspace.com/sonicbrat

www.myspace.com/s0nicbrat

http://www.sonar.es/

Julian Plenti

We haven't heard from Interpol in a bit, but the men of Interpol have nonetheless been busy. Carlos has been occupied with his new film composer persona (complete with face hair), Sam has been playing with his band Magnetic Morning, and now, Paul Banks is braving solo waters as Julian Plenti (yes, he's acquired the face hair too). An album, Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper, is slated for an August release, containing songs that Paul has described as "cocky" and "sexy". If the dark and forlorn sample heard on his website is anything to go by, Paul is obviously just bragging. In any case, we love this.

www.julianplenti.com

Gossip - "Heavy Cross"

Welcome back the Gossip. In the past two years, their Standing In The Way Of Control has scored a major share of plaudits for its sassy dance-punk, frontwoman Beth has become an icon of femme power and the trio has found itself in the company of Columbia Records. Their first major label album will be Music For Men (produced by Rick Rubin), due out sometime next month. But in the meantime, you can make do with "Heavy Cross", a glorious and crisp four minutes worth of big ass disco. Nice.

www.thegossipmusic.com

Lissy Trullie

She's hip, she's punchy, and she makes a pop sound so loud it borders on punk. And oh, did we mention Lissy Trullie is so very hip? Even Albert Hammond Jr has got nothing on her. Just check out her mushroom haircut + leather jacket combo doing a brilliant re-tooling of Hot Chip's "Ready For The Floor". It's pretty massive and you're welcome to fall hard for it.

www.myspace.com/lizzytrullie

Franz Ferdinand's Blood

If you thought Franz Ferdinand's latest album, Tonight, was just more dance-punk under a new heading, then you'll learn to love the band's dub version of the album. It's called Blood, been lovingly treated by producer Dan Carey (who apparently has some kind of Jamaican perspective after working with Lee "Scratch" Perry) and is Alex Kapranos' favourite way of listening to the album. The bass is heavy on this one and the angular riffing is still as liberal, so don't worry, you'll still get to move.

Blood hits stores in June.
www.franzferdinand.co.uk

'90s Stuff: Sleeper

Remember Sleeper? They came to us via Britpop, made three solid albums, one very cool video ("Inbetweener"), and could almost pass off as Blondie on that Trainspotting soundtrack. Frontwoman Louise Wener did a fine job balancing eloquence, candour and sass ("It was OK for Shaun Ryder to be laddish and drunk all the time, and when one of the Manic Street Preachers said he hoped Michael Stipe would die of AIDS, the reaction was: 'Naughty!' But when I wrote a song like "Delicious" ["We should both go to bed till we make each other sore"], I was painted as a whore"), and on a long enough timelime, could probably out-cool Justine Frischmann. Sadly, Sleeper split early in the game and their great pop sound remains an underrated gem.

Today, Louise has turned her hand to literary concerns - she's written four novels and contributed to The Guardian. God knows what happened to the other guys, though. But Louise's articulate recounting of Britpop can be best viewed on the documentary, Live Forever. More on Sleeper can also be found here.

If you love Sleeper and other stuff that happened in the '90s, then stay tuned for JUICE's upcoming May issue, where we look back on flannel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joshua Tree and the rest of Generation X. It will be so romantic.

Matt And Kim

Remember how you have always wanted to form a band and actually have fun? Well, Brooklyn indiedancepunk duo, Matt and Kim did. And they did! Known to always keep that sunshine smile on no matter what they do, when they do it and where, the two decided to run down Times Square in NYC recently to get naked. And we love the ending. Here's the vid - http://vimeo.com/4266613

For more on Matt and Kim, check www.mattandkimmusic.com

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

I am sorry to hijack this debut content post but I think I should place this in and write something really nice about it because these kids are a great band. And this leads up to story on Brooklyn Bands we hope to churn out for the June issue. If you still think music's got hope then tune in to the pains of being pure at heart - http://www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com/

CD now available at HMV and all good music stores.

Oh, and they have a space in the May issue of JUICE, so please check that article out.