News featuring James Blake

Friday 24th May

• “Win Tickets to See Tame Impala, James Blake and Solange at Croatia’s FOR Festival”

  FOR—a new music-centric festival brought to you by Modular People—will take place on the scenic island of Hvar, Croatia, over the course of three days this June. The stacked lineup features Tame Impala, James Blake, … read more »

  Read the complete article at www.thefader.com

• “Mount Kimbie go beyond the afterparty”

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

• “Primavera Sound 2013 underway (stream it live now)”

  Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival kicked off yesterday (5/22) and it's currently streaming at the festival's YouTube channel. As of this post (around 4:20 EST on 5/23), Dinosaur Jr. are currently on and will be followed by The Postal Service, Grizzly Bear, Phoenix, and Animal Collective. Other bands streaming this weekend include The Jesus & Mary Chain, James Blake, Swans, Dead Can Dance, Wu-Tang Clan, Hot Chip, and more.

  Head to Youtube for the stream/full schedule, or watch the stream embedded below...

  Read the complete article at www.brooklynvegan.com

• “Vondelpark: Seabed”

  London trio offers grooves and hooks to spare on its debut LP, rising to the top of the post-xx fray.

  In the last few years, plenty of acts have politely shuffled into the space between that exists between, say, James Blake and the xx. That space, filled with pregnant silences and rippling bass and hushed vocals, has become vaunted real estate as dozens of groups seem to discover Burial and Voodoo at the same time, gently jockeying for position in one of the young decade’s singular musical trends. But the three young gentleman in London’s…

  Read the complete article at www.popmatters.com

Thursday 23rd May

• “James Blake, Live In Concert”

  Watch the singer perform 90 minutes of breathtakingly emotional music, recorded live at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Unpredictable and often mysterious, Blake's songs are intense and riveting, hopeful and thoughtful.

  Read the complete article at www.npr.org

• “Interview: James Blake”

  You can take this with you: He's a big fan of online chess.

  Read the complete article at consequenceofsound.net

Monday 20th May

• “Stream Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth”

  The London production duo Mount Kimbie came up making evocative post-dubstep dance music around the same time as James Blake, and there seems to be a pretty good chance that their long-awaited new album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, their first for a bigger label, could push them into Blake’s cultural circles. Whether or not [...]

  Read the complete article at stereogum.feedsportal.com

• “James Blake announces North American 2013 fall tour (dates)”

  James Blake at Terminal 5 earlier this month (more by Jono Bernstein)

  James Blake returned this year with his excellent new album, Overgrown, and has been touring in support of it. He recently wrapped up the North American portion of the tour which came to NYC for two Terminal 5 shows (and a DJ appearance) and he's now just announced another North American leg that will go down this fall and bring him back to Terminal 5 on November 6 and 7 for two more shows at the Manhattan venue. Tickets for those shows are not on sale yet go on sale Friday, May 31 at noon.

  Read the complete article at www.brooklynvegan.com

• “James Blake Announces North American Fall Tour”

  Good news if you missed out on James Blake's spring tour: the golden-throated UK tunesmith makes his way back to North America this fall. Blake revealed a number of new dates today (May 20) over on his website that confirm he'll be back our way by the end of October. The next North American leg of Blake's Overgrown trip kicks off in Los Angeles, but he'll make his way to both Montreal and Vancouver before closing the concert tour in Portland. You can see the North American dates down below, and check out his upcoming run of overseas performances over here. Tour dates: ...Read More

  Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

Sunday 19th May

• “Daft Punk: the midas touch”

  Daft Punk's new album is astoundingly ambitious, creating a frenzy even before it has appeared. On the eve of its release – and 20 years since they made their first record in their bedroom as teenagers – Dorian Lynskey gets beyond the helmets to talk to the notoriously shy French duo

  It is a peculiar experience meeting the most famous faceless musicians in the world. Daft Punk are certainly well known. Eight years after their last album, their influence can be felt throughout dance music and beyond. Their fourth release, Random Access Memories, is the most hysterically anticipated record in years: every tidbit disseminated online over the past two months has been scrutinised like a fragment of the true cross. At a point in their career when most bands are on a downward slope, Daft Punk have just celebrated their first number one single, "Get Lucky", and are somehow…

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk