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Due to such enforced real-life distractions such as family commitments, holidays, Masters Applications and the likes of such things, this month

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If you know Modern Love, you know Miles Whittaker: working as MLZ, Millie, Suum Cuique and half of Demdike Stare, the Manchester producer has been a consistent (and consistently rewarding presence) on the label’s books.

Having recently released Faint Hearted - his first full-length as Miles - Whittaker has quietly snuck out an EP-length companion piece to the record, titled Unsecured. The collection runs to 30 minutes, and features four tracks of blasted ambient and techno. Where Faint Hearted saw Whittaker trying on an array of hats (the junglist’s cap on ‘Lebensform’; the techno-nerd’s tinfoil helmet on ‘Status Narcissism’; the ambient fan’s flowery coronet on ‘Lorian Dreams’), Unsecured is somewhat more focused in its interests. ‘Blatant Statement’ alloys crunching industrial breakbeat with some Apollo-approved synth pads; ‘Infinite Jest’, meanwhile, offers grit-flecked, greyscale dub.

Unsecured is available on 12″ now, courtesy ofModern Love. If you’ve a hankering for more blasted techno and brooding 4×4, head to our

It’s nigh-on-impossible to find anyone with a bad word to say about Spencer Hickman’s sterling reissue imprint Death Waltz Recording Co. 

Their discography is a doozy: in little over 18 months, they’ve put out a string of John Carpenter OSTs (Escape From New York, Halloween I-III, Prince Of Darkness, They Live), not to mention other archival releases from Antoni Maiovvi and Fabio Frizzi. With more discs – including their debut Hammer reissue, Harry Robinson’s Twins Of Evil soundtrack – on the boil, Hickman’s flexed his muscles on a skin-crawling cracker of a mix.

US horror magazine Fangoria have tapped up the label to produce a free-to-download mix. The 45-minute session, available to download below, is a macabre delight, oscillating from ultra-synthetic synth fare in the Howarth mould through acid through Goblin-indebted schlock rock. [via Self-Titled]

To celebrate his 53rd birthday, quondam Smiths warbler Morrissey has taken to his True To You site to launch an excoriating assault on the “pitiless atrocity of foie gras”. 

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

However, unsurprisingly, this most savage and cruel commodity continues to be the favorite “dish” of smiling mother-to-be Kate Muddleton (from whom, in fact, we expect no less.)

Foie gras production is illegal in the UK, yet the ever-so-correct Fortnum and Mason have found suppliers in France who will keep their shelves stocked – possibly with the hope that smiling Kate will wobble in and place an order for her unborn child.

Since Fortnum and Mason are now the only department store in London who are associated with the pitiless atrocity of foie gras, would you please write to them/contact them and exert pressure on them to stop selling such asavage beyond belief “product”.

Fortnum and Mason

181 Piccadilly

London W1A 1ER, England

Twitter: @FortnumandMason

http://www.fortnumandmason.com

thank you!

Interesting to see HRH Prince Charles – yes, he who craves to “appear on the front of the Daily Mail / Dressed in your Mother’s bridal veil?” – get a quiet compliment – not a courtesy extended to the recently d...

Best Fit favourite MØ paid a visit to London’s prestigious Maida Vale studios recently to cut a live session for new music torchbearer Huw Stephens, broadcast last night on BBC Radio 1.

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Caveman, who head out on tour with Rogue Wave this summer. just released their first new video from their second album for the track "In The City", Julia Stiles, Fran Kranz and Michael Cavadias included. Check it out with all tour dates below...

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Prince has shared the video for his most recent single,

Happy World Goth Day, everyone! No, really, this is a real thing. Since 2009, the goths of the world have come together on May 22nd to listen to 24 hours straight of The Cure.

In celebration of this most joyous of holidays, we’ve let our resident goth Lazen host today’s episode of Rock it Out! Blog. Among the headlines covered: CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry’s cover of Rage Against The Machine, Vampire Weekend debuting No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, and information on this year’s CBGBs Festival.

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Vampire Weekend @ Roseland (more by Robert Altman)

"Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires Of The City has entered the U.S. album chart at #1, selling nearly 135,000 copies since its May 14 release on XL Recordings.

This is the second time Vampire Weekend has achieved such an historic feat: Its sophomore album Contra also debuted at #1 in 2010, making this the first time an independent rock band has entered at #1 with two consecutive releases.

Modern Vampires Of The City also shatters the previous record for first week vinyl sales, moving nearly 10,000 units on vinyl alone and debuting at #1 on the Soundscan Vinyl Charts. Additionally, the band charted #1 at Indie, Alternative, Digital and of course the top 200."

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The TDE crew is the latest to jump on Rocko’s ubiquitous (and controversial) beat.

With Black Hippy set to launch the Good Kid M.A.A.D. City tour tonight in Las Vegas (dates below), Kendrick Lamar and friends jump on Childish Major’s stark, mournful beat. Kendrick has long been rumored to be next in line to remix the track, and he doesn’t disappoint.

Unlike the litany of remixes the song has seen (from A$AP Rocky and Wiz Khalifa, to name a few), Rocko has been totally excised from his own track, even as Future is around to drop one last chorus. Rick Ross, unsurprisingly, is nowhere to be found, and a few verses include nods to Rick’s regrettable lyrics. Listen below; it starts at about 1:18.