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Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys return with new material.

It’s been a while since we heard from the Arctic Monkeys, but they appeared for the first time in over a year in California last night, and quite surprisingly debuted a brand new track. Entitled ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ we would assume that it’s been plucked from their heavily rumoured but as-yet-unconfirmed 2013 album.

The track is a ragged, druggy slow-burner, hardly an obvious choice to lead into a new phase, but definitely an interesting one from a band that don’t appear to have much interest in being swept in by the regular musical tide. We could even say it almost sounds stylistically linked to previous collaborator Josh Homme’s

Halfway into their maiden year, Fabric’s label venture Houndstooth have announced details of HTH009.

Co-ordinated by Rob Booth of Electronic Explorations, Houndstooth has thrown its lot behind artists experimenting with darker strains of house, techno and drum’n'bass. Thus far, we’ve been furnished with an opening salvo from Objekt cohort and FACT mixer Call Super; King Cannibal side project House Of Black Lanterns released the varied Kill The Lights full-length; Dave Clarke’s went covert with the brooding _Unsubscribe_ project;  and new material has also dropped from

It’s been a whirlwind of a month for The National. In support of their Top Star-earning new album, Trouble Will Find Me, the band has appeared on Fallon and Letterman, participated in a Reddit AMA, performed

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May 31 will see baritone techno head Matthew Dear touching down for his sole UK show of 2013.

In order to celebrate their 1st birthday, promoters Peculiar will bring the Texan to an as-yet-unannounced London venue for an headline set. These days, Dear’s main gig is turning out romantic electro-pop under his own name, but he’s long earned his stripes as a techno producer. Whether working as False, Jabberjaw or, most notably, Audion, he’s proved a dab hand at switching between hard-edged 4×4 and softer fare. Backing up the Ghostly boss? Holic and Womb Tokyo selector Tomoki Tamura and Peculiar regular Ibellini.

Tickets and further information are available here. [via Resident Advisor]

If FACT TV has taught us one thing, its that our readers (or, erm, viewers) like to see how musicians make things.

Egyptian Lover playing his Roland TR-808 live through a hotel alarm clock is the most popular episode we

New London grime night Boxed returns this Friday, May 24, at Brixton’s Plan B.

Focused on the current wave of promising grime producers – and there are a lot of them, check Boxed resident Slackk’s monthly mixes for proof – and firmly repping South London despite a recent excursion to Shoreditch’s Plastic People, this edition of Boxed will feature residents Slackk, Mr. Mitch, Logos and Oil Gang – recently picked as one of our labels to watch in 2013 – alongside Flex FM DJ Grandmixxer.

You can check out full details of the night, plus win a competition to blag guestlist, vinyl and more, here.

Some tidbits from Nile Rodgers‘ talk at the International Music Summit in Ibiza have come trickling in through Twitter this morning. 

The most interesting of them refer to Rodgers’ future collaborations. Following his work on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, including the #1 single ‘Get Lucky’, Rodgers – who in the past has worked with the likes of David Bowie, Diana Ross and Peter Gabriel – has been in the studio with EDM poster boy Avicii, Rodgers describing him as “one of my favorite songwriting partners I’ve had in a long time. I have so much respect for him.”

Avicii has clearly been taking inspiration from the collaborators on Random Access Memories – it emerged earlier this week that he’s also been working with Giorgio Moroder. Also in the pipeline for Nile: a session with fast-rising UK duo Disclosure, and work with Chase & Status, Etienne Daho and David Guetta. Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Rodgers revealed that earlier this week he was “with David Guetta writing a song [they've also been having lunch meetings together]. It was unbelievable, we went until 2 in the morning, and Arthur Baker and Taylor Dayne popped by – it felt like it was if we were back in the ’80s. And we laughed and said,

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Here’s some intriguing news regarding this summer’s biggest “musical by a pair of middle-aged men” that seems to have slipped under the radar in the last week. 

As evidenced by everything from those fawning Collaborators clips through to its atavistic lyric sheet, Random Access Memories is an instrumental record through-and-through; out with computers, in with analogue kit and good honest fretwork. As MTV note, however, Messrs Bangalter and de Homem-Christo haven’t completely given up on the club producer model.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1′s Pete Tong at the start of the week, the pair revealed that they’ll be producing their own remixes of RAM tracks in the coming months. According to Bangalter, this will mark the pair’s first proper excursion into the selfie remix:

“We’re working on some mixes ourselves. So, yes, there will probably be Daft Punk mixes of Daft Punk. Usually, we never mix ourselves, that’s something we feel we’re interested in doing this time.”

The first track the pair will tackle is ‘Get Lucky’; according to Ba...

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