As promised, last night’s episode of The Simpsons featured a cameo from Sigur Rós, along with original music from the band serving as the soundtrack. The episode saw Homer, Moe, and Lenny travel to Iceland in pursuit of Carl, who fled to the country with a winning lottery ticket. Sigur Rós appeared as animated characters during a gathering of local townspeople in Iceland (scroll to the 17:20 mark). Their music soundtracked several scenes, and they also reworked the show’s theme song for the end credits.

The episode is available to replay online through The Simpson‘s website. Also be on the lookout for a brief cameo from Björk and her swan dress (scroll to the 11:15 mark.)

According to Sigur Rós, with this episode the band has written and performed more original music for The Simpsons than any other outside band in the show

Krakow’s ever-stimulating Unsound Festival has announced its first acts for 2013.

Following last year’s investigation into ‘The End’, 2013′s umbrella theme has been confirmed as ‘Interference’ – a word encompassing the physics of sound, the interlocking mesh of digital signals at play in advanced society, and “the meaning of “underground” in today’s networked, commodified and data-driven world.”

Ambient music hero Robert Rich will be resurrecting his infamous 1980s “sleep concerts” concept, where lengthy ambient suites were played to sleeping or dozing audiences in San Francisco. Rich will perform one of these shows-cum-installations for the first time since 1996. Porter Ricks, responsible for the dub techno touchstone Biokinetics, will perform their first live show in many years, a major coup for the festival. Dylan Carlson’s almighty Earth will be showcasing their sludgy brand of country-inflected doom – somewhat unbelievably, the show will be their first ever performance on Polish territory.

Festival regular Monolake will present a new show, Lumière. Inspired by recent installation projects, the laser-assisted show promises “intense grids of bass and spectral noises.” Lovers Rock acolytes turned beefy shoe gazers King Mid...

Krakow’s ever-stimulating Unsound Festival has announced its first acts for 2013.

Following last year’s investigation into ‘The End’, 2013′s umbrella theme has been confirmed as ‘Interference’ – a word encompassing the physics of sound, the interlocking mesh of digital signals at play in advanced society, and “the meaning of “underground” in today’s networked, commodified and data-driven world.”

Ambient music hero Robert Rich will be resurrecting his infamous 1980s “sleep concerts” concept, where lengthy ambient suites were played to sleeping or dozing audiences in San Francisco. Rich will perform one of these shows-cum-installations for the first time since 1996. Porter Ricks, responsible for the dub techno touchstone Biokinetics, will perform their first live show in many years, a major coup for the festival. Dylan Carlson’s almighty Earth will be showcasing their sludgy brand of country-inflected doom – somewhat unbelievably, the show will be their first ever performance on Polish territory.

Festival regular Monolake will present a new show, Lumière. Inspired by recent installation projects, the laser-assisted show promises “intense grids of bass and spectral noises.” Lovers Rock acolytes turned beefy shoe gazers King Mid...

Hear a new track from the Hotflush boss, as premiered on Jackmaster’s Saturday night Radio 1 show.

Last we heard from Mr. Rose, he was going deep with December’s ‘Hardbody’ single. New track ‘August’ sees Scuba continuing in Personality mode, making effulgent house for big rooms. That said, ‘August’ marks a sideways step from ‘Talk Torque’/'Hardbody’, swapping scrubbed-up jack for glossy electro, 909 percussion palette and all. As per its title, ‘August’ should do well this summer, blessed as it is with an infectious hook straight out of the Joy O playbook.

No release date for the track as yet. Back in March, Scuba furnished Stateside fans with a new Hotflush compilation. Update.

Available on: Second Language Music LP

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Fade To Mind don Kingdom is celebrating the release of his new EP Vertical-XL this month (28 May) by giving away this swish Cassie edit, which you can download by heading over to his Soundcloud. Glittery and bolshy all at once, he brings in classic club melter Fogs about halfway through:

Hello. It's time to repress your debauched memories of the last few days and settle down for a brand new edition of DiS Does Singles.

This week Camera Obscura have penned a royally good track about unrequited affection, Laura Marling has harked back to her new folk guise with a Bruce Springsteen cover and Books Of Love are here with their first ever single of winsome retromania.

Also, Paramore have scooped Single of the Week. I apologise for nothing.

Single of the Week

Paramore - Still Into You (Atlantic)

Look officer, I know what this looks like and frankly I don't give a damn. 'Still Into You' graduated from the same irresistible school of upbeat pop as Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' and Robbie Williams' 'Candy'. It's relentlessly positive, unerringly infectious and too joyous to comprehend without the use of an exclamation mark!

By virtue of having a Hayley Willliams, Paramore have always been a different proposition to their emo contemporaries. Lacking the pomp of Fall Out Boy or the ceremony of My Chemical Romance, they trained their tunnel vision on conquering the world