Southbound Festival: Busselton, WA

Southbound Festival takes place at the Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton, Western Australia over the weekend of 4th / 5th January. The line-up features:

...Two Door Cinema Club
...DJ Nu Mark
...Django Django
...Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

www.southboundfestival.com.au

Field Day Sydney on New Years Day

Field Day takes place on The Domain in Sydney, Australia on New Years Day, and features a host of artists from Primary Talent & Decked Out, many of whom are also playing at Summadayze in Melbourne, on the same day...

...Two Door Cinema Club
...Mark Ronson (DJ Set)
...Django Django
...Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
...Erol Alkan
...Booka Shade
...DJ Nu Mark
...Jesse Rose
...Aeroplane
...Hudson Mohawke

www.fielddaynyd.com.au

Summadayze: Australian Tour

The Summadayze / Summerfieldayze Australian festival tour begins in Adelaide tomorrow, and visits Melbourne, Gold Coast and Perth. Featured on the bill are Primary Talent / Decked Out artists:

...Mark Ronson (DJ Set)
...Booka Shade
...Erol Alkan
...Hudson Mohawke
...Aeroplane
...Jesse Rose

www.futureentertainment.com.au/summadayze

Hadouken!: New Album & UK Tour

Hadouken! release their first album in three years on 18th February 2013, entitled 'Every Afternoon', on their own label Surface Noise Recordings. It will feature their recent singles 'Parasite' and 'Bad Signal'.
The band will be on tour throughout the UK in April.

www.facebook.com/hadoukentheband

SPIN: Electronic Dance Music Top 20

SPIN have announced their Electronic Dance Music Top 20 albums for 2013, which includes several Primary artists:

...#11: TNGHT 'TNGHT EP'
...#17: HUORATRON 'Cryptocracy'
...#18: BOYS NOIZE 'Out of the Black'

www.spin.com/articles/best-dance-electronic-EDM-albums-2012

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Half Moon Run: Sign to Glassnote Records

New York, NY- Glassnote Entertainment Group is excited to introduce the newest addition to the independent label's roster with the global signing of Montreal based band, Half Moon Run.

Half Moon Run is vocalist/guitarist/drummer Devon Portielje, vocalist / guitarist / keyboardist Conner Molander and keyboardist / vocalist / drummer Dylan Phillips. Together, the trio writes unique songs with complex arrangements -- fusing together restless elements of indie, rock and folk and combining rhythmic harmonies with delicate guitar lines and a hint of warm electronica. After seeing Half Moon Run's incendiary live show in Montreal, Brooklyn Vegan described: "the Montreal trio match songwriting (and harmonies) of '60's folk rock with the atmospherics of Radiohead... instantly impressed."

Half Moon Run has spent the past six months touring the world with the likes of Metric in North America, Patrick Watson in the UK and Europe, as well as playing festivals such as Iceland Airways and Inrocks Festival in Paris. Half Moon Run is currently preparing to release their album 'DARK EYES' in the United States on Glassnote Records.

Half Moon Run will make their return to US soil for the 2013 SXSW Music Festival in March. Full details on confirmed shows will be announced shortly.

www.indica.mu/en/news/half-moon-run-signs-to-glassnote-2

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Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire Sold Out

Django Django have had an eventful year to say the least and it's not quite over, this Friday December 21st, headlining a sold out show at Shepherd's Bush Empire and are joined by a number of friends; DJ sets from Bullion and John Maclean as well as live sets from Egyptian Hip Hop and Gulp.

Attached is Django Django's track 'Love's Dart' as reworked by Egyptian Hip Hop.

www.djangodjango.co.uk

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iTunes: 12 New Artists for 2013

iTunes have chosen the dozen new artists that they will be championing in 2013.
They include, from the Primary roster: Azealia Banks and The 1975.

www.iTunes.com/NewArtists2013

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• The 1975

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Jesus Jones on UK Tour

Jesus Jones join forces with Pop Will Eat Itself and The Wonder Stuff, for a UK tour this week. Amazingly, this is the first time that all three bands have played on the same bill! Hows that for an Xmas present?

www.jesusjones.com

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UKF Bass Culture NYE at Brixton Academy

UKF Bass Culture's New Years Eve event, will take place at O2 Brixton Academy, and features a selection of Primary Talent artists including:
...DJ Fresh
...Drumsound & Bassline Smith
...Boy Kid Cloud
...Rollz
...True Tiger

www.ukfbassculture.com

Boy Kid Cloud: Free Download

Boy Kid Cloud continues to push the envelope with each release, perhaps never more so than with his bass heavy cover of the Prince classic 'I Would Die 4 U' which he's released as a free download.
Expect a new EP from Boy Kid Cloud on Inspector Dubplate and Gemini's Inspected label early next year. Londoners can catch him at UKF's NYE show at Brixton Academy alongside the likes of DJ Fresh, Chase & Status, True Tiger, Mistajam, Delta Heavy and more.

www.facebook.com/boykidcloud

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Noel Gallagher: Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts Line Up

Noel Gallagher, a longstanding supporter of the charity, was asked to get involved in curating the shows by Teenage Cancer Trust patron and The Who front man, Roger Daltrey CBE. Roger, currently on tour with The Who in America has been the driving force behind the concerts which have raised over 15 million for Teenage Cancer Trust since they began in 2000.
This is the first time Roger Daltry has handed over the role of curating the series of concerts.

March 2013
Tuesday 19 - Ryan Adams & Beth Orton.
Wednesday 20 - Russell Brand & Noel Fielding.
Thursday 21 - Primal Scream.
Friday 22 - Kasabian.
Saturday 23 - Noel Gallagher, and Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon.
Sunday 24 - Rizzle Kicks & Labrinth.

www.teenagecancertrust.org

• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
• Rizzle Kicks

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• Charlie Renton
• Peter Elliott
• Eileen Mulligan

Ron Sexsmith: Free Download 'She Does My Heart Good'

A new Ron Sexsmith original song 'She Does My Heart Good' will be made available as a free download from www.ronsexsmith.com on 10th Dec '12 at 3pm GMT. The beautifully realised simple love song was one of the first to be written for Ron's new Mitchell Froom produced album 'Forever Endeavour' which is released on Feb 4, 2013 on Cooking Vinyl.

Says Ron: "It's pretty much a straight-up love song about the wonderful effect another person can have on your mental state."

'Forever Endeavour' is Ron's 12th studio album and features another batch of deftly poetic, gently affecting songs that perfectly distil the pitfalls of being human.

Ron will play his biggest show to date when he headlines London's Royal Albert Hall on 7th March '13.

www.ronsexsmith.com

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Rolling Stone: 25 DJs That Rule The Earth

Rolling Stone magazine's list of '25 DJs That Rule The Earth' includes Daft Punk, Porter Robinson, A-Trak, Bassnectar and Boys Noize, from the Decked Out and Primary Talent rosters.

www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-25-djs-that-rule-the-earth-20121109

Two Fingers: Dj Mag Cover

Amon Tobin as his alter-ego Two Fingers is the cover star of this month's DJ Mag.

Amon Tobin presents the next brutalist masterpiece wired up under his Two Fingers guise, 'Vengeance Rhythm'. A low-slung exercise in violence, brooding power and pure production smarts, in the words of a recent Resident Advisor feature, it's "a little like dubstep built on an interplanetary scale."

www.bigdada.com/artist.php?id=83

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Rachel Zeffira: Debut Album 'The Deserters'

Rachel Zeffira's debut album 'The Deserters' is released today through RAF Records. She will be touring the UK and Ireland in April 2013.

www.facebook.com/rachelzeffira

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Artrocker Award Winners 2012

The Artrocker Awards took place at Seabright Arms in London yesterday, and there were a couple of Primary Talent winners.

Gio-Goi BAND OF THE YEAR
...Django Django

The Deezer ALBUM OF THE YEAR Award
...'Django Django' by Django Django

The Olympus VIDEO OF THE YEAR
...'Why You So Cold?' by Wet Nuns

www.artrocker.tv

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• Serena Parsons

Photek: Nominated for Grammy Award

Photek's remix of 'Lie Down In Darkness' from Moby's latest album 'Destroyed' has been nominated in the 'Best Remixed Recording (non-classical)' category of the 2013 Grammy Awards.

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 10, 2013, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

www.photek.fm

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DJ Fresh: 'Gold Dust' (TC Remix)

This is the TC remix of DJ Fresh's single 'Gold Dust'. Following on the release of his new album 'Nextlevelism', DJ Fresh is back with the Shy FX Re-Edit of 'Gold Dust' and remixes from TC, Kutz, Riddim Commission, Steve Smart & Westfunk and Max Polyphonic.

'Gold Dust' (Shy FX Re-Edit) is out now on Ministry of Sound Recordings.

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• TC X

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• Nick Reddick

Calyx & TeeBee: Drum & Bass Arena Awards

Calyx & Teebee picked up Best Track ('Elevate This Sound'), Best Video ('Pure Gold') and Best Producer at last night's Drum & Bass Arena Awards at London's Brixton Electric.
This tops off what's already been an incredible year for the duo who released their second album 'All or Nothing' on RAM Records in November. Their Essential Mix will be broadcast tomorrow night (01:00 GMT Saturday 8th December) on BBC Radio 1 which also coincides with the first date of their second US tour this year topping off a landmark week in their 15-year career.

www.facebook.com/officialdnba

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