DJ Shadow has announced six dates across the UK during October. His mini tour starts in Birmingham on 17 October and ends in Manchester on 26 October. The full dates and venues are here.

Blur have almost completed their seventh album and hope to have it out in January 2003. However, you might hear it a lot sooner than that, as frontman Damon Albarn has hinted that the album might be leaked anonymously to radio after mixing is completed.

El-P, Mr. Lif, RJD2 launch North American tour. The noise peddlers at Def Jux are ready to take off on a massive fall tour. The tour is set to begin in mid-September, tagging 25 cities in a little over a month. Tourdates can be found here.

The new Porcupine Tree album "In Absentia" will be issued in North America on September 24th by Lava. Release dates for Europe and Japan are to be confirmed. The first 20,000 copies of the CD will come in a miniature gatefold vinyl-style cardboard sleeve.

I Phantom, the highly anticipated solo debut LP from the extremely gifted Mr. Lif will be released by Def Jux on september the 17th. Expect some mind-blowing avant-hiphop!

Mighty japanese doomsters Church of Misery will release the 40 minutes-long Boston Strangler ep soon on Kult of Nihilow Records in a 400 copies limited edition.

Jaga Jazzist has been busy lately, recording, mixing and mastering a new album. It is to be released the 26th of August in Norway, on Warner Music. Release dates in the rest of the world are at the end of 2002 / beginning 2003. The cover is made by Are Mokkelbost of Single Unit fame.

Single Unit is playing tonight at local Oslo club So What, warming up for Japanese girl trio Ex-Girl. The concert is part of Øyafestivalen. Act fast...

Borknagar announced their European tour, which will take place in october. Check the excellent www.borknagar.com for tourdates and more info.

The Man Called were offered a record deal. According to the band it's too early to give more details. The band also decided to publish raw versions of two news tracks on their site.

The official Beyond Dawn website should be finished any day now...

A short Aphex Twin interview, he likes to answer questions in Spanish...

The Future Sound Of London just released The Isness. A new album made under the name Amorphous Androgynous. According to NME it's quite a leap from FSOL's 1996 masterpiece Dead Cities.

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Peter Petterson's projects Arcana and Sophia have new webpages again on the Cold Meat Industry server.

The End Records announce the signing of Antimatter, for North America. They will be releasing their debut album, Saviour, on Sept. 24. Two acoustic bonus tracks will be included on the CD. The band is also working on their second release. According to Duncan Patterson: "We have the second album written and will progress with that over the coming months." The second album will probably see a USA release in the spring of 2003.

Kranky signed Austin, Texas band Charalambides. Charalambides make a mix of psychedelia, old time folk, blues and sonic invention.

Novamute streams a 60 minute live set from Speedy J. Find it at their sounds and specials page. You will need real audio to listen to it.

Australian street magazine "3D World" has published an interview with Gyða from Múm. In this article she explains the reason why she will leave the band when the Finally we are no one tour finishes. Múm will become a trio and Gyða will finish her studies at the the Academy of arts in Iceland. Click here to read the article.

The Inkubus Sukkubus' second album Whytches, released on a small label in 1994, is made available again by Resurrection Music. The deluxe digipak re-release will be promoted by a full UK-tour this autumn.

Anne Clark will soon be back in the recording studio with gitarrist Jeff Aug (Floating Stone, Banana Peel Buzz) and percussionist Niko Lai (Floating Stone) to record demos for her new acoustic project. Also, pianist Murat Parlak has joined the squad to work on new version of Anne's backcatalog. Also new is that "Just After Sunset“ will see a re-release holding different cover artwork, a bonustrack and a video.

Ravers are stupid, and funny... http://www.baseik.com/raversaredumb.mpg (right click - save target)

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Kid606 and Dälek release split EP. A collaboration was just waiting to happen between good friends Kid606 and New Jersey hiphop three piece Dälek. The release was conceived when Dälek remixed the kid606 song Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yourself, Then Ruin Me, breathing new life into it and giving all the parts back to kid606 for him to remix, and back and forth until the EP was completed. Ruin It will be released on september 30 on Tigerbeat6. More info here.

Radiohead are set to return to the studio in September in Los Angeles after the remainder of their Spanish/Portugese tour, where had several new songs in their set. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said to NME: "We're going to LA to record the new album. No, LA's not very Radiohead, but we recorded the last album in a cold northern Europe location because we thought it was us. It wasn't. So we'll try this."

Avantgarde Music is set to re-release the classic Ulver album Nattens Madrigal in september. The LP is currently unavailable since Century Media deleted it.