It’s a new video for an old track, but a year down the line the collaboration between German electronic duo Modeselektor and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke still sounds mint.

The new video, directed by Andrew Jones of FutureDeluxe, mixes wooden dolls with puppetry, live action and animation to create one of the most impressive videos in years.

‘This’ is found on Modeselektor’s 2011 album Monkeytown, which includes a further Yorke collaboration entitled ‘Shipwreck’ as well as contributions from Busdriver and Anti-Pop Consortium.

Yorke also featured on the group’s 2007 album Happy Birthday, on the song ‘The White Flash’. Find out more on Modeselektor’s official website.

British psychedelic quartet Django Django have announced that they will play Belfast’s Limelight on Friday, June 22. The band will also play An Culturlann, Derry on the June 21. The band, who met in art school in Edinburgh in 2009, released their self-titled debut album in January to a very positive critical reception (read our review of Django Django here).

Tickets for the Belfast show, priced £12.50 from Ticketmaster outlets and Katy Daly’s, went on sale this morning at 9am.

Watch the video for Django Django’s breakthrough single ‘Storm’ below.

It’s been announced that this year’s Open House shows in Custom House Square as part of the annual Open House Festival will no longer go ahead. In a Facebook post made this morning, the festival’s director Kieran Gilmore stated, “As a small but fiercely independent specialist music festival operating in the ultra-competitive world of the music industry, this year has been especially hard. In fact it’s been tough as hell.”

Gilmore continues, “In this harsh economy there is increased competition for headliners from festivals and music promoters in Ireland and Europe. The bands we know you want are simply not available to us for a summer festival or the fees being sought are out of our reach and would make ticket prices out of your reach.”

As a result, apart from the cancellation of shows at Custom House Square, the annual ChiliFest, marquee and open air gigs have also been cancelled.

All is not lost, however. According to Gilmore, “Instead of the usual Open House Festival over one long weekend, we’re going to bring you a programme of concerts, with our usual funky festival vibe, throughout the whole year [...] so there are some great events to come – we hope to make a few exciting announcements soon. This is not the beginning of the end. The resourceful Open House team have found what we believe is the best way to ride out the storm this year. We will be back with a strong line-up of Open House acts in June 2013.”

Confirmed shows in venues across the city, including the likes of Lucy Rose, The Civil Wars and Josh T Pearson (above) will still go ahead.

Read the full announcement here; for more information about upcoming shows, check out the Open House Festival website.

Irish electronic artist and producer MMOTHS, aka 18 year old Jack Colleran, has unveiled three new videos to accompany the music from his self-titled EP, released in March.

Attempting to capture a visual essence of each track, the videos or ‘Summer’, ‘If Only’ and ‘Breaking Through’ come three months after the release of the visuals for EP opener, ‘THNX’.

All four are available to view via MMOTHS’ official website. Alternatively, watch below.

‘THNX’

‘Summer (feat. Superhumanoids)’

‘If Only’

‘Breaking Through’

Rapper Doseone has confirmed that his new solo record G is for Deep will be released by Anticon, the Californian label he co-founded in 1997. Lead song ‘Last Life’ is available to stream or download below.

The lyricist, known for landmark releases with Themselves, cLOUDDEAD and 13&God, is also working on the Nevermen project with Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio.

Since defeating Eminem in a 1997 freestyle battle Doseone has become one of hip-hop’s most colourful voices, collaborating with acts as diverse as Buck 65, Mike Patton’s Peeping Tom and graphic novelist Alan Moore.

G is for Deep arrives on CD, vinyl and digital May 29.

Belfast-based indie rock quartet Ed Zealous have made their latest track, ‘Diamonds For Eyes’, available for free download. Having received an exclusive airing on Sunday night via BBC Radio 1 Introducing, the track is expected to be taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album, which was produced by the man responsible for Two Door Cinema Club’s Tourist History, Eliot James. Download, listen or share ‘Diamonds For Eyes’  below.

Dublin Community Television have released a documentary looking at some of the country’s DIY bands and culture. Titled ‘A Joyful Slog’, the hour-long feature includes archive live and audio footage, as well as several interviews with individuals and bands knee-deep in the scene.

Featuring everyone from And So I Watch You From Afar (above) to Jape, music blogger Nialler9 to Dublin label The Richter Collective, the documentary, premiered at Dublin’s Button Factory on Saturday night, gives a precious insight into the culture and thriving DIY creativity of Ireland’s music scene, both North and South.

Watch ‘A Joyful Slog’ below.

Coming quickly after his production turn with One Little Plane, Kieran Hebden has dropped a new Four Tet track named ‘Jupiters’, available to stream below.

The song is one side of the two-track ‘Jupiter/Ocoras’ 12″, the forthcoming fifteenth release from Hebden’s own Text Records, responsible for top-class collaborations between Four Tet, Burial and Thom Yorke.

Hebden has also just announced a curated all-nighter at London’s Brixton Academy on November 2 with Four Tet, Caribou and more. If you think it’s worth staying up for, tickets are available now.
 

Outkast’s Andre Benjamin is to play legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix in a new biopic entitled All By My Side, which begins filming in Ireland this month. As announced by the Irish Film and Television Network, the film will document Hendrix’s time in the UK, 1966-67.

At this stage locations are understood to include Bray Head Hotel, the John Player Cigarette Factory and further spots in Dun Laoghaire and Dublin. All By My Side is currently in pre-production in Wicklow, with the whole shoot set to last six weeks.

In the meantime check out Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya!’ below, and keep an eye out for more news on the film.
 

With Portishead back on the road, a new record from from hip-hop supergroup Quakers and the masterful DROKK album released this year you’d think Geoff Barrow had enough to be getting on with. But the British instrumentalist has announced the second album from organic/improv side-project Beak>, with the track ‘Yatton’ available to stream below.

Formed by Barrow along with Matt Williams and Billy Fuller in 2009, Beak> recorded their self-titled debut after 12 days of improv sessions in Bristol.

Released by INVADA in the UK and Mike Patton’s Ipecac records in the USA, the debut led to a successful tour and spurred the group on to create a second.

Like their debut, the second record was recorded in one room. Unlike the debut, it’s got two angle brackets in the title. Beak>> is out on July 2. Keep an eye on their Bandcamp for more.

Kieran Hebden is best-known as Four Tet, but here he’s turned producer and guitarist on Chicago native Kathryn Bint’s second album as One Little Plane. The whole album is available to stream below, with full purchase options available on the One Little Plane SoundCloud page.

Brint’s 2008 debut Until also featured production from Hebden, but for Into the Trees he’s brought a cast of other musicians into the fold, including Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on bass guitar.

It’s gorgeous stuff, likely to enchant fans of Four Tet as well as singers like Jessica Bailiff or Nina Nastasia. Into the Trees is out Hebden’s own Text Records.