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Much righteousness going down at the Lumi tonight…

Todd have pulled out, but that's no excuse for not turning up for this ear-bruising scorcher...

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Introducing… WOOM

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WOOM - The Hunt

This experimental pop duo waste no time in appealing to your curiosity: it's difficult to keep track of what instruments you're hearing at any given point and the production style is distinctly their own. Yet despite the kitchen-sink dynamic, the arrangements are minimal and the album plays out in a simple sequence - each track seems to skitter along through fleeting hooks and peculiar campfire noises before fizzling out and starting over.

WOOM are  Sara Magenheimer and Eben Portnoy, a restless pair who seem to have no fixed abode. In 2008 they defected from their band Fertile Crescent after a tour with Deerhoof and relocated to a barn in eastern Massachusetts to tinker through the winter until they had managed to finish their debut album, Muu’s Way - which was recently released on Ba Da Bing.

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Slim Moon hits back at The Melvins over Stool Pigeon interview

Slim Moon, the founder of indie label Kill Rock Stars, has criticised the Melvins'  Buzz Osborne for comments he made in an interview with The Stool Pigeon. The fuzzy-headed guitarist, 46, told the paper:

“I ran into Slim [Moon] from [indie label] Kill Rock Stars years ago and he said, ‘Don’t you ever get tired of playing loud rock music? Don’t you wanna do something else?’ I just stared at him. ‘Like what? What are you talking about?’ This is it for me! I don’t have anything else. I have to make this work. If I make stuff nobody believes in, I’m out of business. That is it! The difference between me and people like him is that the light is gone out of his eye. It’s gone. I haven’t lost that magic.”

Responding to the claim, Moon has made the following statement:

"Buzz’s comments about me are very unfortunate. I’ve been passionate about helping exciting underground bands personally and professionally, without cease, for about the same period of time that Buzz has been making music. maybe he thinks i don’t love his band as much as I once did, or maybe he has no respect for the quirky underground singer-songwriters I work with mostly nowadays, but he seems to be ignoring the large number of loud and weird bands I’ve worked with for the last 20 years.

Buzz is sustained by the ego strokes he gets for his work from his fans. I work in the background and just get the sustaining feeling of knowing I’ve helped hundreds of artists. you tell me whose light is brighter?"

Read the full feature here.

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Buy Your Own Beers

Victoria Park, Hackney is the setting for the fourth Field Day, which takes place on July 31. Here are a few of the things the village idiots should be dancing to.

Finger picking Beth Jeans Houghton will be performing on the Village Mentality stage, promoted by The Quietus.

Buy a cider barrel lolly and eat it leaning out the window of a Lincoln Continental on your way to the Eat Your Own Ears stage to watch the above guys. If you're still feeling the funk, head for the Bloggers Delight stage and catch Los Angelian boogie master Dãm-Funk with Master Blazter. Smooth.

You can't visit a festival and not have some chili in one form or another.  It's the rules. Any opportunity to see The Fall play live must also be grabbed with both hands. They're headlining and that gives us the excuse we've been looking for to post this...

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Pick of this summer’s festivals

We start with a look at Latitude taking place at Henham Park, Suffolk between the 15th and 18th of July. Click here for the full line-up.

The Horrors play their only UK festival appearance this summer at Latitude on Saturday July 17th. There's also an unmissable performance by Brooklyn's finest, Yeasayer, taking place on Sunday which is guaranteed to scare the coloured sheep and make your Sunday start with a bang.

Great comedy line-up too, featuring the country's finest stand-ups including honorary Brit, Rich Hall.

It might seem like a strange choice but a sunset jazz-hands opportunity is in store on Thursday evening on The Lake Stage with a special performance by Nigel Kennedy and his Orchestra of Life, made up of some of the finest jazz musicians from his new home in Krakow, Poland. They'll be playing a set of Duke Ellington songs with a few contemporary numbers thrown in too.

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Get your mitts on this inky beauty…

I'll wager this line-up will give you dirty fingers. Go grab a lovely copy!

Hipster Priest: ALAN MOORE
ROKY ERICKSON: Round Trip
New York State of Mind: NAS
ROBYN: Cry When You Get Older
MIKE PATTON: Patton The Back
The Trials of Eyeliner: MARC ALMOND
THE MELVINS: Hostile Ambient Takeover
CHROME HOOF: Alloyed Forces
Leap of Faith: HOLY FUCK
Stuck In Transit: AUTOLUX
Chronic Youth: BEST COAST

Also featuring interviews with... Thee Oh Sees, Pan Sonic, Twin Sister, Gum Takes Tooth, Alba Lua, Aloe Blacc, Girls Names, Drum Eyes, Korallreven, Serocee, Tame Impala, Ill Blu, Cold Pumas, Scratcha DVA, Tweak Bird and Mersault.

More, people, MORE! Like... eight full pages of gorgeous comics, including... Charlie Parker Handyman, two Rocky half pagers, Richard Cowdry's Downtown, Luke Pearson's festival special, Doctor Dave double-pager, Gollum Plays Country & Western, and There's a Tear In My Beer.

Okay, finally: Feeling Peckish! George and his Johnson! The British Art Resistance! Miss Prudence Trog! Mental Marvin's Horrorscopes! Richard Grip, Hipster Tipster! Son of Dave! Celebrity Barber! Freaks! Court Circular! Billy Childish Poetry Column! A really good print job! Freaks! Rocky's classic hip hop covers! Guessed List! Come on England! Oh wait, we got stuffed! Again!

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Win tickets for the ace Dour festival in Belgium

The Stool Pigeon is teaming up with the excellent Dour festival in Belgium this year, which starts July 15 and goes on for four beautiful days. Killer line-up (from top to bottom) and all put together with exactly the kind of independent spirit that we salute. Plus this year is their 21st year.

See here

We're not going to blow too much smoke up their proverbials, but we do have 10 pairs of tickets to give away.

Email an answer this question to editor@thestoolpigeon.co.uk by Monday July 5 to get into the lucky dip...

Faith No More are headlining. In the current issue of The Stool Pigeon, there's a massive Mike Patton interview where he talks about his new record. What's it called?

Duh.

British folk, the site is easily accessible from the UK, with Eurostar trains linking London to Brussels every hour. Then the festival camp is less than an hour away from Brussels.

Bon chance.

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In honour of Slayer’s return to the UK tomorrow

First this:

Then this:

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