Watch if you dare a Q&A at the Purcell Room with Robert Wyatt as he attempts to explore how he wrote the album Comicopera. 'His Greatest Misses' collection was previously released only in Japan as a limited edition and forms the perfect introduction to the music of Robert Wyatt. Spending his early musical career as the singing drummer in Soft Machine, Wyatt has since gone on to carve out a prolific solo career that has spanned almost half a century. He has made guest appearances and formed collaborations with a number of artists, including  Bjork, Brian Eno and Roxy Music.

Released 5^th April 2010 on Domino Records, the best of the Triffids captures the greatest oft-overlooked Australian post punk group with contemporaries including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds shine on this career retrospective which spans their EPs, B-sides and studio albums. Well represented works include ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ and the band’s Island debut ‘Calenture’. With similarities to Simple Minds and Bruce Springsteen here is a brief introduction to one of their most likeable songs 'Wide Open Road' from TV show - Great Australian Albums - SBS.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival launched its 2010 programme this week and we're thrilled to see so many great new films. Amongst the line up are a few films featuring our artists. To celebrate we'll be popping up to Scotland 24th - 28th June so drop us a line if you're heading up there yourselves. MORE

Films featuring music from our artists include:

Monsters - Written, directed and shot by Gareth Edwards winner of the Moët New Directors Award EIFF 2010 with score by Jon Hopkins

Third Star - BAFTA shorts winner Hattie Dalton's first feature film is the closing night gala.

Brilliantlove - Ashley Horner's first feature film has been nominated for The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film

Here's a breathtaking 3D short movie created by a very talented French team 90degrees - with a great soundtrack too.

Short & Sweet is London's only weekly short film festival and screens international shorts to over 1000 people every month. Founded by Julia Stephenson in 2006, the screenings take place every Monday night at Café 1001 in Shoreditch with the aim of showcasing new short films and their creators in a free, accessible environment. Between 2006 and 2010, BAFTA chose Short & Sweet as its official London venue for the screening of all the Orange BAFTA short film and short animation nominees, and the project is now looking to expand further north by hosting the first Short & Sweet short film event at Leeds venue Nation of Shop Keepers on 26^th May 2010. The event will also feature a DJ set from Bill Ryder Jones (Domino Publishing), who began his musical career as the lead guitarist in the early noughties psych-indie phenomenon The Coral. Keen to score films himself, Bill is in the middle of exploring new liaisons with well known soundtrack writers and completed his own score for Liverpool produced film 'Leave Taking', which was funded by Vision and Media in the North West of England.

Short & Sweet is a free event.

Doors 6.30pm, with first screening at 7.30pm

Venue address: Nation of Shop Keepers, 27 - 37 Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 3AG

In July 16^th at Barbican, London Short & Sweet will host the first international 3D short Film Festival and are inviting submissions and sponsors.

We're keen for folks to understand that Domino look after some of the most influential bands in music from over the last 30 odd years and none more so than Pavement who wowed audiences in Brixton all week. When you talk about identifying 'indie music' - proper, honest early 90s 'indie', Pavement served as one of the most popular and influential lo-fi rock bands of the 1990s. It's tricky stuff trying to decide which video to pop on here - options paralysis has set in dear reader. So heck if you enjoyed 'Stereo'directed by Jon Kelsey and wanna be 'in with the kids', knock yourselves out on the Domino Youtube channel for a good old whoop or two along to Pavement's music videos here including 'Shady Lane' directed by Spike Jonze. Pavement insist on no new material so if you're hungry for more you might also enjoy releases from Pavement's own Spiral Stairs and Stephen Malkmus both continuing their own projects with Domino.

Matador look after Pavement in the USA.

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'Hello Tony! I think we might use a video replay here!' ... Max Tundra released 'Parallax Error Beheads You' back in 2008 and accompanied said release with this piece of monochromatic wizzardry for the single - 'Will Get Fooled Again' directed by Woof Wan-Bau. The whizzkid behind Max Tundra, Ben Jacobs, has spent the last year lugging his keyboards round the World with notables such as Hot Chip and Passion Pit. Ben performs like the musical equivalent of the buzz conveyed by the Tango 'Slap' commercial and in between performing this densely layered keyboard phenomenon he finds time to remix many audio treasures including - 'Do You Want To' by  Franz Ferdinand  and Fledermaus 'Can't Get It' by Von Sudenfed. Domino is now chuffed to bits to announce a Max Tundra remix of 'Midnight Directives' by Owen Pallett. So to continue the analogy - You know when you've been Tundra'd. Max Tundra perform at Field Day, London on 31st August 2010.

Owen Pallett’s Lewis Takes Off His Shirt is released on 12”and via digital download on June 21^st. Both formats will feature remixes from Dan Deacon, Benoit Pioulard, Simon Bookish, CFCF and Max Tundra.

Brisa Roché left home with her guitar at 16 and spent the glory days of Grunge in Seattle, before later moving to Paris where she established herself as a bi-lingual jazz influenced artist. After a brief stint on Blue Note, her style developed towards a Blondie / garage rock with beatnik chic. Keen to get her latest collection of songs 'All Right Now' into more English speaking countries, Brisa Roché gave an intimate performance at the Wave Rooftop at SXSW. Whilst her entire band was not able to make the trip from Paris to Austin, here's an interesting interview with Brisa (accompanied by guitarist John Mitchell) on The Set List which allows some insight into Brisa and her music.

If your French is a little more advanced than 'Je T'aime Moi Non Plus' then get your mouse and click clack on the link to Rykielles where you can see a little guest spot with Brisa Roché herself. You don't have to speak French to click on play and listen to 'Penetrate'.

Galaxie 500 formed out of the 80s New York student-punk scene. The band toured the United Kingdom in late 80s, where there were signed to Rough Trade and were regarded as an incarnation of the Velvet Underground. 'On Fire' reached number 7 in the UK Indie Chart and was probably more popular in Blighty than it had been in the States. The band split up in the early 90s and members went on to pursue various creative endeavours. Galaxie 500 bassist Naomi Yang has been proving herself to be an observant photographer and you can have a look at her pictures here.

The Fall have unveiled their first video for many years for the track Bury from their new album 'Your Future Our Clutter'. Directed by Thirtytwo (Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace), the video was shot on super slo-mo and is perhaps the most visually arresting and revealing Fall video of all time, a real classic.  The video is being premiered in the UK on the Bury council website, as a nod to the town that inspired the song. The Fall are currently on tour.

Our Australian chums Native Tongue have just made the wise decision to sign Philadelphia Grand Jury who are the sort of guitar band to get you popping and bopping. They have the zing of the Datsuns and a whole manner of upbeatness that blows the cobwebs off a lot of other bands at the moment. So get your earholes round this, come to a gig - if you're in London they are playing A LOT - and chew our legs off for some tunes from their album 'Hope Is For Hopers' currently out in Australia.

Scratch, directed by Jakob Rørvik, produced by Breakthru films and shot mostly in London just won Best Film at the Aubagne Festival. 'Lena is a young art student new to London. Calling it her art project, she obsessively follows and takes pictures of an unwitting Sol; a scruffy, charismatic 20 year old, by all appearances homeless, who drifts around in numerous detached relations to people affiliated with the art scene.Her project takes a wrong turn when Sol discovers her. Fascinated by her odd behaviour, Sol is now the one to follow her. Against a backdrop of contemporary East-London, Sol and Lena gradually expose each other’s dreams, fears and lies.' 'Black Balloon' by the Kills forms part of the soundtrack. 

Here's the video taken of 'Time for The Devil' directed by Antoine Carlier taken from John and Jehn's brand new album of the same name - out May 10th, through Republic of Music. John & Jehn started their musical career when they moved to London at the back end of 2006. Since then they have impressed music fans and journalists with their lo-fi, rock'n'roll sound and supported Franz Ferdinand in Paris. Befitting the current trend towards all things vampire are the brooding atmospherics of ‘The Ghosts’ to ‘Vampires’. Find out WAY MORE INFO at their website here.

Sadly, on Monday 12th April, Steve Reid passed away. Obituaries, blogs and biogs tell the tale of a man who led an extraordinary life. Steve Reid grew up in the 40s and 50s in the same Bronx neighbourhood as the likes of Thelonius Monk - three blocks from John Coltrane. He drummed for Martha Reeves and the Vandellas when he was still a teenager and went on to accompany the likes of Fats Domino, James Brown, Miles Davis and Henry Threadgill before being convicted for being a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

Over the last five or so years Steve collaborated with Domino artist - Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and put out several releases on Domino in many guises. In their most recent collaboration, Reid recorded a set of tracks in Senegal called 'Daxaar' produced in Africa by Kieran Hebden - this clip documents the time spent on the album. Given Kieran's long standing association with Steve Reid it is worthwhile taking a moment to hear Kieran tell Giles Peterson about his time spent with Steve here.

A Steve Reid Memorial is to be held at Café Oto in Dalston on Sunday May 16th 2010 from 7pm-12pm featuring Gilles Peterson and in association with Soul Jazz Records. Tickets are £5 donation to Steve Reid Foundation.

Arch Garrison aka Craig Fortnam, Sharron Fortnam and James Larcombe launched their album 'King of the Down' earlier in 2010 on Double Six. This project is a rustic diversion from North Sea Radio Orchestra with songs played on acoustic guitar and organ with backing vocals courtesy of Sharron. Radio love comes courtesy of Stuart Maconie at BBC 6music who had Arch Garrison record a session on his show Freak Zone. You can catch Arch Garrison in real life for free at the Hope & Anchor, Islington, London.

Joker's Daughter are Helena Costas (Domino Records and Publishing) and Danger Mouse (Chrysalis Publishing). Following the recent release of debut album The Last Laugh through Double Six Records in the UK (and Conor Oberst's Team Love in the US), Jokers Daughter released Lucid as the stunning second single. The video is directed by Hayley Morris, the winner of Best Animated Short at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. See Worm's Wood on a Diesel Italia campaign here.

WHY CAN'T WE JUST ALL GET ON? Oh! It seems our artists are - here's a joyful little cover of the Cure's 'Close to Me' performed on French TV by two of our published artists TUNNG (Full Time Hobby) and Lightspeed Champion (Domino Records) which means we actually have no rights whatsoever to this composition but seems a shame to keep it to ourselves as it's a rather pleasant introduction to our writers. And whilst we're sharing here's a link to the interview with both Tunng and Lightspeed Champion - fear not, they conduct the interview in both French and English - CLIQUEZ SUR LE SOURIS ICI!

Short & Sweet 3D Anaglyph from Andrew Murchie on Vimeo.

Short & Sweet is London's only weekly short film festival hosted in London that screens international shorts to over 1000 people a month and host a rather exciting forray into the World of 3-D animation -  Short & Sweet 3-D, a night of stereoscopic short films at The Barbican in London, July 16, 2010 alongside official drinks sponsor Courvoisier. Short & Sweet will screen a wide variety of content including fiction, documentary, music videos, live action and animation. More information can be found on the Short & Sweet website here | BARBICAN FILM.

If you fancy a little doodle, have a play on this website here and embrace the World of 3-D. 3-D will always work best if you have a pair of red-blue 3-D spex - but actually it seems to have it's own spin without. I'm watching it without normal spex and I'm definitely seeing strange shapes.

Plexi is pleased to present ODDSAC, a 54 minute 'visual album' collaboration between Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. The score is made up of all new Animal Collective material, with stunning and complex visuals constructed by Perez - a filmmaker who has recently provided amazing video backdrops to Panda Bear and Black Dice live shows. Preceding the summer Plexi DVD/ iTunes release of ODDSAC will be a series of European screenings featuring Q&As with the director and members of the band.

13 May LONDON ICA
14 May MANCHESTER MINT LOUNGE
15 May LEEDS BRUDNELL SOCIAL CLUB
18 May BERLIN BABYLON KREUZBERG
19 May HAMBURG UEBEL UND GEFAEHRLICH
21 May AMSTERDAM SMART SPACE

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MORE COWBELL! If you've never heard of Liquid Liquid you've missed a real treat. Discovering them now you might be forgiven for thinking that DFA have just signed some trendy new hipsters. Actually, Liquid Liquid are primordial in the grand scheme of rhythm inspired popular music. They are referenced by those in the know and whilst they were mostly doing their thing in the early 80s they are all still active musicians in and around New York - sometimes individuals escape to London (rubbing shoulders with the likes of Hot Chip) - but generally they've adapted well to the 24 hour Manhattan habitat and continue to support music happenings in and around the Big Apple. Their biggest claim to fame is that their bass line to 'Cavern' forms the groovey bit played by the Sugar Hill House Band on the Grandmaster Flash hit 'White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)'. In 2008 Domino saw fit to re-release 'Slip in And out of Phenomenon' with that the band came over to the UK for performances with Glasgow's Optimo DJs. An Optimo remix of the track 'Optimo' came to be (when a band and a DJ love eachother very much...) and in doing so sealed a beautiful musical circle between the inspiration and the inspired. Happy days. This animation accompanying the song 'Cavern' was produced in 1983 by Michael Sporn Animation Studios.

The wait is over for the album 'Boys Outside' (out May 3rd 2010) by the former Beta Band singer Steve Mason. Single 'Lost And Found' (out April 19th 2010) is here introduced by the promotional video directed by collective JMD (Tim Main and Joe Dixon). Filmed in Snowdonia, the promo features a man (actor David Dixon - the actor known for playing Ford Prefect in the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) scrambling up slopes in search of a girl.Hear Lauren Laverne interview Steve Mason on 6Music here. It's great to hear Steve's mellow tones again. STREAM THE ALBUM FROM HIS WEBSITE HERE!

Uniqlo have just released a limited edition range of unique Domino album sleeve T-shirts at their store in Harajuku. The artists in the collection include The Kills, Mouse on Mars, Four Tet, Wild Beasts, Clinic, Max Tundra, Fridge, Junior Boys, Palace Music and Quasi. You can look at cool kids wearing the collection on the Uniqlo website here and you might like to read more here.

We can now announce that Uniqlo are about to launch the collection through the Domino site and in all UK stores. To celebrate the launch, Domino will be taking over their Oxford Street store (311 Oxford St) this Saturday 8th May  from 3pm, with Domino DJs and goody bags for all.

Check out www.dominorecordco.com/uniqlo now to see some Domino staff and bands modelling the t-shirts!

If you're fortunate enough to be heading down to the Stag and Dagger festie in May be sure to make time to see Gyratory System who have done a mighty fine job liberating catchy bleeps and rhythms with 'The Sound Board Breathes' (out on Angular). The video for 'Yowser Yowser Yowser' was directed by Alex de Campi, edited by Alan Capriles and CGI took 5 months. If you've no time to download and listen to the album the label put together a nifty stream on soundcloud so you can get a good taster for the album which is an eccentric delight and quite unlike anything else -  STREAM HERE!

According to the artist bio, the new single from Lightspeed Champion 'Madame Van Damme' was produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley) with 'joltingly 70s guitar and synth sounds'. Well, this video is nothing if joltingly 70s/80s - found myself checking closer to see if Mindy (sans Mork) was writhing around in satin hot pants no bad thing you may say. Well Dev is looking pretty hot there behind the drums laydeez (and gents!). Have fun with this one directed by Ferry Gouw.

Here's a delightful animation by Hideyuki Katsumata for 'Yakiimo' written and performed by Simone White. Hideyuki has a series of vivid creations worth looking into. The track is taken from the second album from the writer of 'The Beep Beep Song' (as featured in Audi R8 campaign 'Construction' in 2007 directed by Michel Gondry). Recorded in Nashville with Mark Nevers the album was released  on Honest Jons records.

Sound familiar? Originally released on Geoff Barrow's Invada Records, Domino now administer the album Ugly Side of Love and we're pretty excited about it too as it's a great record. Malachai originate in Bristol: dubstep running through their bones, hip hop in the fingers and ‘60s psychedelia in the heart. At times, the album sounds like a Jamaican garage rock band. Elsewhere it sounds like Merseybeat with perhaps Dick Dale surfing the River Severn. It's ballsy and likeable and yes, we have instrumentals should you require them for your ballsy, likeable film projects. 

They commissioned lots of their buddies to produce the artwork for the album,  including the more than up and coming Nick Walker, Paris, Marc Bessant, Johnny O, 2Keen, FLX, Eko, K148, Dave Stansbie, Milk, Acer, Naomi Sisson, Mr. Jago and Andy Council. 

Here's the video to 'Shitkicker' from back when the band name had a 'K' in the spelling - filmed in 2007 it is directed by Meboid who claim the promo 'follows a lifelong obsession with cardboard'.

'Speculation' is the new To Rococo Rot album, recorded in part at Faust’s studio in a remote rural region of southern Germany. Here you can learn more about the band and how they made the album by watching this informative video. The Berlin based trio specialise in their own well formed post-rock electronica which means a mesmerising instrumental soundscape of guitars and key boards including a self built organ belonging to and played by Jochen Irmler of Faust. To Rococo Rot play London on 23rd April 2010.

Bill Ryder-Jones began his musical career as the lead guitarist of The Coral, a six piece band whose psychedelic strain of guitar music exploded onto the Liverpool music scene in 2002. Highly wary of the singer-songwriter tag, Bill is now mainly focusing on a solo album and would rather be known for instrumental pieces perhaps born out of is affection for the film soundtrack works of Ennio Morricone, Jonny Greenwood, Yann Tiersen and Michael Galasso. Keen to score films himself, Bill is in the middle of exploring new liaisons with well known soundtrack writers and completed his own score for Liverpool produced film 'Leave Taking' funded by Vision and Media in the North West of England (more news to be announced soon about the film screenings for this release).

Here you can hear a score worked against some existing footage from Dutch film maker Michael Rogge. Michael has travelled the World with his film camera since 1938 and was good enough to let Bill create a soundtrack to some of his unique footage.

Photo by Sophie Jarry.

In February, Julia Stephenson of Short & Sweet London's only weekly short film festival put together a series of short films with Creatives Against Poverty to make Saathi's street youth smile. Share their smiles with this touching video proving the significance of short film.

Here's a charming animation by Betsy Dadd from the Peggy Sue single 'Watchman' released on 22nd March on Wichita Recordings and taken from the album 'Fossils And Other Phantoms' (out 5th April). Formerly known as Peggy Sue and the Pirates the Brighton trio have previously toured with the likes of Kate Nash, Mumford & Sons and The Maccabees are about to embark on a thorough invasion of Europe.

Pitchfork today exclusively reveal the new video directed by Peyton Reid (Yes Man, The Break-Up) for the new She & Him release In The Sun out March 15^th 2010. This will be the first single from their forthcoming album, Volume Two, which will be available from April 5^th via Double Six. She & Him is one of pop’s finest collaborations, with all songs written by Zooey Deschanel (She) and produced by M Ward (Him). Described by Zooey as a ‘feel-good album’, Volume Two shimmers from start to finish. In The Sun features guest vocals from Tilly & The Wall and features on the B-side a cover of the Beach Boys’ classic, 'I Can Hear Music'. [Merge control the master in the USA].

Tunng spent 2009 touring and making music with a trio from the Tuareg desert blues band Tinariwen and found inspiration from the Malian musicians for their fourth studio album. This film directed by James Moore and produced by Spicer and Moore is the video to the single 'Hustle' taken from '...And Then We Saw Land' by Tunng (out now on Full Time Hobby). The band have also performed the first in a series of live acoustic tracks from the album 'Hustle' at Hackney City Farm, London (watch here).