MON 28/03/11
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Panda Bear: "The Preakness": Panda Bear: The Preakness Animal Collective have teamed up with the apparel company Keep to design their own line of sneakers , which ship tomorrow to those who have pre-ordered them. Sales of the shoes benefit the Socorro Island Conservation Fund , an organization that works to preserve the the Revillagigedo Archipelago off California's coast. Each pair of pre-ordered shoes comes with a cassette tape (pictured above) that features one previously unreleased song from each of Animal Collective's four members.
Good news for anyone who’s been missing their weekly fix of heavy beats and silky-voiced enthusiasm; first lady of UK electronic music Mary Anne Hobbs is returning to the radio. From 9th July she’ll be taking over a prime time Saturday evening slot on XFM, which promises the same focus on cutting edge music that marked out her Radio 1 show as the station’s best until her departure last year. In her own words: