The Unknown Rockstar has been invited to perform at Arena II, on the 12th of October. The Unknown Rockstar performs at 12PM Seoul time (GMT+9), 3PM New Zealand time (GMT+12), or check the Arena II playlist to find the time in your timezone. Tune in at the nomusic website, http://nomusic.org/.

Arena II is a 24 hour festival which goes from 0:00-23:59 GMT+0 on the 12th of October, with one performer each hour. It is organised by nomusic. It looks to be a good festival. The names I recognise on the playlist are Tapegerm Collective and Janek Schaefer. I'm sure the others will be well worth checking out also.

An EP from the Richie Rhinestone and The Insatiable Opium Cowboys, Hard Times has just been released. It has three songs of cowboy style rock music, from a recording session the cowboys did in 2004.

Tangent is playing with a bunch of mostly Korean artists at Relay 03 on Friday the 16th of September, in Seoul, Korea. It's at the iry cafe in the Hongik University area. There is a map showing the location of iry cafe on their website, but I had trouble getting there last time I went so email me if you want better directions.

it should be a pretty interesting gig; the format is quite unusual. several groups will play, and none of the performers know they will play with until the night. most of the performers are laptoppers, but some use other noise makers. Tangent will play using laptop and various accoustic noise makers.

Tangent should also be playing in Kobe, Japan in mid-November. More news to come. Also the second slab of sound podcast has been released, featuring Jeff Henderson, Evan Parker's Electro-Accoustic Ensemble, and the Peter Brotzmann Octet.

postmoderncore has started a podcast, the slab of sound, distributed by psurkit.net. The slab of sound presents different styles of music from the postmoderncore label each show, alongside other music in a similar vein.

The first podcast features postmoderncore artist Richard Whyte, as well as Alisdair Roberts, Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat, and Nick Drake. Read about the show or download and listen to it.