Welcome to the Cargo Music Section.

So e-mail me with music and things that I should check out cos I’m pretty lazy and I like it when things fall in my lap. Here’s what coming up this month that gave me a semi-lob.

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LIVE

So promoters called Get Lonely, (named after a Mountains Goats album, already in my good books) continue their brilliant run of nights down here at Cargo, with Man Man on Tuesday, The New Amsterdams on May 19th (from the ashes of the Get Up Kids, again, extra kudos from the inner 13 year old within me) and then Diane Cluck and Emmy the Great on June 11th. A nodding round of applause for the promoters involved.

Lykke Li (how do you say that, each of my mates say it differently… Like Lee, Licky Li, Likey Lei??) plays on June 4th and like Hansel, she’s so hot right now.

The Stag and Dagger Festival looks like a good shot at creating a East London wide festival with a really storng line up through out 15 venues. The east london festival format has been tried before and failed because of the weakness of their line-ups, harsh, but it’s true, but S&D looks sweet, with Bang Gang playing live at Cargo we the rather excellent party boy A-Trak getting up on the decks.

Dubstep heads needs to get down for From The Furnace, Mala and Adrian Sherwood on a collaboration tip… too good, too bass, too needed.
ALBUMS / EP’S

Santogold’s new album. We can’t wait. She’s popping up everywhere from broadsheets to Jools Holland, and the raft of producers she’s got on board is going to make this album relevant to any dance floor in the UK…

Rustie - Dirty as hell, production as heavy as Flying Lotus, a little bit of the lower end of Skream, plus the tongue in cheek and fidgityness of ModeSelektor. Catch him at the You Don’t Know party at Corsica Studios on 23rd May with Daedalus.

The Mountain Goats John Darnielle has recently returned the favour for guesting on the last tune on Aesop Rock’s None Shall Pass record by letting Aes rip ‘Lovecraft in Brooklyn’ apart and then put it back together. As with ‘Coffee’, their styles somehow work together seamlessly and there’s Sketch Theatre visuals thrown in too, here