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Battles

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

October 2015

  • Propulsive percussion ... John Stanier performs with Battles at London’s Electric Ballroom.

    Battles review – joyful, ear-bleedingly loud grooves from sonic scientists

  • Battles at Simple Things festival

    Simple Things festival review – masterfully curated and delivered

September 2015

  • St Jerome’s Laneway festival stars: CHVRCHES lead singer Lauren Mayberry, Flume and Grimes.

    Laneway festival announce CHVRCHES, Grimes and Flume on 2016 line-up

    Featured on the tastemaking music festival bill are Brooklyn indie rockers DIIV, Baltimore’s Beach House and Canadian future pop duo Purity Ring
  • Battles

    Battles: La Di Da Di review – still powered by playfulness

    The New York trio dispense with the singers, but not the fun, on an album of inspired and wide-ranging experimentation
  • Chvrches

    Playlists to live by: musicians choose soundtracks to their favourite pastimes

    For every activity, there’s a song to speed the time or sweeten the moment – we asked Chvrches, Mercury Rev, Beirut and more to pick their top tunes

July 2012

April 2012

  • Battles: Dross Glop – review

    It's a little disjointed as an album, but there are some fine moments among this collection of Battles remixes, writes Dave Simpson

August 2011

  • Ian Williams, John Stainer and Dave Konopka of Battles

    Battles: 'Our music is supposed to be fun'

    Despite losing their frontman, American alt‑rockers Battles have made one of the albums of the year. Hermione Hoby joins them in LA to find out how

June 2011

  • Battles: Gloss Drop – review

  • Battles

    Ice Cream by Battles proves avant garde music can be fun: but who do they rate?

  • Battles

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Battles and Gwilym Gold

  • Battles: Gloss Drop – review

March 2010

  • Dirty Projectors and Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Tom Service on classical music
    Indie and modern classical music: the quixotic links

    Tom Service: From echoes of Stockhausen in the Dirty Projectors to Arvo Pärt's effect on Radiohead, it's more than a bit of fun to think about the links between indie music and modern classical

September 2009

  • Tyondai Braxton gets loopy

    Battles member Tyondai Braxton discusses forthcoming solo album Central Market, a collaboration with the Wordless Music Orchestra

August 2007

  • Review: Battles

    6 out of 10: Leeds, Sunday, 8.50pm. They know how to rock, how to dance and how to loop atonal guitar riffs. Not the ideal festival fodder.

May 2007

  • Battles

    ABC2, Glasgow

  • Musical mathletes

    On record, New York four-piece Battles sound like an army of glam-rock robots gargling sheet metal. How did they do it? With the help of silence, Stravinsky and Stanley Kubrick, they tell Tim Jonze.

  • Pop preview

    Battles, On tour | Great Escape Festival, Brighton | Fucked Up, On tour | Nas, Birmingham

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