[FACT] Warp’s sneaky marketing campaign for the new Boards of Canada album took to the streets of Tokyo today, as the label beamed a lengthy Tomorrow’s Harvest teaser on a building in the neon-doused neighborhood of Shibuya. An HD-quality fan video of the welcome publicity stunt is available below; sounds like the Boards brothers are sticking to what they’re good at…
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Fox has shared a handful of clips from this Sunday’s “Saga of Carl Carlson” season finale with Sigur Rós. Nothing with the actual band yet unfortunately—they saved that for the ‘film poster’ above—but they do include some nods to Iceland’s predilection for alpine sweaters and pixie dust…
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Looks like the raised profile of Ty Segall over the past couple years isn’t keeping him from releasing new records at a feverish clip…
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One of the things we really regret missing as part of this month’s Red Bull Music Academy run is the illustrated talk Brian Eno gave at the Cooper Union auditorium. (Damn you deadlines!) Lucky for us—and anyone else who’s been known to blast “Needle in the Camel’s Eye” every Friday—RBMA has shared the extended interview they recently hosted in addition to Eno’s design museum appearance. Check it out below, and if you live in the New York area, the largest version of Eno’s 77 Million Paintings exhibition runs through June 2nd…
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In case you missed its live stream yesterday, the Creators Project have posted Savages’ complete in-the-round set at Ministry of Sound. The airtight, hour-long performance was the official release show for the quartet’s debut album, Silence Yourself, which hit shops through Matador Records this week. Check it out below, and if you’re in one of the following cities, you might want to catch them first hand, as there’s really no other way to understand how Savages quickly became one of the year’s most exciting new bands…
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As Red Bull’s Music Academy continues to steamroll New York City with killer shows and subway-flooding daily newspapers, we thought we’d share one of our favorite byproducts of the company’s month-long takeover: a short documentary that covers the last 12 years of DFA Records, from its humble start in underground clubs like Plant Bar to the inevitable Top 40 takeover of James Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem project…
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While YouTube is happy to be the home of skateboarding bulldogs and toothless junkies, it’s quickly going the way of MTV. Meaning: a self-regulating system of censors set up to ensure we don’t get our minds warped by Wayne Coyne’s nether regions and, as of this morning, a christ-like David Bowie. That’s right—YouTube has already taken “The Next Day” down, most likely due to the video’s ‘blasphemous’ take on the Catholic church and stigmata-afflicted French women. Good thing we’ve got Vevo then…
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As befitting the raised budget/bar of his major label debut For Now I Am Winter, the new Ólafur Arnalds video is heavy on the hazy symbolism, telling the tale of a lost child who’s caught in a web of who knows what. Check it out below, along with a streaming version of the composer’s recently released Broadchurch soundtrack EP…
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“You just don’t want to be shown up by Uriah Heep,” Steve Albini says in a new A/V Club interview, referring to the final stages of the first Shellac record since 2007′s Excellent Italian Greyhound. The songs themselves are merely a few days from being done, leaving Albini to add, “Basically, we just need a name, artwork, a cover and then we have to actually finish the music—master it, get it manufactured [and] decide what to charge for it.”
One surprising development on that front is the presence of the band’s longtime label Touch and Go, which Albini expects to work with despite the fact that it’s been all but shuttered since 2009. Check out the full breakdown below…
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Queens of the Stone Age have unveiled an animated trailer for their …Like Clockwork LP. Featuring three minutes of the new track “I Appear Missing” and the album artwork of Boneface, it was brought to life by Liam Brazier, who had this to say about the nightmarish clip:
I had the sole (actually rather fun, if tiring) duty of turning Boneface’s excellently bloody drawings into something somewhere between a motion comic and an abattoir ran by Tarantino.
The creep in the teaser animation would actually call your real phone if you inputted your number on the clever website, to which you were greeted with a heavily distorted recording of my voice. Various news outlets described it as “vaguely British” and “Hannibal Lector-like”. My wife was proud.
…Like Clockwork is due out June 4th through Matador. Have a look at the “I Appear Missing” video below, alongside some tour dates…
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