Here’s a minor holdover until the next HTRK album: a vapor-trailed remix of the Standish/Carlyon single “Nono/Yoyo.” (Fun fact: Conrad Standish’s wife, HTRK singer Jonnine Standish, also contributed backing vocals to the Standish/Carlyon track “Feb Love.”) Stream the iced-over instrumental below, along with the original version and details about Standish/Carlyon’s first stateside shows…
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[FACT] Unsound’s organizers have revealed the theme, dates and initial round of artists for the 11th edition of their future-forward festival. Set to touch down in Krakow from October 13th through the 20th, Unsound: Interference is set to feature a “Sleep Concert” from Robert Rich, the rarified reunion of Porter Ricks, and a new A/V presentation from Robert Henke (Lumiére) that “promises to not only manifest itself as a radical sonic experience, but also provide a massive yet ephemeral visual counterpoint. Two powerful lasers will draw repeating shapes, symbols, incomprehensible signs and ultra short pulses of light whilst an autonomous audio engine creates rhythmical structures, intense grids of bass and spectral noises.”
Minds will also be blown by King Midas Sound, Fire! and the Blawan/Pariah side project Karenn. Check out a complete rundown of confirmed acts below…
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[Pitchfork] As the Wu-Tang Clan get ready to mark the 20th anniversary of their seminal debut with a new record (A Better Tomorrow) in July, RZA’s Soul Temple imprint has revealed a limited 7” of a previously unreleased track called “Execution in Autumn.” Produced by Frank Dukes and featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, U-God and RZA himself, it barely eclipses the three-minute mark and is all the better for it. Stream the song below, and score your own pay-what-you-want copy here…
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The last time we reached out to Oneohtrix Point Never about doing a potential piece for our magazine, he said he was feeling “brain fried” and essentially needed a break from all the noise that’s gone along with the producer’s rising profile. Now we know why—aside from opening for Sigur Rós and reissuing all his early records through Mexican Summer, Daniel Lopatin has also been busy developing the score for Sofia Coppola’s next film, The Bling Ring. As reported on Pitchfork, the based-on-a-true-story tale of bratty rich kids ripping off bratty rich celebrities (Paris Hilton mostly) features Lopatin working alongside Coppola’s longtime music supervisor Brian Reitzell. And to match the heightened tension of a movie that’s gotta be much more exciting than Coppola’s last, Reitzell managed to wrangle songs from Can, Kanye West, Sleigh Bells, Klaus Schulze, Azealia Banks and more for the soundtrack. Take that, Spring Breakers!
Check out a complete tracklisting below, along with the Bling Ring trailer…
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There’s no word yet on when we might actually hear it, but Dum Dum Girls frontwoman Dee Dee Penny has written a long open letter to fans about the band’s next album, which was apparently written a year ago and wrapped recently, with a bout of blown vocal cords somewhere in between. Check out the details below, along with a shareable version of our cover story from a few years back…
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Ambient addicts rejoice—William Basinski has a new album out next month. Due out June 25th through the composer/producer’s 2062 imprint, Nocturnes was first discussed in a lengthy self-titled interview last year, wherein he described the two-track effort as follows:
The title piece is the first piece. It’s really old, and very different, coming from some of my earliest influences. A very triply, weird piece, made with eight or 10 loops, and I scored it with a graphic score.
The second piece is newer, and it’s also pretty dark. It’s called “The Trail of Tears.” Part of it was included in the Robert Wilson opera ‘The Life and Death of Marina Abramonivic’. That was a great experience too. It’s a great show. So I should have that finished soon. It’s two pieces; one of them’s 40 minutes, and one of them’s about 20 minutes.
Check out an excerpt from the title track below, and pre-order the CD pressing here…
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As promised late last week, Slayer have revealed the details of a tribute to guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died of cirrhosis complications on May 2nd at the age of 49. The “Jeff Hanneman Memorial Celebration” will happen next Thursday at L.A.’s Hollywood Palladium from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. It’s free and open to the public, at least until the venue reaches its capacity of 3,700 thrash fans.
“When we first formed Slayer, we used to rehearse all the time, religiously, 24/7,” frontman Tom Araya said in a statement. “Jeff and I spent a lot of time hanging out together; he lived in my father’s garage, which was also our rehearsal space. When he got his own apartment, he had an 8-track and I would go there to record songs I’d written, not Slayer songs, other stuff I’d written. At a certain point, you still have the band but you start your own lives outside of the band, so that 24/7 falls to the side, you don’t spend as much time together as you once did. I miss those early days.”
“I had so many great times with Jeff…in the early days when we were out on the road,” added guitarist Kerry King. “He and I were the night owls; we would stay up all night on the bus, just hanging out, talking, watching movies…World War II movies, horror movies. We watched Full Metal Jacket so many times, we could practically recite all of the dialogue.”
Check out a live clip of Slayer’s classic lineup below…
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Here’s how confident Holy Ghost! are about their second DFA album: They’re saving James Murphy’s contribution to the Dynamics sessions for a B-side. Elsewhere, Neon Indian and Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem, The Juan MacLean) contribute backing vocals, while the childhood friends at Holy Ghost!’s core (Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel) worry more about songwriting than their studio skills.
Or as Millhiser told Pitchfork, “Making that first record was…about figuring out what we wanted to be as a band. We learned how to engineer and produce—there were songs on that album where we recorded the drums five times. All that stuff was way easier this time around…As much as I’m proud of our first record, it’s not like it did so well that there’s this immense pressure to live up to it. It did just well enough that people are paying attention, so now we’re totally free to do whatever the fuck we want.”
Check out the first example of that attitude below, the summer-in-the-city single “Dumb Disco Ideas,” which is available now digitally through DFA. The album itself is expected later this year…
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So we could basically listen to Julianna Barwick for hours on end when things get stressful in the self-titled office. Her dutifully layered choral lines are simply that soothing without ever devolving into New Age-y nonsense. With that in mind, we’re happy to report that the singer has signed to Dead Oceans for her third album. Due out August 20th, Nepenthe is named after a “magic drug of forgetfulness used to wipe out grief and sorrow” that was often referenced in ancient Greek literature. It’s also meant as a nod to the rough times Barwick went through in the past year, as she lost a family member and isolated herself in Iceland with Sigur Rós collaborator Alex Somers (a.k.a. Jónsi’s longtime partner) and members of múm, Amiina and a local girls choir.
“I had never had anyone play on any record before, so this was a 180 turn,” explains Barwick. “I also was inspired just by being there, and the gorgeousness of that place. Your eyes can’t believe what they’re seeing. I walked home one night and got totally lost in Reykjavík. I ended up walking alongside the ocean—and it was glowing blue. It looked like it had a lamp underneath it. This is a completely different experience than recording myself in my Brooklyn bedroom.”
Bask in the album’s trailer down below, along with its cover art and complete tracklisting…
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An eBay benefit for the mounting medical expenses of Baroness and the band’s crew launched this afternoon, featuring exclusives and rarities from such friends/fellow riff-rakers as Mastodon, Neurosis, Kylesa, Napalm Death and Coliseum. According to the effort’s organizers—Relapse manager Rennie Jaffe and the group’s sound engineer (Jason Lupietuu) and Webmaster (Nath Cöre)—”all proceeds will be given directly to the band and will not line the pockets of anyone involved. We are not here to make a profit from this fundraiser…We thank each and every band for their help and donations and appreciate it to no end. We all can’t wait to see our friends in Baroness relieved of burden in every way possible.”
In related news, the tour bus driver facing criminal charges for last August’s accident says he refuses to appear in court due to the fact that his summons on several criminal accounts was served in his home country of Germany and it needs to be done in the UK. “You can’t issue a warrant for his arrest unless he re-enters the UK and a summons is served on him,” lawyer Jonathan Markus said, referring to his client, Norman Markus. “The problem is he’s not going to come to this court. How are you going to get him here? I say I’m afraid you can’t.”
So in other words, Baroness is going to need all the help they can get. Check out shots of some of our favorite benefit items below, and the full, biddable rundown here…
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