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The following cover story originally ran nearly three years ago, around the release of the Liars album ‘Sisterworld’. It’s presented here in honor of the band’s biggest live show yet—in New York, at least—a site specific set at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tomorrow night…
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As we head into the weekend, we thought we’d get things started early—who wants to work at 5 on a Friday anyway?—with Girl Unit‘s entry in Night Slugs’ mad-for-it mix series. Aside from having key cuts from label mates like Kingdom, Jam City and L-Vis 1990, it tosses some left field selections in there like a stuttering Ozzy sample. Get into it…
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Remember the pre-Girl Talk days, when ‘mash-ups’ were a thing perfected by Soulwax and massacred by just about everyone else? Well the following Mux Mool bootleg works because it pays homage to both songs (The Supremes’ “Can’t Hurry Love” and Tweet’s “Oh My”) without cramping the other’s style too much. Happy Friday…
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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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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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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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Just in time for the launch of their late spring tour, Liars have shared a camera phone-sourced video for “I Saw You From the Lifeboat” and a free mailing list single that includes that synth-splashed track and a B-side that’s much more subdued yet still just the right amount of sinister (“Perfume Tear”). Check out both tracks below, and a rundown of tickets and tour dates here…
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Zebra Katz has finally released a proper follow-up to last year’s breakout hit “Ima Read.” A panic-attacked web of smoke rings, lascivious synth lines and charred beats, the DRKLNG mixtape also happens to feature the creepiest Tiffany cover (“I Think We’re Alone Now”) you’ll ever hear and a vicious set of verses from Busta Rhymes on the spare, speaker-slapping “Ima Lead.” (Maybe Rhymes isn’t as homophobic as he’s been made out to be? Or maybe he simply hasn’t seen last year’s “Rise of Queer Rap” stories.)
Long story short: the half-hour set—presented as one seamless, streamable track—is incredibly tight, with each pitch black track bleeding into the next and Katz maintaining a suffocating sense of dread throughout.
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