SHE & HIM: Wayyyy better than Dogstar
By Aaron Richter
As you all certainly know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. So every week self-titled presents a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?
[CW from top: Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid, Yoni Wolf]
[Photos by Jacob Hand]
By Arye Dworken
self-titled: Yoni, what’s shaking?
Nothing much. Just got back from a jog. About to have some coffee and relax.
Are you still out in California?
Sure am. No plans to leave just yet. There’s been talk, some talk about moving to New York. I don’t know. The girl that I’m seeing right now is moving out there. My brother is talking about moving out there. We’ll see. Are you in the city or Brooklyn?
I’m in the city. I got married recently.
Wow, you’re all settled down and shit.
Text/Photos by Aaron Richter
We learned two things from the Vines show on Monday: (1) Frontman Craig Nicholls is still alive, and (2) the Vines perform the absolute worst cover version of OutKast’s “Ms. Jackson” that we could ever possibly imagine. Full review after the jump …
Yep, it’s true. Here’s the plan according to the band:
THE RACONTEURS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM “CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY” EVERYWHERE….IN ONE WEEK
“Album” meaning: full length vinyl, CD and digital formats; and “everywhere” meaning: local mom and pop Indie retailers, corporate superstores, supermarkets, iTunes, Amazon, the band’s own website and any other location that could get the record up and going this quickly (some places couldn’t move this fast, so they will join in as soon as they can).
It contains 14 new recordings and is being released globally on Third Man Records in conjunction with our marketing/distribution partners, XL Recordings and Warner Brothers Records.
The album was mastered and completed in the first week of March. It was then taken immediately to a vinyl pressing plant. Then to a CD pressing plant. Then preparations to sell it digitally began. March 25th became the soonest date to have it available in EVERY FORMAT AT ONCE. The band have done no interviews or advertisements for this record before this announcement.
JUSTICE @ the Playboy Party
Sorry we’ve been so quiet this week, but South By Southwest is proving to be as impenetrable and exhausting as ever this year. A full report will be coming early next week and complete photo galleries will be popping up intermittently from this point on, but for now, we give you SxSW in pictures thus far. After the jump please …
JUNIOR BOYS: Wax on, wax off
[Photo by Timothy Saccenti]
By Aaron Richter
As you all certainly know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. So every week self-titled presents a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?
While the recent announcement of Sunday at Devil Dirt—the second full-length from the sweet and sour pairing of Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell—may seem like a surprise to most given Lanegan just released the Gutter Twins’ debut, we know better over here at self-titled. Why? Because Campbell told us the duo was almost done with another album a few months back—when a few simple questions about working with the former Screaming Tree turned into quite the insightful Q&A.
The true dirt after the jump …
KNIVES OUT
Photos by Aaron Pederson
Cadence Weapon approached his second album, Afterparty Babies (Anti-), with one of the purest goals an artist could have: the desire to meet Tina Fey. Of course, the rapper/producer also finds time to gripe about girls and dis ridiculous hipster fashion. But that’s besides the point, really.
self-titled caught up with Cadence, known to his parents as Rollie Pemberton, to talk about Canada, songwriting and his former life as a music critic.
Text/Photos by Aaron Richter
It seemed like few knew what to expect in the minutes before Gang Gang Dance’s performance at the Park Avenue Armory, in conjunction with the opening of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Even more were confused as they were told that the room was at capacity and to please stop crowding the doorway.
But as the band started playing, an odd projection started to shimmer on the hallway wall outside the entrance to the performance space. Not being inside the room, it took a few minutes to realize that in the projection was the emerging outline of a man striking brush strokes against the wall and an image appearing on top of these brush strokes. As more brush strokes crossed the projection wall, the image became clear that it was a face wearing a metallic mask. As the painter eventually covered the entire surface, the performing band was revealed, an intriguing effect that, at times, had the intimacy of a Warhol screen test and, at others, the loose improv clusterfuckiness of a lost episode of TV Party.
Sally Shapiro is so terrified of performing that her first brief tour of the U.S. (including a stop tonight at New York’s Mercury Lounge) is a DJ-only affair alongside her Italo-sculpting producer Johan Agebjörn. While this’ll be exciting to all the disco revivalists out there—the kind that equally worship Lindstrøm, Giorgio Moroder and Metro Area—those of us who fell for Shapiro’s Disco Romance disc are going to have to wait a little longer to hear any of those tracks in a live setting.
In the meantime, Shapiro has not one but two volumes of remix collections on the way this spring, the first of which drops on April 15 and features expansive and airy pop (Holy Fuck’s “Find My Soul” treatment), wobbly synths and slight Depeche Mode melodies (Junior Boy’s “Jackie Junior”), and a downright epic Lindstrøm remix (“Time to Let Go”) that starts off in Cybotron territory with electro breaks and vocals that weave in and out of the mix like the haunted forest whispers that taunt us in Lost. In other words, every contributor twists their track into new territories far removed from Shapiro’s original recordings. Oh by the way: If you can’t wait to hear all of the above on CD, Remix Romance Vol. 1 is available through Amazon’s digital store here. Vol. 2, on the other hand, will be available on May 13 and include remixes from DNTEL, Solvent, and Russian Futurists.
Which brings us to a very special Sally Shapiro feature: our first edition of “IM S/T,” an extensive unedited conversation with an artist over—you guessed it—Instant Messenger. Check it out after the jump along with some of Johan’s DJ mixes and other mixed media links …
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