INSIDE ST002: Growing Explains the Drama, Rash Decisions Behind Their Drone-Tastic Discography
Posted on February 4, 2009
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[Photo by Shawn Brackbill]
For more links to stories in self-titled’s second issue—including our “did that really just happen?” visit with Jay Reatard in Memphis—check out this breakdown. Our third digital mag goes live in a couple weeks.
While we’ve always dug the shimmering dronescapes of Growing, self-titled has a hard time telling their records apart sometimes. Maybe it’s because the duo’s stuck to an instrumental template for nearly a decade; either that, or it’s because bassist Kevin Doria and guitarist Joe Denardo have whittled their sprawling shards of riffs & EFX down to a distinct ‘Growing sound’ over the course of countless LPs, EPs, splits, cassettes, and limited live albums. Whatever the case is, we asked Doria to give us a guide to most of his back catalogue, including the recently-released All the Way album.
INSIDE ST002: Lindstrøm Shows Us His Favorite Spots in Oslo
Posted on January 31, 2009
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Dancing in the dark at Studio B
As you may or may not have heard, Lindstrøm was in town last night, taking us all on a tour of the space disco station in his mind. And what a utopian place it was, reminding us of the Oslo guide Mr. Feedelity contributed to our current issue. Click the photo after the jump for the full story and watch out for our third issue in a couple weeks …
INSIDE ST002: Bloc Party, Wayne Coyne Indulge Our ‘Lib Service’ Fantasies
Posted on November 26, 2008
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[Photo by Steve Gullick]
self-titled has avoided boring the shit out of artists since the second we started this daily site/digital magazine. Like the plague, really. One of the earliest ‘brilliant ideas’ we stumbled upon in our search for non-profile pieces was a simple but scintillating return to the Mad Libs pads of our stunted adolescence.
Meant as a way to not worry about anything but mindless queries like “lucky number” or an “adjective starting with C,” self-titled’s recurring Mad Libs page first ensnared No Age at this year’s South by Southwest festival. Our current issue caught two major artists in the act of filling out our “Chris Martin Licks the Wrapper” manifesto: Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, who’s in our actual issue, and Bloc Party, who offer an alternate take in the sheet below …
Self-Titled Releases New Digital Issue, Returns To Regularly Scheduled Daily Site
Posted on November 3, 2008
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Jay Reatard @ self-titled’s unofficial CMJ party
[Photo by Shawn Brackbill]
Wondering where the hell we’ve been for the past week? Well, we weren’t exactly planning our Halloween costumes (s/t’s editor actually threw this getup together—ouch!—on Saturday afternoon) or recovering from a rather boring CMJ. We’ve been busy finishing self-titled’s second interactive, digital-only issue, which is now online and tempting your cursor with the following:
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