So we just got the following message from Yeasayer:
Continue reading »
PREMIERE: Tandy Love, ‘Cache Cache’ Mixtape For Finders Keepers
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 100: An Exclusive Mix By … Orbital
BREAKING: An Interview With … Kindness
INTERVIEW: Spiritualized’s J. Spaceman Shares His Life Story
Stream ‘The Diver’ & Read About Led Er Est’s Literary Influences
Ben Chasny has announced a new Six Organs of Admittance album featuring some of his former Comets on Fire bandmates. Due out August 21st through Drag City, Ascent was tracked at Tim Green’s Louder Studios and features the following, according to a press release:
No, these aren’t those dusty old 2002 moments with the dust blown off. We live today, and so does Six Organs of Admittance! To manipulate the past would change the world forever. Instead, the time line for Ascent occurs on our identical Earth, on the other side of the sun, telescoping the strength and power of that moment in 2002 and it’s electri-Six-O after-affects by viewing it through the mind’s opera-glass, in the present. From the opening red storm of “Waswasa” to the sentinel strength of “Even If You Knew” and the sensual lilt of “Visions (From Io),” the sound of this Six Organs is that of full-tilt rock band. The fun and fury of electric Six Organs of Admittance is evidenced in every molten groove.
Grab “Waswasa” below, alongside a complete tracklisting…
Continue reading »
Photo by Aaron Richter
Interview by Robert Ham
I didn’t really have any records when I was a kid. I think we had three records in the house. Stuff like the Australian Army Band album. I remember hearing stuff on Radio 2 that my mom really liked—middle-of-the-road music.
My lucky break came when I bought Raw Power. I have no idea why I bought it. I have a feeling it was on sale, which probably influenced my decision. When I heard it, I felt like I had a gem and I didn’t want anyone else to know it.
My mum bought me a guitar. We didn’t have any money so she bought it secondhand. An acoustic. he showed it to me ahead of time to see if it was something I’d like. Once I hit a few chords on that, I was hooked.
If you wanted to be a musician, you went to art college. It wasn’t always for people who wanted to do art. It was for people who couldn’t do anything else.
Continue reading »
For a complete stream of The Money Store (available now through Epic), and our lengthy review, head here.
The Artist/Album: High on Fire, De Vermis Mysteriis (E1 Music, 2012)
Our Review: Considering how profoundly dazed and confused Matt Pike looks in 90-percent of High on Fire’s press photos—and every single one of Sleep’s—we’re not quite sure if it’s surprising or fitting that his latest flight of fantasy is a concept album centered around a Chinese alchemist, Quantum Leap-like time travel, and Jesus’ sacrificial twin. (What, you didn’t know he had one?) We’ll go with fitting, a classification that also applies to just how in the zone Pike and the rest of the band are throughout their sixth LP—a jilted journey that’s as expertly paced musically as it is thematically, right down to the smoky instrumental interlude that splits it in half.
Available: Amazon · Insound · iTunes
Stream ‘De Vermis Mysteriis’ in full via Spotify below…
Continue reading »
With their first album in 16 years—and the launch of a lengthy worldwide tour—a little less than three months away, Dead Can Dance have shared a free live EP from their 2005 trek. Available for the cost of your E-mail address down below, it’ll be replaced with another set in a couple months…
Continue reading »
Via Stones Throw:
The pianist Weldon Irvine, Jr. was a formative influence on Madlib’s Yesterdays New Quintet transformation. Indeed, the pianist was the first of the “jazz elders” to validate Madlib’s take on jazz when the hip-hop producer began recording jazz in 2000.
Weldon Irvine died by suicide ten years ago this spring. After he passed away, Mr. Dibbs called for a project to benefit his young son, and former Stones Throw manager Egon went about putting together this collection.
The resulting record Suite for Weldon was released in 2003, featuring a 10-minute track from Yesterdays New Quintet (with an uncredited Malcolm Catto) and two more from Dibbs and Breakestra. B+ contributed the photo, Weldon Irvine Jr’s hands on the piano.
A year later Madlib’s own album Tribute To Brother Weldon album came out under the name Monk Hughes and The Outer Realm.
Read more about Madlib here.
Check out the full tracklisting for Liars’ Field Day mix here, and our cover story with the band from a couple years ago down below…
Continue reading »
Now here’s a way to make CD-Rs sound exciting: package them in hand-painted floppy discs and limit the run to around 150 copies. That’s what Matthewdavid first did with his Disk Collection in 2008, and what he plans to do in the coming weeks with a nine-track sequel that “features the friendships of Eola, Run DMT, Speculator, and a live performance on KXLU.”
You can pre-order Disk II at the producer’s Leaving Records site, and download part one in full down below…
Continue reading »
