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As if he wasn’t busy enough with Beak>, a long-awaited hip-hop LP for Stones Throw (Quakers), and Portishead’s next album, Geoff Barrow also has a hefty release schedule ahead for his label Invada Records. Most of which pops up on a new Soundcloud sampler, including a surprisingly spry Chromatics cover by Anika. Check it out below…
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Since we’ve already shared Anika‘s non-musical influences and debated modern art with her at MoMa, self-titled thought we’d shift to another side of the singer’s psyche—the part that maintains a carefully curated record crate and occasionally emerges at random DJ gigs. Here’s an exclusive live vinyl mix, presented as part of our Needle Exchange series. Details on Anika’s first proper U.S. tour—beginning tonight at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York—are available at Stones Throw’s site…
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As the summer gets bookended by one of the worst storms in recent memory, self-titled has paired up with Jay-Z’s Life + Times site to present our first proper mixtape in forever: Pizza and a Bottle of Wine, a celebration of long nights, record highs, and everything from the flower power hooks of the Zombies to the beat suites of Boards of Canada.
Grab it below—a live 60-minute mix, mind you—along with the complete tracklisting…
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As much as we enjoyed hearing Anika tear through her carefully curated crate of 7-inches during the singer’s brief DJ tour earlier this year, we’re happy to report that one of self-titled‘s favorite new artists is finally playing some proper stateside shows. Check out the breakdown after the jump, alongside a recent video and our extensive feature from a couple issues ago, the one where we got deep and discussed how modern art is rubbish at New York’s MoMa…
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As you may have noticed on our Twitter feed, the iPad edition of our new issue landed on Zinio’s newsstand tonight. You can grab it here, or order a discounted subscription that starts today by clicking this.
Here’s what’s inside:
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All Tomorrow’s Parties have added a number of new artists to its I’ll Be Your Mirror festival in Asbury Park, including Mogwai, the Pop Group, Kool Keith’s old group Ultramagnetic MC’s, and a special set “Silver Qluster” set featuring Simeon of Silver Apples and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Harmonia/Cluster. Check out the day-by-day breakdown after the jump and find out how you can get single day tickets (three-day passes sold out in 72 hours) here…
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Peanut Butter Wolf on tour in Japan
Sample some of Stones Throw‘s 2011 releases after the jump, including freshly pressed tracks from Madvillain, Dam-Funk, CX-Kidtronik, and Mayer Hawthorne…
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Recording Under the Influence is a recurring self-titled feature where we ask artists to ignore their musical inspirations for a minute and share what really went into the making of a particular record.
In the spirit of our continuing year-end coverage, this week’s RUI post is devoted to one of 2010′s finest left-field albums: Anika‘s self-titled debut, which is quickly becoming one of our favorite cover albums of all time. No, really. Anyone who can bring a delightfully strange perspective to “Masters of War,” Yoko Ono and ’60s pop singers in one record gets our full attention. Having Geoff Barrow and his Beak> band involved certainly don’t hurt, but their dusty post-punk/dub grooves would be lost without Anika’s vaporized vocals—the painful cries of a political journalist who understands what it means to feel numb in a world that clearly needs to get its shit together.
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Another day, another All Tomorrow’s Parties announcement that makes us poor Anglophiles insanely jealous. This one’s the second curatorial turn from Portishead, who last convinced Aphex Twin, Sunn O))), Madlib and more to play 2007′s Nightmare Before Christmas festival. This time around, they’re in charge of London’s I’ll Be Your Mirror bill, headlining two nights—their only UK appearances next year—and pulling in Swans, Liars, Doom, Factory Floor, the first proper Company Flow show in 10 years, and a number of bound-to-be-killer artists who’ll be added in the months ahead.
Tickets for the July 23-24 event go on sale this Friday morning. Check out its confirmed artists after the jump, along with some videos of Portishead playing a couple years back…
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We ran into Geoff Barrow after Beak>‘s Bowery Ballroom show the other day and he simply could not stop talking about another project that has nothing to do with Portishead: the self-titled debut of Anika, a political journalist who doesn’t sing so much as project strange vibes (think: Nico caught in a K-hole). According to Stones Throw, Anika’s album (due out this December) was “recorded in twelve days, live, with [Beak> and Anika] in one room. Dub with no overdubs. The collaboration is political, trashy, dub, punk, funk…a cohesive sound, and an experience in uneasy listening.”
As he told us in an exclusive interview, Barrow has always been heavily into hip-hop—especially the alien MPC transmissions of Madlib—so his presence on Stones Throw makes more sense than you might think. That said, he isn’t planning on recruiting any of the label’s producers for Anika remixes just yet. If anything gets dropped beyond the album, it’ll be extended dub versions of some key cuts since Anika’s approach is very much in line with the no-wave/punk-funk movement that was tailor made for disco edits and dub plates.
For now, here’s Anika’s take on Yoko Ono (“Yang Yang”) and the complete tracklisting to her cover-driven LP…
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