Here are five new releases that stayed in our office rotation throughout the week…
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Tag: Black Dice
Photo by Alan Chan
As you may have noticed, we quietly released self-titled‘s fifteenth issue yesterday, including the stripped-down Web version and our enhanced iPad edition, which features streaming music on nearly every page. Here’s what you can expect inside:
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Black Dice will release their latest record, Mr. Impossible, through Ribbon Music on April 10th. Have a listen to “Pinball Wizard” above, and download another new song below, right alongside some tour dates…
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Black Dice have revealed the details behind their sixth album, Mr. Impossible. Due out April 10th, it’s their first release through Ribbon Music, the new label responsible for John Maus and Laura Marling’s last records.
Here’s what you can expect, according to the band’s press release:
The album is the soundtrack to a substance-fueled teen basement show on Mars. It explores the uncommon ground between The Seeds punk primitivism, extra-terrestrial throbbing of Funkadelic, and discordant rebelliousness of Royal Trux. The record is informed by countless live performances the group has done worldwide, over its long lifetime. Band highlights from past eras were re-germinated, and grew into a new mutation called Mr. Impossible. Consistent to every era and all of Black Dice’s material is an irreverent, aggressive, hand-made aesthetic that simultaneously revels in and reconfigures the whole of popular culture.
A hand-numbered, screen-printed LP pressing is now available for pre-order here, and you can check out an MP3 and video for its first single, “Pigs,” below alongside our lengthy Black Dice feature from the first issue of self-titled…
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As the downright comical delay of the Avalanches’ second album continues, Modular Records has decided to placate fans with a proper reissue of the collective’s classic Since I Left You LP. Here’s what they had to say:
The Since I Left You 10-Year Anniversary Re-Issue will feature the original classic album accompanied by a bonus disc of material including remixes from the original album campaign, new reworks from the likes of El Guincho, MF Doom, Canyons, Black Dice, Jackson and his Computer Band, some exquisite Avalanches remixes of other artists, plus unreleased early b-sides, demo tracks and other such rarities.
Follow us on Facebook for the first word on the full announce of details including release date, deluxe packages and pre-order info.
For now to help prepare you to rediscover Since I Left You and experience its timeless trip around a world of wonderous sample-based pop one more time, we have uncovered a rare Stereolab Remix of the album’s title track for your enjoyment.
The original master has long since disappeared from the vaults, but we have this lovely, dusty, promo-only vinyl rip for you to enjoy, which in a strange way seemed perversely appropriate.
Check out that remix below, along with the priceless Buzz Bin video for “Frontier Psychiatrist”…
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More details about Animal Collective‘s All Tomorrow’s Parties bill are available here. Check out a killer two-hour mix that starts with Orthrelm and ends with Zomby below…
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Black Dice live; photo by Turkishomework
Interview moderated by Alan Licht
Before we get into the long-awaited conclusion of our rather epic Black Dice/Genesis P-Orridge interview (see also: Part One and Two), here’s a reminder of who’s who here:
GPO: Genesis P-Orridge
BC: Bjorn Copeland
EC: Eric Copeland
AW: Aaron Warren
AL: Alan Licht
And a taste of what’s discussed this time around: The Soft Machine, Incredible String Band, vengeful drummers, flamboyancy in music, seeing the Sweet in a sports bar, Wax Trax, cadavers, sound-induced seizures, talking to William S. Burroughs about alchemy, the definition of reality, Jesus as a hermaphrodite, Second Life, Genesis’ years as a dominatrix, plastic surgery, homophobia, Cruise and Kubrick, money, Coachella, reunion show politics, near-death overdoses, Pussy Galore specials, Tony Conrad team-ups, DFA-endorsed black sheep, the Grateful Dead, drug tolerance, rude fans, magic, and much, much more…
Photos by Andrew Parks
As brutal as Secret Project Robot’s sweat box show was on Wednesday night, we were relieved to find Black Dice in top form around the halfway point. Having seen them countless times, we can safely say that their current sound—a manic but strangely melodic meeting of prog-rock, techno and nihilistic noise—is a couple fine-tunings away from their best album in years. Here’s a sampling of what we saw, and while you’re at it, why not check out our extensive Black Dice feature from the first issue of self-titled? It’s available for free right here.
Photos by Turkishomework
Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. This column was a no-brainer: Lighting Bolt, Black Dice and a rowdy crowd of costumed buffoons at Brooklyn’s new “Above the Auto Parts Store” spot.
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