Photos by Andrew Parks
Now that we’ve had nearly a week to process this year’s South by Southwest festival, self-titled thought we’d take a minute to dish out a lengthy list of completely random awards in such crucial categories as the Dopest Shoes and the Set That Should Have Been Horribly Boring But Wasn’t. Congratulations to all…
In our quest to provide you with Valentine’s Day content that’d work year round, we asked a former s/t cover star (Dee Dee of the Dum Dum Girls) and her husband, Crocodiles frontman Brandon Welchez, to share a mixtape of songs that have special meaning to their relationship. As expected, their Stoned In Love mix is schmaltz free, and including such priceless liner notes as “in addition to being sexually attracted to Dee Dee, I’m also sexually attracted to Richard Hell.”
Aren’t we all…
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Photo by Aaron Richter
Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches and William Cody Watson have curated a special compilation for the latter’s Bathetic label called Expressway. Featuring exclusives from both artists and such fringe favorites as Cough Cool, Xander Harris and Wet Hair, it’s meant as a travelogue of sorts.
Or as Hungtai puts it on the record’s liner notes page, “Whether its years spent on the road, relocating to another town, working to pay the rent, playing numerous gigs underpaid or with zero pay, writing until eyes crossed, recording until ears decay, dying in a Tibetan sense, or simply living, this compilation is a collective meditation of our personal travels. One of love, of hate, of wander, and of mileage.”
Hit the road below…
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Photo by Bryan Sheffield
Look, we can’t blame you for missing some of self-titled‘s finest magazine features from the past year. Digging through our digital issues takes some dedication, which is why we went ahead and selected 20 standout stories from 2011, from Anika discussing modern art at MoMA and exclusive interviews with Zomby and Charlotte Gainsbourg to pieces about bourbon, Nine Inch Nails, whiskey, stage outfit sketches, gospel, minimalism, personal record collections, and the power of the riff.
Have a look and a listen below, or head here to subscribe to self-titled‘s fully interactive edition for just $8 a year…
The Men, shot at their rehearsal space
Photo by Jimmy Fontaine
As promised late last week, we’ve uploaded the Web version of our latest issue for mass consumption a few days earlier than our enhanced iPad edition. Check it out below—featuring cover stories on Azealia Banks, The Men and Factory Floor, and exclusive features with Nicolas Jaar, Charlotte Gainsbourg and many, many more—or on a dedicated widescreen page here…
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Photo by Aaron Richter
Now here’s a mixtape we missed the first time around and wholly endorse: a flawless collection of film music that files Charlie Brown in the same set as selections from Masculin Féminin, Downtown 81 and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Have a listen below, right alongside our special feature with Dirty Beaches from our last issue…
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Memory Tapes (Photo: Travis Huggett)
Good news for anyone who misses reading actual magazines: our new issue is now available in its standard Web edition here. The iPad pressing is imminent as well, but for now, here’s what you’re getting for free:
Stay tuned to our Twitter account and Facebook page for more info, including details on how to score a hand-numbered LP and a pair of concert tickets from our cover star!
Via the Dirty Beaches blog:
This was originally recorded around 2007, when my friends were playing chess at my apartment in Montreal on Parc Ave. Originally created as a drone instrumental soundtrack for some imaginary film noir picture that doesn’t exist. At the time, I was obsessed with the idea of trying to make my guitar sound like a trumpet, warping it into different instruments sonically. Chess music was born in our minds that night like some black jet bombing a nameless landscape into hell as their game of chess carried on.
The recording is from a tape transfer to my computer in 2007, from this piece of shit shoebox recorder I bought at a Jewish camera store on Parc Ave for $20. The project was then abandoned after I started working on “HORROR” for Fixture Records. I’ve tried to clean it up as much as I can digitally, after rediscovering it on my hard drive today.
It is now exorcised into digital format from the grave.
Find out more about one of our favorite new artists here, and grab his rather testy Chess Music tape below…
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JEFF the Brotherhood
Words and Photos by Aaron Richter
I’d like to preface self-titled‘s South By Southwest wrap-up with a disclaimer. I made a simple rule this year: to follow my own tastes—strictly want-to-sees, no supposed-to-sees. Some of these happened to coincide with mass quantities of beer, but that’s besides the point. Here are 10 artists I’m actually looking forward to hearing more from this year…
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Dirty Beaches
Photos by Aaron Richter
Two SXSW photo sets with Yuck in them? Indeed. They’re that good. But hey, we also saw the following bands…
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