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Pitchfork Adds 25 Acts to 2013 Festival, Including M.I.A., Wire, Savages, Merchandise, Glass Candy and More

March 26th, 2013 | File Under: News | Leave A Comment

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If you’re among the many on the fence about buying Pitchforks Music Festival passes four months early, consider your plans made. That’s because the site just confirmed 25 more acts for this summer’s soiree, from longtime draws like M.I.A., Wire and Yo La Tengo to such rising indie stars as Savages, Julia Holter and Merchandise. Oh, and both of our current cover stars, Pissed Jeans and METZ.

Check out the full breakdown below, and pick up your tickets for the weekend of July 19-21 here…

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Listen: Laurel Halo + Julia Holter + Daniel Wohl + Transit, Live @ Ecstatic Music Festival

February 27th, 2013 | File Under: Listen | Leave A Comment

If you missed the one-night-only performance of Laurel Halo, Julia Holter and the French electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl on Saturday, we’ve got some good news: their hour-long Ecstatic Music Festival set with the new-music ensemble Transit is now available to stream in full. Fall under its spell of fractured electronics and majestic melodies below, and check out more photos from the show here…

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LISTEN: Julia Holter, “Chiamami Adesso” (Paolo Conte Cover)

February 14th, 2013 | File Under: Listen | Leave A Comment

Photo by Jake Michaels

Welcome to the first of what will probably be many Valentine’s Day gifts from our favorite artists today: a lost-at-sea listen from Julia Holter, who cut a spare but spooky cover of the Italian singer Paolo Conte …

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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Julia Holter, “Marienbad (Alternate Version)”

December 16th, 2012 | File Under: Download This Now | Leave A Comment

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2012 IN REVIEW: Our Editor’s Top 10 Albums

December 12th, 2012 | File Under: 2012 In Review | One comment

Since self-titled revolves around three very different people, we thought we’d share individual year-end lists from each of our editors, ending with our EIC, Andrew Parks. It’ll be followed by further Best of 2012 coverage from our favorite labels and artists in the next couple weeks…

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Julia Holter Shares Fleetwood Mac Cover, “Goddess Eyes II” Video

November 29th, 2012 | File Under: Listen, Video | Leave A Comment

Lots of news on the Julia Holter front today, starting with the inevitable: her breakthrough album, Ekstasis, will be reissued in an “Expanded” digital edition on December 11th. Rounding out the record’s 10 original tracks is Live From Beaudry, a five-song set recorded with cellist Heather McIntosh (Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective) earlier this year.

On a semi-related note, the singer/multi-instrumentalist revealed Ekstasis’ sixth and final video today. Director Yelena Zhelezov describes the “Goddess Eyes II” clip as “inspired by the Latin phrase deus ex machine. In theater, deus ex machina is [a] plot device for seemingly unresolvable dramaturgical situations. The video is in tribute to Euripides and the literary spirit of the song that the video was conceived and directed.”

Heady stuff, then; take a look down below, alongside details on Holter’s Australian tour—which’ll be followed by a one-night-only performance with Laurel Halo and Daniel Wohl at New York’s Ecstatic Festival—and her recent cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic “Gold Dust Woman”…

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VIDEO: Julia Holter, “Goddess Eyes I”

August 28th, 2012 | File Under: Video | Leave A Comment

Here’s how director Jose Wolff sees the latest video from Julia Holter’s Ekstasis LP:

The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with visual noise, echoing the sonic noise present in the song. We go from lightness to darkness, away from a structured, fabricated place and into raw territory.

Check out “Goddess Eyes I” below, alongside details about Holter’s North American tour, which starts this Friday in New York…

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Tim Hecker and Oneohtrix Point Never Confirm Unsound Collaboration, Help Launch New Software Label Series

June 12th, 2012 | File Under: News | One comment

Tim Hecker and Oneohtrix Point Never have lined up a special collaborative performance at the 10th annual installment of Unsound’s Krakow festival. Also among the first round of confirmations are Julia Holter, Lustmord and Biosphere’s TRINITY project, and a rare “swan song” set from Leyland Kirby’s reclusive, art-damaged pop alias V/VM.

Oh, and if you’re wondering why Hecker’s holding a saxophone in the studio shot above, the pair apparently cut a record together this spring as part of a new Software Label series called SSTUDIOS. Co-curated by Daniel Lopatin and experimental music mainstay C Spencer Yeh, it’s meant to highlight the kind of one-off collabs that get Wire readers—and us—all out and bothered. More details on that front once we’ve got ‘em…

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FEATURE: Julia Holter Explains Her Love of Illuminated Manuscripts

May 4th, 2012 | File Under: Features, ST015 | One comment

Photo by Jake Michaels

When most people see illuminated manuscripts, they think of field trips, art-history classes or church. Julia Holter hears voices. Not literal chorus lines; more like muddled memories…and monks.

“I’m intrigued by the fact that monks read out loud when they worked,” says Holter. In the past year, Holter’s released two carefully cultivated LPs: the wild, wide-open spaces of Tragedy and the skewered pop songs of the recent Ekstasis, records influenced by doowop bass lines, ’80s beats, film characters, passing cars and even a manuscript or two—like the pieces on the following excerpt from our latest issue, alongside Holter’s reactions…

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VIDEO: Julia Holter, “Moni Mon Amie”

March 27th, 2012 | File Under: Video | Leave A Comment

According to its production notes, the video for Julia Holter’s “Moni Mon Amie” interprets the single “as a lyrical appeal to the unattainable other, and a conversation that’s being had with oneself. The longing transforms the perception of the everyday, turning each moment into a poetic landscape in which the miniature and the gigantic become interchangeable. Julia plays the subject and the object of desire in this video.”

In other words, it’s like a surreal version of Office Space. Check it out in the above player, or head on down below for Holter’s feature—a look at random illuminated manuscripts—in our new magazine issue…

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