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Devonté Hynes has been so busy making other artists (Solange Knowles and Sky Ferreira, for starters) sound good lately that it’s easy to forget his own Blood Orange project. Here’s a subtle reminder, then: a breathy, roughly cut cover of Kindness’ breakthrough single “Cyan”…
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Since self-titled revolves around three very different people, we thought we’d share individual year-end lists from each of our editors. You’ve already heard from our deputy editor/art director Aaron Richter; now here’s a completely different take from managing editor Arye Dworken, in no particular order…
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Since self-titled revolves around three very different people, we thought we’d share individual year-end lists from each of our editors, starting with the guy responsible for making our magazine look much more expensive than it is: deputy editor/art director Aaron Richter…
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As promised last week, Adam Bainbridge of Kindness will be posting up at the Internet Scrabble Club this afternoon from 3-6 p.m. EST. Here’s how you can match wits with the producer/singer in hopes of winning some loot from Terrible Records…
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As you may have read in our new issue, Adam Bainbridge (a.k.a. Kindness) is a major Scrabble fan. And as such, he’s agreed to block out three hours of his time (3-6 p.m. EST) next Tuesday, August 7th, to play self-titled readers on the only online forum for serious gamers: the Internet Scrabble Club. To enter, comment on this post with your Favorite Scrabble Word of All Time. We’ll be recruiting random players through that, as well as our Facebook page and Twitter account, so follow all three to up your chances of possibly beating one of the best and winning some vinyl from Terrible Records along the way.
Good luck! And no matter how good you think you are, we suggest checking out some of Bainbridge’s Scrabble tips down below…
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Well then; without further ado, we present to you the sixteenth issue of self-titled, which includes the following:
Check out the widescreen Web version, or support self-titled by nabbing the enhanced iPad edition and a subscription here.
Check out our lengthy interview with Kindness here. We’ll also be sharing a special feature about his love of Scrabble in the next issue of self-titled, which is set to drop in early July. Check out the singer/producer’s upcoming tour dates and a full stream of his House EP (due out next Monday, and featuring remixes from Zdar and Erol Alkan) below…
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Words by Andrew Parks
Adam Bainbridge is fully aware of the love or hate proposition his music presents. In fact, he’s witnessed it firsthand.
“Just this past weekend, someone misunderstood something I said in French,” explains the Kindness frontman. “They thought I was being facetious about the EastEnders cover (“Anyone Can Fall in Love”) or something.
He continues, speaking softly and steadily over the sound of coffee brewers and copy machines in a Paris cafe, “There’s this thing where if you have even a grain of cynicism in you, you’re always looking for a way to express it in the face of something that’s ridiculous. You’re waiting for the Achilles’ hell so you can say, ‘I knew it! He’s an ironic scumbag! Fuck that guy!’”
We didn’t quite have the same reaction to Kindness’ first proper LP, World, You Need a Change of Mind (available now through Terrible Records). If anything, we didn’t know what to make of Bainbridge’s solo work at first; after all, it’s not every day that a dude who looks like an model happens to sample Trouble Funk wholesale and cover both the Replacements (“Swingin’ Party”) and an obscure, defiantly cheesy theme song (Anita Dobson’s “Anyone Can Fall in Love,” taken from the BBC soap opera EastEnders).
We get it now though. As you’re about to read in a lengthy self-titled exclusive, Bainbridge is out to reclaim the open-minded omnivorism that once characterized such iconic clubs as the Paradise Garage and David Mancuso’s Loft. Folks in Philly and New York can hear and see what we mean when Bainbridge plays a couple rare live dates tonight at (Le) Poisson Rouge and tomorrow at Making Time’s twelfth anniversary party…
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self-titled had one simple goal for South by Southwest’s final night: make those last six hours count by plowing through as many Lone Stars and lineups as possible. Here are some shots of our favorite acts from Saturday, beginning with the one and only Ceremony…
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