[Sacred Bones] Stream Moon Duo‘s latest album here alongside a track-by-track commentary, and check out Ripley Johnson’s favorite 2011 reissues below…
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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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Wooden Shjips’ West LP is available now through Thrill Jockey. Check out their upcoming tour dates below…
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The Artist/Album: Wooden Shjips, West (Thrill Jockey, September 13th)
The Details: Like everything Ripley Johnson touches, Wooden Shjips’ first properly produced LP—as engineered by Trans Am co-founder Phil Manley and mastered by Spacemen 3′s Sonic Boom—is a profoundly psychedelic vision of what it’s like to live at the very bottom of a lava lamp. It also makes us want to get a speeding ticket in the middle of the desert at 4 a.m.
Pre-Order At: Amazon · Thrill Jockey
Listen/Look:
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You can download “Mazes” below and stream Moon Duo‘s entire new album alongside a track-by-track commentary here…
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Photos by Aaron Richter
Free Association is a recurring self-titled feature where we go beyond simply streaming a new album (we’re looking at you NPR and Spinner!) and ask our favorite artists to share the stories behind their songs. Up this week: the flash-fried psych/Kraut-rock goodness of Moon Duo, who released their first proper LP on Sacred Bones today.
If you dig what you hear, be sure to scoop up the killer series of singles and EPs—some of which are limited and long gone—that predated the slightly poppy turns of Mazes. Frontman/commentary writer Ripley Johnson (he’s rounded out by Sanae Yamada’s Silver Apples-like synth lines in Moon Duo, and shreds his way through Wooden Shjips when the power of the riff compels him) also dropped a truly trippy Needle Exchange mix for us last year…
Poland's OFF Festival
For the stories and sets related to any of the following photos, just click on the shots…
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Find out about the latest addition to ATP‘s growing lineup of carefully-curated events here and check out a mix from the budget-minded “mini-festival” below…
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“If they catch you, just say you’re Americans! They won’t shoot!”
That’s what Jacqueline Castel and her Future Primitive Films crew heard as they hopped a decrepit fort fence in Queens and captured part of Gary War’s “Highspeed Drift” video—her first of many for one of self-titled‘s favorite local labels, Sacred Bones Records. (Among Castel’s other activities: custom headdresses for Devendra Banhart; costumes based on Marcel Dzama’s Department of Eagles video; and movie curation through The Third Floor, a collective of ex-Kim’s Video employees.)
Taking cues from our Primer guides to artists, subgenres and scenes, the following is our first installment of Screening Room, a running commentary that revolves around music video directors that’d be all over MTV…if it was 1991 and Matt Pinfield was still around. If you or someone you know would make sense for a future profile, let us know over at our Twitter or Facebook pages.
And now, our feature presentation…
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Photos by Aaron Richter
The Artist & Their Latest Release: Moon Duo, Escape (Woodsist, 2010)
The Showcase: WFMU/Aquarius Records @ Encore Patio, 3.19.10
The Set In a Few Sentences:
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