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LISTEN: Oneohtrix Point Never, “I Only Have Eyes For You”

May 10th, 2012 | File Under: Listen, Video | Leave A Comment

As first reported on Pitchfork last month, the multimedia artist Doug Aitken recently asked Beck, Devendra Banhart, James Murphy and a handful of other left field-leaning artists to cover the song “I Only Have Eyes For You” for his SONG 1 project. Set to happen at Washington, DC’s Hirshhorn Museum tomorrow, the multimedia art performance be live-streamed via Pitchfork.tv’s YouTube channel starting at 8 p.m. EST, featuring Aitken’s visuals and the music of Animal Collective’s Geologist, Nicolas Jaar, No Age, High Places, Tim McAfee-Lewis and Leo Gallo.

Check out Oneohtrix Point Never’s contribution in the above player and Aitken’s installation video below…

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VIDEO: Watch Nicolas Jaar’s Darkside Project Perform “Variations” and “Why Didn’t You Save Me” For MTV Hive & Yours Truly

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

As much as we love Nicolas Jaar, we didn’t expect much from his Darkside project at South by Southwest. Not because the duo (rounded out by guitarist Dave Harrington) has only released a promising EP so far; because live sets featuring loose riffs and laptop improv are often dire affairs indeed. Their performances completely exceeded our expectations, however, as they led a captivated FADER Fort crowd down a winding road of experimental dance music.

Hear what we mean in the two clips below, an “In My Room” collaboration between MTV Hive and Yours Truly…

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THE SXSW SUPERLATIVES: Our Final Word on This Year’s Fest, From the Finest Food Truck Finds to the Most Annoying Bro-Down

March 23rd, 2012 | File Under: SXSW 2012 | Leave A Comment

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…

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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Nicolas Jaar, “With Just One Glance You”

January 11th, 2012 | File Under: Download This Now | Leave A Comment

Photo by Shawn Brackbill

[Pitchfork] Nicolas Jaar has leaked yet another new song. Entitled “With Just One Glance You,” the slow-burner features Scout LaRue—a.k.a. the love child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore—on vocals. Grab it below, alongside Jaar’s other recent EP. You can also still stream, and read about, Jaar’s universally acclaimed debut album here…

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2011 IN REVIEW: Our Editor’s Top 10 Albums

December 19th, 2011 | File Under: 2011 In Review | One comment

By Andrew Parks

If you’re wondering why I’m filing my list so late this year, it’s simply because I can’t make up my damn mind. Depending on the day and my general mood, I’ve bumped and boosted at least 20 albums in and out of my Top 10. But that’s how we consume music now, isn’t it? By satisfying our immediate urges with streaming services and expandable hard drives, as well as the tactile pleasure of dropping a 180-gram slab of vinyl on a direct drive turntable.

Here are 10 records that survived a year of immediate discovery and indecision…

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FREE ASSOCIATION: Stream Nicolas Jaar’s ‘Space Is Only Noise’ Album and Read His Track-By-Track Commentary

December 15th, 2011 | File Under: 2011 In Review, Free Association | 2 comments

Photo by Shawn Brackbill

Words by Andrew Parks

When Nicolas Jaar was still learning how to crawl, his father, world-renowned installation artist Alfredo Jaar, took a picture of the infant New Yorker in a barren area between East and West Berlin—a striking black and white image that looks as if it’s captured a baby who’s been left behind on the moon. This past year, the producer found himself revisiting this photo as he worked to complete the woozy dream world of his truly bizarre Space Is Only Noise LP.

“One of the album’s main ideas is that ‘space’ can mean so many things,” says Jaar, taking a break from studying a Gabriel García Márquez book at Brown University. (The 21-year-old is a comparative-literature major, fluent in Spanish, English and French.) “It can mean the space in music, or silence. It can mean the galaxy, or it can mean the spaces we live in. Noise also has a lot of different connotations, so as a whole, those two things—space and noise—become very loaded when they’re put together.”

Laid out like a seamless DJ set, Space Is Only Noise sees Jaar sifting through 70 tracks and “curating” his past to tell a story that’s both personal and open to interpretation. In the following exclusive track-by-track breakdown, the artist discusses “about one or two percent of what it’s actually about”…

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Read Our New Issue, F/ Azealia Banks, Factory Floor, Nicolas Jaar, Das Racist, The Men & Lots of Year-End Lists

December 13th, 2011 | File Under: Featured, ST014 | One comment

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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2011 IN REVIEW: Our Art Director’s Top 10 Albums, From Juicy J to Nicolas Jaar

December 6th, 2011 | File Under: 2011 In Review, Featured | 3 comments

Black Lips live @ The Shank in Brooklyn

Photo by Andrew Parks

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: senior editor/art director Aaron Richter…

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PREMIERE: Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap, ’5 Years At the Marcy’ Mix

April 14th, 2011 | File Under: Premiere | 3 comments

We’ve never been to one of Wolf + Lamb‘s alarmingly intimate—we’re talking 50 people, tops—Marcy Hotel parties, but here’s what Ghostly International founder Sam Valenti IV had to say about them the other day: “The Marcy Hotel is a tangible manifestation of the Wolf + Lamb ethos. Reverential to history, though perfectly tweaked, with a detail and character that is distinctly their own. The space is the party, is the label, is the music.”

Come to think of it, maybe we should just let the following mix speak for itself. Available as a DJ-Kicks bonus disc at indie shops overseas, “5 Years At the Marcy” is a fitting tribute to watching the sun come up among Omar-S, Kate Bush, Jay-Z, and a room full of your nearest—and soon to be dearest—friends. Not to mention the perfect complement to the main event itself, a friends and family sparring session with the duo’s labelmates/Marcy Hotel regulars Soul Clap.

Get your own loft party started after the jump, alongside the most thorough track-by-track breakdown of a DJ mix we’ve ever run…

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NOW PLAYING: Nicolas Jaar, ‘Space Is Only Noise’

March 22nd, 2011 | File Under: Now Playing | Leave A Comment

The Artist/Album: Nicolas Jaar, Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company, 2011)

A Short Review: Like Matthew Dear‘s last couple LPs, Nicolas Jaar’s buzz-stirring debut isn’t a dance album, per se. Come to think of it, we’re not sure what it’s trying to achieve. And that’s exactly why it’s one of the year’s first truly promising LPs—because it doesn’t subscribe to any particular subgenre or scene. If anything, it’s simply a sketchbook of what Jaar is a capable of (samples that sound like scrambled memories, hooks that take hours to digest, beats that drop as they damn well please), with enough jumping off points for at least three records down the road.

Available At: Amazon · Insound · iTunes

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