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FREE ASSOCIATION: Aaron Aites of Iran Explains His Kyp Malone-Assisted, Ziggy-Esque Concept Album
March 4, 2009
For all of the talk about Iran being the ‘mysterious’, four-track-fueled no-fi project of Aaron Aites and Kyp Malone, the former couldn’t wait to enter a proper recording studio for the duo’s first full-length in more than five years. As Aites told self-titled‘s editor in an eMusic interview, the never-ending Dissolver sessions were “a dream […]
FEED THE ANGER: Crowd Control and Fan Photography at the Scion Rock Fest
March 4, 2009
Photos by Aaron Richter self-titled donned its best paparazzi cap this past Saturday and scoured Atlanta’s Scion Rock Fest for the event’s best fans. Keep your eye out for the finely bearded gent above. He makes another appearance during Mastodon’s set toward the end of this post. Though we’re pretty sure he lost his hat […]
FEED THE ANGER: The Scion Rock Fest Superlatives
March 3, 2009
Words and Color Photos by Aaron Richter / B&W Photos by Austin L. Ray There was a moment this past Saturday in Atlanta, as I emerged from the crowd at the Scion Rock Fest, when I exhaustingly checked the time and realized there was still seven hours of metal to be had, seven more hours […]
SNOW DAY!: From Pan•American to Pantha Du Prince, We Have the Music to Melt Your Black Little Hearts
March 3, 2009
Look, we realize we’re lucky; that we have the luxury of not worrying about record snowfall numbers because the self-titled office is in the same neighborhood as all of our apartments. Beyond that, our editor hails from Buffalo, NY, a blue-collar city that turns into a frozen tundra every winter. So yeah, eight inches of […]
LISTENING STATION: From French Black Metal to Black Sabbath, Buzz Saw-Shaped 12’s to Blue 45’s, Tombs Has a Hell of a Record Collection
March 2, 2009
Photos by Aaron Richter While we certainly appreciate when a band takes a self-titled assignment seriously, we had no idea what we were in for when we asked Tombs to share the prized platters in their respective record collections. All three members–frontman Mike Hill, drummer Andrew Hernandez and bassist Carson Daniel James–responded with some of […]
I WAS THERE: Grizzly Bear Leaves Us Feeling Shaken and Stirred At Highbrow-Baiting BAM Show
March 1, 2009
[Photos by willshu] By Andrew Parks No, they didn’t play “Knife.” And you know what? They really didn’t need to. As we said after Grizzly Bear‘s brief New Yorker performance a couple weeks back, the Brooklyn band is on the cusp of something big and nerve-shatteringly beautiful with their third proper full-length, Veckatimest. And by […]
THE S/T FIVE: “So ‘Relative Ways’ Still Kinda Rules,” And Four Other Reasons We’ve Seen …Trail of Dead Way Too Many Times
February 28, 2009
Photos/Text by Andrew Parks We’re not sure how it happened, but we’ve seen …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead more than any other band of the past five years. As in enough times–8? 11? 15?–to say we’ve witnessed the Texan transplants at their worst (the SxSW ’06 gig where frontman Conrad […]
I WAS THERE: Thievery Corporation Brings Splintered Breaks, Beautiful Women to Terminal 5
February 27, 2009
Photos/Text by Sean Edgar Thievery Corporation probably wouldn’t blame you for doubting their live show. After all, the DC-based DJs/producers, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, specialize in splicing downbeat grooves and tropical jingles–the kind of cuts that are tailor made for European cafés and Banana Republic Stores. Given that their discography embraces such lackadaisical electronica […]
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