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LISTEN: Mark Lanegan, WhoMadeWho Cover One Other For Charity 7”
Unless you’re already familiar with Mark Lanegan’s work alongside Soulsavers, the singer’s love of the sample-slinging Kompakt group WhoMadeWho may seem a little surprising. They just covered one another for Amnesty International however, available here in a 1111-copy red vinyl run. “It’s a great honor to get this kind of respect and recognition by a […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Mountains, “Living Lens”
Described as the “most fully realized Mountains album,” Centralia is a carefully layered, perfectly paced collection of chromatic chords and analog/acoustic loops, unfurling like a drone LP with some actual light at the end of the tunnel. Hear what we mean by checking out “Living Lens” below, along with complete details on its Thrill Jockey […]
VIDEO: Autre Ne Veut + Mykki Blanco, “Counting”
In case you didn’t get the memo that Autre Ne Veut’s fantastic new single isn’t the love song it appears to be, the following video–a slight remix featuring guest verses from Mykki Blanco–certainly hammers the point home…
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: GRAMMY 2013 Nominees
Since arguing over whether this year’s GRAMMY nominees are relevant or not is kinda like screaming at your grandmother for not owning the latest 2 Chainz album, we thought we’d skip the snark and get straight to a Spotify playlist of songs we vouch for, guilty pleasures and otherwise. Subscribe/listen/argue below, alongside some of the […]
2012 IN REVIEW: Our Art Director’s Top 10 Albums
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:
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Chromatics + Glass Candy Cover New Order
Here’s something we didn’t think to do soon after posting Johnny Jewel’s latest DJ mix: separate the slow-burning New Order cover that lands right around the halfway mark, featuring Chromatics in the driver’s seat and Ida No of Glass Candy on guitar. Good thing someone else did it for us…
VIDEO: Dave Brubeck Quartet, “Take Five” (Live in Belgium, 1964)
Seeing the name Dave Brubeck pop up throughout your Twitter feed and wondering how the pianist/composer became a jazz icon? Here’s a 7-minute version of “Take Five”–the first jazz single to sell a million copies–that’s as good an argument as any…
BREAKING: An Interview With … Merchandise
Of all the shows self-titled saw this year, Merchandise’s Brooklyn debut a few months back was the one moment where we thought the buzz band before us would actually be playing a much larger room six months from now. Filling the crammed confines of St. Vitus from front to back, the sold-out set attracted a […]