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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Azealia Banks, ‘Fantasea’ Mixtape
Stream/download Fantasea below, and be sure to check out our lengthy, rather revealing cover story interview with Azealia Banks or download the iPad edition here. “Fantasea is almost kind of a first album of sorts,” Banks wrote via Twitter. “But it happened by mistake…It’s weird. This is a test run. I tried a lot of […]
INTERVIEW: Twin Shadow Invites Us Over For Dinner
Photos by Nathanael Turner Words by Andrew Parks “I hate following recipes, and I hate measuring anything,†says George Lewis Jr., the singer/multi-instrumentalist behind the prismatic indie pop songs of Twin Shadow. “It’s not because I’m lazy; its because I believe if you make the same dish three nights in a row and you don’t […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Horse Meat Disco’s Latest Podcast
There’s no tracklisting for this one, just the vague detail that the latest Horse Meat Disco podcast features “James Hillard and Luke Howard playing records bought on a recent trip to California.” Speaking of Howard, he shared a wonderful YouTube-guided breakdown of 10 essential disco records here.
Prefuse 73 Readies the Return of His Piano Overlord Project
Chicago’s recently reactivated Chocolate Industries imprint (see: their killer no-budget soul collection Personal Space) has quietly announced its first proper album release in six years. Due out next Tuesday, Aninha Mission is the return of Prefuse 73’s Piano Overlord alias, which released a series of limited singles through Turntable Lab’s Money Studies label in the […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Das Racist + Talib Kweli, “The Actual”
Grab the rest of Eastern District’s ‘MOSHOLU’ mixtape here.
VIDEO: Florence + the Machine and Dev Hynes Cover Green Day
We’re not sure why they’re just releasing this now, but the Green Day cover above is the first in a series of clips featuring Florence + the Machine and Dev Hynes (Blood Orange, Lightspeed Champion) performing an intimate set at one of the Ace Hotel’s Coachella parties. In semi-related news, Florence Welch has been forced […]
VIDEO: Purity Ring, “Fineshrine”
Purity Ring will release their eagerly awaited debut album, ‘Shrines’, on July 24th through 4AD.
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Cult of Youth, “Man and Man’s Ruin”
Photo by Caroline Mort Four issues back on the magazine side of self-titled, we ran a feature that poked fun at ‘trend pieces’ like Stereogum’s “18 Dark Bands To Watch in 2011.” Our spin was simple: let’s ask three of our favorite goth-y artists what makes them smile. Because even Cure fans have their good […]