Blog Grid
Inspired by the magazine layout, Grid makes neat and clean appearance. It is always a good layout to start with.
10 (Not So Damn Obvious) Artists Worth Seeing At SXSW 2012
Photo by Bryan Sheffield Here are some artists we’re psyched to see at South By Southwest this year: Charli XCX, Oneohtrix Point Never, the War On Drugs, Matthew Dear, Youth Lagoon, Nicolas Jaar, Thee Oh Sees, Machinedrum, Light Asylum, Torche, Chelsea Wolfe, Blondes, Cloud Nothings, G-Side, King Tuff, Peaking Lights, Hudson Mohawke, Daedelus, Flying Lotus, […]
PREMIERE: Barn Owl’s Jon Porras Shares An Unreleased Solo Track
As some of you may have noticed, we’re huge Barn Owl fans around here. Not just the duo’s astral plane albums, either; we’ve also been known to track down the respective solo LPs of Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti, even the really limited ones. The video above is not from the former’s new record, but […]
VIDEO: Chromatics, “Back From the Grave”
Yep, it’s another (the fifth!) video from the new Chromatics album Kill For Love. You can read all about the long-delayed record–as well as Glass Candy’s new album–here.
NE092: An Exclusive Wire Mix
Words + Mix COLIN NEWMAN I don’t get to DJ very often but when I do I always play music that you can dance to. Granted, it might be different kinds of dancing, and very different styles, but for dancing nonetheless. This is a precis of the last DJ set I played (about three weeks […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Julia Holter, Live @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
As you may have noticed, we’re pretty obsessed with Ekstasis, Julia Holter’s second essential LP in less than a year. And as such, self-titled‘s sad to say we missed the singer/multi-instrumentalist’s first New York performance earlier this week. Props to NPR, then, for streaming the entire (Le) Poisson Rouge set and providing the MP3 version […]
COMING SOON: Quakers, ‘Quakers’
The Artist/Album: Quakers, Quakers (Stones Throw, March 27th) What To Expect: Geoff Barrow first alluded to this album in a self-titled interview a few years ago, promising “loads of underground people, a proper old-school posse. Dudes rapping about cash doesn’t really interest us.” The Portishead/Beak> co-founder also said that Quakers would fall right in line […]
El-P Announces New Fat Possum Album, ‘Cancer For Cure’, Featuring Danny Brown, Killer Mike, Paul Banks and More
El-P has finally finished his first album in five years. Due out on May 22nd through Fat Possum, Cancer For Cure features a stacked guest list, including Danny Brown, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Paul Banks (Interpol) Nick Diamonds (Islands), and Killer Mike, whose latest LP (R.A.P. Music) was produced entirely by El-P. Check out his SXSW […]
Orbital and Zola Jesus Team Up On ‘New France’ EP
In a move that’ll be surprising to some but makes perfect sense give her love of drop-free rave music, Zola Jesus has lent her operatic caterwaul to an Orbital track called “New France.” Packaged alongside remixes from the Hydraulic Dogs, L-Vis 1990 and one-time Aphex Twin collaborator Tom Middleton, it’ll be available in EP form […]