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Swans Launch Crowd-Sourced Campaign For New Album with a Limited Live LP

Not content with simply offering a live album from their recent not-quite-a-reunion shows, Swans have printed up 1,000 woodblock-sheathed copies of their new double disc We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun In Our Head as part of a Kickstarter-like project for the band’s next studio album, The Seer. Here’s an abridged breakdown, straight […]

FROM THE STACKS: Blouse

While it’s nearly impossible to make sense of all the music that floods our mailbox, inbox, and various Web browsers every day–not to mention the shelves at self-titled‘s favorite record stores–we’re constantly looking for artists who make us stop what we’re doing and actually listen. Here’s one of them:

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Evian Christ’s ‘Kings and Them’ Mixtape

Whether we’re talking about the Haxan Cloak, Vessel or the oOoOO EP that was just revealed yesterday, it seems like a week can’t go by without a new signing or release announcement from Tri Angle Records. We can’t complain, though; not with a growing roster that’s this consistent, right down to the Evian Christ mixtape […]

NOW PLAYING: Lawrence English, ‘The Peregrine’

The Artist/Album: Lawrence English, The Peregrine (Experimedia, 2011) A Short Review: We haven’t read the bird-watching J.A. Baker book that Lawrence English’s latest solo LP is based on, but judging by the producer’s sweeping, painterly ambient pieces, it must be the one of the deepest, darkest nature narratives ever written. Or are the very least, […]