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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Pocketknife’s ‘Extra Alchemy’ Mix, Featuring Broadcast and The Focus Group, Demdike Stare, Liars, and More
Via Wilde Calm: As the leaves fall in the woods and the bonfires are lit, a new mix for you focusing on the darker rituals of the season with pagan pop, mystical dance tunes and haunted sound collages…a clank here, a distant chant there. I also included some reworks from the first Canyon Dancing as […]
VIDEO/MP3: Glass Candy’s Halloween Tribute To John Carpenter
via Johnny Jewel’s Soundcloud: Glass Candy’s sinister homage to the John Carpenter classic. A Candy coated gift for all the Ghouls & Goblins in Candyland. Trick Or Treat? Another teaser from ///BODY WORK///. Disorienting walls of synthesizers grasping for their last breath accompanied by Rossini’s most disturbing work to date. Unforgiving arpeggios slash at us […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Raime’s Rare Mixes For Blackest Ever Black, Sonar and FACT
After releasing an utterly flawless EP and 12” last year, Raime have remained relatively silent in 2011 aside from a CD/DVD package that was limited to just 50 copies. So yeah, they’re total cock teases, although the London duo is delivering a new AA single (“Told and Collapsed”/”You Will Lift Your Frame Clear”) through Blackest […]
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: Stream the Songs Portishead Played On Their Fall Tour and Read Our Review of Their Los Angeles Show
Words by J. Bennett self-titled recently made the unconscionable mistake of pouring a pint of shitty vodka down J. Bennett’s gullet before cutting him loose inside the Shrine Auditorium for the first engagement of Portishead‘s two-night stand in Los Angeles. The show was “fucking fantastic,” according to our intrepid reporter, who mailed us a soiled […]
NOW PLAYING: Frank Alpine, ‘Frank Alpine’
The Artist/Album: Frank Alpine, Frank Alpine (Wierd, 2011) A Short Review: While they’re on the same black-lit label (Wierd Records) and have similar names, Frank Alpine has nothing to do with Frank (Just Frank) beyond a shared interest in battery-powered synths and bleak lyrics. Beyond that surface tension lies a club-ready look at the darker […]
SELF-TITLED TV: Read Our Review of Amon Tobin’s ‘ISAM’ Tour and Watch the End of His First Encore At Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Words by Andrew Parks “It looks like the West Memphis Three is trying to start a mosh pit down there.” Welcome to the truly groundbreaking world that is Amon Tobin‘s ISAM tour; a sensory overload experience on par with the million dollar pyramid set Daft Punk brought to Brooklyn in 2007. Which is quite an […]
If You Like Tricky, You’ll Love … Octavius
Ever hear a record that reminds you of another artist, only different on enough levels to keep things from sounding truly derivative? Here’s one: