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THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Elbow

Five albums in, Elbow still finds itself in a weird place. The British band is neither overtly arty like Radiohead, nor as sappy and saccharine as Coldplay. Instead, frontman Guy Garvey and his band of brothers are somewhere in the middle of it all–hopeless romantics, men out of time with the goal of evoking genuine […]

TEST PRESSING: Stream Dum Dum Girls’ New ‘Only In Dreams’ Album

You can pre-order Only In Dreams at Sub Pop’s site—complete with a special 7-inch!—and read all of our old Dum Dum Girls coverage here and in the next issue of self-titled, which features the band’s first cover story. Look out for it in early October. In the meantime, here’s a streaming version of the record…

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Hudson Mohawke’s Cubic Zirconia Megamix

Now that Cubic Zirconia have finally released the album they’ve been promising us for years (Follow Your Heart, available now through Fool’s Gold), the genre-jumping trio have tapped an old friend—the one-and-only Hudson Mohawke—to distill their entire disc down to eight club-ready minutes. Grab it below, alongside a new DayGlo-brushed music video by frontwoman Tiombe […]

NEEDLE EXCHANGE 070: An Exclusive Mix By … Pink Skull

Now that Pink Skull‘s live band includes as many as seven members, we thought we’d ask Justin “JG” Geller–one-half of the Philly group’s creative core alongside frontman Julian Grefe–to drill their countless influences down through a idiosyncratic DJ mix. Like genre-less peaks of Pink Skull’s new Psychic Welfare LP (available now on vinyl through RVNG, […]