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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…
PRE-ORDER THIS NOW: Modeselektor, ‘Monkeytown’ (500 Copies, With Clear Vinyl Pressing and a Hardcover Photo Book)
Pre-Order This Now is a new recurring post that points you in the general direction of limited pressings, box sets and other releases that obliterate the assertion that physical products don’t have a place in our digital world. None of our picks are pay-for-play, either. It’s all just cool shit we wish we could afford, […]
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 […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: My Brightest Diamond, “Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix)”
Grab the Prefuse 73 remix of My Brightest Diamond‘s latest single after the jump alongside the original version’s slightly creepy video. My Brightest Diamond’s All Things Will Unwind LP hits stores on October 18th through Asthmatic Kitty…
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, […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Four Tet, Featuring a Stream of His New FABRICLIVE Mix
Words by Mitch Strashnov Things have certainly changed for Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet) since his last album release in 2010; he’s made a transatlantic shift to Brooklyn, taken his sweet time with releasing his own music and collaborated with such iconic figures as Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and his schoolmate Burial. Along with that, he […]