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BUY THIS SONG NOW: Girl Unit, “Wut”
John Roberts tipped us off to the above track as part of his year-end picks. Read more of them below, and be sure to check out Night Slugs’ rather killer Allstars compilation if you dig Girl Unit’s slightly solemn post-rave stylings…
2010 IN REVIEW: Tombs’ Favorite LPs, From Surfer Blood To Watain
[Photo by J Hubbard] For more on Tombs, head here. Otherwise, here are the year-end thoughts of one of self-titled‘s favorite metal bands, starting with a page torn from our new magazine issue…
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Toro Y Moi, “Still Sound”
[Photo by Jordan Blackmon] Check out the lead-off single from Toro Y Moi‘s Underneath the Pine LP (due out February 22 on Carpark) after the jump, along with his thoughts on the year’s best music from our new issue…
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Ducktails
Photo by Elizabeth Weinberg Interview by Cassie Marketos From the undertow chords of Real Estate to the solo beachcomber cuts of Ducktails, Matt Mondanile makes pop music that’s as breezy and blurry as the sepia-toned scenes in his postcard collection. In the following extensive interview–captured over “non-veggie†sliders at a Brooklyn dive bar and excerpted […]
2010 IN REVIEW: Flying Lotus On … The Year’s Top Films, TV Shows, and More
Photo by Emir Eralp Words by Andrew Parks As we explained in the cover story of self-titled‘s eighth issue, Flying Lotus wanted to mess with our minds visually well before he became a buzz-stirring beat maker. And even when the producer shifted his focus from abstract films to abstract soundscapes, the end result still sounded […]
Future of the Left Share Three New Demoes, Remind Us How They’re Basically Mclusky With Different Members
We’ll never quite get over the fact that Mclusky–Britain’s best real deal rock band of the past 10 years–broke up way back in 2005, but the following Future of the Left demos are a nice reminder that frontman Andy Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone are still whipping up on hell of a racket in Mclusky […]