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RECORD STORE YEAR: Totally Random Reviews of CocoRosie, Real Estate, Moritz Von Oswald, and Killer Comps From Minimal Wave and B-Music
Photo by Turkishomework While self-titled certainly doesn’t field the same amount of mail we did five years ago, our ungrateful office still gets lots of free shit. With that in mind, we’ve decided to rename Record Store Day “Record Store Year” and support our favorite shops with impulse buys every single week. Here are some […]
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 016: An Exclusive Mix By … Small Black
By Josh Kolenik Over a short stretch of our tour with Washed Out and Pictureplane, I’d been a bit under the weather and sleeping as we barreled through the south and southwest. So I tried to pick songs that I’d listen to as I lay the day away, looking at the country go by. The […]
PEEP SHOW: Spike Jonze Directs a Bunch of Sadistic Pandas In LCD Soundsystem’s New “Drunk Girls” Video
Photo by Jen Maler Um, we’re gonna let this LCD Soundsystem video speak for itself. Let’s just say Spike Jonze is up to his old tricks again, and almost making up for how painfully dull Where the Wild Things Are was.
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Blur, “Fool’s Day”
The Song In a Couple Sentences: Look, we’ll take anything from Blur these days, even if it’s only a one-sided Record Store Day 7-inch–their first proper song in seven years. The mellow, Sunday morning-friendly “Fool’s Day” (the song even appropriately reports “on a cold day in spring time”) feels stylistically similar to Blur’s more “mature” […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Glitter Bones, “Glow In The Dark”
[Photo by Jordan Vouga] The Song In a Couple Sentences: “Glow In The Dark”–first heard over at I Guess I’m Floating–reminds us of a sloppier M83, or a more melodic Fuck Buttons. So we can only imagine what this seven-minute journey into space would sound like with the assistance of a narcotic or two (legal […]
Hospital Productions Readies 13 New Noise Tapes, Invites 100 Record Store Day Customers To Track Their Own One-Minute ‘Song’
Photo by Shawn Brackbill Now here’s a Record Store Day promotion we didn’t quite expect: Hospital Productions, the shop/production studio of former s/t cover star Dominick Fernow, is unleashing 13 limited cassette releases and inviting its first 100 customers to track a tape of their own. Quoth the Hospital site: The recording gear will be […]
TEST PRESSING: Zomby Shares ‘It Was All a Dream’, His Most Promising Soundcloud Song Yet
If you follow the free associative ramblings on Zomby‘s Twitter account, then you were probably as psyched as the s/t office was when we woke up to a promising new track this morning. Unlike the diamond-edge jungle beats of “She Loves Me”/”She Loves Me Not”–two simple but satisfying song fragments that were uploaded a couple […]
NOW PLAYING: Eleh, ‘Location Momentum’
The Details: Eleh, Location Momentum (Touch, 2010) A Quick Review: So we saw this sound installation the other day, one that featured nothing but a blinking light bulb and varying frequencies of ambient noise. As you might imagine, it made us want to scream “bullshit!” and smash the room’s sole light source at first. But […]