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RECORDING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Dinosaur Feathers Take Us Where No Man Has Gone Before On Their New Album, ‘Fantasy Memorial’
By Arye Dworken Recording Under the Influence is a recurring self-titled feature where we ask artists to ignore their musical inspirations for a minute and share what really went into the making of a particular record. In this installment, Brooklyn’s very own Dinosaur Feathers guide us through the trio’s magical self-released debut record Fantasy Memorial. […]
LISTENING STATION: Oneohtrix Point Never On … Gary War’s ‘Horribles Parade’
Listening Station asks a simple question every so often: What’s on your turntable? Here’s what Oneohtrix Point Never obsessed over last year…when he wasn’t stringing together slabs of space age vinyl for his double-disc Rifts (No Fun, 2009) collection. New Yorkers, take note: dude’s opening for Small Black and Washed Out tonight at Mercury Lounge. […]
1MM: Photos of Animal Collective Fans At the Guggenheim
Photos by Jen Maler By Andrew Parks One of the most striking things about last night’s “Transverse Temporal Gyrus” performance had nothing to do with Danny Perez‘s depths-of-hell visuals or Animal Collective‘s patient, plodding performance piece. It was the fact that tons of college kids showed up to a major art museum with streaks of […]
S/T Survived … Two Hours of Watching Animal Collective Stand Still At Their Creepy Guggenheim Performance With Danny Perez
[Photos by Jen Maler] By Andrew Parks “Who are these guys?” “They’re called Animal Collective.” “They a rock band or something?” “Kinda.”
PEEP SHOW: Watch Uncut Footage From Animal Collective’s ‘Transverse Temporal Gyrus’ Performance at the Guggenheim
[Photos/Video by Andrew Parks] To answer your first question, yes the guys in the devil’s night costumes were Animal Collective in disguise–the closest they’ll ever come to high art versions of the mimes that haunt the subway and Central Park. And Danny Perez, why, he was hiding where you’d least expect it, playing a wizard-behind-the-curtain […]
THE STREETS IS WATCHING: A Quick Listen to Mike Skinner’s Freshly-Leaked ‘Computer and Blues’ LP
By Arye Dworken The backstory for Mike Skinner’s final album as the Streets is quite bizarre. Computer and Blues, the British rapper’s fifth record, was allegedly finished in 2009. This was around the same time Skinner ostensibly dropped off the planet–neither his Twitter account nor his his website has been updated since last October. It’s […]
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 007: An Exclusive Mix By … Kammerflimmer Kollektief
“This is the soundtrack to 1000 stories you will never be told,” says Kammerflimmer Kollektief‘s sole founder, Thomas Weber. “Keep your secrets. They are all we have left.” Don’t worry–we weren’t sure what he was trying to say at first, either. Some hints are dropped throughout the following “Do Right Woman” mix, though, as Weber […]
PRIMER: Yellow Swans
Some people complain about never seeing Nirvana or the nose candy peak of the Stones; us, we’re a little sore that we never succumbed to Yellow Swans. The undisputed noise circuit champions announced their retirement nearly two years ago, and while we’d heard their name spoken in hushed, reverential tones before, self-titled didn’t stumble upon […]