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Guru’s Nephew Posts a Brutally Honest Video About the ‘True Story’ Behind the Hospitalization of Gang Starr’s Legendary MC
We’re not sure what to say about the following YouTube confessional–presented by Justin Nicholas Elam Ruff, the nephew of Gang Starr’s Keith “Guru” Elam–other than the fact that it turns a tragic situation into a legal matter, and raises some serious questions about the hoops family members have to jump through in our health care […]
MICROWAVE ONLY: Here’s What Survived Surfer Blood’s Market Hotel Show With Grooms, Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils and the Morning Benders
Photos by Turkishomework Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. And boy was it blurry on Saturday night, as Surfer Blood topped a beyond-packed Market Hotel bill that also featured Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils, Grooms and the Morning Benders. Or as Turkishomework wrote on her Twitter at […]
NOW PLAYING: Mountains, ‘Etching’
The Details: Mountains, Etching (Thrill Jockey, 2009) A Short Review: Our favorite drone-on duo cut this 38-minute track in one live take and pressed it on 1,000 hand-stamped LPs last year. Now that every one-of-a-kind copy is gone, they’ve finally released it as a high-quality download. And while $9.99 may seem steep for one song, […]
Robert A.A. Lowe Celebrates Recent Brooklyn Move, Rose Lazar Collabs With a Snow-Dusted Art Opening At By and By Gallery
Okay, so it’s a little snowy in New York today. That said, if you live in Brooklyn and dig abstract art and Cluster-like drones, we’ve got a spot you need to hit on the way home from work or your local hardware store. (Gotta stock up on salt and shovels, right?) And that’s the By […]
A QUICK TALK WITH … Wild Beasts
By Arye Dworken Some bands are inherently masculine. Some bands are inherently feminine. Britain’s Wild Beasts are claiming the distinctive androgynous zone found somewhere between the two. This is mostly due in part to singer Hayden Thorpe’s voice which alternates between wildly flamboyant or lecherously creepy. He’s undoubtedly the most distinctive vocalist singing rock music […]
FROM THE STACKS: White Hinterland
We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the s/t staff on its collective ass.
FROM THE STACKS: Midnight Masses
We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the S/T staff on its collective ass.
WHY? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU: Win a Pair of Limited Edition Etnies From Lullabye Arkestra
We’ve already told you why Lullabye Arkestra is “Canada’s craziest married couple,” a “lo-fi Kylesa” that actually lives up to their song titles (“We Fuck the Night,” “This Is a Storm,” etc. etc.) and leaves most of today’s post-hardcore pack in the dust. So yeah, we’re psyched to be unloading a pair of the band’s […]