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From The Cure To KLF, Snag 50 Songs That Happen To Have ‘Love’ In Their Title
Since we love all of you more than life itself, the self-titled staff thought we’d spend the tail end of Valentine’s Day sharing our favorite “love” songs. And by that, we simply mean that the word’s in every title. Needless to say, this led to some rather random selections, including a self-indulgent Cure remix, rare […]
LISTENING STATION: Seth Troxler Makes Us Believe In the Power of Psychedelic Dance Music and Pacha (No, Really)
[Photo by Will Calcutt] In case you can’t tell, we’ve never been into fist-pumping or pretending we’re on a B-roll episode of Jersey Shore. That said, the self-titled staff has frequented ‘superclubs’ around New York City before, simply to see some of the world’s greatest DJs (Richie Hawtin, Matthew Dear, Michael Mayer, Carl Craig) spin […]
DETROIT STATE OF MIND: Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir Tells Us About the Sexless Robots and Scrapped Hip-Hop Beats That Went Into Our Favorite Electronic Music Compilation In Forever
[Photos by Kai Von Rabenau] A few seconds of “Electron Rider” is all it takes. After that, you’re there, smack dab in the middle of Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir‘s Detroit studio as he delivers a growing stack of seminal underground techno tracks. A head rush of killer hooks, really, ones we’re fortunate enough to hear now […]
FROM THE STACKS: Jacaszek
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 special delivery that we stumbled upon while scanning the final days of Unsound‘s New York schedule…
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Small Black Sign to Jagjaguwar, Ready Spit and Polish Reissue of Debut EP and a Completely New Collection of Soft Focus Pop Songs
Well, it’s about time. After months of stirring the collective loins of the blogosphere, Small Black have wrapped their debut LP in Delaware and found a permanent home in Jagjaguwar. The ‘cooler’ side of Secretly Canadian will ride the chillwave fantastic on April 27, when they reissue the quartet’s self-released EP (still available in its […]
FEATURE: Mountains Reveal Their Strangest Field Recordings
As we continue to battle blizzard-like conditions over at self-titled towers, we can’t think of a better back catalog to plow through than Mountains‘ organic take on ambient music. And by organic, we mean lots of living, breathing samples, sharing wide open spaces with carefully-plucked guitars and crystallized keys. Since the Brooklyn-based duo is appearing […]
RECORDING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: From the Creepy Films of John Carpenter to Emmet Otter’s Jugband, RJD2 Chips Away At ‘The Colossus’
[Photo by Dan McMahon] 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 particular installment, RJD2 steps away from his ceiling-high stacks of records and chomps on croissants and […]