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TEST PRESSING: Download Four Tet’s Two-Hour ‘Essential Mix’, Including Tracks From DJ Sprinkles, Joy Orbison, Zomby and Moodyman
[Photo by Aaron Richter] While we find it a little funny that some people are finally paying attention to Four Tet again–whether he was fielding remix requests or working with Steve Reid, the guy never stopped making new music in the past four years–we’ve gotta second There Is Love In You‘s status as an instant […]
Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof Pair Up For ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Performance, We Respond By Posting the Entire Joy Division LP in YouTube Form
Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof have agreed to cover Unknown Pleasures at Austria’s Donaufestival. The longtime friends/collaborators will cannibalize “She’s Lost Control,” “New Dawn Fades” and eight other Joy Division classics on Thursday, April 29. Here’s an explanation, via a press release: It’s funny Xiu Xiu should ask Deerhoof to perform Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures with […]
PEEP SHOW: Michel Gondry Directs New Mia Doi Todd Video, Joins Her Band For L.A. Residency
Mia Doi Todd, one of L.A.’s most sorely overlooked singer-songwriters, has tapped Michel Gondry for a new music video and…her live band. “It’s fun,†he told Entertainment Weekly, alluding to a Spaceland residency that starts tonight. “I always wanted to be in a band again. But I don’t think the drum is really the instrument […]
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 003: An Exclusive Mix By … Malachai
It’s taken one confusing name change and nearly a year, but the Artist Formerly Known as Malakai (that’s Malachai to you, North America) finally delivered their stateside debut on Domino today. A genre-less string of samples and mid-fi melodies, Ugly Side of Love basically sounds like a twisted pop take on the following mixtape, a […]
Hey, It’s Cold Cave Week! Time For Lots of Bonus Content and Free Stuff!
[Photo by Shawn Brackbill] Since we’re presenting a sold-out Cold Cave/Nite Jewel show on Thursday, self-titled is using this week as an excuse to share exclusive content from our current cover story, including an extensive Prurient interview and some “This Is Your Life” conversations with artists who have passed in and out of Wesley Eisold’s […]
MICROWAVE ONLY: What It’s Like At Shea Stadium, The Williamsburg Version, With Sisters, Golden Girls, Total Slacker & Weekends
Photos by Turkishomework Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. Now that she’s back from an extended holiday break, here are some we-wish-we-were-there shots from a Shea Stadium show featuring four bands we’d barely heard of before today: Total Slacker, Golden Girls, Weekends and the Death By Audio-related […]
NOW PLAYING: Kevin Drumm, Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions, 2008)
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EVERY MAN’S AN ISLAND: Lightspeed Champion’s Guide to the Final Season of ‘Lost’, Including Lots of Video Evidence
[Photo by Jen Maler] By Dev Hynes Time to get real. Before I even begin this article, let me start by saying this: If you have never watched the ABC masterpiece LOST, do not read this page. If you watched Season Two and then “gave up because of the stupid Polar Bears,” do not read […]