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TEST PRESSING: Download DJ Kaos’ Christmas Tape and a ‘F*ck Krautrock’ Mix From Black To Comm
Since it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and what not, self-titled figured we’d share a freshly-uploaded holiday mix from DJ Kaos. It arrives via Italians Do It Better and Kaos’ rather ridiculous Brainburger Burgerbrain alias. You can cop the two-sided ‘cassette’ after the jump, along with a killer “F*ck Krautrock” set–an iPod stuffer, […]
2009 IN REVIEW: Xela On … The Dream’s ‘Love vs. Money’
Instead of going on and on about our top picks of 2009 and the past 10 years–we’ll do that in the coming week–self-titled asked some of our favorite ‘09 artists to share their favorite records. The following post is brought to you by Type Records founder/dark ambient don Xela and the ultra-modern R&B of The […]
2009 IN REVIEW: Pelican On … Sweet Cobra’s ‘Bottom Feeder’ EP
[Photo by Andrew Parks] Instead of going on and on about our top picks of 2009 and the past 10 years–we’ll do that in the coming week–self-titled asked some of our favorite ‘09 artists to share their favorite records. The following post is brought to you by Pelican and the controlled chaos of Sweet Cobra:
2009 IN REVIEW: Zelienople On … Mount Eerie’s ‘Wind’s Poem’
[Photo by Donn Ha] Instead of going on and on about our top picks of 2009 and the past 10 years–we’ll do that in the coming week–self-titled asked some of our favorite ‘09 artists to share their favorite records. The following post is brought to you by Zelienople and the frostbitten folk of Mount Eerie…
A QUICK TALK WITH BEAR IN HEAVEN ABOUT … Stealing Sarah Palin Fans, Confusing Charlie Gibson, and Being a Proud Southerner Without Resorting To Lynyrd Skynyrd References
By Arye Dworken While just about every critic’s best-of list fawns over local indie rock heroes like Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear, self-titled took pleasure in discovering yet another Brooklyn-band-that-could, Bear In Heaven. The Southern transplants released their debut record (Red Bloom of the Boom, Hometapes) in 2007, but didn’t get any much-deserved attention until […]
MICROWAVE ONLY: Putting the Chill Back In ‘Chillwave’ With Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, MNDR and Electric Tickle Machine
Photos by Turkishomework Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. This time around, we had her trail Neon Indian and Toro Y Moi before their Mercury Lounge show with Electric Tickle Machine and MNDR, both of which have absolutely nothing to do with ‘chillwave’, ‘glo-fi’ or any other […]
TEST PRESSING: Download a DOOM Remix F/ Kanye West and a Dubstep Mixtape From Dr. Who Dat?
[Photo by Laura M. Gray] Okay, so it’s a little lame that DOOM has more stand-ins than Santa Claus. (Do a Google search for “DOOM imposter” and you’ll find a lot more.) That said, the guy still gets massive amounts of love from the press, running the entire low/highbrow divide from The New Yorker to […]
2009 IN REVIEW: Tim Hecker On … Ben Frost’s ‘By the Throat’
[Photo by Sanchez] Instead of going on and on about our top picks of 2009 and the past 10 years–we’ll do that next week–self-titled asked some of our favorite ‘09 artists to share their favorite records. This particular post is brought to you by Tim Hecker and a lingering Long Player of the Day entry, […]