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Beck Pesters Tom Waits As Part of Ongoing Web Revival
We can’t quite pinpoint why, but something about Beck‘s post-Sea Change output has failed to thrill us beyond a couple of stray singles (“Think I’m In Love,” “Girl”) and Guerolito remixes (the Dust Brothers‘ spring-loaded spin on “Rental Car” kinda rules). Come to think of it, our reason for thinking Beck’s become a true loser […]
Black Strobe’s Arnaud Rebotini Bounces Between Slayer and Richie Hawtin on New Solo Album Music Components
Photo BCKSTG To this day, we find it strange that Black Strobe never truly broke in the U.S. beyond the former duo’s tight underground following. After all, they were doing the whole serrated synths thing well before Justice, and the spirit of their sound was more indebted to Depeche Mode and the dark side of […]
1MM: Jay Reatard Plays to His Strangest Crowd Yet, A Stuy Town Mix of Geriatrics, Screaming Teenagers and Newborn Babies
[Photos by Andrew Parks] The last time we saw Jay Reatard perform, he killed a capacity crowd at our CMJ party. Said Glasslands gig was sufficiently scuzzy given the artists involved, so it was quite sobering to see Reatard and his one-two punch of a backing band (drummer Billy Hayes, bassist Stephen Pope) in broad […]
1MM: Explosions in the Sky Make Us Feel All Emo Inside At Sold-Out SummerStage Show
[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks] We’ve always been on the fence about the post-Friday Night Lights era of Explosions in the Sky. On one hand, we’re happy the boys are making decent money by scoring TV shows, shifting 11,000 albums in a week, and drawing a crammed Central Park crowd after a decade together. And sure […]
Gang Gang Dance Ready ‘God’s Money’ Reissue, Month-Long North American Tour
Four months after a fire destroyed all their equipment in Amsterdam, Gang Gang Dance have bounced back with a month-long North American tour that runs between an August 2 stop in Northampton, MA, and a Bumbershoot appearance on September 5. As we said in a review of their MoMa performance earlier this year, “Gang Gang […]
PEEP SHOW: Girls Cover Vivian Girls’ “Wild Eyes” Single At Cake Shop Show, Justify Recent Matador Records Signing
So the word on self-titled‘s street is that Girls nailed their NYC show last night, stirring our associate editor’s loins enough to make us all eagerly anticipate their Matador/True Panther debut. Since it doesn’t drop until September 22, s/t thought we’d share two things to show you what we mean: (1) the duo’s rather epic […]
THIS WEEK IN TWITTER: The Michael Jackson Edition, Featuring Boys Noize, Islands, The Streets, Nico Muhly, Surkin, and Many More
Since the Daily Swarm‘s doing a mighty fine job of aggregating Michael Jackson material, s/t thought we’d treat this week’s Twitter column as a roundup of tributes (and one tasteless critique) to the King of Moonwalking Better Than You Ever Will. Here’s what we uncovered (click on the screengrabs to follow each artist)…
FROM THE STACKS: The Rural Alberta Advantage
[Photo by Marc Hodges] 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.