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THE S/T FIVE: Right About Now, The Funk Soul Brother Needs To Play a Song That’s Actually Good
[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks] Bless the girl in the above photo and her undying devotion to Fatboy Slim despite the unfortunate frat-party approach of his New York ‘performance’ last night. Playing to a not-quite-full Terminal 5, Norman Cook started off strong with swift “Praise You” snippets and speaker-rattling sheets of acid techno and big beat, […]
PEEP SHOW: Pelican Guitarist Shares Nightmare-Inducing Clip From Noise/IDM Project
While self-titled already told you everything you need to know about Chord–the Fripp & Eno-channeling side project of Pelican guitarist Trevor de Brauw–we just received word of yet another de Brauw band, the free-noise/electronic trio Teith. Fresh off last year’s Oak City reissue comes the long-awaited “Writing With Bloody Mary” video, described by de Brauw […]
Devendra Banhart Splits From XL, Wraps Sixth Record With Band of Bees Member
Devendra Banhart has finished his sixth full-length for a fall release through a TBD label. (While the hairy fairy king is still listed as a “current” artist on XL’s site, he parted ways with the label recently.) Band of Bees frontman Paul Butler co-produced the effort with Banhart, which was recorded in a rented house […]
HYPE CHECK: Phoenix Makes a Strong Case For Indie Pop Crown At Sold-Out Terminal 5 Show
[Text/Photos by Andrew Parks] The Artist and Their Current Album: Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote) What’s Been Said: “Though the album trips lightly from slinky roller-skate jams (‘Fences’) to near Brit-rocky rave-ups (‘Lasso’), the underlying vibe is both retro and somehow outside of time–like a memory made 
sweeter than the real thing it recalls.” – […]
PEEP SHOW: The Field Redeems Sophomore Slump With Trance-tastic Live Set, Including an Epic Version of “Over the Ice”
[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks] Look, we really wanted to LOVE The Field‘s second full-length record (Yesterday & Today), but let’s be honest: the thing simply isn’t as transcendent as his Kompakt debut, From Here We Go Sublime. That said, we were pleasantly surprised to see Axel Willner perform with a full band at Webster Hall […]
1MM: Forget All Those MGMT Comparisons, Amazing Baby’s Terminal 5 Set Was Like Pulp With Guitar Solos and a Secret Pot Brownie Stash
[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks] Here at self-titled, we try to rage against the hype machine as much as possible. Sometimes we can’t help adding to all that nonsense, though, as bands prove the lofty claims of bullshit-driven blogs and magazines. Case in point: Amazing Baby‘s staggering growth over the past year, as the group’s co-founders […]
THIS WEEK IN TWITTER: Drop the Lime and Zomby Get Bitchy, Owen Pallett Has Breakfast With a Black-Metal Demigod and Much, Much More
Since the ‘Twitterverse’ is clearly expanding exponentially by the day, self-titled‘s decided to sift through the service’s ‘now eating’/’now playing’ posts to find sparring matches and sneaky entertainment news. Not to mention lots of things you didn’t know–and in some cases, didn’t want to know–about your favorite artists. Here’s what we found this week…
THE S/T SCOOP: French Duo Air Gets More Aggressive With Fifth Studio Album … Well, More Aggressive for Air
Talk about lovely surprises. Busy playing with our iPhone 3.0 updates, self-titled had no idea that Wednesday would bring our first glimpse at a new Air album. Ah, it’s a good day. The fifth studio album by the French duo (Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin) is called Love 2 and will be released by Astralwerks/EMI on […]