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OSCILLATIONS Returns This Friday With The Glimmers, Liv Spencer (Still Going/House of House) James F!@$%^ Friedman & More!
While our OSCILLATIONS-related after-party for Battles, Black Dice and Gang Gang Dance last summer was a DJ-centric affair, self-titled has never thrown a dance party quite like the one we have planned this Friday at Studio B. With half the music industry away in Austin this week, we figured we’d fly two of our favorite […]
S/T Survived … One of Thurston Moore’s Noise-Slinging Temper Tantrums (Guest-Starring Carlos Giffoni and Eric Copeland of Black Dice!)
Words and Media by Andrew Parks “Is that who I think it is?” whispered someone in the Endless Summer taco line on Saturday night. Indeed. The man who just asked for a plastic bag and pushed a pair of professorial glasses off his nose before walking away in silence was Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. […]
PEEP SHOW: Johan Renck On … Bat For Lashes’ ‘Karate Kid’-Cribbing “Daniel” Video
Photos by Travis Huggett Damn you, FADER, for beating us to the cover story punch with a thorough piece on Bat For Lashes‘ new LP, Two Suns (due out April 7 through Astralwerks), easily one of the year’s early Top 10 contenders. That said, we managed to wrangle an exclusive Q&A with Johan Renck, the […]
TEST PRESSING: The Whitest Boy Alive Share the First Single From “Rules,” Their Second Platter of Plaintive Disco
As self-titled told you in a review of their Sydney show last December, the Whitest Boy Alive are the closest we’ve ever come to witnessing a modern-day reincarnation of Arthur Russell. At least in terms of the quartet’s disco leanings and Erlend Øye‘s even-handed melodies. That boy’s voice settles our caffeine-wrecked nerves like no other […]
FROM THE STACKS: Balmorhea
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.
PEEP SHOW: School of Seven Bells’ First Show—At Tonic With a Drummer!—Vs. Last January’s OSCILLATIONS Set
[Photo by Winona Barton-Ballantine] As they revealed in our extensive cover story Q&A, School of Seven Bells played their first show at Tonic nearly two years ago, a gig where they “experimented in front of everyone.” Thanks to the revelatory archives of YouTube, we unearthed a clip from this very show. While the Deheza Sisters […]
School of Seven Bells, Free Blood, cLOUDDEAD, …Trail of Dead, Zombi, Circlesquare and Many More Squeeze Into self-titled’s Third Issue
As you might have noticed last week–when our self-titled widget switched from a bare-chested Jay Reatard to an unforeseen pairing of Free Blood and School of Seven Bells–we’ve finally unveiled our third digital issue. As always, we encourage you to view it in full-screen mode (the option is on the far right part of the […]
THE S/T INTERVIEW: School of Seven Bells
[Photos by Winona Barton-Ballatine; live photo by Aaron Richter] Interview by Andrew Parks The first thing that struck us about School of Seven Bells was how undeniably alien their sound is. Familiar elements are everywhere–beats that are about to boil over; guitars that grind drums to dust; synths that glisten like the noontime sun–but they […]