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TEST PRESSING: Stream 30 Minutes of Shackleton’s Fabric Mix
Shackleton‘s Fabric 55 mix hits digital shops next week. Check out his limited time only minimix for FACT after the jump, along with its tracklisting…
MySpace Shares a Preview of Daft Punk’s ‘Tron’ Soundtrack
Daft Punk‘s Tron: Legacy soundtrack hits stores on December 7. [MySpace]
TEST PRESSING: Stream a New PJ Harvey Song, “On the Forehead”
PJ Harvey‘s new Let England Shake LP arrives on February 15 through Vagrant. Judging by the sound of this lead-off single–a tangled web of otherworldly samples and filtered vocals–it may be her strangest set in years.
David Lynch Explains His Dance Single
Yesterday, we told you about David Lynch‘s seemingly sudden interest in mildly depressing dance music, complete with streaming versions of his new single “Good Day Today” and its bluesy B-side, “I Know.” Now the director’s given a brief Guardian interview about how he ended up writing a song that wouldn’t sound out of place on […]
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Shares Statement On Sleazy’s Passing
PETER “SLEAZY†CHRISTOPHERSON 27th February 1955 – 24th November 2010 You never expect to be writing a eulogy about your deepest and beloved friends when you meet them and they glide into your loops of L-if-E so sleekly, so boldly and with such confidence that it is like one of Nature’s perfectly designed dynamic creatures […]
2010 IN REVIEW: Frank (Just Frank), ‘The Brutal Wave’
Quite a few records logged repeat listens on our office stereo this year. Here’s one of them…
TEST PRESSING: Stream Dum Dum Girls’ Strawberry Switchblade Cover, “Trees & Flowers”
Photo by Aaron Richter Sign up for Dum Dum Girls’ mailing list here, and get free unreleased MP3s like this in the future…
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 047: An Exclusive Mix By … Laurel Halo
Photo by Shawn Brackbill Words and Mix by Laurel Halo These tracks are some of my favorite discoveries of the year. In a way, the mixtape sounds like mirrors at night–each track has a feeling that evades and yet resonates at the same time. And each is damaged around the edges, thinking of the difference […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Shackleton
[Photos by Lars Borges] Words by Gamall Awad With a brand new mix (Fabric 55, a seamless collection of original material like previous entries from Omar S and Ricardo Villalobos) hitting stateside stores next week, and the first release (Man On a String Part I and II) from his new label Woe To the Septic […]
VIDEO: Watch Slayer’s Christmas Lights Display
We’re pretty sure Clark Griswold would approve of the above video. What song do you think this guy should use this year? Maybe some Cannibal Corpse or Darkthrone?