A Magazine for Craftmakers
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: The Rolling Stones, “Too Much Blood (Arthur Baker Dub)”
Download more deleted dance mixes of the Rolling Stones here (via largehearted boy).
TEST PRESSING: Sample a Stack of New Machinefabriek Releases
Stream “fragments” of five new releases below…
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Dam-Funk’s Nite Jewel Remix, Taken From Her New Mexican Summer 12”, ‘It Goes Through Your Head’
Grab the Gorilla vs. Bear premiere after the jump, along with two Nite Jewel mixtapes–one of which was a self-titled exclusive, complete with some commentary–and the first official track from Nite Funk…
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 051: An Exclusive Mix By … MINKS
Much like their debut album (By the Hedge, out now on Captured Tracks), MINKS’ maxi cassette-like mix sounds like something we’d listen to on the bus ride home in middle school–moody and melancholic, yet with enough rays of hope (see also: the MINKS single “Funeral Song”) to keep things from sounding too rain-slicked. Have a […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Andy Votel’s ‘Gallic Magnetic and the Fractional Crystallization of Space Rock’ Mix
To download another special Andy Votel mixtape (a set of engine-revving “biker music”), click here.
VIDEO: Warp Explains How To Unlock Exclusive Flying Lotus Tracks
Find out more about Flying Lotus’ new Web app at Pitchfork or http://flying-lotus.com/trigger. We’ve also dropped our FlyLo cover story into the post below for those of you who missed it the first time around…
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Caribou, “Bowls (Icarus Remix)”
Check out our Caribou cover story below, or in our special iPad edition. As for who Icarus is, you may remember the sample-splicing duo from a string of killer records on Output, Leaf and Temporary Residence Limited. They’ve been largely dormant outside of last year’s live record (All Is For the Best In the Best […]
Efterklang and Vincent Moon Want You To Screen Their New Film
Now that Vincent Moon‘s Efterklang film is finished, the pair have announced a unique “Private-Public” promotion where fans are asked to hold their very own screenings of An Island between February 1 and March 31. There are a few rules, however: • The screenings need to have free entrance • The screenings need to be […]
VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Challenges Vampire Weekend and the Black Keys To a ‘Sell-Out Off’
If you want to get to the good stuff in Stephen Colbert‘s GRAMMY ballot video, you might want to skip about five minutes in, where the Black Keys and Vampire Weekend’s frontman square off over who “whored-out” their music more last year…
COMING SOON: Crystal Stilts, ‘In Love With Oblivion’
The Artist/Album: Crystal Stilts, In Love With Oblivion (April 12, Slumberland) The Details: As guitarist JB Townsend told us in the eighth issue of self-titled, “I want the Crystal Stilts to sound as classic as it can sound. I think the new record is going to be way less weird than the first one. But […]
Holy Ghost! Finally Finish Their Debut Album For DFA
To give you an idea of how long Holy Ghost! took to finish their first proper full-length, they first started talking about it more than three years ago, and the last we’d heard, they were “mixing it for an early 2010 release.” If there’s one reason they waited this long, it’s probably because the disc […]