A Magazine for Craftmakers
THE S/T SCOOP: An Exclusive Isobel Campbell Interview About Mark Lanegan, Sunday at Devil Dirt
While the recent announcement of Sunday at Devil Dirt–the second full-length from the sweet and sour pairing of Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell–may seem like a surprise to most given Lanegan just released the Gutter Twins’ debut, we know better over here at self-titled. Why? Because Campbell told us the duo was almost done with […]
1MM: SxSW So Far (Lou Reed, Trail of Dead, N.E.R.D., Justice, and more!)
JUSTICE @ the Playboy Party Sorry we’ve been so quiet this week, but South By Southwest is proving to be as impenetrable and exhausting as ever this year. A full report will be coming early next week and complete photo galleries will be popping up intermittently from this point on, but for now, we give […]
THE S/T INTERVIEW: Yoni Wolf of Why?
[CW from top: Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid, Yoni Wolf] [Photos by Jacob Hand] By Arye Dworken self-titled: Yoni, what’s shaking? Nothing much. Just got back from a jog. About to have some coffee and relax. Are you still out in California? Sure am. No plans to leave just yet. There’s been talk, some talk about […]
SxSW Spotlight: Pissed Jeans
The Artist: Philly’s finest sludge merchants. Their Latest Release: Hope For Men (Sub Pop, 2007) The Showcase: Sub Pop @ Bourbon Rocks, 3.14.08 Their Set in a Sentence: David Yow for a Y2K world as led by a guitarist that builds quite a fence of barbed wire chords despite looking like a teddy bear. And […]
SxSW Spotlight: Thurston Moore’s Lou Reed Tribute
The Artist: The underground’s greatest living guitar god. Their Latest Release: Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace, 2007) The Showcase: Lou Reed Tribute @ The FADER Fort, 3.13.08 The Set in a Sentence: One of the only signs of life in a rather stale paean to one of rock’s reigning nihilists. And a Letter Grade: […]
A Place to Bury Strangers & Holy Fuck @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, 3.23.08
Text/Photos by Aaron Richter You know you’ve got something great going on when you can upstage a band as great as Holy Fuck. Brooklyn-based trio A Place To Bury Strangers did just that–on this final stop in the two bands’ recent tour together–by cranking their amps to an uncomfortably high volume, so loud we couldn’t […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Efrim Menuck
Words by Aaron Richter Efrim Menuck will be heard. As the guitarist and vocalist of his group, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (originally formed in 1999 as a side project to the legendary Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Menuck will release his fifth LP, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, which contains four […]
SOUNDTRACKS OF OUR LIVES: Németh
Story by Stefan Németh Photo by Gerald Zahn My personal approach to film music is it’s often better to have less sound than too much. Film scores can have their own life, but they always have to serve the story in the movie first. This means I prefer to keep the sound as minimal as […]
1MM: Anti-Pop Consortium Reunion @ Knitting Factory Tap Bar, 3.22.08
Beans … smiling? Maybe this reunion ain’t a bad idea after all. Photos by Sarah Maxwell We’ve had some server problems the past couple days (apparently you people still can’t get enough of our Dan the Automator/Mike Patton interview), but everything’s looking mighty fine now so expect a slew of posts today starting with the […]
1MM: Howlin’ Rain @ Mercury Lounge, 4.2.08
Text/Photos by Andrew Parks To answer your question, no, Rick Rubin was not present at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday. That said, we certainly would have enjoyed watching him bask in the evergreen glow of Howlin’ Rain, the Comets on Fire side project he recently signed to American Recordings. (See the recently released Magnificent Fiend.) While […]
SxSW Artists We Still Care About: The Spinto Band
The Artist: Quite possibly the only band worth noting from Wilmington, Delaware. Their Latest Release: Moonwink (label TBD, 2008) The Showcase: Some late afternoon party, Creekside Lounge, 3.12.08 The Set in a Sentence: More promising indie pop numbers in need of a label that’ll actually push them. And a Letter Grade: B+ (would have been […]
1MM: SxSW shots of Yeasayer, MGMT, She & Him, Bon Iver and more
SHE & HIM: Um, did we say you could come in here? Last month, photojournalist Alex Marvar wandered around Austin charming South by Southwest’s many bands into posing for impromptu photo shoots. While it was her first time there, she operated like a vet effectively capturing the eclectic spirit of SXSW with the photo essay […]