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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: The ‘Meh’ Edition, Featuring Junior Boys and Del the Funky Homosapien
JUNIOR BOYS: Wax on, wax off [Photo by Timothy Saccenti] By Aaron Richter As you all certainly know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. So every week self-titled presents a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type […]
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 Raconteurs Ready New LP For Release Next Week
Yep, it’s true. Here’s the plan according to the band: THE RACONTEURS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM “CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY” EVERYWHERE….IN ONE WEEK “Album†meaning: full length vinyl, CD and digital formats; and “everywhere†meaning: local mom and pop Indie retailers, corporate superstores, supermarkets, iTunes, Amazon, the band’s own website and any other location that […]
The Vines @ Bowery Ballroom, 3.17.08
Text/Photos by Aaron Richter We learned two things from the Vines show on Monday: (1) Frontman Craig Nicholls is still alive, and (2) the Vines perform the absolute worst cover version of OutKast’s “Ms. Jackson†that we could ever possibly imagine. Full review after the jump …
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 […]
BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: She & Him, Fuck Buttons, Be Your Own Pet
SHE & HIM: Wayyyy better than Dogstar By Aaron Richter As you all certainly know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. So every week self-titled presents a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and […]
SxSW Spotlight: …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
The Artist: Hometown heroes now split between Austin and Brooklyn; currently busy working on a new album in Texas with no label to pay their bills. (Interscope dropped Trail last year.) Their Latest Release: So Divided (Interscope, 2006) The Showcase: “The Showdown,” presented by Village Voice Media @ La Zona Rosa, 3.14.08 Their Set in […]
THE S/T SCOOP: Liam Howlett of The Prodigy Reveals New Record Details
Well, sorta. Here’s what the Prodigy mastermind said to say about the still-unfinished affair during a lengthy interview, the entirety of which will be posted here soon: I’ve got the album title, which I can’t tell you. I’ve got the song titles, which I can’t tell you. I mean, I want to talk to you […]
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 […]
BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Excepter, The B-52’s
SILVER MT. ZION: & the Tra-La-La Band, bitches [Photo by Mark Slutsky] By Aaron Richter As you all certainly know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. So every week self-titled presents a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the […]