IM S/T: Sally Shapiro
Interview by Arye Dworken Sally Shapiro is so terrified of performing that her first brief tour of the U.S. (including a stop tonight at New York’s Mercury Lounge) is a DJ-only affair alongside her Italo-sculpting producer Johan Agebjörn. While this’ll be exciting to all the disco revivalists out there–the kind that equally worship Lindstrøm, Giorgio […]
Gang Gang Dance @ The Park Avenue Armory (Whitney Biennial), 3.9.08
Text/Photos by Aaron Richter It seemed like few knew what to expect in the minutes before Gang Gang Dance‘s performance at the Park Avenue Armory, in conjunction with the opening of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Even more were confused as they were told that the room was at capacity and to please stop crowding the […]
Q&A with Cadence Weapon | Interview by Michael Tedder
KNIVES OUT Photos by Aaron Pederson Cadence Weapon approached his second album, Afterparty Babies (Anti-), with one of the purest goals an artist could have: the desire to meet Tina Fey. Of course, the rapper/producer also finds time to gripe about girls and dis ridiculous hipster fashion. But that’s besides the point, really. self-titled caught […]
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 […]