Self-Titled Releases New Digital Issue, Returns To Regularly Scheduled Daily Site
Jay Reatard @ self-titled‘s unofficial CMJ party [Photo by Shawn Brackbill] Wondering where the hell we’ve been for the past week? Well, we weren’t exactly planning our Halloween costumes (s/t’s editor actually threw this getup together–ouch!–on Saturday afternoon) or recovering from a rather boring CMJ. We’ve been busy finishing self-titled‘s second interactive, digital-only issue, which […]
IF I RULED THE WORLD: Members of Wooden Wand, Charalambides, My Brightest Diamond and More Share Their Presidential Platforms
J. Matthew Gerken, Christian Kiefer & Jefferson Pitcher strike a pose for their ‘Mortal Men’ project Whether you pulled a lever or pressed a screen at your local polling place this afternoon, one simple question may have crossed your mind in the months leading up to today’s historical election: What if I was president? Not […]
Win Tickets to Health’s Reznor-Free Show At the Knitting Factory!
Fresh off their string of mom-impressing shows with Nine Inch Nails, Health is headed to the Knitting Factory tomorrow for their only NYC-area appearance. Supporting the s/t-approved noiseniks are Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors and the Dan Deacon-related duo Video Hippos. (Careful: Their Web site is almost as epilectic as M.I.A.’s.) Since we want you […]
1MM: HEALTH @ the Knitting Factory, 11.7.08
HEALTH pleads its case for its band name to appear in all caps. By Aaron Richter My favorite thing about HEALTH is that they’re not ugly. My second favorite thing about HEALTH is that nothing really seems to fit as you might expect it. First you’ve got a burly metalhead drummer brutalizing the demonic rhythmic […]
PEEP SHOW: Pelican, “Lost in the Headlights”
Photo by Ryan Russell While we hear that Pelican plans on hibernating this winter and emerging with a new album sometime next year, the band’s still plugging away with the promotion of their current long player, City of Echoes. That includes their headlining spot on this month’s Hydra Head‘s “Champions of Sound” tour, as well […]
THE S/T INTERVIEW: Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips
Wayne Coyne ponders life, liberty and a big fucking gas tank [Photos courtesy of Cinema Purgatorio] Interview by Andrew Parks While self-titled already told you what we thought of Christmas on Mars–Wayne Coyne’s mind-fuck version of It’s a Wonderful Life–the thing didn’t quite hit us until a few days after we experienced its mix of […]
1MM: M83/School of Seven Bells @ Webster Hall, 11.14.08
[Color photos by Andrew Parks; Black & white shots by Aaron Richter] Melodramatic much? That’s one way of putting M83‘s rather epic set at Webster Hall on Friday night. Setting things off with a carpe diem rendition of “Run Into Flowers,” Anthony Gonzalez led his airtight backing band through nearly two hours of sci-fi noir […]
SLIPPERY WHEN WET: An Exclusive Conversation Between Liquid Liquid & Tussle
Secret DFA sessions, a DVD of unlocked live footage, and more collaborations than we could possibly keep up with–these are the details that Tussle‘s main knob twiddler, Nathan Burazer, managed to get out of Liquid Liquid in an exclusive self-titled interview with vocalist Salvatore Principato and his co-percussionist Dennis Young. While they’re best known for […]
I WAS THERE: Liquid Liquid @ Santos Party House, 11.19.08
Sal P slips in and out of madness Photos/Text by Andrew Parks James Murphy is usually a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, but self-titled‘s never seen the LCD Soundsystem frontman/DFA don smile quite like he did throughout Liquid Liquid‘s special Santos Party House set last night. Perched over Santos’ mixing desk with a hint of delirium […]