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Blog Post Archive
Music Review: Chris Corsano - The Raw and the Cooked
Chris Corsano x Bill Orcutt The Raw and the Cooked [Palilalia; 2013] by Matthew Phillips Rating: The inextricable link between improvisation and intuition grants access to the rarely-tapped psychological space affectionately referred...Show More Summary
Music Review: Holy - Age of Collapse
Holy
Age of Collapse
[Adagio830; 2013]
by Gumshoe
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It’s possible I tend to de-emphasize lyrics because I listened to a lot of scabby hard-rock and metal (in smalltown Idaho, no less) in grade school. Profound wordplay shouldn’t be expected from a song titled “Fight Fire with Fire,” after all. Show More Summary
Sarah Lipstate (a.k.a. Noveller) will provide a live score for Radiolab’s tour, and that’s almost too much cool for me to handle
Sometimes I don’t want to listen to music, so I listen to stories instead. Not audiobooks, because I hate hearing someone else recite something I know I could just be reading myself. When I don’t want to listen to music, I listen toShow More Summary
? Listen: Lil B - 100% Percent Gutta
All off the top of my head: I’m losing hair faster than Lil B is putting out mixtapes these days. But this one be 100% Percent Gutta, lil bruhh. And let Lil B give you food for thought: “I know. Okay. You feel me?” Now, has Lil B reached...Show More Summary
Cerberus: Better Psychics - What is Rule
By Gumshoe on Jun 18 2013
If Blanche Blanche Blanche are the Devo of this generation, Better Psychics are the Lemon Kittens of today, engaging in an engrossing sound spectacle that seems to have no conscience, much less rhyme or rea...
? Listen: The Trap’s Jaw - “this is all i want”
In the cut-throat industry of music criticism, “two hours of randomly generated music” is often used as a euphemism for “ginormous wad of nauseating sonic bile.” However, Michelle Arf has defied this narrow mindedness to produce twoShow More Summary
James Blake releasing a line of shirts through H&M, one step closer to monetizing crippling depression
James Blake is going to release a line of shirts through H&M. This is not some kind of weird, months-too-late April Fools joke or prank; this is factual. Yes, the mind behind such songs as “The Wilhelm Scream” and “Life Round Here” is...Show More Summary
? Listen: Oh, Yoko (Celer + Rie Mitsutake) - “Seashore”
Will Long, the ambient wellspring behind Celer’s many gentle streams of consciousness, is forming a fresh estuary with Japanese vocalist Rie Mitsutake. Placid as can be, their single “Seashore” marks the debut of a duo they’re calling Oh, Yoko. Show More Summary
AMDISCS announces Soft Frequency Vol. II, featuring Veracom, Neuport, Marvin Cruz Productions™
With a force equal to that of a sonic boom raining down from the heavens, the omnipotent and omniscient Mr P provided a nice overview of the Prague-based ??MDISCS: Futures Reserve Label (a.k.a. AMDISCS) about two months ago, just prior...Show More Summary
Watch: Main Attrakionz - “Kinfolk” (Prod. by Tynethys)
Cloud rap, meet electronica. Main Attrakionz, the Oakland duo that almost single-handedly proved cloud rap was a “thing,” is preparing to release a collaborative album with Sacramento producer Tynethys this summer. The two Californians’...Show More Summary
Franz Ferdinand announce funky-fresh tour of funky-smelling North America
Dude, I had this awesome lucid dream dream last night where I had written this incredible news piece about UK amaze-balls, shock-rockin’, shot-callers Franz “Fucking” Ferdinand and their forthcoming album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. Show More Summary
Mix Tape: summer songs for 2011
Requested by kimmie117 • Compiled by knives
01. The One AM Radio - “Sunlight” (Heaven Is Attached By a Slender Thread)
02. BRAIDS - “Lemonade” (Native Speaker)
03. Panda Bear - “Last Night at the Jetty” (Tomboy)
04. Lykke Li - “Youth Knows No Pain” (Wounded Rhymes)
05. Show More Summary
Cerberus: Ron Berry - Where Dark Forces Meet
By Strauss on Jun 18 2013
Ron Berry spent a good chunk of the 80s designing and building analogue synths, drum machines and speakers in the UK, and as luck would have it he was also spending a good chunk of that chunk composing music on said equipment and recording it. Show More Summary
Film Review: I Send You This Place (Dir. Andrea Sisson & Pete Ohs)
I Send You This Place
Dir. Andrea Sisson & Pete Ohs
[Lauren Edward; 2012]
by Lorian Long
Rating:
In Jenny Diski’s 1998 memoir Skating To Anatarctica, Diski takes a cruise to Antarctica as a way to add “more whiteness” to a life consumed by depression, sexual abuse, and emotionally fucked parents. Show More Summary
? Listen: Diamond Black Hearted Boy - Father, Protect Me
OMFG, I finally just finished season three of Game of Thrones! Holy moly, guys, I mean, I almost cried. Even though my second-favorite character is dead, at least I can click all those spoiler alert posts on Reddit! This Diamond Black Hearted Boy release kinda reminds me of GoT. Show More Summary
Dirty Beaches announces a tour and support for antiquated technology with cassette release
From our brohams at the ‘Fork, Alex Zhang Hungtai, better known as Dirty Beaches, is hitting the road and touring North America this fall in support of his excellent new double album Drifters/Love Is the Devil (TMT Review).
In addition...Show More Summary
Music Review: Zomby - With Love
Zomby
With Love
[4AD; 2013]
by Nick Henderson
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Zomby is one of those digital age artists who, à la Burial, opts to transmit sounds to the world out from under a veil of anonymity. This artist’s cover-up of choice is a grinning...Show More Summary
Music Review: Motoomi Doi - The Illuminated Nightingale
Motoomi Doi
The Illuminated Nightingale
[Noble; 2013]
by Gabriel Samach
Rating:
“‘The Illuminated Nightingale’ is an album based on the concept of ‘night’, portraying an entire evening from dusk to dawn.”
– label description for The Illuminated Nightingale (via Noble)
Have you ever stayed up all night? Not intentionally, I mean. Show More Summary
Ital and Hieroglyphic Being team up to form Interplanetary Prophets, release an EP, and save the galaxy
Daniel Martin-McCormick and Jamal Moss must have become BFFs last year. Better known as Ital and Hieroglyphic Being, respectively, the two toured together last year and collaborated for a set at New York’s Unsound festival but just can’t seem to get enough of each other. Show More Summary
? Listen: Dead in the Dirt - “The Blaring Eye”
Grindcore lives. The legions of the metal underground will lend ears and lift horns every time the kids do it right: cram as much full-on savagery into as few seconds as possible. Atlanta trio Dead In the Dirt get there again, as they have gotten there before. Show More Summary