Blog Profile / Tiny Mix Tapes
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| Filed Under: | Music / Rock & Pop | |
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| Posts / Week: | 55.4 | |
| Archived Since: | May 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Music Review: Lydia Lunch - Retro Virus
Lydia Lunch
Retro Virus
[ugEXPLODE; 2013]
by Clifford Allen
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It’s interesting to think about early work with respect to the growth, maturity, and/or aging of an artist. It’s a well-known fact that as one ages, one’s palette changes as the physical requirements of playing an instrument shift. Show More Summary
Music Review: Small Black - Limits of Desire
Small Black
Limits of Desire
[Jagjaguwar; 2013]
by Simon Chandler
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There’s a parallel between Limits of Desire and Wittgenstein’s/Jastrow’s famed rabbit-duck illusion. Depending on your perspective, on whether you’re standingShow More Summary
DJ Diamond grabs his spelunking equipment and takes you Deeper Than Trax with new digital EP
Over at le Grinder de Chocolat, C Monster provided a nice overview of the initial version of Deeper Than Trax, but unfortunately most of the links offered have since been rendered inactive. Where’s Leo? I need his permission to go deeper to find Deeper. Show More Summary
Small Black head out on summer tour, have new single, new beer
Well, here we are. Summer will be bearing down at any moment now. Technically, that moment comes in roughly a month-and-a-half, but it will feel like summer for much of the nation long before then. Brooklyn’s Small Black will be using these summer months to head out on tour with their buddies Heavenly Beat. Show More Summary
Watch: Destroy This Place - “Graves”
Horror flicks are enhanced by their DIY qualities. Villains coldly striding through the quintessential axe-murder steps toward their hapless victims are always enhanced by face-obscuring masks — and the more DIY the mask (say, chocolate-colored papier-mâché Elk-monster?), the better. Show More Summary
Okkyung Lee prepares a coarse, ungarnished dish of Ghil, out June 24 on Ideologic Organ
Not to generalize or be one of those people, but it seems to be a recognizable motif of popular music that — absent a genuine desire to find talented musicians — producers and engineers have no choice but to resort to musical overdressing, designed to obfuscate what would otherwise be an all-too-apparent vapidity. Show More Summary
? Listen: Various Artists: Bridgetown Records - Spring Compilation
Howww awesome are prono compilations? Well, double that with Bridgetown Records’ Spring Compilation, a batch of seven new tapes including: School Knights’ Lethargy, Reighnbeau’s Friends, Torn Humorist’s Everyone Works So Hard, LavasShow More Summary
Film Review: Fragments of Kubelka (Dir. Martina Kudlá?ek)
Fragments of Kubelka
Dir. Martina Kudlá?ek
[Mina Film; 2012]
by gammareay
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Fragments of Kubelka, Martina Kudlá?ek’s sprawling and illuminating documentary, exposes the depth and eclectic qualities of filmmaker Peter Kubelka’s cinematic work. Show More Summary
Mix Tape: Something to fail all of my finals and disappoint my father to
Requested by absfisher • Compiled by Jeff I go to a trimester schedule school. I get out in 1 month lolz. Good luck! 01. Kanye West - “School Spirit” (The College Dropout) 02. Atom and His Package - “Punk Rock Academy” (A Society of People Named Elihu) 03. Show More Summary
Hospital Ships’ June 18 album release makes ships friendly again
Hospital Ships is a band that conjures so much in my mind, including the idea of a Grey’s Anatomy-style hospital drama on the high seas, but they also make me think of good music. Like my conception, the band started as a bedroom-recording...Show More Summary
Watch: Dark Bells - “Wildflower”
Dooooood, my hair is matted with Dead Sea salt-water, and I’m sure I’ve had one too many Slush Puppies (if you get what I mean) and my stomach’s rumbling louder than a discarded snare with its little arm-thing down, and I’ve seen DIG!like...Show More Summary
Death Grips to soundtrack original Zach Hill film; breaking things to receive its most comprehensive guide since the 1970s
Stopping just short of causing permanent blindness, the collective overdose of adrenaline that crowds in Europe are currently experiencing as a result of the Death Grips tour hasn’t been enough to stop people from noticing the absence of Zach Hill. Show More Summary
Cerberus: Dead C/Rangda - split
By Jspicer on May 13 2013
I remember that first step into the Sunset. I was invited to witness the emergence of Rangda; to bask in the beginning of something new. I stood in the middle of the club surrounded by Chasny and Corsano, only for Bishop to walk to the stage and the rest follow. Show More Summary
Music Review: She & Him - Volume 3
She & Him
Volume 3
[Merge; 2013]
by Nathan Shaffer
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“It seems that Courbet had a friend who used to wake up in the night yelling: ‘I want to judge, I want to judge.’ It’s amazing how people like judging. Judgement is being passed everywhere, all the time. Show More Summary
Music Review: Locust - You’ll Be Safe Forever
Locust You’ll Be Safe Forever [Editions Mego; 2013] by Olga Drenda Rating: “Time warped” is the phrase that most accurately describes the mood evoked by the latest Locust album, You’ll Be Safe Forever. While The Revenant Diary, released...Show More Summary
Feature: Tribeca Film Festival 2013
by Susanna Locascio • May 2013
Oh, hi Tribeca Film Festival! With this year’s lineup, you may have edged out SXSW as my favorite place to discover documentaries. Sundance continues to snap up the marquee fictional narrative films (Fruitvale...Show More Summary
Mix: Chocolate Grinder Mix 78 - Internet, Inc.
(MP3 DOWNLOAD) - (PODCAST) So, as I’m sitting here on my couch naked around 12:48 a.m. [saved this post at 1:23 a.m.], I’m expecting to wake up in less than six hours [So what? So what?]. Ima criminal to projection of thought; fuck time,...Show More Summary
Stellar OM Source announces existence of new album, single, and civilization of intelligent aliens who use space rocks as currency
In space no one can hear your skin slowly melt off the bones because you touched the wrong space rock. Space is infinite, buddy, everybody’s got other shit to do, and they definitely do not have time to sit around and figure out whether your skin is sloughing off or not. Show More Summary
Cerberus: Mike Rep & The Quotas - Rocket to Nowhere
By Gumshoe on May 10 2013
AWWWWWWWWWW yeah, down and dirty, party-till-4:30, Ramones T-shirt-y, somethin’-somethin’-flirty… You know what I mean: It’s 1975, and Mike Rep And The Quotas don’t give a fuck about what anyone else is doing. Show More Summary
King Khan and the Shrines sign to Merge, but really, let’s just talk about dicks
The human box of mentally deranged black market firecrackers that is King Khan has signed to Merge, with a new album on the way later this year. The man of a 1,000 “King Khan and the —” projects is going as the standard King Khan and the Shrines on this one. Show More Summary