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PRIMER: R. Loren On … Prurient, Nadja, Godflesh and 8 Other Records Related To Sailors With Wax Wings
By R. Loren When envisioning the fabric of sound that would evolve into Sailors With Wax Wings, the notion of creating a “supergroup” was a non issue. Like any project around the house, only the right equipment, the best equipment, is desired to produce the best end result. I was only interested in using those […]
RECORDING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: How To Dress Well
Recording Under the Influence is a recurring self-titled feature where we ask artists to ignore their musical inspirations for a minute and share what really went into the making of a particular record. While he’s received a hefty blog push in the past year, How To Dress Well has been notoriously shy thus far (the […]
NE036: An Exclusive Soft Metals Mix
A few weeks ago, we told you about Soft Metals’ debut EP (The Cold World Melts), “a perfectly mastered slab of white vinyl that sounds like Glass Candy:if they shed their slo-mo disco skin and decided to go for our collective jugular on the dancefloor.” Said record has quickly become one of our favorite extended […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: The Bug, “Skeng (Autechre Dub)”
For more from Kevin Martin/The Bug–including a special Skream remix–click here. [FACT]
Geoff Barrow and Beak> Help a Political Journalist Cover Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan and The Pretenders For New Stones Throw LP
We ran into Geoff Barrow after Beak>‘s Bowery Ballroom show the other day and he simply could not stop talking about another project that has nothing to do with Portishead: the self-titled debut of Anika, a political journalist who doesn’t sing so much as project strange vibes (think: Nico caught in a K-hole). According to […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: The Soft Pack’s Limited, Tour-Only 7”, ‘Gagdad’
Photo by Travis Huggett Five hundred copies of the Soft Pack‘s Gagdad 7” will be available on their fall tour, which includes nearly a month of co-headlining stops with Kurt Vile. Check out the details and a digital version of the single after the jump…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Announce Tiny Tenth Anniversary Show With Talk Normal At Secret Project Robot In Brooklyn
Photo by Andrew Parks Check out the flyer and the details after the jump, although you’ll probably want to start waiting in line for tickets now…