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PEEP SHOW: Rusko Turns One of the Dirty Projectors Girls Into a Bigger Diva Than David Longstreth
Rusko‘s Mad Decent debut, O.M.G.!, is available now.
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Aloe Blacc, “Femme Fatale”
Aloe Blacc‘s Truth + Soul-produced album, Good Things, is set to drop sometime in September. Judging by this Velvet Underground cover (available as part of a heavyweight 7-inch) and the song we offered last month, Blacc is bound to become Mayer Hawthorne‘s successor in the throwback soul department of Stones Throw. And hey, if you […]
COMING TO AMERICA, PART I: Sparrow and the Workshop
Photos by Jen Maler The story’s a familiar one: a UK band with major momentum back home spends the next year simply trying to get their record released over here. Wondering what it’s like trying to bait blogs and build buzz in a matter of days, we asked two acts from the London-based Distiller Records […]
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 025: An Exclusive Mix By … Mathew Jonson
[Photo by Lars] By Andrew Parks While a decade may seem like a long wait for a debut album, Mathew Jonson hasn’t exactly been taking it easy the past 10 years. Aside from delivering a steady stream of heady 12-inch singles for such major dance music labels as M_nus (“Decompression”), Kompakt (“Dirt Road and a […]
TEST PRESSING: Ed Banger Leaks a Bunch of New Tracks From Mr. Oizo and One-Half of Justice, Including a Flying Lotus Remix
Ever wonder what’d happen if a tire came to life and started killing people? That’s funny–neither have we. Maybe that’s because we’re not as thoroughly twisted as Quentin Dupieux, the director of Rubber, a B-movie with the following ‘what the fuck?’ plot: “Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned […]
The Black Angels Keep the Heroin Drip Hooks Coming With ‘Phosphene Dream’
The Black Angels–easily one of self-titled‘s favorite psych bands–have set September 14 as the release date of their third full-length record, Phosphene Dream. According to a press release, the album is the first Black Angels effort developed outside of Austin. Cut over the course of six L.A. months with producer/mixer Dave Sardy (Black Mountain, Oasis, […]