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I Was There: Brian Jonestown Massacre Welcomes Back Matt Hollywood at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Words and Photos by Aaron Richter The Band and Its Latest Release: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (A, 2010) The Show: Music Hall of Williamsburg, 6.5.10 The Set in a Few Sentences:
Hot Chip and the Juan MacLean Discuss the Lost Art of DJing
Photo by Aaron Richter While he’s currently on the road supporting his excellent DJ-KICKS mix, we managed to corner Juan MacLean and his buddy Joe Goddard before the latter’s Hot Chip gig last month to talk about the lost art of DJing. Among the addressed topics in our cinéma vérité conversation: the striking similarities between […]
Dave Sitek Leaks New Maximum Balloon Single, “Tiger,” In the Best Way Possible: A “Woman We Love” Video For Esquire
So here’s what our art director stumbled upon while ‘designing’ our next issue this evening: an Esquire video featuring the first publicly-aired song from Dave Sitek’s new Maximum Balloon project. Fronted by Aku from Dragons of Zynth, “Tiger” is what TV on the Radio would sound like if they lightened up a little and started […]
RECORDING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Ellen Allien
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. Ellen Allien keeps things simple in her guide to Dust, giving us a few clues as to how some of the album’s […]
PEEP SHOW: Time to Do the Dew With Neon Indian, and Get Excited About Ironing With Miniature Tigers
Photos by Andrew Parks Another day, another market-saturating music video from Mountain Dew. Available for your streaming pleasure this time around: Neon Indian‘s “Sleep Paralysist” single. Not exactly a low-budget affair, it features a rousing game of Backgammon and enough mood-lit dream sequences to give us nightmares. In related news, Miniature Tigers just made the […]
Nobody Premieres a Track From His New ‘Auto-Tune Album’
We’ve long considered Nobody one of L.A.’s most sorely-overlooked producers, a guy who’s capable of covering the Flaming Lips (“What Is the Light?”), collaborating with that one dude from Beachwood Sparks (Mystic Chords of Memory), and nailing the whole psychedelic pop thing (Blank Blue). His latest solo album (One For All Without Hesitation, due out […]
PRIMER: Aaron Turner Revisits Isis’ Entire Catalog
[Photo by Robin Laananen] As sad as we are to see Isis go, the band’s imminent breakup–set to commence after their current tour–isn’t the least bit surprising. A quick scan of Decibel‘s final Isis cover story (written by self-titled contributor J. Bennett) all but confirmed it five months ago, with each of the members interviewed […]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Add “Weird Al” To ATP Show
Yep, you read that right: “Weird Al” Yankovic, the man responsible for such monster jams as “My Bologna,” “White & Nerdy” and “Amish Paradise,” is among the new additions to Godspeed You! Black Emperor‘s ATP Weekend. Also on tap for the Minehead festival: Nomeansno Josephine Foster (solo) White Magic Emeralds Boban I Marko Markovic Orchestra […]