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Arcade Fire Reveal Cover Art, Release Date For ‘The Suburbs’
Now that their new 12-inch single has started hitting record shops, Arcade Fire have revealed the details behind their third full-length record. Due out August 3 through Merge, The Suburbs is available through six different pre-order packages, including: 1. Premium digital in 320 kbps MP3, FLAC or Apple Lossless. Delivered via email $7.99 PRE-ORDER > […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Tracey Thorn
[Photo by Edward Bishop] Interview by Ilirjana Alushaj You’re not still referring to Tracey Thorn as “that girl from the deserts-miss-the-rain video,” are you? Let’s hope not. After all, Everything But the Girl‘s been ‘on hiatus’ since 2002, and Thorn just released her second album in three years, the rather spare, synth-free Love and Its […]
NOW PLAYING: Kyle Hall, ‘Must See’ EP
The Details: Kyle Hall, Must See EP (Third Ear, 2010) A Short Review: Now here’s one reason–besides a rare stateside appearance by Ricardo Villalobos– we’re bummed about missing Detroit’s annual DEMF festival this weekend. Kyle Hall is one of the country’s most promising deep house producers, an 18-year-old (!) student of Omar-S, Mike Huckaby and […]
TEST PRESSING: Klaxons Unveil “Flashover,” Their First New Song Since Scrapping An Entire Album and Aliging Themselves With the Dark Side (Ross Robinson)
Photo by Andrew Parks Hey, at least it doesn’t sound like nu-(rave)metal.
AGF and Gudrun Gut Cover an Old Thomas Fehlmann Tune Under Their New Greie Gut Fraktion Guise
Take a deep breath, German techno fans: AGF and Gudrun Gut have formed a new project called Greie Gut Fraktion. And what do you know? Their debut album (Baustelle, out 6/22 on Monika) is a delightfully weird pop record that’s full of cryptic vocals and waves of unidentified flying samples. Not to mention a Palais […]
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 021: An Exclusive Mix By … The Depreciation Guild
[Photo by Drew Reynolds] Since The Depreciation Guild have a record release party in Brooklyn tonight and the band’s guitarist (Christoph Hochheim) used to DJ a radio show called “Vapor Trails,” we asked the guy to give us a Needle Exchange mix. What we didn’t expect was everything from underground beat conductors (Daedelux, Dimlite) to […]
Dam-Funk, Computer Jay and J-1 Take Master Blazter On the Road, Share a Special ‘Blazt Off’ Mixtape From DJ Kutmah
[Photo by Max SSLA] As if Dam-Funk wasn’t busy enough with his own music and the Nite Jewel project he previewed early this year, Stones Throw just sent us a link to a special mix from Dam’s Master Blazter trio with Computer Jay and J-1. Blazt Off is a seamless tape of mind-bending funk by […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Bot’Ox, “Overdrive (Morgan Geist Remix)”
Here’s some good news for anyone who digs Parisian dance music but hates Ed Banger’s drill sergeant approach to electro: Bot’Ox, one of the city’s true secret weapons, finally have their first full-length ready for a late summer release. In the meantime, the pedal-pushing duo have a new single on tap for Benjamin Boguet’s (see […]