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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Comets On Fire, ‘Black Cassette’
While we understand why Ethan Miller’s been spending most of his time with Howlin’ Rain these days (that’s what happens when Rick Rubin’s bankrolling your records), the self-titled staff is hoping he’ll follow up that band’s next full-length with the first new Comets On Fire record in four years. That probably won’t happen, however; not […]
TEST PRESSING: Les Savy Fav’s Seth Jabour Shares His Soundtrack To ‘Deluxx Fluxx’, a Video Game Art Show From BAST and Faile
Fresh off the Megadrive mentions in this week’s Ikonika feature comes an 8-bit art show soundtrack from Les Savy Fav‘s Seth Jabour. While the guy’s mostly known as a chord-grating post-punk guitarist, his Deluxx Fluxx pieces are like Crystal Castles instrumentals…if someone punched Ethan Kath in the face and forced a handful of happy pills […]
PEEP SHOW: Woah, What’s Going On In This Mike Patton Video?
Leave it to Mike Patton–a guy who once used hotel rooms to record 34 vocal-only tracks (1996’s rather terrifying Adult Themes For Voice)–to deliver a straight-faced collection of orchestral pop songs…in Italian. Mondo Cane (due out May 4 on Ipecac) is surprisingly satisfying stuff, a concert hall-ready tribute to such red gravy greats as Ennio […]
I WAS THERE: Municipal Waste Remind Us of Keg Stands and Denim Vests With Back Patches At Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory
Words and Photos by Andrew Parks The Artist & Their Latest Release: Municipal Waste, Massive Aggressive (Earache, 2009) The Show: Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 4.23.10 The Set In a Few Sentences:
RECORDING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Adam Green On … French Lit, ‘Metal Machine’ Jackets, L.A. Coffee and His Cheating Girlfriend
[Photo by Guy Eppel] 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. Today’s installment is about Adam Green‘s surprisingly sincere Minor Love LP; surprising because this guy used to sing […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Mister Cee’s Flawless Guru Tribute
As Guru‘s fans and family continue to debate the death of Gang Starr‘s game-changing MC, we’d like to shift the focus to one thing: his music, as immortalized in the following Mister Cee mix, cut live on his Hot 97 show. As Big Daddy Kane’s former DJ says at the starting gate, “Guru belongs to […]
I WAS THERE: The Whitest Boy Alive? Clearly You Haven’t Met Us, Erlend Øye!
Words and Photo by Andrew Parks The Artist & Their Latest Release: The Whitest Boy Alive, Rules (Bubbles, 2009) The Show: Music Hall of Williamsburg, 4.21.10 The Set In a Few Sentences:
MOVIES FOR THE BLIND: Cage Gets His Ass Kicked By Kids After ‘Kick-Ass’, Digs Some Docs About Banksy and Black-Metal
Chris Palko first stormed onto the underground hip-hop scene as Cage with “Agent Orange,†a Clockwork Orange-sampling single from his 2002 album, Movies For the Blind. His free associative film column pays tribute to that record and runs on our daily site at the start of every week.