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PEEP SHOW: “True Norweigan Black Metal (Full Length Version)”
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?: Gaahl portrait by Peter Beste If you have even the slightest passing interest in photography and black-metal, Peter Beste’s True Norweigan Black Metal is a must-buy that captures more than bullet belts and buckets of corpse paint. Beste’s compelling viewfinder chips away at the kvlter-than-thou posturing that’s made this subgenre/scene […]
INSIDE ST002: Bloc Party, Wayne Coyne Indulge Our ‘Lib Service’ Fantasies
[Photo by Steve Gullick] self-titled has avoided boring the shit out of artists since the second we started this daily site/digital magazine. Like the plague, really. One of the earliest ‘brilliant ideas’ we stumbled upon in our search for non-profile pieces was a simple but scintillating return to the Mad Libs pads of our stunted […]
AU CONTRAIRE: Guns N’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy” (Geffen)
Because self-titled‘s staff doesn’t always agree about what’s amazing or godawful What we said then: “Say what you will about the state of Guns N’ Roses (and more specifically Axl Rose’s sanity), but every song on Chinese Democracy contains at least 15 to 30 seconds of undeniable brilliance–an admirable feat that would be difficult for any […]
1MM: Bora Yoon & Ben Frost @ Church of the Ascension, 11.20.08
Photos by Andrew Parks When we heard that Ben Frost–easily one of our favorite ‘experimental’ acts at the moment, since he knows how to push things forward without losing the listener in a masturbatory haze–and Bora Yoon were presenting a special Church of the Ascension performance this week, self-titled sprinted to see the pair pull […]
I WAS THERE: Liquid Liquid @ Santos Party House, 11.19.08
Sal P slips in and out of madness Photos/Text by Andrew Parks James Murphy is usually a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, but self-titled‘s never seen the LCD Soundsystem frontman/DFA don smile quite like he did throughout Liquid Liquid‘s special Santos Party House set last night. Perched over Santos’ mixing desk with a hint of delirium […]
SLIPPERY WHEN WET: An Exclusive Conversation Between Liquid Liquid & Tussle
Secret DFA sessions, a DVD of unlocked live footage, and more collaborations than we could possibly keep up with–these are the details that Tussle‘s main knob twiddler, Nathan Burazer, managed to get out of Liquid Liquid in an exclusive self-titled interview with vocalist Salvatore Principato and his co-percussionist Dennis Young. While they’re best known for […]
1MM: M83/School of Seven Bells @ Webster Hall, 11.14.08
[Color photos by Andrew Parks; Black & white shots by Aaron Richter] Melodramatic much? That’s one way of putting M83‘s rather epic set at Webster Hall on Friday night. Setting things off with a carpe diem rendition of “Run Into Flowers,” Anthony Gonzalez led his airtight backing band through nearly two hours of sci-fi noir […]
THE S/T INTERVIEW: Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips
Wayne Coyne ponders life, liberty and a big fucking gas tank [Photos courtesy of Cinema Purgatorio] Interview by Andrew Parks While self-titled already told you what we thought of Christmas on Mars–Wayne Coyne’s mind-fuck version of It’s a Wonderful Life–the thing didn’t quite hit us until a few days after we experienced its mix of […]