Sound Takes: Our Own Dystopian Future
Cult Favorite For Mad Men Only (Reservoir Sound) Cult Favorite‘s album For Mad Men Only, a trip-hop collaboration between Brooklyn rapper Elucid and New York noise-experimentalist A.M. Breakups, is simply…
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Making Art, Making Gnomes
“No, I am not real. I am like a dude who adjunct teaches at the local college and then, in his free time, makes little gnomes. My music is a hobby. I am making fucking gnomes.”
SOUND TAKES: IMPLICIT INFLUENCE
Snowblink Inner Classics (Arts & Crafts Records) Sometimes ascribing a name to something (a painting, a song, a poem) becomes easier after creation. One may not realized the extent to…
The Rumpus Interview with Kurt Vile
We talk to indie-rock musician Kurt Vile about his recording process, life on the road, and the all-time best Dead Milkmen song.
Nick Cave Monday #41: “Momma’s Boy”
Nick Cave was a singer named Freak Storm in the 1991 film Johnny Suede. Tom DiCillo wrote and directed the film. It was his directorial debut. Before this film he…
Deep Throat #5: On Being and Unbeing a Singer
There is nothing I have experienced that is so physical, nothing that resonates in the bones and meat of a person like it does to make music with other people at that sort of level.
Nick Cave Monday #40: “City of Refuge”
If you commit manslaughter, you better run to the City of Refuge. It’s what the Old Testament tells us to do because under biblical law the family of the victim…
The Rumpus Interview with Karl Briedrick of Speck Mountain
Lyrically, it’s about longing for something to change, longing for something to happen within the context of a relationship where it hasn’t felt like anything’s been happening for a long time.
Swinging Modern Sounds #45: The Distribution Problem, Part One
Rick Moody talks with Frank Zappa's widow, Gail, about her new idea to license distribution rights of an unreleased project to Zappa fans.
Kraftwerk Confirms Work on New Album
Ralf Hütter of the German band Kraftwerk (famous for pioneering of krautrock and drone) confirmed in an interview with The Guardian that the band is indeed continuing work on their twelfth…
INDIE ROCK PIONEERS SEBADOH ANNOUNCE FIRST NEW LP IN 14 YEARS
A few months back, legendary indie rock band Sebadoh quietly posted 5 new tracks on their Bandcamp page. Those tracks are now being officially released by Joyful Noise Recordings as…
Nick Cave Monday #39: “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”
In a dreary, isolated town stands a building. Throughout the bland hallways are rooms that have been deserted for years. Old computer equipment, basically just a bunch of shit around.…