To Bob be the glory! The No More Fake Labels label has issued Sing For Your Meat: A Tribute To Guided By Voices. The 17-track album features such MAGNET faves as Thurston Moore (“Stabbing A Star”), Lou Barlow (“Game Of Pricks”), Crooked Fingers (“Tractor Rape Chain”), the Flaming Lips (“Smothered In Hugs”), Superdrag (“A Salty [...]
Animal Collective has announced several U.S. dates in July, including stops at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, the namesake venue of its 2009 album … Drums Between The Bells is the new LP from Brian Eno, set for a July 5 release via Warp Records … Neil Young was recently honored [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early ’70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max’s and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]
On June 7, Black Lips are issuing their sixth album via Vice Records, and it marks the first time the Atlanta flower punks didn’t self-produce one of their releases. The 16-track Arabia Mountain features nine songs produced by Mark Ronson (Adele, Duran Duran, Amy Winehouse), with the remainder being recorded with Lockett Pundt (Deerhunter). Black [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early ’70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max’s and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]
Drag City, the venerable indie label tasked with releasing Bill Callahan‘s newest record, Apocalypse, describes the collection in stark and intriguing terms on its website: “A mirror held up to the self and then turned around to the world. This record makes us wonder what has really happened in the last 100 years. And what [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 27-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. David Lester’s graphic novel The Listener arrived from the printer this week. Beautiful, heavy and shiny, like all great works of art [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early ’70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max’s and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]
Telekinesis recently released sophomore album 12 Desperate Straight Lines (Merge). The follow-up to last year’s Telekinesis! again features Michael Benjamin Lerner collaborating with Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie), though now Lerner’s band consists of guitarist Cody Votolato (Jaguar Love, Blood Brothers) and bassist Jason Narducy (Robert Pollard, Verbow). Catch Telekinesis on tour with Portugal. [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Mary Mary Rerun from March 31. Sister duo Mary Mary played “Never Wave My Flag” from new LP Something Big. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): The Lonely Island [...]
