November 2008
News: Noel Gallagher makes you a mixtape
Noel Gallagher, the more bushy-brow'd, usually quiet brother of the largely influential Oasis has gone and put together his own version of a mixtape on iTunes, creating an interesting medley of bygone rock heroes and other long-forgotten tracks.
NovemberNov 28 Friday 08
Tours: Gildas & Masaya tour Asia
To celebrate the release of the compilation Kitsune Maison 6, the French label are sending founders Gildas Loaec & Masaya Kuroki (aka Gildas & Masaya) all around the east Asian territories of Korea, Japan and China, kicking off tomorrow night in Seoul with a gig at …
NovemberNov 27 Thursday 08
Download: new mixtape from Buffetlibre DJs
It's called "Hit!", and it was described by Buffetlibre's Marc Constanti as "a collection of songs that we use to play in our shows".
Video: White Lies - "To Lose My Life"
UK doom and gloom group White Lies just released this, their second video under the direction of Andreas Nilsson (the first being their amazing clip for "Death"), last week and we have to say, it's rad.
News: Matt Pond PA offer up The Freeep
Matt Pond PA give thanks this year to you, the fans (and some of you who aren't fans or don't even know who the hell Matt Pond PA is) by offering up this, a nine-song EP for free.
Download: Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes (Konrad remix)"
Emerging: Deleted Scenes
(photo by Amy Gieske)
To get to the bottom of it, Deleted Scenes are a group of kids who live in Washington, DC and Brooklyn who just completed work on their first full length record with help from some dude whose name you may recognize: Burning Airlines/Government …
Live: Broke-Ass Stuart's book release party
If you're not familiar with the dude who calls himself Broke-Ass Stuart, well, he's kind of a legendary zine figurehead in San Francisco who's gotten a lot of praise for his guidebook to that city for the "young, broke and beautiful".
Download: Database ft. Bonde Do Role - "Miami (Baile Funk mix)"
(photo by Manuel Nogueira)
An obvious meeting of two of Sao Paulo's best and brightest, this new mix from the duo known as Database basically rips out the refrain of the Bonde Do Role track "Miami Beach" for a full-out stomp.
NovemberNov 26 Wednesday 08
Download: Digitalism - "Taken Away (Sikki Kidz remix)"
Cold electro treatments of cold electro songs are instantly our heart.
NovemberNov 25 Tuesday 08
Download: Goshi Goshi - "The Lock Shot"
When music speaks for itself, it has to bang and slay you or you're basically left to argue the merits of image or gimmickry or storyline.
Video: Lambchop does a "Black Cab Session"
Kurt Wagner aka the principal from the Nashville collective Lambchop does his best cover of Bob Dylan's "You're A Big Girl Now" for this, the sixty-seventh video recorded by those dudes in London, UK for the "Black Cab Sessions".
Tours: Yo! Majesty announce UK dates for 2009
British Isles, prepare to get your fill of lesbian topless African American hip hop, because the girls women from Florida's Yo! Majesty are hitting the stages of your country like a foul-mouthed firestorm this March for a two-week trek.
News: Lemonade coming to NYC with El Guincho
Come December 2 at Le Poisson Rouge, Lemonade, the blissed-out psychedelic-fuck-up group we once called "a woozy, jittery mess of a thing filled with speak-sing vocals and overdubs to such a degree that's it's close to nauseating" will be hitting the stage on their …
Special edition vinyl pressing of The Jealous Sound's first two releases out now
Sure, it's been a few years (five of 'em) since Blair Shehan and the post-Knapsack group The Jealous Sound released their first LP, Kill Them With Kindness.
Photos: D.I.M. at Webster Hall on November 21
Alongside DJs like Grandmaster Flash, Dimitry!!!, AC Slater and The Captain, Boysnoize recording artist D.I.M. took the stage on Friday night and delivered a pulsing, nonstop set of what could more than likely be best described as bass-bass-bass-treble-treble electro.
News: Naked Raygun, Hot Water Music play Chicago together in January
In news that seriously made us start typing this as fast as humanly possible, Naked Raygun and Hot Water Music (above) just announced that they are playing at House of Blues Chicago
on January 2 and 3, and right now, an exclusive internet-only presale is going on.
NovemberNov 24 Monday 08
Download: Kanye West - "Street Lights (Max Justus remix)"
We love Kanye's new record, 808s & Heartbreak.