On April 17th it was Record Store Day in the U.S.
For one week only, Pitchfork TV allows you to watch I Need That Record! a documentary by Brendan Toller about the decline of independent record stores. Featuring interviews with Ian MacKaye, Thurston Moore, Glenn Branca and many more.
Tags: documentary, industry, vinyl
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English indie songwriter becomes ghost crashing his myspace
When he crashed his myspace profile, fans thought he passed away or something. Liam The Younger comes back with a new ecstatic song – half half psych-folk / high-energy-post-rock, as a preview of his new album “Revel Hidden Worlds” coming out somewhere sometimes including a “with a somewhat elaborate booklet of lyrics, jokes, pictures, doofy diary entries and other lies”. Yeah, I’m older now. Lire la suite
Tags: internet, Liam The Younger, pop, uk
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore gave a “Dissertation on White Noise” for kids between ages 8 and 12 at Partners & Spade’s so-called Avant Garde Preschool last weekend. Lire la suite
Tags: bill nace, kids, new york, noise, sonic youth, thurston moore
We had made a story The Drone last year about San Francisco psyche combo Wooden Shjips. The frontman, Eric “Ripley” Johnson is now back with a new project he started with his wife, Sanae Yamada. If you’re familiar with Wooden Shjips, it will appeal. Lire la suite
Tags: duo, Moon Duo, moustache, psychedelism, san francisco
In these times of economical crisis, Bethany Cosentino aka Best Coast just wants to go to the beach and enjoy a Double Double from In-N-Out with Ronald McDonald. Lire la suite
Tags: beach, Best Coast, california, music video, pop, summer
Indie superhero and flying skateboarding chihuahua sidekick
The Adventures of Electra Elf and Fluffer is a more-than-low bugdet cable access TV show produced by Nick Zedd (the man who coined the term Cinema Of Transgression) and staring lower east side artist Jen Miller aka Saint Reverend Jen. Lire la suite
I love tribute bands: Hi-On Maiden, Fred Zeppelin, Pink Fraud, etc.
This one is from Japan, and is fully devoted to this year’s most hyped band The XX, go figure. Lire la suite
Tags: japan, the xx, tribute band, weird
This is Health’s new video directed by Eric Wareheim. Of course it’s NSFW but nobody’s got a job anymore so it doesn’t really matter, right? Lire la suite
Tags: blood, gore, health, music video
Great news from Constellation Records. Godspeed is reuniting. Lire la suite
Tags: canada, godspeed you! Black emperor, post rock, reunion
Watch new animated music video from heavy rock duo
You probably remember The Drone’s piece on Tweak Bird. Well, the brothers Ashton’s duo from Illinois is back with a nice animated music video: The Bones. Lire la suite
Tags: costume, heavy metal, music video, tweak bird
A video from an english band I just heard about, Civil Civic. Lire la suite
Tags: civil civic, noise, uk
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