A month ago, Brooklyn-based Yeasayer offered a bunch of goodies in exchange of your financial donnations for them to go to Uganda, which is probably the biggest joke of the year. They gathered 22 grands for their little journey to Africa, which prupose was to learn about the effects of the Ugandan civil war. Think what that money would have fixed over there for kids involved in it! Instead of paying for sending hypsters to African History class.
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If you’ve never heard of the Maker scene, here comes your chance for a catch-up lesson. Launched in 2005, Make magazine focuses on DIY projects including computers, electronics, robotics, metal/woodworking… Lire la suite
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Deer Tick is coming back with their third album, “the Black Dirt Sessions”, out on June 8th on Partisan Records. Lire la suite
Niklas Roy lives in Berlin and he “loves to make things” as you may read on his website. He is the conceptor of the “International Dance Party”, “Flora & Harmony”, or the “Pocket Sound Performer”, among other bright inventions. And he is back today with Vektron Modular: a home made algorithmic synthesizer which you can swap the microcontroller modules on which the compositions are stored. Lire la suite
Tags: germany, instrument, synth, technology, vektron modular
Broken Deer is Lindsay Dobbin’s solo project. She’s from the northern frontier of the Yukon, deep Canada. She’s definitely not a urban girl – she had a split cassette with a band called “Fuck Montreal“. Her weird and beautiful songs are mixed with field recordings, soundscapes, and lo-fi blips and bleeps to create a “celebration of nature, ritual, life and decay”. Lire la suite
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Houston van gang Indian Jewelry new song makes you feel dirty and guilty. “No genre, no rules, no help”. New album “Totalled” to be released on We Are Free. And you are not. Lire la suite
Tags: america, experimental, Indian Jewelry, moustache, weird
As a nth reference to Terry Riley’s masterpiece “In C“, French record label In-Fine is releasing the very mysterious and 1st Arandel’s EP in June, “In D”. Lire la suite
In their new video, Sun Araw from LA, hit the dancefloor with their chill wave, shoegazed dub: deep bass, organ solos, wah-riffs. The great trilogy. "On Patrol", Mr. Araw's new double LP is available now on Not Not Fun.
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Tags: california, Chill Wave, los angeles, moustache, Sun Araw
San Francisco high-energy-garage-rock Thee Oh sees come back with a full of reverb new album, “Warm Slime”, on May 11th, via In The Red Records. Lire la suite
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Watch James Murphy, Nancy Whang and Pat Mahoney Getting Tortured by Pandas
Here is the long awaited video from LCD Soundsystem‘s new single Drunk Girls. Lire la suite
Tags: funny, lcd soundsystem, music video, party, stupid, violence
The Death (or Possible Survival) of The Independent Record Store
On April 17th it was Record Store Day in the U.S. Lire la suite
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