Styles: rock & roll
Others: gin, vodka, wine, weed, pharmaceuticals
We approach art on our knees, hands outstretched to receive its asylum. We beg art to allow us to annex it into our lives in order to patch up our individual voids and our collective ones. People used to look to art to reveal something about reality; now we look to art to remove us from it. We put in art what we can’t seem to put in ourselves: hope. “I really need the new album by The National to be good,” we think.
More about: The National
DJ MC, alias of Mario Cooper, is a second-generation footwork producer from South Side Chicago, who — at least to those outside of Chicago’s battle circles — entered the world back in 2011 by featuring on Planet Mu’s second Bangs & Works compilation.
More about: DJ MC
Styles: avant-opera, improvisation, pop
Others: Diamanda Galás, Björk
To avoid tropes, through language, what can’t be avoided.
Nothing begins, no screen is raised, the words go up in flames.
Can a cliché, can a tale as old as time, can the experience of failure.
Yes, for some time, all she did outside of work was watch films in bed.
One day, with a little water, the BRD trilogy back to back.
One day Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
The day after that, she shook a pencil skirt off the rack.
She put on a cardigan and styled her hair into a low bun.
More about: SADAF
Shit. Now I’m sorta confused, you guys.
See, as of a little while ago, I was pretty goddamned sure that Annie Clark wanted me to fear the future. BUT NOW, the people who run The Internet are telling me that Clark’s new St. Vincent album, MASSEDUCTION, is coming out (you guessed it, friends:) in the fucking FUTURE!!! (Should…should I…get, like, “excited?”)
More about: St. Vincent
I love this song!
By Carrie Page · September 6, 2017
More about: Danny L Harle, Kim Chi
Styles: punk, hardcore, major label conglomerate punk
Others: Pissed Jeans, Jaunita y Los Feos, Exotica, Bad Breeding, French Vanilla, X-Ray Spex, Fucked Up, Against Me!
Downtown Boys proceed through Cost of Living — their third full-length — with a clear-eyed confidence about their trajectory and their newfound position at Sub Pop. This position is significant, a strategic act that should be considered against any critique that might read such upward mobility as contrary to the band’s efforts or core values. Cost of Living takes the (perhaps phased out) charge of economic opportunism presupposed by rockist sellout whistleblowers and turns it on its head.
More about: Downtown Boys
Holger Czukay, co-founder of Can, has passed away at the age of 79.
Can't think of anything coherent to say, particularly on twitter, dearest Mr Czukay, you'll be missed so much. Hilarious genius.
More about: Can, Holger Czukay
More about: Iggy Pop, Oneohtrix Point Never
I’m one of those people who doesn’t measure time in years, but in Björk album cycles. As a child, I learned to read during the hubbub around Post, I still remember my first kiss near the middle of Vespertine’s lifespan, and when I graduated high school mid-Volta, I was overjoyed about my bright future of Björk albums to come. But I’m more excited than ever today; because in no time, I’ll be able to start a new chapter of my life. That’s right: Björk’s new album is coming out at some point very soon!
More about: Bjork
Styles: post-punk, post-disco, new wave
Others: Arthur Russell, Joy Division, New Order, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Suicide
Upon first listen, LCD Soundsystem’s new album feels like the sonic mobilization of Danny Glover’s catchphrase as Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon: “I’m too old for this shit.” The line signifies the cop’s commitment to continue fighting the good fight in spite of creeping ambivalence and unfamiliar lethargy. This isn’t a backhanded way to say that James Murphy is literally old — he’s not. But it sounds like he may think he is; he says as much on “change yr mind,” one of the album’s more despairing tracks.
More about: LCD Soundsystem
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