Styles: punk, pop
Others: Angel Olsen, Circuit des Yeux, Swearin’
I was in the bar reading periodicals while waiting for a slow friend, suspecting that The New Yorker might just be a rag in which rich people sublimate each other’s money on the astral plane. But it’s how I found out about her. All the news was routine, tales of the big men and the little guys, but one right turn led me to something else entirely, a feature about a siren-saint named Katie Crutchfield.
More about: Waxahatchee
I really shouldn’t need to tell you how important it is for you to know every time a new artist gets added to the roster of Hyperdub — the Avengers/Justice League/Muppets Babies-all-rolled-into-one of electronic labels — because we all know. So, instead, I’m just going to let this one speak for itself: Italian composer and producer Daniele Mana, a.k.a. Vaghe Stelle, has announced his debut release for Hyperdub, an EP called Creature, under the moniker Mana.
More about: Mana
Haco — frontperson of the storied, tragically underheard band After Dinner — is set to release her new solo album on Room40-subsidiary Someone Good, acting as the follow-up to 2015’s Secret Garden (on Nuovo Immigrato).
More about: After Dinner, Haco
Styles: footwork, mall music
Others: DJ Mastercard, DJ Paypal, Cakedog
In the suburban American Southwest, where I grew up, a mall is a kind of oasis. When it’s 110 degrees outside, everyone on the road is being an asshole, and there’s nothing to do for days on end, the sheer, breezy passages of glass and marble, pulsing with rowdy streams of teens, seem both to heal and to plug you into something greater. A point of attraction and convergence in the disperse manifold of the desert city, the mall simulates a community larger and better connected than the one surrounding and incorporating it.
More about: DJ Orange Julius
Styles: “the worst album ever”
Others: 4chan, Reddit, Beat Detectives,
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
– Samuel Beckett
“Everything in the world exists in order to end up on the Web.”
– Kenneth Goldsmith
More about: chris†††
On September 15, 2017, Ariel Pink will release his new album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson. Today, however, he has released a new song. And it is a good one. “Time To Live” has many of the trademark Ariel Pink-isms: psychedelic synths, heavy reverb, drums that sound like they came from a Casio keyboard, mantra-esque hooks, morbid themes, and 1970s vibes. The song’s 70s-ness is due, in part, to its spiritual sampling of The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
More about: Ariel Pink
There’s an old saying about the fox and the hedgehog: The fox has many tricks while the hedgehog has only one — but it always works. I think it’s safe to say Odd Nosdam is a fox, but with the hedgehog-ian single-minded purpose of producing always-adventurous electronic sounds. You know you’re hearing Nosdam when you hear Nosdam, and especially over the past few years, no one does progressive paste-up loops like he does, and we love him for it.
More about: cLOUDDEAD, Odd Nosdam
Does anyone remember Gay Beast, the noise-skronk band on Skin Graft from a while ago? Apparently they went on hiatus in 2011, so it’s convenient that Space Camp have stepped in to fill the void they left in overwhelmingly hectic queer art-punk. And in a nice bonus fit for a period where the soft fabric of discourses that once dulled the visibility of the shuddering hate America relies on are pulled away, Space Camp’s fury is even more pointed and direct that those sonic predecessors.
More about: Space Camp
Styles: [de-]extended-punk, lyric shard, “Ladies voices together and then she came in”
Others: Anne Carson, Sappho, Gertrude Stein
“Brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.”
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In a then when we were younger, all our manifestos were mixtapes, poetries poached as coached communications. What’s it like to want? We stood on sides of creeks and seas. We were each other’s passenger seats. Did we know? [We didn’t know.] How could we? [We couldn’t.] We said: Everyone says something, but no one says everything; we’ll put what we mean in brackets.
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More about: The Coathangers
Sometimes, conundrums come true. Originally released digitally on Afternoons Modeling, DREAM CASTLE by TANNING SALON (a.k.a. Vektroid) was recently pressed on double vinyl (triple-sided w/ the D-side immaculately etched):
More about: Tanning Salon
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