Hardy Fox, co-founder and primary composer of The Residents, has died at 73. From The Residents:
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Eli Keszler Stadium
Styles: irruption, arrhythmia, undead architecture, “light has its songs”
Others: Laurel Halo’s Dust, E 11th St, Ashley Paul, Chris Corsano
“These are ‘dead intervals.’”
The silence between. Between the end and the beginning. The silence in. A rupture. An interruption, the silence in between. Or, a duration of a death. Eli Keszler makes and will have always made music in and of this interval. For instance, Dead Intervals. Piano wires strung through trees. Sounds that traverse the interval, but can one still call them sounds? Can one hear them? Transmitting the text, “Man is deaf.” For whom then are you singing?
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Deerhunter announce their eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
It’s been a minute since Deerhunter announced that they would be going on tour with a new lineup that would be playing new songs, and that one of those new song would be a mid-summer single off a new album that would eventually be titled and then released.
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Nkisi announces a debut album full of Kongo cosmology on Lee Gamble’s UIQ
It is impossible to fully express the modern, international geopolitical importance of the various African images of the future — both in literature (Butler, Okorafor, Nneka Arimah) and in music (Marfox, Klein, Nkisi), to say the least. In what was I believe to be one of this site’s best recent features to date, the inimitable Baldr Eldursson writes:
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♫♪ LAFIDKI - Derichan
There is no perspective of history other than your own, only spectors and impressions, like outline of past furniture traced by dust onto an empty surface. Conflict among competing historical narratives often results in erasure, and the process of recovery — either of one’s personal history, or that of an entire family, or even an ethnicity — can feel as impressionistic as it is archaeological.
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♫♪ DJ Earl - “Open Up”
Lede: DJ Earl has dropped an unrelenting new single, “Open Up,” via Moveltraxx.
WHO: DJ Earl
WHAT: “Open Up,” the latest single from footwork mastermind DJ Earl of TEKLIFE via Moveltraxx.
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CAVE Allways
Styles: Chicago, extended groove, repetition, riffs
Others: Bitchin Bajas, Circuit des Yeux, Guru Guru, Neu!
The video for “San’ Yago” from CAVE’s new album Allways is a montage of hot dog eateries from around the band’s hometown of Chicago shot in gauzy 16mm. It’s subtly bold, a flag cast high for the Midwest, the restaurants acting as a stand-in for a complicated but acute brand of civic pride that comes from living in a place like Chicago. For locals (or expats, like myself), it becomes a game to see how many you’ve eaten at.
More about: Bitchin Bajas, CAVE
Julia Holter Aviary
Styles: chamber pop, experimental orchestral, birdsong
Others: Nite Jewel, Joanna Newsom, Richard Dawson, Joni Mitchell
Views From The Métropole How kuduro and other African musics challenge hegemonic futures
How kuduro and other African musics challenge hegemonic futures
“If your main squeeze has just decided to walk out on you, booze and Vasopressin are the ultimate in masochistic pharmacology; the juice makes you maudlin and the Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things.”
– William Gibson, “Burning Chrome” (1982)
PART I: A FUTURE THAT’S WHITE FOR YOU
More about: DJ Fofuxo, DJ Lilocox, DJ Lycox, DJ Marfox, DJ Nigga Fox
Oneohtrix Point Never announces Love In the Time of Lexapro EP featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alex G
Here to restore the serotonin balance in your brain, Daniel Lopatin, a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never a.k.a. Chuck Person a.k.a. overseer of Listening Post Alpha, has announced a new EP. Titled Love In the Time of Lexapro, the four-track release includes the live favorite title track, a rework of “Last Known Image of a Song” by Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Babylon” featuring Alex G, and a new song, titled “Thank God I’m a Country Girl.”
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