“Come on, just one more song?”
“Come on, just one more song?”
“Okay, last one I promise.”
“You can head out if you want. I can make it back alone.”
An ode to the end of the night.
More about: bl00dwave, Charli XCX, Diamond Soul, Frank Ocean, Honnda, Jam City, James Blake, JPEGMAFIA, SOPHIE
Styles: haiku punk, maintaining, digging for something
Others: Waxahatchee, The Breeders, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
If it rips, it was written. The yelp that splits an urgent word and the mouth that feels punched is hoarse and hard to stomach. The whole biology gets involved; hairs split, eyes pop, hearts break. A musicology of bruises point to our ability to repair after trauma, “but to be clear, darkness was all you wanted.”
More about: Superchunk
Just yesterday, I was wondering when Elysia Crampton would be releasing her new album. And here we are, today, with news that Elysia Crampton has just announced a new self-titled album! <3 <3 <3
More about: Elysia Crampton
“It didn’t feel like an illusion or an illustration of the material but the raw material in my hands.”
In his 1913 Futurist manifesto “The Art of Noises,” Luigi Russolo extols the pure pleasure of creating cacophony from the shuttering of metal-shop blinds, the short burst of a slamming door, the insistent thrum of a city crowd. His desire to manipulate this “variety of din” was not to diminish its inherent beauty, but to bring about a greater awareness through attributing variety and color to noises.
More about: Antemeridian, Antenes, Lori Napoleon
Lest we forget the existence of talented musicians who don’t regularly spearhead the credits of formal music releases, American composer and conceptual sound artist Charlie Morrow has managed to stay under the radar despite his artistic exposure to borderline uncomfortable numbers of human beings.
More about: Charlie Morrow, Sean McCann
Styles: flip-hop, stream of consciousness, “left-field”
Others: milo, Huerco S., GAS
Gavin Mays’s voice bouncing off the walls of his metallic chamber-like production is a scarce, treasured resource that never disappoints upon resurfacing. Where a typical MC would bare all and stunt on self-reference in close proximity to a microphone, Cities Aviv’s reverb’d-out verses seem distant, disconnected on paper. But a beautiful, nihilistic kind of sadness runs deep in Raised For A Better View, one ultimately more vulnerable than a lot of left-of-center hip-hop today.
More about: Cities Aviv
Springtime is just around the corner, everyone. Can you feel it? The sight of little scrawny birds returning? The fecund smell of garbage in the alley when the slightly-warmer sun hits it just right? The bucolic sounds of droning, psychedelic doom metal wafting from the shitty speakers in the ceiling at the carwash? Okay, I guess that last one is still a little bit of a stretch…but maybe not for long.
More about: Dylan Carlson, Earth
If there’s only one sound that can pierce the pain, confusion, and distortion of this world, it’s the voice of Liz Harris. We’re tremendously happy to announce that her voice will return on Grid Of Points, her new album as Grouper coming April 27 to Kranky.
More about: Grouper
Styles: beats, pulp noir, ephemera
Others: Dälek, Mo’ Wax, Meuko! Meuko!
There are two different ways of looking at ephemera. The romantic angle looks toward fleeting moments, natural cycles, transient bodies — you know, that common subject of rumination for amateur high school poets and billionaires in jeans. Then you have the more nihilist angle characterized by death, loss, waste, the impermanence of everything we hold dear — the poets have graduated to college now, their worldview has matured in a cask of Bukowski quotes.
More about: Hanz
The Art V. Commerce debate is characterized by ambiguity. Try too long to determine just what, exactly, constitutes ethical behavior for an artist in the 21st Century, and your head is likely to end up spinning. Attempts to describe the nature of the debate by analogy bring grandiose, cyclic images to mind: the ouroboros, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the chiasm, the incomprehensible vision given in the Baghavad-Gita of Krishna’s true form: limbs, mouths, eyes beyond number, endlessly devouring and simultaneously birthing the universe.
More about: Betty Davis, Dave Harrington Group, Fever Ray, Harry Belafonte, John Maus, Oneohtrix Point Never, Robyn, Show Me the Body, Tristan Perich, Wiki
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