Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the April 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Brat Mouth [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the December 2010 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Young Bodies [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the December 2010 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Young Bodies [...]
Mr. Ted McGrath of the now hiatused Antimagic (and ex- These Are Powers ) has put together an album under his solo moniker ATM . The EP is called The Slow Fade , and is being released by Temple South (cassette) and Creative Capitalism (digital). McGrath has fused together numerous influences from punk, no wave, glam, postpunk, art rock and experimental pop to form these sometimes-gritty, sometimes-scary, sometimes-bleak sounds. Two floor toms (one treated, one normal), a snare, an Alesis SR-16 drum machine, a Boss SP 202 sampler, [...]
I recently heard that Parts & Labor are going on an "extended hiatus". Here is their statement regarding the hiatus... Dear friends, This January, Parts & Labor turns 10 years old. We're planning a string of celebratory shows, in which we play selected material from all of our full length albums, leading up to a big 10th anniversary blow out on February 24th, 2012. Following these performances, we're going to take an extended hiatus. We feel incredibly fortunate having had a decade of amazing experiences — making records and new [...]
It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) or you can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom left of the page. If you are using Chrome you should really think about installing the awesome ex.fm extension (especially if you use last.fm ). Listen. Downloadables: ( ) [...]
Ted McGrath of Antimagic (and ex- These Are Powers ) has a brand new solo project called ATM which is experimental on one hand and intensely catchy on the other. Its first release is the 72 of Always On Time From Now On / Try Harder W/ Brain . The digital has been made available for free . The physical 73 will be out in October and more recordings are "in the works". Perhaps you grabbed this mp3 from IMPOSE earlier? No matter, here it is again. Listen. [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the August 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Golden Town (mp3) by Super Wild Horses Fried Egg (mp3) by Grass Widow I've Gotta Get (mp3) by Woven Bones Glitter (mp3) by No Age [...]
For your streaming pleasure, here are the latest Friday Night Vids ... Streamable: Hey Dan (vimeo) by Brilliant Colors Streamable: Headless (youtube) by Hella Downoadable: Headless (mp3) Streamable: Carburetor (youtube) by The Sweet Ones Streamable: Shake Shake Shake (Live @ [...]
Isabel & Derek of Hunters sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? i: Sin In My Heart (youtube) by Siouxsie d: Green Light (youtube) by Sonic Youth i: Oh, if you are gonna say Green Light I have to say Star Power (youtube) by [...]
It is time for the next volume of the Best Downloadables of 2011 . You can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure or you can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom left of the page. If you are using Chrome you should really think about installing the awesome ex.fm extension (especially if you use last.fm ). Listen. Downloadables: White Rune (mp3) by Iceage [...]
Happy New Year is the experimental "slowcore" pop project of Eleanor Logan (whom you may remember from Adult Themes ). Her new single comes out on August 3rd. The A-side of said single features the programming skills of Logan and Teenwolf . Listen. Streamable: Gold Medallion (bandcamp) ( as seen ) Gold Medallion b/w And... Begin! 7-inch by HAPPY NEW YEAR You can pre-order the Gold Medallion 73 @ crikeyrecords.bigcartel.com . Upcoming Show: August [...]
Antimagic are preparing the release of their 2nd LP. The final mixes are 99.9% complete. The album is entitled Heat Waves and should be available sometime this summer. In the meantime, the band has released a single. Enjoy this propulsive "anti-AC anthem." Listen. Downloadable: "Bang." (mp3) Upcoming NYC shows: July 8th @ Coco 66 w/ Right On Dynamite + Ghastly City Sleep + Golden Bones July 16th @ Cake Shop w/ Steve [...]
Here's the first single to leak off Antimagic's "eternally forthcoming" new LP, which should be out next month. The track stars Antimagic at their finest: infinite snare and tom rolling under vocal harmonies that would weird out all the Beach Boi'd garage harmonies by virtue of those thick, syrupy unconventional intervals. And then there's the signature feedback drone feedback burying the closing minute in a humid heap of low end. Antimagic, "Bang"
Noah and Rick of YVETTE sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? n: A while back I happened on Tristan Perich 's 1-Bit Symphony . It's a battery, a microchip, a couple switches, a volume knob, and a headphone jack simply wired together and mounted in a jewel case. The idea of it is pretty wild - that you can participate in [...]
Adam and Baxter of MIRACLES sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? a: Antimagic 's "Shake Shake Shake" has been in heavy rotation all year. I rediscovered De La Soul 's Stakes is High last week after not listening to it for a few years. It still rules. b: For me, it's a tie between Young Widows ' "Old [...]
Marcia and Ted of ANTIMAGIC sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? m: You Got Lucky (youtube) by Tom Petty . t: "Same Old Scene" by Roxy Music , from their much-maligned Flesh & Blood album from 1980. It's serves as the opening and closing music of the film Times Square also from 1980. Total ear candy perfection, but still kinda weird. [...]
So, another Record Store Day come and gone. I made a few of purchases at Sound Fix and Permanent Records (and saw EULA play). I have to admit I was really not that motivated to gobble up RSD exclusives. I just bought a few albums that I knew I would want to listen to on vinyl (including one classic double LP ). My purchases follow... Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai [...]
Percussion heavy. Oppressive. Trance inducing. Whats not to love about Brooklyn duo Antimagic? The Shake Shake Shake single was released back in December and it was the first I heard of the band. I've been jamming to their 2009 debut " Trash Symmetry " ever since. Check out the single and my favorite cut off of Trash Symmetry below.
It may be tempting, without knowing for sure, to announce that Antimagic are the first Irish band (or band from any other nation for that matter) to appear on this blog in 2011. You see with names like Ted McGrath and Marcia Cahill it could be a fair enough assumption but then they are based in Brooklyn so it may just be a beyond first generational thing. Matters not anyway because as soon as 'Inner Most Secret Shogun Heart' obliquely rolls into town your brain will be fried at its compelling non-adherence to conventional song structure. The song is the [...]
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