Mr. Shit Robot (a.k.a. Marcus Lambkin) put together a "Shit Mix" for XLR8R recently. For shits and giggles his mix features "Simple Things" remixed by Oslo's Todd Terje which has just been released on 12" vinyl on DFA (street date July 14th). Also featured is a track from label mate Black Meteoric Star.
Track List:
01 Shit Robot - "Simple Things (Work It Out)" (Todd Terje remix) - (DFA)
02 Chicken Lips - "Feast of Freaks" (Kotey’s Tape Edit) - (Lipservice)
03 Suburban Knight - "The Groove" - (Transmat)
04 Black Meteoric Star - "Death Tunnel" - (DFA)
05 X-Ray - "Let’s Go" - (Transmat)
06 Crazy P - "Love on the Line" (Unabombers Remix) - (20:20 Vision)
07 Bangkok Impact - "Premature Ejaculation" - (Crème Organization)
08 Joris Voorn - "Sweep the Floor" - (Rejected)
09 Cobblestone Jazz - "Traffic Jam" - (Wagon Repair)
10 Crazy P - "Stop Space Return" (Unabomber Dub) - (20:20 Vision)
11 Shit Robot - "Simple Things (Work It Out)" - (DFA)
Stream the shit or download the shit HERE.
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RCRDLBL.com is offering a live version of the Woods' "Rain On" recorded during a WKPR session along with some other free tracks. Check HERE and start downloading!
Our man Doug Mosurock reviewed Blues Control's latest album Local Favor on Dustedmagazine.com today. John Cale & Terry Riley’s Church of Anthrax, Michael Rother, along with Daryl Hall circa 'Private Eyes' are referenced in this review.... undoubtedly a sign of excellence.
"....opener “Good Morning” is by far their most straightforward offering yet, with unswerving two-beat and cowbell stampeding across enormous reinforced puffball riffs concussing against the delay pedal, while Kurt Vile and Jesse Trbovich zoom all around the foundation on trumpet and sax. Leading into the album’s most docile track, “Rest on Water,” those two additional instruments provide an emotional lift that’s merely been implied on their past works. There’s a lineage of finding worth in the obscure in this track that starts with John Cale & Terry Riley’s Church of Anthrax album, zips through Michael Rother’s early solo efforts, and beelines straight to Blues Control..."
Read the full review HERE.
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Pitchfork delves into the dark and light sides of Current 93's latest album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain.
"...As with most of Current 93's albums, specifically 2006's sprawling, apocalyptic dream-state manifesto, Black Ships Ate the Sky, Aleph is a concept album of connected scenes and themes. At its center stands an exploration of the archetypes we often reduce into binaries-- good and evil, dark and light, God and Satan. Aleph, the murderer, and Adam, Eden's original innocent, personify the warring factions of Tibet's mind. Instead of opposites, he makes them equals, where the existence of one implies the other: "Almost in the beginning was the murderer," two children chant by way of introduction, Tibet reverting to his decades-old trope of letting the most innocent of babes reveal the most difficult of truths..."
Read full review HERE.
Slap Skateboard Magazine ran a lengthy eight part feature on Ray Barbee & The Mattson 2. The feature includes a short documentary on how Barbee & the Mattson twins joined forces plus live footage from the Galaxia showcase that happen at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco last year. Read and stream HERE.
Beautifully packaged & re-mastered vinyl versions of Galaxie 500's Today, On Fire & This Is Our Music will start shipping next Monday (street 7/14/09). This holy triumvirate of influential indie rock has been out-of-print on vinyl for what seems like a millennia. Available once again, done up the right way.
And 20/20/20 is offering a free download the classic song 'Fourth Of July' off This Is Our Music on their site right now. Download the track HERE.
Ty Segall made it into Nylon Magazine's "Band Crush" feature today. Read full article HERE.
Magnet Mag.com has taken the liberty to post 'Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up' by the Texas garage youngsters Strange Boys. Give it a listen HERE.
The Boys have been touring hard this Spring/Summer. Their epic journey across North American is winding down over the following week. Remaining West Coast dates are with the Coathangers:
07/02 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern (w/ The Coathangers)
07/03 San Jose, CA @ Nickel City Arcade (w/ The Coathangers)
07/06 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah (w/ The Coathangers)
07/07 Tucson, AZ @ Plush (w/ The Coathangers)
07/09 Lubbock, TX @ Bash Riprocks (w/ The Coathangers)
07/10 Dallas, TX @ The Lounge (w/ The Coathangers)
07/11 Austin, TX @ Stubb's BBQ (w/ Spoon, Atlas Sound)
The Blank Dogs second full length Under and Under released on In The Red received a impressive 8.1 review on Pitchfork today.
"....The struggle to squeeze Blank Dogs into a genre is important to his project-- maybe not to the artist, but certainly to the listener: meaning can be found in each hint of music history, real or imagined. Post-punk's memorial to blighted industry is fittingly evoked here. The Blank Dogs aesthetic, and that of the larger low-fi movement, gracefully soundtracks our moment, as a kind of comment on technology's rising tide capsizing all boats...."
Read full review HERE.
Upcoming Blank Dogs shows:
07/03 Brooklyn, NY @ 979 Broadway (Woodsist / Captured Tracks Festival w/ Cause Co-Motion, Crystal Stilts)
07/9 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
07/24 New York, NY @ Seaport Music Festival
07/26 Brooklyn, NY @ Monster Island
Mr. Shit Robot (a.k.a. Marcus Lambkin) put together a "Shit Mix" for XLR8R recently. For shits and giggles his mix features "Simple Things" remixed by Oslo's Todd Terje which has just been released on 12" vinyl on DFA (street date July 14th). Also featured is a track from label mate Black Meteoric Star.
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