Almost two months ago we heard our first new material from super group Tomahawk, the musical project
consisting of Duane
Dennison (The Jesus Lizard,Unsemble), Trevor Dunn (Fantomas, Melvins Lite), Mike
Patton (Faith
No More, Mondo Cane) and John Stanier (Battles, Helmet).
The song was “Stone letter”, the lead single from the bands forth LP, due out
shortly and entitled Oddfellows, and we now have a set of visuals to go along with
it that is composed of live footage from various performances.
San Francisco’s oOoOO has been pretty quiet as of late but
returned today with this absolutely killer remix of Danny Brown’s “Grown Up,” implementing some of his spooky trademark sounds and change-up's. Hopefully this
starts a wave of some new original material from the producer in 2013.
After revealing himself as the mysterious Captain Murphy
last night via his first live performance at the Lo End Theory and releasing a deluxe edition of the incredible Duality mixtape, Flying Lotus is having a
great week. Less than 24 hours later the man of many talents dropped a new
video for Until The Quiet Comes track “Tiny Tortures”. The gorgeous, nightmarish video stars Lord of the Rings
actor Elijah Wood and was directed by David Lenandowsky.
Today marks the 40 year anniversary of my generation’s first
popular gaming console, the Atari. Founded in 1972 by engineers Nolan
Bushnell and Ted Dabney, Atari was a pioneer in arcade
games, home video game consoles, and home
computers. Atari is even where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple got
their start. I actually still have my original console alongside a dozen or so game
cartridges back at the home I grew up in and probably will never get rid of it.
All I can think looking at the photo above is that it would be pretty awesome
if a modern age game console was designed with a wood finish instead of the
clunky cheap plastic that has dominated product design for almost three
decades. Whatever the case, in
celebration of the anniversary this week’s Throwback Thursday is a make-shift documentary about the history of the gaming console, exploring the rise and fall
of the one-time giant. Grab some popcorn
and a comfy chair because it’s an hour and a half long but well worth your time
if you are a life-long vidiot like myself, and if you’re not? It’s at least worth a couple minutes of your
time to fast forward to the end to watch the crazy Star Wars game ad.
Mystery rapper Captain
Murphy(revealed as Flying Lotus) just dropped a deluxe edition of his stellar
mixtape Duality,
and if you needed an excuse to grab it a second time, the package includes
separated tracks, tons of artwork, instrumentals and a bonus track. Download it all HERE or HERE.
Track-listing with Producer info:
01: Disciples
02: El Topo (Prod. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
03: Mighty Morphin Foreskin (Prod.
Flying Lotus)
04: The Ritual (Prod. Just Blaze and
Jeremiah Jae)
05: Between Friends Ft. Earl Sweatshirt
(Prod. Flying Lotus)
06: Children of the Atom (Prod. Madlib
and Flying Lotus)
07: Jalapeños (Prod. Jeremiah Jae)
08: Gloe (Prod. Jeremiah Jae)
09: The Killing Joke (Prod. Flying
Lotus)
10: Hovercrafts and Cows (Prod. Flying
Lotus)
11: Gone Fishing Ft. Jeremiah Jae (Prod.
Flying Lotus)
12: Drive Thru (Prod. SAMIYAM)
13: Immaculation Ft. Azizi Gibson and
Jeremiah Jae
This past September, seminal underground hardcore and metal
label Hydra Head announced
they’d be shutting down their operations after 20 years as mainstays in the
scene. Head honcho Aaron Turner, who also played with the now defunct ISIS, released
a statement about that decision in which he detailed the reasons behind it and laid out
a plan for the label moving forward. Hydra Head is now organizing massive sale
of gems ranging from the small and accessible (stickers, pins, etc), to the
large and costly (lots of 150+ rare records and test pressings, musical
instruments, original artwork, 7″ box sets, etc), and a whole lot in between
(t-shirts, subscriptions to future vinyl represses, box lots of highly
discounted CDs and even a trip to Disney Land! It’s gift giving season so you
might be able to find something very unique and special for that friend of
yours who’s into anyone of the many great bands that released material through
the label over the years. Check it all out HERE.
After sharing a video from Nick Koening’s Hot Sugar project a
couple weeks back the New York beat maker dropped the latest set of visuals for his collaboration with Haleek Maulentitled “I Don't Wanna B Judged.” The witty video works largely on the
strength of its unique and somewhat odd subjects and a clever device; each
scene is tied together by a television screen in the background playing what
will be the next scenario in the dynamic audiovisual story. The video was directed by Martin Anderson and Efrén Hernández and features a Kitty
Pryde cameo as well.
Tis the season and part of this season are tacky holiday
sweaters. Why not spend this year wearing one representing everyone’s favorite 80’s
metal mainstays, Slayer. Ebay might be your only avenue at landing the quickly sold-out sweater at this point, but really, who can put a price on a x-mas sweater
bearing pentagrams and skulls.
42 Ghosts are
a bit of a mystery, at the moment we know that the project consist of two
people and not much more but that doesn’t stop their free album, composed of
eleven Death Grips remixes, from being a real treat. You can stream the whole
thing below and download it in exchange for your email address.
HAIMmight not even have an album to their name yet but that hasn’t stopped the sisters from releasing a steady flow of material, today we got their latest video in the form of “Don’t Save Me” where the ladies strut their stuff on a basketball court. You can pre-order their forthcoming 10" at Neon Gold Records (US) & Rough Trade (UK) out Dec. 10th
The Chromatics return with another slice of their trade mark
dark synth-pop in “Cherry,” which is
another hazy sounding nighttime tune the band has become so well known for.
Look for “Cherry” and more first-class work from the band on the
forthcomingItalians Do
It Better compilation album After Dark 2 due out in the
very near future.
Filmed by long time collaborator Alberto Rossini while
Recording In Montreal (April 2011) & In Chromatics' House In Portland.
Last night Manchester indie rock band Wu Lyf (World Unite
Lucifer Youth Foundation) uploaded a new song to YouTube, titled "T R I U
M P H" with a long message where each band member described how this was
the end of the group. With one excellent full length to their name Wu Lyf will
most certainly be missed if they have in fact called it quits. Listen to “T R I
U M P H” below and take a gander at each member’s message.
“By the time I wrote this I was all ready gone. You know you
aint got nothing but time, but time isn't an infinite currency I want to see
wasted. If this is our last month living, apocalypse looming, I am not going to
spend my final hours waiting in purgatory. I am done. There is nothing here
that inspires/ interests me beyond the emptiness for dreams. and I don't want
to spend my life asleep; dreaming of a....
Wake up! We stay safe/ everything is golden/ in this place.
WU LYF is dead to me. The sincerity of "Go tell fire" was lost in the
bull shit of maintaining face in the world we live. Clap your hands chimp
everybody's watching. A year spent losing faith; Innocence lost wide eyes see
clear the dark. There's blood running down streets of every city in the world,
what's a song to do, pretend it mean everything/nothing to you. Another
distraction from the world we live. I and I struggle for a based positivity;
Get free or die trying; J C Hung him self up for the easy way out. so Broken
Mama Cita be kind to me.
P E O are P L E the world over. Your beautiful and strange, and I love you. But
The Great Longings calling and I'm young and free enough to try and answer.
Forever
Ellery James Roberts
..................................................
Evans/Joe/Tom
I am gone. This isn't the end. This is the begging.
We done business to be as free as we want to be; I'm exercising this freedom.
Manchester and the life we maintaining is leaving me empty. It is a beautiful/
incredible/ insane world we live and I'm done walking round in baby step
circles in a self involved bubble. WU LYF isn't that important. So go do what
you want to do. If you wanna play together, Play! your talented musicians so
don't waste that. I am bored of the most challenging thing in WU LYF being
deluding myself of its relevance. Dirty free, as that show ended it concreted
my decision that a change has to come. "Be the change you want to
see" said a wise old man.
I'm going to keep on doing what I do; if the time comes in the future where we
all truly want to collaborate on something then that door is always going to be
open; I have nothing but love for you all.
Nacho Picassoretuned
with a new free mixtape yesterday for Black Friday, appropriately titled Black
Narcissus. After releasing three consecutive albums in partnership with BlueSky Black Death Nacho switches things up and delivers his signature deadpan rhymes
filled with pop culture references over woozy beats that come curtsey of RaisedBy Wolvesand Eric G. Listen to it and grab it below...
As previously reported artist Brian Donnelly, better known
as KAWS will join the balloon line-up of the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade. ARTINFO visited KAWS in his
Brooklyn studio and talked about his preparation for the parade.
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire dropped his Power & Passion ep this week and as you may recall we shared a stream of fantastic
Blue Sky Black Death produced joint called "The Message Pt. 1 & 2″ earlier in the month and now the tune has a
set of visuals to go with it curtsey of a major labels marketing dollars. The video features the emcee in Africa during
the first half, and on Al Jazeera TV in the second.
"A rattail is a hair style
that is characterized by a long "tail"-like element of hair growing downward
from the back of the head. The rattail usually curls naturally; however, it can
be braided,
treated as a dread,
permed,
straightened, or curled with an iron. In some
instances, an individual might choose to grow several tails as opposed to a
single very long tail.
The rattail saw a brief period of mainstream popularity
during the 1980s and has rapidly fallen out of vogue.However, it has recently seen renewed
popularity."
There is a sweet new 2D animated video for the new Tame Impalatrack, "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" of their latest album, Lonerism. The video consists of over 1000 hand painted plasticine collages, created by Becky Sloan & Joseph Pelling.
The amount of work to create this is pretty impressive. Check out Becky & Joe's site to see more of their work and some behind the scenes images from the making of the video.
A fitting video for Nick Koening’s Hot Sugar project. The
glitchy “56K,” from the New York beat makers recently released MiDi Murder ep,
features Heems’ pop culture
rhymes in a sweet pixelated visual pay day directed by Steamclam Media Empire. You
can still download the ep for free if you missed it some weeks back.
Odd Future member Frank Ocean has had a big big
year, his first commercial LP, ChannelORANGE, saw much critical and commercial
success so I figured for this week’s Throwback Thursday why not throw up Franks pre Nostalgia Ultra era music when he went by
the name of Lonny Breaux. The Collection below which I split into two
separate download links consists of 64 unreleased tracks. You’re welcome, and
enjoy!
Here is something that will come in handy to all those New
Yorker’s next time a hurricane hits the city. BoostTurbine2000by Etón is a rechargeable backup battery
pack for mobile devices that is charged by a hand crank generator. One minute
of winding provides enough power for a 30 second phone call. When the pack is
fully charged it can fully charge most smartphones. BoostTurbine2000 is available
at Amazon but you should check out the wide range of products Etón have available for your doomsday needs.
Thomas
Brown and Anna Burns fed their obsession with classic B movies by
creating an homage video called "POP POP BANG". But here is where things get
interesting. Rather than recreating
scenes in a traditional manner, they instead transferred stills onto umbrellas,
opening them up one by one to reveal the final image. The A-team one that comes
in at two minutes is pretty great.
Been a big week for free mixtapes as we get yet another one, this time from Captain
Murphy, who we first heard on Flying Lotus‘ “Between Friends” with Earl Sweatshirt. The mystery man(Tyler The Crteator?) made his album debut today as promised with Duality. The truly excellent collection features the pitch-shifting MC spitting drug-induced lyrics over beats from the
likes of TNGHT, the Alchemist, Madlib and others with guest appearances coming from Azizi
Gibson, Jeremiah Jae
and more. You can stream the epic 35-minute audiovisual experience, that was created by Xavier Magot, and is most certainly NOT SAFE FOR WORK, over at Murphy’s website.
As previously reportedAction Bronson
and the
Alchemist got together and recorded a
new mixtape entitled Rare
Chandeliers which is now available to DOWNLOAD. Fourteen tracks made it on to Rare Chandeliers, featuring
noir-funk and deep-jazz beats. The album also features guest appearances from
Schoolboy Q, Roc Marciano, Evidence, Styles P. and more.
Rare Chandeliers track listing:
1. Big Body Bes Intro
2. Rare Chandeliers
3. The Symbol
4. Sylvester Lundgren Feat. Meyhem Lauren & Ag Da Coroner
5. Randy The Musical
6. Demolition Men Feat. Schoolboy Q
7. Eggs On The Third Floor
8. Modern Day Revelations Feat. Roc Marciano
9. Dennis Haskins
10. Bitch I Deserve You Feat. Evidence
11. Gateway To Wizardy Feat. Styles P
12. Bathtub 8 Feat. Deep
13. Blood Of The Goat Feat. Big Twin & Sean Price
14. Mike Vick
UPDATE 12/21/2012:
An extended version of the mixtape got released today with 4 extra tracks, grab it HERE.
Well
after several delays Das Racist’s Heems returns
with a brand new solo mixtape, Wild Water Kingdom. This one has guest appearances from Safe, Childish Gambino and Lakutis and
production from the likes of Mike Finito, Steel Tipped Dove, Beautiful Lou,
Shaleik, BLKHRTS and more. Grab it below...
Continuing with the onslaught of "bedroom" R&B that we
have heard over the last 24 months comes some quality music from Arthur Ashin, aka
Autre Ne Veu ,who is gearing up to release his sophomore LP in February entitled
Anxiety via Mexican Summer imprint, Software. Some might hear a little How To Dress Well if
a comparison has to be made, the two have actually toured together in the past.
“Counting” is the first single from the record and is lyrically based on phone
calls Ashin had with his dying grandmother.
Rapper Angel Hazeand one half of electronic duo, TNGHT, Lunice, teamed up for a new
tune by the name of “Gimme That” The duo
came together via the folks atYours
Truly and the results are both a video of their process and a stream of the
completed track.
News on artists seems to come in pairs now days as the trend
has been I post something and not 24 hours later something new and relevant
appears from the very same artist. Today’s example comes from Björk who’s
remix album was shared in full yesterday only to see a brand new video from the
Icelandic singer pop up today. The visuals
for Biophilia's "Mutual Core" were directed by Andrew Thomas Huang (who
also did the artwork for the Biophilia remix
album) and see’s Björk in a sand pit, surrounded by colorful rocky creature’s shape-shifting and exploding around her.
A new tune from HAIM that acts as the flipside to the recent
shared single “Don’t Save Me” we posted back in October. “Send Me Down” features some pounding percussion and what sounds like some ominous brass, great
stuff...
On November 19, Björk's Biophilia remix
album, Bastards, featuring work by some Onomatopoeia favorites like Death Grips, Hudson Mohawke and These New Puritans will be released via One Little Indian. The
compilation collects previously released remix singles in one neat and tidy
package. Listen to it now below…
On November 20, Ian MacKaye will release a record from his
latest band, the Evens, his collaboration with former Warmersdrummer/vocalist
Amy Farinao on Dischord.The record, titled The Odds,
follows their 2006 full-length Get
Evens. The album was recorded this summer atInner Ear withDon Zientara
and you can hear the whole thing in full right now via NPR HERE or below. It’s worth
noting that the sillouette on the cover is MacKaye and Farina's son Carmine,
full track list below…
Track Listing:
01 King of Kings
02 Wanted Criminals
03 I Do Myself
04 Warble Factor
05 Sooner or Later
06 Wonder Why
07 Competing With the Till
08 Broken Finger
09 Architects Sleep
10 Timothy Wright
11 This Other Thing
12 Let's Get Well
13 KOK
Electronic duo, Purity Ring, have shared the latest video from their 2012 debut album, Shrines. "Lofticries" follows a series of characters that all encounter their own unique
surreal moment.
Oakland’sThe Coup dropped
a great video for “Your Parents’ Cocaine” from their recently released LP, Sorry
To Bother You. Rich-kid puppets doing lines of cocaine and partying like idiots
with no consequences while the kazoo-led track plays in the background, complete
with a bouncing ball sing along, comes courtesy of Eat The Fish.
Kate Boy consists of three Swedes and one Australian who
have apparently been handling production duties for other artists for quite a
while now, only recently deciding it was time to launch their own project, and
we are all better for it. "Northerns Lights" is their first official
track and it lands in the same world as one of my all time favorites, and
fellow Swedes, The Knife. The sound of watery bouncy synths and a commanding hardline beat
make this dark electro-pop song very memorable and leaves me wanting more, to
top it off the visuals that were directed by Sikow and animated
by Oskar Gullstrand are top notch too.
On December 11, Big Boi will
released a follow up to the excellent Sir Lucious Left Foot, in the form of Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, via Def Jam. Check out the spacey "Lines", which features both A$AP Rocky and Phantogram, it’s clear Big Boi has still got it.
The Twilight franchise has somehow managed to round up quality
talent for their soundtracks and with the final installment due out this holiday
season we get yet another first rate line up of artists providing tunes for the
popular film franchise. Check out some highlights from the likes of Passion Pit, Feist,
and St. Vincent.
Here's the second video from Sufjan Stevens' upcoming Christmas collection, Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas Volumes 6-10. The
clip for title track, "Silver & Gold" is made up of old home-video footage of a little
boy (Sufjan's nephew, Gavin) running and playing on a beach and
reminds me of music from his Illinois period.
In this short interview with Futura courtesy of 212, the legendary graffiti writer
talks everything NYC from what his favorite era was to what neighborhood is up
and coming. On a humorous note apparently
ice skating used to be the cool thing to do to pick up the ladies. The artist also discusses his recent collaborationwith Hennessy and his relationship with his kids.
Yesterday we shared a new mix from recent Tri Angle signee WIFE
and today as luck would have it a new video dropped from his forthcoming Stoic EP, out next week on Left Bank. The abstract video is made up of James Kelly’s own
footage of sea anemones shot during his studies some years back at university and giving the video a vaguely menacing ambiance, as he
sings and bellows "A trial is not an act of…/ The guilt is not an act
of…" amongst rumbling bass and warm synth static.
After a buffet of posts featuring the Weeknd this week we figured it was only right to share what is the final bonus track from Abel’s Trilogy release due out on November 13th via Universal/Republic. Stream “Till Dawn (Here Comes The Sun)” below…
Lana Del Reyremixes
are a pretty common thing now days but when a new favorite of ours SOHN decides
to give it a go we figured we have to post it. Here he tackles Ms. Rey's Born To Die Paradise Edition highlight "Ride,"
setting the songstress’s vocals up with a backdrop of synths, analog drums and
heavy bass. It gives the tune a completely different feel.
(via)
BONUS: While we are at it here is Lana's latest video for Paradise Edition Bonus track "Bel Air" The Youtube descriptions says
"-i lost my reputation, i forgot my truth. But i have my
beauty and i have my youth.
