After waiting nearly five years for producer/rapper extraordinaire El-P to release a follow-up to 2002’s Fantastic Damage, fans now have available a sophomore effort that doesn’t disappoint. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, with its heavily layered, dark, atmospheric, gritty, and synth-saturated sound, feels like a hip-hop soundtrack to a science fiction film. Read more
March 20, 2007 |
Music Features
AIR. It always was an ambitious name for a band, so brief and elemental. It posed from the start the question of substance, and when the French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel turned up in 1998 with the, well, airy electronic sketches of Moon Safari, they achieved saturation in certain circles followed by a depletion of density.
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March 20, 2007 |
Music Features
For Explosions in the Sky drummer Chris Hrasky, the most exciting moment of 2006 belonged in a zoo - or at least in some B-grade Samuel L. Jackson flick. Read more
March 20, 2007 |
Music Features
I’m talking to Big Business drummer Coady Willis just prior to the band’s New Years Eve show in their hometown of Seattle. He tells me that Big Business had Queen in mind as the production template for their new album. Read more
March 20, 2007 |
Music Features
Hillstomp is a duo out of Portland, Oregon making raw, passionate, exuberant music. They’ve been known to cover songs by Muddy Waters, R. L. Burnside, and Rainey Burnette; their slide-guitar and homemade percussion certainly betray a debt to past masters from Mississippi, Texas, and Chicago. Read more
March 20, 2007 |
Music Reviews
Why Bother? (Thrill Jockey) is reminiscent of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, in which Catherine Deneuve’s quick trip from ennui to psychosis is documented to dreary-yet-exhilarating effect. Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus, otherwise known as Adult., festoon their new CD with horror’s trappings. Read more
March 20, 2007 |
Music Features
“I just let it all puke out of me,” says the thick-accented, New York-based rock veteran Jesse Malin on his songwriting procedure for his latest release, Glitter In The Gutter (Adeline/EastWest). Read more
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