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April 30, 2008 | Music News
April 30, 2008 | Music News
Les Savy Fav: “Sweat Descends” from After The Ball Drops
April 30, 2008 | Music News
Thom Yorke has told Hollywood Reporter that giving away free music with a suggestion donation was a “one-off response to a particular situation.” Yorke is currently involved with MTV’s MTV EXIT campaign against sweatshops. Read more
April 30, 2008 | Columns
April 30, 2008 | Art
April 30, 2008 | Music Features
April 30, 2008 | Music News
P.O.S. (Rhymesayers) will be remixing the songs “Youngblood” and “Harper Lewis” from the album Station by Russian Circles (out May 6th on Suicide Squeeze). Read more
April 30, 2008 | Books
April 30, 2008 | Books
April 29, 2008 | Music News
Chin Chin: “Appetite” |
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Immad Wasif will be touring with Two Part Beast in support of his recent release, Two Part Hexes. 
Furthering their success in the Fat, Bald, Wild & Rocking genre, Les Savvy Fav have released their first live album on Frenchkiss Records. The record properly documents their first performance at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom as well as their cover-filled encore (Nirvana, Pixies, Misfits). Listen to the record, for free, in it’s entirely on 
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite American actor, even though he’s not American and rarely acts. In his last two major motion pictures, Day-Lewis brilliantly projects both sides of a quintessential American coin. In Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, Bill the Butcher is the embodiment of raw political talent. Likewise, Daniel Plainview is a flawless portrait of economic determination in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. 
A rogues gallery of facile musicians, Pink Mountain is avant-garde music’s answer to the Justice League of America. Formed in 2006, the group includes Sam Coomes (Quasi), Kyle Bruckmann (Lozenge), Gino Robair (Splatter Trio), Scott Rosenberg (P.A.F.), and John Shiurba (Eskimo). Rosenberg, who plays various reed instruments, culled the other members to write and record their self-titled full-length off the cuff. 
In the text that accompanies this bilingual book (which is better left unread) artist Barry McGee claims that in the past 10 years, it would have been impossible for any resident of Milan to miss the work of graffiti artist Dumbo. Though the book presents no evidence of the prolific efforts it would take to meet that claim, it does offer an enjoyable photo-essay of Dumbo’s life and Italian graffiti culture. 
Punk music, and its surrounding culture, has always been most effective with a simple, straightforward approach. Author and musician Timothy Findlen, along with photographer Abby Banks, spent three months driving cross-country to visit and photograph sixty-five punk houses—communal, low-rent houses typically crammed full of punks, squatters, and artists. The end result is PUNK HOUSE, a collection of 300 full color photos and three short essays. 
Torbitt Schwartz (drums, vocals), Jeremy Wilms (guitar, vocals), and Wilder Zoby (vocals, keyboard) make up the Brooklyn-based Chin Chin. Their funky / disco / R&B / jazz Self-Titled release on Def Jux was released today. Chin Chin’s live performances often include up to to ten musicians.