Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Jawbox
At the moment we’re listening Jaxbox at the office. A great early nineties indie/ punk band from Washington DC. Also Pitchfork liked it. Go and check out their records. It’s great working music.
At the moment we’re listening Jaxbox at the office. A great early nineties indie/ punk band from Washington DC. Also Pitchfork liked it. Go and check out their records. It’s great working music.
Gold Panda is a 28-year-old London fellow named Derwin. (“I just call myself Derwin Panda for the moment,” he says.) He caught our attention recently with the striking “Quitters Raga”, a chopped-up burst of samples and clicks that beats Four Tet at his own game. If there’s anything wrong with the track, it’s the brief, [...]
Fabulous news item from Pitchfork:
Even indie pop superheroes lose their capes sometimes. Such is the case with Patrick Wolf, who misplaced his feathered grey “vulture” number (above) recently. He’s now offering a “cash reward for anyone who can locate it and get it back to us safely and in one piece,” according to a message [...]
This week on Pitchfork TV you can watch a two hour documentary about LA underground club The Smell. Wanna go there sometime, looks and sounds amazing!
Pitchfork put together a top 500 tracks of the first ten years of this decade. It’s not just a list, but they commented on the how and why extensively too. A very hard task, which they did very well, when we talk about content.
The list however is ’surprising’ too say the least. We cannot find [...]
Joker will play Incubate as a part of Generation Bass. A few months ago, Joker was just one mysterious name among many that got kicked around dance music message boards. These days, he’s still a pretty mysterious figure, but his profile has significantly risen, thanks to a number of inventive singles: “Gully Brook Lane”, “Digidesign”, [...]
Joker will be one of the artists of Generation Bass. His track Digidesign is Pitchfork track of the day. Listen and read more about it right here.
Hip hop artists Anti-Pop Consortium are coming to Tilburg in September!
Copy/paste from Pitchfork:
‘The New York skronk-rap crew Anti-Pop Consortium reunited a couple of years ago, and they’re getting set to drop Fluorescent Black, their long-awaited comeback album and first full-length since 2002’s Arrhythmia. Big Dada will release the album on October 13. The trippy sci-fi [...]
Ponytail did a great performance at ZXZW 2008. We love them and they’re playing at 013 next month.
Also Pitchfork fell in love and recorded a few songs of Ponytail performing in a laudromat.
Enjoy the show here.
Ponytail @ ZXZWfestival-19/09/2008
Photo by Marcel Couwenberg