Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Anti-Pop Consortium at ZXZW and free mp3

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 [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Visualizing Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Tracks of 2008

Check more here.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Ponytail in Laundromat on Pitchfork.tv

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

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Top 40 Music Videos of 2008

Pitchfork made a list of their top video’s of the year. There are some real gems. Check it out!

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present

Check it here, it’s impressive! We’re still listening.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Religious Knives@ Pitchfork

Religious Knives played at ZXZW. This is what Pitchfork writes about their new record: “As half of the exhilarating, first-rate drone quartet Double Leopards, Michael Bernstein and Maya Miller created chillingly expansive extreme noise– a distinctive mesh of sounds that peaked with the group’s brilliantly sinister release, Halve Maen. Since forming Religious Knives in 2005, [...]

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Holy Fuck Blamed for Canadian Arts Funding Cuts

Sure, we’d call “Holy Fuck” a pretty poor band name, but that doesn’t mean we’d call the Polaris nominees poor representatives of their Canadian homeland. The Canadian government, however, disagrees.
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

YURI LANDMAN lecture

Guitarists like Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Aaron Hemphill of Liars, and Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt are known for the deluges of sound that they wring from their instruments– drones, fuzz, wails, rumbles, alarms, shrieks, and sometimes even actual notes and chords. But don’t be surprised if these innovaters’ riffs become even more face-melting [...]

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

They dug up Burials identity!

A few posts ago, we were wondering what the true identity of Burial was. Well, the almighty Pitchfork media uncovered Burial’s identity today. Burial goes by the name of Will Bevan who “just want[s] to make some tunes.”
Read all about it here!
Well, now that’s solved, let’s find Atlantis.

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Torche: Meanderthal 8,2 at Pitchfork

After establishing themselves as fine purveyors of metallic sludge over the course of an album and an EP, Torche’s second full-length, Meanderthal, refines their penchant for volume and proves that there’s more in their bag of tricks than Melvins-like metal. The record kicks off at a breakneck pace with a half-dozen tar-thick tracks. The fleet-fingered [...]