Ever wanted to see how Sister Moonshine might sound if it was mashed into Get Low? No, me neither. But somebody did.
Taking the idea of music sampling and running with it, Ishac Bertran, a self confessed ‘DJ Wannabe’, who just happened to have a lazer cutter on hand, decided to take the idea of vinyl sampling quite literally and set about creating his own analog cut and paste techniques to create samples. The process is possibly more impressive than the outcome, but for those vinyl collectors among us, now you know what you can do with those unwanted foot-long’s cluttering up your collection.
His full article can be read HERE and the results can be seen and most definitely heard below.
To celebrate the release of Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life, the album will be on sale for $3.99 (in MP3) as “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” takes over MatadorRecords.com starting at 12am EST tonight.
The catch is, the album will only be $3.99 for about 2 minutes. That’s right. From midnight until noon tomorrow, the price of the MP3 album will be steadily going up until it hits full price once again.
And that’s not all…. while we can’t compete with Fucked Up’s physical world antics in Toronto, our version of “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” will also include a virtual pop-up store with a screening room, characters from the “story”, a live webcam from Toronto “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” and a preview of our just about ready to launch “MataCloudTM.”
Can’t get your head around all of this? That’s cool, because all you will have to do is check back at this space in 15 hours to really understand.
Cold Cave’s second full-length album, ‘Cherish The Light Years‘, is available in stores worldwide today.
As a special bonus for the iPad nation, the iTunes version of the album comes with “LP” – the first-ever iTunes LP for Matador. It has a bunch of hand-written lyrics from Wes and a grip of photos from the band’s last tour around the world. You can get that here.
And while you can catch the band opening up for the Kills over the next month, the first few shows of the band’s upcoming July tour have been confirmed.
Mon 7/18 Fargo ND The Aquarium Cult of Youth Supports Tue 7/26 San Diego CA Casbah Austra Supports Sun 7/31 Omaha NE Waiting Room Austra Supports Mon 8/1 Saint Louis MO Firebird Austra Supports Tue 8/2 Cleveland OH Grog Shop Austra Supports
By truepanthersounds on Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Glasser‘s debut album Ring, is set to hit stores on 9/28. Something we haven’t spent much time talking about is how the album is loosely structured like the chiastic (or, Ring) structure used in ancient literature. Ideas are paired in symmetric order, often leading bidirectionally towards a certain concept. Songs are used to represent often contradictory emotional states.. So we wanted your first listen to it to reflect that. No set beginning or end, just dive into the album and go with it.
New Yorkers, Glasser made a special listening installation of the album. Go hang out at AVA Project in the East Village this weekend, bring a beer, and maybe a little pocket change because over the next three days, you can purchase a limited clear vinyl copy of the record at the space 2 weeks before release date (9/28).
Then Glasser is taking off for a string of tour dates with Gayngs, but starting it all off with a really special album release show at Amoeba in Los Angeles!
ON TOUR W/GAYNGS (Feat. Bon Iver) Sept 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba Hollywood (Record Release Show)
Sept 29 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Sept 30 Chicago, IL @ Metro Oct 2 Boston, MA @ Paradise Oct 3 New York, NY @ Webster Hall Oct 4 Brooklyn, NY @ The Music Hall of Williamsburg Oct 5 Washington, DC @ Black Cat Oct 7 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
Log in to the Gigwise chatroom here on Wednesday 8th October at 4pm GMT (11am EDT) and join the kids in asking Mike from Fucked Up for his opinions on the state of global economy and, more importantly, Vampire Weekend.
I dunno about you, but I’m having serious nightmares looking at that flyer. Personal problems aside, Jaguar Love started their coast-to-coast tour with the Faint this week, and along with being dubbed Spin.com’s “Artist Of The Day” (tomorrow’s choice : Gaugin), “Bonetrees & A Broken Heart” from the forthcoming ‘Take Me To The Sea’ LP/CD can be heard in streaming fashion at the band’s MySpace page.
On top of all that, the band have neatly slid beyond mere social networking with the launch of their own official website.
‘Take Me To The Sea’ is currently available for preorder at the Matador Store (CD, $8, LP, $12) and early adopters are entitled to a free poster with each purchase.
(Jennifer O’Connor, Box Awesome, Lincoln, NE, July 12, pic taken from derek von‘s Flickr stream)
As we continue our feverish preparations for Jennifer O’Connor’s new LP/CD ‘Here With Me’ (8/19), there’s a couple of exciting they’ve-got-the-internet-on-computers-now developments to share with you.
For one, Jennifer is the New York Times Popcast (mp3) “Artist Of The Week”, and the subject of an interview with the Times’ Ben Sisaro and a live performance in the Times’ studios. There’s some album reviews by Jon Pareles at the start of the program — fast forwarding, is of course, entirely optional.
For another, we’ve launched a Jennifer O’Connor widget (above), which you’re free to plug into your own blog, MySpace profile, Facebook profile, Live Journal, etc. If you’ve got friends who tend to take naps with their laptops left open, you can cut and paste the embed code and let them do some free advertising for Jennifer, too.
Finally, along with next week’s dates supporting Wilco, a record release show at the Mercury Lounge on 8/21 and an instore at Brooklyn’s Permanent on 8/23, Jennifer will be hitting the West Coast with Damien Jurado in September. More dates to follow, soon.
August
10-Wilmington DE @Grand Opera House with Wilco
13-Brooklyn NY @ McCarren Park Pool with Wilco
21-New York NY @ Mercury Lounge with Dump
23-Brooklyn NY @ Permanent Records 3 PM in-store performance
September
7-Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s Night Club with Damien Jurado
9-Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland with Damien Jurado
10-San Francisco, CA @ The Independent with Damien Jurado
12-Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge with Damien Jurado
13-Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door with Damien Jurado
19-New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
25-Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall with Great Lake Swimmers
The appropriate answer to the question, “have you ever seen a woman naked?” would’ve been, “yes, but let’s not talk about your mom on television.” But that’s not to say it was handled poorly.
….and with apologies to Jon Landau, it doesn’t look a fucking thing like these guys. The Independent’s Rhodri Marsden calls The Trons, “the most magnificently stupid collision of geekery, music and technology I’ve seen for quite some time”. Hey, I’ll admit they’re more charismatic than the Kooks, but that’s not saying much. However, I will confess the Trons might be the ultimate Tony Victory wet dream : a band that won’t bolt for a major label or ever request an audit.
Through the auspices of Blabbermouth.net, the drum cam footage of Sepultura's Jean Dolabella (above) , while fascinating on a number of levels, pales in comparison to the Aquarius Records-touted clip below :
Fox News' Susan Estrich is fed-the-fuck-up with the Interweb's "unbridled ugliness", and in addition to obscene threats she receives daily, " I don’t even have to read my own mail to be exposed to such garbage. It’s on plenty of websites as well." (thanks. we're trying)
Curiously, however, Estrich segues from a rant about online harassment to a personal brush with greatness turned unpleasant :
Some years ago, I was in a ladies room, straightening out my skirt, when a famous celebrity I had long admired began berating me mercilessly for working for FOX News. How can you do such a thing, she asked, rhetorically, because of course she had no interest in my answer.
It was clear that she didn’t want to hear my arguments about reaching an audience that could prove decisive, as opposed to the pleasure of singing for the choir– much less the fact that some of the people I work with at FOX are actually decent people who value dialogue and reward personal loyalty. She was right because she was sufficiently famous that clearly no one had ever told her otherwise.
As she slammed the door in my face, though, I got in the last word: If you don’t like FOX, start your own network. Put your money where your mouth is. Now, whenever I see her, I smile, and she looks away.
Professor Kingsley, how can you in good conscience be such a tease? WHO was it? Jane Fonda? Karen O? Susan Muldowney? Valuable leisure time that might have otherwise been used to write threatening letters to you and your colleagues will now be wasted in a futile attempt to figure out precisely who you're referring to.
Music chiefs were blasted last night for using computer wizardry to make new albums louder than ever. Bosses are artificially enhancing sound levels as they believe the noisier a record is, the more copies it will sell.But music lovers say some tracks are now so distorted they can make listeners feel nauseous. And Britain’s leading studio engineers have launched a campaign to make records range in levels to avoid one loud blur.
Among records blasted by engineers is the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication which some branded “unlistenable”. An online petition has even been launched to have it “remastered”.
Other albums slated by studio experts are works by Oasis, the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen.
Peter Mew, senior mastering engineer at London’s Abbey Road Studios — where The Beatles made many of their hits — said: “Record companies are competing in an arms race to make their album the loudest. The quieter parts are becoming louder and the loudest parts are just becoming a buzz. This could be the reason CD sales are in a slump.”
Geoff Emerick (above right, shown with George Martin), an engineer on the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s album, said: “A lot of what is released today is basically a scrunched up mess."
Though I sincerely doubt there is any concerted effort on the part of "music chiefs" to artificially boost noise levels, I must applaud any organized effort to categorize the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as "unlistenable".
("uh oh. My upwardly mobile, throughly mature lady friend is on the warpath due to my excesive vinyl consumption. I'd better haul ass to Radio Hut.")
("hey, converting analog sound to low bit rate mp3's is easy and painless with the help of Radio Hut….even though it would take weeks, not hours to convert even a modest record collection, as shown in this bogus advertisement.")
("check it out, intolerant, easily frustrated would-be spouse! A lifetime love affair with one of the coolest mediums invented has been reduced to a tiny black box…and speakers that sound like shit!")
Or to quote Britt Daniel, "Don't Buy The Realistic." On the unveiling of Radio Shack's latest (sexist) commercial, I've got three words for the former Tandy company on behalf of record collector scum everywhere. FUCK. OFF. NOW.
Hey – can someone make sure Nils knows that I did go downstairs and check on that line of campers in front of Best Buy. No one, I repeat, no one had ever heard of The Ponys. So we're still good to give Pitchfork the exclusive on that April in-store announcement.
Already in a foul mood after having his teeth whitened (just read the whole article, I can't cut and paste everything), TV Go Home / Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker flexes his knowledge-sharing muscles in today's Guardian.
Presenting an exciting first in interactive technology! The Ignopedia is the world's first* paper-and-ink encyclopaedia. Unlike Wikipedia, which is created by hundreds of users, the Ignopedia is written entirely by a single sub-par human with little or no awareness of the facts – building week by week, entry by entry, into a uniquely unreliable resource. *apart from all the other ones
Whee Whee Telly Windmill, 3pm, BBC1
Desperate 24-hour experimental broadcast aimed at brightening the national mood, consisting of face-on footage of a brightly coloured novelty paper windmill accompanied by captions urging the viewer to blow each time it starts revolving, thus enabling a depressed and alienated populace to momentarily amuse themselves by imagining this charming toy from an altogether more carefree age is spinning on their behalf.
Music by Lemon Jelly
Producer Limp Substitute
Subtitles … 888
Goblin A goblin (pronounced "goblin", or, if you're a cartoon Frenchman, "goh-bleeene ") is a mythical green-skinned, pointy-eared creature that hangs around dungeons attacking people with swords. Appearing in the easier stages of computer games, they are rarely elevated to "end of level boss" status, which goes to that fire-breathing dragon which flashes red when you hit his weak spot, and, just when you think you've killed him, he sort of spins into the air and, if you don't jump at just the right moment, the shockwave takes half your health off and I've been stuck on it for five hours and I'm sick of it; I mean, I've already got one job I hate, I don't need another, especially one that pays in those stupid little virtual coins that bounce around when you split open one of the treasure chests, guarded by goblins, green-skinned pointy-eared creatures that DON'T EXIST, which is why I suggest you concern yourself with something worthwhile, like Iraq, or tooth-whitening, you trivial bastards. You sicken me
A team of Australian scientists [That's an oxymoron if I saw one], presumably with too much time on their hands, have created the air guitar t-shirt, which turns air guitarists fake strumming into real music. The shirt, developed by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation, has sensors within the elbows that send information to a computer, which creates music based on its wearer's air guitaring. Richard Helmer, one of the scientists behind the t-shirt, told reporters the t-shirt was "an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music making" and that it could be used by "players without significant musical or computing skills".
Asked about the new invention, Metro quote Jeff Disaster of UK Air Guitar, the people behind the previously reported Air Guitar Championships, as saying: "I would love to get one but I don't think they would be allowed in air guitar championships. The rule is there can be no guitars on the stage; this is essentially a midi-guitar, so it violates the main rule of air guitar".
It's the next step up from playing music from your mobile phone without headphones on all forms of public transport to the delight of everyone around you. What a great way to make friends and keep them.
In the era of MySpace, having an easy-to-find page is key to a band's success. Baton Rouge-based indie rock band Bones lost their MySpace URL to the Fox TV series of the same name. Not so coincidentally, MySpace owners News Corp. also own the Fox network. However, after the story became public, the band was given their URL back by MySpace founder Tom Anderson.
"Tom" wrote the band, saying, "I heard about what happened with your URL. I gave it back to ya…Sorry about that! As we grow in size, sometimes people make decisions I don't know about. This was obviously the wrong decision. The Bones URL is yours once again. "
"We're shocked!! And grateful," said drummer Scott Campbell. "Not only did Myspace give us back the www.myspace.com/bones URL, but we received a huge outpouring of moral support from the whole indie rock community over this. It went from being a really horrible experience, to really amazing, and we just want to thank everyone. See you on the road!"
"Losing our URL was a complete surprise to us," Bones singer/bassist Michael Miller said yesterday. "We logged on one day and found David Boreanaz staring back at us. It sucks because we've used that URL for almost two years to build our band name and fan base, and it's on all of our product and posters. We're as indie as it gets and can't afford to reprint everything.
Men who use mobile phones for long periods at a time may be at risk of damaging their sperm, according to research by American scientists.Samples taken from men attending a fertility clinic revealed that their sperm declined steadily in number, quality and ability to swim as mobile phone usage increased. Where men used their mobiles for more than four hours a day, researchers found a 30% drop in sperm motility or movement and viability when compared with men who did not use a mobile phone.
Scientists believe the study is too preliminary to prove an unequivocal link between mobile phones and falling sperm counts, but the work received a cautious welcome from other scientists who called for further studies to rule out other factors known to influence sperm quality, such as age, weight, smoking, stress and whether people had sedentary jobs.
Ashok Agarwal, who presented his findings at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in New Orleans, stressed the study did not prove mobile phones were damaging male fertility, but urged scientists to investigate the possibility.
On behalf of the cellular phone industry, I'd like to challenge these finding. Not me, personally (I stood too close to a microwave oven while watching "Three's Company" as a youngster, and well, the rest is history), but there's a mountain of evidence that runs contrary to Dr. Argwai's claims. For instance, Lee Atwater hasn't impregnated anyone in years.
I realize that many of you were skeptical when you opened the newspapers this morning. "MATADOR BUYS B&W CONSOLE TV FOR $16.95" screamed the headlines, and yes, I suppose this does seem weird. Won't the technology be obsolete in a few years? Didn't we already make a similar error when we dropped $25.00 USD on a full range of Radio Shack Flavor Radios?
It's ok. Laugh all you want. We truly believe the Philco has lots of potential, and no matter how many amazing advancements our friends in Sillicon Valley come up with, there's one fact they can't possibly deny : Scott Clark has never looked right in color.
By way of a couple level-headed emails (and one not-so…the same guy who didn't like this), it's come to our attention that the QuickTime booklets that we gave our Season Pass holders and that came for free with your iTunes purchase of "I Am Not…." are not working. After ten minutes of blaming ourselves incessantly and moping around guilt-ridden, we were relieved to discover that the problem is not our fault. It seems like Apple – in a spat of anti-competitive, techno-poo-poo-ery – has disabled Flash support as a default in their latest release of QuickTime 7. So try this: 1. Open up QuickTime. 2. Go to "QuickTime" preferences. 3. Under "Advanced", check "enable flash support". 4. Open the booklet. 5. Revel in multi-media glory.
Yes, we know the bulletin board’s down. I received 2,428 automated emails about it between 7:34 PM and 12:19 AM Eastern tonight. One is generated every time someone tries to view a forum or post. If nothing else, it shows how popular our BB is.
We have notified our server admin and hope to be back up tomorrow morning. Nothing is likely to happen tonight (or this morning for those of you in time zones further east).
Second Life, the fast-growing online site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that exposed the real-world personal data of its users.
Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company behind the Second Life site, said in a letter to its 650,000 users this weekend that its customer database, including names, addresses, passwords and some credit card data, had been compromised.
Blurring the line between a multiplayer game and an online business, the popularity of the site has spurred Fortune 500 corporations such as Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., along with architects, authors, and musicians to erect virtual outposts of their organizations or personas.
Retailer American Apparel has created a business to sell clothing for the Second Life avatars users create to represent themselves inside the online world. Musicians such as Duran Duran and Suzanne Vega have held concerts inside Second Life.
I’m not sure which part of the above I find more troubling — the massive potential for identity theft, or the fact that Matador bands have such a terribly low profile in virtual worlds. Seriously, fuck your ACL, Vegoose, ATP, etc., call me back when you’re headlining Planet Dork.
(man conducting a survey on whether or not Phil Esposito lookalikes can thrive in the workplace gets his comeuppance)
The telemarketing wage slaves that have the misfortune of calling me at home used to be peppered with questions like, “what are you wearing right now?” That joke was really funny…until I got someone who was all to happy to tell me what they were wearing.
Anyhow, as befitting someone named Creative Bastard, there are more imaginative, though less salacious ways of dealing with this modern problem (link courtesy Boing Boing)
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