Just in from the department of unexpectedness…. Banks (no, not Lloyd) has upped a mixtape and it’s called EVERYBODY ON MY DICK LIKE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE.
Actually, we kinda knew this was happening. Paul sent over a rough mixtape about 9 months ago of his beats and production and it was genius. And what, with all the Kendricks and the A$APs and whatever, we thought a mixtape would take Banks to new heights if we got it out months before release.
But the long-standing issues with Matador and the rap game quickly blew up our pre-release hype strategy. Long story short, we have earned a certain “cash-only” rep in the hip hop world requiring us to either send briefcases handcuffed to interns to studios deep in Flatbush or…. call in favors which takes time.
In this case, Paul called in a some mega-favors and got features from El-P, Talib, Mike G, and… hold up, HIGH PRIZM (né High Priest).
(Programming note, I’ve spent the entire morning doing things to all sorts of websites that we aren’t ever allowed to do. I AM DARKTOOB. And I feel like Dean Bein.)
Listen to the whole thing over on Soundcloud:
The El-P cut entitled “Quite Enough” has been excerpted for those needing “an entry point”.
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.
