http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog news and views from the Matador brain trust (and the brains we trust) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/08/cold-cave-dates-cancelled/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/08/cold-cave-dates-cancelled/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:19:32 +0000 Robby http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7821 Unfortunately unforeseen circumstances (mainly involving the blizzard along the East Coast) have led to the cancellation of the following Cold Cave shows — There are plans to reschedule dates in each of these cities. 2/9 Orlando, FL – Backbooth (w/ Nite Jewel) 2/10 Tampa, FL – Crowbar (w/ Nite Jewel) 2/11 Atlanta, GA – Criminal [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/08/cold-cave-dates-cancelled/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/07/chicken-tamales/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/07/chicken-tamales/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:18:33 +0000 Patrick http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7815 Diana Kennedy’s Essential Cuisines of Mexico is considered the authoritative Mexican cookbook in English. If you plan on making her tamales, however, take outside advice. Kennedy is a purist and assumes that you understand some basics of Mexican cooking. This recipe calls for tamale dough, or masa, which can be made from scratch using dried [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/07/chicken-tamales/feed/ 3 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/05/slc-girls-instore/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/05/slc-girls-instore/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:00:55 +0000 Michael http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7808 1 more stop on the road to instore immortality for Girls… (apologies for the hyperbole but, you know… it’s Super Bowl weekend!) Next Friday February 12 at 7pm Girls will be at Slowtrain for a free instore performance before their show later on at Urban Lounge. Slowtrain 221 E. Broadway Salt Lake City 801 364 2611 And to those of you [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/05/slc-girls-instore/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/yo-la-tengo-honoring-the-bay-area-with-their-physical-presence/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/yo-la-tengo-honoring-the-bay-area-with-their-physical-presence/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:34:42 +0000 Gerard http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7803 (Yo La Tengo at the Granada, Dallas, last Saturday night.  Pic taken from SilentKid70’s Flickr stream) Through a series of failed relationships, family disputes and horrible recriminations with dear friends, I’ve come to learn there is no greater gift you can give your loved ones than simply being there.  This works rather well if you’re cheap [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/yo-la-tengo-honoring-the-bay-area-with-their-physical-presence/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/casually-reminding-you-the-casual-victim-pile-shows-start-tonight/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/casually-reminding-you-the-casual-victim-pile-shows-start-tonight/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:46:58 +0000 Gerard http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7796 After far too much local hype (for my comfort, anyway), our 17-band, 3 night spectacular at Austin’s Beerland kicks off this evening (doors at 9pm, music at 1opm) with the first show from The Persimmons in many months.  Running orders for all 3 evenings are below (headliners on top) but please be advised of the [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/casually-reminding-you-the-casual-victim-pile-shows-start-tonight/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/cold-cave-live-atlanta-instore/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/cold-cave-live-atlanta-instore/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:39:47 +0000 Michael http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7787 Cold Cave will stop in Criminal Records in Atlanta next Thursday, February 11 at 7pm for a free instore performance. Seriously… don’t miss it. But if you do, catch them later that night at The 529. ]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/04/cold-cave-live-atlanta-instore/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/02/pavement-track-listing-second-prize-winner-limited-edition-record-store-day-vinyl-release/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/02/pavement-track-listing-second-prize-winner-limited-edition-record-store-day-vinyl-release/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:55:42 +0000 Patrick http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7772 We announced the grand prize winner of the Pavement guess the track listing contest last week. That guy, from Brazil, won an all-expenses-paid trip to New York to see Pavement in Central Park next September, for coming closest to guessing the actual track listing to Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, in stores on [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/02/pavement-track-listing-second-prize-winner-limited-edition-record-store-day-vinyl-release/feed/ 9 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/02/girls-are-back-on-the-road-april-and-may/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/02/girls-are-back-on-the-road-april-and-may/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:57 +0000 truepanthersounds http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7765 photo by Bao Nguyen Despite currently soldiering across the country Girls are announcing yet another batch of tour dates.  This time, they’re going back to some of our favorite cities, all over the US and Canada, with a stop through Coachella. All American dates are with the excellent Dum Dum Girls. Make all the girl-bandname jokes [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/02/girls-are-back-on-the-road-april-and-may/feed/ 1 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/01/cold-cave-life-magazine-video-premier-spring-tour-dates/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/01/cold-cave-life-magazine-video-premier-spring-tour-dates/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:55:36 +0000 Robby http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7748 We’re excited to unveil the new music video from Cold Cave for the track “Life Magazine”. Directed by Ben Chappell and Aaron Brown (Focus Creeps), the video stars Marti Domination whom you might recognize from the cover of Cold Cave’s ‘Love Comes Close’ LP and earlier, as Goodyear in Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster I‘. Learn more [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/02/01/cold-cave-life-magazine-video-premier-spring-tour-dates/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/30/forbidden-rice/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/30/forbidden-rice/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:03:53 +0000 Patrick http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7741 Saw this at Kalustyan the other day and decided to pick it up. It looks like wild rice but actually has nothing in common with it. The inimitable Kalustyan description says: “GROWN IN CHINA, ONCE EXCLUSIVE GRAIN OF THE EMPERORS & KNOWN AS BLOOD ENCHRICHIN & LONGEVITY RICE. IT IS A MED GRAIN RICE WITH [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/30/forbidden-rice/feed/ 1 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/rage-of-the-mastering-engineers/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/rage-of-the-mastering-engineers/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:33:08 +0000 Patrick http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7736 The pent-up frustration of mastering and recording engineers who have had to deal with members of an ignorant public for years has finally found in an outlet in a series of viral YouTube videos featuring computer animated characters speaking in computer-generated English accents. The videos are brilliant, and point to the REAL revolution in the music [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/rage-of-the-mastering-engineers/feed/ 1 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/girls-atlanta-instore/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/girls-atlanta-instore/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:06:34 +0000 Michael http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7703 Next Friday Girls will add one more name to the list of the record shops they’ve rocked over the last 6 months or so. Friday February 5 @ 7pm Criminal Records 1154-A Euclid Ave. NE Atlanta 404 215 9511 Oh and by the way, the show at The Earl is sold out… so if you DON’T have a ticket this is [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/girls-atlanta-instore/feed/ 2 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/calling-all-fucked-up-superfans-7-collection-contest/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/calling-all-fucked-up-superfans-7-collection-contest/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:46:49 +0000 Tom W http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7721 We were sitting around Matador World HQ the other day, talking about our favorite hardcore/punk/psychedelic/experimental band and their fans.  Fucked Up has some pretty hardcore ones (no pun intended), which makes sense; with a discography as epic as their live show, you too would tend to attract the fanatical types.  This got us to thinking: [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/calling-all-fucked-up-superfans-7-collection-contest/feed/ 2 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists-free-at-noon-show-today-live-on-air/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists-free-at-noon-show-today-live-on-air/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:30:00 +0000 Jeremy P. Goldstein http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7710 Photo by Rob Scheuerman In a mere 30 minutes, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists shall rock the house together at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live for a Free At Noon extravaganza. If you weren’t lucky enough to get tickets ahead of time (you may still be able to weasel your way in, but I can’t promise anything), [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/ted-leo-and-the-pharmacists-free-at-noon-show-today-live-on-air/feed/ 0 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/casual-victim-pile-3-nights-at-beerland-update/ http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/casual-victim-pile-3-nights-at-beerland-update/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:34:02 +0000 Gerard http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=7699 While this week’s release of Matador’s 19-band Austin/Denton compilation, ‘Casual Victim Pile’ has met with mostly favorable notices, some have rightly raised the question, “where’s the inflammatory, entirely unnecessary attacks on other genres / scenes etc.?”   So with that in mind, we commissioned Denny Schmickle to design (and Obsolete Industries to print) a limited edition [...]]]> http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/29/casual-victim-pile-3-nights-at-beerland-update/feed/ 0