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British Sea Power
“Pure gold comes out of me arse.”

By David Harris

The Maryland Film Festival
Six shorts, We Are Wizards, and White Lies Black Sheep

Le Loup
“Come into my living room and talk about shit.”

Holy Fuck
“Hummus is the wonder food of the world.”

Jean-Luc Godard Retrospective
Breathless; Contempt; Masculine, Feminine; Two Or Three Things I Know About Her

By Shannon Gramas

Will Sheff (Okkervil River)
Wasted, Tired, Sick: The Trials of Budget Rock

By David Harris

No Age
Would I call bullshit on that if I heard that song on the radio?

By M. Hugh Steeply

Valet
Babylon 4 eva

By M. Hugh Steeply

Rob Crow
Waxes Enthusiastic

Blitzen Trapper
Fused Gestalt

By David Harris

Evangelicals
Midnight Vignettes

By M. Hugh Steeply

High Places
“We have this little Ian McKaye photo that we kiss before each show.”

Billboards Along the Highway
Two Gallants, The SLIP. Charlie McAlister ETC Down South

Kelley Stoltz
“Yeah, songs; I think I like songs at the end of the day.”

By M. Hugh Steeply

Rocksucker
The vital role of the queer experience in the narrative of modern pop and rock music

Vashti Bunyan
The Past and Future Collide

Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)
“The artist can be entirely undiplomatic. I think that’s the power of art.”

By David Harris

YACHT
Positivity Above All Things

A Defense of Painful Music
What does destructive music actually destroy?

A Tiny Art-Land Vortex
On the Vagaries of Booking Shows at a Small Club

By Chizzly St. Claw

Features

Mount Eerie: "I have almost never heard an interpretation of one of my songs that was what I intended."

The Sonorous and The Spine: How Lana Del Rey and The Caretaker Read Old European White Guys

Tristan Patterson (director of Dragonslayer): "Well, what if we repurposed this idea to actually shoot stuff that matters rather than bullshit conversations between bullshit people?"

Wooden Wand: "The novelty of touring wore off for me around the turn of the century."

News

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Mount Eerie will haunt the Pacific Northwest more than usual in June

NGUZUNGUZU weaponize bass this summer with Warm Pulse EP on Hippos in Tanks

RIAA seeks $75 trillion in LimeWire copyright case, as if their plot for world domination was ever in question

Release the Bats label ends after 10 years, and it is likely your fault

Constellation readies second Musique Fragile box set: Pacha, Kanada 70, and Tony “Dr. Drone Ph.D” Conrad

Library of Congress rips 25 new entries to the National Recording Registry… but at what BIT-RATE?!?

Ain’t no party like a dabke party: Mark Gergis’ Sham Palace releases Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran comp

Eternal Summers announce Correct Behavior LP for summer release, go on summer tour, cryogenically freeze themselves from September to June

Björk turns New York Public Library and Manhattan Children’s Museum into giant blobs of educationalism even tho we’re all plenty smart as is

Dominick Fernow starts up new label Bed of Nails in order to get another Vatican Shadow 12-inch out there

Awesome band returns after lengthy hiatus with new album, world tour: Dead Can Dance edition

Neneh Cherry & The Thing tour as a bright spot in the shadow of impending European meltdown

RIP: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, famed classical singer

The Pirate Bay attacked, not by Anonymous, but by anonymous former member of Anonymous (anonymously?)

RIP: Chuck Brown, the "godfather of go-go"

Library of Congress rips 25 new entries to the National Recording Registry... but at what BIT-RATE?!?

Azealia Banks drops debut EP 1991 and Fantastic mixtape, according to my mom

MA DOOM (Masta Ace and DOOM) LP finally endowed by its creators with an inalienable release date, and lo, a weary world rejoiceth

Cooly G won't be playing you, that'd be lame; debut album Playin Me set for July release on Hyperdub

RIP: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees lead singer

RIP: Donna Summer

Laurel Halo, C. Spencer Yeh, ZS, Amen Dunes, Noveller to play in life-size maze for You Are Here 2012

Dylan Ettinger tours the United States; somewhere, a baby bird learns to fly

The Books prep box set the size of multiple Dostoevsky novels; Nick Zammuto documents the duo's history with new blog

Music Reviews

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Steve Gunn-John Truscinski Duo
Ocean Parkway

Drudkh
Eternal Turn of the Wheel

Daughn Gibson
All Hell

Josephine Foster and The Victor Herrero Band
Perlas

Jack White
Blunderbuss

Beach House
Bloom

Actress
R.I.P

Mount Eerie
Clear Moon