Stockhausen has left the building. (guardian obit)

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Joyfear follows Anakrid’s expansive Rapture of the Deep in kind with a tangential strain of slow, droning malevolence. Its fetishistic artwork is cold and impersonal, drab and unforgiving. A spray-painted textured cover with no discernible thematic pretense houses equally inscrutable music. The fact that it’s a one-sided vinyl-only release limited to 100 copies practically [...]

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The Presets‘ Beams was one of my faves of 2005 and I’m eagerly awaiting the new album.

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The remaining members of Led Zeppelin sat down with Yahoo Music to discuss the upcoming tribute concert at London’s O2 Arena in honor of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Guitarist Jimmy Page sounds rather confident in the band’s ability to bring it live after all these years, although looking at him hardly instills much [...]

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Sometimes Throwing Muse and longtime solo artist Kristin Hersh has created CASH Music (the acronym stands for Coalition of Artists & Stake Holders), which is a ”new music business model” wherein artists post free mp3’s in multiple formats for listeners to critique, remix, or even produce. Hersh is no stranger to this process, as I was [...]

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Echo & The Bunnymen have made plans to recreate their monumental 1984 album Ocean Rain live in concert with a full orchestra in tow. The show is scheduled for September 16, 2008 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Despite the fact that drummer Pete DeFreitas died over 18 years ago and bassist Les Pattison abandoned the [...]

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Wow. It’s so weird to see them play in such a massive venue to such a massive audience having only ever seen them in small clubs and amphitheatres. (via The Music Slut)

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Frieze Magazine (future issue for Jan 08) features a back and forth between Ann Powers, chief pop critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Simon Reynolds discussing the past year in music, from feminism to the handcrafted underground.

That’s certainly a more positive angle on the state of (women in) pop. Perhaps what really pains me [...]

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Ok, not really a sellout (it’s not like Detektivbyran is a household name in the states). Sprint’s latest holiday commercial features the music of Sweden’s Detektivbyrån. I actually wish more commercials used music from the likes of Detektivbyrån and for that matter, Yann Tiersen.

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The new Radiohead video for “Jigsaw Falling into Place”, the first official single off In Rainbows, is a dash of black and white claustrophobia, wherein the band members are all wearing odd little bicycle helmets as the camera swoops between them along to the beat. It’s far less odd that you’d expect, considering how [...]

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After reuniting in 1998 for the enormously successful Resurrection Tour, art-punk pioneers, Bauhaus, have taken their time putting together new material. The band originally split in 1983 after lead singer Peter Murphy fell ill during the recording of its then swan-song Burning from the Inside, allowing guitarist Daniel Ash to take up the slack. The taking up [...]

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Paste Magazine got some attention on the interwebs this week for naming The National’s Boxer the best record of 2007, but contributing editor Jeff Leven got in on the list making with “The Greatest Riffs of the 21st Century (So Far)”.
“To make its way into the canon of great riffs alongside, say, ‘Purple Haze’ or [...]

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Absofuckingmazing. The next Girl Talk? (via Get Weird, Turn Pro)

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Music Blog Pasta Primavera’s got 3 remixes for this fine Friday, including Girl Talk’s version of Let’s Call it Off.

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For all their laurels, Radiohead’s kind of like the Pope – zealots claim infallibility, rationals know better. If you’re not in on the inside concept (or only had your elder brother’s Brother Word Processor 10 years ago), OK Computer is a cold, confusing mess. And Kid A and Amnesiac - both stellar portraits of a [...]

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All Things Considered, November 5, 2007 - The challenge: Write and record a song — in two days.
The instructions: Choose one photo to inspire the subject of the song; choose a word or phrase that will inspire the style.
An odd but vaguely fascinating glimpse into the mind and methods of a [...]

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I’m probably way late to this bizarreness. (reminds me of this)

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