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Best New Music
Red Hot's latest all-star charity comp features 31 new and exclusive songs from Arcade Fire, Spoon, David Byrne, My Morning Jacket, Feist, Ben Gibbard, the Decemberists, Conor Oberst,Stuart Murdoch, Yo La Tengo, the New Pornographers, Cat Power, Antony, Bon Iver, and members of Sigur Rós, among many others. Yes, it's good.
This new Slumberland band will be bracketed with other lo-fi/noise-pop peers, but they have songs that will appeal beyond the confines of subcultures: Anyone with a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music will find a lot to like about this record.
Reviews
Red Hot's latest all-star charity comp features 31 new and exclusive songs from Arcade Fire, Spoon, David Byrne, My Morning Jacket, Feist, Ben Gibbard, the Decemberists, Conor Oberst, Stuart Murdoch, Yo La Tengo, the New Pornographers, Cat Power, Antony, Bon Iver, and members of Sigur Rós, among many others. Yes, it's good. [Best New Music]
[Scott Plagenhoef]A childhood friend of Joanna Newsom, folkie Alela Diane is more of a traditionalist, partial to universal themes and gentle, lilting melodies that recall traditional ballads.
[Amy Granzin]Born in rural Kentucky in 1895, Nimrod Workman packs a few lifetimes' worth of experiences working and fighting for the working man on this giddy Drag City collection.
[Stephen M. Deusner]Jagjaguwar band leaves behind most of its melodramatic art-rock moves, showing a newfound restraint and a rich and sumptuous sound.
[Matthew Murphy]Recorded during the same 1997 European tour that birthed their In Bern, this is the second collaboration between these two avant heroes.
[Marc Masters]Wed: 02-25-09
Tue: 02-24-09
Mon: 02-23-09
Fri: 02-20-09
Forkcast
- Video: Human Highway: "The Sound"
- Pitchfork.tv: Hauschka: "Freibad" [Video Premiere]
- New Music: Tinted Windows [Members of Smashing Pumpkins, Hanson, Cheap Trick, and Fountains of Wayne]: "Kind of a Girl" [Stream]
- Pitchfork.tv: The Big Pink: "Velvet" [Video Premiere]
- Premiere: Crystal Antlers: "Andrew" [MP3]
- Video: The Boy Least Likely To: "A Balloon on a Broken String"
- Video: Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon: "This Is a Low" (Live at the NME Awards)
Features
Guest List: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart give us a brief travelogue from their tour of Sweden, debate which punny Pains merch would be the cheesiest, and reveal their Moldy Peaches-linked claim to fame. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]
[The Pains of Being Pure at Heart]Live Review: Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction played a small club show in L.A. last week and Pitchfork was there to see how it all went down. The band also taped the show and provided video of six of its classic songs, including "Mountain Song", "Stop", and "Ain't No Right", all of which can be viewed here.
[Ian Cohen]Appreciation: Touch and Go Records
This week, Touch and Go-- one of America's foremost independent record labels-- announced that they are tabling new music and shuttering their distribution arm. It's impossible to calculate the importance Touch and Go had to the rock'n'roll landscape of the past three decades; we scraped just the surface in 2006 when, to celebrate the label's 25th anniversary, Pitchfork published a few features about the imprint's history.
[Pitchfork]Interview: Air France
Air France members Joel Karlsson and Henrik Markstedt talk to us via email about high school, the economy, and the life-changing power of Saint Etienne.
[Marc Hogan]Guest List: Diplo
Diplo reveals which two classic producers he admires most, tips us off to a new venue in Philly, and divulges a family relation to a prominent indie-rock frontman. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]
[Diplo]Interview: Fennesz
Austrian producer Christian Fennesz put out his long-awaited latest solo album Black Sea late in 2008. Just prior to the album's release, we spoke with him about his working methods, the pressure of a new solo album, and the enduring appeal of A-Ha.
[Mark Richardson]