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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
Every Boredoms record feels like a gift, and this one-- quietly released in Japan earlier this year-- turned out to be a surprise as well, catching fans off guard both with its appearance and the outstanding Lindstrøm remix that highlights it.
[Mark Richardson]
War Child's latest charity comp asks heavy hitters such as Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Wilson, U2, and David Bowie to invite contemporary stars to cover some of their best-known songs.
[Stephen M. Deusner]Latest from Malian singer-songwriter, whose outlook has always been notably international in scope, is hauntingly spare yet ridiculously well defined, carried aloft by the power of her guitar playing and voice.
[Joshua Klein]Veteran Cleveland art-punks create a new album that plays out in a binary sequence of comically over-the-top drunk-rock benders and sincere, open-hearted pleas for forgiveness.
[Stuart Berman]Denver-based Elephant 6 OGs are still chugging along, their power-pop tendencies now mixed with a bit of alt-rock grit.
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Forkcast
- Video: Death Cab for Cutie: "Grapevine Fires"
- Pitchfork.tv: Alela Diane: "My Brambles" (DUMBO Session)
- New Music: DOOM: "Cellz" [Stream]
- Video: Nine Inch Nails: "1,000,000" (Live in Sydney)
- New Music: Nickel Eye [the Strokes' Nikolai Fraiture; ft. Wale]: "Brandy of the Damned (Mark Ronson Remix)" [MP3]
- New Music: Young Jeezy: "Circulate"
- New Music: Art Brut: "Catch" (The Cure cover) [Stream]
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]