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Best New Music
One-man noise-pop project Nathan Williams has quickly moved from homemade cassettes to online buzz, and he delivers on his first widely released LP, which recalls No Age's basement punk but feels more insular, self-contained, and unsettling.
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.
Reviews
Madlib pays tribute to the sadly departed J Dilla, a producer with whom he'd forged a mutual stylistic compatibility that began with beat-tape trading by mail and resulted in the underground classic Champion Sound.
[Nate Patrin]
This outstanding Norweigian label-- home to experimental rock, jazz, and electronic artists such as Supersilent, Alog, and Shining-- celebrated its fifth anniversary with a 2xCD + book collection; now it does the same to honor its 10th year in business.
[Chris Dahlen]Chicago-based organ/percussion two-piece combines punky energy with elements drawn from the traditional music of Eastern Europe. David Sitek produces.
[Jason Crock]Mike Patton recruits Italy's most progressive no-wave metal band (as far as we know) to his eclectic Ipecac roster.
[Mia Clarke]This longtime solo outlet for Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars plays host to a compilation of recent works commissioned to accompany art installations. Many pieces focus on issues of technology in everyday life, with industrial signifiers replacing the organic electronic music from St. Werner's previous works.
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Forkcast
- Pitchfork.tv: Dan Deacon: Live on "In the Studio"
- Video: Mastodon: "Divinations"
- New Music: St. Vincent: "The Strangers" [MP3]
- New Music: Ghostface Killah [ft. Novel]: "Message From Ghost" [MP3]
- Video: Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "I Am Goodbye"
- Pitchfork.tv: Antony and Johnsons: Various Songs (Live in Washington, D.C.)
- Pitchfork.tv: William Fitzsimmons: "If You Would Come Back Home" [Video Premiere]
Features
Interview: Rokia Traoré
Rokia Traoré has become one of world music's great synthesizers, combining the rhythms and traditions of diverse cultures from Africa and Europe into a complex sound that only she could create. As she prepared for an American tour, we spoke to Traoré about her new album, her guitar, and, as she puts it, her new self.
[Stephen M. Deusner]
Guest List: Tindersticks
As he kicks off a rare U.S. tour, Tindersticks' Stuart Staples is stuck in a 1970s time-warp, giving his teenage daughter David Bowie lessons, taking in Stooges reunion shows, and revisiting Brian Clough's tenure as manager of Leeds United. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]
[Stuart Staples]Interview: Fucked Up
We speak to the members of Toronto's Fucked Up about their childhood record collections, the inevitability of being thrown out of venues, and why nicknames come in handy with the U.S. border patrol.
[Grayson Currin]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]