Hip-hop legend Q-Tip will be releasing his long-awaited sophomore solo album (at least a formal sophomore album) The Renaissance on November 4th. At midnight on Monday the famous New York hip-hop record store Fat Beats will be hosting a listening party and record signing with Q-Tip.
Q-Tip has also released a video for the first single [...]
Jaguar Love, the new group from ex-Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves members, has released a music video for their track “Jaguar Pirates” from their first album Take Me To The Sea.
The video kind of looks like a high school film project with negative frames, split screens, and freeze frames, all taken from live [...]
It was only a few months ago that Beirut’s “Decider,” Zach Condon, cancelled the band’s European tour to collect himself. Feeling a little frazzled and overworked maybe? Who knows, they never really told anyone. But if I were to freak out and need to leave my job for a while, I would lie on [...]
Mtv, in an effort to be known for something other than The Real World, is trying to get into the music video business. No, I’m serious. Mtvmusic.com is the new site from the cable giants. The site is focusing on bringing attention to these new things the kids are watching called music videos. In these [...]
After making a marathon of his own playing three late night performances in three days during CMJ, Moby is about to release a new album. Last Night Remixed is currently streaming for free over at Last.fm. Though little is actually being said about the release. There is a brief blurb and a flyer for the [...]
It’s Tuesday again, and we are, once again, giving away some free tickets. This time it’s to see Hauschka and Tom Brosseau or to see Brightblack Morning Light with Zomes and Fursaxa on November 17th.
How, you ask, does one win free tickets to such fantastic shows?
It’s quite simple. Go to Favorite10.com. Make a new [...]
Minneapolis folk act Jeremy Messersmith has announced tour dates in support of his new album The Silver City. Starting off in Minneapolis, the tour heads east, with a handful of free shows in tow. The tour is a solo jaunt, with select dates with fellow Minneapolitans Cloud Cult and the buzzing These United States.
Messersmith was [...]
Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping on f10
Release Date: 10/21/08
Label: Polyvinyl
F10 Rating:
Alright, I suppose this review deserves a disclaimer – I am probably the only person on the planet that did not like Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. I wasn’t just casually not connected to it – I straight up didn’t like it. It was like [...]
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker
Fantasma Parastasie on f10
Release Date: 10/14/08
Label: Alien8 Recordings
F10 Rating:
The combination of two innovative musicians like Baker and Hecker is potentially a devastating aural experience. Deluges of distortion and powerful electronics washes saturate this EP, the two artists first venture together and Hecker’s first collaborative album. For two artists who have [...]
So, did you miss Sonic Youth’s July 4th show at Battery Park like I did? Are you still whimpering into your cornflakes each morning after hearing about how utterly spectacular, awesome, intense, brilliant, blah it was?
Well never fear, WFMU is here and are streaming the complete set for your listening pleasure from their site. WMFU [...]
