Interpol is apparently still around, perhaps wearing suits, and definitely making solemn music. Note that I did not say ‘serious’ music. The New York band’s self-titled album comes out September 7th:
PVT (no longer Pivot due to a douchey cease and desist from an even douchier band) continues to do Australia proud by signing to Warp, and releasing a new album
Church With No Magic back in August. The boys made a little mix for the blog Allez Allez, that you can download
here.
On a completely different yet similarly awesome tip,
Pimp C continues to release music from the other side, his full length
The Naked Soul Of Sweet Jones due out October 10. Here is the song 'What Up' featuring everyone’s favourite rapper who sounds like Lil Wayne, but isn’t Lil Wayne – Drake:
Squarepusher is also releasing new stuff in October, namely the nine-track album
Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator. Behold the clip below:
You all should have been celebrating
Michael Jackson’s birthday last Sunday with
Spike Lee and DJ Spinna in Brooklyn. For those of you who couldn’t be there however,
here’s a very nice consolation prize in the form of a MJ mixtape by J. Period.
And while we’re talking about
Spinna, go over to the blog Rock The Dub to
stream his latest compilation,
Strange Games & Funky Things Vol. 5 out now via BBE.
We’ve already
shared the joys of vocalist
Reggie B with you. To our delight, another gem has been released over at Innate Sounds’
Bandcamp page. Go get 'Hypnotic' featuring Donald Hayes. Right now.
Who likes larfs? Lolz? Lulz?
Das Racist does, with the dudebros releasing this ‘trailer’ for
Sit Down, Man, which is funnily the follow up to
Shut Up, Dude. Awesome:
Phonte called it quits with Little Brother to focus on singing, and in particular his Grammy-nominated duo with Nicolay called
Foreign Exchange. While you wait for the full-length titled
Authenticity to drop October 12th, go download the single 'Maybe She’ll Dream Of Me' over at
Giantstep.
Arcade Fire has upped the ante in terms of music videos (as explained by
Goldpox) and
the Drums have decided to perform a musical kow-tow to the Canadians in the form of a cover of their track 'We Used To Wait'. Grab it over at
RCRDLBL.
Whenever a new
Big Boi video comes out, it means that you must watch it almost immediately:
Similarly, when string arranger/composer/one man to move an orchestra
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson teams up with
Flying Lotus on anything, you say “holy shit” and go check it out. Grab 'Drips/Take Notice' at Atwood-Ferguson’s
Bandcamp page.
FlyLo collaborator
Ahu is gearing up to release her single 'To:Love'. You can also download it for free over at her
Bandcamp page (this week Bandcamp FTW), as well as listen to the other three tracks.
And to finish, here is weirdo
Gonzales starring in his own clip for 'Bittersuite' taken from his film/album of the same name,
Ivory Tower featuring himself, Tiga and Peaches: