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"We Are All Pussy Riot": Kathleen Hanna Speaks on the Jailed Feminist Punk Group
By Jenn Pelly on August 15, 2012 at 04:05 p.m.
Photo by Aliya Naumoff
Pussy Riot is the most important band of 2012. That's what you'll hear from countless artists, including Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail, feminist icons and founding members of seminal riot grrrl group Bikini Kill. Since three of the Russian punk group's members were detained this spring on grounds of "hooliganism" for performing a song that included the lyrics "Mother of God, Virgin Mary, drive Putin away" inside of a Moscow church, there has been no shortage of commentary and activism in their defense. But perhaps Hanna summed it up best: "SERIOUSLY THEY ARE IN A FUCKING CAGE!!!"
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James Murphy to Direct Short Film
By Ryan Dombal on August 14, 2012 at 09:23 a.m.
After occupying plenty of screen time in front of the camera in the brilliant LCD Soundsystem doc Shut Up and Play the Hits-- out on DVD October 9 via Oscilloscope-- James Murphy is now going behind the lens. His next project will find him directing a short film as part of Canon's Project Imaginat10n campaign, where celebrities create shorts that are based on a series of still pictures that anyone can upload to the Project Imaginat10n site.
Calling from L.A. after a panel with the other Project Imaginat10n directors last week, Murphy spoke with us about his filmic aspirations as well as his checkered past as a movie maker. Read that interview here.
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Wavves' Nathan Williams and His Brother Talk Instrumental Beat Project, Sweet Valley
By Carrie Battan on July 25, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.
Sweet Valley: "Malibu Games" (via SoundCloud)
On August 7, Wavves' Nathan Williams will take the plunge into beatmaker terrain with a new instrumental mixtape he recorded with his brother Joel (who also goes by the name Kynan), under the name Sweet Valley. The tape, Stay Calm, is the first of five recorded mixes that'll be released by Brooklyn hip-hop and electronic label Fool's Gold. It's a brief, sample-heavy collection that flips the surf-punk aesthetic of Wavves into murkier electronic territory ("My favorite beat stuff is still Dilla," Williams says) without abandoning the singer's Californian get-drunk-and-play-video-games mindset.
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Fiona Apple: Interview Outtakes
By Carrie Battan on June 6, 2012 at 01:02 p.m.
Photo by Benjamin Lozovsky
Fiona Apple: "Werewolf":
In a new Pitchfork interview, Fiona Apple discussed everything from her love of slideshows to her dying dog and her parents' relationship. But the seven years in between her last album, 2005's Extraordinary Machine, and The Idler Wheel..., out June 19, was a long time, and she had an endless amount of interesting things to say. Here are even more quotes from our chat that didn't make it into the final piece.
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Chromatics Share Drumless Version of Kill for Love, Tour With Hot Chip
By Evan Minsker on May 7, 2012 at 12:35 p.m.
Photo by Vinna Laudico
Chromatics have stripped the percussion from 11 Kill for Love tracks and offered the results for free download here. The band has also announced a series of tour dates, including a stretch with Hot Chip.
Check out the tracklist, the dates, and the video for Neil Young cover "Into the Black" below. Read our new interview with Johnny Jewel here.
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Iceage Offshoot War Changes Name to VÅR, Shares New Video for "In Your Arms (Final Fantasy)"
By Jenn Pelly on May 7, 2012 at 08:33 a.m.
War, the Danish punk band comprised of Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Sexdrome's Loke Rahbek (who co-runs the label Posh Isolation), have changed their name to VÅR. The new name translates to "spring," and signals a new direction for the band, which now identifies as a multimedia project. Today, they share the video for "In Your Arms (Final Fantasy)", which opened the recent Sacred Bones compilation Todo Muere vol. 2, released on Record Store Day.
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Antony Talks Curating Meltdown Festival
By Evan Minsker on May 1, 2012 at 08:38 a.m.
Photo by Mark Seliger
The annual Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in London is curated by a different artist every year; past curators have included David Bowie, Morrissey, Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Ray Davies, Massive Attack, and Jarvis Cocker. This year, the honor goes to Antony Hegarty. His festival, which runs from August 1-12, represents a "constellation of artists" he greatly admires.
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Rustie Announces Tour, Shares Essential Mix
By Ryan Dombal on April 19, 2012 at 10:55 a.m.
Photo by Mads Perch
Rustie: BBC Essential Mix (via SoundCloud)
Since the release of his debut Warp album Glass Swords last fall, Scottish producer Rustie has become a figurehead for electronic music's move toward what critic Simon Reynolds dubbed "digital maximalism." His anything-goes style mixes everything from soft rock to fusion to hip-hop to pop to dubstep to R&B into a seamless, and often euphoric, whole. His startling skills were on display during a recent two-hour set for the BBC's "Essential Mix" series that had him mixing his own material with tracks from fellow contemporary forward-thinking beatmakers like Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, as well as mainstream hip-hop heavies like Kanye West, Drake, and Rick Ross-- listen above and read Larry Fitzmaurice's review here.
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St. Vincent Talks David Byrne Collab
By Ian Cohen on April 16, 2012 at 03:26 p.m.
Photo by Chris Tuite
Last Wednesday, St. Vincent's Annie Clark announced that she had just finished recording her long-rumored collaborative album with David Byrne. The record, which has been in the works on and off for about two-and-a-half years, will likely see release in the fall. We spoke with Clark about the project before her Saturday night performance at Coachella.
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Listen: New Walkmen: "Heaven"
By Larry Fitzmaurice on April 16, 2012 at 11:10 a.m.
Photos by Arno Frugier
The Walkmen: "Heaven"
On June 5, the Walkmen will release their new album, Heaven, via Fat Possum/Bella Union. We've got the first single and title track from the album for you to listen to above. Below, you'll find our conversation with Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser, which touches on the new album, feeling happy, getting older, and why he's not planning on taking a vacation any time soon. When we spoke on the phone a few weeks ago, he was on the way to the band's NYC practice space to work on new material that was left over from the Heaven sessions. (He was also dropping his child off at the park.)
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