Tag: Music
Here’s the new video for Hot Sugar’s “Leverage,” which finds the producer chilling in Coney Island along with Kool A.D., Fat Tony, Lakutis, and Nasty Nigel of World’s Fair. Judging by the snow still on the ground and the general destruction all around, the clip looks like it was shot sometime last winter, when Coney […]
As the art world goes crazy and the rap world goes “meh” for Magna Carta Holy Grail, here’s a very special Jay-Z edition of Sample Wars. “Crown,” one of that album’s standouts, was produced by a 16-year-old girl named Wondagurl, and used a sample from Sizzla’s 2006 dancehall classic “Solid as a Rock” –also reworked for 50 […]
Jack White has long gone to dizzying heights to make the releases on his Third Man record label as bizarre as possible. From memory, there’s the blues single by Stephen Colbert, a live album by Conan O’Brien, and that unforgettable ICP/White/Mozart collabo. This, however, may present a new high (or low, depending on your perspective): […]
Back in April, I came up with one of my best schemes yet. I offered my job the opportunity to fly me to Europe for the summer, where I would assume my daily music editor responsibilities, spending my weekends traveling to various places to cover and attend Europe’s famed music festivals, from Glastonbury in the […]
When “Black Skinhead” came out, everyone compared it to Marilyn Manson, even though it sounded much more like a Gary Glitter sample. As it turns out, however, the perfect complement to the cathartic track is “Elephant,” the riff monster at the center of Tame Impala’s acclaimed 2012 effort Lonerism. This virtuosic mashup was created by Nate […]
“She trusted me completely,” French digital artist Systaime (Michaël Borras) tells ANIMAL. Every day for days, actress/singer/director Asia Argento shot videos with her cellphone in Rome and sent them to Systaime in Limoges, France. “She has given me no instructions.” The video for “Sexodrome” off Nuun Records’ Total Entropy is a mash-up of Asia’s video selfies, YouTube clips, datamoshed […]
To mark the upcoming release of his new album-cum-viral-marketing-stunt, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Jay-Z created some shiny, mostly contentless promotional books, then sent fans on a scavenger hunt to find them. Inside was the album’s tracklist accompanied by black bars that look like censored lyrics–I’d call it some kind of comment on NSA surveillance, but even that […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Brooklyn’s Octo Octa–a producer who makes lush, dreamy, deliciously hi-fi dance music–compiled this week’s “Listen In,” a tour through mellow, funky house music of the ’80s and ’90s. And while the mix’s opening […]
It’s healthy to be at least mildly skeptical of gurus with cultish personas, even if you subscribe to their philosophy. Saturday night’s show with Lil B, an artist whose approach to life I am pretty fond of, was thus something I approached with some trepidation. Would the rap game Tony Robbins ask the Task Force […]
Nick Cave pretends to chauffeur Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone. Nick Cave watches Scarface with his twelve-year-old sons. He goes to a psychoanalyst, has lunch with Warren Ellis and visits the Nick Cave Archive at the “Melbourne Arts Centre” set. But not really. For their upcoming “drama-documentary” 20,000 Days on Earth, conceptual artists and music history re-enactors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard don’t […]
