Michael Jackson
August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009


It’s a beautiful June evening in Brooklyn and word just broke about Michael Jackson’s passing. I saw the report and had to run across the street to top-up my phone and text Eleanore the news. The Spanish radio station at the bodega was telling the story, three cars went by with MJ songs playing.
“What!? How?!” Eleanore wrote back.
“Heart attack.”
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Antipodal combies:
Jacques Renault writes to us from… everywhere.

So, here I am. Back in London for a few days on my third week in a month long tour of DJ booths, airports, hotels and the skies between. It began in Paris then Paris became London and, just as suddenly, London became Berlin…
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GRIZZLY BEAR’S DOUBLE LP ‘VECKATIMEST’
Arrives in the post!

Making a case for actually taking the time to listen to an actual vinyl LP from end to end the gargantuan rich and warm new double album ‘Veckatimest’ from Grizzly Bear just arrived in the mail! Case made, we’re taking that time now. Continue Reading »

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YOUTH STAND TALL


A quartet of rather sprightly boys and girls from London dropping a haunting debut single with an A side that seems like the second coming of Young Marble Giants, and an Aaliyah cover on the b-side? what’s not to love?

You can grab the XX track from Fader
7″ available from Rough Trade Shops
More xx here

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FROM THE STOOP TO THE LOFT
FLY GIRLZ MEET ZEBRABLOOD
IN BROWNSVILLE

 
Representing NYC is an ambitious new initiative from Sam Hiller that tries to empower the youth of East-New York by building stronger ties between them and the producers and indie-artists now beginning to live in their community. Hiller plays saxophone with Z’s, a New York band self described as No-wave/Brutal-prog/post-minimalist, but he’s also a teacher working in the New York Public School system and that experience lead him to create Representing NYC. Backed by several youth organizations, Hiller hopes this alliance of local kids and artists will “create connections in the rapidly changing neighborhoods of east Brooklyn, and give youth a much-needed opportunity to represent their New York.” Continue Reading »

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GORY DAYS AND
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART’S
DEBUT LP


If you grew up almost anywhere in America in the staggeringly ignorant days of being a teenager before the internet and were at all interested in bands beyond the regular MTV rotation, what you probably used to do was, get out a pen and paper and send away to the indie record labels for catalogues being sure to include a self addressed stamped envelope. Continue Reading »

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KAPOWWWWW!
HERE WE GO MAGIC s/t Debut LP


Insanely catchy, densely layered and nothing but beautiful, this, Luke Temple’s first record under the Here We Go Magic name, has just become our favorite Saturday morning LP for 2009. Continue Reading »

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XOX WILD YAKS
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXO

The valentine’s show we played at Glasslands was so much fun, with our great friends Kyp Malone & Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson aided by Marques Toliver both turning in gorgeous sets to get arrows unquivered and hearts shivering. But it was closer Wild Yaks who bust those hearts in uncontrollable, sweaty shouts of joy and so this seems like as good a time as any to mention, Wild Yaks might just be the last great pure punk rock band in America… or maybe it’s just cupid’s tomahawk got me feeling giggly for ‘em. 
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ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
IN THE STUDIO WITH PASSION PIT

How does a band, one critically acclaimed EP into their career, respond to the pressures of scrutiny and anticipation? If you’re Passion Pit, it would seem you retreat deep into the studio to work and work and work some more. Last month, while recording the debut LP, drummer
Nate Donmoyer
took a deep breath to reflect for us.
Photographs by Ian Quay


I was not in Passion Pit when this record began. Michael did the first Passion Pit EP alone and then attempted to do the same with the full-length. I joined the band while he was in Bedstuy doing the first version of this album. He came back to Boston and we rehearsed for a couple days and then the Piano’s residency in New York started. Before we knew it, we had the opportunity to redo the album and I have been here in Manhattan with Michael since we started in November. Continue Reading »

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THE WEEKEND AFTER WEEKEND.
WuRM BY HLEBO

Jason John Wurm is a photographer who has recently begun to make minimalist noise music under the name Weekend.  Earlier this month, he played his first show at Brooklyn’s Death By Audio making quite an impression on our man in the field, Jesse Hlebo. The following weekend, Jesse & Jason sat down to talk samplers, photo-journalism, conceptual art and life after art school.

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THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS
DEBUT SINGLE AVAILABLE AS LMTD ED. 7″
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AU REVOIR SIMONE’S HEATHER D’ANGELO
IS NOT MAKING LASAGNA ANYMORE


Dear, THITH,
I’m writing this from within the confines of our dimly lit, incense-scented, makeshift studio at Erika’s house in Williamsburg. It’s a crappy, rainy, cold day outside, but we’re warm and happy in here. Annie is knitting a scarf, as per usual, and Erika is sitting on a pillow on the floor, typing away on her laptop. Our producer extraordinaire, Thom Monahan, is sitting at Erika’s desk, manipulating audio files in Protools. We’re listening to the tracks out of some nice studio speakers bought exclusively for this phase of the recording process—the intensely listening, pre-mixing, overdubbing part.
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JONATHAN KREINIK
‘RETURN TO PRECINCT 13′ EP


Our neighbor Jonathan Kreinik is far and away one of the first people we want to run to for advice for whatever it is we happen to be working on. Continue Reading »

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“DANCEHALL:
THE RISE OF JAMAICAN DANCEHALL CULTURE”

 

Soul Jazz digs deep for a more than essential compilation and book on the roots of Dancehall. Continue Reading »

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HARMONIC 313
DIRTBOX 12″

Australian Mark Pritchard closes the year with a 12′ single for his Harmonic 313 project leading toward an album out on Warp early next year. Continue Reading »

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POM POM 32


The long running, anonymously black labled 12′ series mysteriously known only as Pom Pom has just come out with a full length CD for the first time. Continue Reading »

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THE YOUTH WILL ADAPT
PHOTOS AND TEXT BY JESSE HLEBO


Adaptation is a quality inherent of human beings. for that matter, it’s true for most of nature. So, to assume that attribute should cease to become relevant in the 20th & 21st century is to disregard the essentialness of ‘the human approach’.

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DON. CATS. CHAMP-IONS!

Apparently, THITH ZINE credentials were all that was needed to get Don Stahl into the 2008 IAMS Cat Championships at Madison Square Garden in NYC.

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A RED GUITAR, FIVE DOLLARS & THE TRUTH.
GANG GANG DANCE’S JOSH DIAMOND
TALKS WITH DON STAHL

Last week, Brooklyn favorites, Social Registry heroes, and Whitney Biennal ordained ‘interdisciplinary’ art-punk provocateurs, Gang Gang Dance came out with ‘Saint Dymphna‘, a ferocious LP of loose-layered synths, jittery guitars and tight beats sure to be snapping speakers for the next year solid.

On the day after the album’s release, bartending co-workers and buddies Don Stahl & Gang Gang’s Josh Diamond were sitting on the crowded Brooklyn bar Daddy’s back patio talking. The two had just navigated through the boozy gathering when Josh sarcastically called Don a…

Josh-Manhattan dweller…

Don-I know, right? I can’t relate to this shit. Actually, I worked here tonight and I got a little loopy and then I went to the city I did my fucking standup and then, it would have been really easy to go home get in bed, but I came back out…
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JACQUES RENAULT
BAD SKINNED VIDEO

Our buddy Jacques Renault is out with an awesome video for his track ‘Bad Skinned
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RAKES’ GUITARIST MATTHEW SWINNERTON
& PRODUCER CHRIS ZANE ‘LOST’ ON PLANET ROC

The second of our two part profile on East-Berlin’s Planet Roc Studios in the Funkhaus.
Here in Pt. II, Chris Zane and Matthew Swinnerton discuss recording The Rakes new album there.
Read Pt. I Here.
 

Chris-I think what makes recording at a place like Planet Roc so unique is all of the things that happen once you get past the obvious. Once you get past simply being in a unique city like Berlin, once you get past being in a place that itself feels virtually removed from the city, once you get past working in a place that’s so rundown and old and get beyond its rich and dark history, another layer of details, subconscious details, start to reveal themselves.
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RUMBLE YOUNG MAN RUMBLE
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN L.A. BREAKS IT DOWN.

Our correspondent Jesse Hlebo fills us in on being young and idealistic in an L.A. meant for the fit, tan and ‘of age’.

   
There’s an acceptance of pain involved in the individuality of things like skateboarding, punk and noise, graffiti and not being able to do things ’cause you’re underage and just not belonging to whatever ‘normal’ is; but through this pain comes creativity and a bit of its own sort of feeling good.
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DOUBLE FEATURE-
LINDA LINDA LINDA &
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS

In desperate need of finding a singer for the school’s big music show just a couple of days away, three Japanese teenagers recruit a Korean exchange student to front their newly formed cover band. Continue Reading »

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NITE JEWEL
‘MY ALBUM’ (UN-MASTERED CDR)

   

A sedated, zonked out little EP of hung-over low-fi disco, this CDR from L.A. artist and performer Nite Jewel, shimmers in a haze of early autumn Southland sunshine. Continue Reading »

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MAY MONDAY NEVER COME.
VIVIAN GIRLS SELF-TITLED DEBUT
RE-ISSUED

  

Brooklyn’s own Vivian Girls’ self-titled debut is back in print thanks to label In The Red. A mini album of endless fun, The Vivian Girls bang thrash and clamor with the restless energy of Friday’s final bell. Continue Reading »

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DEM FUNKHAUS UND PLANET ROC, JA? JA!
INSIDE THE EAST-GERMAN CENTER FOR RADIO BROADCASTS.
PT.I


LIARS DOING A PHOTO SHOOT WITH JOE DILWORTH IN PLANET ROC AT THE FUNKHAUS  

On the outskirts of East-Berlin there is a cluster of factory-like buildings that make up one of the most unique recording studios ever built; a colossal studio compound called the Funkhaus. Continue Reading »

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JEALOUS GIRLFRIENDS
ORGANS ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR

  

OUR GOOD FRIENDS AND BROOKLYN NEIGHBOURS THE JEALOUS GIRLFRIENDS ARE OUT WITH A NEW VIDEO FOR THEIR DARK AND MOODY, HORN DRENCHED TRACK ORGANS ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR.
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FLYING LOTUS’ NEW LP ‘LOS ANGELES’

‘Los Angeles’ the LP is a landscape of empty streets; a city of broad buzzing highways, somnambulant, restless and eerie. Continue Reading »

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A GRIMM ASSESMENT.
CALLA’S AURELIO VALLE GOES TO GERMANY.

 

Aurelio- So, I had ANOTHER nightmare about Sarah Palin on the flight. She’s creeping into my dreams Jason. My dreams! Help me. Someone please. Help me!!!
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PILLOW FIGHT. ZERO DE CONDUITE.
JEAN VIGO.

  

Set to the watery strains of a backward voice and orchestra, a boarding school rebellion ends with this short-breath of a scene where—in a storm of burst pillows—a boy flips onto a chair being carried in a slow motion procession of anarchic students. Continue Reading »

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