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1. Scanner – Pet (Headz) 2. Daphni – Long 3. Lindstrøm – Rà-àkõ-st 4. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Like a Sundae 5. Crystal Castles – Affection 6. Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mill Video Tape 7. Tamaryn – While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming 8. Errors – Ammaboa Glass 9. Teen Daze – Garden [...]
1. Wonder World – “Let Me In” 2. Solange – “Losing You” 3. Hundred Waters – “Me & Anodyne” 4. Chris Cohen – “Monad” 5. Mount Eerie – “Ocean Roar” 6. The Mountain Goats – “The Diaz Brothers” 7. Why? – “Jonathan’s Hope” 8. Philco Fiction – “Finally” 9. Christian Gleinser – “Coming Around Again” [...]
1. Introduction (music: Shuggie Otis – “Pling!”) “Privacy Please” is many things at the moment; this mixtape series, my blog platform for longform writing about music and recording equipment, records, and other thoughts, and a record label of sorts that I’m in the process of starting in order to release physical versions of my music [...]
1. Cuushe – “Do You Know the Way To Sleep? (Slow Magic Remix)” So, Pitchfork started this so-called “People’s List” – the idea is that they’re bringing the critical power to the People, you see, the unwashed masses. Direct power from the self-appointed True Music Cognoscenti to you and yours. Democratic as fuck. It’s like [...]
1. Fergus & Geronimo – “Drones” Dear Lollapalooza 2012: We’ve all led lives and processed versions of ourselves that we’re not at all proud of. It’s no secret. In some conceptual potential worm-reality this is all of us. Almost all of us have been douchebags/baguettes at some point in our lives. I’ve been a douchebag [...]
In which the Kings get two more chances and prove that no matter how well you play, it takes the right set of circumstances to succeed against a long history of failure. The Kings got hit and they got hit hard. Not closing out a potential series sweep is hardly the end of the world, [...]
Part Two – In which the Los Angeles Kings have a chance to complete a Cup-winning sweep on home ice, but Martin Brodeur reminds everyone he’s been to this dance before. For the past few weeks, the Staples Center in Los Angeles has been a whirr of activity. The Lakers, the Clippers, and the Kings [...]
Part One – A New Hope: In which the Los Angeles Kings, an eighth-seeded playoff team, attempt to pull off the least likely Stanley Cup run in NHL history. Here’s a short list of things I love: Hockey, playoff hockey, USA hockey, and you. Let’s have a Stanley Cup Final, shall we? Bob Costas is building [...]
In the family of major North American sports, ice hockey is the runt of the litter. It’s a foul weather sport in that neighborhood games demand a certain climate. It requires you to skate, which is far from the first thing most kids learn. Hockey is constantly looking up at its more marketable, successful older [...]
1. Cuushe – “Do You Know The Way To Sleep?” Quick administrative matter before we delve into things: here at NEWMUSICMACHINE headquarters (literally, ‘one fourth of a head’) we get tingling sensations in our feelers that warn us that people don’t really understand what’s happening in these pieces that we sometimes spend upwards of a [...]
