Tim Hecker has a new album on the way entitled Konoyo, his first since 2016's Love Streams. Today, the celebrated electronic musician released the opening track "This Life," a striking nine-minute journey that retains the high-def tactility of the previous record, with pitches that swirl across the stereo field and slabs of warm analog synth bass.
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We're less than a week away from the premiere of Hulu's highly anticipated Stephen King series, Castle Rock. In anticipation, the streaming giant has dropped a fairly comprehensive documentary titled The Search for Castle Rock that digs into the origins of King's fictional small town. Featuring interviews with producer J.J. Abrams, star Sissy Spacek, showrunners Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, and several King specialists, the 23-minute documentary really sheds a light on the real-life locations and people that influenced the Master of Horror decades ago. (TV Review: Castle Rock Adds New Chapters to Stephen King Classics) Watch below and be sure to subscribe to The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast for exhaustive weekly recaps of the episodes. What's more, if you're in Chicago, head over to the Music Box Theatre next weekend for our rather timely King film festival, Greetings from Castle Rock. We'll be showing a slew of Castle Rock-set titles, specifically Stand by Me, The Dead Zone, Needful Things, Cujo, The Shawshank Redemption, and more. Jay Smooth is a DJ who until recently hosted the longest-running hip-hop show in New York: The Underground Railroad, which has been airing on the progressive non-commercial station WBAI since 1991. Today, he announced his resignation. He evidently quit in protest of WBAI's hiring of Leonard Lopate, a former WNYC host who was fired earlier this year for…
Childish Gambino Selling Alternate Vinyl Edition of “Awaken, My Love!” at “Summertime” Pop-Up7/15/2018 Childish Gambino recently announced a series of "Summertime Starts Here" events in connection with two new summer-related singles, and now the events are finally here. With pop-ups scheduled in New York, Los Angeles, and London this weekend, the celebration features ice cream trucks handing out free cones to attendees at Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park and…
Planet Mu Chicago footwork pioneer RP Boo bought his first Roland R70 drum machine in the late-90s from the window of a budget equipment store. With no instruction manual, he didn't know how to stretch out the bars, so worked exclusively in a one-bar pattern – formulating his frantic, multi-layered sound, crushing hyped-up dance floor commands into percussive rhythms and rumbling low end. Years later, after playing on a different R70, he didn't recognise the sounds and had a revelation – the presets on his own had been mangled by everyone who tested out the model in-store. Imbued with the trials and errors of fellow Chicago drum machine enthusiasts, his sound was unique from the off. RP Boo's third album for the Planet Mu label, I'll Tell You What!, sees this originality in full force: teasing out soulful vocal melodies (executed brilliantly on closing track Deep Sole, reminiscent of the late, great DJ Rashad) into skeletal, high-impact beats; skittering between paranoia and euphoria with rapid flicks of the wrist, and directing footwork dance battles on At War: “We are at war in the street, watch and witness!” RP Boo's skill extends to feeding genuine personality into his tracks. U-Don't No, a highlight, was made in the days following the death of his mother. If there's one word to describe RP Boo's revolutionary sound, it's “legit”. Continue reading... |
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