INTERVIEW: Kevin Laing on The Besnard Lakes, PromArt, and Beating the Meat
On summer break from touring, we caught up with Besnard Lakes drummer and bearded Robert Redford doppelganger on a stormy night in August over adult beverages and warm tea in the hottest nightclub north of Havana.…read more
Two Journalists Feared Dead
From the editor…”Esteemed MMM Journalists and bounty hunters have gone missing and are reported to have sustained injuries on rock battlefield over the weekend. It’s Sunday Night and the weekend isn’t even close to being over. It began with an excited dispatch about the most underrated and indie band from a place called the Land of Talk and ended with a final emergency message received late Sunday evening with allegations that Iggy and the Stooges had just set fire to rock n’ roll at a place called Osheaga.” More to come…
L’Embuscade Joins American Terror List
“What the fuck is an Embuscade?” I said to my colleague. “Maybe it’s a riddle,” she said. I toyed with the word. Scrambed the letters as I rattled the change together for a stout at the bar. Scum Da’bee. No. Mad Bees’ Cum…too many ‘m’s. Fucking band. They would probably suck. Not so…What I heard could easily double as the soundtrack to a volcano.…read more
Chilean Pitches Tent at Watson Twins Show
Funny how pessimism has a way of turning its back on a man. No longer able to stand, we found our Chilean a high school chemistry book to cover his boner for the Watsons so he could make it over to the merch table where he uttered what every sexy set of twins wants to hear: “You remind me of those girls from The Shining.”…read more
INTERVIEW: Said The Whale Reveal Fong Mystery Key
The trail was getting cold and our editor refused to cover our return expenses. Then it happened: a click on the telegraph wire. “See what the orca says.” Seeing sound? Cryptic indeed. Before we could figure anything out, we turned to our most intimate knowledge of the missing prodigy rusted source: the bottle.…read more
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Herrema on Billy Fong
Word on the telegraph wire had been hush. We’d heard nothing of the child genius for weeks. Rumours were circulating…Fong was dead…a bus accident in the Andes. But a tip on the wire led us to the RTX (Rad Times Xpress), an underground railroad that slices across the United States to rock icon Jennifer Herrema in South Beach, LA.…read more
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Andy Harpoon Thwarts Assassination, Swears Bloody Revenge
Thankfully Andy Harpoon is now recovering well in the safety of his own home after defending the life of musical genius, Billy Fong, from an assassination plot. The apartment where he is squatting is under 24 hour protection…When asked why he believed the assailants to be Russian, Harpoon replied, “They were speaking Russian.” …read more
Miracle Soap Saves Fingers’ Leg From Gunshot Wound
Hospital was not an option. We were too close to Fong. Arriving at a hospital with a gun shot would inevitably involve police. We were in far too deep to have the police involved and with ramifications reaching to the upper echelons of just about every international corporate and political organization including OPEC, Iran, and Casio, it was unclear who could be trusted.…read more
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Recently from RCRD LBL:
Silver Jews
“Candy Jail” from the album ‘Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea’…listen now
MSTRKRFT
Exclusive new song went up on MSTRKRFT’s RCRD LBL page this week via their partner label Dim Mak. It’s the only place to get it. “Bounce featuring N.O.R.E” (And yes, that is N.O.R.E as in the rapper of “Superthug” fame)…listen now
White Denim- “Goldie Locks” (third single from their RCRD LBL exclusive EP:…listen now
Dirty On Purpose
“The Thing About Getaways” (third single from their RCRD LBL EP “Dead Volcanoes”):…listen now
Ladytron
“Black Cat” - new track from their forthcoming LP “Velocifero”:…listen now
Sam Champion - Uncle Drums
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix) via partner label Modular
Bix - Uni Versal (featuring Jonsi from Sigor Ros)
Bloody Beetroots - We Are From Venic (La Serenissima Remix)
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