Album Review: Boards of Canada hits apocalyptic nerve on ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’
DJ Pangburn reviews Boards of Canada’s existentially dark new album “Tomorrow’s Harvest.”
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Listen: Lasertom’s retro-futurist single ‘Call’
The Dublin-based producer Lasertom’s latest is a nice slice of retro-futurist electronic music.
Mindless viral content is the perfect mind control: drink the Kool-Aid
Stupid internet content is Aldous Huxley’s drug Soma come to life.
The GOP’s cleansing of its ‘stupid’ wing will never work
Presidential hopeful Gov. Bobby Jindal can scrub all he wants, but he just won’t be able to eradicate stupid from the Republican party.
EDM is the new American bubble
Thought the housing and dot-com bubbles were gnarly? Wait until the EDM bubble collapses.
Premiere: Adventure Playlist
Baltimore freak-wave producer Adventure has a playlist for you.
Listen: Braxton/Palmer’s darkly hypnotic ‘Creeper, Pt.1′
The Olympia-based electronic music producer delivers some deep house grooves on “Creeper, Pt. 1.”
Obama becomes Nixon with DOJ’s surveillance of Associated Press reporters
Another example of America’s surveillance culture spinning wildly out of control and into an Orwellian nightmare landscape.
Bradley Manning’s secret hearing and the US government’s fear of losing power
Manning’s trial highlights the US government’s obsession with secrecy and the absurd lengths to which people and states will go to obfuscate and reinforce power.
Patent trolling even pissed off a magician back in 1903
Nevil Maskelyne was an early critic of patent trolls and pulled off a memorable hack to express his displeasure.
Boards of Canada announce new album ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’
The long-awaited new Boards of Canada album, “Tomorrow’s Harvest,” is due out June 11. So there was a point to the Cosecha numbers station mayhem after all!
Boston bombing spectacle was good money for mainstream and online media
I’d like to know how much money was made on TV and online video ads during the Boston bombings coverage.
Watch Solar Bears play ‘Rainbow Collision’ live in studio
Solar Bears play a stratospheric live version of “Rainbow Collision” in their studio. Dig it.
Harmony Korine reissues ‘A Crackup at the Race Riots’
Korine’s 1998 novel, reissued by Drag City, is like Donald Barthelme on LSD mixed with crystal meth.
Watch Prism House’s trippy ‘Need You (Part I)’ live video
The Brooklyn-based duo of Matt O’Hare and Brian Wenner have a live, psychedelic music video. Check it out.
Watch LOGO’s nervy ‘Cardiocleptomania’ video
Socially-relevant stuff, especially for a music video.
James McAvoy fucks, boozes and blows lines in ‘Filth’ trailer [NSFW]
The adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s dark and humorous novel “Filth” has a trailer, and it’s raunchy.
Kisses remix The Embassy’s ‘Everything I Ever Wanted’
Sweden’s highly influential The Embassy get the (unofficial) remix treatment from the LA pop duo.
Exxon censors satirical ‘Exxon Hates Your Children’ ad
They got Arkansas network affiliates to pull the ad from their schedules.
