Pitchfork.tv on YouTube today presents a new episode of "60 Seconds Left", which offers artists the opportunity to express themselves creatively in one minute's time. Here we spend a moment with Girls frontman Christopher Owens in a Paris hotel.
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Today, Curren$y and producer Sean O'Connell surprise released a new, live instrument album called The Muscle Car Chronicles on Damon Dash's BluRoc label. The nine tracks, recorded in 2010, include vocals from Curren$y and music from O'Connell, Robert E. Corrigan Jr., and former drummer of the Mars Volta Thomas Pridgen. One of the tracks features Sir Michael Rocks (aka Mikey Rocks of the Cool Kids). It comes packaged with a bonus disc of music by O'Connell solo.
MP3: Woods & Amps for Christ: "From Oatmeal to Buttermilk"
This spring, Woods will release a split LP with noise experimentalist Henry Barnes, aka Amps for Christ. The album features four tracks from each band, as well as a collaborative track, "From Oatmeal to Buttermilk". It's out May 1 on vinyl and April 17 on CD via Shrimper. That's the album art, above.
Photo by Jonny Donovan
Damon Albarn has been one of pop's great multi-taskers for years, but 2012 is shaping up to be an especially headline-heavy year. Just this month, he's finishing up three albums-- his project Rocket Juice & the Moon with Flea and Tony Allen, a new record from soul legend Bobby Womack he helped write and produce with XL Recordings' Richard Russell, and a "strange pastoral folk" record of songs he wrote for his Doctor Dee opera last year. He expects all three records to see release before the summer.
And oh yeah, he's rehearsing with his old buddies in Blur, too, though he was playfully cagey about that admission when we spoke with him on the phone from London last week.
Get your light sabres juiced up-- Brooklyn synth-goth duo Light Asylum have announced the follow-up to their 2011 EP In Tension. Their self-titled debut full-length is scheduled for release on Mexican Summer on May 1.
Photo of Ariel Rechtshaid, Usher, and Diplo by Timothy Saccenti via Rechtshaid's Instagram
On Twitter, Diplo describes "Climax", his collaboration with Usher, as "seriously the best record ive been part of" and "some next level electrosoul". He also tweeted, "im pretty sure in 9 months there are gonna be a lot of new babies that this song is responsible for."
Last night at Carnegie Hall, Philip Glass curated the 22nd Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert, featuring Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Antony Hegarty, James Blake, Das Racist, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, Rahzel, and more. Our photographer Will Deitz was there.
Photo by Courtney Brooke Hall
Marissa Nadler: "The Wrecking Ball Company":
Marissa Nadler's new album The Sister is out May 29 via her own Box of Cedar label. Nadler has now offered the album cut "The Wrecking Ball Company", a finger-picked track that unfurls slowly. The Sister is a companion to Nadler's 2011 self-titled LP.
The Canadian psych-opera group Yamantaka // Sonic Titan released their excellent, self-titled album last year via Psychic Handshake with the intention of fusing elements of Eastern and Western culture. The video for their first single, "Hoshi Neko", visualizes that mission, using the band's signature black-and-white aesthetic to present cartoonish Eastern imagery with the feel of an early Atari video game.
Bonnaroo has announced the lineup for this year's festival, taking place June 7-10 in Manchester, Tennessee. The announcement came via an 81-track Spotify Playlist, which users can stream here.
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