After launching a music career built on positivity and partying, Andrew W.K. keeps busy by going in several directions at once. He is co-owner of lower Manhattan’s Santos Party House, has appeared in and supplied music for episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and recorded an album
Cartoonist Nina Paley is the creator of Sita Sings the Blues, an interpretation of the Ramayana, the Hindu epic. The film was released online earlier this year and set to the music of blues singer Annette Hanshaw. In the difficult process of acquiring rights to use Hanshaw’s music, Paley
Back in the formative days of the mp3-blog world, Ryan Catbird was king with The Catbirdseat. Since then he’s started his own label (Catbird Records, with a slew of newreleases) and founded MBV Music, an amalgam of music blogging’s finest that recently won an Eddy. TMN: What
A native of New York City, John Schaefer has been a WNYC radio host and music curator for more than 25 years. His long-running show “New Sounds” explores a diverse galaxy of genres old and new, and his program “Soundcheck” interviews artists and covers industry news. “Soundcheck” also recently
Cadillac Man, as he was known on the streets, spent the better part of the past 15 years homeless in New York City. After losing a managerial position at a Pepsi plant, and then at a Hell’s Kitchen meat market, his second marriage dissolved. With nowhere else to go,
Recently unmasked producer Burial joins his old schoolmate Four Tet on a cryptically released 12-inch. The result is two post-rock peregrinations sure to set your perceptions on edge.
Hot off of a well-publicized beef with another indie darling act, VEGA primes its fans for the release of its debut EP, “Well Known Pleasures.”
Though bandleader Dave Longstreth seems to be trying to fade into the background, the Dirty Projectors’ original sound still bears his stamp of characteristic weirdness on their new album, “Bitte Orca,” leaked online late last week.
Difficult as it is to know where to turn for free, legal audio in these trying, DRM times, the newly launched Free Music Archive will set you back on the straight and narrow.
Winners have a bad habit of making everyone else a loser by default, but when a band like Phoenix pulls ahead of the pack, for the time being, we can all share in the victory.
