Lately I’ve been doing some zines trades with some really rad people. Here are some of the zines I have received: BINMEN Issue 2 & 3 by Kelsey Dake, Lost In Patterns by Emory Allen, Silent Mountains by Chris Piascik & Josh LaFayette, and Typostruction Volume 2 by Chris Piascik. All zines are awesome times a zillion! I love doing trades with people. I also recently bought a Best Coast 7″ from Art Fag Recordings, good stuff.
Gorilla vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck have launched a record label, Forest Family. I’ve been a fan of Gorilla vs. Bear forever, so I am really excited they decided to launch a record label! To be honest I hadn’t heard of Weekly Tape Deck before today, but it does look just as awesome as Gorilla vs. Bear. Their first release will be a 7” by Cults. You can check out the cover art below, which is really awesome . You can also download the awesome songs from the 7” on the Forest Family site. I am mega-stoked to see the future releases of Forest Family and will definitely be picking some up once I get my record player.
This video is a couple weeks old but still amazing. I picked up Plastic Beach yesterday it’s an amazing album. Phase 3 is shaping up to be an amazing one. If you live on Mars and have never heard of the Gorillaz, you should really check them out.
Scanned Pitchfork earlier today, found this awesome piece of news: of Montreal Get a Tour Documentary. of Montreal does some amazing things, so I am really stoked for this.
Here are some rad videos that may or may not have something to do with of Montreal:
Yesterday, a friend introduced me to the awesomeness of Danger. He also showed me these amazing teaser videos for his albums. They’ll totally remind you of old school arcade intros.
I am a huge Animal Collective fan! Which is why I am super excited about their new visual album, ODDSAC, that just premiered at Sundance. Check out the trailer for the film below.
As you can see from the trailer the film looks super experimental. It’s described as a visual album, so I am not sure if there will be a plot. Either way it’s Animal Collective, so it’s guaranteed to be packed full of eye candy and radical music.
Stones Throw knows how to do limited edition. Below is a video from the release party for Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 on vinyl. It’s a really rad and shows how each cover is unique.
I really wish that companies would do this more. I’m really tired of seeing something hyping itself up as limited edition, when it isn’t. They just added some extra tracks or a behind the scene feature, change the cover a lil’ bit, and make just as many copies as they did with the original. When I used to buy a ton of DVDs 95 percent of them said limited or special edition. In reality though there was nothing limited or special about it. How rad would unique a silk-screened DVD cover be? I think that’s why I like what Stones Throw did for the vinyl.
1,000 copies were made. Each one is hand numbered. Each one is unique. Vinyl collectors should really check it out. I’ve heard the album, trust me it’s good. I also should mention that this is the first in a twelve month series of records from Madlib. Can’t wait for next one.
Radical side note: The limited edition DVD of House of the Devil is coming out and it comes with VHS tape of the movie. This is also limited to 1,000 copies.