Joshua October 14th, 2008
Sub Pop has gone and bought themselves a Vetiver. They’ve signed Andy Cabic and his band for a new album to be released in early 2009.
In a statement, Sub Pop said “In the parlance of our times, we simply issued some commercial paper to raise the requisite capital and now Vetiver is ours.” File this one under mergers and acquisitions.
After releasing a covers album and a full length or originals on Gnomosong earlier this year, Vetiver will release an album titled Tight Knit on February 3rd on Sub Pop.
Joshua September 12th, 2008
Megapuss, which consists of Devendra, Greg Rogove, and apparently Fabrizio Moretti, of Strokes fame, will release their debut album Surfing via Neil Young’s record label Vapor Records digitally on September 16 and on CD and LP October 7.
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Joshua July 24th, 2008
Re-working an existing track is primarily about listening– the best remixers hear something inside of a song not being served by the original version. In the case of Animal Collective’s remix of Goldfrapp‘s “Little Bird“, they heard something several shades darker than the urban moodscape of the original, something filled with mystery and maybe a touch of desperation. Stripping away most of the music in favor of a slowly accumulating web of percussion and noise, the track becomes a spooky campfire song for a Blair Witch kind of night.
[from the "Caravan Girl" single; out now on Mute]
