Daily Archives: April 7, 2009

Digitally Remastered Beatles Collection To Hit Shelves With Beatles: Rock Band

Beatles fans, hold on to your pants — you were already looking forward to 09.09.09 for the release of The Beatles’ Rock Band game, but now the day promises to be even more epic with the release of the entire Fab Four catalog, digitally remastered for the very first time. read more »

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Schnipper’s Slept On

Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Gang Gang Dance’s Rawwar EP. Buy the mp3s for four dollars total and read … read more »

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On the Street: Grandlife at Tribeca Grand

Some will do anything for a good party, even if it means pond-jumping continents. London’s best flew in for a visit last week to do just that… and of course showcase their fall 09 collections. … read more »

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Win A Screaming Females CD, 7", Poster And T-Shirt

We’ve been raving about about Screaming Females since we first saw the trio perform live. Their brand of blues-inspired, guitar wankering punk rock has left many mouths agape at the ease by which they wield their self-branded “Queer disco on the moon, with pterodactyls and squid fighting satellite dishes.” That is why we put them On The Cover. Now, with exactly one week until the release of their Don Giovanni debut Power Move, we’re giving away a whole prize pack dedicated to the band and their powerful LP. read more »

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Synchronous Communication – So You See, This Touch And Go Thing Is Nothing

On the day that Touch and Go officially releases their last original full length, Tentacles by the Crystal Antlers, former StreetWise, Def Jam and Rough Trade employee, and current Hypnote label owner David Rothblatt takes us through his experiences of seven — count ‘em, seven — distribution closures and bankruptcies. read more »

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Diplo, Switch, A-Trak, MSTRKRFT and More Headline Rum Tour

Hollloaarrrr, we are going to this. Major Lazer (Diplo & Switch), MSTRKRFT, Jazzy Jeff, Tiga, FADER blogger A-Trak, FADER Label’s Matt & Kim and FADER cover star Santigold are all signed up for the Bacardi … read more »

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Nite Jewel – "Lover"

Nite Jewel’s latest contribution to music video art is the sumptuous “Lover,” the most recent single from her album Good Evening, released early this year on Human Ear Records. read more »

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Audio: East Village Radio 4/3

Last Friday on The Let Out (our weekly show on East Village Radio, made possible by Dewars), DJ Pretty Titty aka Clayton Vomero of We Make It Good fame played a bunch of jams (check … read more »

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Vivian Girls @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | Brooklyn

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti has finally streamlined into a full band with real instruments and solid members, and it proved beneficial as they pleased many fans on a tour marking the end of a long struggle of finding a solid backing band, as well as new, slightly polished musical beginnings. Vivian Girls opened. read more »

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Coldplay Continues To Deny Satriani's Accusations, This Time In Federal Court

They denied it to their fans, they denied it to the press and now they’re denying it to the judge — Coldplay went on the record in federal court with their stance that no part of “Viva La Vida” was copied or borrowed from guitarist Joe Satriani’s “If I Could Fly.” read more »

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