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Ed Schrader has been a mainstay of the much-lauded Baltimore music scene for a long time. While he was much renowned for his live shows, he did not put out a full-length LP until his 2012 collaboration with Devlin Rice, Jazz Mind. Finally, Shrader has been getting the attention he so richly deserves, contributing a track for Sub Pop’s Sup Pop 1000 RSD compilation. The track, “Radio Eyes”, now has an accompanying video, directed by Philip Leaman. Watch the musicians get accosted by a bunch of disembodied limbs and sentient apples below.
Sub Pop 1000 is still available at Sub Pop or your local record store. (via Ad Hoc)
Oakland’s The Mantles have been a part of the Bay Area’s garage pop scene since 2007. On their new single, “Hello,” off the upcoming record Long Enough to Leave, leans in a more indie-pop direction reminiscent of New Zealand’s famed Flying Nun label. Long Enough to Leave is out June 18 on Slumberland Records.
In 1963, Lee Hazlewood released Trouble Is a Lonesome Town, a collection of acoustic tracks about a fictional town, hoping that other artists would cover them. About four decades later, Charles Normal discovered the album in a thrift store, and is releasing a covers record on July 9 via SideOneDummy entitled Thriftstore Masterpiece: Trouble Is a Lonesome Town. Along with this Isaac Brock cover of “The Railroad,” the album features contributions by Frank Black of the Pixies and Eddie Argos of Art Brut.
Shambhala, named after the mythical Buddhist kingdom, is the debut release from Erros Mágicos, the Magic Castles side project. The band started recording in 2011 but the project was shelved until principal songwriter Jason Edmonds revisited the recordings and decided to finish the project. The final product has a sweetly psychedelic, jangle-pop feel. “C’est Tout Noir” reads like the yé-yé version of a shamanic ritual, with a synthpop beat, psychedelic guitars, and some well-placed chanting.
Shambhala is available from Moon Glyph Records.
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On view fromMay 10, 2013 - January 6, 2014 at the Museum of Modern Art: XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography
Pictured: Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California. August 13, 1979
For more photo events in May visit The Guide. (via timelightbox)
Photograph by Lieko Shiga—Courtesy Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
The striking pictures in Japanese artist Lieko Shiga’s series, Canary — currently on display at the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam FOAM — reference the powerful metaphor of a canary in a coal mine. See a selection of the work on LightBox here.
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