Festivals
CMG's Guide to Not Attending the Pitchfork Music Festival
Another vacation-less summer, another Pitchfork Music Festival without you in attendance. You: perhaps you’ve attended before; you know what BNM-ing...
Jul 16, 2010
Festivals
Heineken? Fucking Heineken?
This will be my fifth straight year going to the Pitchfork Music Festival. I missed that first, weird, Intonation-branded year,...
Jul 16, 2010
Records
M.I.A.: /\/\ /\ Y /\
/\/\ /\ Y /\, M.I.A.’s third and so obviously worst album, is the sound of a devoted audience getting fucked...
Jul 15, 2010
Records
Jamie Lidell: Compass
Since discovering his singing voice and outgrowing his IDM roots, Jamie Lidell has struggled to balance his futuristic ...
Jul 15, 2010
Records
Fashawn: Ode to Illmatic Mixtape
Ah, the abundance of ambitiousness in a rapper’s medulla. Lupe promised us a triple-album that should have come out...
Jul 15, 2010
Records
Deru: Say Goodbye to Useless
Interesting that in the same year Flying Lotus drops the monumental, destined-to-be-classic, genre-expanding juggernaut Cosmogramma Deru releases such an affirmation...
Jul 15, 2010
Tracks
Panda Bear: "Tomboy" / "Slow Motion""
In college we would gather around the MacBook and watch this over and over again, waiting with bated breath...
Jul 14, 2010
Tracks
Of Montreal: "Coquet Coquette"
The Of Montreal brand name has always meant a certain dosage of sugar, but whether it’s pure Pixy Stix or...
Jul 14, 2010
Festivals
CMG's Guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival
Another sweltering Chicago summer, another Pitchfork Music Festival. Like the airborne version of Ebola fictionalized in the 1994 film Outbreak,...
Jul 14, 2010