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Monthly Residency: Coma Cinema (Week 3)

Monthly Residency: Coma Cinema (Week 3)

In his third week as May’s Artist Resident, Columbia, South Carolina’s Mat Cothran (aka Coma Cinema) shares a track from city-mate and friend Live Singles. So I wanted to share...

May 24, 2013     No Comments
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The Reel World: Panther People

The Reel World: Panther People

The Reel World is a PORTALS feature that focuses on tape culture. The ongoing series discusses recent tape releases and prominent cassette labels in an attempt to better understand the growing...

May 23, 2013     No Comments
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Visualized: Vinyl Williams

Visualized: Vinyl Williams

In this edition of Visualized, we talk to LA-based visual artist and musician Lionel Williams  about interactive art, audience participation, Egyptian BioGeometry, and his dream installation. His band, Vinyl Williams, released their...

May 22, 2013     No Comments
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Silk Screens: Yalls – “Remember”

Silk Screens: Yalls – “Remember”

In our latest edition of Silk Screens, Berkeley, California producer Yalls details the inception of “Remember,” one of the many standout tracks on his latest EP, The Voice. Name your...

May 20, 2013     No Comments
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Monthly Residency: Coma Cinema (Week 2)

Monthly Residency: Coma Cinema (Week 2)

In his second week as May’s Artist Resident, Columbia, South Carolina’s Mat Cothran (aka Coma Cinema) shares a new song he recently recorded with close friend John Forest Klein (aka...

May 17, 2013     No Comments
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Storytellers: Spectrals

Storytellers: Spectrals

Spectrals (aka Louis Jones) takes us through a nostalgic story of how his father’s cover band changed his life forever. When I was about 15, my dad and his mates started up...

May 16, 2013     No Comments
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Column: Songs I Can’t Listen To Anymore

Column: Songs I Can’t Listen To Anymore

PORTALS columnist Jasmine Zhu reflects on the role songs play in our emotional lives and the weight of the associations they carry. Here are some palatable phrases—love of beauty, resentment...

May 15, 2013     1 Comment
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Most Valuable Play: Odonis Odonis

Most Valuable Play: Odonis Odonis

MVP aka Most Valuable Play highlights artists and their favorite records. This week we cornered self-described “industrial surf-gaze” trio Odonis Odonis and were pleased to get words from two of the...

May 14, 2013     No Comments
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Silk Screens: Moon Bounce – “She Goes 2 She”

Silk Screens: Moon Bounce – “She Goes 2 She”

In our latest edition of Silk Screens, Corey Regensburg  (aka Moon Bounce) discusses the making of his single “She Goes 2 She” off his latest Wheelhouse EP, out now via Chill Mega...

May 13, 2013     No Comments
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PORTALS Artist Mixtape: Anenon

PORTALS Artist Mixtape: Anenon

Rhythm, classical and contorted, drives this mix made by Los Angeles producer Anenon of Non Projects. A mix is always a good excuse for me to share some music that has currently...

May 13, 2013     No Comments
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Monthly Residency: Coma Cinema (Week 1)

Monthly Residency: Coma Cinema (Week 1)

Mat Cothran (of Coma Cinema) is our new artist resident for the entire month of May. His first entry features a video he recently made with longtime collaborators and friends...

May 10, 2013     No Comments
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Most Valuable Play: BRAIDS

Most Valuable Play: BRAIDS

MVP aka Most Valuable Play highlights artists and their favorite records. This week Raphaelle of BRAIDS, whose In Kind // Amends 12″ will be out June 11th on Arbutus Records,...

May 9, 2013     No Comments
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Interview: Cayucas

Interview: Cayucas

Cayucas has just put out their new record, Bigfoot, with Secretly Canadian. The release comes just before frontman Zach Yudin’s favorite time of year: summer. And with a full-blown US tour ahead,...

May 9, 2013     No Comments
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Interview: Blood Sister

Interview: Blood Sister

Just months after calling it quits in Brooklyn, Night Manager alumnus Ezana Edwards is back with Blood Sister, a new Ganglians-backed pop-punk trio out of San Francisco, California. Read through...

May 8, 2013     1 Comment
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Column: What Connects Your Heart To Mine

Column: What Connects Your Heart To Mine

Jeanette Wall compares some of her favorite covers to their original songs, and considers what each recording represents. My old roommate Sam Sodomsky, also known as The Bird Calls, was...

May 7, 2013     1 Comment
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Column: Saturdays =Youth =Youth

Column: Saturdays =Youth =Youth

Daniel Kolitz of the Printed Internet writes about nostalgia, M83 and the endurance of a certain romance in sound. I’m writing this in the town I grew up in, back...

May 2, 2013     No Comments
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Monthly Mixtape Series – April, 2013

Monthly Mixtape Series – April, 2013

Stream Here Tracklisting: 01. SpookyFish — “You’re Not the Moon” 02. Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong — “Party on a Floating Cake” 03. Lee — “Flight 6:09″ 04. MedicineHat — “Spells” 05. snacs — “was a fool” 06. Dream Sick — “Wrap Around the Bend”...

Apr 30, 2013     2 Comments
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Storytellers: Hooded Fang

Storytellers: Hooded Fang

D.Alex Meeks of the band Hooded Fang (which features prominent members of Phèdre) shares a quick Storytellers with us about the wisdom accrued from growing up on a zoo. So...

Apr 30, 2013     No Comments
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Monthly Residency: Emily Reo (Week 4)

Monthly Residency: Emily Reo (Week 4)

In her fourth (and final) week as April’s Artist Resident, Boston’s Emily Reo explores Boston’s thriving DIY and DIT communities. Hello dear friends! It is with great sadness that I...

Apr 26, 2013     1 Comment
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The Reel World: Birdtapes

The Reel World: Birdtapes

The Reel World is a PORTALS feature that focuses on tape culture. The ongoing series discusses recent tape releases and prominent cassette labels in an attempt to better understand the growing...

Apr 25, 2013     No Comments
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Interview: Julian Lynch

Interview: Julian Lynch

Experimental bedroom recorder, Julian Lynch explains his academic interests on ethnomusicology and anthtropology, why he may stop writing lyrics in his songs, and some behind-the-scenes insight into his latest masterpiece, Lines. Lines is...

Apr 24, 2013     1 Comment
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