MAGAZINE Mixed Up This issue we take you around the globe in search of the perfect mixtape. Electro-pop princes Junior Boys tell all about their new record before lacing us with a 10-song tribute to those who most impacted Begone Dull Care. Pop Levi does up a quick half-side of Sparks hits for your listening pleasure. Over in Baltimore, Dan Deacon gets crazy with his new record, Bromst, before delivering "10 Poorly Juxtaposed Pieces." Also: Pan/Tone, Butch, Circlesquare, and Black Milk. |
PODCAST Sabo NY-based DJ/producer Sabo furnishes us with the next installment of the XLR8R podcast, and for anyone who didn't think Argentinean folk music and Big Daddy Kane could fit together, here's a mix that should refute that idea. |
XLR8R TV Mary Anne Hobbs Music obsessive Mary Anne Hobbs has the power to make and break emerging artists on her influential BBC Radio 1 show. Lately, she's been so tapped into the what she calls West Coast Rocks—L.A. and San Francisco bass-heavy producers such as Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Lazer Sword, Ghosts on Tape, Samiyam, and Gaslamp Killer (just to name a few)—that she made a special pilgrimage to see it with her own eyes. |
COVER STORY Junior Boys On their new album, electro-pop duo Junior Boys wade through an ocean of surprising influences, yacht rock included. Photo by May Truong. |
FEATURE XLR8R's Top 20 MP3s of February After rounding up the data, we’ve come to the conclusion that February was a nice month for melodic techno and electro-style remixes, not to mention a good preview of several releases about ready to hit record store shelves. |
FEATURE Artist to Watch: Duchess Says Fronted by the keytar-wielding vocalist Annie-Claude DeschĂȘnes, the Montreal folks that comprise Duchess Says are a live force who animatedly rip through dance-punk numbers that owe as much to The Slits as they do Don Caballero. |
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