Track and music video of the 2020s. Period.
Watch The Music Video For serpentwithfeet's "Same Size Shoe"
Joe McKee Releases Ultra Letizia Album On Salmon Universe
Over his varied career Californian-based Australian Joe McKee has been an ever curious sound-traveller, from singer to field recordist and conceptual sound artist. Here he has created the other-worldly musical experience of ULTRA LETIZIA - a cargo ship, on which he crossed the North Pacific ocean from Japan to Vancouver, Washington.
As Joe says: "The sounds you are hearing were collected from me 'playing' the ship like a giant gamelan. I hit, scraped, listened and spoke to the strange industrial beast." Every sound collected is turned into a musically engaging and spiritually elevating piece, reflecting an experience of isolation but in turn revealing a connection to the vessel, it's workers, and the vastness of the ocean itself.
Ultra Letizia is available now on bandcamp and soundcloud. Watch an excerpt of the accompanying film below
Friday Playlist: Space Is The Place
Film still, Barbarella, 1968
A trip though the cosmos, one cloud, one star, one planet at a time. A collection of soul ballads, sonic love letters, and eccentric oddities.
Autre Exclusive Premiere: Cat Power "From Fur City" An Elegy To Benjamin Smoke
Autre presents an exclusive premiere of a never-before-seen live video of Cat Power (Chan Marshall) performing "From Fur City" at Tonic in NYC in 2003, a powerful elegy to radical and legendary musician and songwriter, Benjamin Smoke who died on January 29, 1999. The song "From Fur City" has never been on a proper studio album. Filmed by Scott Crary (Kill Your Idols, 2004).
Friday Playlist: Hipgnosis
Enrique Metinides, A Woman Grieves over Her Dead Boyfriend, Stabbed in Chapultepec Park While Resisting Robbers, Mexico City, 1985
A warm dive into a hipgnotic bath of repetitive grooves, atmospheric tracks and metallic vibrations. Back seat, leather upholstery, dark rooms, flashing lights. A meditation on forgetting who you are on a Saturday night. The dream of vanishing.
Friday Playlist: Counter Cortisol
Hang in there baby! 2021 is off to a rocky start, so here are some tracks to curb that cortisol rush. Because we all need a little calm after the storm.
Friday Playlist: Be Kind To Your Mind
Hit the ground dancing. A new year's playlist. A CDC reccomended mixtape.
Friday Playlist: No Exit
Film still, Santa Claus vs. the Devil, 1959
Hell is other people's playlists. Some ambient rarities. Shoegaze gems. Sound effects. A prick followed by numbness followed by blackness followed by infiniteness.
Friday Playlist: Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Nan Goldin, Rise and Monty Kissing, New York City, 1980
Tender, heartbreaking, beautiful, joyous, Nan Goldin's iconic Ballad Of Sexual Depency changed photography forever. Here is the soundtrack.
Watch The Music Video "Shiny High" By PAULLUS2089 From His Album The Dream Body
SHINY HIGH written by PAULLUS2089 from his album THE DREAM BODY. Music video made by Diffan Norman, a Kuala Lumpur-born, LA-based artist. Listen on Spotify. Listen on BandCamp.
Friday Playlist: Mood Ring Cycle
Friday moodz. Saturday nudz. Music that hits that oxytocin. Call your crush and say I luv U.
Friday Playlist: Pillow Talk
Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry and Bobby Kissing, 1979
Soft. Tracks. Makeup Sex. Pillow talk.
Watch The Premiere Of "Dedicated To Pooch" By Very Nice Massage
Very Nice Massage are back with their sophomore album, Based On The Data. Released on all streaming platforms as well as cassette tape by Baby Race Records, the album maintains their signature dream-like approach to song structure steeped in post-algorithm schizophrenia, yet there has been a complete overhaul of their palette. This new sound brings their spacey ambitions into full fruition. Very Nice Massage have created a mysterious world that refuses to be solved and the endless pleasures of investigation that keep you coming back for more. Follow @verynicemassage and @babyracerecords on Instagram, stream them on your platform, or better yet, get yourself a limited-edition cassette.
Watch The World Premiere Of The Music Video For Eddie Chacon's "Pleasure, Joy, And Happiness" Shot On An Alpaca Farm In New Zealand
Eddie Chacon experienced proper, peak-nineties acclaim in the soul duo Charles and Eddie: they scored a global No. 1 in 1992 with βWould I Lie To You,β appeared three times on Top of the Pops. After a hiatus, Chacon returns with βPleasure, Joy and Happiness,β which is available on the boutique Los Angeles-based label Day End Records. This is a thoughtfully considered album of quiet, confident R&B: it doesnβt jump out at you, but rather gets in you. Produced by John Carroll Kirby, the like-minded artist and collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, it features restrained percussion from Kanye Westβs Sunday Service drummer Lamar Carter. Celestial soul as a break from chaos, these are quietly challenging songs as timeless as they are contemporary. Music produced with footage from the Shamarra Alpaca Farm in New Zealand, by Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie. Editing by Brandon Bloom. Preorder the LP here.
Read Our Interview With Papooz On The Occasion Of Their New Video Release
The Parisian duo Papooz became well known in France thanks to their summer 2016 melody Ann Wants To Dance with its sensually whimsical music video directed by artist Soko. They released their second album, Night Sketches in 2019, which encapsulates the essence of Franceβs warm summer nights: sipping white wine after spending the whole day being sun-kissed on the beaches of Cap Ferret (where Papooz recorded their first album), or enjoying the freshness of an ice-cold drink on a terrace with friends after suffocating in the streets of Paris all day.
This yearβs summer plan might not be as sandy and salty as weβd once imagined, but we can only hope for more sexy new tracks and clips like Papoozβs latest sumptuous release. Straight from the garden of Eden, this forbidden fruit was directed by Victoria Lafaurie & Hector Albouker βin the year of Covid-19β and features goddess-like Klara Kristin, who made her film debut in Gaspard Noeβs Love. Papoozβs Armand Penicaut and Ulysse Cottin quarantined with their musical crew at La Ferme Records to prepare the new album, yet to be announced. I sat down with Papooz a couple months ago, before their show at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles, before the world went into quarantine.
Read the full interview and βThe Gardenβ here.
Watch The Music Video For Kanye West's "Wash Us In The Blood" Directed By Arthur Jafa
Autre's Creative Director Fashion Announces New Album: Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
The album, produced by John Carrol Kirby, will be released on July 31st on Day End Records. Pre-order here. Music video for My Mind Is Out Of Its Mind, produced by Sissy Sainte-Marie and David McFarland and Jack Sills.
Cecile Believe Releases New EP "Made In Heaven" With Photographs by Zoe Chait
βWe might be tangled in our thoughts, fractured and fragmented, constricted by channels...but if we follow one of the threads for long enough we eventually touch something and connect,β is how artist Zoe Chait describes the concept for these photos made on the occasion of Cecile Believeβs new EP βMade In Heaven,β available to stream here. βMade in Heavenβ is her first release since working with Sophie on her Grammy nominated album. photographs by Zoe Chait
Friday Playlist: Soundtrack For The Apocalypse
A soothing dreamscape for a hellscape unfolding.
Watch Wattstax (1972) A Benefit Concert To Commemorate The Seventh Anniversary Of The Watts Riots
Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time. The genres of the songs performed included soul, gospel, R&B, blues, funk, and jazz.