Seemed like when the whole Columbus Lo-Fi thing hit, Psychedelic Horseshit was in the spotlight. After not too long Pink Reason was headlining shows over PHS and now Times New Viking has stolen the crown and got themselves signed to Matador. Meanwhile PHS is somewhere complaining about how Wavves is such a rockstar.
The upcoming Times New Viking album, Born Again Revisited is due out on September 22nd. It’s cool. You’ll like it. Play it in your car with your friends. They’ll like it too.
Austin, Texas based three-piece Harlem recently signed a “multi-record, worldwide deal” with Matador Records. Hearing “multi-record” is not something that is said by record companies very often anymore and might make it sound like you’ll be able to get drunk to new Harlem albums every year until either you or they die. That may not be the case, but for now, you can certainly the 2008-released Free Drugs and enjoy the idea of whatever they decide to call their sophomore album when it comes out sometime in 2010.
The Matablog’s first post this morning was an exciting one. Turns out Philadelphia lo-fi folk gladiator Kurt Vile has signed to Matador Records. The indie juggernaut going so far as to call their new roster addition “one of the more important figures in American music circa 2009.” Vile’s first full-length on the label, Childish Prodigy, is set to unfurl this coming Autumn. Read the full story
Sweet sixteen is quickly approaching for Sonic Youth — June 9 will mark the release of the band’s first LP with new label Matador, their sixteenth career album, The Eternal. Read the full story
[Photo of Pavement in New York City, 1997, by James Smolka]
Pavement — along with the people at Matador — are once again on the reissue train. With the expanded edition of 1997’s Brighten The Corners being released yesterday (the fourth Pavement record, and fourth of eventually five reissues by Matador), our friends at FADER posted this Q&A with original engineer Mitch Easter. Read the full story
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