With Margins Music, Dan “Dusk” Frampton and Martin “Blackdown” Clark join a long lineage of artists who’ve let the world know how London gets down. From London Posse’s “London Posse” to Tek 9’s “A London Sumting” to neighborhood-celebrating dubstep and grime cuts (Burial’s “South London Boroughs, Wiley’s “Bow E3”), the British urban underground has a tradition of proudly and defiantly associating its music with the place it was made.
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Dusk+Blackdown: Deep Thinkers
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 1:00am MDT by XLR8R Magazine
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Daedelus to Tour
Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:13pm MDT by XLR8R Magazine
Since it would appear to be the official Daedelus week here on XLR8R.com, we're just going to go ahead and keep posting information on the L.A.-based producer, innovator, and lover of all things Victorian. Next up, he'll get out of that rocking chair, pack up the gear, and head out on a tour of North America that kicks off at the beginning of September.
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Pon Di Wire: Eek-A-Mouse, Mavado
Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:39pm MDT by XLR8R Magazine
Pon Di Wire would like to extend condolences to reggae DJ Spragga Benz, whose 17-year old son, Carlton “Carlie” Grant, Jr., was fatally shot by police. Sources say that Spragga’s son was with a friend when Kingston police stopped the pair. One of the men pulled out a gun and fired at police, who returned fire. Grant was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Benz was out of the country at the time.
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Asthmatic Kitty Drops Free Albums
Posted: August 27th, 2008, 12:08pm MDT by XLR8R Magazine
Asthmatic Kitty just announced the release of two albums that are absolutely free, available as full downloads or for streaming via the label's site.
The first comes from ghetto folkster Grampall Jookabox, whose Rill Bruh EP contains several remixes and outtakes from the sessions that led up to the release of his upcoming Ropechain album.
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Labels We Love 2008: Runners Up
Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:00am MDT by XLR8R Magazine
If you’re reading XLR8R you probably already own ’nuff albums on XL or Domino, Def Jux and Lex artists have repeatedly rocked your headphones, and you know what’s coming out on Minus or Stones Throw before we do. So this year–our seventh time loving on labels–we focus on labels we’ve (mostly) never quizzed before. For the final installment of this series, we look at ten labels we'll be keeping an ear on in the year to come. Vivian Host and Ken Taylor
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Justice Wants Your Photos for New Album
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 12:32pm MDT by XLR8R Magazine
Justice has just announced details of its next release, A Cross the Universe, and the boys are getting the fans involved for this one. The duo put out a call via MySpace, asking people to submit photos of them, the best of which will be included in the booklet set to be packaged with the new album. Those in possession of awesome photos should send material to justicematerial@edbangerrecords.com.
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The Handmade's Tale
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:00am MDT by XLR8R Magazine
The scene at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco belies its confrontational name: Combing through the isles at the Fort Mason pavilion, you see mostly females in their 20s and 30s hocking knitted, sewn, and kiln-fired wares of all types. Upon closer inspection, there is something slightly different about the items on offer, something much subtler than the “renegade” tag suggests. “It seems to be all about context,” says If’N Books’ Deb Dormandy, in a clip from the upcoming documentary Handmade Nation.
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Daedelus: Fine and Dandy
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:00pm MDT by XLR8R Magazine
As a child, Alfred Weisberg-Roberts was a loner. Young Alfred was not tromping about shirtless on a skateboard with the Z-Boys in his hometown of Santa Monica, California; he was inside reading, learning how to play classical instruments, and traveling through fictional worlds of his own creation. He had an interest in mythology, and particularly enjoyed the story of Daedalus, a skilled craftsman and ingenious inventor.
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Athens, GA: Freak Beat
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:38am MDT by XLR8R Magazine
No strangers to 8mm film cams, the Athens scene of the ’70s and ’80s was a well-documented one. Check out clips from the scene-defining documentary Athens, GA-Inside/Out and some rare live performances of “Rock Lobster” and “Devil in My Car” from The B-52’s. Photo courtesy of Michael Lachowski.
Read the full feature on Athens' psychedelic dance-rock underground in Issue 120 of XLR8R.
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An Interview with Aaron Rose
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:30am MDT by XLR8R Magazine
XLR8R chats with Beautiful Losers curator Aaron Rose.
What's your other big project right now besides just getting Beautiful Losers the movie out?
Aaron Rose: Well I co-edit a magazine with Ed Templeton and Brandon Fowler called A&P Quarterly. It’s a free quarterly art magazine and I'm on deadline today for that and I'm totally not done with all my stuff.