Showing All "Battles" Posts
Apr 10th 1 Comment
The three members of New York math-rockers Battles are men of taste, at least judging by the collection of peers they've enlisted to remix their songs. Lately, the band has been releasing a series of…   Read Story »
Apr 4th 3 Comments
Battles are currently in the midst of releasing a series of remix singles called Dross Glop, in which a pretty varied and well-curated set of artists (Shabazz Palaces, the Field) remix songs from the…   Read Story »
Mar 15th Comment
The wiseass rapper and Das Racist associate Lakutis has a verse on the massive 20-minute posse cut "Hyberbolic Chamber Music," in which he tries out willfully ridiculous smooth player-rap. Verse now…   Read Story »
Feb 9th 14 Comments
I'm sure Cordoba's Patio Olmos shopping gallery is a great place. But it seems like this TV commercial could've let us in on that without shamelessly biting Battles' "Ice Cream" or using that creepy…   Read Story »
Feb 9th 2 Comments
Battles are in the midst of releasing their Dross Glop 12" series, which feature remixes of tracks from their 2011 album Gloss Drop. Dross Glop 1, out now, had remixes from the Field and Gui Boratto,…   Read Story »
Jan 25th 2 Comments
Squelchy math-rock kings Battles have always had plenty of the European microhouse scene embedded in their DNA; "Atlas," after all, was their take on Michael Mayer's schaffel sound. The group is…   Read Story »
Dec 6th, 2011 4 Comments
A little while ago, we pointed out that the resurrected Beavis & Butt-head had twice taken time out of their busy schedules to crack inane witticisms about MGMT videos. And in another recent of the…   Read Story »
Oct 18th, 2011 Comment
Two echoplexes, samplers, keyboards, John Stanier's ultral hi-hat, and an army of pedals cluttered the Mayan Theater stage for a predominantly vocal free night as Battles brought their complex time…   Read Story »
Oct 2nd, 2011 2 Comments
Jeff Mangum has justifiably been getting the lion's share of the attention surrounding the I'll Be Your Mirror festival; when a reclusive indie god comes out of hiding, it's a big deal. But the…   Read Story »
Sep 20th, 2011 7 Comments
The new commercial for the video game FIFA Soccer 12 perfectly chops up "Ice Cream," the Matias Aguayo collab from Battles' new album Gloss Drop, with footage of random people (including Steve Nash,…   Read Story »


































