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The new year's newest Mojo features New Order on the cover and a covers comp of the band's Power, Corruption & Lies. Tackling tracks from the '83 LP (along with "Blue Monday" and b-sides) are…   Read Story »
It's been fun, but now it's time to wrap up the Gummy Awards with the big final list: your picks for the year's top 10 albums! And the final result is: You guys more or less agree with us! Every…   Read Story »
The clip for Destroyer's languid Kaputt track "Savage Night At The Opera" follows a golden-hour motorcycle's-eye-view trip through some urban downtown without breaking its point of view or switching…   Read Story »
Pitchfork Fest Friday inspired thoughts about the intimate and situational appeal of much of today's crop of independent artists, and the challenges inherent to translating that allure in sunny…   Read Story »
We still have plenty of time and music left in 2011, but since we're at the halfway (or so) mark, we thought it made sense to pause and take stock of the best albums of the year so far. There was…   Read Story »
Destroyer performed a mellow five-song set of old and new songs for Seattle radio station KEXP FM's Audioasis: The Your Blues track "Certain Things You Ought To Know" gets the Kaputt soft-rock/jazz…   Read Story »
Last night Dan Bejar & Co. did "Downtown" from Destroyer's excellently deadpan ninth album Kaputt. It was Bejar's network television debut and he wore leather. Cue the horns, etc. (Via The Audio…   Read Story »
We've gone on (and on) about Destroyer's great (aka more than alright) ninth album Kaputt (1/25, Merge). Hear it from start to finish over at HypeM and say yes to another excess, etc.   Read Story »
This week we've got new videos from Destroyer, Discodeine (featuring Jarvis Cocker), Hercules & Love Affair, and Lupe Fiasco. We're still in a new video drought, post-Christmas and…   Read Story »
Yesterday I tweeted about people having a lot of sex to Kaputt in 2011. That's because Dan Bejar's excellent Malaparte-nodding, electro jazz-tinged ninth Destroyer album's a smooth one. As you'll see…   Read Story »