Download: Ponys “Check The Door” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the Deathbed +4 EP out today on Matador)

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Girls tiptoed out of a San Francisco bedroom to find a colossally welcoming worldwide reception that got them covered in the kind of publications that mostly only cover wars and sports. At press time, their band name really did outrank every single porno site in Google. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Harlem moved from one “cockroach town apartment” to another, city to city, settling in Austin, until somebody at Matador finally said, “This band rocks—let’s give them a record deal.” This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Download: Cold Cave “Theme From Tomorrowland” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (off Love Comes Close is out now on Matador)

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Roundtable Discussion: The Role Of The Record Label Via: NPR At the beginning of this decade, record labels were still a way of indexing artists; of positioning them within a community, a scene and a movement. Throughout our end-of-the-decade coverage, one reccurring theme is whether context still matters. After all, one of the most glorious [...]

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burger co-owner lee rickerd (r) and nobunny Download: The Burger Basher! Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Congrats to the Burger boys for further penetrating the American consciousness via NPR and Matador Records’ Gerard Cosloy! Carrie Brownstein conducted this conversation about the role and the future of the record label which concludes: Carrie [...]

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Entire island ecosystems arise, corrupt, decay and disappear within the generous lifespan of Yo La Tengo, the New Jersey three-piece who reinvent endlessly what an independent American rock band is supposed to do—play Flamin’ Groovies songs in heaven, for instance. Guitarist/singer Ira Kaplan speaks very early in the morning. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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ward robinson Download: Jay Reatard “Wounded” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Watch Me Fall out Aug. 18 on Matador) We have been covering Jay ever since he took the bus from Memphis to L.A. for the Reatards reunion and this is one of our favorite songs by him yet! Very Homosexuals—very good!

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ian o’phelan

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