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Matador Records Inc.

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Live: Fucked Up Bring David To Life At (Le) Poisson Rouge

    ​Fucked Up Presents David Comes to Life (le) poisson rouge Monday, November 14 Better than: That start-to-finish performance of Pocket Full of Kryptonite at Brooklyn Bowl last month. It took all of about 40 minutes—or, considering the context, until the end of Side B—for Damian " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Download Jennifer O'Connor's Biting, Colorful "Running Start"

    Amy Bezunartea​Jennifer O'Connor released two confessional, emotionally wrenching records on Matador Records, but when all was said and done the Brooklyn indie-folkie had little to show for it besides exhaustion and an empty bank account. She put music on hold to do odd jobs around the city (" ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 17, 2011

    MEOW REMIX

    Put another dime in Cat Power’s jukebox

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Live: Guided By Voices Reconfigure Time And Space

    Guided By Voices w/Wavves, Surfer Blood McCarren Park Saturday, June 18, 2011 Better than: Just hearing the show without seeing it, which is what everyone who lives on my street got to do anyway. It's long been gospel that you can't tell Robert Pollard anything. Attempts by well-meaning biz type ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2011

    Q&A: Bardo Pond On Label-Hopping, Loving Philly, And Being Bummed About Not Going To Vegas

    ​ The sublimely dissonant psych-smear painted by Bardo Pond for the last two decades has been one huge slice of fuckheaven. While the Killadelphia band brings the noise via mounds upon mounds of distorto-waves, wah-wah swoosh and pedal hopping, its music is actually quite gorgeous, thanks to t ... More >>

  • Music

    May 11, 2011

    Karaoke Underground's No. 1 Hit Songs

    Giving indie-rock fans a chance to sing along with their favorites

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Asthmatic Kitty Walks Us Through the Release of Sufjan Stevens's Age of Adz

    ​About three weeks ago, Asthmatic Kitty, the small independent label that is home to Sufjan Stevens and an assortment of smaller acts, sent out a kind of tortured email. It was directed, in theory, at prospective buyers of Sufjan's then-upcoming, now just-released Age of Adz, and laid out all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Live Streams From Matador 21 Start Tonight With Pavement, Sonic Youth, And Fucked Up

    ​It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>

  • Music

    September 8, 2010

    Unrattled by the Rush: An Oral History of Pavement's New York City

    ​It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>

  • Music

    September 1, 2010

    Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years

    But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Q&A: Barhopping with Unsane's Chris Spencer, Who Made Us Puke. Literally.

    Guess which one is Chris. After a five-hour jaunt through various LES watering holes, downing beers and knocking back shots while grilling guttural-throated bawler/guitarist Chris Spencer of Herculean noise-rock face rippers Unsane, yours truly ended the night on the pavement, covered in my own puk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Live: The Profoundly Discomforting Perfume Genius At 92Y Tribeca

    Mike Hadreas (on the right), telling it like it was​Perfume Genius 92Y Tribeca Tuesday, July 20 The solid 15 seconds of painful, awkward silence between when Mike Hadreas (a/k/a Perfume Genius) sits down and when he actually starts playing piano is your first warning that this is gonna be a n ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    Jay Reatard

    Mike Hadreas (on the right), telling it like it was​Perfume Genius 92Y Tribeca Tuesday, July 20 The solid 15 seconds of painful, awkward silence between when Mike Hadreas (a/k/a Perfume Genius) sits down and when he actually starts playing piano is your first warning that this is gonna be a n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    R.I.P. Gerard Cosloy's Lovely Austin Home

    This photo is filed under "Internal Affairs, Technical Difficulties" on Cosloy's blog​ Our sincere condolences to Matador's Gerard Cosloy, whose motherfucking house burned down this morning in Austin, Texas, taking with it untold amounts of alt-rock memorabilia and most of Cosloy's worldy bel ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 1, 2009

    NOW HEAR THIS

    Buy records, support the scene

  • Music

    December 10, 2008

    Meet the Web Sheriff

    Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies

  • Music

    October 8, 2008

    More Geek-Snot Anthems From Jay Reatard

    Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    Live: Cat Power's Shitty Night

    Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies

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    May 4, 1999

    Letters

    Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies

  • Music

    November 17, 1998

    Built To Spill Over

    Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies

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