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Thrill Jockey Records

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Q&A: Chicago Underground Duo's Chad Taylor On Improvising, The New York And Chicago Jazz Scenes, And Leaving Thrill Jockey

    Chicago Underground Duo's defection from their longtime label Thrill Jockey to the fledgling New York-based Northern Spy imprint—after fifteen years and some seven albums of visionary experimentalism gleaned from Windy City improv and post-jazz sonics—is actually a reunion of sorts. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Q&A: Dave Shuford On The Bargain Bin, Writing Urban Country Music, And His New Band Rhyton

    Dave Shuford has been ingrained in the New York City soundscape for decades as part of the experimentalist collective mutants No Neck Blues Band, which ruled both downtown's now-departed avant-garde roost The Cooler and their Harlem practice pad the Hint House. In recent years, less activity on th ... More >>

  • Music

    February 22, 2012

    On Mirel Wagner and the Alleged Death and Apparent Spread of Freak Folk

    Scattered cosmic dust

  • Music

    November 30, 2011

    Greg Fox Breaks Free from the Drum Circle

    Scattered cosmic dust

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Q&A: Trans Am's Nathan Means On Playing And Reissuing 1999's Futureworld, Being A Part-Time Band And Re-Recording Their First Album

    In the mid-'90s, before getting saddled with the term became a dirty word, Trans Am was one of the core members of the post-rock scene. While their label and scenemates in Tortoise meticulously concocted easy-listening fake jazz tailored for indie brainiacs, Trans Am played the part of the prog-obse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Live: High Places Play It Cool At Tammany Hall

    by Erin Rioux ​ High Places Tammany Hall Saturday, August 13 Better than: Listening to The Weeknd's record for the fourth time on repeat. The Los Angeles-via-Brooklyn duo High Places launched into their set on Saturday night with "Year Off," the first single off their forthcoming LP Origin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Download: Mountains' Bubbly "Thousand Square"

    Jon Leone​Meditative blisscrafters Mountains are Brooklyn's finest young purveyors of pillowy drifts, true masters of the airy drone. Over six fantastically fluffy years, Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp have explored different combinations of otherworldy hum and fluttery post-Fahey acoustic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Q & A: Come's Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw On Van Halen, Chavez, and Reunions (Including Codeine!)

    ​ The prospect of post-blues dirge shredders Come reforming with all four original members didn't exactly trigger an earth-shaking ruckus akin to what ensued when Guided by Voices and Dinosaur Jr schlepped their "classic" lineups on the road. But the reunion of singer/guitarist/badass Thalia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Download: Metallic Math Rockers Liturgy's "Generation"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​ Brooklyn black metal astral-projectors Liturgy have been the perfect blend of gut-grinding aggression and hypnotic ecstasy ever since their transcendent debut Renihilation--an album that one of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Download: D. Charles Speer Goes Greecian With "Markos's Cave"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn picker D. Charles Speer has spent years traversing various avenues of the transcendent -- he's been a member of art-folk avant-pileup No Neck Blues Band, Southern-fried strummers Suntanama, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    The Boredoms' 2007 77BOADRUM Performance at Brooklyn Bridge Park To Be Memorialized on DVD

    We're on record as feeling a bit grouchy about the way a magical, one-time-only Brooklyn evening got turned into a franchise by Japan's Boredoms. Once, 77BOADRUM--77 drummers on 07/07/07, playing for 77 minutes starting at 7:07pm in Brooklyn Bridge Park--was touted as a singular event, never to be ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 18, 2010

    Arbouretum+Pontiak

    We're on record as feeling a bit grouchy about the way a magical, one-time-only Brooklyn evening got turned into a franchise by Japan's Boredoms. Once, 77BOADRUM--77 drummers on 07/07/07, playing for 77 minutes starting at 7:07pm in Brooklyn Bridge Park--was touted as a singular event, never to be ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2010

    Trans Am

    We're on record as feeling a bit grouchy about the way a magical, one-time-only Brooklyn evening got turned into a franchise by Japan's Boredoms. Once, 77BOADRUM--77 drummers on 07/07/07, playing for 77 minutes starting at 7:07pm in Brooklyn Bridge Park--was touted as a singular event, never to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    NPR Remembers Jack Rose

    Tim Bugbee/Tinnitus Photography​It was a little bit more than three months ago that Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose died suddenly at the age of 38. Over the weekend, NPR did a story on the departed musician that drew heavily on an interview reporter Joel Rose--no relation--had done with the g ... More >>

  • Music

    February 2, 2010

    The Unsound Festival Gets Way Out

    Poland's finest annual fete heads to NYC

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    High Places, Spooky House Jams, "On Giving Up"

    Really loving the woozy depressification going on with these guys. Photo by Katelyn Reeves.​Wow, word was that Mary Pearson and Rob Barber were doing something completely different for High Places vs. Mankind (out in April on Thrill Jockey) and October's "I Was Born" was pretty ethereal and da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    "A Valentine for Jack Rose" Slated for Issue Project in February; Download New Song "Woodpiles On The Side Of The Road"

    ​Last month, the Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose was felled by a heart attack at the appallingly young age of 38. He was in his creative prime. Now comes the welcome word that Thrill Jockey will be releasing Luck in the Valley, the last album he recorded before his death, on February 23rd. It ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2009

    Future Islands+Javelin

    ​Last month, the Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose was felled by a heart attack at the appallingly young age of 38. He was in his creative prime. Now comes the welcome word that Thrill Jockey will be releasing Luck in the Valley, the last album he recorded before his death, on February 23rd. It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    RIP Jack Rose

    ​His Kensingston Blues was the record I listened to most in 2005. That year I remember seeing him play in various small venues in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, the temperature in the room always a little bit too high, the longer more hypnotic stuff like "Calais to Dover" and "Cathedral et Chartre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Video Premiere: White Hills, "Dead"

    The psych/garbage/space rock trio White Hills fall into that Brooklyn corner where the songs are long and aliases abide--like their close affiliates Oneida, White Hills' Dave W. and Ego Sensation underpin oozy post-psych moans with busy, virtuosic rhythmic scaffolding. "Dead" was recorded at Oneid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    A Patient High Places Save Their New Song/Video for Halloween

    Your new-look High Places: sing-y, bassoon-y, spooky. "I Was Born," the single, is out today on Thrill Jockey; above is the duo's self-made video for the song, which is suitably scary and features what is either a nearly unrecognizable Mary Pearson or, alternately, an entirely different person. Th ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 25, 2009

    SAVORY SOUNDS

    There are folksters in the checkout aisle

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    High Places Relocate to Los Angeles, Join the Smell Club

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Interview: Howe Gelb a/k/a Giant Sand

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    Hugs and Kisses #38: New Bloods' Kill Rock Stars Record

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Music

    December 25, 2007

    2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

    New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

  • Music

    December 25, 2007

    2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

    New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

  • Music

    December 25, 2007

    The 2007 Jazz Poll

    This year's finisher's

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    Live: Tunng at Union Hall, 10.23.07

    This year's finisher's

  • Music

    October 16, 2007

    The Raw Power of a Fresh Start

    Pleasurable epitaphs, avant-garde daring, and wonder-filled immigrant songs

  • Music

    July 3, 2007

    Summer's Here Kids

    Sweltering jams for the imminent doldrums

  • Music

    May 29, 2007

    Noise from the Front

    For the week of May 30-June 5, 2007

  • Music

    November 28, 2006

    Noise From the Front

    For the week of December 6–12, 2006

  • Music

    October 31, 2006

    Noise From the Front

    For the week of November 8–14, 2006

  • Music

    June 13, 2006

    All in the Family

    Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage

  • Music

    March 8, 2005

    DJ Kicks

    Nine sane and rewarding life choices we promise you will not get punished by God for

  • Music

    December 28, 2004

    Updates, Not Throwbacks

    Gypsies and Jews, Afro-Cubans and avant-gardists, led by two smashing piano players

  • Music

    September 21, 2004

    The Caribbean Tinge

    Thoughtful, passionate jazz musicians feel around a big world, and an old one as well

  • Music

    May 25, 2004

    Darn That Dream

    Major tie-up on the one-way street from jazz to jam

  • Music

    May 11, 2004

    Anti-Gravitational Boots

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    October 22, 2002

    Music

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    September 10, 2002

    Music

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    March 27, 2001

    Vibrators

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    February 27, 2001

    Music

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    February 6, 2001

    Pazz & Jop Preview

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    December 19, 2000

    Music

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    May 23, 2000

    Music

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    January 18, 2000

    Music

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    October 5, 1999

    Hat Tricks

    Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

  • Music

    July 21, 1998

    Chopping Timbre

    The Art of the Indie-Rock Remix

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