Thanks, Pitchfork. You win this round. The initial lineup for the 2010 Noise Pop Festival is now out in the open: the Magnetic Fields, Atlas Sound, Rogue Wave, Four Tet, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Mark Kozelek, John Vanderslice (who helped out last year as a bartender at Noise Pop 2009’s Mountain Goats show), Foreign [...]

Atlas Sound – “Doctor” [Five Discs cover]
Atlas Sound – “The Screens”
Bradford Cox (of Deerhunter and Atlas Sound) is one of the hardest working musicians in the biz. Just when you think he might take a rest, he hits us with a virtual 7″ that features a cover of Five Discs‘ “Doctor” plus an original tune [...]

I have a feeling that September is going to be a good month for music. Atlas Sound, Yo La Tengo, Monsters of Folk, Volcano Choir and Rain Machine all have albums designed to make your transition to Fall a little easier.
The most recent single making a splash on the web is “Smiling Black Faces” from [...]

“Walkabout” is the first song off of Atlas Sound’s (aka Bradford Cox of Deerhunter) Logos, due out October 20th on Kranky. The track gets a hand from Noah Lennox/Panda Bear, who adds vocals and his fondness for looped samples.
More importantly, this officially begins the debate – could this be a friendlier Atlas Sound album? Cox [...]

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Sonic Youth’s new LP, The Eternal, is due out June 9 on Matador Records. Thankfully, the band has [...]

I know you’re upset. I’m one day late. But after spending days and nights arguing the definition of a mix with the Stranger, I came to the conclusion that, alas, Meow Mix was not a mix. This is partially my fault – I never really intended it to be a mix, but rather a collection [...]