Hasta La Motion!

Hey friends, check out this new remix from Friend. Also, let’s see how many times I can use the word “friend” in the following write-up.

Download: Memory Cassette – “Last One Awake”

Woah… steel drums! Summer’s really here!

Now we normally don’t give away songs for download, but we were contacted by and encouraged by our friends over at Acéphale to do just that. This exclusive remix from our previously shouted friend, Friend, comes as a preview of sorts for their next release, Memory Cassette’s “Call and Response EP” with Swedish boutique label, Sincerely Yours. 

As per usual with these fancy little boutique labels, the four track EP comes pressed exclusively on 7″ white vinyl and is limited to 500 copies. You can pre-order it from Acéphale’s website for release at the end of the month.

-M.O.

RJ Shaughnessy’s new book – Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon – will be having a release party at Family LA this Thursday with heavy choons provided by Abe Vigoda. Be sure to check it if you live in the LA metropolis. For now, here are some photos he took of LA teens on the hunt for Werner Herzog to tide you over.

Check out the Kenneth Cappello show (curated by Tim Barber) at the Milk Gallery, opening June 2nd at 7pm @ 450 West 15th Street.

“Kenneth Cappello grew up on punk rock and skateboarding in Houston, TX. Acid Drop collects the casual snapshots he made as a teenager, in the late 1980s, of his friends skateboarding. The former assistant of photographer David LaChappelle, Cappello’s work has been featured in ID, Vanity Fair, and Dazed and Confused, among other publications. In 2004 he released his first book, Loveless, with Surface to Air, Paris. He lives and works in New York.” – Aaron Rose

Black metal, black metal, black metal. Our fascination with church-burning, satan-worshipping, Norwegian nutballs is bottomless and with the genre’s growing popularity there is no shortage of documentaries or photo spreads to keep our brutal tastes satiated. Until The Light Takes Us is a little better than your average black metal doc though, spending significant time dissecting the core of how black metal became what it is today and how it has spiraled into something completely beyond anything it’s creators could have imagined.