The Acre

hometapes:

Megafaun in the Moog Sound Lab + upcoming tours + All Tomorrow’s Parties this December.

This past Fall, Megafaun the mountainous pilgrimage to Asheville, NC, and to the Moog Sound Lab.

“Phil Cook takes full advantage of the Full Sustain mode on the Moog lap steel…”

“Brad Cook masterfully uses a Minimoog Voyager to MIDI control Moog’s iPad based synthesizer Animoog…”

“Joe Westerlund uses a Trap-Kat drum pad run through a MF-104Z Analog Delay to MIDI control three Rack Mount Voyagers…”

“Nick Sanborn uses the Little Phatty to provide the song’s bass line, filling and enriching the sound with the MF-104Z Analog Delay.” 

Yeah.

WATCH “Hope You Know” above and on the Moog site.
WATCH SPIN’s exclusive feature of “State/Meant” from the same session.

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Megafaun was announced as part of the initial lineup for All Tomorrow’s Parties 2012 in the UK this December (curated by the National). Tickets are on sale now.

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In one week, Megafaun kick off worldwide tour dates in Europe. We’ll have them in the US in March. Check out their complete tour dates here.

(via megafaun)

hilaryhughes:

Kingsley Flood’s “Mannequin Man.” My review of their latest EP, Colder Still, here.

hiphatchet:

We released this single today. The quick and positive response has been very touching. Just wanted to thank tim, alex, and jake, for working so swiftly on this project. I literally decided to record this EP this week and they cleared their schedules and made it happen with me. Hopefully y’all will…

Ultimately, I know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I’m trying to be a construction worker. I’m trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don’t give a damn. Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you’re in and just obliterate Dischord and Pitchfork. And there’ll be some people crying, there’ll be some slow singing, but for 99% of the world, it won’t even affect the fly on their soup. Most of the world never have, or ever will hear of me, Fugazi, or Pitchfork. Right now, someone just got killed in Ukraine. Do you feel any different?

—Ian MacKaye (via pitchfork)

Ian Mackaye is amazing

(Source: zachbaron, via pitchfork)

meancreek:

Feeling immensely disillusioned by the “American Dream”, we wrote this song back in June. It’s interesting to now see all the voices being heard at Occupy Wall St., Occupy Boston, and all the protests around the country relaying a similar sentiment. Glad to know we’re not alone. Here’s to a brighter future that represents all of our best interests, not just the privileged few. As John Lennon said, “You won’t get it unless you want it…we can get it tomorrow, or today.”

Love, Mean Creek

youthiswasted:

Testimony of the UC Berkeley students who were beaten by police, and who are now filing a lawsuit against the school. The woman at 2:40 tells a story that is heartwrenching - she shows more dignity and more compassion than I have seen from a single republican member of Congress in the past 10 years.

(via orphanobjects)

This is what I want to create