Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
(Seattle indie rockers Jaguar Love celebrated this week's release of their Matador Records debut, Take Me To The Sea, with a high-energy show at Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night.)...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Former Seattle band Jaguar Love releases its first album, "Take Me to the Sea," today on Matador Records. Band members Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato are formerly of the Blood Brothers; drummer Jay Clark played in Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Faces In The Sand (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Artist: Times New Viking Album: Rip It Off Released: April 28, 2008 Label: Matador Records Upon hearing about October's upcoming Drowned In Sound promoted SHRED YR FACE tour, featuring an absolutely killer line-up of Los Campesinos!, No Age and TImes New Viking I decided to get my TNV records out again. Much like Blue, they are GLORIOUS! Times New Viking make thick luscious noise that's backed up with...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
DOWNLOAD: Jennifer O'Connor - Here With Me (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Jennifer O'Connor - Valley Road 86 (MP3) Both of the MP3's linked above are off Jennifer O'Connor's new album called 'Here With Me' - out on Matador Records August 19th.Jennifer recorded...
Let's Sexy Fighting (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Jay Reatard is a new addition to the Matador roster. Although veering a little close to the teen power pop sound at times, his music is charming and evokes thoughts of new wave and garage punk. Also, he's got a great a lo-fi aesthetic! Jay Reatard - See-Saw Jay Reatard at Matador Records Jay Reatard on MySpace
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Scottish guitar army colonels Mogwai have some new tricks up their sleeve, judging from this preview MP3 of their upcoming album The Hawk Is Howling (September 23, Matador Records). The band's standard guitar excellence of Stuart Braithwaite and John Cummings,...
Oceans Never Listen (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
This is the cover art for the new Mogwai album due out on September 23 on Matador Records . "The Hawk Is Howling" is the name of the new release and hopefully it will live up to the band's previous stellar efforts. Although I missed the band on their last Australian tour, I had seen them twice before on previous tours and both were memorable experiences. This Glasgow band were one of the pioneers of...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
When they're not getting kicked out of rural liberal arts colleges, Toronto punkers Fucked Up have been working (no doubt ‘around the clock') with Matador Records to prepare for the October 7 release of their forthcoming album, The Chemistry Of Common Life. According to Matador's blog, FU guitarist "10,000 Marbles" describes the album's subject matter as “basically about rebirth and the Sun. And lightning.”...
Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Matador Records now has a big F-bomb on its hands.
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
After recently announcing the completion of their newest album, Toronto hardcore luminaries Fucked Up officially announced their partnership with Matador Records via their blog . Matador confirmed the deal by disclosing the band's first release on the label. Fucked Up's 18 minute long monster Year of The Pig EP will get a re-release/remix treatment on the American label. Both the original 12" and a...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Here come Calgary's Women ! Exclaim! It's official: F*cked Up sign to Matador Records , their Year of The Pig EP will get a re-release/remix. Punknews Neil Young hopes new doc will spur debate. Yahoo! M.I.A. 's last show ever? NME Ruling with an iron fist: Watch Queens of the Stone Age put the boots to a fan. NME Coldplay denies stealing song. Guardian Snoop Dogg's wife busted for DUI. Yahoo! Stock...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Image from Matador Records Shearwater weren’t what you’d call a secret, but the acclaim and attention that they’ve somehow ducked for years has finally caught up with them, thank god. Their musical direction over the years has evolved and twisted, moving from hushed and occasionally melodramatic folk on their first record and snuggly pushing into the more artful and strange world of operatic-pop where...
Earvolution (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Jay Reatard Painted Shut b/w An Ugly Death Matador Records 2008 **** By: Rinjo Njori In the mid 80s, The Cure broke out with the bungee cord video for "In Between Days." More than twenty years later, they are releasing the first four singles of their record on vinyl. Oddly enough, Jay Reatard takes a similar path for his second proper solo album. Over the next few months Jay Reatard will
Austinist (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Image from Cave Singers Website The Cave Singers, more at The Mohawk Thursday, May 15 The Mohawk ( 912 Red River ) $8, 10pm [ info ] | [ tickets ] Matador records describes newish signees The Cave Singers as "folk music approached by way of punk rock," and apparently this Seattle band didn't have an inclination to work in this genre in the first place - it just turned out that way. It's moody, maudlin...
Matablog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The second 7″ in Jay Reatard's singles series for Matador Records & Filmworks, “Painted Shut” b/w “An Ugly Death” will be available for pre-order at 3PM Eastern Time. As with the last record, quantities are extremely limited so we can only honor one copy per order. This record features features artwork by Mike Sniper. Order HERE
