Atlas Sound

None of these picks are mind-blowing if you’ve been keeping up with their record reviews over the past year, so as far as consistency goes, and as a whole, they do a decent job. But a handful of picks seem kinda crazy to me: New Age at #3 (it’s good but not that good), Cut [...]

All Tomorrow’s Parties, the festival named after the Velvet Underground song, has released its first set of acts for the September 2009 three day event in New York. From only the small set of bands that have been released, we can tell that ATP seems like it is planning to out-do its own mega success [...]

Bradford Cox really seems to love Halloween. A few weeks ago he posted “Coffin Trick”, and if it wasn’t for it’s leak, Microcastle would be out on the eerie October holiday. Not to mention Deerhunter’s release party for Microcastle is set for Halloween night in Atlanta (which I’m going to)! The two tracks are called “Danse [...]

The whole Microcastle/Logos leakage ordeal didn’t seem to change Bradford’s music-sharing philosophy too much; today on Deerhunter’s blog, Bradford posted a free download of “Coffin Trick”. It’s super short, but a good use of 97 seconds if you ask me. As an added treat to follow suit with Bradford’s Halloween mood, we have an Atlas [...]

After everything that happened on Deerhunter’s blog this weekend, Bradford Cox has finally made an end-all statement regarding the whole thing. Was waiting for this. Bradford Cox’s blog entry: Here is the deal. I accept my mistake. I apologize for my reaction, especially since it was misinterpreted so widely to be directed at fans. I [...]

On Saturday, Bradford Cox released a new Atlas Sound 7″ via his blog, but that’s not it. The link directed to Cox’s MediaFire account which contained bonus tracks (titled Weird Era Cont.) from their forthcoming Microcastle . Also included were umastered demos from the new Atlas Sound album, Logos. By the time Cox found out [...]