So bands still do sign to labels. Portland’s very own Horse Feathers has teamed up with indie label Kill Rock Stars to release their sophomore album I presume. Portlanders can catch them when they play two shows at Holocene on December 5th and 6th.
Horse Feathers - Hardwood Pews [MP3]

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24 hours of flights over North America as visualized by Aaron Koblin. Click to play
This motion piece is made up of a set of animations built with data from a 24-hour stretch of air travel over the United States a couple of years ago. It’s fascinating to watch how, from dawn to dusk, more and [...]

The Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir assists Reverend Billy as he performs an exorcism on Wal Mart (from the NYT)
‘For some of the parents interviewed in Rob VanAlkemade’s fast and funny documentary “What Would Jesus Buy?” the answer to the question posed by the title is simple: whatever gadget of the moment their spoiled-rotten [...]

More on Black Friday. Adbusters has declared today Buy Nothing Day. Which is all very worthy. Unfortunately that bastion of televised music videos (well it used to be known for that,) MTV has refused to run the Adbusters commercials for the event….whatever happened to rock music and activism? Oh never mind. Here’s the blurb -
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Hoss Records drops the first full-length from Food For Animals, the Baltimore, MD-based underground hip-hop outfit. As the press release that accompanied the MP3s says, the term ‘underground hip-hop’ may be outdated but I say no it ain’t, for this trio of young men are about as far away from the mainstream as it gets [...]

Our friends abroad, i.e. those not living in the USA, may not understand the concept of the American tradition of Black Friday. Not unlike the famed exodus of the wildebeest in the Serengeti, where the animals risk life and limb to cross dangerous rivers, the day after Thanksgiving U.S. shoppers fling themselves through the doors [...]

I got an email yesterday from Dave Candler who sent along the news that Richard Jankovich of the Burnside Project has remixed Radiohead’s cover of the Björk song ‘Unravel’ under his Pocket moniker. He tells Stereogum “I was feeling really inspired by all this Radiohead activity and was feeling a need to be creative,” [...]

So how long until Amazon’s MP3 download store trumps Apple’s iTunes? I just bought the new Daft Punk ‘Alive 2007′ and the new Burial ‘Untrue’ albums from Amazon, DRM-free, 256kbs and $8.99 a pop. And as an Amazon One-Click customer it is all entirely quick and easy. Hard to beat. Click on the links [...]