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News: Darkside Share Performance Video Of Track Heart Jam From Live At Spiral House Album

Darkside have just released their new album ‘Live at Spiral House’, a loose and playful collection of jams culled from weeks of rehearsals in Los Angeles last summer. Watch a…

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News: Darkside Announce Album ‘Live At Spiral House’ Out June 9th; Share Short Documentary

On June 9th, Matador will release Darkside’s ‘Live at Spiral House’, a loose and playful collection of jams culled from weeks of rehearsals in Los Angeles last summer. Joined by…

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News: Mdou Moctar Releases Afrique Victime Digital Deluxe Edition

Matador will release a deluxe digital edition of Mdou Moctar’s ‘Afrique Victime’, which expands the album with nine previously unreleased songs, including the studio outtake, ‘Nakanegh Dich’. (Read our review here)…

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Album review: Mdou Moctar – ‘Afrique Victime’: a coming together of the West African and western rock

MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum; but it’s been an epic journey since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the…

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News: Matador to give a quarter-century repress to Bardo Pond’s classic ‘Amanita’; hear the previously unreleased ‘Shadow Puppet’

AS PART of its continuing sifting of absolute gems already in the catalogue, Matador has announced its marking the quarter-century of Bardo Pond’s none-more-hallucinogenic debut for the label (and the…

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News: Mdou Moctar set to release a new album for Matador; hear ‘Tala Tannam’

MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum. Still, it’s been an epic journey since 2008 when his raw, emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the…

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SEE: Kim Gordon -‘Hungry Baby’: kick out the jams with some proper noise

KIM GORDON really should need no introduction if you at all profess to be a music head; unless, of course, deep in the Amazon, Livingstone I presume, &c. She’s just…

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TRACK: Yo La Tengo share the warm hush of ‘Bleeding’ from their new EP

AWW, YO LA TENGO, when they’re on (sleepy) fire, you just have to adore them; and they really are, right now. They’ve just shared a second song from their forthcoming…

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TRACK AND VIDEO: Car Seat Headrest – Hollywood

Car Seat Headrest – band vehicle for ridiculously talented and prolific songwriter Will Toledo – release much anticipated album “Making a Door Less Open” on May 1st, on Matador Records.…

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News: Matador’s “Revisionist History” continues with Wowee Zowee

Hot off the heels of their announcement of Guided By Voice’s Alien Lanes reissue, illustrious label Matador Records continue with their “Revisionist History” series by celebrating the 25th anniversary of…

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