GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR Constellation Records. While our recently announced Leap Year Sale includes all our full length albums from 2. Constellation, marked by one superb album after another by musicians whod released at least one or more records previously on the label. Its incredibly gratifying to see artists and bands with whom the label has already established a relationship, making consistently challenging, deeply engaged, restlessly creative, thoroughly substantial and uncompromising new albums whether their second, third. Eric Chenaux and Godspeed. Were humbled, awed and proud. The official website of the City of New York. Find information about important alerts, 311 services, news, programs, events, government employment, the office of the. Heres a round up of our 2. February in order of appearance CST1. Image/covers/rock-band-3/rock-band-3-image301788.jpg' alt='Rock Band 3 Corona Patch' title='Rock Band 3 Corona Patch' />Released 2. January 2. SISKIYOUNervous. LONG LISTED FOR THE 2. POLARIS MUSIC PRIZEALL MUSIC GUIDE A brooding, nervy, and darkly satisfying slab of overcast alt pop that flirts with dissonance, yet remains ultimately committed to harmonic agreement. Those melodies are solemn, however, and the aptly named Nervous serves them up repeatedly encased in barbed wire. CBC MUSIC Siskiyous Nervous is needles, bees, blood, voices in your head, a spider crawling up your neck and then just as quickly, the albums awash in a sunny glow, becomes a slow burning kiss, a walk in the woods, a heated blanket on a winters night. Whatever youre most afraid of and whatever brings you tiny respites of joy, Nervous is a conjuror one minute, a soothsayer the next. With every arch lyric and whispered confession, every crashing chorus and shimmery hook, Siskiyou has crafted a visceral and vibrant, risky and rewarding experience. CST1. Released 0. February 2. MATANA ROBERTSCoin Coin Chapter Three river run thee. THE WIRE 2 Album of 2. A CLOSER LISTEN 2 Album of 2. THE QUIETUS 5 Album of 2. TINY MIX TAPES 2. Favorite Album of 2. PITCHFORK 6 Experimental Album of 2. SPIN 4 Avant Album of 2. ROLLING STONE 1. Avant Album of 2. THE QUIETUS An astonishing work of history, memory and sensed experience, river run theeconfirms Roberts place as one of the most important living artists in any field. PITCHFORK Three albums into Coin Coin, its now clear that Roberts isnt just a storyteller, musician, ethnographer, historian, bandleader, arranger, improviser, or activist. She plays all of those roles, yes collectively, they power one of the most provocative ongoing bodies of work by any American musician. THE WIRE Part three of Matana Roberts ongoing Coin Coin series sees her reaching new heights of troubling majesty. Or rather, new depths, given the churning, oceanic feel that underlies these multilayered tales of slavery, courage, tradition, history and counter history. The first two chapters in the series fell somewhere between, above and below free jazz. Her panoramic sound quilting, as she describes her method, created historical narratives with multiple instrumentalists, operatic incursions and the persistent reminder of musical and historical debts. This third chapter sees Roberts in solitary, vocal heavy mode, without an ensemble but producing looped music such sustained complexity its like a host of angels or demons attempting to express the entire history of everything all at once. CST1. Released 1. February 2. ERIC CHENAUXSkullsplitter. EXCLAIM Chenauxs combination of hacked music box guitar experimentation and lonely lounge crooning conjures a spell simply too enchanting to break. Skullsplitter dispatches the listener on a mission to crack the mysteries of time and space, and without offering much in the way of answers, its potential for repeat listens is enough of a reward. Skullsplitter is a triumph of post modern songwriting. UNCUT 81. Genuinely distinctive. John Martyn, Marc Ribot and Arthur Russell as it weaves between improv, electronica, folk drone and lounge. TINY MIX TAPES Whereas Guitar Voice was prominently a deconstruction of traditional form into textures, Skullsplitter is a unification of divergent strands that Chenaux has found structural commonalities between. Rock Band 3 Corona Patch' title='Rock Band 3 Corona Patch' />Publicity for many groups such as Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, and Sonic Youth. Who was made for lovin you 3 34inch scale action figure celebrating the rock band KISS from the Dynasty album era. Features 11 points of articulation and includes. Although it is exploratory in terms of space and texture, Skullsplitter is anything but incidental it unfolds like an epic poem, in all its boundary dissolving creativity and intentional patterning. A breathtaking feat of balladry and engineering. CST1. Released 3. March 2. GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPERORAsunder, Sweet And. Other DistressMAGNET 1. Album of 2. 01. 5DROWNED IN SOUND 3. Album of 2. 01. 5A CLOSER LISTEN 1. Album of 2. 01. 5CRACK MAGAZINE 4. Album of 2. 01. 5THE SKINNY 2. Album of 2. 01. 5A. Hawaii Five 2010 S05e08. V. CLUB A   POPMATTERS 91. PASTE 9. 3. THE GUARDIAN This relatively curt 4. Fist pumps accompany the sawing crescendo on Piss Crowns Are Trebled. The journey back from the abyss on Peasantry or Light Inside of Light begins halfway through, when major chords come chorusing in like a cavalry of the just. Obsessive Gods Pee watchers may recognize these four tracks from the 4. Behemoth not a bad summation of this albums threat and grandeur. STEREOGUM Things sound bigger and bolder and more emotionally loaded, for whatever reason, when Godspeeds music is playing. A lonely pigeon flying past your window can look like an ominous harbinger of doom, or like a symbol for collective hope, depending on what part of the album youre at. With Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, theyve cut out some of the more atmospheric elements of their sound the scratchy foundsound samples, the faraway ambient crackles. But they havent lost any of the primal force that makes them some thing more than a band. If it catches you at the right moment, this is music that can make you glad to be alive. CST1. Released 2. April 2. COLIN STETSONAND SARAH NEUFELDNever were the way she was. NORMAN RECORDS 1 Album of 2. ROLLING STONE 6 Avant Album of 2. POP MATTERS 5 Avant GardeExperimental Album of 2. A CLOSER LISTEN Top Ten Modern Composition Albums of 2. JUNO NOMINEE INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEARDROWNED IN SOUND A triumph for instrumental music. THE WIRE Pugilistic and pointilistic. EXCLAIM From the lightness of The sun roars into view, as the tenor sax and violin timbres oscillate alongside each other, to the grimy dirge of With the dark hug of time, as the violin simmers pensively and contrabass clarinet chugs along in a grim march while a tortured howl emotes through the texture, Never were the way she was feels like it was destined to be. PITCHFORK The eight pieces on the album feel simultaneously contemplative and busythe sound of active minds idling in a lower gear. The record is fantastic morning music, its tone and pace mirroring the moment in the day when your thoughts are murmuring, not yet speaking, and all you sense are their shades. It is too eventful, its surface too agitated, to be ambient, but it might help you think more clearly anyway. Its an anxious sound, and listening to the jagged little peaks and valleys it hits is its own perversely pleasurable discomfort. Never were the way she was has a bracing air, an implicit reminder of the things that can be done with two instruments and two hands. CST1. Released 0. September 2. JERUSALEM IN MY HEARTIf He Dies, If If If If If If. THE QUIETUS 2. 4 Album of 2. THE WIRE 3. 9 Album of 2. A CLOSER LISTEN Top 1. RockPost RockFolkJazz Albums 2. Liam Gallagher interview GQs September cover star. Noon, 2. 6 May Cte Brasserie, Highgate, London. Liam Gallagher is sitting on the deck of a polite brasserie in North London, expressionless in the midday sun. Hes wearing graduated shades, a patchwork brown and grey leather bomber, a dark navy T shirt, knee length shorts and Adidas trainers. You cant mistake Liam Gallagher. He looks like no one else. A man whose gait and aspect is so cartoonish, so familiarly him  legs wide, feet almost parallel to the plane of his chest, knees half bent, arms swinging like The Jungle Books King Louie, lips in full pout that his is a physicality, a silhouette, as recognisable as Alfred Hitchcocks. Or Batmans. Or Mickey Mouse. Its something that seems to represent everything you think you know about the singer lairy, self confident, confrontational, iconic. More than anyone Ive ever interviewed you can tell Gallaghers mood by the way he moves. Or doesnt move. His physical tells dont so much hide in plain sight as hit you smack between the eyes and as such can change the temperature of a bar, car, rehearsal studio, dressing room or stadium, in an instant. Yet he is a man who very rarely smiles. Even when hes content. Like he is today. Sitting next to Gallagher is a pretty, petite brunette, while in front of him is a large glass of blushing ros, beads of condensation forming like small pearls against the cold, clear surface. In his hands are the keys to his new house, on which he completed only an hour earlier. Much later on this afternoon, Gallagher will ask me if I want to go and see his latest acquisition. The suggestion is quickly nixed by the woman to his immediate left. The womens name is Debbie Gwyther, Liams girlfriend since his divorce from his second wife, Nicole Appleton, in 2. Together with her twin sister, Katie Gwyther, Debbie has taken charge of Gallaghers day to day management and diary, not least after he embarked on a solo career, the beginning of which took root over 1. The Gwyther sisters are, as I will learn during the next three weeks, something of a force to be reckoned with. At times, its not so much a question of whether the Gwyther sisters can keep up with Liam Gallagher, as can Liam Gallagher, now 4. Gwyther sisters. Manchester Poetry 1 Tambourine DreamsI dont think Ive ever gone to the cashpoint and pressed Balance on screen. For 2. 0 fing years Ive put my card in, pressed for 1. Ive no idea how much money Ive had or lost. I didnt have a guitar habit because I could never play I had a tambourine habit once, though. But, to be honest, you play one tambourine, youve played them all, mate. Once fist bumps are dispensed with, Liam and I move to a table away from the main party. I start by telling him why I am here. I tell him I want his side of the story. To get past the clipped one liners about his brother Noel. About why his previous band Beady Eye soured. About the fight in Paris. About the three and a half years he spent in the wilderness, going through a messy divorce and ready to give it all up. To flee. To sit under a foreign sun, drink himself to death and forget about everything hed ever done. If I ever saw anyone with a guitar I was like, Go and kick a football, you weirdoAbout songwriting, his and his brothers. About singing, his and his brothers. About regrets. About his confrontational behaviour. About the two ex wives and the four kids. About the rumoured all day drinking sessions. About digging his brother out for sport. About being the physical embodiment of everything that many feel is wrong with British men born of a certain time and certain era. About being laddisms patient zero. About being an antihero. About what hes thinking when he runs at 5am on Hampstead Heath. About why he feels this is his last chance. About rebirth. About redemption. About God, the creation of the universe, angels and, why not, about those astonishing eyebrows too. I was born in Longsight, which is on Stockport Road. We moved to Burnage and then moved further up when Mum and Dad split. Liam was the youngest of three sons Paul was born first, followed by Noel. Liam came six years later. Their father, Tommy, was violent. Liam saw the abuse but escaped some of the roughest treatment. In a bid to protect her children, their mother, Peggy, packed their bags one night and left. Gallagher has only spoken to his father a couple of times since, mainly to tell him never to contact his family again. People think that we lived on council estates in a box of flats, but they were decent houses. It werent a zoo. It was all right, to be fair. Ive been to worse places. There are worse places down the road. T shirt by Sunspel, 6. Sunglasses by Piet Hein Eek, 3. At The Conran Shop. Gavin Bond. Education, however, had nothing the youngest Gallagher cared for. He wasnt a bad kid. Mischievous, errant, yes, but not bad. He was simply absent, uninterested and, for the most part, high. I didnt go to school to learn, did I I just went because my mum was the dinner lady. Shed go, What have you got next, Liam Oh, its double religion. And Id cross over the railway tracks to my mates to smoke weed. Didnt learn a thing. Left with no exams. Manchester Poetry 2 Where Was He While He Was Getting HighNever been to rehab. I had my drug hell when I was about 1. Pac Man, eating hundreds of mushrooms. Me and my mate got a bit eager and munched on a load sitting in this shed. I could see he was losing the plot so I decided we should go for a walk. Hi Fi Recorder Crack on this page. A storm was coming it was thunder and lightning biblical. You know when you see puddles of petrol on the road They looked like angry rainbows. We are tripping our tits off. We decide to walk to hospital. We turn to this nurse and say, Excuse me, love, weve been taking a load of mushrooms and its not going well. Is there any chance we could just stay here until its over I figured they were going to syringe the shit out of us, but she took us to a white room and told us to sit down. A totally white room, which if youre as high as Elton John in 7. People are coming into the A E with their fing heads and arms hanging off, having been in car crashes. Were like, For fs sake. Anything after that, a few lines of coke with a supermodelPiece of piss, mate. Gallagher couldnt see the point of music until he turned 1. While his older brother picked up an acoustic guitar and spent long days and nights noodling away at the beginnings of rocknroll history, getting seriously stoned while becoming a roadie for Inspiral Carpets, Liam was out scallywaging. Theres a story, retold in Supersonic, the Oasis documentary, about Gallagher being hit on the head with a hammer aged 1. As Oasis mythology has it, he then heard music. The truth, as always, is a little more prosaic. Growing up I just wanted to do as little as possible. Thats why the rocknroll thing clicked. Sitting about drinking, looking good, taking drugs, wearing nice clothes, shouting into a microphone with your mates. Ill do a bit of that. I just thought music was for losers. If I ever saw anyone with a guitar I was like, Go and kick a football, you weirdo. The Manchester music scene was so grim in the Eighties, soppy bands like The Smiths. I was like, F that. I wanted to be a footballer, but I wasnt disciplined enough. Growing up I just wanted to do as little as possible. Thats why, eventually, the rocknroll thing clicked.