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Matador Records co-owner Gerard Cosloy loses home in fire

sadness… Matador Records co-owner Gerard Cosloy was the owner and resident of a nearly 100-year-old home on Lindell Avenue that burned to the ground early this morning…

Interpol's Paul Banks (Julian Plenti) & CYHSY's Alec Ounsworth are releasing solo albums too

DOWNLOAD: Julian Plenti – Fun That We Have (MP3) Since we just mentioned one new solo project from a band on hiatus (Julian from The Strokes), it’d be good to mention two other similar albums in the works…

Mission of Burma - new album, single, MP3 & Pool Party pics

DOWNLOAD: Mission of Burma – 1, 2, 3, Partyy! (MP3) On October 6, Matador will be releasing Mission Of Burma‘s fourth studio LP, . Recorded in Boston with Bob Weston at the controls, the record is a departure from the pinned-needles roar of 2006’s …

Yo La Tengo releasing new album 'Popular Songs' (MP3), Dump (James McNew) playing NYC w/ Choo Choo La Rouge

DOWNLOAD: Yo La Tengo – Periodically Double Or Triple (MP3) We have an old saying at Matador HQ, “the only thing predictable about Yo La Tengo albums is their high level of excellence and crazy amount of musical ground covered”…

Kurt Vile is now on Matador, playing The Shank

Kurt Vile @ Silent Barn (more by Jacob Blickenstaff) Matador reported on Friday that, they are, “REALLY pleased to announce — perhaps more than ever before in label history — an addition to the label roster we currently consider to be one of the more important figures in American music circa 2009…

pics from Sonic Youth's 'Eternal' party @ Home Sweet Home (Homosexuals, a supergroup of Thurston's friends, more)

Matador Records helped Sonic Youth celebrate the release of their new record The Eternal with a party at Home Sweet Home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan last Friday…

Record Store Day 2009: lots of bands releasing exclusive vinyl, a Bouncing Souls in-store & more...

Record Store Day – a nationwide event created to support independently owned record stores – will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2009. A list of participating NYC stores is available online at the Record Store Day venue list…

Box Elders (the band) @ Market Hotel, Brooklyn, NY - pics

DOWNLOAD: Box Elders – Hole in My Head (MP3) Box Elders, the “garage punk trio” from Omaha, Nebraska (home of Saddle Creek), stole the show Saturday night at Market Hotel (1/10)…

Earl Greyhound, The Ex, Wire, Oneida & other free shows

Earl Greyhound @ All Points West (more by Jefferson) In additon to the previously announced record-taping shows coming up in September, Earl Greyhound are playing a free show at Southpaw in Brooklyn this Wednesday night (Aug 20, 2008)…

new music by FUCKED UP ++ long lost Culture Shock pics

DOWNLOAD: Fucked Up – “No Epiphany” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fucked Up – “Royal Swan” (M4A) DOWNLOAD: Fucked Up – “Stress” (Justice cover) (MP3) Question: Your band has ump-teen releases this year and a googleplex of others in seven years of existence…
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