Video: Maria Minerva, “Once Upon”
The [official video] bracket is actually necessary for Maria Minerva’s new video for “Once Upon” because it looks pretty default, like some grainy found footage of a car ride through London. It’s...
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Maria Minerva, “Gloria” MP3
Estonian-born, London-dwelling Maria Minerva follows up her quietly buzzed LP Cabaret Cixous with a new EP, Sacred & Profane Love?, which will be out November 15th on 100% Silk. “Gloria” may be the...
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What We’re Reading: Maria Minerva
Given the popularity of our week-long What We’re Reading series, we’ve decided to make it a weekly column. Just think of this as your non-committal book club with The FADER and some of your favorite …...
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Stream These Peaking Lights Remixes All Day
Although we’ve spent a good amount of time enjoying Peaking Lights’ blissed and dubbed out 936 over here in the states, it’s just now seeing release in the UK on Weird World Records. It’s a … read more »
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Four on the Floor: Electronic Labels
Everything goes in cycles, and right now we’re currently somewhere in the late-middle period of a heavy electronic music resurgence. Everyone involved is obsessed with talking about the textures of...
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When Danny Brown arrived for our video interview during CMJ last fall, he had a woman with him wearing a cropped leather jacket and a sheer white dress. You could see her butt very clearly. … read more »
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The FADER #78 Podcast
Double rap covers make for our secret favorite mixes. The FADER #78 podcast is warmly hip-hopped out, featuring a totally bonkers, previously unreleased Danny Brown track and a healthy dose of songs by...
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GEN F: Maria Minerva
Maria Juur is a poker-faced woman of letters. Better known as Maria Minerva, her soulful productions are smart and self consciously silly, referencing cultural theory and her personal boudoir of sound...
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MoMA PS1′s Warm Up 2012 Lineup
Judging from MoMA PS1’s Warm Up lineup, we will once again be spending our summer Saturdays sweaty and stoked in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. This year we’ll be shaded (and the air will be … read more »
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Maria Minerva, “The Sound” MP3
“The Sound,” the first single from Maria Minerva‘s upcoming album Will Happiness Find Me? (out September 4th via Not Not Fun), begins with a looped sample of a 1968 Canadian TV documentary, where...
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In eighth grade my English teacher assigned the class a research paper on a modern artist. He suggested subjects for us, and said I might like to write about German painter Max Ernst. His reasoning …...
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Stream: CYMBALS, “Like an Animal”
The post-punk electronic London boys CYMBALS have struck gold with “Like an Animal,” the first song off their forthcoming four-track 12-inch. The song richly blends ’80s new age with an uninterrupted...
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Music Lessons: Seven Artists Share Their Wisdom
Whether it’s psychedelic drugs, Bowie or Burt Reynolds, musicians are influenced and inspired by the world at large. We talked to seven artists about their greatest musical lessons—things they’ve...
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Stream: Maria Minerva f. Chase Royal, “Fire”
Next Tuesday, September 4th, Estonian-born brainiac Maria Minerva will release Will Happiness Find Me?, her full-length follow-up to last year’s Cabaret Cixous. On the heels of the very club-ready lead...
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Video: Maria Minerva, “The Sound”
In a new video for “The Sound,” the tale of a love both decadent and manipulative, from Maria Minerva’s new album Will Happiness Find Me?, a cyborgian Minerva emerges from underneath a swirl of goopy …...
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Interview: Maria Minerva
Even in conversation Maria Minerva has the air of a performer, something probably innate. She’s been keen enough to capture that weird spark as an artist; music simply happens to be the medium through...
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Stream: Maria Minerva, “Black Magick”
Hazy grooves and looped sonic measures command Euro-trotting starlet Maria Minerva’s bewitching “Black Magick,” the first we’ve heard from her new BLESS EP, due April 2nd via 100% Silk. Delicate vocals...
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Stream: Hervé f. Maria Minerva, “Gold”
Maria Minerva’s made her voice into an interesting instrument. On past releases, she’s let her voice go flat when you’d expect it to rise, been distant when you expect her to be emotional. Half the …...
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Stream Herve’s Album The Art of Disappearing
Hervé’s The Art of Disappearing is feather-light. It’s an album that specializes in shaping loose tones and soft synths into songs with serious backbone. With the help of a few notable guests (Maria...
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Stream Maria Minerva’s Bless EP
Maria Minerva‘s work has always toed a very fruitful line between the commanding and the deliberately amateurish, but as she continues to grow as a vocalist and beatsmith, it’s getting harder and...
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