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• May 21, 2013

  Enter to Win Tickets to the National at Mercury Lounge with Album Purchase

  
  

  Other Music has a pair of tickets to give away to see the National, who'll be performing an intimate set in New York tonight (Tuesday, May 21st) at the Mercury Lounge. Just swing by our East Village shop between now and 4pm and purchase their great new album, Trouble Will Find Me, and you'll automatically be entered into the contest. (Sorry, no web orders for this promotion, in-store customers only.)
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• May 20, 2013

  TONIGHT: Majical Cloudz In-Store (Monday, May 20th 8PM)

  
  

  Montreal duo Majical Cloudz are stopping by Other Music for an in-store performance tonight (Monday, May 20th) to celebrate the release of their debut full-length, Impersonator, which comes out tomorrow on Matador Records. (View event page on Facebook.)
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• May 17, 2013

  Dennis Johnson Interviewed in The Wire

   
  We recently featured in our Update the fully realized five-hour recording of Dennis Johnson's November, a beautiful and austere piano composition from the late 1950s, which Johnson's onetime UCLA classmate La Monte Young credited as a direct inspiration for his watershed The Well-Tuned Piano. If you have been taken by this piece as much as we have, you'll want to check out this revealing interview with Johnson that The Wire ran back in its March 2013 issue, which can be read on-line here.
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• May 16, 2013

  Other Music Update (May 16, 2013)

  
  Highlights in this week's Other Music Update include David Lang, Var, Coyote Clean Up, Vampire Weekend, Rich Ristagno, Eglo Records Vol. 1 (label compilation), Small Black, and Mikal Cronin. Subscribe here to our weekly Update featuring Other Music's favorite new releases and reissues, and read past editions in the Update Archive.
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• May 13, 2013

  Where Ever You Are - Dwight Sykes

  If you've been digging the bedroom-recorded machine-funk of Dwight Sykes recently unearthed by the PPU label as much as we have, you should check out this clip that we found on YouTube for "Where Ever You Are," which possesses the same homespun charm as his music.
  
  
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