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[MP3] Josiah Wolf: "The Trailer and the Truck"

Josiah Wolf is the multi-instrumentalist member of WHY? (and brother of singer Yoni), and to make a long story short it looks like he’ll be releasing his own solo album this coming March. The album will come out on the 2nd, it’ll be titled Jet Lag, and oh my lord the […]

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WHY? release one video for “These Hands” and “January Twenty Something”

I guess it makes sense to package together “These Hands” and “January Twenty Something,” the four minute one-two punch that begins WHY?‘s Eskimo Snow. The songs themselves are tonally different, which makes the sudden change from fantastical, bizarre narrative to live band performance work. And even if you don’t like either half of the […]

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WHY? delights with Eskimo Snow, but is something missing?

The answer is yes, something is missing. That something happens to be the hip-hop side of WHY? It’s the most noticeable difference in the band’s sound upon first listen to its newest, Eskimo Snow, and at first it’s kind of off-putting. As great as past songs like “Fatalist Palmistry” and “Gemini (Birthday Song)” […]

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[MP3] WHY?/Themselves: “Canada”

Unique hip-hop/indie acts WHY? and Themselves have teamed up to throw down a nice, soft little track about relationships or something (“You show your pinkest parts in my absence”). Yikes! Well, who ever said music has to be optimistic! It’s an interesting downscaled tune from the two that does well with loops and […]

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[MP3] WHY? – “This Blackest Purse”

Yes, yes, yes. WHY? has released the first MP3 from its upcoming Eskimo Snow, due out September 22, which makes it the band’s second release in as many years. It’s as not-rap as any song the band has put out thus far, and I don’t really mind because this track is great. It’s […]

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Holy yes, a new WHY? album in the fall

It looks like WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf has just done a very informative interview with Pitchfork regarding his band’s newest album. Of the many things to learn:

The new record will be called Eskimo Snow, and will be released in the Fall. The record was recorded at the same time as 2007’s Alopecia, […]