Sudanese-born Ahmad Gallab has been a lot of things to a lot of people — most notably, a touring multi-instrumentalist in outfits as diverse as Yeasayer, Caribou, and Of Montreal. But as of this announcement, he'll be best known as Sinkane, the latest disco-damaged signee to James Murphy's DFA Records... full story ![]()

Arcade Fire have set up shop at DFA Records' New York City studio owned by former LCD Soundsystem mastermind and DFA co-founder James Murphy "Arcade Fire STILL with us at DFA" read a post on the DFA Twitter feed "This is going to be one great sounding album!" Arcade Fire Debut 'Dance-y' New...
rollingstone.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Following last year's Silent Congas, the Greek-born, Milan-based psych pop shaman Larry Gus returns to DFA this June with Years Not Living, a steady-dripping dopamine rush that's as colorfully chaotic as an explosion at the Sherwin-Williams plant...
spin.com (17 days ago)

James Murphy's DFA Records has teamed with the Red Bull Music Academy for a short new retrospective documentary called 12 Years of DFA Too Old to Be New Too New to Be Classic The documentary features appearances from Murphy and LCD Soundsystem the Rapture Holy Ghost! Yacht the Juan MacLean and...
rollingstone.com (12 days ago)
Sudan and South Sudan are expected to see off the first crude oil shipment from the south through Sudan's Port Sudan in the next "few days" after a more than 15-month halt that has battered the two nations' economies.
wsj.com (17 days ago)
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan visited South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the South broke away from Sudan in 2011.
nytimes.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Too Old to New, Too New to Be Classic is a predictably perfect title for a new short film about DFA Records. The label that gave us LCD Soundsystem's self-skewering 2002 single "Losing My Edge" has always been upfront about understanding its place in history, and DFA's decade-plus run of great dance and indie rock is still too recent for there to be much margin in acclaiming...
spin.com (12 days ago)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The African Union says South Sudan will restart pumping oil in two weeks and will export as soon as it's technically possible.The deal to restart the oil industry was signed by South Sudan and Sudan on Tuesday. South Sudan pumps its oil through pipelines that run through Sudan.South Sudan broke away from Sudan in 2011. In early 2012 South Sudan...
bostonherald.com (2 months and 10 days ago)
A journey that started in war-torn Sudan may end on a Hollywood red carpet for Dhan 'James' Kueth of Des Moines. The Sudanese-born refugee and his Iowa-born son, Thon, have been cast in a movie called The Good Lie, starring actress Reese Witherspoon.
desmoinesregister.com (14 days ago)
Both Sudan and South Sudan have suffered economically from the hostilities, with South Sudan depending on oil for 98 percent of its revenue.
nytimes.com (2 months and 9 days ago)
Sudan and South Sudan signed an agreement Friday to soon withdraw their respective military forces from a demilitarized zone between the two African countries, officials from both nations said.
cnn.com (2 months and 13 days ago)
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