Quotes of the day

"I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. I feel like if you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that. [Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt] is very happy now, and his life has changed a lot. I'm 100% sincerely happy for him that he doesn't need punk anymore."

Bradford Cox, speaking as he prepares to release his third Atlas Sound record, Parallax.

"It reminds you of why you're a punk, or why punk changed your life. Sometimes you look around and a lot of music is happening, but punk is there, and has stayed there for a reason. Sometimes you need a band like OFF! to come back around and make you think, 'Fuckin' A, man. This is why we're all doing what we're doing'."

No Age's Randy Randall on OFF's First Four EPs.

Both were talking to Pitchfork, the latter as part of an article to celebrate the useful source of musical guidance/sneering, pretentious, fickle website (delete as appropriate) turning 15. Also invited to the birthday party to talk about the albums that have most affected them over that period are Devendra Banhart, Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew (in Part One) and Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan, Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Gareth Los Campesinos!, Battles' John Stanier, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold, Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington, Tortoise's John McEntire (in Part Two).