
PORTALS is coming to Los Angeles! I'm so excited to help announce PORTALS first ever, West Coast show. Featuring 10 of our most beloved artists, the party is going down in Hollywood on June 2nd! All the details are below - you don't want to miss this one! With a debut live set from Mister Lies , a TV Girl performance just after the release of their full-length record, Slow Magic 's first ever LA gig, and performances by 7 others who have made [...]
Listening to Cave takes me to another place - like a club circa 1972 watching Krautrockers Can perform . Jeff Tweedy tips his hat to Neu! and the Krautrock sound but Cave lives it. The Chicagoans are still promoting their excellent 2011 release Neverendless , and they play a show at Empty Bottle Saturday night. The show is free if you RSVP before midnight tonight. Send an email to rsvp@emptybottle.com .

The digital label/music collective, Absent Fever , is teaming up with the physical label, JAXART records , to present their first ever physical release. This new release is a compilation/mixtape that is centered around a new crop of young, forward-thinking, LA-based musicians. "Generation Y Not is a compilation of 7 young Los Angeles artists, all of whom are part of the enormous movement of youth in music. The compilation is a feature on the paramount shift in music culture, how because of the internet and the way this generation has grown up with the ability [...]
A video shot by my talented friend and DJ, Gabriel Allen Gallant (Narco on Turntable.fm).
.. . Beach House - "Myth" - mp3 Holy Hell! How absolutely perfect is this new track from Beach House? That was rhetorical. As soon as I post this I'm pre-ordering Bloom which will come out in it's most-likely epic entirety on may 15th. New Beach House; check. Summer playlist; Check. Fulfilled heart; Check. Make [...]

The Discotexas edit of Astrolabe's hummer "Cave Disco" is like your favourite pair of kicks that always equate to a boogie no matter the circumstances. It's got that early 80s electro-pop feel with a slight spin towards the riskay... like a walk on the wild side with Moullinex describing it as "Undercover Agent Disco". The edit finds itself at home on Discotexas' Bucket of Love Vol 2 Buy Beatport written by Ubbs

When You Were Partying, I Was Dying. by CAVES whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa I've been waiting for more Caves so this was quite the surprise. Caves' Adolescent Dystopia EP was one of my favorite projects of last year and I randomly came across his latest release via Absent Fever tonight. DON'T be turned off by the name; I know it might be a little heavy, but I promise it's not like that. The first thing I noticed was that this EP has an overall different feel than the last one. I [...]
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Tweet With Youth Lagoon like creative brilliance and a sound along the lines of Nerves Junior and Blood Diamonds, eighteen year old Luca Cage looks to have masses of hype about to head his way in the coming months. His latest EP When You Were Partying, I Was Dying (free through the bandcamp link below) was just released via Absent Fever and [...]

I am overly excited to help announce the first ever PORTALS SXSW Showcase! That's right, the crew is headed to Austin next month to be a part of the action and help throw a killer party! It comes equipped with BBQ, drinks, more music than you could possibly want, some super nerdy bloggers, transportation via the PORTALSbus! and some amazing sponsors. Ex.fm and The Basic Fund have been kind enough to throw down and help us get this thing going, and we couldn't be more thankful. Here's [...]

(Source: killatapes , via heje ) Periodically we do a photo round up of various images from one of our favorite blogs CAVE , enjoy. (Source: eyedust , via pinatasmashing ) (Source: la-buena-onda ) (Source: mikeodonnell ) (via everythingyoulovetohate ) [...]

Damn, this is awesome!!! Great track this one D.I.S.C.O.Texas have just uploaded. Like usual these guys discovering amazing artists. Ryuto Miyake aka Astrolabe comes from Japan and you will find a lot more interesting remixes on his Soundcloud . This track belongs to their second cpmpilation "Discotexas' Bucket of Love Vol. 23 which comes with 19 tracks and you can buy it here ! P.S. All of these tracks have been played supported by some of todays most important DJs - Mylo, The Magician, Bottin, Aeroplane, Rory Phillips, Still Going, Treasure Fingers, [...]
I'm finally home, time for some quality time with my sweet lil blog. A lot has been published today, let's start this! First round with the Los Angeles based Luka Cage aka Caves , one brilliant young beatmaker, producer and songwriter. Today our beloved digital label Absent Fever put out his new 4track EP When You Were Partying, I Was Dying . Vocals and beats are just perfectly caressed by Luke's sense of soul. One of my first EP highlights of 2012! Get yr free download over at Bandcamp . Lead track " Eleven Twenty " also comes with a new video, directed by [...]

CLICK IMAGE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Detroit's "DosstheArtist" droppin' his optical heat from the newly released project "9 Lives" Presenting the track entitled "Cave" With the productions handled by Hir-O.. It's suggested that you cop the heat!.. Support the artists and WIB!! DOWNLOAD "9Lives" ON BANDCAMP CLICK HERE WIB VOODOO POST UPS!! DosstheArtist: Twitter Hir-O: Twitter [...]
Check out Caves ' video for his new single " 1993 " from the upcoming EP When You Were Partying, I Was Dying . The video is a collaboration between the collages of Jesse Treece, videography of Library Voices, and the music of Caves. The 4track EP will be available on February 21 via Abesent Fever's Bandcamp . Caves - Soundcloud
There are a ton of blogs out there that I admire, but I have a huge crush on Flashlight Tag and Verb/Re/Verb . So when their collective label known as Absent Fever gave me the honor of premiering yet another single from an upcoming release of theirs, I was all sorts of excited. This time it comes by way of Caves, a talented 18-year-old producer out of Los Angeles that is spearheading his efforts with some rather intricate sample-based music. Trying his luck with The Menahan Street Band's "The Traitor", which was originally sampled by KiD CuDi [...]
Caves - Didn't I Luke Cage has picked up a guitar for his new EP release with Absent Fever (Galapagos, Birkwin Jersey), and good lord it's one punchy guitar. Previously he dazzled with high-pitched vocal samples, luscious layers of synthetics - the only problem with the ' Adolescent Dystopia' EP was that it sounded a whole lot like other artists around right now (naming no names, but they're all on the Tri Angle roster ). ' [...]

Twitter can be a wonderful place for discovering new music - a case in point: I got up this morning to Jamie and Jamila talking about how "AMAZING" Caves is - and they are, as usual, right on the money. Caves ( soundcloud ) dropped his debut EP back in December, but his latest track Didn't I is my favourite of his to date - it's slow and deliciously intricate pop. It breaks free of any blisspop or indie sensibilities, it's open, welcoming and joyous - this is what [...]

Twitter can be a wonderful place for discovering new music - a case in point: I got up this morning to Jamie and Jamila talking about how "AMAZING" Caves is - and they are, as usual, right on the money. Caves ( soundcloud ) dropped his debut EP back in December, but his latest track Didn't I is my favourite of his to date - it's slow and deliciously intricate pop. It breaks free of any blisspop or indie sensibilities, it's open, welcoming and joyous - this is what [...]

Yeah, it might be pretty, um, snowy outside. But, like, there's some totally awesome shows going this weekend. We're talking Psych Fest at the Hideout, The Runnies at Ultra Lounge, Gaberdine at Subterranean and more! Let's go... FRIDAY THIRD EYE VISIONS: CHICAGO PSYCH FEST 3 The best of Chicago psych, kraut and rock that implements sonic elements that are on the fringe of the aforementioned [...]