Recent blog posts about Cities Aviv from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/citiesaviv/ 2013-05-24T02:02:12+01:00 text/html 2013-05-20T00:22:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4959261/jeremy-listens-to-music-on-a-sunday-compilation/
THIS IS WHAT JEREMY LISTENED TO TODAY.]]> text/html 2013-05-14T21:09:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4950407/festival-review-downtown-music-festival-2013/
This past weekend marked the sixth annual Downtown Music Festival a miniature SXSW-style event featuring plenty of new, rising artists, scattered across multiple NYC venues, all within a one-mile radius. A seasoned festival goer knows there are two approaches to these types of festivals: choose a venue and watch all the artists playing there, or exert the most mental and physical energy possible by attempting to catch multiple sets at overlapping venues. Of course, we chose the latter, knowing exactly what we were getting ourselves into. Sort of. Racing to six or seven shows a night in [...]]]> text/html 2013-05-09T20:58:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4941984/downtown-festival-announces-final-schedule-for-new-york-festival-may/
Festival Acts Include: Black Hippy, Purity Ring, Earl Sweatshirt, Sky Ferreira, DIIV, Palma Violets, Nguzunguzu, Trash Talk, Andrew Wyatt (of Miike Snow), Autre Ne Veut, Antwon, Cities Aviv, SZA, 9Kilo Kish, Ratking, Kingdom feat. Kelela, TEEN, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire, Vashtie, Fat Tony, and More Listen to Kilo Kish's Downtown Mixtape HERE Super-Fan Tickets On-Sale Now With The Downtown NYC Festival happening this Friday and Saturday in New York, Downtown Events has released the final schedule for the two-day Lower East Side takeover. Over two days, festival acts like Earl Sweatshirt, [...]]]> text/html 2013-05-06T20:46:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4935146/earmilk-x-birddog-presents-slava-teams-cities-aviv-solar-year/
Bushwick's finest deli, Living Bread, is allowing us to co-host a party with BirdDog this Friday. Be warned, this isn't any deli or any party. When Living Bread isn't swarmed with the hungry Morgan stop residents, this deli/bodega dims the lights, clears away their tables and chairs, transplants a beer booth in a corner, and sets up a sound station to present a new DIY music venue. This is as "brooklyn" as anything gets. With such an under-the-radar layout already, our event with David of BirdDog Promotions is an experimental dance party featuring Slava , [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-14T21:35:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4780179/antwon-in-dark-denim-mixtape/
Antwon , who received some healthy buzz in the last few months with "Living Every Dream" and "Automatic," has released his brand new In Dark Denim mixtape. The 11-track mix, featuring production help with some familiar names like Cities Aviv , comes for free via Greenhead Music , which released the tape over at The FADER . While the production on the tape may be a little light and atmospheric at times, Antwon's verses hit hard, bringing up some fairly apt B.I.G. comparisons. Download it here (Soundcloud is temporarily [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-14T19:35:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4779938/mixtape-antwon-in-dark-denim/
Continuing the trend of Valentines Day releases, rapper Antwon has just dropped his latest mixtape. In Dark Denim sees the San Jose barsmith (I'm going to do everything I can to make "barsmith" a 'thing') displaying the same kind of form that made last year's End Of Earth such a vital release. Beats are contributed by a variety of artists, including Cities Aviv and B L A C K I E, while Goldfrapp are sampled on the title track, which has more than a whiff of Death Grips about it. You can download the mixtape here .]]> text/html 2013-02-14T18:42:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4779814/antwon-in-dark-denim-mixtape/
We first realized Antwon 's true potential with his throwback video and single for " Living Every Dream ". His Biggie-esque '90s flow is stronger than ever in this effort, as he takes on layered, synth-heavy beats from the likes of Cities Aviv , Teams and more. The mixtape is presented for free by Greedhead, the label of Das Racist's Heems. Which only explains further the left-field nature of this mind-bending rap offering. You can stream and download In Dark Dreams below. [ via ]]]> text/html 2013-02-14T15:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4779439/download-antwons-in-dark-denim-mixtape/
Valentine's Day is an interesting release date for San Jose rapper Antwon's latest mixtape, free via Greedhead: In Dark Denim is at once an antidote to the day's lovey-dovey fare and embrace of people fucking, ... read more »]]> text/html 2013-02-12T18:03:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4775238/andrew-wk-playing-more-shows-including-one-in-brooklyn-w/
Andrew W.K.'s Super Bowl 2013 halftime show at Santos ( more by Dan Bracaglia ) If you live in NYC and want to see Andrew W.K. , the question isn't ever really "when will there be a show?" as much as it's "which one should I go to?" with pretty much new Andrew W.K. shows popping up by the minute. He just did a Super Bowl halftime show at Santos and has a slot at upcoming pop punk festival Skate and Surf . [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-01T20:23:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4755162/antwon-still-guarded-video/
Last year, the San Jose rapper Antwon made a name for himself with his End Of Earth mixtape. Later this month, he'll follow it up with a new one called In Dark Denim , and first single "Still Guarded" is a fashionably decaying, noisy thing with production from fellow punk-reared rapper Cities Aviv. Romoface directed the murky and low-budget video, which features a bunch of girls in cat masks and dog leashes and which may well creep you out. It's below. Read More...]]> text/html 2013-02-01T20:08:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4755091/video-antwon-still-guarded/
Antwon is the heavyweight Oakland rapper whose videos for "Helicopter" and "Living Every Dream" have made him the most visible of the Bay Area's communal DIY rap scene. "Still Guarded," produced by Cities Aviv, is ... read more »]]> text/html 2013-01-31T14:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4752115/video-premiere-antwon-still-guarded/
Here's the Romoface -directed new video for Antwon's Cities Aviv -produced new single " Still Guarded ," taken from his forthcoming mixtape In Dark Denim , out on Valentine's Day via Greedhead . In other news, listen to 'twon's verse on the new Kitty track " Scout Finch Bitch ," and catch him down in Austin in March at SXSW '13.]]> text/html 2013-01-26T01:27:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4741864/cities-aviv-power-exchange/
POWER EXCHANGE. Memphis (surprise! he's not UK) rapper Cities Aviv, who's underrated Black Pleasure mixtape was a b3 favorite last year, chops it up on top a female-voiced 802s soul-sampling beat of his own creation. POWER EXCHANGE by Cities Aviv Cities Aviv ( Facebook ) Rating 8.1]]> text/html 2013-01-25T05:27:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4739973/top-10-videos-of-the-week-125/
Similar to our weekly collection of MP3s , we decided to start ranking each week's best videos. So, from here on out, our favorite weekly videos will be ordered in quality from 10-1. Who reigns champ this week? Grab some trail mix, sit back, and find out. 10. King Krule Octopus This is as dark and gritty as you will ever see this otherwise neat and nimble youngster. Here's to hoping we hear more from King Krule in 2013. 09. Cities Aviv POWER EXCHANGE [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-24T16:36:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4738967/video-cities-aviv-power-exchange/
Si estn en la oficina y son del tipo de persona que gusta de ver un poco de porno en la maana, puede que con este vdeo de Cities Aviv puedan tranquilizar su terrible ansiedad al no poder hacerlo por temor a que sus compaeros de trabajo les hagan caras. " Power Exchange " es una de mis canciones favoritas de estos primeros das del ao, as que les recomiendo que le den una buena escuchada a esto de Cities Aviv a continuacin, sin importar si son personas de pensamientos puros o 'diferentes', enjoy!. [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-24T14:40:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4738752/cities-aviv-power-exchange-nsfw-video/
"Pop music for the unpopular" reads the tagline of Memphis rapper Cities Aviv's Tumblr page, a pretty apt summary of the music that Memphis native Gavin Mays is creating. Two minutes and 12 seconds isn't nearly enough for the intense amounts of soul that he brings in "Power Exchange", and the video is a perfect accompaniment for the single, which was released a few weeks ago . Blatant post-modernism seems to be "in" as far as music videos go these days (see: any Hot Sugar video), and for those who decide to attack [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-24T00:42:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4738104/video-cities-aviv-power-exchange/
Its nearly 1am. Just watch the fucking video.]]> text/html 2013-01-22T18:48:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4735144/antwon-x-cities-aviv-x-weekend-money-santospartyhaus-events/
THURSDAY JANUARY 24TH ANTWON w/ CITIES AVIV & WEEKEND MONEY @ SantosPartyHaus 16+ | 8pm | GET TICKETS Like so many Bay Area exports, San Jose, CA rapper, Antwone , is a breed of his own. With a super loyal fanbase built more off internet hype than hyphy, his is live performances generate the raw energy of a punk show, circle pit and all. His first official mixtape, Fantasy Beds , was [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-22T18:21:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4736305/listen-this-weeks-artists/
Here's our sweet new playlist to get you pumped for our upcoming PopGun shows this week! Listen below and don't forget to grab your tix! TUES, JAN 22: Ex Cops (Album Release Party!), Hunters, Gambles :: BUY TICKETS :: WED, JAN 23 @ LE POISSON ROUGE: Ducktails ( The Flower Lane Record Release Show!) + Special Guests: Jessa Farkas (of Future Shuttle) + Joel Ford (of Airbird, Ford and Lopatin) & Martin Courtney (of Real Estate), Chris Cohen, Future Shuttle :: BUY TICKETS :: [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-21T15:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4732445/cities-aviv-power-exchange/
POWER EXCHANGE by Cities Aviv An awesomely grooved instrumental on this Cities Aviv track, "Power Exchange." I'm absolutely loving the pitch-shifted female vocals, farty synths, and choppy beat. The trap-style hi-hats are nice touch as well. I don't wanna completely ignore Aviv, though. What I've typically heard from this guy has been pretty quiet, lax. He didn't exactly strike me as the kind of MC who would jump out at you and grab your attention. That seems to be changing, though. With a somewhat beefy voice, and a bit more energy, this guy's potential [...]]]>