Monday: Human Highway + Becky Stark @ Cake Shop 8pm $8 The names of these two performers may not be immediately familiar to most of you but I assure you that you should have at least heard of what they are a part of or the names of their other projects. Opening act, Becky Stark, is the front woman for the wonderful Lavender Diamond. Her stage presence is a beautiful thing to behold and her voice
NYC online music institution East Village Radio turns five this year, and after a day's delay due to tropical storm Hanna, a party was had yesterday at the Seaport to celebrate. The fest went from afternoon 'til night, spanning two stages (one at Pier 17, the other at the newish art gallery @Seaport around the corner), although I was on hand primarily to catch the slate of bands bookended by Slumberland revivalists Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts (with a couple BTWs in between). Of the new blood: both Vivian Girls and [...]
Dan Friel is one quarter of Brooklyn noisemakers Parts & Labor so (really) none of this should be surprising. His latest solo album Ghost Town is comprised of high-pitched bursts of cacophonous white noise, droning synths, and squelching Casio tones. The broken & fractured electronics howl in all their head-spinning pixelated glory all while masquerading as some sort of warped (but melodious) sort of electro-pop. In reality or perhaps only in my imagination Ghost Town could be (with all its title nods to buzzards, deserts, horses, and cowboys) a newfangled and devilishly [...]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008 @ DEAD HERRING 141 S. 5th Street Brooklyn, NY 8:00PM, $5 DAN FRIEL (from Parts & Labor)
This is the sound of twisted computer wires on fire, a dying modem. Hence the joy is two-fold, firstly the computer is probably broken and there'll be no work done today and secondly I kinda dig noises that should grate but somehow conspire to be joyful. So if it's pretty indie patterns you are after then you'd better not press play or save target as, your ears will thank you for it. Not sure I
Audiopleasures is now on Holidays , these will be the last weekend regular post until the end of August . Wishes of a great summer to everybody and thank you for the continuous support . Some Audiopleasures Let's Dance favorites before the holidays. Mp3 | lcd Soundsystem - loosing my edge Mp3 | Black Strobe - Me and Madonna Mp3 | Ciccone Youth - Me and Jill [ Chicken Lips Mix ] Mp3 | !!! - Must be the Moon [ Emperor Machine Mix [...]
I've decided to revive an old tradition here on the blog and bring you weekly updates on what I've been listening to, what I should be listening to, and what I hear at parties. Shaking Hands - Women This is all over the blogs these days. The kids just can't get enough of it, and I can see why. The album is filled with distorted riffs coming from squeaky guitars and sometimes there are even squeakier violins. Throw in [...]
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Dan Friel , electronic twiddler extraordinaire of Parts & Labor , has a new solo record out. On his previous solo album there were some remnants of Parts & Labor, most noticeably the guitar, and though his usually high-pitched warble tweaking does have a recognizable sound found on everything he does, here he's clearly trying to stretch it out even further into his own realm of DIY futuristic explorations. And cognizant of the fact that not everything in a post-apocalyptic soundtrack should rock, he includes some slower numbers that paint an eeire Mad Max picture of slow swirling dust [...]
On Monday I'm gonna start posting my ten favorite albums of the year so far, so I thought I'd precede that with what would be taking the places from #11 - #25. I'm sticking them in alphabetical order because there's very little keeping these from being at either end of this list. Let me know what your list looks like!!! Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel; When I was
Spiritualized Songs in A & E Fontana If Jason Pierce sounds a bit worse for the wear on Spiritualized's sixth album, Songs in A & E, there's good reason. Recording was interrupted when Pierce was hospitalized with double pneumonia and nearly died, twice. His voice now sounds weathered, and weary, and consequently, those common Spiritualized subjects like love, death, God, and drugs carry a much heavier weight. It's hard not to be moved by a somber songs like "Death Takes a Fiddle," even more so when you realize [...]
The Wire is a radio show about new music. Stream live every Monday and Wednesday 12-1pm (NZ time) via RDU 98.5fm Love Is All - I Ran (Flock Of Seagulls Cover) [ Play 5 Covers ] Abe Vigoda - Cranes [ Skeleton ] Boy 8-Bit - Ghost House (Suspense Is Killing Me Pt II) [ Mad Decent VIP ] Jeremy Jay - Airwalker [ Airwalker ] Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Pt. 1) [ Ghost Town ] High Places - Visions the [...]
01. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances - "Titus Andron"...mp3 The energy on the debut from this New Jersey band matches nothing I've heard yet this year. It's youthful, raw and lo-fi in all the right ways. Bright Eyes comparisons are obvious, but in this record I see the recklessness and passion I loved the first time I listened to Lifted... 02. Drive by Truckers - Brighter than Creation's [...]
When you release album after album of consistent work you can sometimes become a bit neglected with some of your work becoming lost in the constant stream of new music. It sometimes seems like Bonnie "Prince" Billy is one of those acts that keeps getting overlooked. For each album that receives loads of praise there are a handful that get lost among other releases from far less prolific
I just heard some sarcastic chuckling coming from the Videogum side of the virtual office. It was Gabe. We asked him what was so funny and he said "Kanye West." I asked him to be more specific and he said "Kanye West's 'Flashing Lights' video." I asked him if he knew there were already two versions and then he just smiled I think (I can't see through the internet). And then he sent us this description of VERSION THREE: Kanye was like "Imagine if Addams Family Values was actually a horror movie" [...]
The Good: CSS - "Rat is Dead"; Not as addictive as anything off their debut, but CSS is certainly still refining their sound to be what it is they want. That said this is a damn fine track and definitely gives me good feelings about the follow-up. Free Kitten - "Seasick"; I've devoted a good amount of space in the past year to Thurston Moore, but what about the prettier part of Sonic Youth? Well
Dan Friel's Ghost Town Pt. 1 is like a M. Night Shyamalan film. No, not because it has drawn-out sycophantic crane shots, but rather because it has a great twist. See, even though the song starts out with disembodied yips and fluttering tones swerving into each other announcing the arrival of an electro-noise rampage, we actually end up in the midst of a head-bopping, albeit fractured, mindmeld of a pop tune. The Parts & Labor member seems to have concocted Ghost Town Pt. 1 as if it were performed by a parade [...]
I've been on an electronic kick lately, no doubt bolstered by Holy Fuck's blistering set (opening for Super Furry Animals) a couple of weeks ago. And not just any electronic music, but artists who are tinkering with and creating new equipment and sounds. People not just aping Kraftwerk and Devo and Autechre, but using their electronic tinkering as inspiration for their own unique circuit-bent beat-laden explorations. If you know of some great bands like this, by all means name-drop them in the comments section, because like all of you I'm still exploring and finding things I wish I would have [...]
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