
ARCADE ADVENTURES Todos los jueves Scatter Records se embarca en una nueva aventura donde la música se llena de adjetivos: diversión, sorpresa, peligro, azar, destreza etc. y donde por lo general no hay limitaciones. La propuesta es tomar riegos. No hay consignas solo buena música! Jueves 9 de febrero, 23hs en El Especial ( Av. Córdoba 4391 ) Entradas a la venta en la puerta: $20 Para más informaciones: info@rockcity.com.ar El flyer de [...]

The best thing about the start of the year is the abundance of fresh meat - artists new and old are rushing to start 2012 on some kind of high. The guys from the brand new Leipzig based disco label Rose Records have been promising us a second release for a while now, and in light of what got delivered the first time around, we wish they'd hurry the eff up... In all fairness though, Rose02 is set to drop at the end of the month, comprising of tracks from the usual suspects: Martin Hayes , [...]
Not wanting to exclude my Jewish brethren from their celebration of the season, here's a few Hanukkah-themed songs from my collection. Download Beirut - "A Candle's Fire".mp3 Download Mono - "2 Candles, One Wish".mp3 Download Magnolia Electric Co - "The Compass, The Candle, The Bell".mp3 Download M. Ward - "Chinese Translation".mp3 Hmm... OK, well other than Adam Sandler's dated music all I could [...]

El disco de M83 está haciendo muchísimo ruido. Desde que salió Hurry Up, We're Dreaming nadie deja de hablar con él y con las canciones que tiene no es para menos. Hace cuestión de días la banda decidió lanzar el video de su primer single, llamado "Midnight City" (que de paso la elegimos como una de las mejores canciones de la semana del sábado pasado). Randal ya les estuvo hablando de ese clip , dirigido por nada menos que Fleur & Manu . El encargado de [...]
Arte del flyer por (R)emovedor. Ilustración Lucas Varela. Music Is My Girlfriend en octubre rockea a morir en el Salón Pueyrredon , "último bunker rockero de Buenos Aires". Les presenta a una verdadera leyenda del rock uruguayo Marcelo Cross, conocido simplemente por Cross, ha sido uno de los primeros exponentes del rock killer en el Río de La Plata. Junto se presenta una banda esperada en el ciclo Sick Porky quienes siguen presentando el magistral Origen de Fuego. Para la apertura un aperitivo con sabor a plato principal As de Monos. Quienes vengan podrán [...]
hey out there, been a while since the last post. ... so here we go with a lot of new stuff, ready to be taken off from here straight onto your harddrive. my recent Podcast for Gomma. Gomma Podcast #56 by Ben Mono Tracklisting: Topo Ba Ba Go Go Visti and Meyland - Stars [Rodion and Mamarella Mix] Tensnake - Something About You (Jas Shaw [...]
Kenneth Thomas, in a tunnel. If you care about heavy music and still believe that art should trump commerce every time, you owe it to yourself to check out Blood, Sweat & Vinyl: DIY in the 21st Century. I've written about Kenneth Thomas's music documentary in these e-pages before. After watching the film a second [...]

These "polar ice" molds from the Japanese site Monos resemble penguins and polar bears perched on icebergs, and are balanced so they stay upright in your drink. [via Super Punch ] Tweet

At some point in the recent past, five Leipzig friends got together and founded a label - they called it Rose Records . Their maiden and so far only pressing (vinyl only) , dropped a couple of weeks ago and has been blowing my mind ever since. The three track EP contains contributions from 3/5's of the imprint, Luvless , M.ono and Martin Hayes . mp3. Luvless - Surrounder vinyl [...]

MONO - Guestmix @ House Experience with Azteca Style: Deep House MONO - GUESTMIX HOUSE EXPERIENCE W.AZTECA by MONO.

Mi-ar plăcea să vă pot povesti despre cum o fost la Mono . O să încerc chiar, dar mare lucru sigur nu o să iasă. De când am auzit că japonezii vin la Cluj am început să mă agit și entuziasmez. În primul rând pentru că nu mă așteptam deloc, iar apoi pentru că se anunța lume faină de departe cu ocazia concertului, deci sigur ieșea ceva frumos. Vineri - 22 iulie - cu companie foarte mișto, o porneam spre Euphoria Music Hall. Pentru prima dată aici, locul mi-o dat un sentiment "meh" (© Cronco ). [...]

We missed this monophonic release when it first came out on The Pacfic's own Mistkäfer Records imprint, but thankfully Bachelor is releasing it as well and were kind enough to give us the heads up! Dubliners, The Pacific, made the interesting choice to release an EP of covers (Bo Diddly, Little Richard, Hamburg era Beatles and Chuck Berry) as their first offering, but thankfully these guys nail the 502s rocnrol sound...so we don't pay it no nevermind. If you are feeling nostalgic or just maybe think it was all downhill since poodle skirts and sock hops, this should be right in [...]
Mono A nice reader sent me some music suggestions last week out of the goodness of his heart (i.e. he has no affiliation with the bands or labels), and one of them from the band Collider has struck a chord with me. The San Fransisco group has released three previous EPs prior to the current single, 'Mono.' The single is a bombastic, but pleasant electronic KEEP READING »
MONO - Podcast for June 2011 MONO - PODCAST FOR JUNE by MONO.

Last week we bought you an exclusive interview with Japanese post-rock legends Mono ahead of their jaunt over to the UK next month, where the band will bring their stunning orchestra show to these shores for the first time. The special show, first debuted in New York, was documented in the wonderful CD/DVD set, Holy Ground: NYC Live with The Wordless Music Orchestra. GoldFlakePaint has one copy of this incredible set to giveaway to a lucky reader. All you have to do [...]

If you are wondering what happened to this weeks Friday Freebies, to put it simply the Internet is royally fucked. For the past two days Blogger has been playing silly buggers and now that it's up and running again, Twitter has gone tits up. Which means that all of the Freebie tweets that I can't get access to all of the freebies that I had saved to my favourites. On the plus side though, this has meant that I can ramble pish about some stuff that has been exciting me lately. First up, we have 'Snakes In The [...]

MONO adalah band post-rock asing pertama yang pernah saya tonton secara langsung, yaitu ketika Jakarta Rock Parade, 13 Juli 2008. Dan langsung saja mereka mengubah pandangan saya terhadap band instrumental post-rock saat itu. Menonton mereka seperti menaiki rollercoaster, emosi kita ikut naik turun mengikuti mood yang mereka bangun melalui lagu yang mereka bawakan. Jumat, 6 Mei 2001 kemarin, saya akhirnya berkesempatan untuk menyaksikan mereka kembali dalam rangkaian tour Asia mereka di Singapore. Dan satu hal yang bisa saya katakan dari awal adalah, menonton mereka sangat setimpal dengan memecahkan celengan babi saya untuk bisa mengongkosi saya berangkat menuju Singapore..hehehe.. [...]

With their own brand of breath-taking, mesmerising instrumental rock, Mono were already one of the most original, unconventional and awe-inspiring bands on the planet. The Japanese post-rockers fully cemented that status when they performed a 10th anniversary concert in New York, complete with a twenty-four-piece orchestra. The incredible performance was recorded for a live CD/DVD - Holy Ground:NYC Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra - and the band went on to take the special orchestra show to both Tokyo and Kuala Lumpar. It was great news indeed then to read that [...]