You may have read last week that David Byrne and St. Vincent have followed up their excellent Love This Giant album from last year with a new EP entitled Brass Tactics . Apart from the fact that it contains a previously unreleased track, the most notable thing about the EP is that they're giving it away for free, making it the latest addition to an ever-increasing volume of music that you can download — legally! — for free right now. There's so much, in fact, that it's kind of overwhelming. [...]
La agenda del mes incluye importantes presentaciones. Ante la apretada agenda que da forma a este mes, repasamos todos los conciertos que se llevarán a cabo en la Ciudad de México e hicimos una selección con los que no se pueden perder. Son los 15 conciertos que miles de personas esperan impacientemente, o algunos otros que los invitamos a descubrir. Todo con el objetivo de optimizar sus recursos económicos y sacarles el mayor jugo posible ¿A cuál asistirán ustedes? Cuéntenos en los comentarios abajo. [...]
It's that time of the year again, everybody! The best holiday of the year (yes, better than National Ferris Wheel Day AND Leif Erikson Day) has returned . I've been going to Record Store Day since 2009, and even when I didn't look up the releases beforehand, I'd still walk out of my favorite record store (RIP Cutlers in New Haven) with something unique and special. Unique and special is what Record Store Day does incredibly well, and it's why we love it so much. Since its relatively humble beginnings in 2008, the event has grown in popularity every [...]
El músico alemán Markus Popp, conocido por su innovadora labor en la música electrónica derivada del ruido digital bajo el alias de Oval y sus aventuras paralelas como Microstoria y So, vuelve dos años después de sus últimas entregas discográficas (el álbum doble O y el EP Oh!, ambos editados por Thrill Jockey) con un nuevo disco disponible para descarga gratis a través de su sitio web. El trabajo, titulado Calidostópia! , fue registrado en Salvador de Bahía (Brasil) gracias al financiamiento del Instituto Goethe y la Fundación Cultural del Estado de Bahía. Durante los diez días [...]
>> Birmingham, England-based indie demigods Johnny Foreigner let loose a torrent of good news Tuesday at its webtumblrthingo , where it reported working on no fewer than three (!!!) new releases. According to this blog post , the quartet is prepared to self-release imminently via its BigCartel what it is calling a "mini album + photo set thing." Proceeds from the sale of the collection will apparently go to paying increased rent on the band's rehearsal space, which we think is an admirable goal. In June the band plans to release a new EP [...]
The unstoppable aural and visua force that is Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt will bring their mesmerising, all enveloping live show to the Timezones Festival in Italy this week alongside the likes of Greg Haines, Oval and Mathew Herbert to name but a few. Audiences will have two chances to catch the duo perform - on the 22 November at 8pm at the Doppelgaenger Art Gallery and on 23 November at 9pm for the Cage Memorial Session at Teatro Forma . Get in the mood with Sefanie Sixt's stunning music [...]
El productor alemán Markus Popp va a estar hoy dando un show en el Centro Cultural Chacao y mañana a las 4 va a estar dando un taller ahí mismo con traductor (porque el pana no habla español pues). Si no han escuchado su material y van pendiente de ir, pues acá les dejo algo de su soundcloud por donde deberían pasearse porque hay cositas finas y descargables. Nos vemos esta noche y mañana y así.
Seemingly unstoppable for 2012 thus far, up and about Dutchman Nicky Romero looks to be rising the ranks of modern Dance music at a pace unprecedented by no other. Reuniting with friend and fellow collaborator David Guetta for round three of their old school/new school affair with the long awaited and eagerly anticipated ‘Oval’. Venturing [...]
There are certain types of music and certain bands that fit perfectly when you're sitting on the grass on a beautiful sunny day. On Saturday at Stuyvesant Town, Blitzen Trapper performed "Live From The Oval", and although the booking of these concerts has been weird over the years ( Jay Reatard , High Places ), on this weekend they got it right. After an energetic and entertaining set from Ben Kweller (recording coming soon), Blitzen Trapper took the stage and for the next seventy minutes, the Oval was a relaxed perfect mix of sun, green grass, happy [...]
Phew. What a weekend. Had a solid BBQ dinner followed by a heavy drinking session at Surly Goat on Friday, then took it easy on Saturday night and caught up on season two of 'Oz,' which is one of the most brutal TV series I've ever seen. This coming week will be super-busy as well. [...]
See ya January. Off to fuck with you now. February sees me taking on some work in Dublin and facing into a daily commute totalling 5 hours to and from my job. I'm trying to be as zen as possible about this and want to maximise my use of the down time afforded by the bus trip. If I turn off my phone, I can completely tune in and turn on to a good book, a podcast, or an album. I can give my attention fully over to these things without [...]
From the blurred, skittering brilliance of his 1997 collaboration with Jim O'Rourke & Nicholas Collins to his enlightening, radical remixes of both the relatively obvious ( Ryuichi Sakamoto , Squarepusher , Takako Minekawa ) & somewhat less so ( Jimanica , Pizzicato 5 ) & on to current live-only workouts, these ears are once again revelling in the fecund hinterland & endless textural trickery of Markus Popp's Oval - triggered this time by his 11-track 'countdown' of web-only bonuses ahead of last Friday's release of retrospective flush-out (& multi-media extravaganza) [...]
DOWNLOAD: Oneohtrix Point Never - "Sleep Replica" (MP3) Oval Glitch pioneer Markus Popp revived the Oval moniker in 2010 and released the album O via Thrill Jockey , the first Oval album in nine years. He's following that with OvalDNA , an album that was originally meant to come before O . The album includes a mix of previously released and unreleased tracks and comes [...]
На прошлой неделе в гостевом посте для Follow Me Radio я удивлялся тому, как на просторах нашей необъятной может появиться такой необычный музыкант, как « Nylon Journey ». Тогда я ещё не представлял, насколько я ошибался. Во-первых, Nylon Journey было всего лишь названием Soundcloud аккаунта, а сам проект называется Piper Spray. Во-вторых, я, конечно, ожидал от гостевого микса хорошей работы, но то, что упало в инбокс сегодня превзошло все ожидания – на фоне общего музыкального потока, которым подхватывают блоги, Piper Spray выглядит самым настоящим музыкантом, со своим, не навязанным модой вкусом, со своим взглядом на ретрофутуризм [...]
Footnotes coming out of our ears, or something like that...anyway, a batch of compelling new material that usefully augments some of LMYE's posts this week . Firstly, two more of Tim Hecker 's diverting piano 'sketches' for the immense Ravedeath, 1972 - more muted & reflective than Sketch 5 (covered here ), but still highly affecting. [...]
Talking of Oval , a s andblast from the past - a woozily abrasive track of the day from his monumental Ovalprocess album (Zomba, 2000 - stream in full below, along with the following year's Ovalcommers ). Ovalprocess - Untitled 05 by [...]
Let's party like it's 1998*. The soundtrack? A sudden, notable eruption of new music from the near-holy trinity of Jan Jelinek , Oval and Pole , three pioneering titans of experimental electronica. Jelinek has just launched only his second release as Farben since 2004 - a self-released 12" of deviant disco, like [...]
The Empty Bottle ’s yearly collaboration with The Wire magazine dubbed “Adventures in Modern Music: A Five Day Celebration of Outsider Sounds” will return next week, the venue announced via its Tumblr . The series kicks off at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday, Sept. 28, featuring Synthpop composer and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti keyboard player John Maus , Brooklyn black metal outfit Liturgy , retro-poppers Dirty Beaches , and Chicago’s own experimental electronic outfit Chandeliers. The event will [...]
Si tarrà da domani, 21 luglio a sabato 23, Presso la Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona si terrà la sesta edizione del festival di musica ed arte elettronica Acusmatiq , organizzato dall'Arci di Ancona con la Provincia ed il Comune di Ancona. La sesta edizione di Acusmatiq, attraverso una serie di performances di livello internazionale, prosegue l'esplorazione dei rapporti tra la produzione musicale e la tecnologia, analogica e digitale e con uno sguardo sempre attento al rapporto tra la pratica strumentale e performativa e l'elettronica nelle diverse forme dettate dalla sensibilità contemporanea. Di particolare rilievo la [...]
Si terrà presso la Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona la sesta edizione del festival di musica ed arte elettronica Acusmatiq , organizzato dall'Arci di Ancona con la Provincia ed il Comune di Ancona. Acusmatiq è un evento unico nel suo genere, ed in questi anni ha saputo affascinare un pubblico sempre più vasto e composito attraverso un cartellone che vuole essere un punto di vista privilegiato dal quale poter esplorare molteplici linguaggi in maniera libera e trasversale. Fra gli artisti attesi Yann Tiersen E lektronische Staubband, Alva Noto [...]
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