This week in NYC live music brings another interesting and eclectic mix of shows, including a week-long run by Richard Thompson, an all-star cast at the Tibet House Benefit Concert, lots of New Orleans-style funk/soul/jazz, plus shows by Big Gigantic, Mates of State, Yellowbirds, and Zola Jesus, among others. Read on for the weekly highlight reel and show listings...

Jamie Moffett is a busy guy. He is a film director and recently completed the Return to El Salvador film, narrated by Martin Sheen, that explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. He took some time out to talk to us about his fave 5 albums of 2011. Making movies for a living, I listen to a lot of music. Here's my top 5 albums for 2011; Johnny Showcase - Love is the Message Amazing talent, brilliant [...]

RJD2 is one of the finest producers making music. PERIOD. Despite not getting a lot of commercial play, his unreal instrumentals are atypical in hip hop music. His changeups and drum programming is that of legend. Amazing build ups, ethereal sounds and 15 different records sampled on one song = RIDICULOUS TALENT. Dude's a beast. Respeck. Drop it like a Ghostwriter - Snoop Dogg vs RJD2 - Vico Ono - Vico Ono mashed up RJD2's "Ghostwriter" with Snoop's "Drop it like it's Hot". Dope. via [...]

Massive Prefuse 73 remix to Shara Worden and her Brightest Diamonds 3rd album "All Things Will Unwind" first single. Listen | My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix )
"Rappers Will Die Of Natural Causes" is a title which pokes fun at the hyper-masculine image of mainstream Rap. For all of the posturing and bravado, when the dust has settled statistics show rappers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Flaming Lips publicarán un nuevo disco a propósito del Record Store Day que se celebrará el 21 de abril. Para esto, el grupo comandando por Wayne Coyne, compilará algunas de sus pasadas colaboraciones con Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt y Prefuse 73 y además, incluirá sus trabajos aún en preparación con Nick Cave, Death Cab for Cutie, Ghostland Observatory y Cloudland Canyon. Mientras tanto, te dejamos con el video de "I Wanna Get High But I Don't Want" . Como dato inútil, el disco fue grabado en la casa del propio Wayne.

Are you surprised that the Flaming Lips would already have plans set for next year's Record Store Day? It really shouldn't be all that shocking. Especially since this is the band that released a six-hour song and is planning on releasing a 24-hour song. Billboard spoke to Wayne Coyne who said that the band is creating a compilation featuring collaborations with artists they've already worked with including Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt and Prefuse 73. But what's more interesting are the upcoming collabs the band is readying. [...]

Photo by Heather Kaplan In between marijuana flavored gummy brains , gummy fetuses , real skulls , and 6-hour and 24-hour songs, The Flaming Lips' weird-as-fuck 2011 output has also included high profile collaborations with the likes of Neon Indian , Lightning Bolt , and Prefuse 73 . All of these collaborative tracks have made their way online (just click those links), but physical copies of the releases were limited to select record stores across the country. Now, though, Billboard reports [...]

There's something inherently fascinating to me about album-length remixes. The long-form remix finds one artist immersing himself completely in the work of another, struggling to find a way to inject his own ideas in an attempt to make something new... ( Continue Reading ) Try / Buy
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Tweet Man, I wish I went to a school where I could spend a year knocking out a CD - I don't just mean in my spare time, but as an actual class project. That was the experience of Ducky , or Morgan Neiman as she was presumably known at the time. She's now based in New York, but was born and raised amidst the eclectic electro scene of San Francisco. That school project - undertaken when she was just thirteen - provided her with [...]
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Time for another episode of the Non-Fat Urban Soundtrack series , which is mixed and hosted by DJ Steve Martin . He is currently in LA, where he already brings a weekly mix to the ears of all the LA listeners through his radio show. The radio show is called "My Side of the City" which you can hear Saturdays on KPFK from Midnight til 2 AM in LA or you can check out the mix online. Thug life just isn't what it used to be, and believe me, that's not a bad thing. This mix starts with [...]
Arson seems to make little sense in most situations; teenagers destroying some of the best indie-rock inventory stored in the U.K. makes none. In response to the PIAS warehouse fire on August 8th, and the subsequent loss of their stock, UK label Finders Keepers has launched a 10-volume, label mate-curated series called Make Do and Mend . Each volume is set to include an individual curator's favorite songs from the expansive Finders Keepers' family catalogue, as well as exclusive cuts, edits and remixes. Confirmed curators include Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, the dynamic duo Demdike Stare, David Holmes, [...]
Arson seems to make little sense in most situations; teenagers destroying some of the best indie-rock inventory stored in the U.K. makes none. In response to the PIAS warehouse fire on August 8th, and the subsequent loss of their stock, UK label Finders Keepers has launched a 10-volume, label mate-curated series called Make Do and Mend . Each volume is set to include an individual curator's favorite songs from the expansive Finders Keepers' family catalogue, as well as exclusive cuts, edits and remixes. Confirmed curators include Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, the dynamic duo Demdike Stare, David Holmes, [...]

This isn't an EP for everyone, but for all of its psychedelic disorienting, it's both intricate and engaging. Who would have guessed this project was going to be super weird? Oh right, every fucking person . Yep, the Flaming Lips/Prefuse 73 EP is a weird one, and not really easy to process. Bandcamp: [...]
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Tweet The Flaming Lips have really been branching out after their last album, "Embryonic", collaborating with artists like Neon Indian and Prefuse 73. It's all been very exciting to Flaming Lips fans such as myself. In fact, it's hard to think of anything The Flaming Lips have been involved with that wasn't exciting and/or slightly alarming, such as that "Dark Side of the Moon" remake with folks like Peaches and Black Flag's Henry Rollins. No deviation from [...]
Red Hot and Rio 2, a tribute to the Brazilian Tropicalia movement of the late 60's, features a brilliant assortment of artist collaborations, including Caetano Veloso.

Fresh from dropping a collab beat tape with Breezewax Evan Awake, a German producer who focuses on mash ups but makes his own beats, dropped this mix, his first. It's a dope 40 minute journey through the kind of music he likes, alotta funky, jazzy hip hop that you might expect from him like Nujabes, supplemented with a bit music from other genres too. This is just Side A of the tape, no doubt he'll put up Side B pretty soon so keep an eye out on his Youtube channel [...]

Click image to download full album Sounds like: Nosaj Thing, Flying Lotus, Prefuse 73 "TOKiMONSTA - Bright Shadow" What's so good? TOKiMONSTA's new album Creature Dreams will make your ears fall in love. Alright, let's just cut to the chase: Creature Dreams is astonishing. Listening to this girl's ethereal beats drop is like watching a painter lavishly adorn [...]

Los prolíficos The Flaming Lips se alearon con el productor Prefuse 73 , uno de los tantos alias de Scott Herren , para armar un EP de cuatro canciones. Wayne Coyne , frontman del grupo de Oklahoma que hace poco visitó la Argentina, salió de la burbuja de plástico que usa en sus shows para "surfear" por encima de la gente y anunció a través de su Twitter la salida del EP cuyas cuatro canciones ya [...]