Age of Consent are releasing debut single " The Beach " on the September 5th. Produced by Luke Smith (who can boast Depeche Mode, Foals and Crystal Fighters in his credit roll) the song is a dark electro-pop number. Creepy is one word that could be used to sum it up and the track is a clear departure from their Shitdisco days. That's not to say it's a bad effort, on the contrary it's an addictive track, the sort that requires [...]

(photo by Daniel Muhindi) It's time to get a little creepy and Gothic around these parts with Age Of Consent , a new act formed from the ashes of Shitdisco's departed Joe Reeves and Darren Cullen, who together make a song like "The Beach" into the kind of haunting, emoting, brooding track that cloudy days (and sunny ones) call for. The first release on the Inside Animals imprint, "The Beach" comes September 5. (mp3) Age Of Consent - The Beach Godspeed!
When West coast DJ/producer/remix master Steve Aoki started Dim Mak 15 years ago, no one imagined it would have such a lasting legacy. But if you look at Aoki's background and learn that his father is the uber-entrepreneur who started the Benihana's chain, among other things, the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together. [...]
DIM MAK CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THE "INDIE VAULT: VOLUME 13 posted by RZ22 for EYHO Blog Berlin Dim Mak Records is proud to announce its second installment of its vault series, "Indie Vault: Volume 13, Out Now. With this collection, Dim Mak revisits its Indie past with artists like Klaxons, Bloc Party, Whitey, Mystery Jets, The Rakes and many [...]
This will be a week to remember for the Frightened Rabbit. Tonight the Frabbits are in Melbourne and tomorrow the band will play the Factory Theatre in Sydney. Then on Sunday they'll play Lollapalooza in Chicago with Arcade Fire and Lady Gaga. Vic has more on Frightened Rabbit and all this week's Scottish gigs abroad. Frightened [...]
When the south London electro-pop band, Clor split-up in May 2006, the five-piece left behind a painfully small body of work - one album and four singles to be precise. Their self-titled album is one of my favourite albums of the last decade, but it is quite telling that rather than a horse through a further few years of pointless and less and less relevant releases (Kaiser Chiefs), they decided
Glasgow's Errors are in France, the Netherlands and Germany this week and Vic has picked their show in Paris with Brooklyn's Bear in Heaven as the Scottish international gig of the week. Vic has more on Errors below along with the only listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK this week: Errors in Paris with [...]
Vic is back on BBC Radio Scotland tonight with Rudi Zygadlo in session and a few new tunes that he picked up in Austin. For Scotland on Tour this week, Vic likes The Unwinding Hours in Germany and Switzerland as his pick of all the Scottish bands touring outside the UK. The Unwinding Hours in Europe Though [...]

Sorry for the metalhead, but i couldnt find a picture of a headbanging DJ. So, some people have been complaining about the lack of variety in the blog's content. They say that we are posting too much house and funk. Well, what can you do? We all like this genre, some of us make it and we all have extensive collections of it, be it digital or physical. So of course we have to share some of it. But i will concede, because one of the teams' goals was to [...]
I'm staying out of Dublin for New Year's but if you are in the capital, here are some things to do: - The Redneck Manifesto, Sarsparilla, The Vinny Club, I Am The Cosmos @ Whelan's (€20) - Valerie Francis, Autumn Owls, Blind Yackety @ Whelan's Upstairs (€10) - Transmission NYE Special - Humanzi, Shit Disco, Schizophonics, The Murder Clues, loadsa DJs @ The Button Factory (€15) - The Amazing Few 3D Spectacular with Funzo, Gran Casino, Bot-Heads @ The Village (€16.50) - [...]
We all love calling in sick at work - its the second best excuse to "personal problems" but i doubt we all measure up to this level of awesomeness when we do chuck a sickie. Calling in Sick are these two awesome dudes from NSW, Australia. They have one slick sound which is so dirty and [...]

Goose! Thats right, Goose. A 4-piece electro-rock band from Belgium and probably the rock band that uses more synths on their tracks than any other. Their 2007 album "Bring It On" is fantastic, bangers from top to bottom, catchy vocals and lots of action all around made these guys one of my favourite groups. The title track is their main hit, being played in commercials and radios everywhere. With a synth to start off, vocals come in to help out the drums whilst another synth comes [...]

Calling In Sick are yet another Australian duo, dead-set on making "good sound, and making good people dance... good." A noble endeavor. Yeah, they sound a bit like Justice, with their buzzsaw midrange synths and heavy bass, but we're not holding that against them. Calling In Sick - Ninja Gaiden Calling In Sick - Cali Games ♥ Heartache ft Cujo - What Does It Mean (Calling In Sick Remix) ♥ Grum - Runaway (Calling In Sick Remix) Shitdisco - 72 Virgins [...]

I know, I know, tough economic times, devastating financial collapse, 800000 billion dollar bailout, blah, blah, blah. Are you gonna keep whining like a schoolgirl with a skinned knee or are you gonna do something about your fiscal apocalypse? What should I do, you ask? Well dummy, do what normal people do when they are hard up for dough, rob a damn bank . Its a stick up, baby, and this is your getaway mix! Get a CDR and Just Burn It! Narrative of your adventure, track-list, and download link after the jump. [...]

This year we're having a make over. Ferry Gouw (from Semifinalists) is redesigning everything for us. We'll be having a relaunch in the next few months of the website and all that. Ferry's done some great stuff for us already and we're looking forward to showing it off. Releases this year will be - Banjo or Freakout 12" EP, with four new recording, including blog favourites 'Like You' and 'Upside Down'. We've also got some remixes coming from Allez Allez , Vincent Oliver , Coma [...]
14.01 - Incógnito Convida Kraak [DJ-Set] @ Bar Incógnito, Lisboa 15.01 - Pop-Rock Bulbs [DJ-Set], by Kraak @ Coffee&Pot-Alexandre Herculano, Lisboa 16.01 - Pelle Carlberg @ O Meu Mercedes, Porto16.01 - Damon & Naomi, Noiserv @ ZdB, Lisboa17.01 - SebastiAn, Shitdisco in CLASHCLUB @ Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Porto17.01 - The Fall in Clubbing @ Casa da Música, Porto17.01 - Damon & Naomi, The Partisan
08.01 - Wraygunn @ Aula Magna, Lisboa09.01 - Wraygunn @ TAGV-Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra09.01 - Mr. S vs Kraak [DJ-Set] @ Bar do Bairro, Lisboa09.01 - Feromona @ Maxime, Lisboa10.01 - Wraygunn @ Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Porto15.01 - Pop-Rock Bulbs [DJ-Set], by Kraak @ Coffee&Pot-Alexandre Herculano, Lisboa16.01 - Pelle Carlberg @ O Meu Mercedes, Porto16.01 - Damon & Naomi, Noiserv @ ZdB,
Okay...so, I'm sorry...the past couple of weeks have been hectic, but I got a good night's sleep and a Red Bull. I am now motivated for the next couple hours. Before I start I want to explain the above picture. I know I never do because I enjoy the mystery, but this one is special. The other day a couple friends and I went over to the Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge) in Pasadena. And
Behind This Week's Snobcast: While I think vampires are definitely hot, I have not been able to understand the pure obsession with a book promoting abstinence by using one of folklore's sexiest creatures. I'm looking at you Twilight. From what I've heard about this book, it involves a male vampire and a human girl in the most fucked-up of relationships. I mean, the vampire watches her in her sleep, treats her like his property and she is completely reliant on him to a screwed-up level. Yet somehow this relationship that, [...]