The weekly "Vibrations" party, held on Thursday nights at New York's Hudson Terrace, is the newest series from NYC nightlife event producer GBH. We recently caught electronic music legend Alan Braxe at the open-air rooftop space, on a night that also featured DJs Sean Glass and GBH mainstay Alex English. That's Alan Braxe on the [...]
PBS Digital Studios has just published the second mashup of classic PBS footage, created by John D. Boswell aka melodysheep. It honors the great TV painting instructor, Bob Ross:
Surkin, the great French electro/house producer (who we caught live in 2009 when he was still too young to legally drink in the club) has remixed M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls." Check it out: Surkin's also about to release a joint single with Todd Edwards. Preview "I Want You Back," here:
A mere 45 minutes ago, Crystal Castles posted their first new track in quite some time to Soundcloud as a free high-quality download. Called "Plague," the Soundcloud copy already has more than 23,000 hits. The duo offers the new track as a high quality 320 kbps download, which you can get or stream right here: [...]
As if you need any more reason to check out King Khan and the Shrines? House of Vans is set to feature the fantastically fun King Khan along with The Everymen and Nicky Da B. The show is all set to go down this Thursday, July 26, in Brooklyn. Best part? It's all free and [...]
I’m back, rested and finally fully clean from Camp Bisco 11. A truly awesome experience - probably the most fun I’ve ever had at a festival. So many great people, with excellent music throughout. We arrived at the Upstate New York grounds mid-day Thursday (July 12) and checked in. Immediately we met some great people [...]
Converse City Carnage took over New York and delivered a great experience. Featuring Sleigh Bells, Rye Rye, Jel and Mr. Dream, the one-day event was a successful debut for Converse's event and Sleigh Bells definitely delivered the carnage thanks to a loud aggressive sound and blasts of strobes. Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid For a [...]
James Iha has debuted the music video for "To Who Knows Where," the first single off his forthcoming album Look To The Sky (album details here). The video, directed by Adam Neustadter, was inspired by David Bowie's 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. "This video is our homage to the cult classic - [...]
Cage the Elephant at Governors Ball 2012 While Day 1 of Governors Ball was an exercise in the new, Day 2 was more my speed. Featuring a solid blend of rock both past and present, the scene and music was dramatically different from Day 1. Beck - Loser What Kid Cudi could not do, Beck [...]
Little Dragon releases a track "Sunshine" this week, which was featured in this music video (that doubles as an Absolut vodka promo) that debuted during The Daily Show on Comedy Central last night: You can get the track now on iTunes. Here's a video that Absolut put out a couple of weeks ago, shot in [...]
James Iha should need no introduction, but we'll do it anyway. An essential member of the Smashing Pumpkins from 1988-2000, the guitarist and sometimes-singer also published a well-received solo album "Let It Come Down" in 1998 followed by post-Pumpkins work with other bands, including his recurring (and current) role in A Perfect Circle for much [...]
A friend of TheMusic.FM is running for City Council and one of his many on-point positions is the need to reform New York's ridiculous cabaret laws which make dancing illegal in most establishments. To support Ben Kallos for City Council, TheMusic.FM is throwing a little happy hour party, featuring DJ Myron Nay as well as [...]
Lana del Rey - "National Anthem" (Tensnake Remix) Tensnake's trend of consistently awesome production continues with this Lana del Rey remix for the song "National Anthem" which just got a music video today (above). Our other favorite offerings over the past several months from the Hamburg-based producer/DJ included this remix of Friendly Fires. Friendly Fires [...]
Governors Ball, in its second year, was a hit in terms of production value, amenities and overall flow of the festival. Fans were never left wanting and that's a beautiful thing when running a two-day fest. Musically, Governors Ball was the tale of two different days. Kid Cudi - Soundtrack To My Life Day 1, [...]
Given their frenetic touring schedule, and the high-praise they have received from blogs and print alike, it’s a wonder how These United States remain aloof among those well-versed music lovers who wear their idiosyncrasies on their sleeves who call themselves Alt-country fans. Read more of the review after the jump. Even when dropping the pretentions [...]
Much like last year's Northside I took a detour from my normal line of coverage to check out hip-hop on the opening night of the festival. Last year featured an upa-and-coming Theophilus London while this year featured veteran GZA. The Wu-Tang member was playing Liquid Swords in its entirety backed by Grammy winning Grupo Fantasma. [...]
The Magician is back home in Europe after cancelling some US dates last week due to an emergency, but he was able to share his latest mix with us today: Magic Tape Twenty-Four by TheMagician He doesn't post his track lists, but expect fans to share what they know in the Soundcloud comments. The Magician [...]
Tomorrow, Ed Banger Records releases an EP dedicated to the Justice track "New Lands" that was first released on last year's Audio, Video, Disco. The New Lands EP offers the original track, a live version, and three remixes: one each from A-Trak, Sebastian, and Falcon. Stream them all, below: JUSTICE - New Lands (Falcon Remix) [...]
Converse City Carnage is all set to take over New York over the course of two days. The events will combine skating and music cultures and will feature headlining sets by The Kills and Sleigh Bells. Best of all? It's free. The Kills - The Last Goodbye The first Converse City Carnage will take place [...]
The Magician has cancelled the last four stops of his North American tour: 6/20 in D.C., 6/21 in Philly, 6/22 in Chicago, and 6/23 in New York. After thanking fans for "the great times in LA, San Francisco, Toronto, Denver, Dallas and San Diego" in a message posted Tuesday on Facebook, he announced the cancellations. [...]