Julian Plenti "It Came From Brooklyn" The Guggenheim Museum NYC9/25/2009 "When your band's biggest asset is your voice", my friend Dr Zachary (mutual acquaintance of the late Resonator field reporter Dr Shlomo Zelig , R.I.P.) said early into the first-ever full live set performed for the public by Julian Plenti, the side project band of Interpol's Paul Banks, as a part of the Guggenheim's lamentable "It Came From Brooklyn" series of insults to the intelligent events, "why would you spend so much time playing instrumentals?" [...]
Where do I begin to tell you how thrilled I am to be writing this? Let's start here: Ellen Allien's SOOL sucked . It was minimal techno made for people who came so late to the party they'd feast on crumbs and scraps, a self-indulgent snoozefest that was painful to listen to made only worse upon realization that AGF had a hand in making the sonic dentist office wallpaper that was the entirety of the album. And it killed me, wrecked me, to have to feel that, because Allien [...]
Shaun will be the first to point out that hip-hop, rap, and freak folk are totally his domain here on Resonator. While he doesn't give me grief about not being into the latter (surely plenty of people can understand why Joanna Newsom's voice is like large-grit sandpaper down a person's spine, no matter how talented she is), he's taken to mocking how "white" I am on many occasion because, for example, I don't think Kanye West is that great and I'm not really digging the new Jay-Z record. It all sounds tired and predictable to me, and because most of [...]
Man, you know what goes great with this? This: DUH. I mean, it makes perfect sense: when you're balls-out gurning, getting fucking amped to Superstar DJ Tiesto or Paul Oakenfield or DJ A.M? too soon! whoever the kids listen to these days at the Raves, you totally want a hot, fresh, stone-baked pizza. That's why, when a press release with the following headline hit the RES inboxes, we collectively sighed contentedly, knowing that the world finally [...]
I'm always in Kanye West's corner, I'm not going to deny that. Check the RES tags if you doubt me. So imagine me laptopless last night when, during MTV's pathetithon Tokio Hotel party Video wait do they play music? Music Awards Awards? really? yeah Awards, Yeezy stormed the stage during Leanne Rhymes Taylor Swift's acceptance speech to offer the ONLY bit of tension, humor, drama and excitement of the WHOLE night (no, watching Jay-Z's line of black cars carry him from Tribeca to Radio City does [...]
Some incredibly pretty, headfucktechglitch from <a href= http://www.facebook.com/event. php?eid=122474517434Saturday's RES headliner , Shigeto: DRAFT - Praveen & Benoît - The Tunnel is Still There (Shigeto's Deep Tunnel Diving Remix) from Alex Koplin on Vimeo .
So maybe you were partying your ass off @ my Boston gig ? Maybe attended my my Bazzar ATL Gig ? Maybe you just read along at home and remember the remix post I mentioned this in? Well, whatever the reason, its FINALLY been released to the public and I just have to share it as fast as I possibly fucking can: Run DMC - My Adidas "(Pilotpriest Remix)" (320) LINKS: Pilotpriest If you dig this (which, well, you should) then keep an [...]
See you soon , Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun.Not going to be in Manhattan, at The Tank, Sept 12? Eat your heart out:
While you wait for the others to step their game up, here's ours: Yup, the biggest and best Resonator live music showcase we've yet put on, featuring Atlanta's Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun , Boomkat-approved ambient electronic singer/songwriter heartstring pullers City Center and emotional tech architect Shigeto . To make you a little hungry for it, here's some words and sounds from City Center. City Center: Open/House And some words about it, from City Center: [...]
Sally Shapiro's first album, Disco Romance , was a cute little Swedish disco-pop confection, introducing the world at large to the shy big-eyed stare and trembling-hand stammers of one of dance music's least likely heroines. In a way, Sally Shapiro has, since then, become a sort of anti-kitten and anti-Kittin, refusing to allow the fame of chanteuse-dom to star her eyes. Maybe that's why I'm enjoying her second album, My Guilty Pleasure , so much more than I did her first. Around the time Disco Romance hit, the space disco [...]
It seems everyone's having the same day today-gloomy, rainy, wet. Emotionally exhausting, good feelings evaporating into graying mist. As such: Salem's new video, Skullcrush I know Cold Cave are this year's band the sad-eyed girls listen to, but Salem is still where you go when you have real problems and the only way out is down. (R.I.P. Dr Shlomo Zelig )
Hopefully you know Mansion by know. They've just officially released their first single on Beatport , and its rather exciting to see the duo we've supported for so long here @ Res work their way into stardom! Ok, well maybe not stardom per say, but being a success. Rock it out. "Gasaida" is totally house bliss -classic style vocals, super bouncy, tons of dance floor fun. I'm really digging it, and I'm sure dancefloors will start to rock out to it as well. We've got a 128 version for your listening [...]
As a result of my falling head-over-feet into David Browne's new-to-paperback biography of Sonic Youth, Goodbye 20th Century , I've been seriously digging into the fucking weird and absolutely wonderful super-old Sonic Youth back catalog. That might also have something to do with this year's SY album, The Eternal , being a back..rote. Lackluster. At least Rather Ripped was surprising and yielded layer after layer of tough underpainting as the flakes peeled away. Ciccone Youth:Into The Groovey As I wrote over at BabyGotBooks , the thing fascinating me [...]
Summer, Moving, blah, etc... Whatever. Things have been crazy. But you don't care. Here we go. Starting things back up again. Fresh as fuck remix? CHECK. Grandtheft checks in with some electrokrunk for your bouncing pleasure. Hot outta my inbox, straight to your playlists. Drake - "Best I Ever Had (Grandtheft Remix)" (320) LINKS: Team Canada DJs | Grandtheft | Previous Grandtheft Bring it. <hacks/>
It's hot in New York. The sweltering, energy-sapping sort of hot that could only come from a city able to have efficient massive underground public transportation but no central heating and cooling. It's a wake you up in the middle of the night sort of heat, fans do no good, neither do ice cubes on your head. It's fitting, then, that tonight I stumbled across P4K's top songs of the 2000s list, and was brought to remember one of the Res Mag anthems-The Streets' "Weak Become Heroes". This, in a convoluted way, has me, tonight, listening to [...]
(Editor's note: yeah, we took the summer off. Hacks moved. I moved. R Jamz moved. Trixie...is still insane. In the same place, though. Our first Res music showcase at the Tank post-hiatus will be Sept 12, with bands that are going to shock you sane. We're doing 2 shows in October. You read that right, jiminy crispers, 2 shows. And the web site redesign? It's coming. Unless Hacks hates me, we won't lose all content this time. So that's that. Welcome back .) I am not meant to see Ghostly International band School of 7 [...]
Sweat It Out peeped us to Australia's DCUP recently, and I've got to say I'm digging his most recent work. Half funky, half synthed out and slathered with old school samples, "Style" is totally the jam you need for your Monday. DCUP - Style (128) LINKS: DCUP | Sweat It Out There's a digital release of the EP up on Beatport so head over to check out the full on 320 EP release. If you haven't heard of Sweat It Out before, [...]
Sadly no time for a full on remix post, but I did want to share a new Mochipet track from his most recent album. Aptly titled "Marshall Bass Stacks" it sounds like what would happen if someone tried their damnest to to, well... blow out a stack of them (I think is partially the point. shhh!) Mochipet - "Marshal Bass Stacks" (128) LINKS: MySpace | Mochipet Blog | Purchase Master P On Atari This is from his new album " Master P On [...]
Tonight Trixie and I will be guest deejaying Personality Crisis #6 @ Crash Mansion . This month sports a killer 5 band lineup with a full on night of rocking and dancing to be had. So brave the rain (or what's left of it) and make the most of your Thursday. Featuring: Imperial Triumphant The New Royalists The Mighty Handful The Static Jacks SHAPES + SHAPES kids with ridiculous names dropping [...]
Hey A-towners, (or those nearby-ish): our friends over @ NOPHEST are still accepting submissions for their 2009 Summer festival . Having deejayed several of their events and attended a few more, I know for a fact they're always a spectacular shows. You can check out their current schedule here and then check out their requirements . Or -if you're lazy- email them and supply the following: 1.) A link to your music 2.) A couple of decent web-quality pictures 3.) ONE paragraph to describe your music [...]
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