Blog: Audiopleasures

A portrait series with personal statements revealing the faces behind the 99% Occupy Wall Street movement ... Full story here

Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson Berry - born Oct. 18, 1926, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.) singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was one of the most popular and influential performers in rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll music in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Full biography here Watch | Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me (Rock Rock Rock 1956)

The low temperatures that are striking Europe have turned Amsterdam frozen canals into a fun-tastic playground, tomorrow -12 !!!!!

Megalicious "Tortilla Pass" remix to the Boards of Canada classic Roygbiv ... pure class Listen | Boards of Canada - Roygbiv (Tortilla Pass Remix)

Pitchfork has announce today that the documentary about the legendary garage punk icon that passed away at the age 29 on 13 January 2010 will be screened in cinemas cross the US ... hopefully will come to Europe ... more info here Watch | Jay Reatard - Better Than Something [ Teaser ]

Simply breathtaking the sounds from White Hex, original from Australia and now based in Berlin, the "Tropical Goth" duo Jimi Kritzler and the intoxicating Tara Green make obscure and haunted post-punk with rumbling gorgeous bass and lush distortion lines, sexy beat rhythms reminiscent from Joy Division, Bauhaus and more recently the insane amount of freaking awesome Goth and Dark Synth Waves bands pouring a bit from everywhere, the best way to describe this in a actual context would be certainly joining some bands that passed this blog before like Tropic of Cancer, Pure X, HTRK, Troller and Sleep ∞ Over [...]

Hot and delicious brand new remix from the Danish producer to Dalai Lama Renaissance, Zack Christ is by far one of my current electronic producers around IDM and Glitch. The only less positive thang about this remix is that is way to short !!!!! I've been following this gentleman sounds since i discover the awesome EP Lucky Pork / Far East Side last year on Moodgadget, after this the expectation were super high and there was another EP scheduled to be released but i [...]

Infectious sounds from Bloomington based brothers Doug and Bryan Enas, Stagnant Pools is a sick combination of post-punk/shoegaze with a psych monster wall of sounds, definitely very promising. FREE Consistency & frozen here Watch | Stagnant Pools - Consistency

" Last Shop Standing is a collaboration between award wining feature film company Blue Hippo Media and Proper Music Publishing Ltd. Based on the successful book by the same name, Last Shop Standing will be a 60-minute documentary to be released on Record Store Day in April 2012. It will be a celebration of the unique spirit of comradeship and entrepreneurial ingenuity that has enabled so many shops to keep operating successfully against the backdrop [...]

Pretty awesome video and track from Royal Baths, "Faster, Harder" is taken from the Brooklyn psych-garage 2nd album "Better Luck Next Life" out now on Kanine records. Watch | Royal Baths - Faster, Harder Listen | Royal Baths - Better Luck Next Life

Wonderful track by one of my favorite lady beat producers with a megalicious voice from Gavin Turek, Tokimonsta also known as the Los Angeles Queen of beats and the only lady signed to Fly Lo brainfeeder, "Darkest (Dim) feat. Gavin Turek" is taken from the 2011 EP "Creature Dreams" Watch | Tokimonsta - Darkest (Dim) feat. Gavin Turek

Another year more will be celebrated the super cool Freakland Festival in Ponferrada, Spain. Three full days with the best music. Bands such as Doctor Explosion, The Ripe or Hollywood Sinners , among other. 5th,6th and 7th of April. Are you going to lose it? Facebook

We Are Works in Progress Blonde Redhead new label Asa Wa Kuru is releasing a 14 track compilation for Post-Tsunami efforts for the Japan Society & Architecture For Humanity Japan featuring Deerhunter, Fever Ray, Interpol, Broadcast, Liars, John Maus, Pantha du Prince, Terry Riley, David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more. Listen | Four Tet - Moma Listen | Deerhunter – Curve

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New excellent single from the garage trashers The Hussy, "Bad Speed" is the first single from the Madison noise duo taken from "Weed Seizure" on the awesome Tic Tac Totally and the follow up from the 2011 debut "Cement Tomb Mind Control", the LP is out on April and by the sound of this is gonna be "Das" bomb !!!! Listen | The Hussy - Bad Speed

Absolutely stunning cover from the American troubadour Bill Callahan to the Leonard Cohen classic, this track is taken from a compilation on Mojo of various artists covering Cohen. Listen | Bill Callahan - So Long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen Cover)

The debut studio album of the australians Bleeding Knees Club to be released on April 17th through the record label IAMSOUND Records . At the moment can listen their cool single "Nothing To Do".

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Look who's back ... Everyones favorite Longboard Girls Crew are back from Mallorca and rolling theirs boards in the Land of Castles Spain. Endless Roads 3 - Land of Castles from Juan Rayos on Vimeo .

After the supa sick new years eve houseparty in Amsterdam with Strange Hands and Le Pecheur Audiopleasures is back on the parteeee zone, this time with the help of some friends were having the wonderful garage rockers Regal live and Slovenly records boss Peter Slovenly on the decks plus Audiopleasures and Bon Esprit dj's @ The House of Rising for FREE !!!!! REGAL (FR, FRANTIC CITY/AZBIN RECORDS) DJ PETE SLOVENLY [...]

Absolutely gorgeous work from San Francisco's artist Lawrence Yang . Take 5 minutes and visit Lawrence website cause is loaded with amazing stuff !!!! "Lawrence Yang wrestles with informational abstractions by day and paints by night. Influenced by graffiti art and traditional Chinese painting, he employs ink, marker, and watercolor, as the permanence of this media adds a sense of immediacy to his work. Lawrence's paintings make use of color to communicate atmosphere and emotion, and they are concerned primarily with creating order out of chaos (and vice versa)."