Blog: 'Sup Mag

We aren't the only peops celebrating 10 years this year - Iceland's most innovative music festival AIRWAVES is also hitting up a decade of bringing you cooler than cool, and so they're bringing East London an all-night extravaganza of cutting edge music and culture in September across eight venues featuring some of the world's hottest breaking bands and DJ's including: FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE / THE WHIP / THE TEENAGERS / METRONOMY/ THESE NEW PURITANS / PONEY PONEY / CAZALS/ AUTOKRATZ / CROOKERS / DAVID.E.SUGAR THE COCK N BULL KID / DEAD [...]

Looks like Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale is looking for new versions of Myles and Chris, who have split to focus on their own project. Just please no reality show about the search for new members. We're hurting as it is, and you're never gonna find anyone that can rock a Korg like Chris Ross. Check this video of 'Love Train' we snuck at their last NYC Show as they opened the new Gramercy Blender venue in April of 2007. The debuted a new track which was really tight but [...]

East Village Radio , our fave storefront broadcast channel gone legit, is turning 5 years old. Wow! To celebrate they'll be throwing a free festival of epic indie proportions at NYC's South Street Seaport on September 6th from 1-9 PM. Hosted by KRS-One , it will feature performances by Boris , Flying Lotus , High Places , Devin the Dude , Awesome Color , Vivian Girls , Dr. Lonnie Smith , �l�f Arnalds , the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and John Oliver [...]

Hey! In celebration of Converse and Journeys' Get Out of the Garage Music Contest 'Sup is giving a way a prizepack of epic proportions. It includes: - 1 pair of Chuck Taylor All-Star shoes (via gift certificate) - Swag from Downtown Records , which includes: - CDs from Santogold , Gnarls Barkley and Spank Rock ! - Signed poster from Gnarls Barkley [...]

Why we love Japanese Motors : A) They sound exactly like where they are from: Southern California (not Bklyn, not LDN, but good ole Costa Mesa) B) They play surf rock and actually surf C) They are coming to the East Coast and gigging at beach venues and surf stores as part of the RVCA Right Coast Tour D) which is exactly why we are going to brave the NJ Transit [...]

AT HOME BY THE SEA /// BRIGHTON, UK/// AUGUST 8, 2008 /// WORDS: RICH HANSCOMB/// All of a sudden, my beloved city of Brighton was awash with festival fever and it was all happening on the doorstep. Hipsters – such as myself, dig? – were soon be revelling at Loop Festival. Those of us – not me – who like tofu smoothies could get all Big Chilled out to Beachdown but firstly, for the no less discerning summer reveller, was At Home By The Sea . This is a homely kind [...]

Sounding like DJ Gregory's marching band heading through the back alleys of Brazil's favelas, Township Funk is the master work of one South African, Mujava - real name Elvis Maswanganyi, a twenty something hailing from a Pretorian township called Attredgeville. It's a wicked track with a dark tough core, and has been storming the underground in Pretoria via cab drivers who have taxied it across South Africa's urban townships. TOWNSHIP FUNK is insiduous; it gets inside your gut with it's relentless driving bass, and moves you to the floor with it's [...]

BLOC PARTY /// WEBSTER HALL, NYC /// AUGUST 07, 2008 /// WORDS AND PHOTOS: DIANA WONG /// Concerts are different from a photo pit. I can't dance with gear around my neck. I don't have time to sing along. I am focusing intently on the stage …but through a small hole in my camera. So when the tremors from jubilant audience undulating on the standing room snaps me away from my shutterbug trance, I can tell it's a special gig. This was the case during Bloc Party [...]

LATE OF THE PIER/// FANTASY BLACK CHANNEL/// Zarcorp/// WORDS BY: RAPHAEL CAFFARENA/// If rock and electronic music in their separate forms haven't produced anything challenging or worthy of admiration lately, then the same can be said of the basic mixture of both. Following the fever for synth and guitar combos, the genre waved goodbye to its creativity and adopted a formula - and due to the excessive number of people using this formula, its charm, predictably, had pretty much gone. Luckily, there [...]

Well now you can see the results en mass ! From August 16 through September 13, 2008 Nick Zinner's It's OK, Don't Look at the Road exhibit will be on display at the Fuse Gallery in NYC. The opening reception is this Saturday the 16th from 7 to 10 pm. It's all going down at 93 2nd Ave between 5th & 6th Streets in New York City- but we're sure it'll hit London sometime thereafter! We, as always, will keep you posted. [...]

You got it kids- August 19th marks both the day that Jaguar Love 's much anticipated album drops plus a headlining show at Southpaw Brooklyn. Just email abbey@supmag.com to get a pair of tix for what is sure to be a landmark gig. Just remember to bring ear plugs if you know what's good for you... and if you really, really want to win, be sure to include your fave Blood Brothers OR Pretty Girls Make Graves concert going story!

MBAR + CASS MCCOMBS /// SOUTH STREET SEAPORT, NYC /// AUGUST 08, 2008 /// WORDS AND PHOTOS: PHILIP WATTS /// FACTS ABOUT FREE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT SHOWS: - Go. They're always good. It's outside. Outside is awesome. Unless it rains. It didn't rain. - Sometimes the new hyped up next best thing, is actually surprisingly worthy of all the praise. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson , has a long name for referencing in discussion about being actually really very good. [...]

After the debut 7" release of I Love You earlier this year on hip label Merok (Klaxons, Teenagers), Esser has signed to equally hip label Transgressive (Foals, Young Knives). So far this year Esser has already toured with Foals and Mystery Jets – cutting his teeth on the live stage. The first release for this exciting new partnership is Headlock . Released on digital download only it's wonderous pop mash-up reminiscent of classic Beck or Ian Drury - telling the tale of the obsessions of being in love – with the wrong sort. [...]

THE SUBWAYS /// GRAMERCY BLENDER THEATRE, NYC /// JULY 25, 2008 /// WORDS: AMY WAGNER /// PHOTOS: ABBEY BRADEN /// There are signs up in the lobby of the Blender Theatre that warn against two of rock and roll's favorite pastimes – moshing and crowd surfing. Usually, I get annoyed when I pass those signs, imagining New York ten years down the line as a stark antiseptic island where all kinds of thrashing have been banned – I say let those kids body slam and dance if they [...]

We find the music of Underworld a force to be reckoned with. Capable of invoking the rawest of emotions, it also has the ability to spur creativity- the soundtrack to many an all-nighter in studios around the world. All in all, it's over two decades of powerful sh*t. It was only natural then that the band take it's creative partnership with design collective Tomato to the next level: happenings, or 'Art Jams' if you will. You say Tomato ? Yes, yes we do. [...]