Blog: Eat Your Heart Out

Artrocker Magazine will run the "first ever online music festival" in May! VAGABONDO 2009 Over 4 virtual stages will run a program on the magazine's website www.artrocker.tv from May 25. Artrocker magazine invited a selection of bands to a studio to create original recordings for the festival. The sessions can be streamed or downloaded for one week. Ambient, Spoken Word, Noise and Experimental pieces are performed by participants like New York's [...]

Dear Friends, Christoph de Babalon will play at "Skid Mark" presented by the Sameheads tomorrow, Saturday May 9th. Sameheads present: Skid Mark with Christoph de Babalon Cylob Binary Chaffinch Franz Underwear Andy Blake Emil Doesn't Drive DSB Raum 18 Ziegrastraße 11 12057 Berlin http://www.myspace.com/christo phdebabalon http://www.myspace.com/samehea ds http://www.last.fm/event/10389 24 http://maps.google.de/maps?hl= de&q=Ziegrastra%C3%9Fe+11+berl in&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=de &ei=nT4ESs2TDpWfsgbu4Oi2CA&sa= X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&r esnum=1 All the best, [...]

Hello to the Sound Unbound crew! I'm just writing to say a basic hi and to give you a tiny update about what's been going on! It's been a while since we all corresponded about Sound Unbound, and there have been many developments. We've had highly successful book launches everywhere from Melbourne, Toronto, Vienna, Capetown, London, Berlin, Naples, Paris, Rome, Milan, San Francisco, Washington DC, Yale, MIT and many spots in between, and the book has been pretty much one of MIT's best selling books for the last several months. I still have to hit parts of Asia [...]

ALEC EMPIRE TOUR REPORT http://www.gigwise.com/reviews /live/50750/Friday-010509-Alec -Empire-Patrick-Wolf-@-The-Und erworld-Camden we are partying in Amsterdam tonight. having a great time. not these dumb drink yourself stupid so you forget times, it's more like we met so many supporters again, people who really care...and after months of recording for films this just feels great! on the way to here I read this German article about how "young people" don't care about politics anymore and that whole blah. Well, I have seen the exact difference ...and [...]

The Obama Report Card by Ricky Zipp It's been 100 Days since Obama became King. He promised all sorts of shit and change. 99% of "the People" ate it up like a dope fiend chunks on chocolate. I told you it was a load of bullshit last year and that anyone who believed that Obama presented real change was just plain stupid. I told you that there is no way to fix the American political system. The Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. Wall [...]

Sat 02.05.09, Door: 21h BANG BANG CLUB & Karreraklub present: Live: PIVOT (WARP Records, AUS) THE BIG PINK (4AD, UK) Aftershow: Karreraklub DJs Bang Bang Club, Neue Promenade 10, Berlin-Mitte Tickets 12 Euro click!

Hi, autoKratz announce the release of debut album 'Animal' for 22nd June 2009. There are more details on the album announcement in the press release below. Here is a link to the brand new autokratz cover version of Swastika Eyes, an exclusive leak which is to signal start the album campaign. http://www.zshare.net/audio/59 25236935a65b80/ Mani and Bobby Gillespie are both big supporters of the cover describing it as "brilliant. proper rocking" Cheers Russell "Fuzzy dancefloor joy that will nudge them into the big league" NME [...]

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TWO DAYS!!! FIRST HALF OF THE TOUR!!!! ALEC EMPIRE & NIC ENDO THE PAST - THE PRESENT - THE FUTURE TOUR 2009 Presented by Sonic Seducer Magazine 30.04.2009 Vorselaar (B) - Edma 01.05.2009 London (GB) - The Underworld / get tickets here or here 02.05.2009 Manchester (GB) - Satan´s Hollow [...]

CHAOSTAGE-WE ARE PUNKS ! Die Haupstadtpremiere am 30.04. im Eiszeitkino ab 20 Uhr ( http://www.eiszeit-kino.de ) Ab 21 Uhr Doors open zur Aftershow im SO36|Oranienstr.190|Berlin-Kre uzberg mit der schottischen Punklegende THE EXPLOITED supported durch die TOWERBLOCKS, Berlins Punkrockstars. Pünktlich zum berüchtigten Tanz in den Mai in Berlin ! Mehr Infos auf www.chaostage-film.de -

Thanks for sending us the new Peaches record to review, but while we were listening to it, we started to feel like this: click here to watch These days if you say anything bad about those Canadians you have a fundamentalist group of cynics, who still cry over the end of the Bush era, attack you in Berlin. Not worth it. So instead of being negative, let's worship the kid in the video above. For us he represents dedication mixed with passion. The two things which are missing in that [...]

****************************** ******please find english version below Bongout Gallery presentiert MIRON ZOWNIR FOTOGRAFIEN vom 23. April – 30. Mai 2009 Vernissage am 22. April um 19.00 Uhr. Mit radikalem Blick erschafft Miron Zownir Bilder von Menschen, die sich am Rand gesellschaftlicher Normen und Konventionen bewegen. Er sucht nach dem Ungewöhnlichen und extremen Situationen. Hat Zownir einen solchen Winkel entdeckt, lässt er nicht mehr von ihm ab. Er skizziert und dokumentiert diesen Ort und seine Menschen. Er holt ihn aus dem Schattendasein hervor und macht ihn auch für all jene sichtbar, [...]

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can't see player? click here last night we had a lot of fun on Blip. Here is the setlist. still sounds good today. I should DJ more bars again. like in the early days. hung out with these musicians in Asia early 1996 and one of the guys sent me this link for this rare clip. We took over some party there. thought I post this. can't see player? click this It's like total Bass Terror. Fred Perry and Sham 69 look. This was [...]

TWO WEIRD & COOL FAN VIDEOS WE FOUND IN OUR INBOX click here to watch click here to watch 2nd video how can Berlin be so hot in April? a good day to go through the EYHO inbox...apart from all the usual psycho shit we get sent (yes, you! who is probably reading this...stop sending these pixelated Thai porn clips with Alec Empire vs Merzbow at CBGBs music dubbed onto [...]

CAROLINE MARTIAL OF KAP BAMBINO TALKS WITH ALEC EMPIRE ABOUT NEW ALBUM Alec: "Let's not beat around the bush...you are our favorite "new" band. Every time we mention it to the German audience, they respond that they only know Ed Banger and Justice. Which is depressing. We feel that your are changing the perception of French [...]

Eat Your Heart Out News ! "THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE ON A BAD DRUG" Alec Empire , taken from Control Drug of SHIVERS Hey! It's spring 2009! flowers start to grow...slowly but surely! The Golden Foretaste of Heaven Film by Richard Wilhelmer went down like a storm at Los Angeles David Lynch screening "Engine Collision Fest" and Austria's "Diagonale" Film Festival. watch the trailer [...]

click here to watch anything with Michelle Rodriguez in it gets our support! The team from Addictive TV pitched this video to us...yeah...good stuff indeed... It is also interesting how the mash up remix culture is making its way into more mainstream areas..we think that's the way it should be! (As long as something cool comes out of it at the end.) Have a great weekend...more soon with news for Alec Empire's "Shivers". from the Addictive TV camp: "In the wake of Addictive TV's remix of Oscar winning [...]

Sun is Shining And The Weather Is Sweet... This morning I woke up and finished my first piano ballad which will make it onto new release "Shivers" out in May! Life is different now. Another track I have done for it is called "Baby Skulls" and it's perhaps one of the most direct political songs I have ever written... awesome review of Alec Empire Staubgold DJ Mix album click here [...]

we just can't help it... when the first wave is over, and most people left the boat, we get so into it.... in between....like you put your hand into ice cold water and then into steaming hot water...and then back again... until you feel nothing... watch out....in the next days we reveal new Alec Empire release...track listing , artwork...everything... that Patrick Wolf song is hot...people love it... Empire producing beats for Big Pink right now... Nic Endo... www.alec-empire.com

by Achim Treu every other year the pictoplasma conference takes place here in berlin. hundreds of talented artists gather to inspire each and have a good time together. this year's conference is located at the haus der kulturen der welt and it features "pictopia"; an outstanding exhibition of the world's latest character art. the pictopia exhibition will playfully explore the phenomenon of contemporary character design and art. graphic designers, artists, animators, media and 3D designers work with a shared set of signs, opening up new contexts and correlations. for the [...]