Kirk Degiorgio's name is not synonymous with minimal techno. Over the course of his 18-year career you could count on your hands the number of releases that would even qualify as club-approved tackle. Degiorgio made his name with multi-hued Detroit-inspired techno and went on to produce soulful music in a variety of genres, but rarely touched on straightforward dance floor-ready tracks. Today we see Degiorgio taking a new path that embraces this side of techno, both in terms of production and DJing. Degiorgio rebooted his Applied Rhythm Technology (ART) label this year and is focused on creating full sounding techno [...]
Amber Rubarth, a singer/songwriter whose beautiful music is getting worldwide attention, just got back from a US tour with Joshua Radin and Gary Jules. We got a chance to catch up with her and learn about the tour, her life as a independent artist, and what inspired her to pick up a guitar for the first time at the age of 20 and pursue a career in music. IM: Hey Amber, welcome back from the tour! How was it? AR: The tour was AMAZING!!!! Truly fantastic. I was [...]
nuggetsofthefuture : Swervedriver - Sandblasted This wasn't quite the first thing I heard by Swervedriver—I'd caught "Son Of Mustang Ford" and "Pile-Up" on the local college radio station—but the "Sandblasted" video did a great job of contextualizing Swervedriver for me. It clearly presented all of the themes that would dominate their aesthetic: muscle cars, long hair, beaches, driving, noisy guitars, and a vague sense of loneliness and melancholy that they were never able to escape, no matter how fast they drove. They may hide their sadness behind the rock trappings [...]
Following their successful summer tour in support of label-mates The Church, Adam Franklin and his band The Bolts of Melody are back out on the road just after the holidays for continued support for their most successful album to date "Spent Bullets". The tour starts in New York at The Mercury Lounge on Jan 5th [...]
Lee Scratch Perry is playing Highline Ballroom on December 13th. Tickets are on sale. Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the show Devendra Banhart just added at Music Hall of Williamsburg . DOOM and Mos Def are playing Nokia Theatre on January 30th. Tickets are on sale. Tickets are on sale [...]
This past weekend Philadelphia had the joy of witnessing a The Misfits cover set from a true überband. The band was fronted by Ted Leo and featured Adam Goren of Atom and His Package as well as Andy of Paint It Black members of Franklin . The set featured Leo in full Misfits-era Danzig get-up and featured a cover of the Danzig classic "Mother." Thanks to Pitchfork for finding the video. Click Read More for the video.
Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Neon Indian show happening at Mercury Lounge in December . Neon Indian last played NYC during CMJ . This weekend they play in Austin at Fun Fun Fun Fest . Flyer below. Also playing FFFFest are Fucked Up who play a very big show in NYC on Thursday . Tickets are still available. Also playing FFFest is Danzig whose [...]
We are excited this morning to bring you the second edition of our newest weekly feature. For those of you who missed our inaugural edition with Danny Balis last week , in these weekly posts we are calling The Guestlist , we are inviting local musicians (and the occasional national act) to come up with a clever category and then to tell us about their top 5 songs in said category, hence the clever title. This week's Guestlist comes from The O's guitar/bass drum/vocalist/hell-raiser Taylor Young. Their fantastic debut album "We Are the O's" released back [...]
The bass which you are about to hear is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Harvester and her invalid brother Franklin. It is all the more tragic because they were so young. But had they lived very, very long lives they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad macabre as they were to see that evening. The events of that night were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of London's history. [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
2009 release from this musical collective fronted by former God Machine mainman Robin Proper-Sheppard . limited 2 CD edtion includes a bonus track disc, The Valentines Day Sessions , recorded live in Vienna. featuring Jeffrey 'The Bear' Townsin (drums) and Calina de la Mare (violin/string arrangements) as well as a host of friends including Astrid Williamson , Dan Carney and Neil Kleiner of Dark Captain Light Captain , Dan Lea of By The Fireside / Golden Hum , Adam Franklin [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 Berlin // Magnet >> Russ Chimes, Dj Wool, Arveene, Lars Moston, Finckobot, Karrera Klub, ... Berlin // Salon zur wilden Renate >> Madmotormiguel, Der Raab, Klick Berlin // Berghain Kantine >> DJ Supermarkt, KrsnSkate, Remmidemmi DJs Berlin // Arena Club >> Tolga Fidan, Super Flu, Marcus Meinhardt, Marco Resmann, Empro, Fabiano Berlin // Icon >> Benga, Robotic, Mr. Boggie Berlin // Watergate >> Derrick Carter, Heidi, Jamie Jones, Lauhaus, Soulclap Berlin // Horst Krzbrg >> Luna City Express, Sven Tasnadi, Nils Ohrmann Berlin // [...]
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 Berlin // Icon >> Vicarious Bliss, Mickey Moonlight, Marvin Suggs Berlin // Maria >> 4 Hero, AppleBlim, Shut Up and Dance, Shackleton, A Guy Called Gerald, ... Berlin // Mikz >> Error & Klecksen, Scheckkartenpunk, Krink, 1 Foot in da Rave, Hypnorex, ... Berlin // WMF >> Ellen Allien, Ryan Elliot, Kiki, Alexkid, Zander VT Berlin // Renate >> Senor Whoogy, Djane Meggy, Platten Ali Berlin // Dice >> Daso, Alex Flitsch, Franklin de Costa, Jan Mir, Norbert Fuhrmann, PM2AM, Kerstin Eden Berlin // Panorama [...]
New Yorker Festival The "early" yet official 2009 New Yorker Festival schedule was released today and while there a lot of familiar faces (as always), I think this year's lineup is a lot stronger than last year's . Highlights of this year's festival include: Mad Men panel with Matthew Weiner, Lee Clow, Steve Stoute , Brooklyn Playlist concert at The Bell House with Dirty Projectors , Music and Conversation with and Neko Case and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) , [...]
Move To The Beat by Bernard Badie . Maxi-Single with 2 Tracks, out on Mojuba Records . Released on Monday (09/07/2009) and available as MP3. [ Listen to this Release ] [ Download this Release ] A Certain Distance [...]
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Image From Here If you don't know Adam Franklin, then you should. Franklin was born in Essex, England and is most well known as the frontman/guitarist for one of the best 90's Shoegaze bands - Swervedriver. Along with his more recent solo work, he has also been a part of Toshack Highway and Magnetic Morning. Regarding his solo career, his debut release was Bolts Of Melody released in 2007. Bolts had Franklin returning to his Swervedriver roots and was full of the trademark sprawling, guitar heavy sound. A great album and [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Black Francis w/ Mere Mortals 2 Shows The Mint Tues 8/11 Wed 8/12 THIS WEEK'S GIVEAWAYS The Dan Band As seen in Old School & The Hangover Friday, August 14th Club Nokia Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] [...]
Dopo l'uscita a giugno del nuovo album "There Are no Goodbyes", Robin Proper Sheppard e la sua band arrivano in Italia nel mese di ottobre per tre date a Roma, Milano e Torino. Il disco, frutto della collaborazione di Robin con i membri live del gruppo (Will Foster, Adam Franklin, Calina De La Mare, Astrid Williamson, Dan Carney e Neil Kleiner), è un disco malinconico e piuttosto triste, dedicato a chi, almeno una volta nella vita, ha subito una grave perdita.I Sophia hanno alle spalle quattro ottimi [...]
As always, there's an eight-hour pile of tracks for you today. Here's how it breaks down: - Six songs get repeated in that eight hours, so it's four hours between plays for those six songs. They're the ones in " The Grinder ", in case you're wondering what I mean by that when I say it on the FM Showcase (which, by the way, is on 90.5 The Night tonight at 10pm .) - The rest of the songs are set up so [...]
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
‘09 Been Kind
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
