by shannon moore If you were there, I'm sure you have your own dimly lit, grainy circus story to tell. If you braved the Industrial labyrinths of warehouses on this particular sub-zero Saturday night and followed the soft glow and faint pound of music to the doorstep of the House of Yes , then I'm sure you're still talking about it right now, as the weekend ends. There were hundreds of us there. Three hundred and forty last I checked the head count with my pals [...]

Yes you are reading this flyer correctly. Plump DJs , Nadastrom , and Steve Aoki will all be performing at the Avalon in Hollywood this Friday. I don't really feel like I need to over-exhaust this post with needless persuasion, so I won't. If you're in LA, I'm guessing I'll see you there. ///BONES will be making his Legit Lounge debut this week so make sure you give your GDD™ DJ some love and come check out his set in the Honey Lounge he will [...]
RAFTER'S TECHNICOLOR POP BLOW-OUT, ANIMAL FEELINGS, SET FOR RELEASE APRIL 13TH ON ASTHMATIC KITTY Asthmatic Kitty is pleased to announce the release of Rafter's latest long player, Animal Feelings, set for release on April 13th. With his new offering, Rafter's history and influences, his dreams and ambition, and his love for love and life, all come together as a beat-busting ride into the inner-core of pop and R & B music. Where previous Rafter releases trafficked in feedback and noise-informed experimentation while focusing on places of longing, recovery, sadness and new romance, this new album struts cleanly from [...]
Warning: You will not find Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, or Grizzly Bear on this list. (Loses 99/100 of potential audience...) Now then. Here are 25 songs that I adored in 2009, in no particular order. Mexican Chili Taco Fiesta - Tamales Oaxaquenos (via KEXP). If you had told me that I would include a mostly instrumental song about Oaxacan tamales, where the only lyrics I can understand are the title words of the song, on my year-end mix, well, I might not have laughed at you, but I [...]
Hello again friends. Just as last year last year I once again queried Denver's best, brightest and most prolific music writers for their take on the year. While I didn't get replies from everyone, the ones I did were funny, interesting, enlightening and seasoned with all the delicious flavors that each bring to the table. It's long, but great. If you are not familiar with these folks -- shame on you. Links all around so become their friends, you'll be a better person this time next year. [...]

We would like to thank you for following us on Twitter, reading our magazine throughout the year and leaving your comments on our website. We are nothing without you, our readers. [...] http://mv.huo360.com/article/2 009/12/23/2770.html Track Listing: 01. Soto - "Orange" (www.creation-centre.com) 02. The Black Atlantic - "Dandelion" (www.beepbeep.nl) 03. Jsvenes y Sexys - "El Reloj" (www.ponirepublic.com) 04. Did The Red Sea Part? - "Ghost Bees" (www.peppermillrecords.com) 05. Comfort Fit - "Freeze The Cut (Opolopo's Emotional Draft Remix)" (www.tokyodawn.net) [...]

Music From All Around The World A Free Phlow Compilation Full of Pop Kindly words from Phlow.de: We would like to thank you for following us on Twitter, reading our magazine throughout the year and leaving your comments on our website. We are nothing without you, our readers. And you know, we're best in sharing free music with you. Thus far it will be no surprise to you, that we like to spread some love to you with a small compilation. "Music From All Around The World" is full [...]

What a decade it's been. 2004 was my first year in the so-called Real World ; jobs, car payments, instability everywhere. Things weren't all happy and seemingly upbeat like the mid 90s. After eight months in Seattle, I found myself unemployed and decided it was time for more education. I moved to the greater Portland area and began prep to enter a Masters in Business Administration program, taking night classes at WSU Vancouver and making a frequent trip out to Pullman, where I'd soon attend graduate school. The overall instability and open-your-eyes wake-up calls [...]

I've never met an album that didn't change for me somehow. Now, they can go up and down the scale in either a positive or negative direction, but there isn't one that escapes a reframing of sorts somewhere along the line. For some albums, time is the perfect vindicator. The album is revealed as a master stroke and the audiences' initial conceptions are what become tarnished. Other times, what was once golden falls into disrepair, looking like an old sack of potatoes, stripped of its luster and banished to the bin. This state of flux is part of what makes [...]
Kylie was my main reason in going to New York. She was also playing in Toronto but I was like, eh, now that I'm in MTL, I'm almost equidistant from Toronto and New York. Pourquoi pas New York? A good excuse to go to a city I haven't been to in five years. Plus, my friends in Vancouver were flying all the way to New York for this too! And so off I went in my rideshare and six hours later I arrived in the Big Apple. My friends and I lined up at noon in front of [...]

Cyborgs Revisited was an album released by Simply Saucer in 1989. The Hamilton, Ontario band lasted from 1973 to 1979 and only ever released one single officially when they were together. "She's A Dog/I Can Change my mind was released in 1978. The bands style was a mix of bands such as Alice Cooper, MC5, The Stooges, Velvet Underground, and Hawkwind. The song "Electro Rock", featured on today's program can be found on the album Cyborgs Revisited . The album was made up of two sides, the first being a demo session that the band [...]
Short film by 'Where the Wild Things Are' director has odd parallels to West's recent life. You've heard of art imitating life. What about life imitating art? After months of slow-boil hype, the eagerly anticipated re-hookup between Kanye West and "Where the Wild Things Are" director Spike Jonze, "We Were Once a Fairytale," was released over the weekend. And, as with the last time these two collaborated (on the "Flashing Lights" video), the results are mind-bending and a bit too close to home. The 11-minute short film which is not a video for any specific song [...]
No doubt about it. This is it. Anyone who, like myself, fell under that absolutely brutal spell that was the Gothic industrial masterpiece of Sehnsucht knows what I'm talking about. I first heard that album just days after it's release at a listening station at the now defunct Tower Records. It didn't take more than a minute of the opening title track and a few seconds of the following track "Engel" to know that I was hooked. Like a junkie in desperate need of a fix, Rammstein raced through my [...]

In case you don't already know: Dan Deacon will take your idea of live music, light it on fire, and throw it out into the unexpected void beyond to fend for itself. Don't walk into the show expecting anything because most likely whatever you would have expected will just be utterly trampled and ripped to shreds by the end of the night. And I mean that in the best way possible- just be a willing captive. To make up for his cancellation at FYF Fest, Dan played the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock last [...]
Major Lazer tonight in NYC * Violent Bullshit @ ABC No Rio * Ponytail, Javelin @ The Bell House * Rosanne Cash @ St. Ann's Warehouse * Owen, The One AM Radio @ Union Hall * Clutch, Lionize, Wino @ Irving Plaza * Drummer, Royal Bangs @ Mercury Lounge * Lord of the Rings @ Radio City Music Hall [...]
Well it's that time of the decade again - eek! Ten years ago we were stocking up on tinned food and preparing for society to melt down after Y2K, as well as stocking up on champagne and party poppers ready for the party of the millennium. Sigh! Time, therefore, to take stock of the musical legacy of the decade. And thanks to blogs, filesharing, streaming, Youtube, the Hype Machine and specialist online radio stations, we've never had so much music at our fingertips before. So the job of distilling all these down to a small(ish) chart is by no means [...]
This is an ever changing and (hopefully) expanding list of some of the songs I have mentioned before in this blog or simply stuff I have found somewhere on the web that I find interesting, but have no time to write about. All files have been found somewhere in cyberspace (and NONE of them have uploaded by me, so I cannot help you with any requests you might have - just keep returning and something new might pop up), so they will be available until the artists, record labels, fans, whatever decide to remove them. Thanks to a few readers, [...]
I've been spending a lot of time recently combing through Pitchfork's list of the top 500 songs of the decade, but one thing that has annoyed me is that I can't find a site that actually lists all 500 songs on one page. I'm tired of having to scroll through page after page. So, I'm doing it myself. Here's the complete list, republished merely as a reference. Go to www.pitchfork.com to see the full presentation with song reviews, artwork, and audio clips. 500. The Big Pink - "Velvet" 499. N.E.R.D. - "Run to the [...]

Last night, Arctic Monkeys pulled one of my favorite moves: they didn't play it safe. Yeah, they could have come out, played every hit, every danceable number, maybe appease the people who came for a few songs or just to say they went, but instead, they said to the crowd, "we are artists, and we know where we want to take you." That is what separates the men from the boys. And since they are so young, it's surprising that they already have the confidence to take the road less traveled. It's, dare I say, refreshing. [...]