No, not the holiday break. Intern time! The Syndicate is beginning its search for interns. Do you live or wish to travel to the NYC area, and want to intern with us for some college credit? Then email us blog@thesyn.com and we'll put you in touch with our intern coordinator to arrange an interview. As a marketing and promotion company we offer a lot of different areas you could learn from including, radio promotion and marketing, street marketing, online marketing, web design, and event planning to name a few. Hell, we could even teach [...]
Morena Mix (DJ Gina Turner) For Nouveau Yorican 1.) "La India Con La Voe (Viva Puerto Rico) " - Masters At Work 2.) "Jacuzzi Games" - Loco Dice 3.) "The Boogieman (Downtown Remix)" - Gucci Vump 4.) "Boriqua (Douster Remix)" - Nouveau Yorican 5.) "The Lick (Derrick Carter Dub Mix) - Samim 6.) "I was drunk ft Noze" - Riva Starr 7.) "Calor en la Discoteca" - Isaac Rodriguez 8.) "Soy Boriqua (Sepa Mix)" - Lucci & Cruz 9.) "Cafe Con Leche" - El Presidente 10.) "Try Yazz" - Two Without [...]
Nearly three weeks ago, when Yeasayer dropped news of their new Ambling Alp single, the press materials had also promised to "unleash... a breakthrough video at yeasayer.net on the evening of October 30th." Well, it's a little bit late, but that video is now here, and better late than never, right? It's definitely NSFW (why do I feel like I'm giving this disclaimer all the time now?), and features some trippy interactive video that I can tell you is almost certainly an homage to the early '70s work of Dan Graham [...]
'How The Grouch Stole Christmas' Tour Sees Hip Hop Uniting Around Toys For Tots *The Grouch, Mistah F.A.B. & more hit the road in December; The Grouch 'Three Eyes Off the Time' out 12/9 on Legendary Music* new MP3: The Grouch: Whatever I Say [...]
Marina Rosenfeld Plastic Materials (2009, Room 40) RIYL = Kallikak Family, Alan Licht & Aki Onda, Mark Templeton I received Marina Rosenfeld's Plastic Materials without any real knowledge about Rosenfeld's four previous albums and at least ten years experience as a musician/composer. The truth is, even now I still don't have much of an clue about her previous work, except I know that it exists. After listening to Plastic Materials I am wondering how this is possible. Rosenfeld's work is mind bogglingly good. Like, really really great and good and [...]
WFMU and The Free Music Archive are incredibly excited to announce a remix contest featuring Anti-Pop Consortium ! NYC's legendary hip-hop innovators are sharing hi-fi stems & a capellas from "Reflections", a cut off their brand new album Fluorescent Black ( Big Dada ). After five exploratory years apart, Beans, M. Sayyid, High Priest and Earl Blaize have re-joined forces to craft what may be their finest work yet. Now they're making multitracks from "Reflections" available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Shar eAlike license, and we can't wait to hear [...]
Romanian black metallers Negura Bunget have issued the following statement about releasing a new album and live DVD: "Maiestrit / Maiastru sfetnic, along Focul Viu (live DVD) are the last materials materials that we worked under the original formula of the band. The first idea to re-record entirely the Maiastru sfetnic album we had soon after th... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
From what I've read on their Blog, Crookers are done with their upcoming album entitled "Tons Of Friends" , to be release on Southern Fried Record. Some of the materials I've heard are simply killing it at the moment and have been constantly on repeat in my iTunes. This album is definitely something to look forward to when it hit the stores on March 8th of next year (I know i know... it's gonna be a long wait!). In the mean time you can check out their latest track "No Security ft. Kelis" . I have no idea [...]
Yesterday was the Subbacultcha & Streetlab Artbook Launch Party , a book about all the artists that have work throughout the Subbacultcha events , a very cool place and building , unfortunately we couldn't stay to watch The Stutters because of the evening busy and tight schedule. Massive Attack announces the release of a new video and single from the 2010 upcoming new album , the video looks very cool and the track superb. [...]
OK GO TEAMS WITH DESIGNER MORITZ WALDEMEYER AND FENDI FOR GROUNDBREAKING DESIGN PERFORMANCE AT DESIGN MIAMI/, HELD DECEMBER 1st - 5th Band's New Single/Video "WTF?" Available Now On The iTunes Music Store; Upcoming Album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, Due Out January 12, 2010 (New York, NY) - OK Go, the mind-bending band that gave us what is largely considered the decade's most-viewed music video, the treadmill-manned "Here It Goes Again," will join with Design Miami/, FENDI and technologically-pioneering designer Moritz Waldemeyer to stage a groundbreaking Design Performance at Design Miami/, the pre-eminent [...]
"To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of his book ' Liptick Traces ' the book, Columbia University in partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music presents Greil Marcus in a one-man performance of Lipstick Traces. The event will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street and is free and open to the public. In addition, the Music & Arts Library at Columbia University will display books by Marcus, books that influenced him, and posters, records, and other materials courtesy of the ARChive of Contemporary [...]
In addition to dropping records like the bouncy See Mystery Lights , YACHT has spent time working on various music-free "supplementary materials." These include everything from mixtapes to that baffling The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights: A Handbook for Overcoming Humanity and Becoming Your Own God pamphlet. Now you can add this poster to that list. This massive-2'3" x 3'3"-poster chronicles all the band's influences from 2007-2009. Just a few of the influences included are the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, Aleister Crowley (not just an Ozzy song), and [...]
The //word// of the day is Juxtaposition. Ideas contrasted against others are what create friction, or heat. Temperature is a tricky thing to measure, because any difference in temperature is an heat /energy gain or an heat/energy loss. What you feel is not hot or cold, but the loss or gain of energy, or the flow of heat. Just basic thermodynamics. Some materials are more conductive to the flow of heat than others. Ok. So whats with the juxtaposition of ideas? Oh yeah, they create friction, which creates heat, which is energy. Its not about too much or too little, [...]
-in the UK, fortunately. I had three week UK visa drama and temporary deportation. Yum. So for those of you looking to get into the UK for study in January/February: First, get a good visa expediter. i,e. A good one should properly vet your materials and help you out. Mine ( TDS in NYC ) did not. They were horrible, don't use them. I got more help from the A Briggs website than I did from the morons I was working with. Also, when you select a service, double check that they are on your consulates [...]
We hope all of you stayed dry on Sunday at the Fun Fun Fun Festival and we also hope you soaked in the great weather of Saturday. All in all we had a great time over the weekend and saw tons of great bands. Just as we did with ACL, we'd like to give you a brief recap with our top 10 favorite bands from the weekend festivities. We're putting these in no real order and just listing them with some brief reasons why we liked them so much. Follow the jump for our top 10 Fun Fest bands. [...]
Considered as one of the highest levels of luxury sportswear, Y-3 has decided to kick it up a notch with their Fall/Winter 2009 luxury collection. This time they are focusing in on high quality materials and already known craftsmanship. These accessories should be available at your nearest Y-3 carrier soon. Check out the rest of the collection after the jump Source: Hypebeast
Considered as one of the highest levels of luxury sportswear, Y-3 has decided to kick it up a notch with their Fall/Winter 2009 luxury collection. This time they are focusing in on high quality materials and already known craftsmanship. These accessories should be available at your nearest Y-3 carrier soon. Check out the rest of the collection after the jump Source: Hypebeast
One of the early wave of dnb artists who came to prominence on Goldie's Metalheadz label. This is quality dnb and as something different a dubbed out slowed down remix from downtempo masters Kruder & Dorfmeister. Though he's most interested in acid house and early Detroit techno, Alex Reece came to prominence in the mid-'90s as a jungle star. His interest in techno began in the late '80s, when acid house was popular. Reece gradually earned enough money to buy turntables and a decent vinyl collection. He then began DJing and worked for Basement Records in [...]
Who the hell are the so-called "Tweed EQ"? That's exactly what I was asking myself yesterday as I was listening to their debut 5 song EP. After a little detective work, aka scrounging online for their press materials the answer was a bit more confusing than I first guessed. While the details are still a bit hazy, here's my take; The band from what I can tell seems to be the various members of Austin Brown Sounds, although they've given themselves quirky (and a tad dorky) pseudonyms. Paisley Ascott and Sputnik Jones (Brown and guitarist Robbie Saunders) seem to be [...]
Songwriter Chad VanGaalen makes an album of brief instrumental tracks using a wide variety of synthesizers and occasional acoustic instruments. His keen ear for melody keeps this record grounded and listenable. Full disclosure, right off the bat. I've never heard any of Chad VanGaalen's music in his day job as a singer/songwriter. But I really enjoyed Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz, the first album released under his electronic music alter ego, Black Mold. The press materials for the album tout its marriage of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments, and also makes a big deal about how it uses a [...]
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
