In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Ben Shaberman's essay collection The Vegan Monologues is more than a book about not eating animals. Sherman touches on political, social, and environmental issues while recounting his own experiences, always in his humorous yet poignant voice. In his own words, here is Ben Shaberman's Book Notes music playlist for his essay collection, The Vegan Monologues : [...]
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) seem to have no desire to slow down its output of material. Following last year's Peaceblaster and a remix album to boot, the electronic jam band has returned with its latest record, Ad Explorata. The album is due to drop on December 8th through 1320 Records . The five-piece group, famous for combining live instruments with electronic music, has posted an entry on the weirdly, offbeat development of its latest project on its website. Basically, the whole process started when keyboardist David Phipps' [...]
Record label Absolutely Kosher has announced the first official music video off of Chris Garneau's latest album El Radio. The single "Fireflies" has just been released to the public in Europe and North America. A crew of only five people over the course of five days, traveled hundreds of miles from Sequoia National Park, to Yosemite, to Death Valley and everywhere in between, filming this hybrid music video-action/adventure film with only a few, limited resources. Shooting mostly guerrilla style and capturing elements at the spur of the moment along the whole route, Garneau was [...]
Record label Absolutely Kosher has announced the first official music video off of Chris Garneau's latest album El Radio. The single "Fireflies" has just been released to the public in Europe and North America. A crew of only five people over the course of five days, traveled hundreds of miles from Sequoia National Park, to Yosemite, to Death Valley and everywhere in between, filming this hybrid music video-action/adventure film with only a few, limited resources. Shooting mostly guerrilla style and capturing elements at the spur of the moment along the whole route, Garneau was [...]
Brazilian husband and wife production team Mixhell recently did up Samantha Fu 's 'Theme From Discoteque' with their trademark rock band inspired sound. This is a really great edit, and I highly recommend it. Also, you may know Samantha better as Soulwax / 2 Many DJ's . More like 2 many names. Samantha Fu - Theme from Discoteque (Mixhell Edit) Samantha Fu - Theme from Discoteque (Mixhell Edit).mp3
If you need any more convincing to head out to East End for tonight's impressivve lineup of Lovvers , Nice Boys and Meezcaz , then check out a few breezy tracks by openers, Orca Team . Even on an icy day like this, they'll manage to melt your heart with their '50's inspired love songs that sound like Elvis in Blue Hawaii . Get to East End early! LISTEN: Orca Team - "And She Knows" Orca Team - "Ill at [...]
Bon bon, par où commencer !? Ibizzare II, c'est le nom que porte la soirée de ce samedi 21 novembre au Social Club et qui s'annonce déjà exceptionnelle et inoubliable. Teki Latex, fondateur d'un des labels parisiens les plus prestigueux (Institubes) ainsi que co-fondateur avec Dj Orgasmic de Sound Pellegrino crée en début d'année et dénicheur de nouveaux talents aux sonorités Tribales/Sauvages-Minimalistes , en parties , sera au premier plan dans cette soirée avec son pote Orgaga pour enflammé le Social et rendre ce beau monde joyeux. Le parisien Out One, qui m'a fait plus que vibré [...]
Deep Sea Arcade – Lonely In Your Arms Pretty dang great to hear Deep Sea Arcade go back to that kinda scratchy, kinda swaggering '60s pop sound that made that early demo of their #1 jam Crouch End such a golden classic of 2008. Not that their more recent experiments with hi-fidelity haven't been extremely rewarding but seriously, when you've got handclaps and tinny drums and that Hawaii Five-O guitar sound why not just roll with it? Shit is scientifically proven to break hearts and/or move feet. Lonely In Your Arms is similar in [...]
Everyone wants to be remixed by Kissy Sell Out.p But after doing some amazing tricks with records from Dragonette, Chromeo, Calvin Harris and Mark Ronson, the British "electro-pop musical prodigy" has been touring and playing major festival in Europe this year to promote his debut artist album "Youth." Check out a guilt-free MP3 of "Apple Jelly" to get a taste of his music. His sound is electro-pop of the crunchy kind. It sound home-made but really well put together. It gives me a little bit of that Go Team vibe that packed a similar punch and was [...]
In what seems to be a suite of albums that namedrop the jams that Anton Newcombe loves (with the first being 2007's My Bloody Underground ), the Brian Jonestown Massacre is set to drop Who Killed Sgt. Pepper on New Year's Day. And since Newcome is. always. on. fucking. MySpace. showing. us. the. dinner. he's. cooking. and. other. random. and. often. stupid. shit. , the tracklisting was made available for a brief time before it was retracted. Probably after a phone call from the manager. Be it as it may. 1. Tempo [...]
Cody Bonnette and Aaron Lunsford, both formerly of Tooth and Nail Records/ Solid State Records outfit As Cities Burn have launched a new production studio in Brunswick Sound Studio in Nashville, TN. The band explained: We worked so well together in As Cities Burn creating our music that we had the idea that we could help other musicians reach their goals for their own music. Cody had been working in studios around the country for the last couple years of the band. He was credited as our producer for our last record "Hell or [...]
p Remember that totally cheeky and totally pop duo of Britt Love and Frankee Connolly? Together they are Mini Viva and they are stirring up a storm overseas with their high-grade, infectious tunes that has both pop purists and pop cynics screaming for more. And yes, I must admit, I have a huge crush on these two. They're so cute and the music is so well put together. After successfully creating a buzz and chart success in the U.K. with their debut single "Left My Heart For Tokyo," Mini Viva is gearing up [...]
Austin's Sunset was formed by Bill Baird, formerly of the band sound team, whose Movie Monster was an underrated classic when it came out a couple years or so ago. Sadly, the band broke up and Baird (who has an amazing recording studio in Austin) formed this new project. On November 24th, they've got a beauty of an album coming out called Gold Dissolves To Gray on their hometown based Autobus
I received this DJ mix in advance of a very cool sounding show in London featuring 5+ acts including Chromeo and Punks Jump Up, and thought it worthwhile sharing. What the Neon Noise Project is doing is pretty cool.. check out the description below. I recommend hitting this party up in a big way - Chromeo and PJU are definitely worth showing support for. Quality not quantity has been a fitting motto for Neon Noise Project's second year of unique tailor-made, one-off events in seldom used venues across London. Neon Noise parties feature stunning live shows [...]
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ARTIST / BAND: Crookers Feat. Kardinal Offishall & Carla Marie MP3s: Put Your Hands On Me FILE UNDER: House / Electro LABEL: Ministry of Sound INFO: The Crookers are an Italian DJ/production duo (Bot and Phra) who have worked together since 2003. When the two artists met, both were trying to branch out of their genre and explore dance music. Their first collaboration worked. Phra said "It felt natural to team up, seeing that we had the [...]
Welcome to the new, not-really-improved BabyStew This Week In Chicago listing. What's new about it, you ask? Absolutely nothing, except that it now covers the week from Monday through Sunday rather than Sunday through Saturday. It always seemed weird to me not to be listing Sunday shows until the morning of – when not many people are reading blogs – for the sole purpose of sticking with the conventional definition of "week" ( i.e. , Sun-Sat). But convention be damned. So here's what's going on in Chicago this "week". [...]
In 2002, Toronto's Paper Bag Records had an auspicious first year by releasing a new millennial indie rock touchstone in Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People , one of the decade's most acclaimed albums, and one that helped shape thoughts and expectations of what indie rock could look and sound like in the '00s: sentimental and anthemic but still rooted in the raucous guitar rock of the '90s, all while featuring more members than an intramural softball team. Years later, the label still earns plaudits for curating a solid roster -- most recently given [...]
Three people. One adventure. Cosmic alignment? Polka Dot Dot Dot , based in Olympia, WA, formed when three travelers (Jordan O'Jordan, Onyx of Olympia, and Colleen Johnson or Twig Palace) met on the treefern-speckled shores of New Zealand. Combining their solo sets for a last-minute spot at the Camp A Low Hum Music Festival, the Dots charmed crowds with their refreshing blend of folk, tin pan alley, and a cappella styles. Their first album, Love Letter to New Zealand reflected this impromptu musical spirit. On their 2nd full-length release, Syzygy (a [...]
Night Noise Team's first single 'MENOLICK' will be released on 30th November. It will be available on download only from iTunes and www.permwhale.com The band consists of Sean Ormsby from Belfast on vocals and guitar, Fabien Pinardon from Paris on bass, Marco Morelli from Milan on guitar and drummer Mike Walker from Dunfermline. Currently based in Edinburgh, Night Noise Team has been busy gigging around the UK and building on the momentum created by well-received debut album 'Ronde de Nuit' (Permwhale [...]
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