I pretty much consider Caribou the most groundbreaking artist of the past decade. There's not one band or album I can point to that stands up to the one-two punch of Up in Flames and The Milk of Human Kindness . Dan Snaith has returned with the first glimpse, and lead-off track, from his forthcoming album Swim , and it's called "Odessa". It sounds dramatically different than anything you'd sample from Andorra yet there's a progression [...]
MAUS HAUS "Leave it to the weirdo mecca of San Francisco to produce a smart psych rock band in Maus Haus that practices the biggest rock perversion of them all - complete lack of guitars. Hailing from the Bay Area, Maus Haus combine a paranoid insomniac vibe with playful pop lines and cleverly cinematic lyrics that make them out to be the bastard child of Kraftwerk hanging with Captain Beefheart that would obviously have a video starring Simon Le Bon and the boys. That is an admittedly nutso sentence, but it's hard to pinpoint exactly what Maus Haus [...]
Salut, Très belle et heureuse année à vous tous ! Nous voilà donc en 2010, prêts à démarrer une nouvelle année en musique, et d'ores et déjà une première sélection dominicale. Direction Ottawa, où l'on va rejoindre Jo Krasevich, artiste qui a appris à jouer de la guitare en autodidacte. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que Merry Go Round , son premier album est enfin sorti en France. C'est un recueil de chansons à la fois douces, mélancoliques et émouvantes, le tempo ne s'élève que rarement sur ce [...]
- Frequenze Classic - Anche band dalla carriera irreprensibile come i Fleshtones hanno per una volta strizzato l'occhio al funk divertendosi ad incidere questa "Hall Of Fame" , che piacerà tanto ai fan di Rapture e !!! (chk chk chk) . Un potenziale successo pop rimasto relegato all'ombra del maxi singolo America Beat'84' ed in seguito riemerso in una non ben precisata raccolta di b-side. [...]
!!! (Chk-chk-chk), quizás la mejor banda de baile (¿existe ese término?) del mundo prepara su regreso. Sin nombre aún, el sucesor de esa bomba llamada Myth Takes (Warp, 2007) ,promete adentrarse en atmósferas más oscuras pero no por eso menos bailables. Con la producción de Eric Broucek, el cuarto disco de !!! pretende ver la luz a mediados del próximo año, tras un 2009 que se vió marcado por la muerte de su baterista Jerry Fuchs y la partida del vocalista John Pugh para dedicarse [...]
Timbaland 's Shock Value II loves metaphors. Well, enjoy this one: This album is a metaphor for the music industry going up in smoke. It saddens me to say that Timbaland has long outstayed his welcome with this release, and Shock Value II epitomizes much of what is wrong in music these days. This album is two years too late; perhaps as an offshoot "B-side" record for the original release, this would have sparked some interest. As a standalone release, however, it's a convoluted mix of country and hip hop songs, and Timbaland himself [...]
U:mack are celebrating their 15th birthday on Thursday in Tripod with the stellar lineup of Battles (debuting new material), 65 Days of Static , The Ex , !!! DJs , Adebisi Shank and Skinny Wolves DJs. It runs from 8pm until 3am in the moanin' and I've got a pair of tickets to giveaway to one person. All you have to do is comment below and tell me your favourite song from any of the above acts and why. Winner will be chosen on Thursday at noon and [...]
If you got the first one, well, you know its about that time... for #2.. If you haven't yet, then this is an intergalactic disco space journey all wrapped up into a 20min mixtape. Check check it / CHK come in space receptor, do you read!? Intergalactic Disco Mixtape v.2 by >icknick< Tracklist: Young Again (WhoMadeWho & Tomboy Remix) - Kasper Bjork Deadly On A Mission (Alex Metric Mix) - Alex Metric Disco-Tec (Moulinex Remix) [...]
U:Mack producations have put on some of the most awesome shows of the last number of years. They are celebrating their 15th anniversary on Thursday 10th of December and the party is something special. Battles will be previewing new material and there's a DJ set from Chk Chk Chk. Now it really is the season to be jolly! Battles The Ex 65 Days Of Static !!! Adebisi Shank Skinny Wolves DJ's [...]
Jerry Fuchs "As the new millennium started gearing up, there was a obvious reason why Jerry started playing with all the DFA -affiliated bands ( The Juan Maclean , !!! , etc.) as time went on: He was an invaluable monster on the drums that could recreate those motorik-like disco beats and make it sound human. Goddamn, the hair on the back of my neck stands on end when I think about it. Recent years saw him reaffirm his roots in Athens as he became the incredibly propulsive backbone to Maserati [...]
We just got news about a benefit, at which Juan MacLean will DJ, to take place in San Francisco in tribute to Jerry Fuchs. Jerry, the drummer for !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Maserati , LCD Soundsystem and The Juan MacLean to name just a few, died tragically last week at the age of 34. I'm pasting this straight from the press release. Juan MacLean will DJ a benefit show in memory and in tribute to friend, band mate and legendary drummer Jerry Fuchs, who passed [...]
Jerry Fuchs, drummer with bands such as Maserati , The Juan McClean and egoeccentric favourites !!! (chk chk chk) has died tragically in New York. Fuchs fell to his death while attempting to escape a stalled elevator early on Sunday morning. Full story at the NY Daily News .
When you saw Jerry Fuchs playing drums in any of the many bands in which he played, you marveled at his skill. When you talked to Jerry, you were disarmed at his complete lack of hubris, wondering how someone with such skill lacked the egotistical leanings of his contemporaries. If you ever saw !!! (Chk Chk Chk) , Maserati , Holy Ghost!, Turing Machine or The Juan MacLean (among many others) over these last many years, you definitely saw him behind the drum set, ferociously pounding away in a style that [...]
Jerry Fuchs, the drummer from New York dance-punk group !!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk), has died after trying to jump from a lift in Williamsburg, New York. Jerry was 34. According to the New York Post, Fuchs was at a fundraising event around 12.30am this morning (9th November) when the lift he was travelling in got stuck. A spokesperson for the buildings department in New York told the Post: "It's a manual freight elevator, and it stopped somewhere above the fifth floor." It is thought that Fuchs and a friend then attempted to jump three or four feet [...]
Jerry Fuchs, drummer with various bands such as !!! (commonly pronounced 'chk chk chk'), Maserati, The Juan MacLean and Turing Machine has died after falling to his death during a lift malfunction. We'll resist the urge to start cracking David Carusos, remembering that he has family.
Local musician Jerry Fuchs, the drummer of Athens' Maserati and formerly of !!! , passed away early this morning in Brooklyn New York after falling down an elevator shaft in Williamsburg. Details can found here . Chunklet has a nice remembrance and tribute here . I was only able to catch his percussive genius once with Maserati at Corndogorama 2008, so here are a few videos from that show as well as a couple of other Fuchs related vids: [...]
Faleceu Jerry Fuchs, ao cair no poço de um elevador, ao tentar saltar para a plataforma da escada, depois do elevador ter ficado parado entre dois andares. Ele foi baterista de e para muita gente, Juan Maclean, Turing Machine, !!! (ou chk chk chk, em "Myth Takes") e, ultimamente, era membro dos Maserati, banda de Anthens, Georgia, onde viveu e estudou, apesar de, na actualidade, viver em Brooklyn
London, Hyde Park, Saturday 16th June 2007 was possibly the best day ever, and whilst some things from that day haven't continued to be awesome, there are two things that have, the first being Daft Punk , and the second being LCD Soundsystem . 2007's tremendous album 'Sound of Silver' was arguably the best album of 07 and still holds its own nearly three years since its initial release, now James Murphy and Co are back. Yes! Bye Bye Bayou is a remix/cover of Suicide's 1980 track. It's very casually [...]
OK not another Gucci Mane post, no. This one goes out to one of the first DJ's I ever got into. Probably about 10 years ago I had just got my first set of decks (crappy Gemini ones) and was all caught up in whatever I thought the electronic music scene was. I totally was a rap head and always will be a rap head, so maybe that is why I got drawn into the Miami breaks scene, particularly DJ Icey & Baby Anne. Anyway got a note from the homey DJ Icey the yesterday and I couldn't [...]
People have been waiting to hear more LCD Soundsystem for almost 3 years. Now, you get to. Their newest track "Bye, Bye, Bayou" is an 7 minute long epic that is a disco flavored remix/cover of Suicide member Alan Vega 's 1980 track. It has a definite sexy feel too, something that kind of reminds me of Brooklyn funk/psychadelic rock band Chk Chk Chk (!!!) . I think this is pretty much what we should be hearing from the new album, which is allegedly supposed to come out in March 2010, but I think [...]
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