Xavier Institute of Communication's MADMA (or Madness in Mass Communication and Advertising) focuses on various aspects of media and, in it's 2012 edition, is on a mission to 'infect reality with oodles of madness'. The festival is very young and fresh and will feature musical performances, contests and workshops by various media professionals. Local band Something Relevant (pictured inside) will play the festival; a gig that might prove interesting due to the association band has with the college. The other act featured will be Pune rock act Ashwamedh. The performances will be held on Sunday, Feb 12 [...]
Thinking I had some homework to do before 5PM today I wandered into the library only to figure out it's not due until sunday. But since I'm here I've decided to shell out a couple of jams I've gathered this week as well as the highly anticipated mixtape from Mad Decent featuring Diplo, FKi, Heroes x [...]
I just finished watching the movie Drive (2011), directed by Nicholas Refn. Holy shit is it ever fantastic! Honest to god the best movie I have seen in years. The film pins its headlights on the dark implications of unchecked obsession and good intentions gone haywire. That dangerous duality – humanity on the razor's edge of animal brutality – is played to unnerving perfection by Ryan Gosling. With a low budget and the odd Hollywood marquee, the film was never expected to make the impact it did. And well; the soundtrack is even more impressive. With a lineup [...]
Wanna be an mtvU VJ for "The Woodies"? Here's your shot, guys.
Something always stopped me from being an actual Throwing Muses fan. It wasn't the peer pressure of seeing their CD spines running through friends' record collections when they were '90s alt rock staples. It wasn't necessarily that I couldn't really relate to what Kristin Hersh was trying to get across about her troubled head. I dunno. Maybe it'll click one day, although that time has probably passed. This song, however, was always a fave. Can't beat those sparkly arpeggios and the even more sparkly crescendo at 2:08. Throwing Muses - [...]
Here we are again, and this year I wanted to up the ante to include the top 50 tracks of 2011. So fire up the audio player at the bottom left of the screen and enjoy what I thought to be the best electronic pop tracks of 2011. 50 Rimer London Rimer London 49 Rodriguez Jr. [...]
5. The Death Set - I Miss You Beau Velasco If you're thinking that our list this year has been noticeably lacking in a particular instrument, you'd be correct. 2011 hasn't been a great year for guitars and little of the music we've listened to has centered around them. One album however which had face-melting frettery very much at it's core was The Death Set 's 'Michel Poiccard'. Our favourite song from the record was 'I Miss You Beau Velasco', a fitting tribute to former bandmate Beau who sadly died from an overdose in 2009. We all know [...]
Here is a (partial obviously, these are the things I will remember for the year anyway) list of important names that came up this year. Pyramid Pyramid has been around for quite some times but he really started getting attention this year, his 10 tracks long EP "Lost In Space" is simply filled with awesomeness, that guy will seriously be big in 10 years. His songs could fit so much [...]
Jim Knable's Sons of Dionysus : a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. Chapter 12 A communal groan erupts when they all see me with my buzz cut. What have you done?! screams Cassius, though he has done much the same, having had his own trademarked hair shaved recently. Is it him? says Demetrius, a second year with a thick beard, who is known for dressing in women's clothing. It's him, says [...]
Jim Knable's Sons of Dionysus : a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. Chapter 11 I make daily pilgrimages. One to the coffee house, one to the gate of the residential college. I know I don't have time, nor should I be so obsessed as to stay for more than a minute or two. But I think if I come at the same time I saw Cassandra in both places each day, I will surely see her again. [...]
It's been two and a half months since the last one of these. 70-something days and CG and I haven't heard a thing from anyone about their absence, which just proves to me that you people have no desire or appreciation for dance music. We, however, could only stay away for so long. You're just going to have to deal with it. Skip over the post and listen to your "more sophisticated" indie rock and hold on to those "I only listen to hip-hop" mentalities. We don't give a shit. 10 new songs. Blaow. [...]
Jim Knable's Sons of Dionysus : a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. Chapter 10 Charlegne was halfway to becoming Charles. The top half. S/he was still recuperating and would not be back with us for a little while longer. S/he sent reports to the group through Benjamin, who was still in recovery from his broken leg and the slight concussion he did actually sustain from being brained with the pig head. The spring tour south sounded eventful from the stories I [...]
BEST OF 2011 : Songs | Albums (soon) | EPs/Singles | Discoveries/Heavy Rotation | Photos A really good year! The first 40 or so are mega-jams and the latter 38 (Rawkblog loves you, baby) are still jams. I purposefully left out songs by Destroyer because I couldn't decide, so consider Kaputt represented. You can play the entire page with the handy Ex.fm player in the bottom right corner, stream the playlist on Spotify and Rdio , and download everything after the jump. [...]
Re:Mix Labs kicked off a week's worth of events at 401 S Main in Downtown LA on Tuesday night. This, the final stop for Re:Mix , which started at CMJ in NYC and made pit stops in Miami, Chicago and Las Vegas, of the Hyundai Veloster-sponsored multimedia event (from vintage arcade games and 3D movies streaming out from the trunks of cars to huge name artists in a small room spinning on the 1's and 2's). Tuesday's ANTENNA sponsored Grand Opening Reception featured an open [...]
This fall we're serializing 12 chapters of Sons of Dionysus , a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 9 I did not go back home for the spring break. The SODs left in their vans and cars, heading south for their tour. I stayed in our room, in defiant solitude. Very few students remained with me. Those who did were as solitary as I was. I saw them walking from a distance; we did not speak. [...]
Over at The Hits Just Keep Comin' , JB notes the reaction of listeners to Mannheim Steamroller's A Fresh Aire Christmas during a stint DJing at an easy listening station in the late '80s. ("You wouldn't think that the elevator-music audience would use language like we heard on the telephone.") I remember A Fresh Aire Christmas being released for the holidays in 1988. I was a junior in college and it was my second Christmas working in a record store, having earned the [...]
Once November hits, every one enters an end of year stupor. The short work week before Thanksgiving suddenly becomes the longest three days of the year as you allow your mind to shut down and focus on some good time off. This attitude will likely continue until January 1, 2012, so at the very least, you should make sure you have some good music to soundtrack it. Here's our favorite songs from the month of November. Listen and download below. Hear the full stream: November Mixtape // Quit Mumbling DOWNLOAD INDIVIDUAL [...]
This fall we're serializing 12 chapters of Sons of Dionysus , a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 8 Every year before the spring tour, the SODs held a pigroast on top of West Mountain. Legend had it that the pigroaster was a man with no teeth, who drove up from the Appalachian Mountains with a dead pig in his trailer. He was said to have long scraggly hair and to always wear the same costume: black jeans, motorcycle boots, and [...]
There are, as you can imagine, many down sides to moving back in with your parents after graduating college: how invasive it can be on your ability to get a decent rapport going with a girl and having to live with the constant blood-boiler of being told to turn your music down, to name but a few. On the plus side, it does allow you to form a band with some old high-school pals and set off down the road to fame and fortune. Admittedly this shining vindication doesn't happen too often, but it's exactly what happened to [...]
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The Noise Collective
THE CULTURE OF ME
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Pigeons and Planes
The Rawking Refuses To Stop!
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Quit Mumbling
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Lana Del Rey - Without You (Kill Paris Remix) [Dubstep]
