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g.a.n.g. - "incantations" (download) An early 802s Italo disco "cover" of Mike Oldfield 's "Foreign Affair ." Much more upbeat and a bit more dance-able. I've already sampled the hell out of it.

• g.a.n.g. - “incantations” (download)

Largely an instrumental album, Spyro Gyra's "A Foreign Affair" is the latest in an extensive back catalog stretching back over 30 years. In fact, there have been only 6 individual years since 1978 that they *haven't* released at least one album. For their latest, the band has taken influence from all musical cultures, from Indian to Salsa, with the trademarks of previous releases. The first half of the album is not bad, but expect to feel like you're on hold, in a waiting room, or you're 8 years old in your mother's car again. Not that I [...]

There's only so much an individual can take before they throw their hands up and give up due to exasperation. This is the way I feel about politics. (Though these contemplations definitely apply to other issues!) I've always been curious about the state of domestic and foreign affairs and have tried to maintain a level of awareness that, as an American citizen and registered voter, I need to make conscientious decisions about at the ballot. Well fuck me three [...]

We've taken a certain amount of joy in mocking the terrified teenagers and timid, jingoistic bloggers who greeted the announcement of Todd P's MtyMx Festival in Monterrey, Mexico, with the type o... Continue reading "OK, So There Is Presently A State Department-Issued Travel Advisory For Mexico, Including MtyMx Site Monterrey" >

If you're fortunate enough to follow Diddy on Twitter, you already knew he was in Paris, laying waste to various French clubs and doing some sort of literal, viral promotion for his forthcoming L... Continue reading "Here Is a Photo of Diddy Hanging Out in Front of the Mona Lisa" >

If you live in Barcelona they will, anyway. According to the YouTube description, some Spanish kids met the Vampire Weekend boys at a bar after their show, and the rest was history--Vampire Week... Continue reading "Vampire Weekend Will Still Play Your House Party" >

Now now, Todd, we kid, we kid. The emergent storyline of terrified teenagers and jingoistic blog commenters terrified of going south of South 2nd Street versus Todd P and the assembled forces of... Continue reading "So, Did You Get Your MtyMx Tickets Yet?" >

Let's just take one more moment to wonder here at a mountainside festival in Monterrey, Mexico, with a ticket that will run you a cool $30 for three days, 75 bands, a bunch of visual artists, and ... Continue reading "Todd P Announces the (More or Less) Full Lineup For His MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music In Mexico " >

There had been speculation about this show going all the way back to December. Privately, Todd P began confirming it this week. And now comes the official announcement about one of the more ridicu... Continue reading "Todd P's Mexico Fest, the MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, Is Fully Confirmed; Tickets On Sale Now" >

Not the best look, performing on New Year's Eve on the yacht of the son of one of the more notorious terrorism financiers and Lockerbie bomber-absolvers on the planet. Worse if that son happens t... Continue reading "Confirmed: Beyonce Performed For "Terror-Backing Libyan Dictator" Scion Hannibal Khadafy" >

According to Last.fm, anyway. No real surprises--we listened to way more Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jay-Z, etc. than did the rest of the world. Plus we basically stole Phoen... Continue reading "The Listening Habits of New Yorkers in 2009, Revealed" >

March 19 to March 22, two stages, a "tent city," shuttle buses running both ways across the border, tickets at the absurdly low cost of $10 a day, and as many as 80 bands already confirmed, accor... Continue reading "Further Details on the SXSW-Killing Todd P Festival in Monterrey, Mexico" >

Local mega-promoter Todd P latest quixotic venture? An proposed outsized south of the border post-SXSW festival in Monterrey, Mexico, a five or six hour drive from the weeklong Austin, Texas musi... Continue reading "Todd P Now Making Promotion Excursions Into Other Countries ?" >

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If the itinerant art collective O.H.W.O.W.--led in part by downtown gadfly Aaron Bondaroff (better known as A-ron The Downtown Don, except maybe not so much anymore)--is about anything, it's Max ... Continue reading "Max Fish Went South For the Winter, Hosted Gang Gang Dance at Art Basel Miami Beach" >

And so the 2009 Taylor Swift Memorial Award for single-handedly saving the record industry goes to Susan Boyle, who last week sold north of 700,000 copies of her debut, I Dreamed a Dream. Boyle ea... Continue reading "Susan Boyle Is the New Eminem" >

Henry Rollins files from Jakarta for Vanity Fair: "At one point, I met a young couple who recognized me and we stopped to talk. Around that time, a female vendor walked up to us wearing a most int... Continue reading "Henry Rollins Meets a Woman in a Black Flag Shirt Who Doesn't Know Who Black Flag Is" >

PK-14, Xiao He, Carsick Cars Glasslands Friday, November 6 Nearly two years ago, while following Brooklyn's spasmodic noisemakers Ex-Models on a tour through the imperial city of Beijing and Sh... Continue reading "Live: PK-14, Xiao He, and Carsick Cars Bring Chinese Experimental Rock to Brooklyn" >

Ah, jeez--an awards show, the MTV EMAs, but also a celebration of freedom, see, because Reagan/Gorbachev/the power of music tore down the Berlin Wall twenty years ago so that Bono could branch o... Continue reading "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall, So That U2 and Jay-Z Can Play "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in Front of It" >

Frontman Esau Mwamwaya "ran into unfortunate travel circumstances," according to the Times. That's a real blow, even though their main show was scheduled to go down in the middle of the night. Oth... Continue reading "Also, the Very Best Cancelled Their CMJ Showcase" >