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Tonight I will be here, alongside Fear Of Tigers , Ronika , Queen Of Hearts , Substatic , Kid Kasio and Echoes celebrating Monday's release of ' electronic rumors Volume 1 ', our gift to the world in the form of 15 tracks of some of the best ElectroPop, Dreamwave, Nu-Disco and Indie-Electro around. If your in London Town this evening this'll be the place to be, and it's free to get in! More details of tonight's show here . [...]

Hello, friends. Without breaking too deeply past the blogger fourth wall, I'd like to share some notes from the underground with you. As you may know, my non-Rawkblog hours have been occupied by full-time freelance work in recent months. You can now find my music writing regularly-ish on Billboard , MTV Buzzworthy , the Los Angeles Times , the A.V. Club and eMusic , among others. For the latter two publications, I've been writing album reviews - the work I dreamed of getting paid to do as a snobby 17-year-old writing Coldplay screeds and reading [...]

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I am thrilled to announce that in addition to the previously announced It's a Trap! Clubnights gigs with We Are the Storm / Helsinki Poetry (this Friday! holy shit!) and Caotico (April 13!), we will be welcoming Millencolin / The Peepshows indierock sideproject Franky Lee plus Tiger Bell to the stage of Debaser Malmö on February 17. And that's not all: we've also got Vånna Inget , EL-SD and Gamla Pengar coming down on March 16 and you know that one is gonna [...]

So of our more eagle eyed readers and Twitter followers might have had a suspicion that something like this was coming but today I can, very proudly, announce the forthcoming release of 'electronic rumors Volume 1' on CD and digital. Released Monday 13th February on respected ElectroPop label Ninthwave Records (Heaven17/White town/The Modern), the album is the result of nearly a year's work and features 15 of the some of the best ElectroPop, Dreamwave, Indie-Electro and Nu-Disco around right now. Curated to be a snapshot of the kind of music we write about here on [...]

Allie is Wired has expanded! In order to meet the high demands of the East Coast, we've added a new addition to the Allie is Wired team. MEET MEGAN! Megan spends her days wrangling toddlers and her nights gracing stages. She's a proud Elite Yelper who enjoys casting her discerning eye (and tastebuds) on new restaurants in the darkest corners of Manhattan. She will never turn down a glass of malbec and is just one [...]

From all of us at Allie is Wired and The Beauty Stop ... May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. Thanks for reading! xo

Wow! I'm speechless. As the third annual Electronic Rumors Awards draws to a close my mind is still spinning with this year's revelations. Some went home on top of the world, some left disappointed and angry, but I think we can all agree electronic music will never be the same again… So, as we …once again… loosen out collective bow-ties and sip the last of the champagne, let's look back on the drama, the tears and the ecstasy of the electronic rumors awards 2011… ******************* [...]

If we're done with the pre-awards chat over on our Google+ page ? OK. Let's get this thing started! Follow @electronicrumor

We're still over a week away from the new year, but that's not gonna stop us from unveiling the first confirmations of our 2012 It's a Trap! Clubnights! Up first on January 20, we've got Uppsala's We are the Storm plus from Denmark, the confusingly-named Helsinki Poetry . Dates in February and March are still pending, but April is already on lock with Caotico set to grace the stage! Expect more details soon!

It's been a few weeks since launching Mercury Music, Rawkblog's digital record club, and I've been really pleased to see it take off. We've had dozens of subscribers and I've been up to my ears in personal mixtapes (they're almost done, folks!). Membership is simple: each week, you get the best new album of the week and an influential classic sent right to your Spotify inbox (I'm looking into Rdio and Mog, too) along with an email newsletter discussing the picks and gathering the week's most important news and blog posts. No RSS feeds, no clicking through dozens of MP3s, [...]

Doing some travelling over the next few days, expect updates to be slow/non-existent.

Tomorrow night at Debaser Malmö is our final It's a Trap! Clubnight of the year and gracing the stage will be Sweden's favorite critically lauded yacht-rockers Deportees . Joining them as support, Stockholm/Umeå-based up-and-comers Winhill/Losehill who just released their debut single "Tell her she's the light of the world" . Not gonna lie, this sort of intentionally gentle rock is not my thing at all, but I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt that they totally bring it live. Only one way to find out!

Tomorrow: so begins our annual top 10 list bonanza . I could still squeeze in a few more contributors, so if you think you're deserving of a spot, please get in touch!

I don't normally do any crass ad/promo stuff aside from the ever-present/near-ubiquitous Google ad box below the fold, but I'm happy to make exceptions should the right opportunity present itself, so when Rock Science beckoned, I heeded the call. It wasn't a terribly hard decision: a Swedish-made rock'n'roll boardgame complete with a theme song by Imperial State Electric (included as a CDS in each copy) is totally right up my alley and is pretty much the perfect gift for your favorite rocker this holiday season (hint hint). So if you wanna hook it up, head [...]

This is just a quick word to say I'm shaking things up a bit, but just a tiny bit. I'm stopping both the Running Mix and Free Friday features. As cool as they were, they were actively affecting how I ended up listening to music as I ended up purposefully trying to find music that was free and mixes, which didn't always end up working out in time. Apart from the music itself, creating the posts became a chore. And another thing, I've felt a bit apprehensive about what I post, whether it was worthy of your guys time, especially since my taste [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, pals. Mercury Music album picks will continue as usual.

This is the second week of the Mercury Music Digital Music Club, my subscription service for people looking to have the week's best albums and the classics that made them possible hand-delivered (O.K., clicked) directly to your inbox. Things subscribers have said: "I am so excited about this!" "I'm so excited." "I'm pretty excited about this." (Really!) Get excited over at the Mercury website and we'll send you the latest albums right now.

Time is fleeting and so is my energy level. As my dayjob and various paid freelance projects become more demanding, my enthusiasm for keeping up with everything and anything wanes. So from now on no more middling mediocrity, no more blog-rock echo-chamber. Besides, there's plenty of other sites for that nowadays. I'm honing my gaze to keep abreast of what's interesting and exciting. You with me?

Olivia Tremor Control / photo by David Greenwald Everything Rawkblog posted in September 2011. Enjoy. Lists : * The 8 Best Unsigned Bands in Los Angeles * Best of 2011: September Essentials Tracks: * Hotel Lights - "Falling Down" * Blouse - "Videotapes" * Ether Coil - "Light" * New Music: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – 'Witch Hunt Suite [...]