June 2011
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According to popgun tickets are “selling fast” for the July 6th SBTRKT show at Glasslands. You can get $10 tickets here, I’d bet that it does end up selling out on the strength of the lead single, Wildfire. Just 4 days ago the video was released on youtube.
I can’t quite tell if the girl in the video is the featured vocalist, Yukimi...
Kreyashawn has two new songs out and they are both garbage (via Pitchfork).
Kreayshawn - “Breathtaking Freestyle (feat. Alexander Spit)” From Nattymari’s Murdered In Memphis by Мишка Bloglin
Kreayshawn - “Buster (feat. Gata)” From Nattyamari’s Murdered In Memphis by Мишка Bloglin
I don’t think this is what Columbia paid her a mil...
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WatchThis video is on the website of a wonderful Italian restaurant in my neighborhood, Torrisi Italian Specialties. Not only did I have a wonderful 7 course meal there last Thursday, but they also crafted this short music video which is essentially a love letter to the neighborhood I live in that closes with some shots of the restaurant itself. Feast your eyes on the intersection of Chinatown and...
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Just about two weeks ago Metronomy released the video for their second single off of their sophmore LP, The English Riviera. I understand that it is in fact the village of Torquay in the south of England in this video.
Fellow electro-rockers Friendly Fires also recently released a video for the second single off of their sophmore LP as well. While the clip looks to be a low-budget blackbox...
Gold Panda: MPB
musicfansmic:
This previously unreleased Gold Panda track will be featuring on the 12th MFM Podcast (keep an eye out, this afternoon). Why? Because it’s an extension of the glorious debut album ‘Lucky Shiner’ and it’s more evidence to show how Derwin Panda is influencing every electronic act with a bandcamp/soundcloud on the planet right now. [JM]
MPB by Gold Panda
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Last night we lamed out and didn’t make it to either the Roy Hargrove/Jason Moran/Bad Plus OR The Reggie Watts shows in Brooklyn, despite their appealing freeness. And this is on top of the abslutely unconscionable move I tok in NOT attending the Bang on a Can marathon, not even the free performances by Phillip Glass and Glenn Branca. I know what you’re thinking, why would this dude...
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So I wasn’t planning on making it back to NYC until late Sunday night, but a gear malnfunction about half-way through the route left us with little choice but to use bungee cords and make it back to Albany any way we could to catch a train back to NYC, aborting our mission half way through. It’s all good though, the rain had made it less than fun and we ended up saving money by...
Vacation
Hey everyone,
Thanks so much for reading my tumblr, there’s practically nothing that I enjoy better than sharing music and knowledge with other interesting people. I will be going on vacation this week and will get back in town on 6/27, I doubt that I’ll be able to post in the interim.
Please check back in with me after next week for more of what you’ve come to expect and a...
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So much to share. But first why don’t you check in with Peter Singer who took a little bit of Al Jazeera’s website to let us know that it does really all matter. Looks like Al Jazeera is making a big play for the English speaking market post-Mubarak, that’s cool. I guess this is what it’s like for people in the middle east who are used to watching BBC/CNNI.
Also really...
Have you heard about this computer virus, Suxnet? This animation of it is bananas:
Iran and the bomb have been creeping back into the discussion recently, Seymour Hersh telling his side of the story to Democracy Now. And on top of that there’s a bit of a tete a tete going on via New York Review of Books between Jeremby Bernstein and Nima Shirazi over Iranian intentions.
In musical news,...
This is the craigslist ad that I’ve been waiting for:
experimental post hard rock band
Date: 2011-06-16, 4:02PM EDT Reply to: comm-evs4t-2444591454@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] i (singer/songwriter) and the drummer just started a new project. it is totally experimental and fun. each songs’ ideas sound different and creative so far , but we are seeking more people...
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So I lost my passport… I’m sure it’s somewhere, but whether that somewhere is a dark corner of my apartment, a dumpster on the city street, or in the hands of an enterprising impersonator/forger I cannot say for sure. This development has more or less stopped my life in its tracks as I was planning on riding my bike to Montreal next week, where a passport is required for entry....
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Yesterday, Brooklyn Vegan ”told me” that Major Lazer - aka Diplo and Switch - are back in Jamaica working on a follow up to 2009’s still hip, Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do, bearer of the still dominant dance floor stand out Pon de Floor.
I spent some time on the Mad Decent website after hearing of this news, and while I won’t bore you with every detail of...
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Com Truise - Galactic Melt
This is so great! How great you ask? Well I spent a while typing up that post below, so I was kinda hesitant about posting this, because it would just bury all that text. But I’ve been listening to Com Truise for like 2 months, and his sweet slow synths have been the music in my head for like the whole time, so here it is, thank you hype machine, “Houston We Are STREAMING.”
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Stoned
I for one am super-stoked that The Stone is back in action over at The New York Times. I devoured every single column in its previous run and was somewhat surprised to read of its demise. For those that don’t know, The Stone is about philosophy, and its written by philosophers for an educated public. It comes out about once a week, though its quite normal for an author to write a mid-week...
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Instead of reporting the news and talking about...
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Stereogum pointed out that Wednesday night’s South Park (which I haven’t seen) included this little Tyler the Creator “easter egg.” Kinda like Where’s Waldo.
Sticking with Stereogum, last frida they put together a set of covers for every song off of Radiohead’s Amnesiac, which just turned 10 years old. IMO the cream of the crop is the smart-funk of Amnesiac...
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This heat just can’t be beat so I guess it’s time for some sun worship. I’m currently trying to get training rides in for a bike trip to Montreal on the horizon, so I avoid the outdoors at my own peril really, time to acclimatize. At least I’m heading north, to a land of salted meat and very serious bagels. It’s also the land of the largest jazz festival in the...
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Yesterday I finally got around to looking at the Summerstage and Celebrate Brooklyn line-ups. Lots of great shows starting this weekend with Andrew Bird in Brooklyn on Friday and Medeski, Martin, & Wood in Central Park on Saturday. The free shows keep stacking up throughout the summer, so if you’re in NYC or are planning a visit, be sure to check out...
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Stream the new Tom Vek album
I’ve been hyping Tom Vek for a minute now, including him in mixes and emblazoning my blog with his image. Today when I booted up the old hype machine I was pretty psyched to see his new album, Leisure Seizure available for free soundcloud streaming.
Now I’m not that big into the title, but for a guy who is 5 years in between releases perhaps Vek is offering us an explanation/apology...
The Remix Artist Collective OMFG!!
JK, y’all, JK, cacao to cacao and all that good stuff. I do love me some RAC, no doubt about it they are pretty boss on the remix scene, but in that friendly “collective” way that makes you think of morning dew, granola, and labor camps. Indeed when most people write bout RAC they use words like organic, musical, natural, etc. etc. Indeed...
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It’s been a crazy couple of days up here. I just got back from a ridiculous trip to Atlanta on Monday, and who shows up, but my old buddy Ra-Jah from DC. He’s been kicking it with me for a couple days now and last night he let this new Rej3ctz/Chris Brown track on me. I can’t believe that I’ve never heard of it despite it’s 32 million+ views. Chris Brown is...
