May 25, 2013 - After all the fuss and denial it turns out that, Kanye West is releasing an album on June 18. He also gave the thing a name. We have the details on that below. Also, She & Him released a music video for “I Could've Been Your Girl.” And Coachella has announced its dates for next year. All that and more below. Paris Hilton Announces New Music:...
May 24, 2013 - The next Letter in the Mail, going out May 31, is from our beloved Lidia Yuknavitch!Lidia is a longtime Rumpus contributor and interviewee (for a taste of both, see her interview with Dear Sugar). She's the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase and the memoir The Chronology of Water, the latter of which was a Rumpus Book Club pick back in 2011.
May 24, 2013 - We’re roughly twenty minutes into this thing and can confirm it will maybe put something in your eye. Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com. ...
May 24, 2013 - all photos by Brittany Brassell Yes, that is a real bill. Electronic genre-blending genius Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) brought some of his closest associates along with him on his second trip through Seattle in support of excellent new record, Until The Quiet Comes. Thundercat has been a long time collaborator, playing all of the jaw-dropping bas...
May 24, 2013 - One week ago, Kanye premiered Yeezus‘s ferocious “New Slaves” by projecting his face onto buildings throughout the world. (He performed it the next day on SNL, too.) It was the best video of the week and you can watch it on the side of a building IRL tonight in these cities. The rapper's new music was Stereogum's most discussed topic this wee...
May 24, 2013 - Black Hippy decided to remix Rocko's “U.O.E.N.O.” and completely obliterated it. It's something for you to rock out to at all the BBQs and smoking sessions with cousins this weekend. Checkout the “U.O.E.N.O. Remix” below and make sure to download it too.
May 24, 2013 - What you see above is NOT the true beauty of the thing contained over at The New York Times, at the top of its insanely long interview with Billy Joel. Looks like love is his co-pilot. Things discussed that you can read about if you don’t mind just having that picture in your head the whole time: — Hip dysplasia — Elton John ̶...
May 24, 2013 - Awesome. We suggest watching the whole tribute, but we’ve set the video to play when the giant pit broke out, as soon as “Raining Blood” began. (via Uproxx) And just because, here’s the legend(s) playing it live. Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com. ...
May 24, 2013 - Jody Rosen, who has shut down newspapers, covers the story of Shane McAnally, co-writer of seven No. 1 country songs — and a gay, married father of twins. From the New York Times: Over the last few years, he has emerged as a commercial force in Nashville, a songwriter with a unique melodic and lyrical touch, and an uncommon knack for hits. S...
May 24, 2013 - by Bill Pearis With little more than keyboards, drums and her powerful pipes, Brooklyn's Xenia Rubinos has forged her own sound which can be heard on her new album, Magic Trix, which is out now on Ba Da Bing. You can stream a few songs from the album and check out a couple videos below. As mentioned, Xenia is playing Brooklyn Museum's 'Audiophi...
May 24, 2013 - The good people at NPR Music have shared this 90 minute high def recording of James Blakes' full show at Washington, DC's 9:30 Club. If you can manage it, spend some time with James this weekend. Plug in some quality headphones and fullscreen + HD it. Setlist: Air & Lack Thereof I Never Learnt to Share To The Last Lindisfarne I Am Sold CMYK Our L...
May 24, 2013 - Beyond the ease with which I can illegally stream NBA playoff games, the best part of living in the present might be the wealth of lost tapes that seem to pop up every year. Old Tesla reels to reels lost to time suddenly emerge and sound better than anything recorded in recent memory. Rodion G.A. is one of those discoveries: a previously unheard co...
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May 24, 2013 - photo by KEXP Brooklyn rockers, Grizzly Bear, stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show back in April to promote their album, Shields, and the performance finally aired yesterday. The track “Yet Again” is a definite highlight of the album and apparently they are one of Ellen's favorite bands. Watch the performance below. [Pitchfork] video platform...
May 24, 2013 - When we spoke to Charli XCX in March after SXSW, she told us “when I’m making a song and it comes to the end of making that track, if I can’t see a music video for the song then I don’t want to put it on my album. I feel like I always have to see the music video, and if can see it then I know the song is good enough to go on record.” We a...
May 24, 2013 - L.A.'s dark electro duo MYPET may have a familiar face. Comprised of singer-songwriter Amy Kuney and producer Ray Brady, MYPET is on the complete opposite end of the musical spectrum for Kuney, whose songs (especially the notable 2008 album “Bird's Eye View”) have been rooted in mostly folk-pop. Not unlike Meg Myers' musical transformation afte...
May 24, 2013 - HAERTS seem to be in the business of craft huge pop tunes that can interchangeably be the song of the summer. Listen to “All The Day,” which comes on the heels of their glorious debut single “Wings.” Much like they did with Cults after they released “Go Outside,” Columbia Records have snatched up HAERTS and “All The Day” seems to b...
May 24, 2013 - Chilean psych-folk great Kuky Tala just released a hypnotic music video for stunning track “Talátur”. You can watch it above. Listeners may remember the track from last year, when we premiered it under Kuky Tala's former moniker Tigermilk. The video was directed by Chilean artist Felipe Prado, who in the past has worked with Alex Andwanter, J...
May 24, 2013 - photos by Tim Griffin Paul McCartney @ Frank Erwin Center, Austin, 5/23/2013 Paul McCartney's Out There tour just swept through Austin with a two-night stand at the Frank Erwin Center and we've got pictures (and setlists) of the pyrotechnic/av/hit-filled extravaganza over at BV Austin. The former Beatle plays two nights at Barclays Center in...
May 24, 2013 - According to an interesting piece over at Pigeons and Planes, Kanye West now has a SoundCloud account. While no actual Kanye music has been uploaded yet, the account has logged one “repost.” In SoundCloud jargon, a repost is a lot like a retweet, the action of taking something someone else has said (or in this case, uploaded) and forwarding it...
May 24, 2013 - Michelle Tea's new novel, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, was illustrated by Jason Polan, an artist who obsessively draws spot sketches of people and things around New York City. His life and background are fascinating, but he prefers to remain as anonymous as possible and let his work speak for itself. The following testimony was gathered from my resear...
May 24, 2013 - L.A.M.P. is comprised of producer UK Andy Compton and Paris based singer Ladybird. The duo are preparing for their upcoming Shades of Green album release on June 25th which is an infectious mix of Soul/Jazz/Folk/R&B with a future twist. Today, enjoy their song “Springtime,” a feel-good track that is perfect for this time of the year and yo...
May 24, 2013 - There's Amanda Jo Williams' voice — a playful, birdlike instrument, flitting around her country-fried arrangements like an intrepid hummingbird. And then there's what she's saying; she delivers her lickety-split vignettes and stream-of-consciousness observations as if she expects you to be on the same page, immediately. If you missed her first th...
May 24, 2013 - We wade into Michelle Tea's new novel, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, with a collection of enticing excerpted illustrations by Jason Polan. ***Art by Jason Polan, from the novel Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea. Reprinted with permission by McSweeney's © 2013.***Click here to read The Rumpus Interview with Jason Polan.Related Pos...
May 24, 2013 - The Los Angeles music scene in the early 1980's was a place of diametric opposites in the early 1980's; the punk scene had become a form of conformity with cartoonish thugs churning out loud for the sake of being loud and held tightly to fashion while the last gasp of the bloated, cocaine driven superstar acts were still massive commerciall...
May 24, 2013 - Kanye West in Sweden in 2011 (more) NYC festival Governors Ball is totally sold out of regular tickets, but if you weren't able to get yours and still want to go, there are still a few options. From now until Monday (5/27) at 11:59 PM, you can enter the Governors Ball Ticket Lottery. Entering the lottery gives you a chance to be selected to purch...
May 24, 2013 - Oscar O' Malley's instructions are clear: let this tap dance over you. Resist the instruction to categorize or scrutinize the symbols. Maybe he's just trying to save us time; if you were conspiracy minded, you could probably search this video for hours for hallmarks of the Illuminati. There are old films of white-bearded Romans in togas, animated s...
May 24, 2013 - With months of fierce anticipation swelling deep within the dance community it is no surprise that Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is well on its way to being one of the biggest records of the year. The French, helmet-clad, techno-humanoid, retro-futurists, have taken it upon themselves to give breath to an otherwise mechanized genre of music...
May 24, 2013 - Local heroes Starlight Girls have some new far tunes for your ears, mind and whatever needs some groove. 7x3 sees the band tapping into their inner "Army of Me". From this track, they teamed up with Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart to produce. Meanwhile, on Wasteland, the Girls and guys vamp it up some seductive tunage: Their next live dates are J...
May 24, 2013 - PROSPECT PARK Dress & Headwrap : Nigeria Chain: from a rapper Tights: Urban Outfitters Boots: Vintage The Concrete Runway spots fashionable personalities and style in the street.
May 24, 2013 - Peaches Does Herself (Directed by Peaches, Germany 2012, 80 minutes) Festival Screenings: Saturday, May 25 9:30 PM at the Egyptian Theater Monday, May 27 9:00 PM at the Egyptian Theater I remember the first time I heard “Fuck The Pain Away” at a bar on Cap Hill in 2000. It jolted me as much as the moment I discovered “Love Will Tear Us Apart...
May 24, 2013 - “No Man's Land” by North Carolina's the sleaves (yes, lower case) begins on an island in the dark; lead vocalist Andrew Ditlevson's flat, low voice is clouded in a foggy isolation of a wonderful guitar lead inspired by emotive post-punk and grunge. Soon, however, we are greeted by female voices from an outside space, and this “no man's land...
May 24, 2013 - The theatrical Swedish metal band Ghost B.C. have already shown that they have a way with the incongruous cover song; we posted their version of Abba's “I'm A Marionette” back in January. And apparently, the Japanese version of their new album Infestissumam includes a cover of Depeche Mode's gloomy 1990 synth ballad “Waiting For The Night”...
May 24, 2013 - Delicate Steve @ 4Knots Fest 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) Delicate Steve was among the performers scheduled to play GoogaMooga on Sunday that didn't end up happening on account of rain. For those who were especially looking forward to his appearance and don't mind waiting a while longer, Delicate Steve will play NYC at Glasslands on September 6.
May 24, 2013 - Business Insider: Pandora predicted that it may break even in the current quarter after adjusting for one-time costs, and it predicted annual earnings and revenue that exceeded Wall Street forecasts. Its stock jumped in after-hours trading. Read and comment. From businessinsider.com. ...
May 24, 2013 - Think of today's Buzz Bands LA Show as a warm-up for the long weekend. Join me at 11 a.m. on Moheak Radio for two hours of SoCal music, including new tunes from You Me & Us, Ocha La Rocha, SISU, the Knitts, Chris Schlarb, MK Ultra and Night Riots. And if many of those folks sound new to you, what better way to make their acquaintance? We'll also he...
May 24, 2013 - The Decemberists in Austin in 2011 (more by Tim Griffin) It's been a while since we've heard from The Decemberists, but the band's members are still finding ways to keep busy. Their side project, Black Prairie, whose lineup now includes four of the five Decemberists members (Chris Funk, Nate Query, Jenny Conlee, and John Moen -- aka everyone exce...
May 24, 2013 - Los Angeles Times: Dutilleux is widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the 20th century. He wasn’t a prolific writer, but his style, singular voice and iconoclastic tendencies won him admirers around the world, inviting comparisons to fellow Frenchman Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen — though Dutilleux and the former r...
May 24, 2013 - FACT: Consisting of Ishamel ‘Butterfly’ Butler, Craig ‘Doodlebug’ Irving and Mary Ann ‘Ladybug’ Vieira, plus touring DJ Silkworm (who would later come into his own as King Britt), Digable Planets were a major force in the early 1990s alt.rap scene. 1993 debut Reachin’ (A New Refutation Of Time And Space), notable for smash ‘Rebirth...
May 24, 2013 - Writer John Lingan examines the impact of Patsy Cline — and modernity — on the singer’s hometown of Winchester, Virginia for The Morning News. Her home in Winchester, where she lived between 1948 and 1957, was restored two years ago. Of course, like so many things in a small town, it came with its fair share of controversy. “Da...
May 24, 2013 - While we were all shaking our heads about sexist changes to the “American Novelists” page, Wikipedia editor “Qworty” was taking action—by making a series of “revenge edits” to Amanda Filipacchi's page.But, sadly and strangely, that was only the tip of the iceberg. It turns out Qworty is a novelist himself, and he's conducted an elabo...
May 24, 2013 - CS favorite Quadron has released their latest single “Better Off”. Featuring Compton's Kendrick Lamar, this track takes things slow as Coco reminds us why life after love is sometimes better. Check out “Better Off” below and you can pre-order Avalanche which drops June 4th here.
May 24, 2013 - When we first discovered You Me & Us early last year, Carlee Hendrix and Ignacio Caniza had just released their “Paperweights” EP, a charming blast of fuzz-rock. They didn't have a song over 2 minutes and 30 seconds then and their latest song “Swim or Sink” off of their forthcoming Bobb Bruno-produced “Stay Inside” EP still clocks in at...
May 24, 2013 - Billboard.biz: Terrible Records, the Brooklyn-based label founded by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Ethan Silverman, has begun a worldwide partnership with XL Recordings to manufacture, distribute, market and promote certain future releases. The first release under the partnership, “Embracism,” by Australian new wave/industrial artist Kirin...
May 24, 2013 - It's a heavy-duty Friday: ► Cold War Kids [that's Nathan Willett from their February show at the Bootleg Theater, above] headline the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts,” with Superhumanoids opening. ► Shout Out Louds and Haerts do a second night the El Rey Theatre ► Indie-pop trio Sir Sly — just signed to Cher...
May 24, 2013 - Indie bands have been mainstays of the late night talk show circuit for years now, but they're starting to infiltrate morning shows too. Case in point: Grizzly Bear just played Ellen this morning (5/24), which most certainly introduced their music to a new audience. (Yesterday, Michael Bolton was the musical guest.) You can watch them do Shields' t...
May 24, 2013 - If it seems as though we've been talking about the National's excellent new record Trouble Will Find Me for weeks now it's because we have. Even though the record was just released this week, fascination with the band and a buzzing curiosity about how they might follow up 2010′s powerhouse High Violet have kept music writers (and our own comments...
May 24, 2013 - It’d be a stretch to say that Johnny Cash and Iggy Pop are connected in any meaningful way. Both are patron saints of The Holy Order of White Dudes With Guitars, sure, and drugs, but that’s about it. They’re forever glued together in my mind, tied together by my putting a razor blade to my neck when I was 16.It wasn’t because of Johnny Cash...
May 24, 2013 - 10 years-old with thoughts as bold as thoughts can be. My babies are all grown up! Of the Detroit musicians who I’ve been fortunate to perform with and count as friends, Tone & Niche carry the fondest place in my heart. Tone can write a pop song finer than McCartney (consider this: Tone has yet to write something as god awful as Simply Having A W...
May 24, 2013 - James Murphy aboard SS Coachella 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) Staying in NYC this weekend? There's actually no shortage of things to do here, even though the weather forecast is less than ideal. Head below for our top 10 list of events going on this Memorial Day Weekend. Continue reading "NYC Memorial Day Weekend Events (DFA Anniversary, Do-Over,...
May 24, 2013 - In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Scott Elliott's...
May 24, 2013 - Sweden's Shout Out Louds performed on last night's Leno to promote their album Optica. Following interviews with guests Tyler Perry and Isla Fischer, the band performed album cut “Walking In Your Footsteps.” Check it out below.Read More...
May 24, 2013 - photo by Brittney Bollay It’s time again for Friday on My Mind, our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. It’s finally here: Sasquatch 2013. This festival has grown to be one of the premier festivals not just in the Northwest, but throughout the wo...
May 24, 2013 - The premiere of the highly anticipated fourth season of Arrested Development hits Netflix this Sunday, May 26, and judging by the long lines at the Bluth Banana Stand world tour over the past few weeks, as well as Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand menu page on Seamless [that I so desperately wanted to order off of], everyone's excited. Personall...
May 24, 2013 - I'm not sure if this necessarily qualifies as a career milestone for Grizzly Bear, since they've already been on a million TV shows. But maybe it's an indicator of how nebulous and meaningless the entire idea of indie rock has become: Grizzly Bear playing their fractured, floating “Yet Again” on Ellen, as Ellen DeGeneres, who apparently loves t...
May 24, 2013 - Toronto friends Rynecologist & Meech drops their new collaboration freebie for the Fool's Gold Clubhouse Series, “Mudafucker” is a ghetto house tune with a dirty vocal sample that we suspect when dropped on the dancefloor things will become dutty.
May 24, 2013 - We begin our discussion of the Faces, as we must, with “The Rod Conundrum” — one of the thorniest in all of rock and roll lore. Cue the ESPN 30 For 30 voice over: “What if we told you that Rod Stewart was once every bit as cool, dangerous, and desirable as Keith, Kurt, or Kanye …” Well, It actually happened. And it was amazing. And the...
May 24, 2013 - Lemuria at Purchase College - 5/4/13 (photo by Andrew Sacher) As mentioned, punk/indie pop trio Lemuria are releasing their new album, The Distance Is So Big, on June 18 via Bridge Nine, and they're currently on a tour ahead of its release. That tour hits the NYC-area twice this weekend, including shows TONIGHT (5/24) at Maxwell's and Saturday (5...
May 24, 2013 - In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Lyrical and prec...
May 24, 2013 - by Fred Pessaro Bolt Thrower at MDF 2013 Maryland Deathfest 2013 kicked off yesterday (5/23) with a rare appearance from the legendary death metal band Bolt Thrower (on tour), along with Cobalt (also on tour, recently interviewed on IO on EVR), Japan's Abigail (part of a string of dates), Pallbearer, and local thrash favorites Noisem. The single...
May 24, 2013 - Will Hagle. Real Name. No gimmicks. By namesake alone, The Underachievers haven’t quite poised themselves for greatness. I will refrain from stating the obvious, but Indigoism is proof of the paradoxical nature of their name. A spot on the Brainfeeder roster is further evidence. “May’s Patience” is the latest track to be released by Issa Da...
May 24, 2013 - As record companies continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it’s creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a weal...
May 24, 2013 - Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Download Sidecar: Transmission 12 —> HERE SIRIUS 294: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ X – The Once Over Twice ++ Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – Born To [...]...
May 24, 2013 - DIIV @ Kidrockers, Brooklyn Bowl (more by Jessica Amaya) Impresario Peter Shapiro -- owner of Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg and the former boss of Wetlands in Tribeca -- has picked a quiet pocket in the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus for a new "child-friendly" venture. The 40-year-old father of two is turning an empty warehouse at 280 Bond St.
May 24, 2013 - Last night, Portland's Keller Auditorium played host to Vampire Weekend. The band ran through hits from their first two albums and played a significant chunk of their excellent new record Modern Vampires Of The City. We sent Colin McLaughlin to check it out.
May 24, 2013 - New York Post: Music industry executives are increasingly frustrated with Sony’s slow motion negotiating tactics with Apple, which is hoping to launch a new streaming music service, The Post has learned. Read and comment. From nypost.com. ...
May 24, 2013 - Barry Murphy returns to his The Last Sound project for a fifth album next month, entitled Rainbow Xplode on Osaka on June 8th. ‘Sun Forever' is typical of the record's hazy approach to sound; touching on a shoegazing style of electronic music. The lyrics “sun gone forever but we don't mind” should be an Irish motto. The album launch is on the...
May 24, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Russell Simmons has signed a development deal with HBO, though no specific projects were revealed: The deal reunites him with the cabler that was home to Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam. That series, which ran from 1992-97 and 2006-08, is credited with launching the careers of several notable African-American...
May 24, 2013 - Death and Taxes: In order to place the current EDM bubble in proper context, it’s important to revisit Charles Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.” Originally, I bought the book because of my interest in alchemy; and, as research for a book I was writing at the time, tentatively titled “American Panoptico...
May 24, 2013 - Queens of the Stone Age shook the sold out Wiltern Theatre with a performance that was worthy of arenas. Unveiling a slew of tracks from their new album …Like Clockwork, Queens deftly interjected older songs in with the newer material as you may have witnessed during the live broadcast for NPR. The whole concert is now on YouTube and you can watc...
May 24, 2013 - Ben Greenman, editor of The New Yorker's “Goings on About Town” section, has a strange story about busing from Boston and listening to chiptune for you. For our money, the best chiptune album is Da Chip!, which takes Daft Punk and shoves it through a Gameboy — hard to top that source material. In the bus station, I heard an ol...
May 24, 2013 - Prince recorded his new single “Fixurlifeup” with 3rd Eye Girl, the new badass all-female backing band that played with him at last weekend's Billboard Music Awards. The song is practically a grunge swirl with a Prince vocal over the top, at least until it turns into early-'90s funk-metal near the end, and it's really fucking good. The new vide...
May 24, 2013 - Wolvhammer @ Union Pool, 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) YACHT @ T5, 2012 (more by Diana Wong) today in NYC * Lemuria @ Maxwell's * Lettuce @ Brooklyn Bowl * Fierce Bad Rabbit @ Joe's Pub * Canellakis-Brown Duo @ Barbes * Mariah Carey @ Rumsey Playfield * Rob Curto's Forro All Star @ Barbes * fun. @ Seaside Heights Boardwalk * Skream, Mala, Plasti...
May 24, 2013 - Welcome to another installment of The Baker’s Dozen, a feature in which I will deliver a playlist of some of the things I’ve been listening to lately and tell you why. I’ve been listening to Charles Bradley quite a bit lately because I love songs that sound like they were made in Muscle Shoals or Detroit back in the 1960s, or sound like they...
May 24, 2013 - Anyone who has run a marathon – or participated in any endurance sport, come to that – knows that, seasonal averages be damned, trying to predict the weather for race days is something of a crap shoot. (The exception being California.) Of the nine marathons I have run thus far in my life, all of [...]...
May 24, 2013 - Christopher Lee, the guy who played the evil wizard in that epic trilogy one time, put out his first record three years ago, titled Charlemagne. Well the 90-year-old thespian is back with another metal record, titled Charlemagne: The Omens of Death. “The first 'Charlemagne’ album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
May 24, 2013 - The Guardian lists the top ten coming-of-age novels. WOUB interviews Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy about the band's summer tour with Bob Dylan. WOUB: What can you tell me about the upcoming "Americanarama" tour, which starts next month and continues through August? JT: Americanarama? Well it's a crazy tour with Bob Dylan and My Morning Jacket and...
May 24, 2013 - White House press secretary Jay Carney first outed himself as a Guided By Voices superfan two years ago, simultaneously referencing Jimi Hendrix’s drummer and GBV’s guitarist, both named Mitch Mitchell. Earlier that same year Carney was revealed to be the singer in a band, too. Now the Washington Post has gotten the full story on Carney...
May 24, 2013 - by Andrew Sacher Julio Bashmore Bristol, UK house producer Julio Bashmore has released some singles and EPs over the past few years, like "Au Seve," the first release on his own Boardwalk label, and earlier this year he provided the dancefloor-ready beat to Jessie Ware's "Imagine It Was Us" single (and some of her Devotion LP). He also released...
May 24, 2013 - BROOKLYN: Franklin Ave Shuttle Station BROOKLYN: N14th St & Nassau Ave STATEN ISLAND: Castleton & Broadway MANHATTAN: 53rd St & 2nd Ave BROOKLYN: 25th Ave D Station MANHATTAN: 15th St & 6th Ave MANHATTAN: 34th St Herald Square Station – DNR Platform...
May 24, 2013 - If you were a government and you could personally operate as the supreme ruler of your internal state, what form of government would it be? And don't say democracy. Democracies are so typical for the United States. We have them in every city, every state, and everything they expect is ridiculous. Like, Hey, Prospective Leader of the Free World, tel...
May 24, 2013 - I'm not entirely sure this week's pick for best video even qualifies as a music video; it certainly stretches the definition. But in its impeccable planning and its flawless execution, it captured imaginations over the weekend and dominated the conversation come Monday. It felt like an actual honest-to-god event, and how many of those do we get any...
May 24, 2013 - The Retro Game Music Bundle is, similar to its video game brethren, a collection of music that people can pay as little or as much as they like for. (The minimum is $1.00 though, you cheap fuckers.) You can get the soundtracks to classic games like Duke Nukem, Myst, Jazz Jackrabbit (whoa, remember that one?), Tyrian and more, as well as remix album...
May 24, 2013 - Aaah, the glory days of the McCarthy hearings and J. Edgar Hoover and hats, hats hats. As The Smithsonian blog points out, The Kingsmen’s version “Louie Louie” prompted the FBI to investigate the song after they received a letter of complaint about it. art of the FBI’s job is to fight obscenity, and in the FBI’s files on the...
May 24, 2013 - Speaking of artists we love, Trampled By Turtles has a cool new video for the first track off HearYa's #1 album of 2012 – Satellites and Stars. This moving multimedia video was conceived and created by students at the Bethany Lutheran College Media Arts department in Mankato, MN. Tweet...
May 24, 2013 - (via @robotsvsghosts Instagram) Tickets for the Scout Niblett and Dope Body show at Saint Vitus are on sale now. Sky Ferreira is playing Maxwell's on June 17. Tickets to that show go on sale today at noon. Iggy Azalea sold out her previously mentioned Bowery Ballroom show (6/17), and added another one happening a day earlier (6/16) at the same...
May 24, 2013 - A couple in Pennsylvania got super stabby over their picks for this year’s “Idol” winner, The Smoking Gun reports. Not worth it. The dispute between Harrelson and Stambaugh quickly escalated to mutual stabbing (though the parties disputed who first brandished a knife). The intoxicated couple acknowledged that, in addition to beer...
May 24, 2013 - Ghost at Webster Hall earlier this month (more by Greg Cristman) Sweden's favorite Satan-loving rockers Ghost B.C., who recently toured North America in support of their new album, Infestissumam, released one of that album's Japan-only bonus tracks onto the internet this week. The bonus track is a very Ghost-ian cover of Depeche Mode's "Waiting F...
May 24, 2013 - Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Beach Day: "Stay" [mp3] from Trip Trap Attack Beisbol: "That Feeling" [mp3] from Lo-Fi Cocaine (out June 25th) Churchill: free and legal Change Remixes and The World Within EP [mp3] G...
May 24, 2013 - Jonah Bromwich sees the shadows of tomorrow. If I had to pick an artist that I thought people might be listening to fifty years from now, I’d give serious consideration to Madlib. For one thing, there’s the prolificacy—when you put out thirteen albums in a single year, you’re significantly multiplying the chances that someone is going to st...
May 24, 2013 - The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9pm EST in New York City. Presentations vary weekly and include everything from historical topics and technical demonstrations to creators presenting their work. Check out upcoming...
May 24, 2013 - An awesome short documentary by Dega Films that follow the adventures of street artist Jilly Ballistic doing what she does best in the streets of New York. This is one of a series of films by Dega Films and we're super excited to see who else they will be documenting. Wild In The Streets: Jilly Ballistic from DEGA films on Vimeo.
May 24, 2013 - Shake Some Action! with Cheryl Waters in 2007 / photo by Dana Bos Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, select...
May 24, 2013 - Trail of Dead at BV-SXSW 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck) This summer, Austin indie rock vets ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead will be heading out on a tour with Austin indie rock newcomers Ume surrounding Trail of Dead's appearance at Pitchfork Music Festival. That tour hits the NYC-area for a show on July 23 at Maxwell's. Tickets for t...
May 24, 2013 - When Gucci Mane cranks out way more (excellent) free music than anyone could reasonably be expected to process, it might seem a bit weird when he makes a new mixtape and actually asks people to pay for it. But Gucci's new Trap House III is probably the best of the many full-lengths he's released this year, and it's definitely the weirdest, full of...
May 24, 2013 - Shervin LainezIf it were as recently as last year, I would be spending this post – hell, yesterday's post – talking about how after arriving in Chicago last Saturday, I went almost straight to Beat Kitchen to see Laura Stevenson and Field Mouse play, on account of missing the Toronto show of their tour this past Tuesday because of this little v...
May 24, 2013 - The Rumpus is teaming up with San Francisco nonprofit Quiet Lightning to present a live literary mix tape, and we want you to join us!Submit a piece less than eight minutes long for the chance to read at the event, or just join us as a guest for an evening of short readings from a variety of fantastic writers.It all goes down July 9. Keep your eyes...
May 24, 2013 - Two of Malmö's finest – Alex Esser and Jesper Aubin – are the brains behind House Music With Love + We Manage With Love, they hooked us up with their latest splendid summer house mix that showcases a bunch of exclusive tracks and also a sneak preview of a new Özgur Can track that will be the inaugural release on the We Manage With Love label.
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May 24, 2013 - Last night was a full moon and life has been some kind of bat shit crazy these past 72 hours, let me tell you. Matching the somewhat strange mood in the air is the somewhat strange and stained sounds of Still Life Still‘s new single, “Burial Suit”. The band dropped the song last month, but as has been the case lately, I didn't get around...
