WHAT”S VINYL SATURDAY?
If you missed Record Store Day, not to fret. Them same folks behind Record Store day decided that you are good enough, smart enough and people like you enough that waiting a whole year to bring you more unreleased wax is well, just too long. Thats what she said. So now, you can mark your calendars for the sequel, that sounds like it will live up to the original: Vinyl Saturday. Kicking off June 20th and re-occurring monthly, bands will be releasing exclusive limited edition material to independent record stores starting with four very limited releases for the day. Heres the run-down:
WILCO : “You Never Know” b/w “Unlikely Japan (an amazing early (2003) version of Impossible Germany, previously unreleased)ONLY 3800 MADE! This is a special 7” single being released 10 days before new album, WILCO (The Album) comes out on 6/30.
GREEN DAY : NUMBERED vinyl version of the “Know Your Enemy” single b/w “Hearts Collide” (previously unreleased) ONLY 5000 MADE!T The b-side is an unreleased studio track called “Hearts Collide”.
MODEST MOUSE : Second in a series of 7” singles, leading up to the new CD. This one is “Autumn Beds” b/w “Whale Song” (First single “Satellite Skin” at participating stores now)
PETE YORN /SCARLETT JOHANSSEN : “Relator” single (from their upcoming record BREAK UP) b/w “I Don’t Know What To Do” (Pete Yorn demo) ONLY 3000 MADE!
There is also rumor that THOSE DARLINS will kick off their Blublockers sponsorship with a giveaway on Record Store Day Saturday.
If you want to geteven more in the timbre, check out Discosalt’s “turntable” and “vinyl” T-shirts, located in our MERCH section.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS STREET ART SIGHTINGS
Two adjacent street art paste ups spotted on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront for ya. One, from what looks like Brooklyn street artist Judith Supine and another rasterbated wheat paste of punk icon Sid Vicious from what could be the work of Discosalt favorite Mr. Brainwash.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: SUMMERTIME CLOTHES
As if the weather wasnt anti-summer enough this week, Animal Collective‘s new video for “Summertime Clothes” is following suit. This video wont do anything to coax the sun out of hibernation but might put you in the mood for Halloween or returning to a psychedelic womb. The video, directed by longtime Animal Collective collaborator, Danny Perez, features a dark studio with strobe lights, fire and ice and lots of visual tricks and treats that will make you wish your freshman dorm blacklight poster had been this entertaining.
NORTHSIDE: 4 days of Music and Art
What: Northside
Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
When: June 11-14
Damage:4 day badge- $45.00 (Individual tickets also sold from $10.00 and up)
Tickets to Northside Festisval this weekend in Williamsburg gets you access to over 100 shows, art exhibitions, events, the cupcake truck and bowling…yes bowling. Badges can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets or at Northside HQ: 60 N 6th St between Wythe and Kent. Things kick off today with an opening party at Studio B, featuring performances by Brightblack Morning Light, Mariee Sioux and more. Tomorrow starting at 8:30 , head down to South Second Street to catch: “These are Powers”, “Javelin”, “Real Estate”, “Air Waves” and “Organs”. Tickets are $10.00. FREE Heineken from 7:30-8:30 and FREE Ice Cream provided by FreeIceCream.net. Northside Festival show on Saturday, June 13th, which will be co-presented by Brooklyn Based! from 2 to 7 p.m. at Public Assembly in Williamsburg. Check out sets from”Mia Riddle”, “Geoff Ereth”,”Jacksonknife”, “Aaron Behrens of Ghostland Observatory”, “The Dirty Banquet”, “Motel Motel” and “Henry Wolfe”. “The Hold Steady”, “Bill Callahan”, “The Dodos”, and “Bishop Allen” are also on the bill.
GRIZZLY BEAR LIVE
Two live Grizzly Bear treats for you on this rainy afternoon. First up, WXPN will broadcast Grizzly Bear’s World Cafe live session this Friday, June 12th. Philly, tune in, and the rest of you, stream it live! You can also find Grizzly Bear’s Live performance from LA radio KCRW on a limited edition 7″ vinyl now. I recently picked it up and highly recommend it. Two live reverb-drenched tracks: “While You Wait For The Others,” a track taken from their newest LP Veckatimest that actually debuted on KCRW and the flip features a nice version of “He Hit Me,” originally recorded for Friend.
DISCOSALT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: JENNA CHOATE
Jenna works from a detailed vision that she sets out to recreate, whether arising from her subconscious or something from everyday life that sparks her imagination. A common plant such as a Venus Fly Trap will transform itself into a vagina, eating tiny man flies that she simply must capture. A common kitchen appliance will reveal a bored house wives tool for masturbation that she will recreate and photograph. In case you havent already figured it out, most of Jennas ideas are raunchy, visual puns that you laugh about and later construct. Some of her jokes could be considered bathroom humor while others deal with more serious issues such as gender and roles women have in society. She photographs mostly women, feminine men and mannequins, all of which have roles that are blurred. For Jenna, exploration and a quick imagination allow other visions to surface. She believes in getting her ideas through experience, her minds eye, day-dreams and fantasies, not other peoples.
SUNDAY “POOL PARTY” IS BACK
What: Sunday “Pool Parties”
When: Sundays July 12-Aug 30
Where: The Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn, NY
Damage: Free
McCarren Pool might be dead but JellyNYC, the first-rate folks responsible for the free Sunday “Pool Parties” have just pulled a bait and switch, moving the shows to the Williamsburg Waterfront. Starting July 12th, the shows will run for eight Sundays and the lineup includes: Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, No Age, Deerhunter and others.
While nothing is official, here is the tentative schedule:
July 12: Mission of Burma, Fucked Up & Ponytail
July 19: Magnolia Electric Co. ,Dirty Projectors
July 26: Health
Aug 02: Dan Deacon, No Age & Deerhunter
Aug 09: Simian Mobile Disco DJ set
Aug 16 : TBA
Aug 23: Girl Talk, Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa
Aug 30: Beach House, Grizzly Bear
WE WERE PROMISED JET PACKS: THESE FOUR WALLS
We Were Promised Jet Packs are in good company with fellow Scotsman band Frightened Rabbit. Formed in Edinburgh in 2003, these highlanders bring emotional intensity to the forefront in their immensely appealing guitar-pop anthems. Adding driving rhythms and dense atmospheric sheen, they unfold their songs into effortless-seeming choruses imbued with romanticism and pop sensibility of more mature bands like Sigur Ros and the Futureheads. The video for ” Roll Up Your Sleeves”, directed by Blair Young, is the second single off their new album “These Four Walls”. Check it out and let us know what you think.
SONIC YOUTH: THE ETERNAL
Almost the weekend again! Craving some new music to start things off right? Serve yourself up a healthy portion of Sonic Youth’s new album “The Eternal”…extra Discosalt. CLICK HERE to stream the full album.
DISCOSALT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: LINDSEY BUSHONG
Lindsey’s work is a visual diary of her experiences, thoughts and imagination. As thoughts are momentary, so are her images-created as narratives of characters seeking truth. Lindsey consciously directs light and matter towards the subjects within the photograph, seeking to create stillness and subtle grace. Lindsey Bushong is a member of the Discosalt Artist Collective and works out of New York.
PAJO: SCREAM WITH ME
Like required summer reading, David Pajo’s new album “Scream With Me” is required summer listening. Released only on vinyl, “Scream With Me” is an experimental cover album. A collection of songs from kings of the underworld, The Misfits which for most bands would spell disaster. Surprisingly, Pajo’s lo-fi accoustic interpretation is actually really effective and the perfect album to kick back a coldie on a laid back summer night. David Pajo is currently working on a new record titled “Evila” and has recently joined the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs on tour. You can purchase “Scream With Me” exclusively from the friendly ghouls over at Black Tent Press.
FORT TILDEN BEACH ACOUSTIC BBQ
What: Unamplified Acoustic BBQ 2009
When: June 14, 2009: 12:00 PM
Where: Fort Tilden Beach, The Rockaways, NY
Damage: Free
An informal, quiet beach party with live bands in New York City? Its true. Well, actually we are not entirely sure Fort Tilden Beach really exists…but urban legend attributes it to being the best hidden beach in NYC. The Fort is a former US Army Installation that ended its service in 1974 as a Nike Missle site. From the pictures we have seen, its kind of like the Darma Initiative in the Rockaways. While bikes might be your best option, you can train or ferry it part of the way, then hop a bus, then foot it. Stilettos are a no no. So if you are feeling a bit adventurous like Leo and can figure out how to get there, you are in for a real treat. A nice crop of diverse artists will be playing two or three songs w/ no amplification. Schedule (subject to change) below…
Golden Triangle (7:40pm), Aa (7:20pm), Talk Normal (7:10pm), Dinowalrus (7:00pm), Spectre Folk (6:50pm), The So So Glos (6:40pm), Shilpa Ray (6:30pm), Skeleton (6:20pm), TK Webb (6:10pm), Religious Knives (6:00pm), Necking (5:50pm), Ducktails (5:40pm), Phosphorescent (5:30pm), Pterodactyl (5:20pm), The Forms (5:10pm), Little Gold (5:00pm), White Diamonds (4:50pm), Taigaa! (4:40pm), Puttin’ on the Ritz (4:30pm), Knyfe Hytes (4:20pm), Samara Lubelski (4:10pm), The Ballet (4:00pm), Beach Fossils (3:50pm), Mika Miko (3:40pm), Emilyn Brodsky (3:30pm), Teengirl Fantasy (3:20pm), Christy & Emily (3:10pm), Fiasco (3:00pm), Strange Boys (2:50pm), Broccoli Destroyer (2:40pm), Ponytail (2:20pm), Katie Eastburn (2:10pm), The Coathangers (2:00pm), Metal Mountains (1:50pm), Real Estate (1:40pm), Liturgy (1:30pm), Artanker with Heavy Friends (1:20pm), Extra Life (1:10pm), X-Ray Eyeballs (1:00pm), The Homosexuals (12:50pm), Hot Pink Carpet (12:40pm), Javelin (12:30pm), The Eskalators (12:20pm), The Vultures (12:10pm), Air Waves (12:00pm)
SONIC YOUTH: THE ETERNAL
Sonic Youth’s 16th album “The Eternal” is out this week, along with music videos for tracks “Antenna” and “Sacred Trickster”. “Antenna” features an ageless Thurston Moore on vocals and guitar with a halo of haze churned up in the same vein as “Sunday” or “The Empty Page”. Its vintage Sonic Youth and slips on comfortably.The rest of the album certainly sounds like a Sonic Youth record but is also a homage to artists they admire. The band is doing a lo-fi video series all week on pitchfork.tv, so check it out here.
DISCOSALT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:TOM HASLINGER
Born in Linz, Austria, Tom Haslinger began photography in 1999 and was the assistant to Thomas Smetana from 1999 to 2000. In the year 2000 Tom moved to Vienna where he was the assistant for Markus Rossle until 2003. He has worked for some model agencies in London and assistant for ranking, as well as Dazed and Confused Magazine. Tom has worked for advertizing campaigns with Nike, Milka, T-Mobile, Addidas and other local clients. Tom has been working in New York City since 2005 doing test shoots for various modeling agencies and is a member of the Discosalt Artist Collective.
B-SIDE: VISIONEERS
We first heard of B-Side Entertainment last year after coming across the micro-budget indie film, “Visioneers” which had been acquired by the company and premiered at the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival. B-Side creatively and profitably distributes independent films like “Visioneers” through innovative niche marketing at a fraction of the normal cost and is quickly changing the way distributors view film marketing. The film, directed by Jared Drake, written by Brandon Drake, and starring Discosalt fav comedian Zach “starts with a gal, ends with a kiss” Galifianakis is a dark comedy set in a futuristic society, where the middle finger has replaced hello and people spontaneously combust from stress. Galifianakis, most known for his piss in your pants stand up shtick ala Live at the Purple Onion and more recent notoriety from “The Hangover” (which if you havent seen either of…set em to the top of yer to do list) plays a more serious role as George Washington Winsterhammerman, a mid-level manager at the Jeffers Corporation who starts to reevaluate his mundane existence and take matters into his own hands. Its full of angst, some really funny and poignant moments and of course Zach. We really can’t get enough Zach lately so we are excited you can now pre-book the film on DVD. Just click here to order now from the official VISIONEERS Movie store on B-Side.
SHARK WEEK IN BROOKLYN
This weekend, Discosalt made two shark sightings on Bedford Ave in BK. If you spotted them too, those lifeless black eyes , doll eyes…are some of LA based, La Brea Avenue street artist “Shark Toof’s”‘ handy work. Famous for his signature Shark wheat pastes around the LA /palm springs areas, Shark Toof has officially made his way to the Eastern Seaboard and has lots of people talking. With a gallery show in LA and prints available at Gallery 1988: LA! the shark feeding frenzy is starting to swell. Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.
LOOKING AT MUSIC: SIDE 2
What: Looking at Music: Side 2
When: June 10- November 30th
Where: MoMA, New York
The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floor
Damage: $20.00 (Free w/student ID)
The Moma exhibit Looking at Music: Side 2, catalogs NYC’s stripped-down, hard-edged, anti-establishment, experimental art and music scene of the late ’70s and early ”80s. Back when art and music were cross pollinating in NYC, when downtown artists plastered city walls with art, played in bands, squatted abandoned buildings in the east village and turned vacant garages into makeshift super 8 theaters and performance spaces. The punk ethos was alive. That energy seems to have been lost… but you can revisit it all through 120 photographs, music videos, drawings, audio recordings, publications, Super 8 films, ephemera, live events, and punk-film screenings from September-November.
Some Highlights of the exhibition will include: drawings by Patti Smith; photography by Dan Graham, Nan Goldin, and Jimmy DeSana; experimental video by James Nares; issues of influential zines and magazines including Search & Destroy, Interview, and Punk; music videos with songs by Blondie and Suicide; record covers designed by Kim Gordon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Raymond Pettibon; music from Television, The Ramones, and Talking Heads; and live band footage from performances at Max’s Kansas City; Film screenings (Taxi Driver, New York Dolls – All Dolled Up, The Blank Generation, Blank City, Deadly Art of Survival, Underground USA, Downtown 81/ New York Beat Movie, Men in Orbit, G Men, She Had Her Gun All Ready, Rome 78, Stranger than Paradise, Variety, and Bob Gruen’s 1976 video “New York Death Cult (Live at Max’s Kansas City)”. Check the Looking at Music: Side 2 website for film details and show times.
THE DEAD WEATHER: HOREHOUND
Artist: The Dead Weather
Album: Horehound
Label: Warner Bros
Release Date: July 2009
THE DEAD PIRATES: WOOD
French Illustrator/Musician McBess, a Discosalt favorite, brings his own unique vision to this music video for his band, The Dead Pirates. “Wood” is highly stylish black and white 1940’s cartoon meets Gorillaz Feel Good Inc, done in McBess’s signature style, full of some really crazy intricate detail and lots of tatoos. McBess has a pretty gnarly website with some great 2D art for sale and a shirt from the video featuring The Dead Pirate’s logo on Threadless. You can find that here.
WHITE RABBITS: IT’S FRIGHTENING
Hump like rabbits…White Rabbits. Just click above to stream their new full album “Its Frightening”.
Catch White Rabbits on tour this summer.
