REBEL NIGHT NYC: ROCKABILLY WEEKENDER
(Photo: Leonie Morse)
[nggallery id=91]
Rockabilly fans, popadour wearing L-train hipsters and break dancers don their ducktails, skinny jeans and poodle skirts for Rebel Night Weekender on July 16-17; a rockabilly festival that has accrued a considerable following in NYC. For those familiar with the scene at Otto’s Shrunken Head on 14th Street, Mr. Sato and his friends of Japanese leather-clad, motorcycle-riding, tattoo-sporting rebels take their monthly niche party ABC Rebel Night to Warsaw in Brooklyn, for a weekend of live music and Back to the Future fun where you can jive, bob and twist your bobby socks off all weekend. “Its like a Japanese remake of Hairspray.”
The Weekender tickets are $40.00 and must be purchased in advance online or if you buy tickets at the event the day of the show, the price is $25.00 for one day. There is limited available tickets, so buy early to secure your spot. The tickets gets you admission to all the bands at DJ’s at Warsaw on Friday and Saturday and a Sunday Record Hop.
-ABC
THIS WEEK FROM ROOFTOP FILMS: NEISTAT BROTHERS, FULL FRAME, DANGEROUS DOCS, FEARS AND FANTASIES
Wednesday, June 2nd
SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW EVENT: NEISTAT BROTHERS HBO SHOW (FREE)
Join us for an exclusive sneak preview of The Neistat Brothers, a genre-busting, eight-episode series on HBO consisting of experimental short films from the art-world brothers of the same name. We have been showing the hilarious and innovative short films by Casey and Van Neistat for years, and now they have their own series (aptly titled The Neistat Brothers) premiering on HBO, and we are very excited to be able to put together a special sneak preview to help spread the word.
Admission is FREE, but please RSVP by emailing neistatrsvp@rooftopfilms.com to reserve your spot, and head to Solar One for complimentary Radeberger Pilsner, food, live music and the chance to meet and congratulate the Neistat Brothers in person.
Venue: On the pier at Solar One at East 23rd Street on the East River (Kip’s Bay, Manhattan)
8:00pm: Doors Open
8:45pm: Live music by Keepaway
9:00pm: Episodes 1 & 2 of The Neistat Brothers
10:15pm: Meet the stars at a reception and enjoy complimentary drinks courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
Admission: FREE with RSVP. neistatrsvp@rooftopfilms.com
Thursday, June 3rd
FULL FRAME (SHORT FILMS)
One of the world’s leading documentary festivals presents short films from this year’s edition, including Cambodian karaoke with a social message, Taiwanese mountain watchers, and the search for an elusive photograph of Jesus. Rooftop Films is proud to partner with The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, two organizations that share a similar ethos and mission. This program includes stunning selections from the 2010 festival.
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/40-full-frame
Where:
On the roof of Brooklyn Technical High School (29 Fort Greene Pl., Fort Greene)
When:
8:00 Doors Open
8:30 Live Music by This Frontier Needs Heroes
9:00 Films Begin
11:00 Filmmaker Q & A
Friday, June 4th
DANGEROUS DOCS (SHORT FILMS)
Even in a cultural landscape dominated by semi-scripted “reality TV,” sometimes the most insane adventures and outlandish characters are actually real. We present to you the wild and weird from the whole world over. This program of short films includes sex, drugs and violence, but with an artful and intellectual bent. There are brushes with international celebrity, beloved local legends, and closely guarded secrets, but each story proves that the bizarre lives of individuals can be fascinating no matter how well known they are, so long as they’re true.
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/10-dangerous-docs
Where:
Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School (350 Grand St. @ Essex)
When:
Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School (350 Grand St. @ Essex)
8:00 Doors Open
8:30 Live Music by Elephant Parade
9:00 Films begin
11:30 After Party with FREE Radeberger Pilsner at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St.)
Saturday, May 29
FEARS AND FANTASIES (short films)
A fun, frantic program of films about losing your grip on reality . . . and loving it. Sometimes the line between reality and fantasy is so bizarrely blurred we withdraw alone into the armoires of our imagination. But these magnificent mysteries of existence are there for everyone to enjoy. Our collective imaginary friends could be telling us something meaningful. The secrets of our zeitgeist reveal plain and important truths. These dazzling short films will disturb and delight you, and remind us all that our deepest fears and our favorite fantasies are never far apart. http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/11-fears-and-fantasies
Where:
Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School (350 Grand St. @ Essex)
When:
8:00 Doors Open
8:30 Live Music by Dinosaur Feathers
9:00 Films begin
11:30 After Party with FREE Radeberger Pilsner at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St.)
THE NATIONAL: BLOODBUZZ OHIO
Discosalt video of the week 5/30/10: The National’s newish video for “Bloodbuzz Ohio” off their new album High Violet features charismatic National front man, Matt Berninger, cleaned up, beard trimmed and donning a handsome suit in black and white doing sort of a lazy mans electric slide.
MEW: BEACH
Director Martin de Thura re-unites with Danish indie rockers, Mew to direct their new video for ” Beach”. Another installment in a series of ambitiously shot, mysterious, strange, eerie videos to promote their just as ambitious, mysterious, strange titled album “No More Stories/Are Told Today/I’m Sorry/They Washed Away/No More Stories/The World Is Grey/I’m Tired/Let’s Wash Away”…and breathe! There is a camp of dirty pale kids, a peering mountain, a spinning dreammachine headed dancer and some creepy animation to the soundtrack of one toe tapping catchy tune. Check it out.
ACTIVE CHILD: CURTIS LANE
Los Angeles-based electronic-pop artist Active Child releases his debut EP titled Curtis Lane on FILTER US Recordings today. The EP can be purchased digitally through the iTunes music store HEREor on 10″ white vinyl, which is available through his official Web site.
Active Child is the new project from choirboy-turned-indie pop musician Pat Grossi. The influence of chorale singing, along with the sensibility of non-secular music, is as apparent in Active Child’s work as the influence of cherished pop bands like New Order, Joy Division and Tears for Fears. Active Child has already garnered complimentary critical praise from the likes of notable outlets such as NME, The Guardian, LA Weekly, Pitchfork, Stereogum and many others. Active Child’s debut collection of songs features the skilled use of various ’80s-tinged synths to create ethereal, soaring soundscapes punctuated by crisp electronic drum samples and handclaps. All of this lays the groundwork for Grossi’s exquisite vocals which, with their unearthly sound and evocative lyrics, take on an enchanting, hymnal quality that would not be out of place amongst the richly colored sunlight of a church’s stained-glass interior. Active Child’s songs are an intriguing study in contrast. The organic elements of Grossi’s angelic vocals and the occasional delicate strumming of a harp cast light on the eerie darkness created by the haunting synths and cavernous reverberating of percussion.
Currently touring the UK with White Rabbits, Active Child will be performing Stateside on Monday, June 7, at Mercury Lounge in New York City and on Friday, June 18, at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA, to showcase the hypnotic and otherworldly sounds contained within his exciting new body of work.
Tour Dates:
June
7 New York – Mercury Lounge
18 Los Angeles – Bootleg Theatre
FREE MP3: COWBOY JUNKIES: RENMIN PARK
Somewhere in the recesses of your early nineties record memory, you probably remember the Cowboy Junkies cover version of The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Well, the band is still together, and one of the few bands that has lasted so long with their original line-up intact. Fewer, still, have created as consistently satisfying a body of work, since 1985 with some milestone albums in the nineties that chronicle the bands creative path which has remained impervious to trends in popular music.
For the first time, the band is now completely free of any recording contracts and obligation and they have recorded a new album Renmin Park. Inspired by a three-month stay that Michael Timmins of the band spent in China—which he describes as “an other-worldly experience”— Renmin Park is the first of four releases planned over the next 18 months, collectively titled “The Nomad Series.” Renmin Park (translated means,”People’s Park”) is a celebration of the sights, sounds, and characters of Jingjiang, a small town situated on the Yangtze River. Several of the tracks were actually built on loops made from “field recordings” that Michael made in China where he recorded a myriad of sounds from music and conversations—from badminton games to students chanting their lessons. The album also includes covers of songs by two of the country’s most important rock artists.
This album will soon be followed by Demons, on which Cowboy Junkies will cover the songs of their late friend Vic Chesnutt, who passed away in December 2009. “His catalogue is so deep and, for the most part, so overlooked,” says Michael. “It will be a labor of love.” The final two volumes of the Nomad Series will be titled Sing in My Meadow the contents of which are still being discussed and The Wilderness, a full album of new songs. The band’s recently revamped website will play an important role in the Nomad Series by taking fans inside the creative process. Timmins adds that the band will be blogging about the series from the inception to conclusion of each album and will be posting demos, works in progress, rough mixes and the occasional aborted effort. After all four volumes are released, plans call for a book that will delve into the character, nature, and inspiration behind each of the albums. It will be published by Whale and Star, the publishing house of the band’s friend Enrique Martinez Celaya, a Cuban-American artist whose “Nomad” paintings helped inspire the series. Michael sums up the band’s motivation for taking on such a massive project quite simply. “The main reason for wanting to do it,” he says, “is that, as we steam through our twenty-fifth year, we feel that we have the energy and inspiration to pull it off.“
Check out a free MP3 Download from the band below:
MP3: COWBOY JUNKIES-“CASCADIAS”
Just in case you cant find that mix-tape your girlfriend/boyfriend made for you in junior high, here’s one for old time sake:
DARK DISCO: 7 HOURS. 2 FLOORS
WHEN: Sunday, May 30th
DOORS: 9pm
WHERE: Element
TICKETS: $20 adv, $30 door (advanced tickets available HERE )
On Memorial Day weekend, the folks behind Brooklyn Yard, MeanRed are bringing together established and emerging talent from around the globe to lay down the future: MJ Cole, Ikonika, Actress, Michna, Kenny Dope, House of House, Worthy, Nick Hook & Egyptrixx. Each of these artists are visionaries, pioneers, and icons… many of whom rarely play in New York. (This is Ikonika’s first performance in NYC!!).
Come out for some historic sets and interactive art to wrestle nightclubs from the grip of scenesters, b & t and tourists and to bring you to the dark side of disco. Grab reduced tickets in advance before they run out!
on deck:
MJ COLE
M. J. Cole is a British house and UK garage producer and remixer, regarded as one of the innovators of the 2Step or UK Garage sound. He came up in the Drum & Bass scene during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and has, in the past two years re-emerged as a serious electronica futurist.
Ikonika
Sara Abdel-Hamid – aka Ikonika – is one of UK dubstep’s sharpest talents. Born and raised in west London under the roar of the jets coming in and out of Heathrow, where her Egyptian father and Filipino mother met, a sound that finds its echo in the towering walls of synths that drench her debut album, Contact, Love, Want, Have. She first became involved in music drumming in hardcore and metal bands, dabbled in hip-hop and dubstep, then she crafted her own singular sound built around messed-up rhythms, off-kilter melodies, eight-bit bleeps that recall the computer games of her childhood and, of course, those vast, monolithic synths.
Actress
Actress, aka, Darren J. Cunningham not only runs the Werk label and has discovered / released some of the most widely talked about artists of the emerging bass generation (Disrupt, Zomby, Lukid and Starkey, to name a few) but he produced the exceptional “Hazyville LP” drawing cries for a Mercury Award Nomination. Actress has performed stunning live shows at Fabric London and DJ’d alongside the likes of Juan Atkins, UR, Modeselektor, Radioactive Man, Dabrye, Kode 9 and Flying Lotus. DJ sets are variable depending on the night and mood, but generally programmed to suit afro-futuristic sounds of all persuasions.
“An artist so underground that even his own friends doubt his existence” -Dazed&Confused Magazine
“Working under a mysterious guise, his tunes are shrouded in a mist of grays, beiges, and whites, perhaps depicting a murky London skyline or just a cloudy day anywhere in the world. The music of Actress is intimate, inquisitive and intricate all at once.” -URB
“One of the UK’s most fascinating musical figures” -Fact Magazine
Michna
Growing up in both NY and Miami, Michna is that unique breed of artist that draws from both the urban and the tropical. As a youngster, Adrian started DJing parties with cassettes and playing trombone in a band on the NYC bar circuit including the infamous Lion’s Den and CBGB’s. Currently based in Brooklyn NY, Adrian Michna (aka DJ Egg Foo Young) has become a staple in the NYC club scene. While working on his solo album, he also found time to remix the mysterious Jandek (the only artist ever to do so) and produce on Brazilian group Bonde Do Role’s debut LP for Domino/Mad Decent. His debut LP “Magic Monday” and the elevating single “Triple Chrome Dipped” are works of pure glitch glory.
House of House
House Of House is the New York City-based dance music duo of Saheer Umar (Afrika Islam’s nephew) and Olivier “Liv” Spencer (Still Going, DFA, Manthraxx). In early 2009, NYC-based duo House of House honored that rich history by creating and releasing the beast that is the “Rushing to Paradise” 12″ on cult label Whatever We Want Records. Instantly coveted and championed by cutting edge DJ’s, record collectors and cultural connoisseurs, “Rushing to Paradise” quickly moved up into the upper echelon of “years best” lists, even before the records official release date. Clocking in at 13 minutes and weaving through the highest peaks and deep valleys of human emotion, House of House gave birth to an epic opus. Their deep, rich, soulful house is set to rescue NYC from clutches of mindless dance music.
Kenny Dope
Three-time Grammy nominated Kenny Dope, one of the most prolific artists of the modern music age, has been entertaining and astounding the masses alike with his fusion of house, hip-hop, Latin, jazz, soul, and broken beats. Known as a living encyclopedia of beats, Kenny Dope grew up in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and by the early eighties he was absorbing the hip hop beats that were being played at the local street parties. Since then, he went on to create an explosive catalogue of work with Louis Vega under the Masters at Work alias, and has traveled the world as living legend.
Worthy
SF-based DJ and Dirtybird label founder, Worthy was bred on hip hop, breaks. techno and drum ‘n’ bass. He later conspired with Christian Martin, Justin Martin and Claude VonStroke to co-create a fresh take on outdoor parties, rightly named Dirtybird. The Dirtybird parties have quickly become an institution for San Francisco die-hards and a destination for international travelers. These days, Worthy’s music production has been showing up on DJ charts across the world and has been played by everyone from Carl Cox to Sven Vath to Ben Watt.
Nick Hook
Hometown hero Nick Hook has been a staple of the NYC music scene for years. A genre chameleon by nature, Nick has lent his talents to projects as diverse as Men, Women & Children, SPORTS and Cardboard Collective. He has performed alongside talent such as Drop The Lime, Cage, Yak Ballz, and remixed tracks for countless artists. These days, when he’s not planning the infamous Dre Day NYC party, he is heading up the post-punk noise funk band Cubic Zirconia, and releasing music on his recently formed Don’t Cry Recordings.
Toronto-based producer (a.k.a.David Psutka) has been fiddling with beats for years; Psutka’s knowledge runs deep, allowing him to thoughtfully pull from house, techno, dubstep, UK funky, and whatever other genres he needs (gothy drone rock, anyone?) to create a unique sound that he likes to refer to as “celestial club music.” With appearances booked across Europe and North America this summer, Egyptrixx is poised to take a whole lot of clubbers much deeper than they’re accustomed to going.
Grab some free music HERE
PEGGY SUE: FOSSILS AND OTHER PHANTOMS
Two voices are better than one – or so goes the mantra of believers in the cult of Peggy Sue. Best friends and creative compatriots Katy Young and Rosa Slade, along with drummer Olly Joyce, bob and weave their soulful, R&B-ready voices in and out of complex vocal interplay achieving sonic qualities all their own. A folk power trio of sorts, Katy, Rosa and Olly blend minimalist drums, acoustic guitars, accordion and strings into a soul-folk shotgun blast that is much more than the sum of its parts. Emotionally, the album centers on the darker side of love, with sharp-penned one liners smoldering like embers ignited by the breath of Klaw and Rex’s voice and furious strumming. A folk-punk wake-up call and their debut full length, Fossils and Other Phantoms signals Peggy Sue as one of the UK’s most promising imports.
“There’s kind of theme that runs throughout the album, because it was written over one period of time,” Rosa said. “The process of writing songs is very therapeutic. It usually tends to come at a time when you need the outlet for something … There’s quite a lot about what remains after something’s ended and … absences that still occupy spaces and remnants of things that have passed.”
CATCH PEGGY SUE ON TOUR
June 9 @ Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, PA
June 10 @ Piano’s in NYC
June 11 @ Paradise in Boston, MA
June 12 @ Le Divan Orange in Montreal
June 13 @ Sneaky Dees in Toronto
June 14 @ Schuba’s in Chicago IL
June 20 @ Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR
June 21 @ Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco CA
June 22 @ Spaceland in Los Angeles CA
FADED PAPER FIGURES: NEW MEDIUM
In their much-anticipated second album, New Medium, Faded Paper Figures return with a richer, fuller sound, even as they maintain all of Dynamo‘s indie-tronica charm. Fans of the band will be happy to hear all of the familiar blips, harmonies, and intellectual pop-references, but with even more life and energy this time around. Striking melodies, lyrical images, and classic pop forms–New Medium‘s lush electronica feels both intimately familiar and astonishingly new.
TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT: DISGRUNTLED WORKING MAN ANTHEMS
Discosalt Video of the Week 5/23/10: This weeks video of the week is Drive-By Truckers new video for “Working this Job” off their eighth studio album The Big To Do. Its a more melodic and rocking sounding track than anything since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera and the perfect disgruntled working man’s anthem to start your week.
And since we are talking sh*tty jobs, If you are sick and tired of slaving your life for the man, Discosalt made you a mix tape: “Take this Job and Shove it: Disgruntled working man anthems.” So, if you hate your job, put down the TPS reports or the fries basket for a few and enjoy…its almost time to go home…sort of….
SIDE A:
1. “Working This Job” 
Drive-By Truckers
2. “This Job Is Killing Me”- The Walkmen
5. “Dead End Job” -The Police
SIDE B:
6. “Working for the Man”- Roy Orbison
7. “Bad Days”- The Flaming Lips
RED WIRE BLACK WIRE: BREATHING FIRE
Just in time for the weekend we have the perfect video for you to watch while getting ready to head out.
Red Wire Black Wire is a Brooklyn based 6-piece that creates music with the immediacy of a DJ and the subtlety of film score. The band’s recordings combine dense but precise layers of synthesizers, guitars, strings, horns, and pounding drums. Eschewing irony, singer Doug Walters focuses on the melancholy; critics have compared him to Robert Smith, William Burroughs, and Frank Miller. Red Wire Black Wire fuse electronic and organic counterpoint to create catchy, textured, and revealing compositions.
The band formed at Wesleyan University in Connecticut where they fleshed out Walters’ basement laptop compositions. The band self-released the 5 song Compass EP in 2008, which was later re-released by Tough Customer Records in the same year.
In 2009, the band moved to Brooklyn, New York and completed their first full-length album, Robots & Roses. The album’s synthesizer drenched, heavy-hitting, melancholic songs tell the story of Walters’ long New York nights from bars to bedrooms. His lyrics range from dreamlike and surrealistic portraits of city life to direct confrontation of lovers. They are stories of irresponsibility and indignation; love and loathing; sincerity and sarcasm. The album sounds just as great on a lonely subway ride home as it does on booming dance floor speakers.
MINUS THE BEAR: MY TIME
May
18 Albuquerque, MN – Sunshine Theatre
19 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
20 Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theatre
21 Pomona, CA – Glass House
22 San Diego, CA – SOMA
23 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater
26 San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom
27 Reno, NV – Knitting Factory
28 Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre
29 George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival
APRIL SMITH AND THE GREAT PICTURE SHOW: LIVE AT BROOKLYN BOWL
Before heading out on the road in support of their most recent release, Songs For A Sinking Ship, April Smith and the Great Picture show headlined The Deli Magazine’s Best Of NYC Fest at Brooklyn Bowl. You can watch April’s performance recorded last Friday with the help of our friends over at Livestream.com.
you can watch the show below:
or download a free track from the band:
MP3: APRIL SMITH AND THE GREAT PICTURE SHOW-Movie Loves A Screen”
“MP3: APRIL SMITH AND THE GREAT PICTURE SHOW-“Colors”
NEW TOUR DATES
5/20: Cambridge, MA—————Middle East
5/22: Hoboken, NJ———————-Maxwells
5/25: Cleveland, OH—-Beachland Ballroom
5/26: Chicago, IL————————-Schubas
5/27: St Louis, MO—————–Off Broadway
5/28: Nashville, TN—————The Basement
5/30: Atlanta, GA————————-The Earl
6/1: Arlington, VA————-IOTA Club & Cafe
6/2: Pittsburgh, PA———————-Club Cafe
“Smith takes a ride into the annals of vintage Mason-Dixon pop, packing a sound full of sassy hooks and swinging rhythms.” – Paste Magazine
“It’s possible you haven’t heard much about April Smith but all that is about to change.” –RollingStone.com
“Smith seems to stomp, glare and wail with every single song that she lays on you, reaching for heavenly notes with a devilish grin…” – Daytrotter.com
THE FUTUREBIRDS: JOHNNY UTAH
The Futurebirds are an unruly band of boys from Athens, Georgia–but they might as well have been reared in the backwoods of Woodstock by Levon Helm himself. Reckless with passion and spirit their live show is a force to behold. Their debut release Hampton’s Lullaby is ready to be introduced to the world on July 13th via Autumn Tone Records.
The story of how the band came together goes something like this: Carter King and Dennis Love grew up together in Atlanta. They spent their days putting stink bombs into the portable toilets at the summer Olympics and discovered their ability to work together as a trouble-making team. The years passed and the boys started recording songs together during their breaks from college with Carter on guitar and banjo and Dennis on steel-pedal guitar.
Meanwhile, Daniel Womack was camped out in Waynesboro, Georgia raising stray dogs—and generally raising hell. Carter and Daniel met during their freshman year and have been playing music together ever since. Next to jump into the mix were Thomas Johnson and Brennan Miles who met Carter at Chase Park Transduction where three were honing in on their audio engineering skills. That leaves Payton Bradford. Payton graduated from University of Georgia on the highest academic scholarship and generally knows everyone–everywhere. He is a musical encyclopedia and can play just about anything he gets his hands on which made his destiny to meet the rest of the boys inevitable.
In the Spring of 2009 they started recording their EP and things have been generally peachy every since. Heavily influenced by local artists Drive-By-Truckers, the Star Room Boys, Elephant Six, The Glands and Dead Confederate.
Currently touring with Jessica Lea Mayfield the Futurebirds are: Carter King on guitar, banjo, drums, vocals, Daniel Womack on acoustic guitar, vocals, Payton Bradford on drums, guitar, banjo, vocals, Thomas Johnson on guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals, Dennis Love on pedal steel and Brannen Miles on bass.
Grab a free download below:
MP3: THE FUTUREBIRDS- “Johnny Utah”
FUTUREBIRDS Tour Dates
May 12–DC9 w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–Washington DC
May 13–Kung Fu Necktie w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–Philadelphia, PA
May 14–Southpaw w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–Brooklyn, NY
May 15–Mercury Lounge w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–New York, NY
May 16–TT the Bear’s w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–Boston, MA
May 18–Thunderbird Cafe w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–Pittsburgh, PA
May 19–Beachland Ballroom w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield–Cleveland, Ohio
May 20–Schuba’s w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield and Dexateens–Chicago, IL
May 21–Zanzabar w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield and Dexateens–Louisville, KY
May 22–Exit / In w/ Jessica Lea Mayfield and Dexateens–Nashville, TN
June 10–Schroeder’s–Rome, GA June 11–Harvest Moon–Albany, GA
June 18–The Earl–Atlanta, GA June 26–AthFest – Pulaski Stage–Athens, GA
July 3–Gnat’s Landing–St. Simons, GA
July 15–Bottletree w/ Roadside Graves–Birmingham, AL
July 16–One Eyed Jack’s w/ Roadside Graves–New Orleans, LA
July 17–Chelsea’s–Baton Rouge, LA July 18–Emo’s (Inside) Austin, TX
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: MOJO
“I Should Have Known It” is the first official single off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Mojo, coming out June 15 on Reprise. It’s pretty bluesy and it’s very awesome. Restoring my man crush on the timelesHeartbreakers front man, Petty doesn’t seem to age and sounds just as good as he did 20 years ago. Watch the video here:
Tour dates are posted below and with every online ticket purchase, you get a free download of Mojo (two songs right away, the rest of the album on June 15) and also a bunch of live tracks from the tour at the end of the summer. Thanks Tom!
THE HIDING GALLERY: IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT
Remember the days of slacking off in your parents basement? The Hiding Gallery in Brooklyn wants to bring back some of the nostalgia in a new exhibit: In My Parents Basement– a collective of “adolescent works of art,” curated by …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead’s Conrad Keely. The exhibition opens this Friday, May 21st from 9 to 11 P.M. and will feature rcokers, artists and weirdos. Joe Jorgas will premiere his new animated piece, along side work from Tao Lin, Avi Spivak and others, with music performances by the Gardens and Electric Flowers (with members of Tyvek). The Gallery will be covered in wood panels and the roof trampoline is open for business all summer.
Come out and check it out
292 Ellery #4 Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11206
YUSUF SEVINCLI: GOOD DOG PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
Starting May 26th and running until June 15th, 2010, Discosalt artist Yusuf Sevincli will be showing his work at the Fotograf Sergisi Photography Exhibition in Istanbul. For a preivew of Yusuf’s work, check out his portfolio in the Discosalt Artist section or click HERE
SARAH BLASKO: AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT
“…for Sarah Blasko’s wonderful third album, As Day Follows Night, the cinematic visions – produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn And John with an almost entirely unplugged palette of strings, sax, piano, nylon guitar, banjo, double bass, percussion and saw – are a rich frame for songs of naked heartache.”
–MOJO
Sydney native Sarah Blasko will release As Day Follows Night in the US on August 10th. The album garnered rave reviews in Australia and was named “Album Of The Year” by Triple J Radio, Australia’s largest radio network. The album is already the best-selling of her career, following her platinum 2004 debut album The Overture and the Underscore and 2007’s ARIA-winning What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have.
For As Day Follows Night, Blasko enlisted producer Bjorn Yttling (from Peter Bjorn and John) and accepted his invitation to record in his Stockholm studio.
“Going to Sweden on my own to work with musicians I had never met before was a bit daunting, but also really refreshing,” Blasko says. “I like the idea of an album being an adventure. Away from home, you’re more open to new ideas. In life in general, I like to feel uncomfortable, I like to put myself through difficulties unnecessarily. Nothing good comes out of being complacent.”
You can Download free track from Sarah below:
FATES: MURKY CIRCUITS
Fates are American composer Django Voris, Swiss electronic artist Moritz Wettstein, and British-born producer PJ Norman. The three met in New York City in early 2009 where their shared passion for electronic experimentation led to a series of recording sessions at Harvestworks, the foundation co-founded by Bob Moog to support experimental music. “The recording process was really the key to the sound,” says Voris, “ We would set up three laptops with as many devices as we could connect to them.” Some of those devices were hand built by Wettstein who, with his work in Algoritmo Caliente and Callboys, specialized in transforming everyday objects like telephones and shopping trolleys into electronic instruments, and has worked alongside many prominent electronic acts as they passed through the Zurich arts scene. “The Fates sessions would end up as a huge mess of interconnected cables and peripherals all on one table,” adds Wettstein, “We would approach each live performance in the same way, plug everything together in different variations and explore how it interacts.” This arrangement meant that the trio could record the sounds live, process them on the fly, and then resample each other – all in real time. The result was a series of extended live improvisations that explored a vast sonic palette, more in the vein of 60’s/70’s German psychedelic acts like Can and Neu! than modern forms of composed electronic music. Tasked with mixing this down into a coherent set of short compositions was tKatKa producer PJ Norman, who decamped to Zurich, Switzerland with the master sessions to tweak and distil each track into its final form. “New York has this energy that influences the creative process so much. Just the background noise of the city is a constant influence, a soundtrack…” says Norman, “I wanted to separate the process of composition from the mixing, to get an objective viewpoint over the material… the lake in August was for me a great contrast to the buzz of NYC.” This mix of extreme artificiality with a living evolution is crucial to the digital/organic sound of Fates. All the sounds, textures and frequencies on this record were created using computers in a live environment. The equipment and methods were artificial; the process was one of growth.
You can preview the entire release here: www.100mrecords.com
HOT CLUB DE PARIS: FREE THE PTERODACTYL 3
Hot Club de Paris are sharing a track from their upcoming EP ‘The Rise and Inevitable Fall of the High School Suicide Cluster Band’ with the equally fantastically titled track ‘Free The Pterodactyl 3’ which basically recounts guitarist Paul Rafferty’s attempt to liberate a 3 metre fibreglass Pterodactyl from an abandoned fairground resulting in a run in with the law.
The EP is released May 24th and celebrates Moshi Moshi’s 100th release.
