THE DRUMS: LIVE AT W.I.P. 2.14
The Drums performed a 4 song set last night (Valentine’s day) at W.I.P. (short for Work-in-Progress & owned by the proprietors of the Greenhouse). We caught The Drums last at CMJ 2010 (Photos). Starting roughly an hour late a midst the bottle-service-heavy underground art house (even if a bit contrived), The Drums tore through perennial favorites such as “Best Friend” as well as their more current hit “Money” and the dancing made me really miss the days of Mondo at Don Hills.
Catch the photos from last night’s performance below.
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[photos: Cory Greenwell]
DOWNLOAD STARFAWN: GREENLIGHT [TEEEL REMIX]
Check out this dark disco remix of Starfawn’s “Greenlight” from Teeel.
Download a copy of Starfawn’s EP – available digitally now through Moodgadget, more info at moodgadget.com/starfawn/
Starfawn is a collaboration between Producer Misha Mross and Vocalist Amber Schaefer that began in early 2011. The two met through mutual friends and connected over a shared love for synthesizers and electronic music.
Misha Mross currently lives in Brattleboro Vermont and splits his time between his day job as an electro-optical engineer, writing music, and his musical engineering projects, which include building custom MIDI controllers and interfaces, and programming synthesis software. Influenced by both the organic (Vermont woods, classical music, physics, math) and the technological (NES/SNES, electrical engineering, synthesizer music), his production style, while heavily synth based, has natural motion and melody.
While Misha Mross is the technical expert of the duo, Brooklyn resident Amber Schaefer brings her natural charisma and song-writing abilities to the project. Amber tangibly brings her acting and improv background to their performances, cooing as she nonchalantly rolls around on the stage.
Together as Starfawn, they craft highly personalized electronic music that has been described as “an instantly recognizably retro, yet strange and otherworldly soundscape … that revels in experimentation while still understanding the importance of actually having a song amongst the indulgence.”
ADULTSWIM PRODUCED NEON INDIAN VIDEO: FALLOUT
The new video for Neon Indian‘s “Fallout” is an Adult Swim-produced cartoon directed by Lilfuchs. Paying homage to 80’s Saturday morning cartoons and sexy commercials, a scantily clad, pink maned, chill-wave Barbie cruises the scene in her 80’s convertible while paralyzing gas station workers with her gaze.
NEW VIDEO FROM THE BLACK KEYS: GOLD ON THE CEILING
The Black Keys Follow up their buzz-worthy viral video for “Lonely Boy”, with a new video for “Gold On The Ceiling” off of their late 2011 release, El Camino. The video, directed by Reid Long, keeps it simple, following the band through their recent world tour intertwining studio footage with clips of the band behind-the-scenes and performing on stage.
TEEEL SHOW THIS WEEK + NEW ALBUM COMING THIS MONTH
Inspired by italo, electro and the 80s new wave movement, Teeel aka Jim Smith credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head. Creating music in a 10×10 teal painted room, stacked with vintage synthesizers and guitars, TEEEL creates music that ranges from hypnotic synthpop to dreamy disco and dark electronica. Although TEEEL is a fairly new solo project, Jim Smith is no rookie in the music industry. He’s been producing a wide range of music, performing with bands and DJing in clubs since the late 90s. His debut album, AMULET (Moodgadget Records) has generated quite the buzz in the blog world as well as being featured on KEXP radio. “Dark Passenger” was featured as “Song of the Day”.
You can check out a night of electronic bliss this Thursday at 11:15 at Lit Lounge in New York City with Teeel performing along with Starfawn, Jacob 2-2, and Crozet. Doors open at 8:30pm. Lit Lounge is 93 2nd Ave. (btwn. E5/E6th St). Click HERE for more details.
TEEEL – “University Heights” (Coming 2/22/2012)
Original Cover Art by: Hayden James Mitchell