Recommended Show: SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 WHITE TOWN, and more @ LITTLEFIELD 622 Degraw St Brooklyn, NY 11217 $18, 4PM What made us do a doubletake on tonight's list of shows was the presence of White Town among the bands playing Littlefield. You may remember this guy from the 90s hit, "Your Woman." Lacrymosa @ Ace Hotel Fred Armisen @ Union Pool Reggie Watts @ Webster Hall Cornelius Loy @ Manhattan Inn The Promise Ring @ Irving Plaza Davi, Ikona, samn!, & Tamara in Harlem @ Glasslands Vaz, Roomrunner, Multicult, & Fuckton @ Shea Stadium Strand of Oaks, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, & Cigarette @ Cake Shop Sam Sowyrda, Ryan Sawyer ...

Photographs from the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival on Sunday, April 1 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. MUSICIANS Danny Holt The Living Earth Show* Nonsemble 6 & Grains* Jeff Anderle* Dominique Leone’s “Les Noces”* Dan Cantrell* Ramon & Jessica* Cornelius Boots & Friends* Beep Mercury Falls SFCM Guitar Ensemble The Hurd Ensemble Volti [...]

Created in conjunction with Grammy nominee Cornelius (Keigo Oyamada) and Yoko Kanno of Cowboy Bebop fame, Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo has developed the new “Wake Up” social app for both iOS and Android. Meant to make waking up in the morning as enjoyable as possible, the app offers alarm music that is automatically created with [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

Die deutschen Freak-Folker Orph präsentieren am 18. Mai ihr Debüt "Poems For Kui" auf dem Lieberhaber-Label DevilDuck Records – das auch so wertvolle Pop-Perlen wie Talking To Turtles und Miss Li vertritt. Im Zuge dieser Veröffentlichung beehren die Vier zahlreiche Festivals und Clubs der Republik. Im kunstvollen Video zur ersten Single "Lovesong For Kui" tänzelt eine galante Primaballerina zur sanften Melodie ihres tropischen Punk-Pops vor sich hin, dazu gesellen sich noch ein paar satte Beats und Bläserloops – fertig ist der erste Streich. Werft an dieser Stelle einen Blick auf die anstehenden Tourdaten und den aktuellen Clip: Orph - Live 2012: 16.05 ...

Traxman Da Mind of Traxman [Planet Mu; 2012] by Benjamin Pearson Rating: The first time I heard DJ Diamond’s 2011 track “Torture Rack” was the first time I stumbled upon the intersection, in the Venn diagram of Chicago’s non-mainstream, of its footworking circles and its dungeons. The track’s title and high-end whip-cracks evoked metonymically what the last few years’ most compelling footwork albums have musically: our bodies’ powerlessness in the face of physical stimuli. Not the obviously-pleasurable sex pantomime we normally associate with dance music’s bodily stimulation — unlike most dance music, it’s about violence, not ...

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I would like to wish Karmaloop clothing affiliate Plndr.com a Happy Born day. Right now to celebrate their bday, PLNDR has rappers like Freaky Franz, and  dj’s like CJ curating sales for them. I am bummed out that the Wavy sweatshirt Franz … Continue reading →

Edmund Welles, 2010 press photo. Aaron Novik, Jeff Anderle, Jon Russell, and creative mastermind Cornelius Boots in the foreground. Confession: I’ve been meaning to write a feverish and swooning rave-up of Oakland-based musician Cornelius Boots‘ absurdly beautiful and strange and intelligent and mischievous and sincere and meditative and heavy-as-fuck bass clarinet chamber music group, Edmund Welles*, for years [...]

Don Cornelius was in an extreme amount of pain in the days before his death

FILFLA – Fliptap (Someone Good) (Hey You) What’s That Sound? Japanese experimental music polymath Keiichi Sugimoto (of Fourcolor, Minamo and Fonica) uses his FilFla alias to release poppier, beat-driven work. This, his third album, is undoubtedly going to garner some Cornelius comparisons, and for good reason – like Cornelius, it’s kooky, cute J-pop you can dance to. Good Times? Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, Fliptap is here for a good time, not a long time. Good thing, then, that it k ...

Don Cornelius was in an extreme amount of pain in the days before his death

They have gone in threes again this week. There was Dick Clark. As he did when Don Cornelius passed earlier this year, my friend JB said everything I wanted to say about Dick Clark in his post over at The … Continue reading →

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I have been thinking since yesterday of what I might say about Dick Clark today, and I find it odd that my opinions about his contemporary, Don Cornelius, were a lot stronger at his death earlier this year. Perhaps it’s that to a farm boy from rural Wisconsin, Cornelius and Soul Train were exotic, while [...]

After Don Cornelius, we’ve lost our second iconic music-related TV host and producer of 2012. ABC News reports that Clark died after suffering a heart attack today in Los Angeles. He was 82. Clark started out in radio, getting a job in a radio-station mailroom as a teenager in 1945 and becoming a DJ a [...]