Cake Shop during NYC Popfest (more by Chris La Putt) Cake Shop has been a key part of the vibrant New York music scene. Bands both local and from all over the world respect Cake Shop as a launching pad...

The music of co-conspirators Otto von Schirach and Mr. Feathers has always been about extremes; the limitations of relatively diatonic systems, the overthrowing of "dance music" as a concept, the removal of subtext in a genre dictated by titles more than audio output. But while Otto prefers working within the Miami Bass realm with splashes of post-Rusko dubstep, Mr. Feathers has bumped up the indeterminable source of his music to a point of nigh unidentified influences, drawing equally from the sharp breaks and one-bar aural jump cuts of multiple genres (dubstep, breakcore, braindance) and the propulsive simplicity of everything from ...

Somewhere along the line, Futurism becomes tradition. Take the 60s: the space age acted as the launching pad for countless experimental groups, exploding definitions of what could be achieved with guitar, drums and electricity. Now, though, most mop-top clad groups strumming their way through 60s style measures are immediately dismissed as staid, trad... retro . The See See , however, are slightly more difficult to shake off. Creative lynchpin Richard Olsen once led Acid Folk band The Eighteenth Day of May, giving him an added pedigree of life at the coal face of the avant garde. Deciding to focus on the pop ...

The Atlantic Cities : Considering that Denton has well over 100 active bands in a city of just over 110,000 residents, it wasn’t a stretch of reasoning. The city serves as home or launching pad to bands as diverse as Midlake, Bowling for Soup, Eli Young Band, Neon Indian, and Sarah Jaffe. Even the local polka band, Brave Combo, has appeared on The Simpsons and won two Grammy Awards. Musical genres represented on any given night in the rehearsal spaces, house parties, and venues that fill Denton range from hip hop and doom metal to experimental folk and noise ...

Spending the day just me and my 20-month-old. Will be wandering around @artmrkt, among other places. # Four more now: @nodebeat + (1) keyboard, (2) Moog Slim Phatty, (3) drone pad, and (4) piano: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 # My one regret about my Macbook Air is I shoulda gone with the larger harddrive. Didn’t realize at the [...]

The mechanized drums are the bottom layer of "Coconut Water", and they are completely dry, but when the synths come in, they are soaking wet. Teenage Sweater, the project of California's Mario Ruiz and Connor Alfaro, drapes his programming pad in waterfall-like cascades of synths and reverb-soaked vocals. It's not overwhelming; he doesn't use too many elements at once, and the composition definitely falls into the category of minimal pop. This isn't Niagara, but rather ...

Enjoying our rambunctious capture of Reptar at The Launch Pad? We bet you are. But, there's something we've been sitting on...something special the band pulled off towards the end of their set, and we're breaking it out now in the most exclusive of ways. When unique bands do unique renditions of other's unique songs, things get...well, unique, obvs. That's exactly what you can expect here in the band's cover of the New Order classic "Age of Consent". Check out this special live MP3 NOT INC

After tearing through what was probably the most unique set of the day at The Launch Pad, Reptar's Graham Ulicny takes us through the history of their band, how they came across their band name, and where they think the music is taking them.

I could waste my word count here simply listing the number of bands (or ‘projs’ to use the man’s own parlance) that Mike Watt has formed, shaped, joined, helped or been a part of. Suffice it to say, the two he’s best known for, Minutemen and The Stooges, are arguably two of the most important, fascinating and mould-breaking-ly unique rock groups you’re ever likely to encounter. But even listing each individual endeavour like some kind of comprehensive punk rock CV would surely still fail to accurately portray the sheer scope of the personality, philosophy, language and practises ...

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I headed down to Bristol for Simple Things festival this bank holiday, and had a pretty good time. Having been stuck in a house for a few days with two poorly housemates, I was glad to get out and away from Nottingham for a couple of days; however I hadn't quite escaped their sickliness and managed to contract some sort of virus that made my legs feel like lead whilst being plagued by a horrible nauseous feeling, which didn't make for very good festival-going, but I did what I could. First of all, I'm going to start ...

It’s always disappointing to hear stories of musicians’ gear getting stolen while onstage. And apparently Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner is the latest victim of backstage robbery. Following the band’s show in Atlanta, GA last night (May 7), Bittner posted the following via his personal Facebook account: “To the scumbag who stole my Zildjian practice [...]

Led Zep (a BBC recording rarity), Little Richard a Roxy album track and Lulu - but which Lulu to choose? Feeling Alright, Watch That Man or Morning Dew? Last week's radio runout didn't manage to lift off the launch pad - due to a last minute tech meltdown, so refreshed and re-revved after an unexpected Tuesday night off - Piley and I are back in bunker from 9 tonight at Chance Radio - why not swing by and listen live. Divvyshare upload problems seem to be over - so as promised a take away versh of  last Friday's funky nugget Honey & The ...

L.A metal group Fire">Crowned By Fire just posted their new video for the single "Witch In The Window". The new video was directed and produced by Kenny Swartz while cinematography came from Evan Deeper and editing from Matt Pulley. Sargon Tooma was the 1st AD and Larry Eichman the key grip. The video features Malice McMunn and was filmed in Country">Canyon Country, CA at Eternal Art Tattoo and Green Valley, CA at Roger's pad.

If any R&B; single released in the past year deserved to have the requisite posse cut remix revision, and yet somehow didn’t, it was Elle Varner‘s debut “Only Wanna Give It To You”; the record’s refreshing nod to mid-90′s hip hop-soul just felt like the ideal launching pad for a pimped out 2.0 take to [...]