Conrad Tao, a pianist, and Benjamin Beilman, a violinist, have each been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant of $25,000.

Electric Daisy Carnival and TAO Group have partnered to put on EDC Week from June 4 – June 11.  Expect the biggest DJs taking over the biggest Las Vegas clubs all week.  For any of you that are going (which is probably many), do yourself a favor and check out the schedule below so you [...]

Jessica Szohr was quite the tease at the Tao Beach 2012 season opening party in Las Vegas yesterday. The former Gossip Girl hit the red carpet in a cute floor length summer dress but she had the crowd in a stir when they noticed she was definitely bra-less. PHOTOS: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! Miley Cyrus Goes To Disneyland! Jessica let it all hang out and we aren't mad at all! The-27-year old actress completed her beach look with lots of bracelets and 2 simple necklaces but that didn't distract on lookers from Jessica's bosoms. PHOTOS:Taraji ...

Insomniac has announced it will launch its inaugural EDMbiz conference in Las Vegas in early June just before Electric Daisy Carnival as part of "EDC Week.” The event will include “world-renowned electronic artists” as well as execs from AM Only, Atlantic Records, Atom Factory/Atom Empire, Burning Man, Citizen Net, Glassnote, Marquee Nightclub, Mobile Roadie, Pacha, Red Light Mgmt, Strategic Group, TAO, Topspin, Turntable.fm, Twitter, William Morris Endeavor and the Windish Agency.

Music for Occupy , an organization supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement, has just announced a massive compilation mix called Occupy This Album on behalf of the movement. The CD edition comprises 78 songs across four discs, while the digital edition is over 100 songs. Both include contributions from Mogwai, Ladytron, Tom Morello, Debbie Harry, Thee Oh Sees, Amanda Palmer, UNKLE, Girls Against Boys, Willie Nelson , filmmaker Michael Moore (covering Bob Dylan ), and more. See the full track list below. There will also be a release party on May 8th in New York with artists performance and special wine ('Occupy This ...

Rien ripé depuis des semaines. Une quarantaine de 45 tours attendent, bien empilés à côté de mon bureau, que je daigne m’occuper d’eux, mais je demeure indifférent. Autrement dit j’ai de la difficulté à me remettre sur les rails, je manque d’entrain, je n’y vais plus à pleine vapeur. J’ai quand même plein de chansons dans mes conteneurs qui ne demandent qu’à vous être livrés pieds et mains liés. Je me lance… en vous causant Beatles. Récemment j’ai appris que nous pourrions assister à la renaissance des Beatles. La rumeur circule (sûrement ...

His grandfather may be the legendary folk artist Pete Seeger, but Tao Seeger has paved his own path. When I saw him sit in with the Preservation Hall Brass Band at the Louisiana Music Factory, he sang a song in Spanish! Tonight, the core of that acclaimed group joins him. Ben Jaffe, the musical director [...]

MP3: The Full Retard (via p4k) Hold the Floor for El-P’s first leak off “Cancer for Cure”. EL-P is repping Columbus, Ohio’s— the late Camu Tao —- to the fullest in his return. The hook is a Camu  vocal sample, “You Should Pump This … Continue reading →

The 17-year-old pianist Conrad Tao performed at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday.

Internationally acclaimed nightclub operator Tao Group is set to bring a monumental change to Sydney’s nightlife landscape with the opening of Marquee -* The Star, Sydne*y in late March 2012. The new nightclub – the latest jewel in The Star’s $870 million redevelopment - will be overseen by...

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Blondes Blondes [RVNG Intl.; 2012] by Conrad Tao Rating: Blondes plant a seed and watch it grow. Their brand of patient, live-take house begins with the smallest element — a synth chord here, a little bassline there — and evolves, slowly but surely. It’s the same hypnotizing repetition that made The Fields’ From Here We Go Sublime an instant classic, but the 12-inch singles Zach Steinmann and Sam Harr have compiled here for their proper full-length debut are less manic than Alex Wilder’s work, and with their warmly produced keyboards and deep, palpable kicks, they’re more tangible and human ...

Thin Lizzy fans are long familiar with the video portion of this show which was released over a decade ago under the title "The Boys are Back in Town". For anyone not familiar, this show captures Thin Lizzy on one of the final dates of their Live & Dangerous tour, playing a free show on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. The show took place on October 29, 1978 and Lizzy played in front of an estimated crowd of 100,000. This is one of the more short-lived lineups of the band but they sound great! Gary Moore had stepped ...

The New York Knicks are a franchise that is in serious peril. After luring high priced free agents Carmelo Anthony and Amere Stoudemire, head coach Mike D'Antoni has failed to find a point guard that could run his system of organized chaos. It seems like they have turned to NBA-journeyman and Brooklyn author/poet Tao Lin in order to save the franchise. Lin has been putting up great numbers in his first two games. Going nowhere all season without a real point guard, the Knicks turned to Lin on Saturday against New Jersey, and he delivered 25 points. He ...

of Montreal Paralytic Stalks [Polyvinyl; 2012] by Conrad Tao Rating: ‘Ambitious.’ It’s a bit of a dreaded word, a damning bit of faint praise usually reserved for albums that aim too high. “That album was bereft of anything memorable..… but it was ambitious.” Or, more accurately, “That concept album about vocoders and indigenous masks was ambitious, awful shit.” Well, there’s no getting around it: of Montreal’s newest album, Paralytic Stalks , is capital-A Ambitious, with its sprawling second half, dense sonics, and ominous opening inquiry (self-described as “unanswered”): “You know what parasites evolved from?” But it’s also ...