On July 10, Versailles Records will release "Two Minutes To Midnight: A Millennium Tribute To Iron Maiden", a two-CD set featuring former JUDAS PRIEST/ICED EARTH and current YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/BEYOND FEAR frontman Tim "Ripper" Owens, ex-IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno, Chris Poland (MEGADETH), Keri Kelli (ALICE COOPER), Derrick LeFevre (LILLIAN AXE), Zaza">Neil Zaza, Richard Kendrick, and a collection of

En 2012, le label Monopsone nous refait le coup de la série de vinyles 10" qu'on a envie d'accrocher au mur. Deuxième épisode de la série Fragment pour le duo new-yorkais Zaza. Et coup de coeur immédiat.

- Frequenze news - Storia di un colpo di fulmine atto secondo. Quando il feeling viene certificato dai fatti - in una playlist radiofonica la band parigina snocciola gli ascolti della mia vita - allora si parla di vero amore. Aspettando l'album in uscita a momenti, che si preannuncia proiettato ad un electro wave noir a la Blue Velvet, i Tristesse Contemporaine sono lo scoglio su cui aggrapparsi per un inizio anno poverissimo di suggestioni. PLAYLIST : LEILA - Something URSULA BOGNER - Für Ulrich HUMAN WOMAN - Delusional (Kasper Bjarke Remix) Z Y X - Trust No Woman (Tristesse Contemporaine edit ) YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS - Include Me Out ...

Recommended Show: SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012 SHELLSHAG @ DEATH BY AUDIO 49 S 2nd St Brooklyn, NY 11211 $7, 8PM You can't go wrong with a Shellshag show. No matter what. Gomez & Hey Rosetta! @ Bowery Ballroom Sinkane, Chandeliers, & Wishes @ Cameo Gallery Big Deal, 2:54, ZAZA, & Soft Spot @ Glasslands The Zambonis & Butchers Blind @ Mercury Lounge Steve Lewis, Kelli Scarr, & Ursa Minor @ Union Pool The Notekillers, Sannhet, YVLTRS, & Lushes @ Littlefield Lost Boy?, Earthquake Party!, Bambara, & Trabajo @ Cake Shop Shigeto, Uzuhi, Hilly Eye, KariKatura, Annekei, and more @ Public Assembly Capsula, Des Roar, Street Smells, The John Steel Singers, & Pre War @ Pianos

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS & JONATHAN COULTON @ TERMINAL 5 610 W. 56th Street New York, NY 10019 $26.50, 7PM Whenever They Might Be Giants play their hometown of New York, you know it's got to be one of the best in town. Tonight, they bring Jonathan Coulton along with them. Golem @ BAM Cafe Soulive @ Brooklyn Bowl O.A.R. @ Bowery Ballroom Daughter & Lay Low @ Glasslands Four Tet & Mike Slott @ Le Poisson Rouge Arboretum, Rhyton, & PG Six @ Death By Audio Bonaparte & Fantastic Nobodies @ Cameo Gallery Ill Fits, Fabric, & Bad Girlfriend @ Union Pool VNV Nation ...

Retour en images sur l'accordéon magique de Zaza Fournier accompagnée pour l'occasion de la gouaille ravageuse de Barcella

Ja, na sowas, schon wieder ein Jahr rum! Mittlerweile althergebrachter Tradition folgend will ich die letzten Tage des gerade zu Ende gehenden Jahres nutzen, um meinen persönlichen musikalischen Jahresrückblick zu geben. Leider war 2011 eher von Enttäuschungen denn von erfreulichen Überraschungen geprägt, so dass meine Charts diesmal mit vergleichsweise lauwarmer Begeisterung von mir begleitet werden. Zu den Bands, deren neuen Werke zum Teil weit unter meinen Erwartungen blieben, gehören: Lower Heaven (nach dem Wahnsinnsdebüt von vor 2 Jahren konnte die Band eigentlich nur scheitern; aber dass es SO krass geschehen würde, war dann doch ernüchternd) Zaza (s.o.) The Joy ...

Multi-talented vocalist/mc/DJ Suki Bedeaux's mixtape careens from drrrty electro to grime via dancehall, and it's a damn fine listen. Grab it from here and pop it on whilst you read on below. What have been your proudest/coolest moments of 2011? This year has been really cool through out. My highlights would have to be starting my radio show on Nasty Fm at the beginning of the year, and winning the DJ Battle at Rock The Belles. When Jammer and C Gritz from Boy Better Know came to Playtime and MC'ed on my DJ set ...

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011 WHY? @ FLORENCE GOULD HALL 55 E 59th St New York, NY 10022 $20, 7PM & 10PM Florence Gould Hall (which is apparently part of the French Institute) seems like a pretty fancy place for a show. We're not quite sure how Why? fits into the grand vision of the venue, but that doesn't really matter much to us! The National & Wye Oak @ Beacon Theater Serenades, XNY, & Inky Jack @ Knitting Factory Psychic TV, Bryin Dall, & Cult of Youth @ Europa Radical Dads, Hilly Eye, EULA, & Libel @ Cake Shop My Best Fiend, ZAZA, & James Ambrose @ Shea ...

For your streaming pleasure, here is what will probably be the last installment of Friday Night Vids for the year numbered 2011…     Streamable: Where Your Head Goes (youtube) by Ty Segall     Streamable: Gold Sneakers (youtube) by Wax Idols     Streamable: In The Trees (Al Lover Remix) (youtube) by Moon [...]

LYFSTYL 006: SYMMETRY “Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.”  -  Pierre Schaeffer My buddy over at LYFSTYL  (which if you don’t follow you should) asked me, and some other friends, to contribute a track to this collective mixtape. And I’m glad I did, cause it turned out great! See the track list, stream, and download it for free below: Download ...

LYFSTYL 006: SYMMETRY “Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.”  -  Pierre Schaeffer A few weeks ago I reached out to a few of my favorite music blogs and gave them a challenge; find me a song dark in nature; with the necessary amount of funk to keep the listener constantly grooving!  This is what we came up with!  So without further ado ...

Pixies @ Hammerstein Ballroom in 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Melvin Van Peebles @ Zebulon * Joe Budden @ Highline Ballroom * MINKS, The Rassle, Zaza @ Union Pool * Amon Tobin, Emika @ Brooklyn Masonic...

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011 HALLOWEEN SHOW @ DEATH BY AUDIO 49 S 2nd St Brooklyn, NY 11211 $7, 8PM It's become a yearly tradition for indie bands in the City to perform as other bands for Halloween. You might not be able to afford seeing bands like Bruce Springsteen , Salt-N-Pepa , or Le Tigre , but you CAN afford to see indie acts covering them. Civil Wars @ Town Hall Thrones & Danava @ The Acheron Amon Tobin @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple Green Day @ The Studio at Webster Hall MINKS, The Rassle, & ZAZA @ Union Pool Fanfarlo & Double Ghost @ Mercury Lounge Boris, Asobi Seksu, & Liturgy ...

by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Pat Jordache - Phantom Limb (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Masters of the Hemisphere - Eggshell (MP3) Weekend Apologies for no day post today, I had a full CMJ day yesterday and stretched myself a little thin. (And I'm thin already.) As...