Trentemoller (photo by Karen Rosetzky)

Electronic artist and DJ Trentemoller has a few dates in Mexico before making an appearance at SXSW on 3/19 at La Zona Rosa with Shit Robot, Beardy Man, and many others. From there it's off to Ultra Festival in Miami, and then April live band dates that include Coachella and Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 24th with Dorit Chrysler. Tickets for the Brooklyn show are currently on AmEx presale and go on regular sale at noon on Friday.

The band is: "guitarist/bassist Mikael Simpson, drummer (and renowned fashion designer) Henrik Vibskov, guitarist Lisbet Fritze, and vocalists Josephine Philip and Marie Fisker." All tour dates and a video is below.

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When Baby Dee insists that her life is "incredibly boring," one has to wonder what she's comparing it to. After all, the fifty-something, classically-trained musician has ridden a large tricycle across Europe while playing the harp, has been an elevator operator, a construction worker, a go-go girl, and for a while a circus freak - billed as a "bilateral hermaphrodite" - at Coney Island.

"It was lovely there," she recalls of Coney Island. "That whole venture was about turning the tables on people. I'd been living in that transitional hell of being gawked at in public. The sideshow taught me that when you're on stage -- or up high on a tricycle -- you can get away with things that could get you killed anywhere else." [GayWired]

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photos by Ryan Muir

If you've never heard or seen a theremin played, it's otherworldly. That's often why you'll hear the theremin in old scary movies or when alien ships arrive. Think Mars Attacks! And playing it, Dorit often seemed entranced or possessed with hand movements and gestures both subtle and flailing. Wonderful beginning. [Mf]

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"BEN NEILL is a composer, performer, and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Through his use of interactive computer technologies, Neill creates a unique musical and visual experience, melding the worlds of electronic music, jazz, pop culture and visual media." [Ben Neil]

"Ben is the curator of the River to River Festival at World Financial Center this summer. This series of 5 free concerts focuses on leading artists in the field of electronic music, including Ulrich Schnauss, Fennesz/Sakamoto, FourTet and Steve Reid, Nicolas Collins, Dorit Chrysler, Kode 9, Dubwar and Johann Johannsson. See full schedule here" [Ben Neil]

Info on a show Ben is playing himself, as well as a Kieren Hebden (FourTet) and Steve Reid video, below....

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