Miike Snow at Terminal 5 in 2010 (more by Brook Bobbins)

As mentioned, Miike Snow are releasing Happy to You and heading out on a tour in support of it which hits NYC on April 24 and 25 at Terminal 5. Both of those shows are sold out, but they've just announced a third show at the venue happening on April 26. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday, 2/10 at noon with an AmEx presale starting Wednesday (2/8) at noon.

Miike Snow just revealed a music video for the track, "Paddling Out," off the new album. Check that out, along with updated dates below...

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Miike Snow at Terminal 5 in 2010 (more by Brook Bobbins)

Miike Snow will release their sophomore LP, Happy to You, on March 27 via Downtown/Universal. You can stream the album track "Black Tin Box," which features fellow Swede Lykke Li HERE, and watch the video for another, "The Devil's Work," below. The artwork and tracklist are also below.

Miike Snow will tour the US and Canada in support of the new album, surrounding their appearances at SXSW, Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and Coachella. The tour hits NYC on April 24 and 25 at Terminal 5. The 4/24 show is sold out but tickets just went on sale for the 4/25 show.

All dates, video, album art and tracklist below...

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Radiohead @ Roseland Ballroom in 2011 (more by Bao Nguyen)

Coachella which is taking place over the course of two weekends this year (April 13-15 and 20-22) revealed their 2012 lineup. Last week, Azealia Banks was the first artist confirmed, and earlier today they confirmed The Weeknd (maybe he found a band?), and before that, Jimmy Cliff, Breakbot, and Housse De Racket. The reunited Pulp then announced itself. The full lineup also includes headliners The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, not to mention, as predicted, the reunited At the Drive In and the reunited Mazzy Star (!), and Madness and Refused (!) and Jeff Mangum and many, many more that you can see below...

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photos by Brook Bobbins

The Rusko & Doorly tour hit Terminal 5 in NYC on Wednesday night (4/27). Pictures from that HARD-presented show are in this post.

HARD also presents the LA date of the tour which is also the last date of the tour.

LA is also where HARD is holding a 'Summer Festival' on Saturday August 6th. That craziness will include sets by:

"DUCK SAUCE, Boys Noize, CHROMEO live, RATATAT live, Skrillex, ODD FUTURE, JAMES MURPHY AND PAT MAHONEY DFA TENT SPECIAL DISCO VERSION, DIGITALISM live, Jack Beats, KARLSSON and WINNBERG / MIIKE SNOW DJ SET, Caspa, NERO, Noisia, Emalkay, CARTE BLANCHE live featuring dj Mehdi and Riton, BUSY PICTIONARY featuring BUSY P and SO ME, Holy Ghost ! live, SIRIUSMO, GESAFFELSTEIN, GASLAMP KILLER, DESTRUCTO, Juan MacLean, Shit Robot (The Shit Robot Show), Still Going, Nadastrom, DILLION FRANCIS, Acid Jacks, Visuals by Vello V2 labs, + more."

HARD Cruise sails out of Florida in January, and though no lineup has been announced for that yet, I'm sure the lineup will contain at least a few of the artists mentioned in this post.

More pictures from Terminal 5 are below...

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Miike Snow at Webster Hall (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)

Downtown Music, LLC is an independently owned company which operates Downtown Records, Downtown Music Publishing, Downtown Music Services (Licensing Group), RCRDLBL.com and Downtown Recording Studios. Downtown Records is comprised of its Downtown and Mercer Street imprints and joint venture partners Dim Mak, Fool's Gold, and Mad Decent Records.

The NYC date is one of two US dates scheduled for Major Lazer. They'll also take on Miami on March 12th as part of the 9 Mile Music Festival along with almost the entire Marley clan (Stephen Marley, Damian Marley, Julian Marley, Kymani Marley) along with Inner Circle and many others. More details, including ticketing, can be found at the 9 Mile Music site.

Major Lazer and related tour dates and some videos below...

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photos by Brook Bobbins

A-Trak looking spiffy

"A Trak has proven himself to be one of the most talented DJs around, period. I had a chance to watch his set from the "backstage" area at Terminal 5 last night and was thoroughly blown away. Flying Lotus put on an incredibly energetic performance that set the stage for A Trak, who rocked his turntables in a tuxedo atop a 2 story platform covered in lights and LCD screens. Visually, it was a spectacle in its own right. Needless to say the crowd lost it for dance floor anthems like 'Anyway', 'Barbara Streisand', 'Shake It Down' and his 'Indestructible' remix. Amidst the furious scratching and beat juggling he is famous for, you could hear hints of hip-hop rhythm working their way into the electro until ultimately you found yourself dancing to straight up rap music." [Electronica Oasis]

A set of pictures and some videos from the Thanksgiving event continue below...

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photos by Tim Griffin

""This festival is super-cool," said Strokes singer Julian Casablancas from the stage at Austin City Limits on Friday night. "Lotta stuff." It's true: The festival, now in its ninth year, packs 130 bands onto eight outdoor stages arranged around the 350-acre Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. The lineup is a mix of huge rock acts (the Eagles headline Sunday) and big-name indie bands, plus DJs, country singers and the occasional rapper. With an expected attendance of around 70,000 a day, the festival similar in size, if not in spirit, to Lollapalooza. "Lollapalooza has that city energy. It's like the hot girl you want to take home," one organizer, Lisa Hickey, said. "ACL is more laid-back -- it's like your best friend." And unlike South By Southwest, the music and film showcase that takes over the Texas town every spring, ACL doesn't have much of a music-industry angle -- it's almost strictly for fans.

On Friday night, the packed lineup presented the crowd with a happy problem: Four big-name guitar bands -- Spoon, Sonic Youth, Vampire Weekend, and the Strokes -- all had sets starting within two hours of each other, and seeing each set in its entirety was impossible."
[Rolling Stone]

Kings Go Forth pictures are HERE. The rest of the pictures from the first day of the 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival (where Ezra Koenig joined Miike Snow on stage), continue, with a bunch of setlists (including Spoon's which points out that Eleanor Friedberger played a Fiery Furnaces song with Spoon) (video proof too), below...

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Miike Snow pics by Alexander Stein

"Fashion Week mosh pit! Iggy on stage at Don's Hills = mayhem" - cutblog

"This is what it's like on the other side@perryfarrell when JA does their Small club show!" - Etty Farrell

Iggy Pop @ Don Hill's Friday night (mikenouveau)


Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow @ the Theory store Friday night

The Stooges ended up playing a Pop Magazine party at Don Hill's on Friday night. Whether or not they also show up at Varvatos this weekend remains to be seen. Speaking of Varvatos, did anyone end up getting their picture taken by Mick Rock or see any good shows on Fashion's Night Out?

Metric played Juicy Couture' Fifth Avenue Flagship store as a two-piece. They covered "The End Has No End" by The Strokes (who are playing their own fashion week party). A video of that, and more pictures of Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt DJing at the Theory store, below...

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"On September 10th, 2010, VOGUE, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC & Company and the CFDA will team up for a second time to bring you Fashion's Night Out. The goal of the Fashion's Night Out is to celebrate fashion and retail."

Metric is playing at Juicy Couture' Fifth Avenue Flagship store at 8:30PM. They are also playing a fashion show on Monday.

Joss Stone is playing in Nine West (5th Ave and 53rd Street).

VV Brown is playing the Teen Vogue and ASOS.com's Fashion's Night Out Block Party. "The event will be held on Bleecker St (btwn Perry and W. 4th) in NYC 6-11pm."

"As part of Vogue's "Fashion Night Out" Bear Hands will be playing at Rockefeller Center tonight, September 10. The show kicks off at 6:30 and previous to Bear Hand's set at 9pm Savoir Adore and Brahms will be playing. The stage is set up between 49th and 50th street and 5th and 6th Avenue."

"My Gold Mask will be premiering "I Don't Need The Reason" live during their performance at the Phillip Lim store for Fashion's Night Out in New York City today on Friday, September 10."

Dan Black is performing an acoustic set at Saks at 9:30pm, and DJing at Dior Homme from 7-9.

Karen Elson will play at 9pm at Balenciaga, West 22 Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.

Mick Rock is taking pictures at the Varvatos store.

"We will also have a live acoustic performance by British band Ramona at the Spring Street Burberry store."

Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow is DJing a Theory party at 40 Gansevoort Street.

What else?

photos by Amanda Hatfield

MNDR @ Mercury Lounge

"MNDR's one of the hardest "gigging" musicians as of late, headlining local spots, along with supporting acts like Massive Attack and later this fall, Miike Snow, but this Monday's early show at the Lower East Side venue was all about her solo material; songs well known by the bloggers and journalists that love her, along with two new tracks she debuted for an appreciative audience.

Adding to the heat seeking missile she's currently riding, her aforementioned work with Ronson has garnered the attention of major media outlets like Billboard and Esquire. in which she notes that their partnership all began with a chance meeting during his Authentic Sh*t program (Fridays 8-10pm ET), here on East Village Radio."
[East Village Radio]

And though she isn't on the bill, maybe MNDR will show up for at least a song (like she did at Vice's Creators thing) on October 11th at Music Hall of Williamsburg when Mark Ronson & The Business Intl plays there. Tickets are on sale now. All of Mark's other currently announced dates are in the UK.

All MNDR dates and more pictures from Mercury Lounge, with Mark's new video for "The Bike Song", below...

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Miike Snow @ Sasquatch Fest (more by Chris Graham)

Miike Snow have sold out their October 6th show at Terminal 5. As a result, they've added another gig at the same spot for the next night, Thursday, October 7th. Tickets are on AmEx presale; general sale starts Friday at noon.

The Swedish synth-dance-pop band played three NYC shows with Delorean in March. Their current tour hits five continents. All dates are below...

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photos by Chris Graham

"At the sold-out Sasquatch, bands holding down the headliner spots haven't necessarily turned out to be the biggest draws. Sure, My Morning Jacket played to a mostly packed house on Saturday, and Massive Attack was overwhelmingly solid on Sunday despite a not-so-full amphitheater floor, but the band drawing the most populous, most stoked, most deserved gathering was unquestionably Vampire Weekend." [SPIN]

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ACL 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

October 8-10, 2010 | Zilker Park, Austin, TX

"The Austin City Limits Music Festival began as a modest, two-day event and now, as it enters it's 9th year, has become a perennial American music experience. Taking place at the heart of Austin, Texas in the legendary Zilker Park, ACL Festival has grown to 3 days, 8 stages and over 130 bands."

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photos by Ryan Barkan

But then it all started to slip away, as Ms. Love's abuse of cocaine and prescription pills took a toll. She became a tabloid regular, famous for behavior like flashing her breasts at David Letterman. It was hard to imagine her ever being taken seriously again. "I have lived the worst parts of my life in public," she said earnestly, "and now my band and I have made a relevant record."

"I went all in," she added. "I bet the farm on this record, which is dangerous, but great in a way, because when you do that, you have nowhere else to go. There is no Plan B."

The challenge is to make the quality of the music eclipse Ms. Love's tabloid celebrity, said David Massey, the president of Mercury. The label gave Ms. Love a multi-album deal just four months ago, before the recording was finished. "The decision to sign the band was entirely music driven," he said. "It's now become such a complete, great record that I'm blown away. One thing that impressed me when I got to know Courtney were her lyrics and ideas. Nobody else is doing such raw, truthful music." [NY Times]

Before those, there will be an acoustic in-store performance at the Best Buy Union Square on Monday, April 26th at midnight (aka when you can buy Hole's new album, Nobody's Daughter, which comes out April 27th). Details on that are below.

The band then heads to Europe before returning to the US for more shows this June. One of those will be a Friday, June 25th gig at NJ's Wellmont Theatre. Tickets go on sale at noon.

The picture above and more below are from the group's appearance at Spin day party at SXSW at Stubb's on March 19th. There are also pics of the other bands that played that show - Rogue Wave, Fucked Up, Miike Snow and Sharon Jones. Those, with the setlist, all tour dates and a teaser video for the record are below...

Continue reading "Hole adds a NJ show, an acoustic NYC in-store & other dates ++ pics from SPIN @ SXSW (w/ Courtney, Fucked Up & more) "

by Ben Lozovsky

Shrouded in masks and clouds of rising smoke, Miike Snow brought their consciously resonant electro pop to Webster Hall Saturday (3/27), one of three shows the band played in NYC over the weekend. It was just another incidence of identity cloaking and confusion-inspiring antics from the trio of Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg and American Andrew Wyatt.

But its not just their personas that get shrouded; the music on their eponymous debut album demonstrated an ability to craft music with a widely acceptable reach that was uncharacteristically nuanced and deep. Whether the group masks itself in studio precision and heavily stratified layers of sound, or performs their songs as a bass throbbing dance friendly renditions descending into feral chaos, as they did Saturday night, Miike Snow still have warm emotional messages radiating out like UV rays through the distance and melancholy of their music.

It's a powerful contrast that might have been lost on the screaming, female heavy crowd eager to turn the night into a boy band concert (Karlsson and Winnberg only produced Grammy winning songs for Britney Spears), but Miike Snow managed to please their constituents on all levels; from the undeniable draw of their dance rhythms and melodic nectar to the shrill rising dissonance and dizzying interludes of encircling noise, there was enough of their dualistic personalities to go around.

Equally focused on deconstructed grooves and floor stomping was opener Delorean (who played a show at Coco66 earlier that day aka at 2am). The Spanish band performed their hard-working chamber disco with a usual confidence. Full of gleeful spazz and surprising heft, it was an enticing lead in to the pounding low end that Miike Snow pushed forward.

Miike Snow's next NYC show will take place at Terminal 5 in October. You can currently catch them and Delorean on a tour that continues in Boston tonight (3/31). More pictures from Webster Hall including a post-show jump rope session and the setlist, below...

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Delorean are playing Coco66 at 2am tonight (3/26, after GATEKEEPER, Mirror Mirror, Blondes & DJ Gavin Russom). That's a bunch of hours after they open for Miike Snow at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and a bunch of hours before they open for Miike Snow at Webster Hall (Saturday) which is one day before they open for Miike Snow at Bowery Ballroom (Sunday) which is a day before they play Mercury Lounge with Lemonade and Brahams (Monday). Check out their new video for "Look Alice" below...

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Miike Snow @ SXSW 2010 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Like Cocorosie, La Roux and Miike snow have both just added headlining NYC shows at the large Terminal 5. La Roux, whose last show in NYC was at Webster Hall, plays there on June 7th. Miike Snow, who just played SXSW and plays Webster Hall (and Music Hall of Williamsburg) this week, plays there on October 6th. Both shows go on sale Friday at noon.

Going on (pre)sale much sooner: Pretty Lights, RJD2 & Chiddy Bang at the venue on June 4th ("VIP ticket includes 4 hour open bar.").

by Dominick Mastrangelo

The Middle East @ the BV official showcase @ Club DeVille

Early in the day The Canadian Blast BBQ & Showcase broadcast live back to Canada. I caught an in-form You Say Party! We Say Day! who, according to the presenting DJ, were making their first performance in the US in four years. (A little research found they were banned from performing after touring without visas in 2006.) Earlier on I managed to catch the last half of roots rockers Justin Rutledge and The Beauties. (The Beauties played their own official SXSW show later that night at Soho Lounge.) From there it was on to the evening showcases and the first stop being St. David's Historic Sanctuary for singer-songwriter Miranda Lee Richards who was at the grand piano when we walked in and nearly in the dark off to the side of the altar. She was followed by another singer-songwriter with backing band, Sweden's Sofia Talvik.

I then moved on to the BV party to catch The Middle East who were playing their second-ever show on American soil. The set started slowly but was buoyant by the time they got to "Blood" off their recordings of The Middle East EP. A brisk walk across town and a behind schedule Tap Room at Six allowed me to catch all of England's indiepop quartet Allo Darlin. Behind schedule became a theme as I settled into the Galaxy Room Backyard (KCRW Showcase) where Fitz and the Tantrums were still setting up. Their set was something else. Fun all around, tight contemporary Motown dance numbers that had people dancing and singing and when the sound guy told the band they had only one more song, Fitz responded, "We're playing at least two more." Sadly, they did only play one more. The last band of the night was Sweden's Miike Snow and their dance pop numbers. It took nearly 40 minutes for them to change out from The Tantrums' set and the crowd had been patient but getting anxious by the time they went on. They battled a few sound problem during their set but Animal was the song everyone came to hear and when they closed their set with it, the crowd danced and shouted along to every word. Heading back to the car I stumbled upon Black Top Demon who were set up between 6th and 7th Streets along Red River. St. Patrick's Day revelers were moving and shaking in front of them and their stripped down kick drum, guitar setup as they played all kinds of blues and rock numbers and even a Johnny Cash tune.

More pictures from the day below...

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We'll get a more complete press release in the morning (and confirm what is listed below is 100% correct), but in the meantime below is a picture of the 2010 Sasquatch poster (that someone Tweeted) and the lineup as read by Bradford Cox at tonight's Atlas Sound show in Seattle (and being listed all over the Internet)....

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After a hectic day of updating the constantly updating Bonnaroo lineup page, the entire thing has been announced. Gwar, Norah Jones, and the rest of the lineup below...

Continue reading "the complete 2010 Bonnaroo lineup (Stevie Wonder, The Melvins, Kings of Leon, Isis, Local Natives & many more) "

Wow...Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Fever Ray, Devo, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Mew, Camera Obscura, Gil Scott-Heron, The xx, John Waters, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deer Tick, Gary Numan... Full Coachella 2010 lineup below....

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DOWNLOAD: Glasser - Glad (Delorean remix) (MP3)

Delorean @ Market Hotel during CMJ (more by Leia Jospe)

The Delorean/Miike Snow tour that's happening this March and April has added another NYC date. It appears that their March 26th show at Music Hall of Williamsburg and March 27th show at Webster Hall have both sold out. They've now added a third show on Sunday, March 28th at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets go on AmEx presale Wednesday at noon; regular sale Friday (1/15) at noon.

As mentioned previously, Delorean also has a show (without Miike Snow) at Mercury Lounge on Monday, March 29th. Lemonade and Brahms are also on the bill. Tickets are still on sale.

This Delorean isn't to be confused with Portland's Partisan Records-signed band Dolorean (with an "o").

In December, Delorean (with an "e") was featured on ABC News, who wrote "the Spanish band is working on a full length album, with an expected release in March of 2010 or later (they're still looking for a US label)." That segment and clips from recent Delorean gigs and updated dates are below...

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DOWNLOAD: Glasser - Glad (Delorean remix) (MP3)

Delorean @ Market Hotel during CMJ (more by Leia Jospe)

The Barcelona-based synthpop crew Delorean isn't originally from Barcelona, and they didn't start out as a synthpop crew. The band began in the Basque country, playing emo with a heavy Elliott Smith influence. It's taken them eight years, three albums, and remixes for the likes of El Guincho, the Teenagers, Glasser, and the Big Pink to get to where they are right now, but where they are right now is a pretty glorious place.

On their brand new BNM'ed EP Ayrton Senna, they play a deliriously sundazed but seriously hooky form of dance music, with liquid house pianos and burbling bass that dissolve beautifully into each other. These days, the band drops New Order's name more than anyone else's, and it makes sense. Not too many bands can pull off New Order's fusion of open-hearted emotional melodicism with dancefloor intensity, but Delorean is one of them. [Pitchfork]

Continue reading "Delorean touring w/ Miike Snow (playing Coachella & SXSW?)"

Miike Snow @ Mercury Lounge in September (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

Miike Snow have scheduled a North American tour for March/April 2010. That will include two NYC shows. One, Friday, March 26th at Music Hall of Williamsburg has tickets that are on sale now. Tix for their other show, March 27th at Webster Hall, go on sale Friday, Nov. 13th at noon.

For this tour...

The combination of Swedish producers and multi-instrumentalists Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg along with New York-based songwriter Andrew Wyatt will expand on their dynamic sound with a six-piece band!

Continue reading "Miike Snow - 2009 Tour Dates (MHOW & Webster Hall) "

photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

Jack Penate, Jack Penate

Two Mercury Lounge shows down, with one at Maxwell's to go, Jack Penate and Miike Snow, continue their tour of the United States tonight (9/18) in Washington DC. The Hoboken show is on Saturday. More pictures and both setlists from the Tuesday show at Mercury Lounge, below...

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