photos by Leia Jospe

Rusko & fans

Clean or dirty? Uplifting or brutal? Those were choices dance-music fans could make on Saturday, the second day of the weekend-long Electric Zoo 2011 on Randalls Island. They could go for the polished tones, warm chords and step-by-step buildups of trance and house, the overlapping styles that have long dominated dance clubs worldwide and that gave Electric Zoo its headliners: Tiesto on Friday, David Guetta on Saturday and Armin van Buuren on Sunday. The unsubtle four-on-the-floor beat of trance has been a longtime staple of European pop hits, and in recent years American acts like Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and Rihanna have also embraced it.

Or they could get knocked around by the squirmy, distorted bass lines, sudden blasts and saw-toothed bits of melody of dubstep, which after years of enjoyment by devotees is now making itself known to a broader United States audience through D.J.'s like Skrillex, whose fans screamed with joy on Saturday afternoon. [NY Times]

Due to a family emergency, a BV photographer wasn't able to make it to all three days of Electric Zoo at Randall's Island over Labor Day weekend, but Leia did get there for the first day (the Friday that Plastikman didn't happen), and came back with this fun set of pictures. They continue below...

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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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Anti-Pop Consortium @ ATP NY Day 2 (more by Ryan Muir)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Bebel Gilberto @ The Box
* Fever Ray, Vuk @ Webster Hall
* Mono, Maserati @ The Bell House
* Obituary, Goatwhore @ Gramercy Theatre
* Au, Bell, Julianna Barwick @ Union Hall
* Anti-Pop Consortium @ Santos Party House
* Langhorne Slim CD release show @ The Cameo
* Sister Suvi, Afuche, Suite Unraveling @ Sycamore
* The Jealous Sound, The Spanish Prisoners @ Southpaw
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Services @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Peter Evans Quartet, Mike Pride's Bacteria to Boys @ Zebulon
* Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog with Eszther Balint @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Angela Jaeger, Alan Licht, Pat Irwin, Cynthia Sley, Chris Brokaw @ Issue Project Room
* The Coathangers, Nervehunt, X-Ray Eyeballs, Swimmingcitiesoceanofblood, Red Dawn II, Queening @ Death By Audio
* Wizard of Oz screening & show w/ ?uestlove, Jennifer Hudson, Julianne Hough, Bilal @ Rumsey Playfield

Anti-Pop Consortium have a CD release show for their newest album, Fluorescent Black (out October 6th) at Santos Party House.

Sound Fix is hosting a release show for Langhorne Slim's latest, full-band record out today, at The Cameo at 7pm. "Free" show with purchase of $10 CD. Full album is streaming at Spinner. His new video is below...

Sister Suvi member Tune Yards is on her way to being more popular than her band. Catch them (Sister Suvi) tonight at Sycamore.

Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs play at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Services. It's a venue much smaller than the show they just played the other day.

Karen Oberlin is at Iridium Jazz Club.

Karin A aka Fever Ray and Vuk play for a second night at Webster Hall.

Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog featuring violinist Eszther Balint performs at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

Mono play the Bell House with Maserati, who have some new records you might be able to pick up.

The Maze at Death By Audio hosts The Coathangers, Nervehunt (ex-member of WAVVES one-off show), Teeth Mountain), X-Ray Eyeballs, Swimmingcitiesoceanofblood, Red Dawn II and Queening.

There's a Wizard of Oz screening & show with ?uestlove, Jennifer Hudson, Julianne Hough and Bilal performing music from the film at Rumsey Playfield.

Tiesto just completed a three-night run at Hammerstein Ballroom this past weekend. His new song featuring Priscilla Ahn is below.

Andrew W.K. played, and will play again, at Joe's Pub. A video of him below.

What else?

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Tickets are on sale for the Julian Plenti show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on sale for the Julian Plenti show at Brooklyn Bowl.

Tickets are on sale for the Julian Plenti show at the Guggenheim.

Joe Pernice is performing "Music and Stories from It Feels So Good When I Stop" at Mercury Lounge on November 6th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the Har Mar Superstar shows at Mercury Lounge and Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Athlete is playing Bowery Ballroom on November 3rd. Tickets are on sale.

Florence & The Machine are playing Bowery Ballroom on October 27th. Tickets are on sale.

Three Pavement shows are on sale and/or sold out.

Do Make Say Think, Art Brut, Girls, and Land of Talk tickets went on sale today.

Wolfmother, The Cult & Type O Negative tickets are on sale.

New Yorker Festival tickets went on sale at noon.

Breakfast at Sulimays reviews DJ Tiesto (featuring Tegan & Choir) and Volcano Choir (Bon Iver) in the video below...

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That above picture is the cover for the forthcoming Tegan & Sara album, Sainthood, due out October 27th on Vapor Records. The record is being produced by Chris Walla (of Death Cab and many producing credits) and Howard Redekopp (who's worked with New Pornographers, Mother Mother, and others) - interesting in that they've both worked on past Tegan & Sara individually.

The pair (Tegan and Sara) have a few shows scheduled at the moment. Two of those will happen at NYC's Town Hall on October 30th and 31st (Mischief Night and Halloween). Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am.

Tiestoremixed Tegan & Sara's track "Back in your Head" in 2007. Now the three have collaborated again on "I Feel it in My Bones," a song that'll be included on Tiesto's new album, Kaleidoscope, out October 20th on Ultra Records. That song is streaming on his MySpace. Also guesting on the Tiesto album will be Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Kele Okereke of Bloc Party, Emily Haines of Metric, and others. Full tracklist is below.

Tiesto is going on a pretty big tour that kicks off with three nights at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. Tickets for those shows (9/24-9/26) are on sale now. All dates, the Tegan & Sara album back cover and tracklist, and more, below...

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