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tributes to Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider - OMD, Thomas Dolby, Mogwai, Moog, Duran Duran, more
Tributes have also come in from Jean Michel Jarre, Midge Ure (Ultravox), the Safdie Brothers, Orbital, The Orb, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lloyd Cole, Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Kid Congo Powers, Junior Boys, JD Samson, and many more.
French 'Bulupunk' band 10LEC6 sign to Ed Banger, share groovy NSFW video (watch!)
French band 10LEC6 are the newest group to sign to Ed Banger Records. The band was founded over a decade ago by French street artist Simon Bernheim, who soon brought in Jean-Sebastien Bernard (aka Jess from veteran DJ duo Jess & Crabbe) on drums…
Breakbot shares "My Toy" video, touring this spring
Breakbot‘s latest single off their new LP Still Waters is “My Toy,” which is the kind of funk lite that seems born out of that 1980 era when soft rock and new wave co-mingled that French dance artists seem drawn to. (See also: Daft Punk’s “Digital Love.”) The video for the song, directed by collective […]
Ed Banger celebrating 10th Anniversary with tour featuring Justice, Breakbot, and Busy P (dates)
French label Ed Banger was founded in 2003 by Pedro Winter, onetime Daft Punk manager and who records music as Busy P. It’s home to Justice, Sebastian, Cassius, Uffie, Mr Oizo, Breakbot and more…
Ed Banger artist Breakbot touring North America (dates)
Paris resident Thibaut Berland has been making music as Breakbot for about six years, releasing a string of singles on French labels Ed Banger and Because Music, with a sound honed in on that short late ’70s period where soft rock and disco met…
tix on sale: Leonard Cohen, Camera Obscura, Chelsea Light Moving
Tickets for the Leonard Cohen show at Radio City are on AmEx presale now.
Tickets for the Camera Obscura show at Le Poisson Rouge go on sale today at 10…
Justice played 2 nights @ Terminal 5 w/ Busy P (Friday pics)
Interview Magazine: What’s your favorite thing about New York?
GASPARD AUGÉ of Justice: It’s funny because the paradox is that New York is one of the most European cities in the US, but it’s a distorted, gigantic melted version of Europe…
Chromeo remember DJ Mehdi (read their story), add 2nd Terminal 5 show (updated dates)
It’s been almost a week since we found out about the tragic death of the too-young Ed Banger DJ Mehdi. One of the first confirmations of the awful news, as we pointed out in our post, came from Mehdi’s friends in Chromeo via Twitter…
DJ Mehdi reported dead (RIP Mehdi Favéris-Essadi)
“We lost our brother. No words.”- Chromeo
“Damn…RIP MEHDI” – Drake
DJ Mehdi @ the Mad Decent Block Party 7/30/11 (more by Erez Avissar)
Tragic news this morning…
Electric Zoo expands lineup (SBTRKT, Nicolas Jaar, MSTRKRFT, MANY more), SebastiAn released 'Total' on Ed Banger
Giant and very-varied Labor Day Weekend electro festival Electric Zoo returns to Randall’s Island on September 2-4 and just announced 14 more artists to its already big lineup which is split across four stages (times three days)…
