Cities Aviv
What's going on Thursday? (Halloween, Holy Ghost!, Raime, Peelander-Z, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, The Body & more)
Peelander-Z at Brain Cave Festival 2013 (more by Dylan Johnson)
Happy Halloween! As you might imagine, there’s many Halloween-related shows tonight, including a number of cover shows, and of course the Village Halloween Parade…
Heavenly Beat readies 'Prominence' (LP and track streams), playing CMJ shows and other dates
Onetime Beach Fossils bassist John Pena will release Prominence, his second album as Heavenly Beat, next week (10/15) via Captured Tracks. Much like his first record, with lightly plucked classical guitar, synth steel drums, skittering beats and whispered vocals, Prominence could pass for genuine turn-of-the-millenium Scandinavian indiepop (think Kings of Convenience or The Embassy)…
Beans releasing 'Knifefight' EP w/ Mux Mool (stream a track), celebrating at Glasslands w/ Gobby & others
Abstract rapper Beans (who is no longer in Anti-Pop Consortium) and hip hop producer Mux Mool have teamed up as the collaborative project Knifefight, who will release their self titled EP next week (9/3) via Anti…
Trash Talk played Cake Shop with Cities Aviv, Low Fat Getting High and The Shackletons (pics)
Trash Talk did their part to bring chaos to the Downtown Music Festival, crowdsurfing the low-ceilings of Cake Shop on Saturday (5/11) as part of a show with Cities Aviv, Low Fat Getting High and The Shackletons…
Blue Hawaii streaming 'Untogether,' added to Andrew WK's 285 Kent show, playing SXSW and other dates
Montreal duo Blue Hawaii will release their debut album, Untogether, next week (3/5) via Arbutus Records. That’s the cover art above. Alex Cowan and Braids’ Raphaelle Standell-Preston have crafted a lovely record, airy with skittering beats and Raphaelle’s otherworldly harmonies…
Andrew WK playing more shows, including one in Brooklyn w/ DOM, Cities Aviv, Dickpic, and Cool Serbia (dates)
Andrew W.K.’s Super Bowl 2013 halftime show at Santos (more by Dan Bracaglia)
If you live in NYC and want to see Andrew W.K., the question isn’t ever really “when will there be a show…
Antwon drops new track (stream), plays NYC tonight (win tix!)
As mentioned, San Jose rapper Atwon is in town and playing Santos tonight (1/24) as part of a pretty great bill featuring Cities Aviv, and Weekend Money…
Antwon released 'End of Earth Remixz,' playing shows (dates)
Antwon‘s recent End of Earth LP and End of Earth Remixz mixtape, the latter of which surfaced at Gorilla v Bear, were a good indication of the MC’s predeliction towards glitchy, at times ugly (in the best way) electronic hip hop…
Christopher Hansell's favorite records of 2012; Pharmakon & Soren (Rosenkopf) add West Coast dates
Warthog
Christopher Hansell of Warthog (ex-The Men) has dropped off his top 10 releases of 2012, as well as other thoughts on the passing year…
a new free Cities Aviv LP, more CMJ pics
and Amanda Hatfield
Cities Aviv, who DJed The Flat last night (11/14) , has released his new LP Black Pleasure via Mishka. Cities Aviv, under the name Muted Drone, is responsible for production on the bulk of the LP, while the remainder comes from names like R…
