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James and Pat (more by Ryan Muir)LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy has revealed that he is involved in a new band who are set to release material on his label, DFA…

Yacht @ SXSW (more by Ryan Muir) Yacht (now on DFA Records) will be in town tomorrow for another Halloween option. The DFA flyer and all Yacht tour dates below…

Joe Strummer the Plumber What are some other good costume ideas for tomorrow? Don’t say Amy Winehouse. And please keep listing Halloween events HERE…

Bowery , Santos “Dressed in a dark blazer and white pants (after Labor Day, mind you!), John MacLean looked more like a professor than a dance-rocker…

Showtrotta has similar events listed HERE. More on Santos during CMJ HERE. More details on tonight below…

10.18 – NEW PARTY ALERT: TBD new monthly event w/ performance by Lykke Li (hosted by Josh Wood) 10.20 – Japan Takeover w/ Holidays of Seventeen, Local Sound Style, OVUM, Parker Theory, and The Rice Cookers 10…

DOWNLOAD: The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Testimony (MP3) In the midst of popular electronic-based production teams such as Justice and DFA, Embassy Sound Productions (ESP) emerges with a fresh approach to dance-oriented rock and roll, using live instrumentation to evoke the intricate arrangements of Norman Whitfield, Quincy Jones, and Phil Spector as well as the pared down beats of contemporaries like The Neptunes and Danger Mouse…

The B-52s are playing a show at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on November 1st, 2008. In 2007 they played a show on Halloween with The Rapture at Roseland…

Did you end up doing anything last night? There are some great things happening Friday (tonight – Aug 22) as well. Joakim (head of Tigersushi, remixer, and front man of Joakim & the Ectoplasmics) is deejaying at APT. Ch…

Yacht @ SXSW 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)pop experimentalists YACHT (a.k.a. Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans) have just signed with DFA to release their new single, “Summer Song,” available now digitally via itunes and on 12″ vinyl…