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FACT's 50 Best Albums of 2013
I always look forward to FACT‘s year-end list, which you can count on to be chock full of (but not limited to) forward-thinking electronic music, pop, R&B and rap, and it’s one of the lists where I’m usually guaranteed to find something new…
Factory Floor are here, share Laurel Halo remix, give us their Best of 2013 lists
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After four years of teasing us with singles and EPs, UK trio Factory Floor finally released their self-titled debut album this year. Like their other work, it’s rooted in Detroit techno and acid, but with a stark, post-punk outlook…
UK online mag The Quietus list their Top 100 LPs of 2013
Online UK music mag The Quietus started five years ago and quickly became (I think) one of the best sources for music writing on the web, giving a home to many former NME, Select and Q writers who are still seeking new music but are not so interested in the flavor of the month…
Factory Floor get remixed by Laurel Halo & Carl Craig (stream); DFA throwing a holiday party in NYC this weekend
DFA Records has had an eventful year, celebrating its 12th Anniversary with one of the biggest parties of the year. They’ll close out 2014 with a much smaller NYC holiday party, happening this Saturday (12/7) at Glasslands featuring “Very Special Guest DJs…
DJ Rashad releasing a new LP, going on Hyperdub tour w/ Kode9 & Ikonika (dates); Laurel Halo releasing a new LP too
DJ Rashad at Pitchfork Festival 2013 (more by Cory Dewald)
Hyperdub, the label run by Kode9 and responsible for signing Burial, is presenting a North American tour this September/October with Kode9, DJ Rashad, and Ikonika appearing on select dates…
PAN_ACT NYC festival underway (upcoming shows include Laurel Halo, Lee Gamble, Terrence Dixon, Bill Kouligas, more)
In June 2013, ISSUE Project Room and the Goethe-Institut New York present PAN_ACT, a multi-faceted series of performances, talks, and installations exploring parallel strategies in conceptual art, underground dance, and experimental music…
Mykki Blanco released a new EP, played Glasslands w/ Le1f, Laurel Halo & others (videos & EP stream)
Earlier this month (5/7), Brooklyn venue Glasslands hosted a great multi-genre bill as part of the Red Bull Music Academy NYC residency with sets from rappers Mykki Blanco and Le1f, arty electronic music from Laurel Halo, Crazy Bitch In A Cave, and Papercutz, and DJ sets from Venus X and Spank DJs…
Red Bull Music Academy reveals full NYC lineup (Oneohtrix, Lee Perry, Andy Stott, Laurel Halo, Skream, Le1f, Young Chop, Big Freedia, Pantha Du Prince, Congos/Sun Araw, more)
As mentioned, tickets went on sale today for the previously announced Red Bull Music Academy events, which take over NYC from April 28 to May 31…
listen to Laurel Halo, Julia Holter and Daniel Wohl's Ecstatic Music Fest performance
Wohl, Halo, & Holter @ Ecstatic Fest 2013 (more by David Andrako)
As mentioned, Laurel Halo and Julia Holter played the Ecstatic Music Festival over the weekend (2/23)…
Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, and Daniel Wohl collaborated at Ecstatic Music Festival (pics, review)
“So you were there in a car and the windshield shattered,” are the first words you heard at Laurel Halo and Julia Holter‘s collaborative set with electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl and his TRANSIT orchestra at the Merkin Concert Hall on Saturday night (2/23), as part of the ongoing indie-classical Ecstatic Music Festival…
