PC Music

PC Music continue to be divisive, playing Baby's & Warm Up

Electronic pop collective PC Music brought most of their crew to NYC in May, and members AG Cook and Danny L Harle are returning to NYC for Warm Up at MoMA PS…

Warm Up at MoMA PS1 2015 lineup (Cut Copy, Boys Noize, Baauer, Samantha Urbani, AG Cook, Sicko Mobb, Jlin, more)

The annual Warm Up summer concert series of mostly electronic music (but other genres too) returns in 2015 every Saturday from June 27 to September 5 at MoMA …

PC Music presented "Pop Cube" at BRIC House w/ Hannah Diamond, QT, GFOTY, Sophie, and more (pics)

Friday’s show was billed as the premiere of Pop Cube, “a multimedia reality network,” whatever that is. It started with a stunt. With the audience lined up along the sidewalk, a white stretch S…

PC Music played SXSW, announce NYC show lineup & more tix, launch Pop Cube website

PC Music and SOPHIE are taking over BRIC House in Brooklyn on May 8 for a Red Bull Music Academy showcase featuring the just-announced lineup of QT, Hannah Diamond, GFOTY, SOPHIE, A…

PC Music taking over BRIC House in Brooklyn for showcase; throwing one at SXSW too

What is PC Music? A label, a scene, a subgenre, a red herring? It may be all of these things at once. The shadowy operation and its bewildering brand of hyper-pop have been everywhere in the past few months, from UK broadcasters like Rinse FM to the XL Records roster to Boiler Room broadcasts, and its influence seems to be growing on a daily basis…

Red Bull Music Academy NY returns - 2015 lineup & schedule (return of the Storm Rave, GHE20G0TH1K, a Kid Millions commission & much more)

The Red Bull Music Academy will once again take over NYC this year from May 1-30 with several very cool events and various venues. This year includes a night of all African electronic artists at Villain, a GHE20G0TH1K’s biggest ever party which will happen at BK Bazaar with a big lineup including New Orleans Bounce ‘sissy rapper’ Sissy Nobby‘s first-ever NYC appearance, the premiere of a new Kid Millions (of Oneida) piece with 20 musicians, a conversation with A$AP Rocky, a PC Music showcase with all their artists and SOPHIE at BRIC House, a conversation with George Clinton, the biggest-ever Nothing Changes party at Output with Merzbow and many others, a Tri Angle Records 5th anniversary party on Wall Street with most of the label’s roster, the return of Frankie Bones’ Storm Rave party, the debut of FKA twigs’ new live show with dancers and more, an Arthur Russell tribute with Dev Hynes, Cults, Phosphorescent (UPDATE: Phosphoresent was initially listed as part of this but is no longer on the lineup), Sam Amidon, Little Scr…

PC Music throwing SXSW showcase w/ AG Cook, SOPHIE, QT, Hannah Diamond, GFOTY, Felicita, Kane West & more

It’s entirely possible that the musicians on PC Music aren’t purposely critiquing our culture. There’s an enigmatic nature to the label that makes it easy to overanalyse without having a specific voice to speak for the music…

Turn to Crime playing SXSW & other dates, including two in NYC (one with Beech Creeps who have a new LP)

Detroit’s Turn to Crime are working on the follow-up to 2014’s underrated Can’t Love. If you haven’t heard that, it’s soulful garage rock that at times has a warm lived-in quality but also has its scratchy paranoid moments as well…

Tiny Mix Tapes' Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014

Tiny Mix Tapes posted their Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014, and as TMT lists usually are, it’s a pretty eccentric one with a lot of stuff that wasn’t making everyone’s list this year…

Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2014

Pitchfork have begun rolling out their year-end coverage, and today they posted their Top 100 Tracks of 2014. Like every year, it’s a very diverse list, with songs from Taylor Swift, The New Pornographers, iLoveMakonnen, Protomartyr, Cloud Nothings, Rae Sreummurd, Makthaverskan, Ty Segall, Parquet Courts, Azealia Banks, White Lung, Perfect Pussy, Dej Loaf, Migos, Alvvays, Against…
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