US Open

Leon Bridges played US Open Fan Week before Afropunk (pics)

While in NYC for Afropunk fest, Leon Bridges also played the final night of US Open Fan Week…

stream James Murphy's 'Remixes Made With Tennis Data' LP

As mentioned, James Murphy headed up a project for IBM that turned real-time data from the 2014 US Open into music. That music was mostly random bleeps and bloops but he then took that and shaped it into something still bleepy and bloopy but with more form:James Murphy used the IBM Cloud and a custom-built algorithm to turn data points from more than 400 hours of tennis play (data like serve speed, number of aces, etc…

James Murphy releasing 'Remixes Made with Tennis Data' LP this week (preview a track)

James Murphy @ CBGB’s Fest 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) You may remember that IBM hired James Murphy to help create music based on data from US Open tennis matches…

James Murphy making music based on data from US Open tennis matches

After dabbling in film and coffee, James Murphy has finally gotten back to making music. Sort of. Murphy has teamed up with some big brains at IBM to generate music based on game data from 2014 US Open matches which is happening as we speak out in Forest Hills, Queens…

Great Lake Swimmers, Ava Luna, Serena Williams & others played the U.S. Open (pics)

“Serena Williams failed to put a storybook finish on her injury comeback and instead decided on Sunday to once again turn center court at the U…

(Venus didn't but) Wye Oak played the U.S. Open (pics)

Venus Williams fully expects to return to tennis despite being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that causes fatigue and led to her shocking decision to withdraw from the U…

Wye Oak, Great Lake Swimmers & others playing the U.S. Open (and other shows)

Great Lake Swimmers @ SXSW 2011 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) The private Matt & Kim/Girl Talk show wasn’t the only musical portion of this year’s U…

Matt & Kim & Girl Talk played a pre-hurricane U.S. Open party @ Terminal 5 (pics)

“When New York lifts the curtain on the 2011 U.S. Open, a brilliant rivalry among an uncommonly gifted generation of men’s tennis players will take center stage…