Booka Shade

German house vets Booka Shade will be in North America this spring for both weekends of teh Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March. In between the two weekends, the duo of Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier will play an NYC show at Irving Plaza on March 19...

UK bass duo Disclosure, last here in October, will be back in March -- not for SXSW but the 2013 Ultra Music Festival in Miami which takes place over two weekends (3/15 - 17 and 3/22 - 24)...

Massive Attack at Terminal 5 in 2010 (more by Chris La Putt) Trip hop pioneers Massive Attack have assembled a BBC 6 Mix, where they compiled music that influenced their 1991 debut album, Blue Lines, like Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Gang of Four, Isaac Hayes and more alongside some of their new favorite artists like Burial, Flying Lotus, The Bug vs The Rootsman, Kanye West & Booka Shade, and more (via Daily Swarm)...

Tickets to all dates of the the IDENTITY Fest tour, Jones Beach and PNC Bank Arts Center included, have been reduced to $20 today. The sale started at 9am today and lasts for "20 hours only" (thanks Danielle)...

Instrumental hip hop guru DJ Shadow is set to release his first LP in five years The Less You Know, The Better on September 5. He released the single "I Gotta Rokk" back in May...

Booka Shade @ Lollapalooza 2008 (more by Zach Dilgard) Booka Shade move around a lot, and in October they'll be returning to North America for some shows that include 10/26 at Music Hall of Williamsburg...

We'll get a more complete press release in the morning (and confirm what is listed below is 100% correct), but in the meantime below is a picture of the 2010 Sasquatch poster (that someone Tweeted) and the lineup as read at tonight's Atlas Sound show in Seattle (and being listed all over the Internet)...

DOWNLOAD: Tortured Soul - Did You Miss Me (MP3) Cut Copy @ Terminal 5 - March 21, 2009 (ChrisGoldNY) This weekend saw the first wave of post-SXSW, pre-WMC deejays and bands come through New York...

"House beat underdogs Booka Shade made the overcrowded MGMT stage look like sheep as they strode through some of the most danceable hooks and beats blared...

Hope you got your fill of the French on Wednesday and Thursday. This weekend brings dance music from loads of different places (but is way less French intensive)...