DJ Rupture

We are currently in the midst of NYC's Ecstatic Music Festival which is running now through March 21 at Merkin Concert Hall. This past weekend was the fest's kickoff with My Brightest Diamond's Sharon Worden performing on Friday (1/25) and Carla Kihlstedt premiering her ICElab-commissioned song cycle, At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire on Saturday (1/26)...

Ecstatic Music Festival 2012 (more by David Andrako) As discussed, the indie/classical Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center this year and it begins Friday (1/25) with a show from My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus...

Julia Holter at Bowery Ballroom in August (more by Amanda Hatfield) The Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in 2013 from January 25 to March 21, where it's happened in past years...

YACHT recently played Fun Fun Fun Fest and went on a tour with Yo Gabba Gabba. We've got another set of pictures from their set at FFF Fest in this post...

The previously mentioned North American Ex tour is now underway. They hit Chicago last night (3/8) and continue at a recently-added Brooklyn show at The Rock Shop TONIGHT with DJ/Rupture...

"DJ/Rupture began Nettle when he lived in Barcelona. The current NYC lineup: is Lindsay Cuff (violin, voice), Rupture (electronics, mudd), Brent Arnold (cello), and Bill Bowen (percussion)...

DOWNLOAD: Very Be Careful - La Furgoneta (MP3) In addition to the 1/9 date at Living Room as part of KidRockers and the pair of dates with The Vaccines on 1/20 at Bowery Ballroom (tickets) and 1/22 at Glasslands (tickets), Oberhofer have another more imminent date to contend with...

"The crowd warmed up - and got to dancing as the room filled up - but the most sonically-fulfilling moment of set didn't come until the impromptu encore, when Cohen finally removed the mutes (read: t-shirts) from his floor tom and bongos and coaxed some really compelling percussion out of the non-computer side of the Tanlines setup...

Delorean @ Glasslands in June (more by Chris Doss) MoMA's annual summer season of parties at PS1 in Long Island City, aka Warm Up, returns on July 3rd and there are lot of familiar names on this year's lineup...

Javelin @ Bowery Ballroom in February (more by Jessica Amaya)Whitney Live: Summer 2010 Presented by Keds Fridays: July 2, July 23, Aug 13, Aug 27 Lower Gallery / Sculpture Court 7pm JULY 2 HIGH PLACES + TORO Y MOI JULY 23 BEAR HANDS + DARLINGS AUGUST 13 JAVELIN + WARPAINT AUGUST 27 DJ/RUPTURE + TANLINES"Downstairs this July and August Whitney Live rocks the Lower Gallery and Sculpture Court with upstarts in experimental pop, tropicalia, chill-wave, beach music, garage rock, post-punk, and globe-trotting bass-inflected DJ beats...