“Sometimes remixes are commissioned to be marketing tools or to make the music functional in a club,“ says Caribou's Dan Snaith. “But for me, there’s only one reason to get remixes done: because I’m a giddy fan of the remixer.“
Listen to new songs by RMR, Buddy/Kent Jamz, Xiu Xiu (Suicide cover), Travis Barker, The Aquabats, Caribou (Morgan Geist remix), a Oneohtrix Point Never mix, and more...
Tonight's NYC-area shows include the New York Comedy Festival, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, Beef Jerk, Crying/Radiator Hospital, Screaming Females, and more.
Christmas is just around the corner, and right after that it's one of the biggest party nights of the year, New Year's Eve. We've already posted about a bunch of musical ways to ring in 2016 (browse our "New Year's Eve" tag), and here's a roundup of those, with even more options included:
First, for the rockers out there, there's the Mutoid Man and Royal Thunder shows at Saint Vitus on NYE and NYD (tickets); the Gogol Bordello shows at Terminal 5 on 12/30 and NYE, the latter of which has them playing Gypsy Punks in full (buy tickets or win them); and the Deer Tick shows at Brooklyn Bowl on 12/30 an...
Like last year, the 2015 Red Bull Music Academy will host a two-night tribute concert at BAM. Last year was William Onyeabor, and this year they'll be paying tribute to the late, great Arthur Russell whose music spanned folk, classical, dance and areas in between...
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...
We've been posting a bunch of New Year's Eve shows happening in NYC throughout the past few months, but there's even more cool stuff we haven't gotten to yet...