Pink Skull

Alan Howarth, Harald Grosskopf, Emeralds & friends played an Unsound show @ LPR (and a secret gig in Brooklyn) (pics)

“”IF YOU’RE FROM NEW YORK, you’ll know this one.” As the image of an eye patch-sporting Kurt Russell flashed across twin screens behind the stage at West Village destination Le Poisson Rouge, the speaker struck up a portentous synth line and the audience burst into nostalgic applause; …

WFMU, Thee Oh Sees, Vetiver, Motel Motel, Phosphorescent

The previously announced April 4th Thee Oh Sees show at the Bell House in Brooklyn is doubling as the FreeMusicArchive.org launch party…The Free Music Archive will combine the curatorial approach that stations like WFMU have played for the last few decades, and the community generated approach of many current online music sites…

Yacht signs to DFA (video), free Free Blood show tonight

Yacht @ SXSW 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)pop experimentalists YACHT (a.k.a. Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans) have just signed with DFA to release their new single, “Summer Song,” available now digitally via itunes and on 12″ vinyl…

the week (tonight) in Dance w/ Showtrotta (Fools Gold)

DOWNLOAD: Boys Noize – Oh! (A-trak remix) (mediafire link) DJ Mehdi @ Hiro Ballroom, NYC – April 3, 2008 (Antwan Duncan) Despite there being loads of great dance events this past weekend partying with the Degenerates at Hiro on Thursday left me in no state to do much else…

the week in Dance w/ Showtrotta (03/20/08)

DOWNLOAD: MixHell – The Kids Are Alright (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Cut Copy – Lights & Music (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Moulinex Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Mathhead – Doom & Bass mix (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Serge Santiago – “Through the Ages” mix for Beats in Space (MP3) (info) DOWNLOAD: Fat Phaze – It`s Magic (Lottie and Serge Santiagos version) (MP3) Cut Copy @ Mercury Lounge, NYC – Mar 17, 2008 (Tixgirl) This week in dance kicked off with a great show on Monday at the Mercury Lounge with the NYC-debut of Spain’s el Guincho and a set by Australia’s brilliant, live electro band Cut Copy…