November 2010
On Language - Creeper! Rando! Sketchball! |... →
When The New York Times uses your party’s name, you know you’ve made it(?)
October 2010
Mourning the Analog Phone Call →
News: Dooze Jackers are back with the Kizzz EP →
Released yesterday to Beatport via the upstart crew at Rot10Musik, complete with remixes from Four Four and Dynasty (the taken name by Rot10Musik’s Mr Vega and ETC!ETC!, the Kizzz EP title track is a…
Photos: Girls & Boys on October 29 →
As the Halloween escapades of the weekend began on Friday night, the ghouls and goblins and all sorts of dressed (and undressed) came out for the night’s Girls & Boys party at Webster Hall, well…
Being There: Rusko live at Webster Hall on October... →
On Friday night, to a sold-out and completely packed house at Webster Hall for the weekly Girls & Boys party (which also featured German electro-tech hero Boys Noize), young ruffian Rusko (born…
Becoming Han Solo | A young, disabled Brooklyn boy... →
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Being There: Rusko live at Webster Hall on October... →
Download: Range Rover - "Soda" →
(graphic by Valero Doval) Teenagers from San Diego Range Rover are making some exciting waves of layers and tape loops and weirdo kitchen sink pop collage-like tunes, like “Soda”, with tribal drum…
Stream: Justin Faust - "Sloppy Chic" →
Munich-based electronic artist/perennially smiling man Justin Faust is back with a stream of his new single, “Sloppy Chic”, the single on an EP on Patrick Alavis’s label roXour last week. Faust has a…
News: Descendents reunite to headline this year's... →
Yup, almost ten years since one of the most seminal bands still alive and still very prevalent in theme, format and culture, Descendents, are reforming in full and capping off the three-day weekend…
Video: La Sera - "Never Come Around" →
“Kickball” Katy Goodman’s other band outside of the rudimentary punk act Vivian Girls, La Sera is much more of a 50s bent and a classic, AM radio stylized throwback along the lines of other…
Web: Stream the new N.E.R.D. record Nothing right... →
The new, ten-track record from Virginia producers-turned-A-list awesome kids Pharrell and Chad aka N.E.R.D. is called Nothing and it features track vocals from the likes of T.I. (“Party People”) and…
Live: DOM, Smith Westerns, more playing Mischief... →
A Halloween party thrown by the Pelly twins (New York music blog girls and an indie rock radio institution) in cahoots with venerable all ages honcho Todd P. is happening on Mischief Night, October…
Download: Glass Actor - "Don't You" →
The LA duo Acid Girls always described their own music and atmosphere as “weird electronic music”, so what better way to talk about Greg Bowler’s solo project, dubbed Glass Actor, than by using that…
Video: Katy B feat. Ms Dynamite - "Lights On" →
You’ve already heard the tune for sure, as it’s one of the biggest movers in the UK pop scene this year, with the resurgence of Ms Dynamite and the universally-liked Katy B (seriously, we’re pretty…
The Photography Post : Edison Pena (from the... →
Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself | Video... →
Teen Korner: Willow Smith “Whip My Hair” |... →
I Can't Find My Phone →
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Video: Generationals - "Trust" →
As a fan-made video for a band that the director loved, this clip for “Trust” from Generationals, the New Orleans indie pop act that just so happened to have played a well-received few shows at CMJ…
So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities →
Web: Get two new tracks from The Knocks on their... →
The New York duo are taking their show (with dancers?) on the road to Europe next week for some dates with Sleigh Bells, Calvin Harris and Scissor Sisters and they just played their first-ever live…
Getting Sassy with...Nikko →
Bronx-born and raised, twenty years old, a student at Hunter College, a producer/DJ with a pedigree that we can get behind (his brother is elder statesmen of NYC nightlife and music and art and…
Download: French Horn Rebellion - "This Moment... →
A month out from the EP drop of Once Upon A Time (out November 22), French Horn Rebellion‘s pre-LP track “This Moment” gets perhaps an undertaking that may well end up being our favorite remix of…
Everything is pissing me off.
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Ugh.
Photos: Rando on October 26 →
Oh hey, since Trouble & Bass family was in the place DJ’ing (The Captain) and hanging out (Star Eyes), it would make sense that kingpin/greased hair/hero Drop The Lime from the team would want to get…
Video: The Duke Spirit - "Everybody's Under Your... →
London five-piece The Duke Spirit do bluesy rock better than most these days, and they’re going to be showing off those skills next week at a very special show at Santos Party House here in New York…
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Stream: Retro/Grade - "Escape Sequence" →
Over a year now since bursting out on the disco house/pop scene with “MODA”, the duo of Serge Santiago and Tom Neville are back again with a stream of their newest track, the synthetic, whirling,…
Download: Sharkslayer - "Stoned Cold Graveyardie... →
The second annual mixtape for Halloween from Top Billin’s Sharkslayer, this volume is called “Craving For Blood” and it’s heavy and droning, full of stoner death rock icons and all sorts of doom and…
Download: Fare Soldi - "I Told You I Was Frico Vol... →
An exclusive first-run mixtape compiled for us here at THE CULTURE OF ME from the Italian nouveau disco heads Fare Soldi, complete with their own excellent and essential remixes of Gonzales,…