July 2010
Download: Behold The Destroyer – “Lamborghini... →
Behold The Destroyer is Ray Smiling (real last name?), a graphic design nerd and man-about-Brooklyn who knows a thing or nine about sleazy electronic synth pop and funky house anthems. This, his…
Live: THE CULTURE OF ME presents Lioness and... →
Working together with the lovely people at Union Hall, we’re bringing you guys a fancy, schmancy night of exceptional music and fun, with live music courtesy of Deluka (have you picked up their wild…
Video: Sky Larkin – “Still Windmills” →
Wichita Recordings artists Sky Larkin have released their record Kaleide, and this song, the swirling, is-it-really-them-or-The-Joy-Formidable song “Still Windmills” is on there too, getting a video…
Live: The Do schedule a North American tour →
It’s been just a few short months since French/Finn cutesy duo The Do dropped their debut album, A Mouthful, a collection of slight, twee, completely endearing love songs. Today, the band has…
Photos: Rando on July 27 →
So, apparently, after a killer fucking night of DJ sets from DJ Full Time Fun, DJ ARQ and special guests Silver Medallion (sadly, Dances With White Girls was in Los Angeles on Tuesday playing at…
Video: Toddla T feat. Wayne Marshall – “Sky... →
Perennial prankster and joker, rave anthem creator and awesome coiffure-haver, Toddla T is back with this “Superman”-themed, green screen hilarious new video clip for “Sky Surfing”, a song that finds…
Download: Everything Everything – “MY KZ, UR BF... →
Grum does it again this week, following up the exceptionally kitschy cop-love video for “Through The Night” he released earlier this week with this, a smasher remix of the Everything Everything boys’…
News: Diamond Rings finally to release their debut... →
Toronto based indie-kitchen-sink pop act Diamond Rings are finally ready to drop their first record, a collage of glam and synths and rock dubbed Special Affections. You’ve probably caught one or…
Live: The Golden Filter and How To Dress Well are... →
Cologne, Germany-based lo-fi electronic-knobs-and-R&B-pop artist How To Dress Well is playing his debut US performance on Friday the 13 of August at the never-not-sweltering venue in Brooklyn,…
Photos: Jelly NYC Pool Party on July 25 →
Before the rains came and the day devolved into a choose-your-own-adventure of sorts (where, on one hand, you could make a mad dash to the “backup venue” to see the remainder of the show and yet, on…
Download: Streetlab – “Lights Go Down (Mr Vega... →
Fourteen tracks brim and burst from the upcoming sophomore disc from NYC production duo Streetlab, Auto Spkr 2.0, perennial favorites of ours here and all over the place really, but the first one to…
Download: Goldhawks – “Keep The Fire (Justin Faust... →
Indie electronic rock outfit Goldhawks come out swinging for every fence ever put up with “Keep The Fire”, which finds the London group releasing on the Vertigo label a single version as well as this…
Cinema: Mogwai’s film “Burning” virtual screening... →
Joining nearly 50 other Web sites in this very special day, we here at THE CULTURE OF ME are pleased to bring you a video screening of Mogwai‘s exceptional performance film, “Burning”, a film by…
Cinema: Mogwai’s film “Burning” virtual screening... →
Download: Crystal Fighters – “In The Summer... →
It’s almost August, which makes us already uneasy about the end of the summer months and the beginnings of the autumn. This new remix, from Picture House of the excellent single from the…
Download: Ultimate Fakebook’s new record Daydream... →
It’s been seven years since last anyone has really heard much from Manhattan, Kansas-based (and still there) Ultimate Fakebook, but those dogged days are over today, as we now bring to you your…
Photos: Girls & Boys on July 23 →
With guest DJ sets from the UK disco house young’n Grum, newcomer Fareoh (no idea) and Penguin Prison main guy Chris Glover, this past Friday night’s Girls & Boys party at Webster Hall was great. We…
Download: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. – “Collapsing... →
The first single and title track from the Essex-born indie electronic artist called brilliantly Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. is called “Collapsing Cities” and it’s got an amazing video treatment already…
Video: Jamaica – “Short And Entertaining” →
Sure, the only thing really “metallic” are the chords played in the crisp and obliteratingly poppy “Short And Entertaining” single from the former Poney Poney duo now called Jamaica, but the video…
Download: Mr NiceGuy – “Bumped mixtape” →
Buried in bass we are this day, as Brooklyn’s up-and-coming bass slayer Mr NiceGuy just put out this free-to-stream-and-download mixtape he calls “Bumped”, which covers twenty tracks of goodness and…
Video: Grum – “Through The Night” →
True love, 1970′s buddy cop comedy style. Grum‘s new music video for “Through The Night” is as homoerotic and hilarious as they come, filled with pecs and mustaches, sports and beads of sweat, all…
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Photos: Best Coast and Free Energy at the South... →
We haven’t really taken any opportunities to catch any of the previous bands that have played the stage at Pier 17 of the South Street Seaport for the Seaport Music Festival this summer, but this…
News: Ultimate Fakebook are self-releasing their... →
Almost seven years after their disbanding, Manhattan, Kansas-born power pop trio Ultimate Fakebook are back and they’re releasing their fourth studio album, called Daydream Radio Is Smiling Static,…
Download: Vocal Flavaz Vol. 4 UK garage mixtape... →
Featuring the brightest minds today in UK garage and hip hop, this new and completely free mixtape compiled by DJ Zenn and DJ Pressure, Vocal Flavaz Vol. 4 consists of seventy minutes of…
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An Account of Being Arrested for 'Trespassing'... →
Photos: Rando on July 20 →
Another amazingly steamy and sweaty night at Gallery Bar on the lower east side, with no special guests and no real bullshit, just tunes from the residents of Rando, DJ Full Time Fun, ARQ and Dances…
Download: All Leather – “When I Grow Up I Wanna... →
At just over ninety seconds in total, if you’ve ever wanted to hear what grinding, shouting, destructive San Diego act All Leather would sound by being thrown into a colander and filtered through…
News: The Death Set finish a new record + make a... →
(photo by Bryce Ward) It’s been close to a year since the tragic death of The Death Set‘s Beau Velasco–a blow felt far and wide in the increasing in size yet still very tight-knit scene the band…
Live: Diesel and Jelly NYC bring out a four-city... →
Sponsored by the good people from Jelly NYC and Diesel, Mad Decent‘s third annual block party is happening very, very soon and it’s gone so big that they’ve had to expand the thing to four separate…
News: Zach Hill is releasing his sophomore solo... →
The second full length effort from Zach Hill, the insanely talented stickman, itself a 13-track disc, is dubbed Face Tat and features the likes of Devendra Banhart, No Age, Guillermo Scott Herren aka…
Emerging: Alex Winston →
Singer/songwriter Alex Winston calls Detroit home, is classically trained to sing (you’ll get that right away mind you) and has done something special right on the seams of her to-be-released single…
Catch Up on the First Three Seasons of Mad Men in... →
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Photos: Jelly NYC Pool Party on July 18 →
With a metal kid’s dream line-up of both Obits, JEFF The Brotherhood, headliners Murder City Devils and openers (and Marcie Bolan from The Von Bondies’ new project) Silverghost to open the day, this…
Video: Chromeo go “way back” for Bushmills Irish... →
Sure, they might be dropping one of the better and more danceable records in the entirety of 2010, but Dave-1 and P-Thugg of Chromeo aren’t against taking the time to remember where they came…
Video: Yolanda Be Cool vs DCUP – “We No Speak... →
Sweat It Out records artists Yolanda Be Cool (a duo of dudes, mind you) made this massive track called “We No Speak Americano” with that dude DCUP–he the excellent Sydney producer who killed the…
Download: Passion Pit – “Tonight, Tonight... →
Now look, we’re no fans of Passion Pit these days, but the sprawling and swirling these Massachussans do to the epic Smashing Pumpkins’ maybe-best-last-song “Tonight, Tonight” is something to behold….