By Erica Getto-WNYC culture

Albany’s ongoing same-sex marriage deliberations have many New Yorkers on the edge of their seats. But the vote will not stop the city’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community from celebrating Pride on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Some 300,000 people are expected to march during the 42nd Pride parade on Sunday. Another 500,000 will be attending.
Pride was born on June 27, 1969 during the Stonewall Riots, which stirred a protest after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. This moment in history has been known to many as the start of the gay rights movement. Although most people know Pride for its Sunday parade, Pride Week 2011, which has a theme of “Proud and Powerful” this year, is a series of events celebrating the community’s presence, persistence and, of course, pride. Here are some of the most buzzed about events happening leading up to the parade:[Read More]

By Brad Cohan-The Village VOICE

‘My concept of a label came from SST Records in high school when I was getting into punk rock,” explains Steven Joerg, owner, operator, and sole employee of the Brooklyn-based “jazz-forward” label AUM Fidelity. “My introduction to them was when I got The Blasting Concept compilation with the [Raymond] Pettibon drawing on the cover. I was like, ‘What the fuck? Whoa.’ “[Read More]

By Steve Delahoyde-unbeige

Although announced a few months back and originally slated to already be open, or at least nearer to it, this week has seen a resurgence in talk about Club Silencio, a new nightclub in Paris designed by director David Lynch and based upon the club of the same name in his film, Mulholland Drive. [Read More]

By Eric Smalley-cnetnews

Nowadays, when a friend says her TV stinks, you assume she’s talking about picture or sound quality. Some years down the road–assuming certain cross-Pacific R&D pans out–she might mean that literally.
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego are collaborating with Samsung to develop a compact odor-generating component for TVs and cell phones. The as-yet-unnamed device would give television programs and Web sites a palette of 10,000 odors.[Read More]

By Laurence O’Donnell-Cerebromente

“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired” (Boethius cited by Storr).
Music’s interconnection with society can be seen throughout history. Every known culture on the earth has music. Music seems to be one of the basic actions of humans. However, early music was not handed down from generation to generation or recorded. Hence, there is no official record of “prehistoric” music. Even so, there is evidence of prehistoric music from the findings of flutes carved from bones.[Read More]

By NY Press

Oh, boy—we’re going to Long Island City! Today PS1 announced the schedule for its annual Warm Up series, and it looks like another year of excitedly prancing over the Pulaski Bridge to see live music and dragging ourselves back to Brooklyn, sunburned and happy. Check out the full schedule after the jump.[Read More]

By Tali – Nu Soul Magagine

Feeling in the mood for something fresh? Something to stir your soul and get your head bobbing? Then the answer may lie here, in an album beautifully sewn together with groove injected vibes that stretch from London to New York. Formerly of 90?s DnB Soul influenced collective 4Hero and not to mention a whole heap of other collaborative projects and aliases such as Tek 9, Jacob’s Optical Stairway, DKD and Silhouette Brown, the time has finally come for Denis ‘Dego’ McFarlane to shine using his own name. And what better way than with his new album Wha Him De Pon? a soulful, jazzy and synth infused LP, perfect for bumpin’ in the summer sunshine.[Read More]

By Larry Rother – NY Times

From the outside the club appears to be just another shuttered and somewhat grotty East Village storefront, and the interior, with its scarred wooden floor and graffiti-daubed walls, isn’t any more impressive. Instead, it’s what happens onstage that has made Nublu’s reputation as an incubator of musical talent, with some of the most adventurous and varied offerings in the city. [Read More]

By Amre Klimchak- NY Press

It`s not as easy as it used to be to run a bar on the Lower East Side. Between the growing chorus of noise complaints from residents and the new intensity of the NYPD’s crackdowns on underage drinking, at least one bar owner who used to make money hand over fist in the neighborhood is looking elsewhere for sustainable businesses. If you ask Rob Shamlian, one of the area’s most voracious entrepreneurs, he’ll immediately expound on the problems he’s encountered as the owner of Fat Baby, Spitzer’s Corner, Los Feliz and Mason Dixon. [Read More]

By Armond White – NY Press

Rejoice and Shout offers the most magnificent, heroic examples of art to be found in any movie so far this year. This documentary history of gospel music begins with an aged Smokey Robinson contextualizing the form as the root of American pop music. Smokey’s reflection—”God is life”—purposely combines creative and spiritual inspiration. He introduces a cavalcade of performances by many of the gospel genre’s great figures that confirms how creativity and spirituality resulted in art that is both innovative and courageous. [Read More]

By DJ Mag.com

Carl Cox uses new USB technology to release an updatable album…
Carl Cox has concocted a real treat for his fans. This summer, his new album ‘All Roads Lead To The Dancefloor’ will be released through a pioneering USB format.

“The USB will not only give you the album, but it’ll also be your key to everything I do in the next 12 months or so,” said Cox.
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Who said Vinylmania is dead?

“VINYLMANIA STILL ALIVE”

Owner Charlie Grappone opened the Vinylmania’s doors in 1978. He opened the store with a sparse selection of Rock records, but after crowds from the Paradise Garage started showing up, he realized his market was with the house heads. Vinylmania quickly became the goto spot for house in NYC, eventually spawning a record label under the same name, and it’s legacy began. Sadly Vinylmania closed its doors in 2007 after almost 3 decades of business. Charlie has since moved his inventory into Downtown 161, a record distributor in Lower Manhattan, where he opens one day a week for a select group of shoppers.

DailySession and Charlie Grappone are going to revive the life and legacy of New York’s premiere House record store – Vinylmania. The doors may have closed in 2007, but Charlie’s love for records still lives on. DailySession will open the Vinylmania pop-up shop in Zakka. So all you people who thought the record store ended when the lights went out, come into Zakka to feel the beat again.

By Jon Pareles – NY Times

LATELY I’ve been having a recurring sinking sensation. A hit on the radio gets my attention and doesn’t repay it; it adds up to little more than a dull thumping Eurodisco beat and a robo-tuned voice repeating an inane hook, something like the “Ay-oh, gotta let go,” in Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite,” or Justin Bieber piping, “Baby, baby, baby, oh” or the Black Eyed Peas chanting “Imma Be” more than 100 times (though at least that song goes through some rhythm changes).[Read More]