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By BEN SISARIO – NY Times

One Friday afternoon last month, 60,000 tickets at $100 and up went on sale for a major music festival at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., before the headliners had even been announced.

It sold out in three hours.

The festival with the fervent following was the Electric Daisy Carnival, a two-day event next month dedicated to the concert industry’s new favorite genre: electronic dance music. Long considered a marginal part of the music business that subsisted in clubs and semi-legal warehouse raves, dance has now moved squarely into the mainstream, with a growing circuit of festivals and profit margins that are attracting Wall Street.

For an industry increasingly reliant on aging headliners — like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and the Rolling Stones — the appeal of a genre with fresh stars and a huge young audience is undeniable.

“If you’re 15 to 25 years old now, this is your rock ‘n’ roll,” said Michael Rapino, the chief executive of Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest concert promoter. [Read More]

By DailyNews

Dr. John becomes the Night Tripper again on his latest CD, thanks to Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys

Two key qualities infuse the music of New Orleans: mystery and joy. The latter couldn’t be more obvious. This is party music created in what may be America’s most celebratory city. But it’s rarer to find local music in tune with the city’s darkest mystery — that mix of voodoo culture and gris-gris imagery that gives the place its connection to the next world.

At the start of his solo career, over 40 years ago, Dr. John translated the spookier and more elusive part of New Orleans for hippie rockers. His first four albums, starting with 1968’s “Gris-Gris,” recorded under the persona “the Night Tripper,” made the connection between native spiritualism and stoner culture in a way that ranks them among the most mind-bending albums of their day.

By 1972, however, John streamlined his sound, making more conventional New Orleans blues and soul records. That gave him hits but robbed him of his eerie cool.

Clearly, the spooky part most interested Dan Auerbach (guitarist of the hit, primitivist rock band Black Keys). He produced the Dr.’s new “Locked Down,” which revives some of the shadowy intrigue of his first solo recordings while combining it with enough other elements to make this one of the smokiest, funkiest, sexiest works of the legend’s career. [Read More]

DJ Spider & Hakim Murphy – Kaiju EP

New York’s DJ Spider and Chicago’s Hakim Murphy have been mainstays of the underground for years now, each bringing to the table a highly idiosyncratic but deeply appealing envisioning of familiar house and techno forms. But would you think to put them together? Perhaps not. Hakim Murphy is a details man compositionally, weaving sounds together just so; DJ Spider’s tough-to-peg tracks, on the other hand, tend to sound like they were dropped from an alien spacecraft as it speeds away in the night. Regardless, the two apparently have loads of mutual respect—Murphy has released a number of tracks on Plan B Recordings, Spider’s label documenting his own and other’s dark excursions through the recesses—and the Kaiju EP, fittingly on Plan B, finds the two properly joining forces.

Their chemistry is palpable, though the two take a minute to really get going. “Submerged Giant” is a jumble of contrasting styles that don’t seem mutually soluble, but after the palate-cleansing “Thermionic Emission,” the duo hit more of a stride. “Attack Lines” manages to pair the charred landscape of a Milton Bradley record with the gossamer deep house chords of someone like Lerosa. “Serpant Seed” pulls a similar stunt, though it takes less of a feat to meld its metallic chords with the fierce techno backing. All trappings of melody lift off by the playfully rhythmic “Sector Zero,” a departure hammered home by “Abort Mission,” the EP’s Godzilla-sampling, creepily beatless final bombing mission.  By Jordan Rothlein – RA

A1 Submerged Giant
A2 Thermionic Emission
A3 Attack Lines
B1 Serpent Seed
B2 Sector Zero
B3 Abort Mission
DJ Spider & Hakim Murphy (Downtown 304 snippet link)

SESSION 1218: EVENT SESSION 01.20.12 MOLDAVITE – Mixed by Hakim Murphy, DJ Spider & Dakini 9

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By Recordstoreday.com
THE RELEASES OF RECORD STORE DAY 2012. NOW IT’S OFFICIAL

Our second favorite day of the year, the one where we get to play Santa and reveal the loot under the record-store-shaped tree (insert your own gift-revealing analogy here). We’re thrilled to tell you that the list of titles being released ONLY AT RECORD STORES is only a click away, in TWO versions: A handy PDF that you can use as a shopping/wish list and a Pull Down menu with more detail and artwork.  These are the pieces that are available only in REAL LIVE RECORD STORES on April 21, the fifth annual Record Store Day.  A few things we wanted to tell you first, though:  [Read More]

By JOHN LELAND – NY Times

Let there be spring. Let there be oysters and music and people in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who don’t make us all feel old.

Nature, once a year, can be counted on to provide the first, however fleeting. For the other three there areClassic Album Sundays at Bellwether, just south of McCarren Park, where a former New Yorker named Colleen Murphy will gather the faithful once a month to listen to a vinyl album in its entirety on an audiophile’s sound system.

The series, which Ms. Murphy has run in London since 2010, made its Brooklyn debut this month with Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” (1975). Ms. Murphy will return to present Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” (1974) on April 8, for fans who cannot get tickets to see the German electronic music pioneers’ coming eight performances at MoMA. Food and drink circulated until the needle dropped at 7 p.m., after which silent attentiveness reigned. Early arrivals grabbed the few tables; for others, there were loose chairs and pillows on the floor. [Read More]

 

If you’ve skipped through this site even briefly, then you’ll know that we here at T.I.O.H fully endorse the work of L.I.E.S. Not only has the label brought us some of the finest contemporary House & Techno available in the past year, but bossman Ron Morelli has an increasingly acute talent for digging out the more obscure gems lying at the fringes of underground electronics. Sometimes with a little help from his friends, of course. Svengalisghost is one such maverick machinesmith. Previousely working under the name of Below Underground, so the story goes that Morelli came to hear the work of Svengalisghost through Excepter’s Porkchop (aka SSPS) back in 2007. Much like a great deal of essential music past and present, the original sessions that make up the foundation of this E.P were in danger of being lost altogether, until Porkchop heroically recovered the tapes, doing humanity a great service in the process. [Read More]

By DAVE ITZKOFF – NY Times

It took nearly 40 years, but the Sex Pistols, that snarling, sneering British band that helped launch the punk-rock movement in the 1970s has finally signed a recording contract without causing any embarrassing, tabloid-ready incidents. (Yet.)

Reuters reports that the surviving Sex Pistols have entered into a deal with Universal, which is preparing a 35th-anniversary edition of the group’s lone studio album, “Never Mind the Bollocks,” and is organizing other events to mark the occasion later this year. [Read More]

By Camille Dodero – Village Voice

The Pope of Pop’s last week with this mortal coil began, more or less, on Valentine’s Day. It was a Saturday in 1987 during an otherwise routine collagen treatment when Andy Warhol complained about his gallbladder, an irascible organ he’d begrudgingly dealt with for years—at least since ’73 or ’74—and had since placated with doctor’s visits, prescriptions, and dietary adjustments. But a week or so prior to this appointment, the abdominal pain had returned with such a vengeance that he had been forced to cancel post-dinner plans to see the Bette Midler movie Outrageous Fortune. (“It wasn’t much,” he later sniffed.) But now the discomfort had returned violently enough that the man who prided himself on not letting on when something was wrong was forced to admit that something was. [Read More]

“Me Against The World”, the world will definitely get behind these grooves. The original mix is a slice of minimalist bass heavy house with a funk undercurrent that not only harks back to dance floor classics of yesterday but hints of recent understated hits by the likes of Sade and more.

MKL’s remix puts the chunky in funky. Keeps the vibe of the original but flips the drums and keyboards to create a hypnotic dance floor brew.

The hypnosis continues with the ethnically inspired “Sitar Track” that maintains a driving funk undercurrent while sprinkling the exotic spice over the top. Perfect for that trip to Goa you’ve been meaning to plan.

by Grandmaster Grouchy Greg (All Hip Hop.com)

The family of Bob Marley has announced the first ever authorized documentary on the singer will be in theaters this April.

Magnolia Pictures has teamed with VH1 to obtain the United States rights to Academy award-winning director Kevin McDonald’s documentary “Marley.”

“Marley” is being executive produced by Island Records’ founder Chris Blackwell, as well as Bob Marley’s son Ziggy Marley.

The documentary will make its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February, and will premiere in North America, at SXSW this March. [Read More]

The Wizard Brian Coxx (Strictly Rhythm / Soulgasm) & Bradford James ( Seed Recordings/Galaktik) will start new party in basement of NY historical dance club in east village.

The year is 2012 the end of the Mayan Calendar, this is the time we bring together the primitive nature of dance and music to the present future!

Welcome to FUTURE:PRIMITIVE a futuristic dance party!

We have transformed the basement of Pyramid: one of the very few standing underground clubs of New York City!! A place that has been the home of retro 80’s & underground music for decades! The atmosphere brings you back into the times where underground truly meant underground!! Black walls banging sound systems and underground cutting edge music!!

We bout to bring back the friday night UNDERGROUND!! in the tomb of a manhattan Pyramid!!

By Allen Starbury (ballerstatus.com)

2012 is finally here, so what happened with album sales in 2001? They actually rose for the first time since 2004, propelled by digital sales, cheaper album prices and special offers, as well as a booming vinyl market.

Nielsen released numbers on Wednesday (January 4), revealing that U.S. music sales rose 6.9% in 2011 with overall sales of albums, single tracks and music videos increased to 1.61 billion units.

Total album sales expanded 1.3 percent to 330.6 million.

Despite a rise in sales, physical CD sales fell 6% last year, but digital album downloads made up for it by a 20% increase to a record 103.1 million.

Digital song sales grew 8.5% in 2011 to a record 1.27 billion downloads, compared with 1.17 billion in 2010.

Another area that boomed was vinyl sales — album sales soared to 3.9 million copies, versus 2.8 million in 2010.

2011’s top-selling album was Adele’s 21, raking in over 5.8 million sales. But, Lil Wayne made his mark at #4 with 1.9 million, with Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne coming in five slots later at #9 with just over 1.2 million sold.

However, The Throne did out-sell Weezy’s Carter IV digitally, landing at #4 on the list behind Adele and Lady Gaga with 608,000 digital album sales.

Check out some of the numbers below, tracked by Nielsen.

[Read More]

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Dailysession Launches DS Records!

[fgm] Feel Good Musique is a collective, a culture, a way of life for the music lovers, club goers, and artistic creators from all walks of life. We are the tunnels beneath your feet, the Ground Breakers on the Streets, the Bassquakes on the Beats. Undermined, Undefined, & Underground, [fgm] is an entity that spawns New Generations of Subculture individuals around the world. Our Mission is to stay away from the main stream music media, airwaves, and industry. To transmit under the radar bringing new vibes and sounds that no one normally listens to on a daily basis. We are the new era of Musique, Vibes and Sounds. We are [fgm]! We live by Vibe Variety!

The Discovery Party in NYC aims to blend the lines between house, techno, and disco in a sweaty basement where everyone’s invited not to be cool, but to have a good time. With the launch of Discovery Recordings the vibe of the feel good underground party is pressed to wax. Discovery resident Free Magic teams up with Jkriv (Escort, Tortured Soul, Deep&Disco) to meld two organic feel good dance tunes. Chant and Sing are both low slung grooves, each with it’s own live elements that call you to the dance floor.

Artist – Free Magic and Jkriv
Title – Chant and Sing EP
Cat – DSCVRY01
Label – Discovery Recordings
Format – 12″
Genre – House / Disco
300 Limited 

Available at Halcyon / Downtown304 / Juno

Soundcloud Link 

Check out Discovery Party Mix HERE

House Music Movie (working title) is a feature length independent film about house music, dance and global pop culture. DJ’s, producers, remixers, dancers and fans discuss their careers and celebrity in this behind-the-scenes look at the house music industry. Along with footage of house music in action, the film also captures candid conversations about house (also called electronic dance music) with authors, artists, club owners and cultural experts.

This is the fundraising clip for our RocketHub.com crowdfunding campaign. rockethub.com/projects/3939-house-music-movie-a-documentary/

DS Records 1st Vinyl Record “DS-001 Disco Edit”   is available in various record shops in the world.

Japan
Disk Union
Pigeon Records
Technique
Afterhourz
Strada Records
Japonica Music Store
Capricious Records

Germany
Word and Sound
Decks
Deejay.de
Underground Solution

U.S.A
Downtown 304
Discogs
A1 Records
Good Records NYC
Academy Records
Turntable Lab
Halcyon

U.K
Juno Records

Russia
Baza Record Shop

New York’s premier underground online radio broadcast Daily Session will release its first twelve inch vinyl on the newly formed DSR label. The lead off release is the first in a series of upcoming split twelve inch vinyls planned by the label. Each re-issue will be available in limited quantity and feature special re-edits of dance floor hits and select rare underground classics; all pressed on high quality vinyl and manufactured in Brooklyn, NY.

The first DSR label twelve inch features re-edits of the classic dance floor hit Love Hungover by Diana Ross split with club classic and rarity, Get Down Boy by Paper Dolls.

Track Listing
A: No Cure Disco   (Edited by DJ Monchan)

B: Wee Down Boy  (Edited by DJ Monchan)

available at Downtown304, A-1 Records, Academy Records(East Village) , Good Records NYC, Halcyon  & Turntable lab.

*Limited to 200 copies on vinyl.

Label design by Kaefkrahs

Press/Media: Late Night Publicity
raj@latenightpublicity.com

Side A: No Cure Disco (Monchan Edit)

Side B: Wee Down Boy (Monchan Edit)

200 Copies Only Disco Edit (Vinyl Release Only)

label design by Kaerfkrahs 

For more info: admin@dailysesion.com

By (AP)  NEW YORK – CBS News

Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and others, died Monday at age 70, his former publicist said.

Liz Rosenberg, who also was Ashford’s longtime friend, told The Associated Press that Ashford — who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits — died in a New York City hospital. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment. [Read More]

By Jason Fellows

Golf Channel founder Phil South started his label in 2007 with a Janet Jackson edit by Mark E calledR&B Drunkie pressed on 100 numbered, one-sided twelves and handed out mostly to friends in lieu of the usual promotional routes. It’s a universally danceable track that spread across genres and introduced many to slower House music. The sound that South proceeded to carve out with his catalog of releases is both challenging and unique. Elements from the past blend naturally with a much wider variety of styles than most dance-oriented labels consider. Many of the label’s best releases are primarily instrumental, not sample-based. On the other hand, there are a great deal of edits included as well. These usually disparate musical regions come together under the same roof easily with great taste, timing, and a great deal of love for the craft of vinyl-making. [Read More]

Made in the U.S.A. – Built by Greg Roberts

The Vittora is a fully horn-loaded, three-way, high-efficiency speaker system that delivers wide dynamic range, high output, and extremely low distortion.

The Vittora utilizes a 15″ woofer in a folded horn to produce solid, accurate, bass.  Even at high output levels, the distortion from this horn is undetectable, and the result is a quickness and definition that you can only get with a horn design.

Cabinet construction is all Baltic Birch plywood, 1″ and 3/4″ thick, with no MDF used anywhere, and the bass cabinets are fully braced.  The Vittora is built to be a solid performer for a lifetime of use.

The cabinets are built in two separate pieces with the top horn section separated from the bass bin, and sitting up on three gold-plated spikes.  The bass bin is supported by three large wooden feet.

The Vittora uses a large wooden midrange horn with a tractrix flare.   The horn has a 2″ throat and uses a BMS 4592ND-MID, large-format midrange compression driver with a 3-1/2″ voice coil.  This combination of large, solidly built wooden horn with a large throat and huge midrange compression driver results in a midrange sound that is effortless and easy to listen to.  There is no constriction of the sound through a tiny throat, there is no edginess, graininess, or honky sound that so many other horn designs suffer from.  The Vittora midrange is smooth and articulate, dynamic and uncolored.  The midrange is truly the heart of this loudspeaker, and the listener is rewarded with a musicality from this speaker that is very rare in this industry, at any price.[Read More]

 

By Michael Powell – NY Times

“When the economy grows, it’s not because of a new government program or spending initiative. … It’s time to leave that era behind.”

— John A. Boehner, House speaker, May 2011

It might be hard selling that narrative line to the once broken beauty that is the Bronx.

As a teenager in the 1970s, I offered visiting friends tours of the apocalypse. We piled into an old Buick and drove north from Manhattan, which wasn’t in such great shape either, into the South Bronx. We rolled down ghost canyons of burnt-out buildings, saw mattresses and old sinks and tubs piled atop hills of rubble, and encountered smack dealers who cordoned off blocks for open-air markets. (We could not have been safer; they assumed we were white boys in search of a fix.)

It was macabre and infuriating, a core of urban America discarded and forgotten. Nothing, I assumed, could breathe life into this corpse.

I was spectacularly mistaken, a point driven home again on a recent tour in the company of city housing officials. Again I rolled across the Willis Avenue Bridge into the South Bronx, and what is there should (but almost certainly will not) give pause to those who argue that government lies at the source of our ills.

[Read More]

DJ Monchan will spin with Chino 3 and Elbin Reyes live from New York on their Journeys.

Mondays: 7pm-12am New York, 4-9pm LA,
aka Tuesdays:
midnight-5am London, 1-6am Amsterdam/Paris,
summer: 2-7am, winter: 1-6am Pretoria,
summer: 8am-1pm Tokyo, 11am-4pm Sydney,
winter: 9am-2pm Tokyo/Sydney time,

By BEN SISARIO – NY Times

What’s the biggest surprise in the music industry this year? Music sales are actually up for the first time since 2004.

According to Nielsen SoundScan’s midyear sales report, which was released on Wednesday, 155.5 million albums were sold in the United States in the first six months of 2011, up 1 percent from the 153.9 million albums sold at the same time last year. When sales are measured by “track equivalent albums,” which factors in single-track downloads — the rule of thumb is 10 songs to an album — the number is 221.5 million, up 3.6 percent. These increases may be small, but the edge has been sustained for the last six weeks, and in a business that has been battered as badly and for so long as the music industry has, any good news is very good news. [Read More]

 

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 Science

Scientific inspiration sometimes comes from unlikely sources. Two years ago, Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory University in Atlanta, was on the couch with his kids watching American Idol. One of the contestants sang the melancholy hit song “Apologize” by the alternative rock band OneRepublic, and something clicked in Berns’s mind. [Read More]

By Seth Tobocman – The Shadow

On August 6,1988, the worst riot in 20-years erupted outside New York City’s Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side. On that night, nearly 500 police stormed into this popular neighborhood, assaulting hundreds, while trying to squelch the protest against a midnight park curfew. The obscure law allowing the closing of the park hadn’t been enforced by the city in decades.

Tompkins Square Park, considered by many as the heartbeat of the Lower East Side, is surrounded by a neighborhood populated by Latinos, punk rockers, artists, eastern European immigrants and a recent influx of wealthy professionals.[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 Fact Magazine

Legendary producer Martin Rushent has died at the age of 63.

Perhaps best known for his work on The Human League‘s Dare, Rushent began his career in the 1970s, engineering records for the likes of T. Rex, Yes and Fleetwood Mac. His progress to the producer’s chair coincided with the birth of punk, and he was at the controls for key releases by Buzzcocks, XTC and The Stranglers.[Read More]

 

By Brett Johnson – The BVX

‘Viva Riva!’, a high-octane crime thriller set in the Congo during a fuel crisis, is the first feature film from the country in 25 years. And it’s a riveting, beautifully shot portrait of a country entangled in a violent web of corruption and desperation.

Riva, the charismatic title character played by Patsha Bay Mukuna, returns to his native Congo after a ten year absence with a stolen shipment of fuel and a cocky sense of newfound wealth. But bloodthirsty gangsters, who are bent on reclaiming their property, are hot on his trail. What unfolds is a compelling tale of a developing country entangled in corruption and sometimes brutal violence.

The film, which just won Best African Movie at this year’s MTV Movie Awards, manages to combine the similar pulsating energy of Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles’s ‘City of God’ with a realistic grasp of underworld pathology that recalls Hype Willams’ debut, ‘Belly’.

“My challenge was to push to the limit as far as possible, in terms of being true to the society,” said first-time director Djo Tunda wa Munga (above center, with actors). “Which means talking about the real issues, the prostitution, the sexuality and also the violence.” We chatted with Munga recently about the challenges and triumphs of making a film (which opens in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Portland on June 10) set in his native country.[Read More]

By DJhistory.com

Loleatta was born in Chicago in 1946 and, like most of her peers, began singing in gospel groups before striking out on a solo career through GRC subsidiary Aware. In 1976, she was signed to the Norman Harris-helmed Gold Mind, an offshoot of Salsoul Records, where she recorded all of her best work, usually working with Harris. Although she made a number of classic recordings it was through her live work that Loleatta excelled, often performing at the gay clubs of the era, like the Paradise Garage and Better Days. Her vocal were later sampled by Black Box for their controversial hit ‘Ride On Time’. Loleatta died on March 21st after a short period of ill health.

Tell me how you got signed to Salsoul?

OK, I was signed to GRC first, out of Atlanta Georgia, on Aware. The owner of the record company went to jail.[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.
[Read More]

By Cristian Salazar – Associated Press(Yahoo News)

NEW YORK – Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” but saw his brilliance undermined by a years-long drug addiction, has died at age 62.

A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died Friday afternoon at St. Luke’s Hospital after becoming sick upon returning from a trip to Europe.

“We’re all sort of shattered,” she said. [Read More]

 

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NEW JERSEY (JERSEY CITY, NEWARK, EAST ORANGE, UNION CITY): CINDY HARDEN
MONTALVO@NJIT.EDU or (973) 596-3562

NEW JERSEY (ESSEX, MORRIS, UNION, MERCER): DEIDRE COVINGTON
DEIDRECOVINGTON@HOTMAIL.COM or (973) 444-9199

NORTH JERSEY (BERGEN, HUDSON, PASSAIC): YVONNE HARRIS
BRAZENMUSE@GMAIL.COM or (201) 362-4422

NEW JERSEY (UNION CITY): JUANITO MEJIA (201) 982-3207 or JUAN_MEJIA@EMAIL.COM

SABOR PERU: 8 HIGHLAND CROSS, RUTHERFORD, NJ 07070
WED, THURS, SUNDAY: 11AM-9PM / FRI & SAT: 11AM-11PM
201-935-7378

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Join the celebration of the birthdays of Distant Music CEO Jon Cutler & Galaktik’s own Tracy Baro!

This is sure to be a special one as it will be the last loft party at douglas till september! Dont worry we have much more in store to keep you occupied this summer!

Music By:
Jon Cutler (Distant Music)
Victor Casimir (Distant Music)
Luis Baro (All About)
Bradford James (Seed Recordings)

Admission: $10 w/rsvp before midnite $15 After
RSVP/info: brooklynjam@gmail.com

Live broadcast on dailysession.com

Monophonics – Like Yesterday 7” Single

April 19th, 2011

A. Monophonics – “Like Yesterday”

B. Destruments – “Freedom”

A simply killer 45 from the bay area’s finest funk band, Monophonics. “Like Yesterday” is a monster A-side, which was recorded at the legendary Killion Studios in LA. While the B-Side, “Freedom” by Destruments is a beautifully soulful instrumental track.

ARTIST INFO

Over the past five years, Monophonics have staked their claim as the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier funk/soul band. Raised amid the city’s rich musical culture, these young musicians proudly carry on the tradition of music native to their hometown.

Monophonics were formed in 2005; originally an instrumental ensemble comprised of guitarist Ian McDonald, bassist Myles O’Mahony, saxophonist Alex Baky, trumpeter Ryan Scott, and drummer Austin Bohlman, the band has recently added the dynamic soul vocals of keyboardist Kelly Finnigan. The result is psychedelic soul & heavy duty funk, which harks back to the stylings of the late 60’s and early 70’s, all while keeping its feet planted in the present.

As a mainstay of San Francisco venues such as the Boom Boom Room and the Independent, the Monophonics have created a national buzz and fervent local following, sharing the stage & bill with such names as Soulive, Macy Gray, Budos Band, George Porter, Archie Bell, Blues Traveler, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dumpstafunk, Idris Muhammad and many more. Their recording credits include tracks with the The New Mastersounds and Karl Denson (Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Grey Boy All-Stars) who’s also featured on their latest release and second album, Into the Infrasounds. The album also includes musical guests Mic Gillete of Tower of Power & Jonathan Korty of Vinyl. Their touring schedule has brought their signature rowdy, hard-hitting live set to over 400 dates from California to Mississippi, as well as major music festivals including High Sierra, Joshua Tree and Las Tortugas. Additionally, the ensemble has established itself as yearly residents at the legendary New Orleans Jazz Festival. They have been featured in various magazines including Relix’s “On the Rise” section, and in 2007, were awarded best Funk/Soul/R&B band in SF Weekly’s “Best of the Bay Awards.”

In early 2011, the group will showcase their new sound with the release of a 7” entitled “Like Yesterday,” for Colemine Records. The record will feature members of the Los Angeles based funk group Orgone, and will be distributed across the United States, Europe and Japan. Also in 2011, Monophonics will complete their third album to date, lacing the sounds of early 70’s and late 60’s soul with fuzzy guitars, freaky synthesizers, hard- driving horns and gritty vocals, a sonic testimony to the evolution of this six-piece unit.

iTunes – Monophonics – Like Yesterday
YouTube – Monophonics – Like Yesterday 45
Colemine Records on Facebook
Monophonics on Facebook

SIZE: Men’s M L XL XXL XXXL

Color: White / Yellow

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New release from L.I.E.S.(LONG ISLAND ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS)

Steve Moore
A1. Zero-Point Field
B1. Frigia

Here is the  2nd release.

Two Dogs in a House-Next to You (L.I.E.S. 002) by L.I.E.S.

Two Dogs in a House-5th Floor (L.I.E.S. 002) by L.I.E.S.

By ELLEN TUMPOSKY – abc News

At 4:20 p.m. today—in whatever time zone they happen to be in—pot-smokers will be lighting up to celebrate an unofficial holiday whose origins are debated by stoners with time on their hands.

Does 420 refer to a police code for illegal marijuana use? Is it a veiled allusion to the number of chemicals in cannabis? Or maybe it’s teatime in Amsterdam, the global spiritual home of marijuana smokers. Don’t forget that April 20 is Hitler’s birthday, so that must have something to do with it.

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