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On Record is a regular feature on FACT in which we ask an artist we admire to pick a record that means a lot to them, and use it as a jumping off point for a conversation.

In this instalment we caught up with Contakt, who debuted on Local Action [disclosure: a label run independently by FACT's Tom Lea] in 2010 and has since released singles through DJ /rupture’s Dutty Artz label and promising San Francisco imprint Icee Hot. Brought up in Detroit’s city sister Lansing, Contakt spent several years running the city’s Vinyl Addict record store before moving to New York, where he took on a managerial role at the Fat Beats distribution network and launched TURRBOTAX®, a monthly party that regularly brings established artists like Terrence Parker and Robert Hood to NYC, but also is prepared to take risks on less established artists like Altered Natives.

Michigan plays a huge part in Contakt’s productions; not in the sense that he makes music that sounds like the past (or, even worse, sticks played-out vocal samples about Detroit in them), but that he uses the techno template as a blank canvas to paint pictures of the stars. Like a certain pair of robots who’ve been in the news of late, he shouts out his teachers at every opportunity – teachers who, in the case of Robert Hood and Rolando, have now remixed his records – but is firmly on his own wave. We...

Last month, Kurt Vile released his fifth studio album Wakin on A Pretty Daze via Matador. In support of its release, Vile and his band stopped by Late Show with David Letterman last night to play “Wakin on a Pretty Day.” Head to CBS.com to stream last night’s episode of Letterman; the performance is at 38:55.

Any Port In A Storm is the new record by Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, the noisy indie-pop songwriting project of Craig Dermody. On “Fakin NYC,” the native Australian deadpans lines about the confusion he’s feeling after moving to New York. He chronicles a firsthand experience working as a security guard at a super-exclusive nightclub, and a general disillusionment with the people one might run into there. “Fakin’ in New York City / I’ll let you in on a secret of mine,” Dermody sings. “I don’t know what I’m doing any of the time.” Check it out below. Any Port is out in July via Fire Records and includes the band’s first new recordings in over two years, following a debut LP Para Vista Social Club as well as the Two Weeks EP.

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Turbonegro at House of Vans, Aug 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)

Father John Misty at Coachella 2013 weekend 1 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

today in NYC
* Liars @ The Met
* Rusted Root @ B.B. King's
* Secret Chiefs 3 @ Union Pool
* The Feelies @ The Bell House
* Les Chauds Lapins @ Barbes
* Tom Jones @ Bowery Ballroom
* Bo Burnham @ Best Buy Theatre
* Mr. Brownstone @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Smokey's Secret Family @ Barbes
* Juan Atkins, Contakt @ Cameo Gallery
* Turbonegro, Dirty Fences @ Irving Plaza
* Doldrums, Rioux, Cruz @ Ran Tea House
* The Killers, The Virgins @ Barclays Center
* Bad Veins, Born Cages @ Mercury Lounge
* All Get Out, NGHBRS @ Santos Party House
* Ola Podrida, Brass Bed, Medals @ Cake Shop
* Lewis Black @ Bergen Performing Arts Center
* Allies, Friends & Farmers, Bloom @ Don Pedro
* Uri Gurvich and BabEL, Brahim Fribgane @ The Stone
* Evian Christ, Gorgeous Children, Ian Isiah @ 285 Kent
* Narwhalz of Sound, Cammissa Buerhaus @ Market Hotel
* VietNam, Andy Animal Band, Country Mice @ Glasslands
* Midnight Magic, Slow Knights @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Scott Tournet, Ver La Vuz, Rayland Baxter @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Zula, DRGN King, Hannibal Montana, North End @ Big Snow
* Nautiluss, James Friedman, Paul Raffaele @ Cameo Gallery
* Vandana Jain, Teen Commandments, YYZ ...

On June 4, Queens of the Stone Age will release a new record on Matador, Like Clockwork. In advance of the album, the band played Jools Holland last month. They also played again last night. Below watch last night’s performance of “If I Had a Tail.” The band was accompanied by the artist Boneface, who is responsible for the band’s album artwork as well as art for several Queens of the Stone Age videos.

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The De La Soul reunion tour hit Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. Though the group dropped a brand new song just last month, they opted to perform two classics with help from The Roots: “Jenifa Taught Me” and A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Saturdays’”. Watch the replay below.

Kurt Vile and the Violators worked for their weekend Friday night with an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. The Philadelphia rockers shampooed a nice rendition of