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What's going on Friday?
May 24, 2013 9:22am | Brooklyn Vegan

Wolvhammer @ Union Pool, 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro)

YACHT @ T5, 2012 (more by Diana Wong)

today in NYC
* Lemuria @ Maxwell's
* Lettuce @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Fierce Bad Rabbit @ Joe's Pub
* Canellakis-Brown Duo @ Barbes
* Mariah Carey @ Rumsey Playfield
* Rob Curto's Forro All Star @ Barbes
* fun. @ Seaside Heights Boardwalk
* Skream, Mala, Plastician, Hatcha @ SRB
* Glorior Belli, Wolvhammer @ Union Pool
* The Westerlies Play Horvitz @ The Stone
* Pass This On: Robyn Gets Weird @ The Bell House
* Journalism, Ocean View, Weird Womb @ Cake Shop
* Napoleon, Grand Resort, Night Dogs @ Cameo Gallery
* Seasick Mama, I Am Lightyear, Loveskills @ Glasslands
* Trabajo, Wei Zhongle, NUD, Shenzhen @ Ran Tea House
* Laura Stevenson, Owen, Field Mouse @ Bowery Ballroom
* Historics, The Heaven's Jail Band, 1-800-BAND @ The Flat
* Butter The Children, Big Muff, Roses, Ceramics @ Big Snow
* DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Soulja Man, Durban, TCJ @ 285 Kent
* Elijah Ocean, North of Nashville, Juniper Rising @ Union Hall
* Alkaline Trio, Bayside, Off With Their Heads @ Best Buy Theater
* Sage Francis, Prolyphic, B. Dolan, Metermaids @ Knitting Factory
* Deformity, Thee Nodes, Missionary, Nerv, Sucia @ Death By Audio
* Fresh Daily, Gizmo, Mariami, C-Sick, Elevation Theory @ Paper Box
* Gesaffeistein, Brodinski, LOUISAHHH!!!, Alex ...

90-Year-Old Christopher 'Saruman' Lee Set to Release His Second Metal Record...
May 24, 2013 9:13am | The Daily Swarm

Christopher Lee, the guy who played the evil wizard in that epic trilogy one time, put out his first record three years ago, titled Charlemagne. Well the 90-year-old thespian is back with another metal record, titled Charlemagne: The Omens of Death. “The first 'Charlemagne’ album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic. Now on the second one, 'The Omens Of Death’, it is 100% heavy metal. I’ve done my bits and pieces, and they are heavy metal. I’m not screaming or anything like that, but it is definitely heavy metal,” said Lee.

Full story at NME.

Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

The Big 5 We
May 24, 2013 9:07am | Abeano

As the mid-point to 2013 draws in and summer (hopefully) gets into full swing, we always look forward to Field Day as the sort of pre-drinks to the festival season. Always with a strong, varied line up, Victoria Park’s annual jolly is a must for all of our great city’s citizens, but who are we, the tastemakers, the blog-types, looking forward to catching? Well, we’ll tell you…

TNGHT

Lunice and Hudson Mohawke’s joint side project is always a heady promise of fist-in-the-air uber-bombast and total fun. Playing tracks from their self titled EP, released last year, and various productions from them individually, expect speedy snares, hammy hi hats and horns that’ll blow your straw fedora off you LOSER.

VONDELPARK

Souf London trio dropped their debut LP Seabed a lil while back, and we were very impressed indeed. We’re excited to see if their brand of highly melodic and gloomy music translates to a sunny day out, our money’s on a strong ‘yes’.

BOK BOK & GIRL UNIT (LIVE)

Night Slugs has long been one of our favourite labels, with it and sister label Fade To Mind, releasing some of the best dance music of the last 5+ years. Two of the main dons, Girl Unit and honcho Bok Bok will be performing tracks live, like Bok’s creepy grime Silo Pass and G-U’s tearful Wut.

CHARANJIT SINGH

Acton...

Finally, the Full Story on White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's Guided By Voices Superfandom...
May 24, 2013 9:04am | The Daily Swarm

White House press secretary Jay Carney first outed himself as a Guided By Voices superfan two years ago, simultaneously referencing Jimi Hendrix’s drummer and GBV’s guitarist, both named Mitch Mitchell.

Earlier that same year Carney was revealed to be the singer in a band, too.

Now the Washington Post has gotten the full story on Carney’s love of music — and the members of his “all-star” band:

Jessie Ware collaborator Julio Bashmore announces North American tour; Hyetal releasing a new LP on True Panther
May 24, 2013 9:03am | Brooklyn Vegan

by Andrew Sacher

Julio Bashmore

Bristol, UK house producer Julio Bashmore has released some singles and EPs over the past few years, like "Au Seve," the first release on his own Boardwalk label, and earlier this year he provided the dancefloor-ready beat to Jessie Ware's "Imagine It Was Us" single (and some of her Devotion LP). He also released a collaborative single with Kowton called "Mirror Song" this month via Boardwalk, which was backed by Kowton's new track, "And What?." You can check out the video for "Mirror Song" and a stream of "And What?" below.

Julio is set to come to North America for a tour here this August. That tour includes his opening slot at the previously discussed Disclosure/TNGHT co-headlining show at Central Park Summerstage on August 6 (tickets), and his appearance at the just-announced Warm Up summer series at MoMA PS1. Julio plays Warm Up on August 10 with Detroit techno vets Octave One (live), Hyetal, and DJ Dodger Stadium (aka Jerome LOL and Samo Sound Boy). Tickets for all Warm Up shows go on sale June 5 at noon.

Hyetal, who also hails from Bristol, makes UK-style dubstep under his own name, and is also part of the duo Velour with Julio Bashmore. Earlier this year, Velour released the dancey single "Speedway" b/w "Dial," which you can stream both tracks from below. Hyetal's new solo album, Mod...

The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
May 24, 2013 8:58am | StereoGum

I’m not entirely sure this week’s pick for best video even qualifies as a music video; it certainly stretches the definition. But in its impeccable planning and its flawless execution, it captured imaginations over the weekend and dominated the conversation come Monday. It felt like an actual honest-to-god event, and how many of those do we get anymore? I’m talking, of course, about the Miguel legdrop gif. Just kidding. Our picks are below.

The Retro Game Music Bundle is, similar to its video game brethren, a collection of music that people can pay as little or as much as they like for. (The minimum is $1.00 though, you cheap fuckers.) You can get the soundtracks to classic games like Duke Nukem, Myst, Jazz Jackrabbit (whoa, remember that one?), Tyrian and more, as well as remix albums — 18 records in all.

As they explain:

The Retro Game Music Bundle is stuffed with some of gaming’s greatest musical memories: digitally remastered and never-before-released soundtracks, modern tributes to the classics, and rare artifacts of gaming antiquity.

The story of the Retro GMB is a long one, but one that expresses our mission as fans of gaming soundtracks – we’ve built our own creations on the backs of these legendary composers, and it’s our honor to help them breathe new life into the works that caused us to fall in love with video game music in the first place.

And prizes! The top three contributors to the project all get the Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me-esque, but far cooler, prize of Duke Nukem’s voice on their home answering machine. Here’s a preview of the Myst theme song, in case you forgot how rad this music is…

Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

Free Agents: Sublo
May 24, 2013 8:44am | Fact Magazine

Free Agents is a new feature series where we shine the spotlight on an up-and-coming act who’s yet to have a proper release – at least, not one that we’re aware of, and yes, we know that the phrase “proper release” is a bit of a cloudy one these days – but that we think is onto something special regardless.

Artist: Sublo
Origin: San Francisco
Style: Grime

Soundscapes is such a naff word, but when it comes to Sublo it seems an appropriate one. Jerel Bromley makes vivid grime music, but it’s not for MCs and we’re not even sure it’s for the club: although his tunes sound good in the mix, they’re more likely to startle dancefloors than than are make them dance. On ‘Snow Blind’, drums tumble back over themselves like they’re climbing a hill, frosty arpeggios obscuring their vision, while ‘Miasma’ blends Black Sun-esque detuned synths with rhythms that are mangled to the point of barely being in time. Our pick, though, has to be ‘Realm Freeze’ – when those strings come in, it’s game over. You can stream all three tracks below.

'Louie Louie' Was So Disgusting (It Wasn't) the FBI Investigated the Song for Two Years...
May 24, 2013 8:38am | The Daily Swarm

Aaah, the glory days of the McCarthy hearings and J. Edgar Hoover and hats, hats hats.

As The Smithsonian blog points out, The Kingsmen’s version “Louie Louie” prompted the FBI to investigate the song after they received a letter of complaint about it.

art of the FBI

'Louie Louie' Was So Disgusting (It Wasn't) the FBI Investigated It for Two Years...
May 24, 2013 8:38am | The Daily Swarm

Aaah, the glory days of the McCarthy hearings and J. Edgar Hoover and hats, hats hats.

As The Smithsonian blog points out, The Kingsmen’s version “Louie Louie” prompted the FBI to investigate the song after they received a letter of complaint about it.

art of the FBI

tix on sale: Scout Niblett, Mike Birbiglia, Sky Ferreira, Wale, Kisses, Rob Garza, Iggy Azalea & more
May 24, 2013 8:30am | Brooklyn Vegan

(via @robotsvsghosts Instagram)

Tickets for the Scout Niblett and Dope Body show at Saint Vitus are on sale now.

Sky Ferreira is playing Maxwell's on June 17. Tickets to that show go on sale today at noon.

Iggy Azalea sold out her previously mentioned Bowery Ballroom show (6/17), and added another one happening a day earlier (6/16) at the same venue. Tickets for the newly-added show are on sale now.

Mike Birbiglia's final performance of his one-man-show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, happens at Carnegie Hall on June 2. Tickets are still available

Wale, who also plays Summer Jam, is playing Best Buy Theater on June 24. Tickets to that show are on sale now.

Tickets for the Trail of Dead and Ume show at Maxwell's go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Kisses at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Week of Wonders, Chalk And Numbers, and Pale Lights at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation and Natalia Clavier are playing S.O.B.'s on June 4. Tickets to that show are on sale now.

Tickets for the Drowners and Skaters show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

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tix on sale: Scout Niblett, Mike Birbiglia, Sky Ferreira, Wale, Kisses, Rob Garza & more
May 24, 2013 8:30am | Brooklyn Vegan