saturday night

SATURDAY JUNE 4TH

Live at TISWAS @ Don Hill's!
A Place to Bury Strangers - 10pm
Saints and Lovers - 11pm

Guest DJs: Andy Rourke (The Smiths)!! + Melody Nelson
Triple 8 Vodka OPEN BAR from 11 to 12!
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Listen to The Shout Out Louds :: The Comeback Ratatat Remix [mp3]

Thanks to french magazine Telerama for the mention of melody nelson, finally my parents know what the hell this blog is all about. (via Heures Creuses)

dirty

I've been meaning to post this cool little thing taking place over the weekend:

Dirty on Purpose is filming a video on June 5th for All New Friends", and they need your help! The shoot is going to take place on June 5th (Location TBA in New York). They have to gather about 30 video cameras and 30 people willing to help shoot the video. Please forward this to anyone you know with a video camera.
They'll provide beer and food for everyone willing to partake -- and it will be tons of fun! If you know people who have cameras and are willing to donate or partake in the fun, please forward this. If you want to participate in the video, please email Jin at info@dirtyonpurpose.com with the subject line "Music Video". Please include your name and phone number.
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Now that everyone's talking about Karen Elson, i wanted to link back to this rave review i wrote of a show she played opening for the Secret Machines in 2003. Since that night, Jasper and i have been trying to get her back on stage in nyc, but it hasn't happened yet, which is really too bad because she really was(is) that great a singer-songwriter when i saw her.
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You must have heard about the DIESEL-U-MUSIC Awards by now. The awards spans all genres of music including Hip Hop/Soul, Rock and Electronic. This is a great way to provide exposure to deserving artists that are under the radar of mainstream and support artists on a local level. The award ceremony will take place this thursday June 9th at The Roxy where the three winners will play.
I have a pair of tickets + CD sampler + stickers + lighter to give away! If you would like to go, email me at contest@melodynelson.com with "Diesel-u-music" in the subject line. The winners of the tickets will be chosen by random drawing.

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TONIGHT:

Underrated Magazine is hosting a show/party for the release of issue #6 with The GoStation on the cover. The GoStation will be performing. Go here for all the details...

never win

The Futureheads are on tour in the US right now and will be playing in New York on monday night. Here are some great live video clips from the Henry Fonda Theater in LA. If you have not yet seen these guys live, it will give you an idea of how incredible they are on stage. All quicktime movies:
Le Garage || Hounds of Love || First Day || A to B || He Knows [VIDEOS]

New york band Longwave is back with a new album at the end of June, There's a fire is the first single and is really quite good, listen to here: There's a fire :: REAL | WM | MP3
Longwave will be headlining the Bowery Ballroom on june 29th, also playing with them are Benzos and The Picture.

One more for today, check out the video for Fischerspooner's new single Never Win, one of my favorite tracks on Odyssey:
Never Win :: WM 100 | WM 300 | RP 100 | RP 300 | QT 100 | QT 300 | QT 750
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ATOMIQUE @ Lit (downstairs) always starts with live bands, tonight we have:
The Kites (9pm) | The Velocet (10pm) | Blue Rider (11pm)

After the bands we take over downstairs and make you dance until 4am!!

Saturday night, i'm back as a guest DJ at TISWAS at Don Hill's! What's especially exciting about this week is that not only two of my favorite local bands are playing: A Place to Bury Strangers (10pm) and Saints and Lovers (11pm)...
But also this week, Andy Rourke (of The Smiths!!) will be guest DJing as well! It will be my second time sharing a DJ bill with Andy, so i can't wait. There's also a Triple 8 Vodka OPEN BAR from 11 to 12!

It's $10 to get in if you print the info from the Tiswas web site.

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After a super busy weekend, i can finally update this site... I had two great DJ gigs over the weekend, one at Supreme Trading and one at Southpaw, thanks to all who came by and had fun with me.
The Cloud Room also played at Southpaw and unleashed one infectious song after another. It's remarkable how some bands can write songs that have an instant likeability factor, but i guess it's what pop music's all about? The Cloud Room write rock songs like that, full of hooks, polished, sometimes dancy, and simply, very good all around. Hey now now, the first single is the obvious example, but you'll be suprised by how many catchy songs their debut album contain. I definitely recommend it.

Last week at Vicious, a few great bands played and had me under their spell. Single Frame was one of them. I very recently started listening to them, and notably the new album Body/End/Basement, and was quite intrigued by their sound that mixes noise, electronica, and beats somewhat reminiscent of punk-funk. In a way they're undescribable. Not one song really sound alike, which could give them the title of inconsistent, but somehow it really works. Live, they exploded with pure energy and delivered a solid performance. To add to the music, they had a great light show, using TVs all around the stage, and video footage in the background.

Single Frame at Rothko.

Local power-punk-rock trio Demander also played that night and were so intense, Sivan broke her snare drum! I'd only seen these guys as a duo before, but thought that the addition of the guitar completed the sound they're going for.

Demander kicking ass.

Elephone are a band from the bay area that Jasper recommended to me so i gladly added them to the bill. I didn't know what to expect, but absolutely dug their set filled with dark indie-pop numbers. I'd really like see them again the next time they come around.

Elefone at Rothko.
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NIKE ID Reminder: You still have until this friday to vote for my Nike Shoe Design, even though i'm behind, you should vote once a day every day... hey you never know!

This week is looking to be midly busy, which is really good, because next week is going to be so fucking awesome! I'll give you the 411 very soon, but be prepared for some great events...

Lasty, i didn't get to wish happy birthday to Lio, and to The Beach!