THE HORRORS' TOM FURSE REMIXES ELEPHANT STONE

THE HORRORS' TOM FURSE REMIXES ELEPHANT STONE

Elephant Stone Tour Continues Through Eastern US

Today, Elephant Stone commemorate the launch of their Eastern US tour by releasing The Horrors' Tom Furse Remix of "A Silent Moment". The transcontinental collaboration was born of a chance meeting at Coachella that quickly developed into Elephant Stone's Rishi Dhir and Furse's frequent work on one another's projects. Recently, Elephant Stone premiered the third video from their self-titled sophomore record, "Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin" which was followed quickly by Dhir's appearance with Beck at Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, before the band began their US tour last night in Burlington, VT and continue to support the powerful self-titled sophomore record, released earlier this year via Hidden Pony and The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

LISTEN/SHARE: "A Silent Moment" (The Tom Furse Remix) (also avaiable for download for email at http://www.elephantstonemusic.com)

WATCH/SHARE: "Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin"

"Many attempts to incorporate traditional Eastern instruments into Western pop or rock music sound sloppy and cobbled-together, or even teeter on the edge of cultural tourism. Elephant Stone avoids this by cleverly employing the sitar as a textural sound rather than a more prominent melodic one." - NPR

WATCH: “Heavy Moon” 

WATCH: 

"Setting Sun"

STREAM: Elephant Stone's new S/T album via SoundCloud or Spotify.

ELEPHANT STONE US TOUR DATES:

08 August -  Burlington VT - Signal Kitchen

09 August - Philadelphia PA - Kung Fu Necktie

10 August - New York NY - The Mercury Lounge

11 August - Washington DC - Black Cat Backstage

13 August - Asheville NC - Broadways

14 August - Nashville TN - High Watt

15 August - Louisville KY - RYE on Market

16 August - Chicago IL - Beat Kitchen

17 August - Detroit MI - The Pike Room at the Crofoot

ELEPHANT STONE EUROPE TOUR DATES (W/ THE BLACK ANGELS): http://www.elephantstonemusic.com/tour/

THE HORRORS' TOM FURSE REMIXES ELEPHANT STONE

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PHILIP GLASS REMIX PROJECT

TRACK LIST AND ARTWORK SET FOR
PHILIP GLASS REMIX PROJECT DUE OCTOBER 23 ON
ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC/ERNEST JENNING
RECORD CO./THE KORA RECORDS

REWORK_Philip Glass remixed FEATURES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
BECK, TYONDAI BRAXTON, AMON TOBIN, CORNELIUS,
DAN DEACON, JOHANN JOHANNSSON AND MORE

GLASS CELEBRATES 75^TH BIRTHDAY SEASON WITH
WORLDWIDE PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

Philip Glass, one of America’s most esteemed composers, is the subject of REWORK_Philip Glass remixed, a two-disc album/2xLP of remixed Philip Glass works due October 23 on Orange Mountain Music/Ernest Jenning Record Co./The Kora Records. The complete track list for REWORK is now confirmed along with album art; please see below for track details.

The idea for REWORK came together during a conversation between Philip and his friend and new collaborator Beck. The pair recruited producer Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Björk, Lou Reed) to help assemble a collection of remixes of Glass’ works by a list of critically acclaimed artists including Beck himself, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Dan Deacon, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, Silver Alert, Pantha du Prince, My Great Ghost and Peter Broderick.

The remix project joins in the celebration of Glass’ 75^th birthday season, which features performances and events across the globe encompassing every facet of the composer’s decades-long career as a preeminent American composer—opera, chamber music, orchestra music, dance, theatre works and more.

Glass’ 75^th birthday season began with the inaugural Days and Nights Festival in Carmel Valley, CA—curated by Glass himself—and has featured the first performance of a Glass piece by the New York Philharmonic; the world premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 9 by Bruckner Orchestra Linz in Austria before the symphony’s American premiere at Carnegie Hall; and a week of events curated by the composer for the Park Avenue Armory’s Tune-In Music Festival. Glass’ 75^th birthday season goes on to include the return of his first and most revered opera Einstein on the Beach and concludes with the World Premiere of The Perfect American, a new opera about the death of Walt Disney, in January 2013. In addition to numerous live performances, Glass’ 75^th birthday season sees the publication of the composer’s first ever recollection of a life in music, due out in 2012.

For more than five decades, Glass continues to be at the forefront of contemporary music and art. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects, creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble, and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts, and the landmark opera, Einstein on the Beach for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Several new works have been unveiled, including Book of Longing, a collaboration with Leonard Cohen (2007, Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity) and Appomattox (2007, San Francisco Opera), an opera about the end of the Civil War.

REWORK_Philip Glass remixed

 

Disc 1

 

1.     Music in Twelve Parts, Part 1–My Great Ghost

2.     Rubric (Remix)–Tyondai Braxton

3.     Knee 1 (Remix)–Nosaj Thing

4.     Alight Spiral Ship (Philip Glass Remix)–Dan Deacon

5.     Warda’s Whorehouse Inside Out Version–Amon Tobin

6.     Etoile Polaire: Little Dipper–Silver Alert

7.     Floe ’87 (Remix)–Memory Tapes

8.     Opening From Glassworks–Cornelius

Disc 2

 

1.     NYC: 73-78 –Beck

2.     Protest (Remix)–Johann Johannsson

3.     Mad Rush Organ (Remix)–Pantha du Prince

4.     Island (Remix)–Peter Broderick

PHILIP GLASS REMIX PROJECT

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New York Duo MS MR Play More Shows

New York Duo MS MR Play Boston (6/24) and New York (6/27) Before Touring America With Marina & The Diamonds
(all tour dates below)

Share First Installment of Track Addict Vol. 1 Mix Series HERE

 

"Beating Lana Del Rey's record for "1990s influenced Tumblr photos per minute" with the video for their debut single "Hurricane" - Best New Track – Pitchfork

“Dear MS MR,”- Yourstru.ly

The mysterious Brooklyn-based duo have created quite a stir online with their first single, “Hurricane,” a dark glitch pop track with equally hauntingly beautiful vocals. MS MR’s7” for “Hurricane”will be officially released in July via IAMSOUND Records/Chess Club. You can stream the single via the MS MR’s Soundcloud and watch the video that will throw you into a sensory overload induced epileptic fit with its images that reference the pop culture icons of childhood. If you are inspired by the video, then head over to MS MR's tumblr, where you can get your fill of 90s influenced visuals.

MS MR, playing as a 4-piece live band, are gearing up for their July and August tour supporting Marina & The Diamonds (full tour dates below), but before that they will be playing Boston on June 24^th and New York on June 27^th.


MS MR tour dates:
* w/ Marina & The Diamonds

6/24 - Boston, MA  @ TT Bear's
6/27 – New York, NY @ Santos Party House
7/10 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre*
7/11 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore*
7/13 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theatre*
7/14 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox at the Market*
7/15 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom*
7/18 - Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall*
7/20 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre (w/ Cloud Cult)
7/21 - Chicago, IL @ Park West*
8/14 - Washington D.C. @ 9:30 Club*
8/16 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall*
8/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts*
8/18 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall*


The band started a Track Addict mix series as a thank you to the fans, download HERE.
 

New York Duo MS MR Play More Shows

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New summer mix 2012

The Portable Infinite Mix #6
May 2012

These are the tunes that I have been listening to this week:

1. Electric Flower Band "Eclipsed"

2. BEAK> "Liar"

3. Band of Skulls "Lies"

4. Paul Weller "That Dangerous Age"

5. Magic Wands "Burning Up"

6. The Stepkids "Suburban Dream"

7. Alexander Tucker "Andromeon"

8. Father John Misty "I'm Writing A Novel"

9. The Mynabirds "Generals"

10. Foxygen "San Francisco"

11. School of Seven Bells "The Night"

12. Soft Moon "Circles"

13. Still Corners "I Wrote In Blood"

14. Ty Segall & White Fence "Time"

15. Memoryhouse "The Kids Were Wrong"

16. Foxygen "Something's Changing"

17. Mystery Jets "Luminescence"

18. I Break Horses "I Kill Your Love, Baby"

19. Prefuse 73 "The Only Direction in Concrete"

20. The Horrors "Still Life.

New summer mix 2012

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Trentemøller Premieres New Video For "My Dreams"

Trentemøller Premieres New Video For "My Dreams" feat. Marie Fisker (Acoustic Version) on Noisey "Whether you like your beats to purr or roar, chances are there's something for you in Dane Anders Trentemøller..." - Pitchfork

Watch the video for "My Dreams" at the Noisey premiere or YouTube               Danish indie-electronic artist Anders Trentemøller has debuted a brand new video for the live acoustic version of "My Dreams" with Noisey. Featuring the sultry vocals of previous collaboratorMarie Fisker, Trentemøller released "My Dreams" digitally and on 7" for Record Store Day via his own In My Room label. The single is "a soft, euphoric pop-ambient cover of the bluesy 1984 rocker by influential Hollywood punks the Gun Club," explains SPIN. The acoustic video follows the first "My Dreams" clip which was comprised of behind the scenes and live footage from the producer's incendiary US tour last fall. Featuring his lauded full band and guest appearances by expert theremin player Dorit Chrysler and Coco Sumner (I Blame Coco), the tour concluded with the band's late night TV debut on Late Night with Carson Daly. Last fall, Trentemøller released Reworked / Remixed that celebrated some of the producer's favorite remixes he's crafted for other artists, as well as his own songs that other musicians have reworked.Featuring UNKLE, I Blame Coco, Depeche Mode, Modeselektor with Thom Yorke, Efterklang, Mew, Kasper Bjørke and many more, CMJ said, the "beats are crisp and instruments are perfectly mixed, mastered and balanced, fitting together like pieces in a very exact glass puzzle."     More information  about Noisey: Noisey.com is the music channel from the makers of VICE. So you know its going to be good. And fun. The shows are about anything and everything concerning music-the best live jams, geeky record stores clerks, smarmy critics, boob-flashing fans, destroyed hotel rooms, and roadies. Never underestimate the roadies. The Noisey Youtube channel made its debut in February with M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls," and VICE-produced A$AP Rocky video, "Wassup." Since then the channel has racked up loads of online content with everyone from David Lynch to Odd Future. On YouTube, Noisey offers music fans the most extensive slate of original online music programming to date, covering not only the artists that matter most, but the trends and opinions that make up today's music culture. See for yourself: youtube.com/noisey                   My Dreams Tracklisting 1. My Dreams feat. Marie Fisker    2. My Dreams feat. Marie Fisker (Acoustic Version)    3. Blue Hotel [Digital-Only]       For more info, please visit:    http://www.anderstrentemoller.com http://www.myspace.com/trentemoeller http://www.facebook.com/trentemoller  http://www.facebook.com/inmyroom.page       http://www.hfn-music.com/inmyroom/

Trentemøller Premieres New Video For "My Dreams"

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NITE JEWEL remix

The FADER Premieres Nite Jewel’s Remix

of Super Guachin’s "Se Pixelo el Vinito" 

 

Read the Piece HERE and Download the MP3 HERE



 

FUTURE SOUNDS OF BUENOS AIRES OUT NOW

ON WAXPLOITATION / ZZK 
 

Buy on iTunes HERE
 

Project brings together the best emerging

electronic artists from South America

 

Watch the Future Sounds of Buenos Aires Trailer HERE
 

(May 8, 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Waxploitation Records and ZZK Records are happy to announce The FADER’s premiere of Super Guachin’s "Se Pixelo el Vinito" remixed by Nite Jewel. Fader writes, “It’s always nice to have a trusted source keeping you abreast with what’s going on in the southern hemisphere, which is what Buenos Aires’ ZZK Records does a consistently good job with.” You can read the piece here and download the remix here. (Feel Free to Post And Share)

 

The release of the remix comes on the heels of Waxploitation / ZZK’s release of Future Sounds of Buenos Aires. Out now, FSOBA is a collaboration featuring some of the most compelling artists emerging from Buenos Aires’ electronic underground including Mati Zundel, Chancha Via Circuito, Tremor, La Yegros, and Faunato name a few (complete track list below). Watch the trailer for the album here.

 

For Future Sounds of Buenos Aires is a chronicle of the eclectic electronic scene that is emerging in South America, especially in Argentina

 

The album brings together a dozen artists, each lending their distinctive sound. Chancha with his signature percussive style, Super Guachin with their 8 bit cumbia bass, Tremor’s glitchy futuristic take on Andean foklore and so on.

 

"ZZK is the first label to push the sound of Argentina from the villa (ghettos) to the uptown”, says Diplo, “ZZK is a big part in bringing this to the attention of the people.”

 

Much like what Detroit was to techno and Kingston was to dub and reggae, Buenos Aires is quickly becoming the focal point for this Latin American cultural movement. Future Sounds of Buenos Aires is the defining work of the new movement.

 

What makes this album interesting is that all of the artists are influenced by the combination of rural, traditional cumbia and folkloric roots mixed with a contemporary street-inspired sounds. The results offer twelve different interpretations of the past blended with the future.

 

1. Frikstailers “Guacha”
2. Tremor “Malambo”
3. Mati Zundel “Señor Montecostez”
4. Daleduro “La Poli”
5. Fauna “Hongo x Hongo”
6. The Peronists “Mi Llegada Tu Llegada Nuestro Descanso”
7. Super Guachin “Se Pixelo el Vinito”
8. La Yegros “Viene de Mi”
9. Chancha Via Circuito “Prima”
10. El Remolon “Atras” (featuring Lido Pimienta)
11. El Trip Selector “Coombia del Piano Triste”
12. King Coya “Cumbiatron”

NITE JEWEL remix

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White Nite playlist

It was a fun nite. Thanks to all the people who showed up. We are going to do a secret party in a few weeks.

WHITE NITE playlist
Medusa Lounge
August 27th, 2009

Clockwork Orange soundtrack
Siouxsie and the Banshees "Christine"
The Cure "A Forest"
Black Mountain "Wucan"
Can "Spoon"
Bowie "Scary Monsters"
My Bloody Valentine "When You Sleep"
Love and Rockets "Motorcycle"
Crystal Castles "Vanished"
Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper"

Wire "Outdoor Miner"
Kraftwerk "Computer World"
Gary Numan "Metal"
New Order "Sub-Culture"
Joy Division "Heart and Soul"
The Duke Spirit "Lassoo"
Massive Attack "Special Needs"
Lene Lovich "Lucky Number"
Donovan "Hurdy Gurdy"
Echo and The Bunnymen "Rescue"

Dead Weather "Hang Me From The Heavens"
A Place To Bury Strangers "I'll Know I'll See You"
Primal Scream "Cant Go Back"
Oasis "Falling Down"
The Kills "URA Fever"
The Horrors "Do You Remember?"

Wendy Rose also played Murcof, Trentemoller, Fever Ray, The Knife, Royskopp, Bat For Lashes, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey and John Parrish, Ladytron, School of Seven Bells, Magic Wands, Sleepmask, Gutter Twins, A Mountain Of One, Dead Skeletons, Nick Cave, The Raveonettes, Roxy Music, Black Angels, and more....

White Nite playlist

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Best music of 2008

BEST CDs of 2008
By alexander laurence
The Portable-Infinite

1. Black Mountain – In The Future
2. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
3. Portishead - Third
4. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
5. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
6. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
7. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
8. The Walkmen – You & Me
9. Ray La Montagne – Gossip In The Grain
10. Wire – Object 47
11. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
12. The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely
13. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazurus Dig!
14. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
15. Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
16. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
17. Secret Machines – Secret Machines
18. Teddy Thompson – A Piece Of What You Need
19. The Dodos – The Visiter
20. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement
21. The Black Keys – Attack & Release
22. Darker My Love – 2
23. Foals - Antidotes
24. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
25. Joan As Police Woman – To Survive
26. The Ting Tings _ The Ting Tings
27. Beach House - Devotion
28. Ryan Adams – Cardinology
29. Dandy Warhols – Earth To The Dandy Warhols
30. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
31. Golden Animals – Free Your Mind And Win A Pony
32. Deerhunter - Microcastle
33. M83 – Saturdays=Youth
34. She & Him – Volume One
35. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
36. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
37. Santogold - Santogold
38. White Denim - Workout Holiday
39. Gemma Hayes – The Hollow Of Morning
40. Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls

41. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
42. The Verve - Forth
43. The Subways – All Or Nothing
44. Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
45. The Kills – Midnight Boom
46. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
47. Guns and Roses - Chinese Democracy
48. Dot Allison – Exaltation Of Larks
49. Megapuss - Surfing
50. Psychic Ills - Mirror Eye

Best music of 2008

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Playlist: the death of downtown

Playlist: Nov 13th 2008

This will probably be the last time I DJ at Bar 107. They decided that it will never be a cool scene. They want it to be a dive bar where people drink and are depressed. So Hot Chip and MGMT remind people that they are getting bald and life is passing them by. Here is the last playlist before I was interrupted.

Darker My Love "Talking Words"
The Chemical Brothers "Leave Home
Primal Scream "Can't Go Back"
A Place To Bury Strangers "I Know I'll See You"
Stereo Total "Musique Automatique"
Ladyhawke "Paris Is Burning" (Peaches remix)
The Muslims "Walking With Jesus"
Daft Punk "Around The World"
Hot Chip "Ready For The Floor"
Does It Offend You, Yeah? "Let's Make Out"

MGMT "Kids"
PIL "This Is Not A Love Song"
Invaders Of The Heart "How Much Are They?"
Santogold "LES Artistes"
Ladytron "Playgirl"
The Ting Tings "Shut Up And Let Me Go"

And some crap music after this. I played nine or ten of these songs the month before. That was it this month. For the rest of the month and next artwalk golden oldies and cheesy songs. Lets all drink up.

Playlist: the death of downtown

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Downtown Artwalk DJ Night: October 9th

Playlist October 9th 2008

Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing"
Primal Scream "Accelerator"
Beck "Gamma Ray"
Chemical Brothers "Leave Home"
Air "Sexy Boy"
Telepathe "Chrome's On It"
MGMT "Kids"
Daft Punk "Around The World"
Ladytron "Playgirl"
The Ting Tings "Shut Up and Let Me Go"

The Jackson 5 "The Love You Save"
Hot Chip "Ready For The Floor"
TV On The Radio "Wolf Like Me"
DFA 1979 "Romantic Rights"
LCD Soundsytem "Time To Get Away"
The Rapture "Get Myself Into It"
CSS "Pretend We're Dead"
Goldfrapp "Strict Machine"
Crystal Castles "Crimewave"
MIA "Paper Planes"

Santogold "Creator"
Soft Cell "Tainted Love"
The B-52s "6060-842"
The Sweet "Fox On The Run"
Echo and The Bunnymen "Rescue"
Generation X "Gimme Some Truth"
The Kills "Cheap and Cheerful"
Oasis "The Shock of The Lightning"
Primal Scream "Can't Go Back"
The Duke Spirit "Lasso"

Iggy and The Stooges "Shake Appeal"
The Mamas and The Papas "Straight Shooter"
Portishead "Machine Gun"
Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"
Junior Boys "In The Morning"
Jarvis Cocker "Fat Children"
Soulwax "NY Lipps"
Kraftwerk "Pocket Calculator"
Throbbing Gristle "United"
Nilsson "Coconut"

Peaches "Operate"
Roxy Music "Virginia Plain" (headman remix)
Chemical Brothers "Setting Son"
Duffy "Mercy"
CSS "Left Behind"
The Knife "Like A Pen"
The Go! Team "Bottle Rocket"
Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper"
Pulp "Common People"
Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy"

Heart "Straight On"
Blondie "Rapture"
The Dandy Warhols "We Used To Be Friends" (Kenn Richards remix)
MGMT "Time To Pretend"
Massive Attack "Inertia Creeps"
Stereo Total "Automatic Music"
Blonde Redhead "En Particulier"
Morningwood "Nth Degree"
The Rapture "House Of Jealous Lovers"
Simian Mobile Disco "Tits and Acid"

New Order "Sub-Culture"
M "Pop Music"
Wall Of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
Crystal Castles "Vanished"
Kim Wilde "Kids In America"
Hercules and The Love Affair "You Belong"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Dig Lazurus Dig"

Downtown Artwalk DJ Night: October 9th

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Downtown DJ night

Playlist July 21st, 2008

Generation X "Wild Dub"
The Prodigy "Breathe"
New Order "Subculture"
Cheap Trick "Southern Girls"
MGMT "Kids"
The Duke Spirit "My Sunken Treasure"
Death In Vegas "Soul Auctioneer"
Renegade Soundwave "Transworld Siren"
Hecuba "Tom And Jerry"
Portishead "We Carry On"

Santogold "Creator"
Spiritualized "Soul On Fire"
Dirty Pretty Things "Tired Of England"
Duffy "Mercy"
Suede "We Are The Pigs"
Gang Of Four "What We All Want"
Darker My Love "Talking Words"
Mystery Jets "You Cant Fool Me Dennis" Remix
LCD Soundsystem "Disco Infiltrator"
Art Brut "Direct Hit"

Tokyo Police Club "Nature of The Experiment"
Butthole Surfers "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
The Dandy Warhols "We Used To Be Friends" remix
Iggy and The Stooges "Shake Appeal"
The Ting Tings "We Walk"
MIA "Paper Planes"
Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
Wire "Another The Letter"
The Vibrators "London Girls"
My Bloody Valentine "When You Sleep"

Crystal Castles "Crimewave"
The Kills "URA Fever"
Roxy Music "Virginia Plain" Headman remix
The Last Shadow Puppets "My Mistakes Were Made For You"
Foals "Cassius"
The Velvet Underground "Waiting For The Man"
Patti Smith "Rock and Roll Nigger"
Joy Division "Heart and Soul"
The Circle Jerks "Wild In The Streets"
Devo "Wiggly World"

Brian Jonestown Massacre "Going To Hell"
The Doors "The Alabama Song"
Marianne Faithfull "Broken English"
Bob Dylan "I Want You"
Devendra Banhart "The Charles C. Leary"
The Raconteurs "You Dont Understand Me"
Garland Jefferys "Eggs"
Transvision Vamp "Tell That Girl To Shut Up"
Broadcast "American Boy"
The Raveonettes "Dead Sound"

Kate Nash "Foundations"
Blood Red Shoes "Say Something, Say Anything"
Goldfrapp "A & E"
We Are Scientists "This Scene Is Dead"
The Black Keys "Your Touch"
TV On The Radio "Wolf Like Me"
Siouxsie and The Banshees "Hong Kong Garden"
Lily Allen "Smile"
The Hives "Tick Tick Boom"
Interpol "Slow Hands"

Alternative TV "Action Time Vision"
plus more punk stuff

Downtown DJ night

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Playlist @ Bar 107

Music Is My Boyfriend Playlist
March 13th, 2008

CSS "Pretend We're Dead"
Devo "Wiggly World"
Ministry "Over The Shoulder"
MGMT "Time To Pretend"
Vampire Weekend "Mansard Roof"
Gang of Four "Damaged Goods"
Hot Chip "Ready For The Floor"
Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall" (confusion mix)
Death In Vegas "Scorpio Rising"
The Kills "URA Fever"

Bowie "Watch That Man"
The Normal "Warm Leatherette"
1990s "See You At The Lights"
Talking Heads "Crosseyed and Painless"
Kaiser Chiefs "Golden Skans"
Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You"
Yaz "Don't Go"
LCD Soundsystem "North American Scum"
Depeche Mode "Can't Get Enough"
Jean Knight "Mr Big Stuff"

Then me and Andrea played together. We played Black Kids, Pigeon Detectives, Suede, Holloways, MIA, Ladytron, Franz Ferdinand, Justice, and others....

Raveonettes "You Want The Candy"
My Chemical Romance "Song 2"
Madonna "Hung Up
Peaches "Boys Wanna Be Her" remix
Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing"
CSS "Alala"
New Young Pony Club "The Bomb"
Junior Boys "In The Morning"
Jarvis "Fat Children"
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds "Dig Lazurus Dig"

Blood Red Shoes "You Bring Me Down"
TV On The Radio "Wolf Like Me"
BRMC "Stop"
The Duke Spirit "Love Is An Unfamiliar Name"
Sonic Youth "Silver Rocket"
Queens of The Stone Age "3s and 7s"
The Rapture "Get Myself Into It"
Clinic "If You Could Read Your Mind"
The Wolfmen "Needle In The Camel's Eye"
British Sea Power "Remember Me"

Velvet Underground "There She Goes Again"
Ian Dury "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll"
PIL "Death Disco"
Iggy and The Stooges "Shake Appeal"
Arctic Monkeys "Brainstorm"
Joy Division "Isolation"
Roxy Music "Do The Strand"
Sex Pistols "Liar"
Alice Cooper "Is It My Body"
George Harrison "Isn't It A Pity"

Oasis "Lyla"
Hecuba "Peace and Money"

Playlist @ Bar 107

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Music is My Boyfriend #13 playlist

Music Is My Boyfriend #13 Playlist
January 10th, 2007
Bar 107

David Bowie "Jean Genie"
DFA 1979 "Romantic Rights"
Sniff N The Tears "Driver's Seat"
ARE Weapons "Don't Be Scared"
Joy Division "Transmission"
Dio "Rainbow In The Dark"
Lords of The New Church "Russian Roulette"
Raconteurs "Store Bought Bones"
Klaxons "Golden Skans"
CSS "Alala"

Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper"
LCD Soundsystem "North American Scum"
Bat For Lashes "What's A Girl To Do?"
Interpol "The Heinrich Maneuver"
Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy"
The Rapture "Get Myself Into It"
Kate Nash "Foundations"
CSS "Let's Pretend We're Dead"
Jean Knight "Mr Big Stuff"
Devendra Banhart "Lover"

DJ Andrea began here and played some Britpop, Northern Soul, Motown, and The Kills. There was also the Jackson Five Nancy Sinatra, The Supremes, Morrissey, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder.....

Then me again:

The Duke Spirit "Lion RIP"
Blur "Music Is My Radar"
Annie "Crush"
Clinic "If You Could Read Your Mind"
The Coral "Who's Gonna Find Me?"
A Place To Bury Strangers "To Fix A Gash In Your Head"
The Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You"
Kraftwerk "Pocket Calculator"
Kim Wilde "Kids In America"
Motley Crue "Looks That Kill"

Queens of The Stone Age "3s & 7s"
The Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way"
The Horrors "Gloves"
Blondie "Dreaming"
Gnarls Barkley "Gone Daddy Gone"
Exile "Kiss You All Over"
Donovan "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
Bauhaus "In The Night"
Burial "Ghost Hardware"
Renegade Soundwave "Recognise and Respond"

The Strokes "Last Nite"
Echo and The Bunnymen "Rescue"
The Go! Team "Grip LIke A Vice"
Junior Boys "In The Morning"
Soft Cell "Meet Murder My Angel"
!!! "All My Heroes Are Weirdos"
We Are Scientists "Inaction"
T. Rex "Hot Love"

Ending Medley:

20/20 "Yellow Pills"
The Specials "Enjoy Yourself"
Sinead O'Conner "I Want Your Hands On Me"
Bongwater "Over The Credit Line"
Wire "I Feel Mysterious Today"

Music is My Boyfriend #13 playlist

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Best albums of 2007

Here is another BEST of 2007 list. Really any of these top ten records could have been number one. Many of these bands have been my top pick in the past. I just felt Blonde Redhead had done something very artistic, and it was the best album they have done. Bat For Lashes was the best debut album. A Place To Bury Strangers and Klaxons were close too. LCD Soundsystem and Burial and UNKLE made great records too. And all down the line. Many records I haven't heard yet, so I hesitate to include them here.

1. Blonde Redhead "23"
2. Bat For Lashes "Fur and Gold"
3. LCD Soundsystem "Sound of Silver"
4. Burial "Untrue"
5. Devendra Banhart "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon"
6. A Place To Bury Strangers "APTBS"
7. UNKLE "War Stories"
8. Klaxons "Myths of The Near Future"
9. The White Stripes "Icky Thump"
10. Liars "Liars"
11. Jose Gonzalez "In Our Nature"
12. PJ Harvey "White Chalk"
13. The Good The Bad and The Queen "The Good The Bad and The Queen"
14. Battles "Mirrored"
15. Grinderman "Grinderman"
16. BRMC "Baby 81"
17. The Fiery Furnaces "Widow City"
18. Of Montreal "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"
19. !!! "Myth Takes"
20. The Long Blondes "Someone To Drive You Home"
22. Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"
23. Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero"
24. Mystery Jets "Zoo Time"
25. Deerhoof "Friend Opportunity"


Other picks:

West Indian Girl "4th and Main"
Charlotte Gainsbourg "5:55"
Patrick Wolf "The Magic Position"
No Age "Weirdo Rippers"
Maximo Park "Our Earthly Pleasures"
MIA "Kala"
Jarvis Cocker "Jarvis"
New Young Pony Club "Fantastic Playroom"
Elliott Smith "New Moon"
The Hives "The Black and White Album"
Kieran Hebdan "Tongues"
Art Brut "It's A Bit Complicated"
Justice "Cross"
The Cribs "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever"
Queens of The Stone Age "Era Vulgaris"
The Horrors "Strange House"
The Stooges "The Weirdness"
1990s "Cookies"
The Black Lips "Good Bad Not Evil"
Adult "Why Bother?"
Led Zeppelin "Mothership"

Best albums of 2007

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The Infinite Beat 5 @ Bar 107

The Infinite Beat 5 : records only

It was our fifth night of music in downtown this year. It's good to be back. Those three nights at Safari Sams were cool too. It was a night of many events. Part was hanging out with Chris Mehess. It was his birthday. That was great. I played records for an hour and a half. Then ALESSI came on a played a few songs. I remember one called "Treehouse." It was the first time we have had a live act at our DJ nights downtown. It was amazing. Blake Collins played too. I gave out books and many free CDs. People were happy. DJ Dick Hemlock played for an hour. Jodi, Liane, and Kimberly showed up from the Bay Area. It was Kimberly's birthday too. We had a few drinks, and then I played records for another hour. It was very BRMC centric. Below is a playlist. See you next month!

DFA 1979 "Romantic Rights"
The Arctic Monkeys "The View From The Afternoon"
Dirty Pretty Things "Bang Bang You're Dead"
Primal Scream "Country Girl"
TV On The Radio "Wolf Like Me"
Gnarls Barkley "Crazy"
The Futureheads "Skip To The End"
Be Your Own Pet "Extra Extra"
She Wants Revenge "Tear You Apart" (Ladytron remix)
Babyshambles "Fuck Forever"

BRMC "Stop"
Wolfmother "Woman"
The Arctic Monkeys "When The Sun Goes Down"
Brian Jonestown Massacre "Going To Hell"
Ultravox "Slow Motion"
Jesus and Mary Chain "Just Like Honey"
The Dandy Warhols "You Were The Last High"
The Subways "Rock & Roll Queen"
The Raconteurs "Steady As She Goes"
Antony and the Johnsons "You Are My Sister"

The Raveonettes "Love In A Trashcan"
Maximo Park "Apply Some Pressure"
The Long Blondes "Weekend Without Makeup"
Calla "It Dawned On Me"
The Cribs "Martell"
Secret Machines "Nowhere Again"
The Rogers Sisters "Emotion Control"
Editors "Blood"
Ambulance LTD "Primitive"
BRMC "Whatever Happened To My Rock and Roll"

The White Stripes "Blue Orchid"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Y Control" (The Faint remix)

ALESSI played here a few songs.

DJ Dick Hemlock played for an hour. He played a bunch of songs. He played Gnarls Barkley again.

Then me again:

BRMC "White Palms"
The Black Keys "The Moan"
Placebo "Because I Want You To" (Ladytron Remix)
Interpol "Slow Hands" (Britt Daniel)
BRMC "We're All In Love"
The Walkmen "The Rat"
The Strokes "Juicebox"
The Kills "Fried My Little Brains"
BRMC "Stop"
The Libertines "Can't Stand Me Now"

The Morning After Girls "Hi-Skies"
LCD Soundsystem "Disco Infiltrator"
The Arcade Fire "Rebellion Lies"
BRMC "Red Eyes and Tears"

I played all vinyl. No audio files here. Next San Francisco and Portland.

The Infinite Beat 5 @ Bar 107

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The Infinite BEAT playlist May 6th

The Infinite Beat 3.5 @ Safari Sams
May 6th 2006

This new night at Safari Sams was the best ever. The combination of bands, DJ, and Hollywood location was lethal. Twice as many people showed up. Thanks to the bands The Shakes, The Pretty Vicious, and Kind Hearts and Coronets. Great thanks to the Morning After Girls for playing this special midnight secret show. I used to go to the old Safari Sams. It's good to be part of the rebirth. It was a good chance to play some new music. Some people wanted to hear some Cure, Gang of Four, and old shit. Sorry, this is about music of now and the future. If I can remember the music program, it went something like this:

DJ Alexander Laurence 9pm

Wolfmother "Woman"
The Subways "Rock and Roll Queen"
BRMC "Stop"
Jesus and Mary Chain "Just Like Honey"
The Black Angels "Young Man Dead"
The Dandy Warhols "Godless"
Wolfmother "White Unicorn"
Art Brut "Good Weekend"
The White Stripes "Blue Orchid"
The Adored "Tell Me Tell Me"
The Kills "Fried My Little Brains"
The Magic Numbers "Crazy In Love"
The Vacation "Destitute Prostitute"

The Shakes 10pm

More music 1045pm

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion"
Electromagnetic "New York City"
The Arctic Monkeys "When The Sun Goes Down"
The Walkmen "The Rat"
PIL "Death Disco"
Wolfmother "Apple Tree"
Interpol "Slow Hands" (Britt Daniel)
Queens of Death Metal "I Want You"
The Arcade Fire "Rebellion (lies)"

The Pretty Vicious 11pm

More music 1130pm

Opal "Magick Power"
Maximo Park "Apply Some Pressure"
The Strokes "Juicebox"
Secret Machines "Nowhere Again"
Editors "Blood"
Dirty Pretty Things "Bang Bang You're Dead"
The Tears "Refugees"
The Libertines "Can't Stand Me Now"
The Kills "The Good Ones"
Giant Drag "This Isn't It"

Kind Hearts and Coronets 12 midnight

More music 1240am

BRMC "White Palms"
The Black Angels "Sniper At The Gates of Heaven"
DFA 1979 "Romantic Rights"
Jesus and Mary Chain "Never Understand"
Clockwork Orange/Jesus and Mary Chain Mashup (This was when People headed
outside for a bit)
Sonic Youth "Reena"
Nine Black Alps "Cosmopolitan"
Broadcast "American Boy"
The Duke Spirit "Lion RIP"
The Chameleons UK "Blackened Blue Eyes"
Babyshambles "Fuck Forever"
The Strokes "Electricityspace"
Trail of the Dead "Relative Ways"
Broadcast (half-speed) + Wire "A Public Place" drone mix

The Morning After Girls 1am-2am

Thanks for coming out. See you at Broadway Bar on May 18th.

The Infinite BEAT playlist May 6th

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JT Leroy interview 2000

I did this interview with the so-called JT Leroy almost 15 years ago in 2000. I was unaware that I was talking to an imposter. "Laughing all the way to the bank" sort of rings true.

When I first moved to New York City in 1995, one of the upcoming writers I heard rumor of was Terminator. He was supposed to be this 15 year-old who was a prostitute living in San Francisco. There were rumors that he was an alias for Dennis Cooper. There were all sorts of bizarre stories. I knew that Terminator had many supporters and fans like writers Joel Rose and Bruce Benderson. Terminator was included in an anthology of memoirs, Close To The Bone. But the novel I heard about never materialized. Finally this past spring I got a galley of Sarah, which was finally coming out.

J. T. Leroy still lives in San Francisco. I talked to him on the phone recently.

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AL: I first heard about your work through people like Joel Rose, Catherine Texier, and Bruce Benderson. It was one of the interesting things I heard about back in 1996. They were going to publish some of your stories, then their magazine folded. Your editor, Karen Rinaldi, moved to Bloomsbury. There was a bit in that anthology Close To The Bone, but years passed until the novel finally came out this year. Why was there such a long wait?

JTL: It's all really funny how it all happened. It was an amazing time. That first book that I was working on back then will be coming out next year. Sarah is really my second book. I stopped writing for two years. I wasn't happy with what I was doing. People like Mary Gaitskill really helped. She read my stuff and told me what I was doing wrong. She sent me a bunch of books to read, everyone from Nabokov to Flannery O'Conner, and taught me to notice what they did. I had to stop writing for two years and just absorb it and read. When I started writing again the first thing I wrote was this story called "Meteors." I sent it to Mary and she wrote me back saying that she thought it was genius. The next thing I wrote was Sarah. I thought that it was going to be one chapter in the book. I sent it to Karen and she told that I had a book here. When she left Crown Books, I thought that I lost my original book deal, but Karen had brought me with her to Bloomsbury.

AL: I remember that Bruce Benderson talked about you and was going to show me some of your early stories, but I never saw anything, until the anthology....

JTL: That Close To The Bone anthology came out when I was 17 years old. Yeah, that early work needs a lot of editing. People talked about how raw it was and it has a lot of emotion, and people liked it. I think now if that stuff had come out, people would have just talked about my age and my story. I felt that if the stories can't stand by themselves, I'd rather not have it come out.

AL: When did you actually start writing?

JTL: I started seeing a therapist when I was 13. He was teaching a class for people who wanted to do psychotherapy. He knew I didn't like social workers, so he asked me to write something, to explain how it was, something about my experiences with social workers. I couldn't pass this opportunity up. I wrote something and I felt something click. He told me the response. I was really hungry for that attention. I had only gotten attention that related to my body of how I looked. Soon my work was given to a friend of his who was an editor, named Eric. Eric gave me feedback. He was the first professional writer. Eric had studied with Sharon Olds.

I had a trick who had given me the books of Sharon Olds and Dennis Cooper. Sharon Olds was the first poetry that I really loved. So I wrote to her and she wrote back, and there was this correspondence. It was wonderful. It was like getting attention from pimps and tricks, but it was getting attention from something else. When I read Dennis' book, Try, I wanted to tell him how much his book meant to me. I contacted Dennis and he sent me a bunch of books. One of them was User by Bruce Benderson. I thought it was amazing and brilliant. I called him up. He was the one who passed it on to Joel Rose and Laurie Stone. Next thing I knew I had a book deal. It seemed unreal. I thought that the joke is on them. I'm taking the money and run.

AL: Prostitution is a strange world and it's varied, but not many people have access to such stories as told in this novel. What do you think of the world of prostitution in general?

JTL: It's a hierarchy. You got your high class call boys, who have their beeper boys. Many of them don't do drugs and are really healthy. Then there's the ones who hang out on Polk Street where your whole existence is about doing drugs. You don't have much time to reflect. I wasn't able to write anything then. I had to stop drugs and certain behaviors that kept me from feeling things. Writing was one way for me to survive. When I'm writing I'm the safest. When I'm not I'm doing negative things.

AL: What sort of bands do you like? Are there any CDs that you have liked recently?

JTL: Oh yeah. I listen to Django Reinhardt. Unfortunately I like a lot of pop, like Aimee Mann, Superdrag, and Silverchair. He's a real cool guy and he's my age. I think it would be cool if he sang "I'm A Boy." You know, The Who song? I like Sunny Day Real Estate. I talked to Jeremy, and he's Christian, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. I know the Bible backwards and upside down. He says that he takes the Bible literally. That would seem anti-gay and anti-abortion. The Bible says it's okay to beat your child. Besides that, I like his music. I want to get the new Sinead O'Conner and Supergrass. I don't like country music. Mother listened to Punk Rock. My all-time favorites are Jawbreaker and Jawbox.

AL: Seen any films lately?

JTL: I'll tell who my favorite actors are. Kevin Spacey. Because he's so goddamn sexy. And Edward Norton. Fight Club was so great. I know Chuck, who wrote the book. Helena Bonham Carter has a line in that movie: "I never was fucked that hard since grade school." She thought that it meant high school. When they told her what it meant, she freaked out. She also didn't want to say that other line about the abortion. They fought over that. Every film with Edward Norton is worth seeing. I like seeing feel good movies. I like that sweetness. You know that scene in Sarah where La Loup is going to cut his balls off? Where he ends up just cutting off his hair. That would be like caring about the main character and then they kill him for shock value. It's like "I was gypped."

AL: But he had to suffer, because La Loup cut off his hair, and he felt ugly.

JTL: Right. It was bad and horrible.

AL: So you are working on a screenplay, and the first novel will come out next year. What else are you doing?

JTL: I'm also working on a sequel to Sarah. I have been writing articles for the NY Press. John Strausbaugh has been great. He lets me interview just about anyone. I interviewed Suzanne Vega. We talked about books and I sent her a galley of Sarah. She loved it. Suzanne wrote a blurb and joined in the readings. It's great to do interviews and communicate with people. It's better than drugs and sex. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

JT Leroy interview 2000

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The Portable Infinite Mix #4

I have been up all night. I decided to put this together, since the last one sort of fizzled, and I didn't do anything new in June. I didn't send out too many of the last one either. Number 3 is the rare one. I was going to include some new stuff from The Coral, The Raveonettes, Richard Hawley, The Warlocks, and other fabulous artists, but there are anti theft devices on those CDs. Also there haven't been a lot of cool records that have come out in the past two months. Most of them are here. Plus some repeats like LCD Soundsystem and MU, since those are some of the best records of the year. Some older stuff like Delgados and BJM made it on here for various reasons. Check it out:

1. Annie "Happy Without You"
2. LCD Soundsystem "On Repeat"
3. The Kills "Love Is A Deserter"
4. The Delgados "I Fought The Angels"
5. Stina Nordenstam "Winter Killing"
6. The Secret Machines "Better Bring Your Friends"
7. The White Stripes "The Denial Twist"
8. Gorillaz "Kids With Guns"
9. The Tears "Refugees"
10. MU "Tigerbastard"
11. Foreign Born "The Entryway"
12. The Greenhornes "I'm Going Away"
13. Patrick Wolf "The Libertine"
14. X-1 "New York Is So Cool"
15. Gliss "Blue Sky"
16. Mercury Rev "In A Funny Way"
17. Brian Jonestown Massacre "Servo"

The Portable Infinite Mix #4

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