New : The Long Wives - Dark Horse/ La Vengenista single

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Fabulous debut single from Brandy St. John aka The Long Wives. 100% of sales go to the Hurricane Sandy Relief plus the bonus of a wonderful remix of Dark Horse by Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick and Karen O.

Karen O - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)

Wonderful cover and video from the always super awesome Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontlady Karen O to the Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson classic that resulted from the collaboration between Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation that is part of the project "Abandoned" to create awareness for the difficult times the American family farmers are sustaining because of the increasing industrialization of the farming sector.

Watch | Karen O - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Poor Song

And to finish the weekend a bit of ♥ Karen O ♥ LOVE !!!!!!!!

The Day After Peace,Hollace M. Metzger, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Turmkunst 2010 Berlin,Kitsune 9,Upper First,Bear in Heaven, Happybuddha,mY Indie Soul#32

Jeremy Gilley was an actor before he founded Peace One Day in 1999. He had become disillusioned with his work, but understood the potential of film to positively affect people and create change in the world. So when he set out on his near impossible mission in 1999, he took a camera with him. Every journey made, every country visited and every person met – he got it all on camera. Ten years on, The Day After Peace is his story – the story of Peace One Day.

The Day After Peace charts the remarkable 10-year journey of award-winning filmmaker Jeremy Gilley to establish an annual Peace Day on 21 September. The camera follows Jeremy as he galvanises the countries of the world to recognise an official day of ceasefire and non-violence. The Day After Peace

Watch | The Day After Peace


Peacock in the Night 30-minute sketch of a dream. acrylic.
Hollace M. Metzger

"My world exists
but in a sea of graphite,
an infinite reflection in urban puddles
beyond a contemplative visage
and skies of passing clouds,
layers of colors, clothing and canvas
in hues of green and red or blue neon,
in photographed memories
of aged sepia or scalloped black lace,
momentary convex stills in chrome faucets
and a centrifuge of spinning vintage records’
timeless melodies."

from "My world exists" Hollace M. Metzger

"Author, architect and artist Hollace M. Metzger was educated in the US, London and Venice, Italy, before settling into the New York arts scene for the past eight years. Recently, she has been prolific in writing while performing in public salons throughout western Europe, the UK and New York City. In addition to writing, her poetic endeavors include collaborations with composers, choreographers and artists in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Romania and the Netherlands"



Karen o and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Hordern , awesome eye delicatessen by Sidney photographer Daniel Boud

" Baby I'm afraid of a lot of things but I ain't scared of loving you
And baby I know you're afraid of a lot of things But don't be scared of love... 'cause , People will say all kinds of things
But that don't mean a damn to me 'Cause all I see is what's in
front of me And that's you ... " Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Poor Song

Watch | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich [ live ]
Mp3 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Diamond Sea [ Sonic Youth Cover ]



Turmkunst 2010 – Street Art XXL

On April 1st 2010 four international artists will commence work on the most complex canvass Europe has to offer: Honet (France), Sozyone (Spain), Flying Förtress (Germany) and Craig "KR" Costello (USA) will create a new piece of contemporary art 46m above Berlin.

Flying Förtress will start the adventure, Honet will be runner up, and Sozyone will finish the art work on the red facade, while Craig "KR" Costello will krink the grey stem. There will be some night sessions (with spotlights) and an exhibition by our curators, the Vicious Gallery, on the third floor of the building. For those spectators who want to enjoy the open air atmosphere, and watch our heroes at work, a spacious urban art living room and bar with furniture out of concrete will be set up around the tower.

Our Curators Tornow, Grau and Link will accompany the artists throughout the process and this website is your invitation to do the same. Watch our idea grow, contribute and enjoy.

Trailer for the Turmkunst 2010 Event! Produced & filmed by Christian Müller

Watch | Turmkunst 2010



Paris’ Kitsuné Records readies Kitsuné Maison 9 compilation: The Petit Bateau edition or The Cotton Issue featuring brand new tracks and remixes from Arthur Baker, Crookers feat Yelle, Holy Ghost!, Hurts, Joan Of Arc, Two Door Cinema Club, Yusek and more!

Mp3 | Kitsune Maison 9 MinixMix by JBAG

1.Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (The Twelves remix)
2.Holy Ghost! - Say My Name
3.Hurts - Wonderful Life (Arthur Baker remix Kitsune edit)
4.Gamble & Burke - Lets Go Together
5.Jupiter - Vox Populi (Lifelike treatment)
6.Feldberg - Dreamin'
8.Washed Out - Belong
9.Your Nature - Forward Motion
10.Jamaica - Short And Entertaining
11.Silver Columns - Brow Beaten
12.Logo - La Vie Moderne
13.Yuksek - Supermenz (Were Not)



Great showreel by Upper First covering their first year of existence.

Upper First is a studio aimed at producing visual FX, motion graphics and film for the growing digital and new media market. We are six founding members sharing a mutual interest in design, direction and visual production.

Watch | Upper First - Showreel 09



“Red Bloom of the Boom” marks the in-between moment of Jon Philpot's solo explosion becoming a full band's orchestra of sound. "We started clean and natural and as time passed we twisted, distorted and tweaked. After all that we're as handsome as ever," says Philpot, in a simple-yet-accurate explanation of the monster of a band that Bear In Heaven, unassumingly walking the streets of Brooklyn, has so suddenly, but deliberately, become.

The music: Philpot's voice is daydream-and-goosebump-inducing. It glides over walls of melodious distortion, building songs that are unapologetically epic. It is pleasure protracted, climaxes flashing well into songs that are complete sonic sentences. It testifies to psychedelic roots, to the music that we obsessed over in the 90s, and to absolute "future rock." Bear In Heaven is indeed deserving of a new descriptor. HomeTapes

Mp3 | Bear in Heaven - Bag of Bags



Very Cool toy design by Happybuddha from the Chinese design collective U-PICK


mY Indie Soul # 32
to my lovely sister Ana Martins

Listen | mY Indie Soul # 32

All of mY Indie Souls have a history and events to be inspired from , this by far the easiest of all editions , less experimental no drones or strange glitchy noises and no mad endings

For this edition there's is a very strong female presence and 4 hidden ghosts [Sonic Youth,Pixies,Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine] i've chosen as a flag The wonderful Karen o , Yeah Yeah Yeah , 3 of most underrated bands ever , Autolux , Electro Group and Airiel , but by the looks of the music scenario this year is gonna change very rapidly , Rock is full on and there is a awesome shoegaser revival , the drum n bass vs electro experiences will not survive its like eating a orange and a papaya at the same time too sweet , Rock vs Hip Hop might have legs to walk maybe but not yet.

Also some new discoveries , a great brooklyn band Bear in Heaven , my favorite track from the new Kitsune Maison 9 "Your Nature - Forward Motion" , the New Yorkers You Say Party! We Say Die! and New Young Pony Club the Wales indie rockers Two door cinema club and the awesome Canadien We are Wolves
Also on board Bradford Cox and his great Atlas Sound and the brand new Finish Huskey Rescue

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - The Sweets
Autolux - Plantlive
Electro Group - la ballena algeria
Atlas Sound - Ativan
Bear in Heaven - You Do You
Husky Rescue - They Are Coming
Your Nature - Forward Motion
The Clientele - Sketch
You Say Party! We Say Die! - She's Spoken For
New Young Pony Club - Rapture
Airiel - kiss me slowly
We are Wolves - Vietnam
Two door cinema club - Cigarettes in the theatre

klippoglim,Alarm,Sebastian Lange, Vladislav Delay, Strukt, Vitalic,Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Cinedance

A small showreel showcasing a few experiments with motion effects and a dark, distorted synchronized audio soundtrack. This piece consists of scraps and pieces from random animations, but the soundtrack really makes it work as a whole. Please do turn up the volume for this one.

Watch | Motion & Audio Experiments - A Minireel



I' m Moo-hyun Jang, a director of independent Animation team, MESAI. Let me introduce the second short animation film, ALARM. Have fun. ^^

Watch | ALARM



A film by Sebastian Lange , The next level of this experimental typographic
orgy. Direction and Animation by Sebastian Lange , Music by Forss

Flickermood was basically all done in AE - the soundtrack
is from FORSS (check out his music platform at soundcloud.com and his music at forss.to).

Watch | Flickermood 2.0



Ahead of Vladislav Delay new album release , here his a free track from " Tummaa ".

Mp3 | Vladislav Delay - Melankolia

Thanks to Ben Winbolt @ The Leaf Label



My company, Strukt, realized this installation with the node-based programming language VVVV. We built this letter-universe to functioned as a soothing ambient visual but also created type-matrix pictures and fonts to feature the participants of “The design:project”, a competition hosted by Mercedes-Benz.

The real-time animation was screened on a 20 meter wide 3x-HD projection using only one computer to create the output signals. This system was later on also used to screen content during the award ceremony. For convenience we enabled OSC commands to control the letter-universe with the help of an iPod Touch.

Watch | Letter Universe Installation



Video for Your Disco Song the first single of Vitalic's new album to be released end of September ! Directed by Christine Massy & Brice Van Der Haegen / Produced by WAF!

Watch | Vitalic - Your Disco Song



Hey Folks, all us Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been avid collectors of t-shirts over the years, what can we say, WE LIKEY A GOOD T-SHIRT. In our travels many of you have chucked a homemade YYY tee on the stage or what not and all the shirts have always been unique and poured over with loooooove. So it got us thinking: how about giving you the fans a crack at coming up with a fresh new blitzin' YYY T-shirt design! It's a natural fact that YYYs have amongst YOU a whole heap of ART STARS! So school's out for the summer and we want you to spend a hot lazy afternoon throwing something together for us YYYs to REPRESENT! And I got a hunch you're gonna bring it! And if you do we'll bring back a little something in return…!! Luv, YYYs

The Prize
One winner will be selected by YYYs and will have their winning design featured on YYYs sites
The winning shirt will be printed and sold on tour and in YYYs online store
Winner will also receive autographed booty from the band

To Submit
Design should be for front of tee
Keep designs to 2-3 colors
Designs must be for a Black or White colored Tee
Design must be submitted digitally – no smaller than 300 DPI, photoshop or illustrator file is preferred
Design must be no larger than 14" x 18"
Email your file to > yyyteecontest@gmail.com
For your submission to be considered valid, you must include your full name, age, location in the body of the email.
Contestants under 18 years of age must print the release page, have a parent or guardian sign, and email with their submission.



‘Exploring boundaries’ - Amsterdam
Cinedans 2009 takes place from 1 until 11 July at theatres in the Leidseplein quarter in Amsterdam. The festival will present short and long dance films, documentaries, installations and Moving Media and this year’s motto is Exploring Boundaries.

Together with Julidans Cinedans will present MOVING MEDIA this year for the first time, with Chunky Move (AUS) and Kris Verdonck (B). MOVING MEDIA will present performances in which dance engages in an intriguing symbiosis with technology and performing arts.

Watch | Chunky Move - at The Kitchen

News,Mailbox,Fracture,Brent Arnold,Two Door Cinema Club, Maxim Zhestkov,Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Ane Brun,Fischerspooner,Clp feat Kovas,The Auteurs,Kitsune

Wijk aan Zee

Exciting and busy times , been totally hectic and with no time to blog in the last two weeks.
Next October Audiopleasures will be 2 years, to celebrate this date im organizing a free and open door audiovisual weekend in Amsterdam , the event will take place in the Schuim , super cool place in the heart of this awesome city.
We will be screening the works of some of our favorite video artists as well as awesome motion graphics and animation.
There will be a series of interviews to know more about the work of these fabulous people and projects.
For the opening day we have already confirmed the screening of the awesome Advanced Beauty.

At this moment im on the also on the look for the bands who are interested to play in Amsterdam , the dates will be 9/10/11 October , fell free to mail me .

Soon in Audiopleasures a interview with French critically acclaimed instrumental music and electronic musician Sylvain Chauveau.

The Future is Bright :-)
Tiago



Lot's of free and cool stuff that landed on my mailbox in the past two weeks.

Mp3 | 2020 Soundsystem - Sliding Away [ Jonny D mix ]
Mp3 | Bibio - Ambivalence
Mp3 | Bodycode - What did you say
Mp3 | Brian Thomas - The Drop [ Kid Blue mix ]
Mp3 | Clark - Totems Flare
Mp3 | Dada Live - HappyHands & HappyFeet
Mp3 | Donny Hue and the Colors - Steps
Mp3 | Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream [ Lapse mix ]
Mp3 | John Roman - Wreck the Diskotek [ Barletta Edit ]
Mp3 | Lost Valentinos - Midnights [ Emperor Machine mix ]
Mp3 | NIYI - Amelia [ DJ Wool mix ]
Mp3 | Relentless - Mono Love
Mp3 | The Glass - Wanna Be Dancin' [ Radio Edit ]
Mp3 | The Honey Brothers - Demonstration
Mp3 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads will roll [ Foulhouse mix ]
Mp3 | Zwolf - Soundtrack to imaginary film
Mp3 | 8rolek - Dogss (Metalo-Disco)



Three masters of the electronic medium; Francisco Lopez, John Wall and John Oswald will create new work in collaboration with the ensemble. Each of their work is characterised by a distinctive style, and a unique approach to sound. The fact that these composers work largely in a medium outside traditional notated music makes this project particularly interesting. The extreme techniques used by these composers in their electronic work will be transformed into the acoustic sound of the ensemble.

Whoever has experienced the concerts of Spanish composer Francisco Lopez, knows that he has a preference for blindfolding the audience in order to experience his subsonic sound world on a more primary level. Over the last twenty five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world.

The British sample-composer John Wall makes collages from rock, jazz and classical music, where the source of the material is barely recognisable. Rather than focusing on the frantic juxtaposition of different sources, he fuses the snippets into organic flows of real music. The starting point for the collaboration with Ensemble MAE will be the work ‘Fractuur', which will be transformed and reworked into the colours of the ensemble through use of live electronics.

John Oswald is famous for his ‘Plunderphonics’, collages made entirely from other music, such as Michael Jackson, Elvis or Bruce Springsteen. He nearly always incorporates an electroacoustic element to his productions, focusing on metamorphosis and eclecticism realised from existing materials

Date: Amsterdam Tuesday June 9, 2009
Start time: 20:30

Paradiso Ensemble MAE



Brent Arnold (Brooklyn, NY, United States) , violoncelliste , composer & singer.
My music is experimental songs using amplified cello, voice, and effects (loops, distortion, etc). I incorporate sonic exploration, American & European folksong, improvisation, rock, South Asian and Middle Eastern melody, electronics, European classical, and more. My solo show has been compared to Imogen Heap, Andrew Bird, and Final Fantasy... but very original. More information is below.

I have worked with indie rockers Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney and Built to Spill, to electronicists Dj/rupture and Filastine, to pop artists like Lenny Kravitz, to experimentalists like Project W and Eyvind Kang and Degenerate Art Ensemble.

Occii Amsterdam 09 Jun -



Music video for Two Door Cinema Club. Director: Brian Philip Davis, Director of Photography / Grading: Ryan Kernaghan, Art Director: Anna McCaughtry

Watch | Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work



New fantastic work from Maxim Zhestkov

Watch Modul



new video for Yeah Yeah Yeah's off their new album "It's Blitz!"

Watch | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads will roll


Ane Brun @ Daytrotter

In the entire canon of popular music’s many different forms of love songs, the best ones tend to come from the point of view of someone who just can’t make any fucking sense about why it went wrong. But, to be clear, this doesn’t include the songs that can sound ill-tempered or by someone holding a major gripe, someone unable to not feel completely and hopelessly wronged to a disturbing end. It’s the category that is filled by songs that still feel like the love that came before the fallout, of the time and the place where it all began, without malice and sullenness ever being a glimmer in either party’s flaming eyes. These remain as the tender declarations that they could have been in the middle of all the new romance, when time seemed to stand still and rush by like a dragster all at once. It’s the kind of spell that the blood gets put on it during this swooning process, where it’s hot and flooded with all of these odd new endorphins that take over the senses, start running the show and before anyone knows it, the plug’s been pulled and the comedown has already begun – and it’s in that moment of ill-configuration when these songs of loss and unabashed reflection are at their apex, when they are able to just get it all out there in an unprocessed, unedited plume.

Read more and download free Ane Brun session Here



The new music video for Fischerspooner's album Entertainment. Directed / Edited by Jason Cacioppo & Adam Dugas through Subvoyant. Director of photography Jason Cacioppo, imaged with RED ONE in New York City at the historic Performing Garage. DI color correction and RED services by Offhollywood, colorist Robbie Renfrow.

Watch | Fischerspooner - We Are Electric



After successful beta testing of NI Maschine CLP and New York rapper Kovas build a track from the scratch just using NI Urban Arsenal 2 - Kore Sound Pack. Watch the video and enjoy their global interaction.

Watch | Clp feat Kovas



The Auteurs is the fastest growing online destination for lovers of independent, foreign and classic film; an online cinema, anytime, anywhere. The Auteurs will give you the latest buzz from the Cannes Film Festival or a restored masterpiece personally chosen by Martin Scorsese (he's a member, too!). A social network that can let you find a visual gem that will definitely not be released in the local multiplex and allows you to find a girl in Tokyo who loves Kubrick (she actually exists, her name is Yuko and she’s into Wong Kar-Wai too…). The Auteurs invites you to watch, discover and discuss distinctive visionary films from all over the world.

Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, The Auteurs is backed by Celluloid Dreams, The Criterion Collection and Costa Films, supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, and is the exclusive partner of The World Cinema Foundation. The Auteurs is based in Palo Alto, New York, Paris, and London.



Sounds like a great fun , i so wanna be there.

laura sina,Yeah Yeah Yeahs,World Minimal Music Festival,Motel Mozaique ,Interesting Sounds,Bpitch Control, Battant, Shitkatapult,

about the photographer

laura sina, shit, almost 26. born and raised on the big island of hawaii, currently residing in northern oregon. prefers bare feet, still plays with dolls, can't cook worth crap & likes to photograph inanimate objects with gusto. yes, i said gusto.
she also loves you very much.



Official video for new YYY single "Zero" off their album 2009 It's Blitz!

Watch | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero




From 1 to 5 April 2009, the theme of the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam will be Minimal Music from the sixties. Besides performances of works by well-known composers of the genre, such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, there will be an investigation into the origins of Minimal Music and its musical similarities to and influence on today’s music.

An important place in the festival is given to the Ugandan Buganda Music Ensemble. This group will be a guest for a whole week, and they will be building some original akadindas (giant xylophones for four players), giving workshops and performing traditional music. Akadinda music, with its repetitive and interwoven patterns, shows clear similarities to the work of Minimal Music composers.
Muziekgebouw




When: Thursday April 9 till Sunday April 12 2009. Thursday and Sunday consist of free program, tickets can/have to be sold for Friday and Saturday

Where: Various music, theatre and art venues in the city centre of Rotterdam, near the Central Train Station; Rotterdamse Schouwburg, WATT, Lantaren/Venster, CBK, Rotown, NAi and TENT. All venues can be reached within a couple of minutes by foot. By the way: Rotterdam has it's own airport! Otherwise Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) is just 45 minutes away by train

What: Music, Art & Performance. Plus guided tours through Rotterdam (free) and a sleeping project (sleeping in art or on special locations in Rotterdam for which a special sleeping ticket is required)

MUSIC
Friday Röyksopp, Fever Ray (ft. Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife), The Whitest Boy Alive, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Mujava, Noa Babayof, Handsome Furs, Grampall Jookabox, The New Wine, The Invisible, Johann Johannsson
Saturday A Camp (ft. Nina Persson of The Cardigans), Loney Dear, 2manydjs, A Certain Ratio, Mocky, BLK JKS, Nina Kinert, Riton, A-Trak, Health, Madensuyu, Tiny Masters of Today >>> Many artists will follow on both days!!

PERFORMANCE
The Smile off Your Face – Ontroerend Goed, Uw Koninkrijk Kome – Dries Verhoeven, Mieke Maaike's Obscene Kapsalon - Villanella & het Geluidshuis, Hard Boiled - Abattoir Ferme

ART
Schil, Ilse van der Laan, Hidde van Schie

Motel Mozaique 2009



Back in 2007 I floated the idea of Interesting Sounds, people kindly expressed interest, but I never got round to doing anything about it. Then at the end of last year the good people of the Arnolfini in Bristol said they'd like to do an Interesting thing, and we realised that it would be a good place to do Interesting Sounds. So that's what we're going to do.

THE BASIC POINT is for people to show and talk about Interesting Sound-producing things they've made. Not just to perform with their 'thing' but to talk about what they've made, why they did it, what's interesting about it. It could be acoustic, electronic, anything. The principles of Interesting will apply - short talks, no frills, lots of clapping. As we're keeping people to 10 minutes then we're not going to insist on live demos (that will involve too much setting/tuning up). You can demo your thing live if you like, but you'll only get 10 minutes or so on stage and not much more for setting up, so if you want to make a video or audio or whatever that'll be great. Does that make sense?

More info interestingsounds (at) russelldavies (dot) com



HAPPY BIRTHDAY BPITCH TOUR - 10 YEARS OF BPITCH CONTROL

Berlin's own Bpitch is celebrating 10 years , their tour will make a stop in Holland , Effenaar , Eindhoven 30.05.2009 showcasing Ellen Allien , Sascha Funke , Thomas Muller live and Visuals by Pfadfinderei.



Parisian Label Kill the Dj has released the new Battant album , " No Head "
Video for the track Radio rod is also now available

Watch | Battant - Radio rod

Kill the Dj are offering a free Chloé dj mix , get it Here



Shitkatapult are also on the celebrating mode , 100 strikes and are giving away a fresh CLP mix , you can get it here.

Strike 100 is a phenomenal record , very electronic/ambient with loads of unreleased tracks from their crew and friends , my favorite track from the released was very unexpected , a beautiful Indie/Shoegase collaboration between Julia Hummer’s and Pluramon " If Time was on my Side ".