the culture of methe culture of mei'm what you would consider an obsessive consumer of pop music. i write about pop culture with opinions and without any objectivity in mind. i buy music with the money i should spend on food. my name is that dude jeff and this is the culture of me. Articles
mp-FREE: Mr Gaspar is a DJ from LA
2008-05-30 21:40:00 And much like that other LA-based disc jockey we've been raving about recently, he's really really really really good. The remixes and beats from Mr Gaspar are hilariously smooth and polished, mixing the electro basics of someone who can't stop... More About: Free
News: Mogwai + Roky Erickson = new EP
2008-05-30 18:11:00 What's going to happen when you mix in some of the finest arbiters of experimental post-rock with one of the most predominant figures in psychedelia? Well, we'll just have to wait and see, yes? Yes. Roky Erickson (best known by... More About: News , Mogwai
mp-FREE: more new tracks from Streetlab
2008-05-30 01:51:00 One of our most favorite of remix acts, NYC's Streetlab, hit us up today with two new tracks they've just cut together and seriously, we can't say much about them. Just listen, enjoy, download, and, well, dance. These guys cut... More About: Free , Tracks
mp-FREE: The Sugar Oaks' "No One Can Love You Like Me"
2008-05-29 04:52:00 Hooray! It's like Rilo Kiley, except without all of the Under The Blacklight backlash drama. Country-tinged and full of the kind of slowgoing, pensive tone you'd expect from the close-to-folk band known as The Sugar Oaks, "No One Can Love ... More About: Free
Emerging: Rose Kemp
2008-05-28 21:43:00 (photo by Chris Lucas) Imagine Marnie Stern being influenced by The Doors instead of that scene in "Crossroads" and you have something along the lines of a good description for Rose Kemp. Also, minus the screaming over distortion and put...
Live: Deerhoof tour dates + playing Wordless Music Series!
2008-05-28 21:04:00 This may be the only time to catch the trio in the NYC metropolitan area this summer as no other dates have been even close to being announced. Deerhoof will allegedly be springing their follow-up to the excellent Friend Opportunity... More About: Music , Dates , Tour Dates , Series , Tour
Live: Rival Schools extend more reunion dates
2008-05-28 17:42:00 Walter Schreifels is the nicest person in the history of human existence. There, we said it. Believe it folks, because it's true. The Gorilla Biscuits/Quicksand dude finally got everyone back together from the rather short-lived (yet amazingly influential) Rival Schools ... More About: Dates , Live , Reunion
Video: Excepter - "Any and Every"
2008-05-28 17:36:00 Enjoy the most groovalicious yet still convincingly scary and voodoo-like video for the NYC group's latest Debt Dept. track. Try and deny your love for dub-infused delerium, we dare you. (mp3) Excepter - Any and Every (mp3) Excepter - Kill... More About: Video
Video: The New Year - "The End's Not Near"
2008-05-27 21:15:00 Maybe it's just us being lonely and all right now (the lovely girlfriend left for Russia on Sunday for six weeks), but this video really affected us. We mean, like, to the point of crushing. What do you think? The... More About: Video , New Year , Year
R.I.P: El-P writes his own eulogy for Tero "Camu Tao" Smith
2008-05-27 19:09:00 Smith had been a member of MHz crew with Copywrite, RJD2, Jakki Tha MotaMouth & Tage Proto, as well as The Nighthawks with Cage, the Weathermen and the duo SA Smash. He was also a very talented producer and genius... More About: Smith
Emerging: The High Decibels
2008-05-27 17:55:00 "I'm the king of rock/ there is none higher / Sucker MC's should call me sire" So goes the Run DMC song we just listened to back-to-back with "That Dude", a new track from Oakland hip hop duo The High ...
Photos: Damn! Memorial Day ridiculousness
2008-05-27 04:25:00 As if the gods had been tempted with the most amazing happening in our nightlife history (professional, at least, we can't remember much of the last decade of going out without the purpose of "working"), last night brought forth another... More About: Photos , Memorial Day , Memorial , Damn
Video: Dillinger Escape Plan - "Black Bubblegum"
2008-05-27 03:30:00 Color us confused about the concept and/or execution of this video, but fuck us running. We love love love Dillinger Escape Plan . The New Jersey band's latest album, Ire Works, is out now. Dudes are on tour for a whole... More About: Video , Black , Dillinger Escape Plan
Live: Whartscape 2008 roster and dates revealed!!
2008-05-26 22:41:00 Viva la Baltimore. That's right kids, the folks at Wham City have finally revealed very slight details for the annual takeover of their fair city by dozens of bands, vagrants, hacks and freaks. According to MySpace bulletins, here's the detail... More About: Dates , Live , Roster , 2008
Emerging: The Submarines
2008-05-25 21:03:00 (photo by Orrin Anderson) Add Los Angeles indie pop duo The Submarines to the long list of bands you absolutely cannot miss out on. Seriously. Don't sleep on these guys. They are fantastic. Singer/songwriter Blake Hazard (given name?) and instrumental...
mp-FREE: VDRK posts a new Subdrive Selektor mixtape
2008-05-25 18:22:00 VDRK is our heart and this mixtape is probably good empirical data for why this is the case. We maybe know him more well as just Aaron, this ridiculously good dancing nice kid from Wisconsin, but that's us. VDRK is... More About: Free , Mixtape , Posts
Photos: Fresh Arrest on May 21
2008-05-25 00:39:00 It's totally worth going out on a Wednesday night if you can consistently hear good DJs play great sets full of bangers and obscurities. This past Wednesday was no different, when residents VDRK and Bradley D were joined by Kids... More About: Photos , Arrest , Fresh
mp-FREE: Purple Crush cover Madonna's "Physical Attraction"
2008-05-25 00:03:00 We always imagine every Madonna song to be completely dirty, over-sexed, underpaid, broken and somewhat all-to-familiar with bondage, control and fear. Thanks to Buffet Libre's "Rewind" project and Brooklyn's own Purple Crush, we get definitive back-up on those very thoughts.... More About: Free , Physical , Attraction , Cover
Video: The Fratellis - "Mistress Mabel"
2008-05-23 21:03:00 The first single from Here We Stand, the new record from Glasgow rockers The Fratellis , gives off the vibe that these guys want you to know that they were the same people that brought you that iPod commercial thing. However,... More About: Video
mp-FREE: Dada Life's June mixtape
2008-05-23 19:13:00 Dada Life are two dudes that DJ from Sweden who we know nearly nothing about. But anyway, not knowing anything about them shouldn't hinder you as the listener from loving their June mixtape. We do. Including exclusives from Lykke Li... More About: Free , Mixtape
News: El Jezel to launch new site + free EP + record release show
2008-05-23 05:16:00 (photo by Ricardo Oliveira) Astoria, Queens' most prominent shoegazing wunderkinder, El Jezel, hit us up on the email with some news that's fit to make your days. We think so, at least. George wrote us and said that not only... More About: News , Show , Free , Site , Release
The Long Blondes limited edition brooches and necklaces for sale
2008-05-22 23:26:00 Etsy designers Dolls & Molls from the UK were asked by Kate and the gang to design a collection of brooches and necklaces for them to sell on the road with them and you can now buy them for yourselves... More About: For Sale , Sale , Blondes , Long , The Long Blondes
Madlib posts Europe tour diary in photographs
2008-05-22 17:53:00 (photo by Mauro Puccini) Oxnard, California native son Otis Jackson Jr. is not a household name. Madlib, Jackson Jr.'s most prominent alias (of nearly a dozen by this writer's memory), the same. So, when you look at these pictures taken... More About: Europe , Diary , Tour , Photographs , Posts
News: Red Hot Chili Peppers disband for a year
2008-05-22 16:41:00 We've totally had a lot of animosity towards the guys in Red Hot Chili Peppers for a number of years now, basically coming about after how amazing we thought all of their records were until they tried to follow up... More About: News , Year
Video: Wal-Mart gets in on this whole Paramore thing
2008-05-21 23:54:00 How apropos, really. The big box of pop-punk, Nashville's Paramore (who've recently been dodging more break-up rumors than anything else) meets the big box of, um, big boxes. Wal-Mart is now apparently cashing in on their huge stake in the... More About: Video , Wal-Mart , Wal Mart , Thing
Emerging: Red Beard
2008-05-21 22:38:00 As a listener, one can actually feel the blisters in the fingers of all three members of Red Beard on their self-released EP, Steed. Each note instantly resonates, punctuated by pauses and distortion. This is the sound of a band...
Charts: Death Cab for Cutie are #1 on Billboard
2008-05-21 17:54:00 (photo by Andrew Paynter) After selling 144,000 units of their latest record, Narrow Stairs, Death Cab for Cutie are sitting high and mighty atop the Billboard 200. Full story details from Billboard here. (mp3) Death Cab for Cutie - No... More About: Charts
mp-FREE: new Radio 4 - "Quit Hiding"
2008-05-21 17:32:00 Head on over to the RCRD LBL site to download your own copy of "Quit Hiding" by NYC's most dancey-political group, Radio 4. The track, from the group's new EP, which will only be available in the digital medium, was... More About: Free , Radio 4
Tube: "VH1 Rock Honors: The Who" gets Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, more
2008-05-21 16:46:00 VH1 has just confirmed that critically acclaimed, multi-platinum rock bands Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters along with the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips will perform at the network's third annual "VH1 Rock Honors" celebration honoring legendary rock band... More About: Tube , Foo Fighters
Stream: new Men, Women & Children - "Ultra Hot Volcano"
More articles from this author:2008-05-21 04:32:00 NYC's most illustrious psychedelic-dance-funk-trash group, Men, Women & Children , are back with a new single that's just begun streaming on their MySpace page. The track is called "Ultra Hot Volcano " and it's just another not-so-simple banger from these guys. It's... More About: Stream 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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