New CC Vid for BAPTISM

Tonight I Wanna C U in the DARK

Don't Turn the Lights On is Chromeo's second single from their newest album Business Casual. All and all a very solid album containing fan favorite Night By Night. Chromeo will be playing at Congress Theater's second annual show entitled Freaky Deaky 2 with other electro stars such as Kid Sister, A-Trak.

SlotMusic, #85

Hail Social- "Heaven" (Designer Drugs Remix)

...oldie but a goodie...

New Music Video: Wavves- "Post Acid"

Go to http://GreenLabelSound.com to download "Post Acid" for free.

SlotMusic, #84

Duck Sauce- "Barbara Streisand" (Manila Killa Edit)[mp3]

Sound Remedy- "Dunkin Whoops"

Gross, man.

Just... ew!

Tek One [vid]

Chill Dub Step at its finest ...enjoy....

Director - Alex & Mike

Tek One- "Broken String"

[via]

Empire of the Sun @ Terminal 5

Whoa. What an excellent show! Its obvious that EOTS would have put everything out there for their second show State side EVER, but this was just way, way, way past what I expected from a performance especially in a venue as small as T5.

The Australian trio rocked the house with its catchy 80's transplanted electro driven songs which, I think, were defiantly trumped by the eye-popping visual show with elaborate choreography and bizarrely clad backup dancers. The show was something akin to a wet dream lady gaga may have if she was on an existential trip with her own id in some futuristic interpretation of Japanese vernacular culture.

 They played some of the hits and some of the b-sides all with intense interludes of highly vivid visions of the inter-workings of the universe from the earth to the cosmos as seen in the beginning of their latest rendering for the song "Standing on the Shore". I recommend checking them out (at any sized venue) as they will surely bring the mess with your mind visuals and the dance-able tunes. Enjoy live footage of "Walking on a Dream" from the show below!

Justice x Dj Soak

TOXIC AVENGER!! [vid]

Teeth; they're in your skull...

Teeth are in my head! They are like a warhead candy, though sour and bitter, you always come back for more. Unfortunately i'm aware of only two songs of theirs so I return time and time again to their myspace, longing for just one new tune. There is this weird lo-fi video of them on a webisode of the british troupe The Knocking Shop...


I may not be the first one to say this but it seems as though their music is somewhere between Crystal Castles and Heartsrevolution (maybe Teeth are a bit too punk to be compared to HR). So before I say for sure, the world needs more! On August 16th Teeth release their debut 7″ See Spaces through Moshi Moshi records, but alas, it seems that it will be available only in the UK. But for now enjoy their single "See Spaces" below...
SEE SPACES by TEETH

Freedom Tunnel Reclaimed W/Street Art

ya'll remember dark days? Well that shanty town was evicted and the tunnel has been reclaimed but the residents left some fantastic art! Who wants to go exploring in this Moses Monstrosity this weekend?!

Filmed and cut by Carlito Brigante

fyi: check out this blog crustypunks for interesting biopics of various street travelers...

Flying Lotus- "MmmHmm" [vid]

Dir: Special Problems

CMYK

This track has been burning a hole through my most played within the past month we here at SI have been on layaway! But we're back again, Louder than your face!
James Blake- "CMYK"

Breakbot- "Baby I'm Yours" video

This video is an amazing mix of motion graphics and mixed media

BRB...SRSLY

We Will be Back.... Hang in there!

Thunderheist– “Drive-In” (Memory Tape's B-LIVE MIX)

Hey Champ- Neverest

This is one of the most bizarre music videos I have every seen. from the band Hey Champ from Chicago IL!

Amazing Adidas Commercial

CC live on Jools Holland

Ethan and Alice pump the masses with 100cc's of "Celestica" awesomeness.

Lazerproof Mix Tape

Lazerproof, the new collaborative mixtape from Major Lazer and La Roux, is now out in the world. Diplo's Mad Decent label posted the link this morning. They have done all the work and now all you have to do is click on over to this website and relinquish an email address and a zip code. Easy as apple pie.

NPRxRatatat

NPR is streaming the new album "LP4" by Ratatat on their website

SlotMusic, #83

--->Beataucue- "CHA CHA CHA EP MiniMIX"<---

[via]

Siriusmo- "Wow" [fan vid]

Siriusmo- "Wow"


Dir: Martin Waltz (Waltzindustries)
This is not the official video, just a fan favorite! Check out more of Siriusmo on the myspace.

Intensive Schedule: NYC SummerStage

Wow there is a dump truck coming in to NYC and unloading a load of shows of live theater, music, dance, and literature. The full SummerStage free show schedule is below...
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Central Park SummerStage shows
Tues, 6/1 Melody Gardot and The New York Pops 7:00pm
Sat, 6/5 Living Colour, Ebony Bones!, Pillow Theory and CX KiDTRONiK: 25th Anniv. of Black Rock Coalition 3:00pm
Sun, 6/6 Los Van Van, Jose Conde and A DJ Tribute to Fania Records with DJ Bobbito, DJ Laylo and DJ SAKE-1 3:00pm
Tues, 6/8 Benefit Show: The 25th Anniversary SummerStage Gala 6:00pm
Sat, 6/12 The 8th Annual Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil Screening Oscar Niemeyer - Life Is A Breath of Air Live Performances from Maria Gadu and Os Paralamas Do Sucesso 7:00pm
Mon, 6/14 Baaba Maal and Playing for Change 7:00pm
Tues, 6/15 Benefit Show: John Butler Trio and State Radio 6:30pm
Sat, 6/19 NYCPride Rally featuring Me?shell Ndegeocello, Martha Wash NY Gay Men?s Chorus, Vickie Shaw, Billie Myers and Bruce Vilanch 4:00pm
Sun, 6/20 Salif Keita, Tabou Combo and Lo?Jo 3:00pm
Wed, 6/23 George Wein's Carefusion Jazz Festival: McCoy Tyner Quartet with Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding and Francisco Mela The Stanley Clarke Band with Hiromi 7:00pm
Sat, 6/26 Tinariwen, Omar Souleyman and Toubab Krewe 3:00pm
Sun, 6/27 Gil Scott-Heron 3:00pm
Tues, 6/29 Definitely Poetry: Daniel Bernard Roumain with Emeline Michel, Erol Josué and the poets of Cave Canem 7:00pm
Wed, 6/30 Nuyorican Poets Cafe 7:00pm
Sat, 7/3 Istanbulive II: The Sounds of Turkey with Kenan Dogulu, mor ve otesi and Ilhan Ersahin?s Istanbul Sessions with Burhan Ocal and Tulug Tirpan, Sukriye Tutkun and DJ Salih Saka 3:00pm
Wed, 7/7 Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich and Fussible, El Guincho and Anita Tijoux 7:00pm
Sat, 7/10 Profitas, Maldita Vecindad and The Pinker Tones 3:00pm
Sun, 7/11 Jimmy Cliff, Trevor Hall and Victor Démé 3:00pm
Sat, 7/17 Raphael Saadiq 3:00pm
Sun, 7/18 Family Day featuring Ralph?s World, Bethany and Rufus and Cirquetacular 3:00pm
Wed, 7/21 Comedy Central Park The Daily Show and Friends Hosted by Lewis Black with John Oliver, Rob Riggle, Wyatt Cenac, Adam Lowitt and Rory Albanese 8:00pm
Fri, 7/23 Sat, 7/24 The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 8:00pm
Sun, 7/25 Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba, Burkina Electric, Fool's Gold and DJ Frank of Voodoo Funk 3:00pm
Mon, 7/26 Benefit Show: The Flaming Lips 7:00pm
Tues, 7/27 Wed, 7/28 Benefit Shows: The Black Keys and The Morning Benders 6:30pm
Sat, 7/31 Jovanotti, Los Amigos Invisibles and Natalie Lafourcade 3:00pm
Sun, 8/1 St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs and Basia Bulat 3:00pm
Wed, 8/4 Benefit Show: Hot Chip, Hercules and Love Affair and Holy Ghost! 6:30pm
Sat, 8/7 The Clark Sisters & Kierra Kiki Sheard 3:00pm
Sun, 8/8 The xx, Chairlift and Jack Peñate 7:00pm
Tues, 8/10 Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Dancin? Downtown Concert Winners 8:00pm
Wed, 8/11 Benefit Show: Gov't Mule 6:00pm
Sat, 8/14 Bachata Fest featuring Andy Andy, Luis Miguel de la Amargue, Elvis Martinez and Alexandria 3:00pm
Sun, 8/15 Public Enemy with 7th Octave and Blitz the Ambassador 3:00pm
Sat, 8/21 Chrisette Michele, Mario and Tamia 3:00pm
Sun, 8/22 The Specials - 30th Anniversary Tour with Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears and $mall ¢hange 3:00pm
Tues, 9/21 Benefit Show: Pavement 7:00pm
Sun, 9/26 The Black Sea Roma Festival featuring Mahala Rai Banda, Técsöi Banda Selim Sesler & The NY Gypsy All-Stars and The Yuri Yunakov Ensemble 3:00pm

Brooklyn SummerStage shows
Betsy Head Park
Wed, 6/2 Roy Ayers with DJ Jon Quick 7:00pm
Wed, 6/9 Nice and Smooth and The Awesome 2 7:00pm
Thurs, 6/17 The Felix Hernandez Rhythm Review 7:00pm
Fri, 6/18; Sat, 6/19 The Etymology of Bird: A play by Zakiyyah Alexander 8:00pm

Red Hook Park
Tues, 6/1 Jay Electronica 7:00pm
Tues, 6/8 Frankie Negrón 7:00pm
Tues, 6/15 Dan Deacon 7:00pm

Rochdale Park
Fri, 7/23 The Main Ingredient with Cuba Gooding Sr. 7:00pm
Fri, 7/30 Total Praise 7:00pm

Von King Park
Thurs, 6/3 Doug E. Fresh and DJ Dee Wiz 7:00pm
Fri, 6/4 Akim Funk Buddha?s Flying Boom Box and Organic Magnetics 7:00pm
Sat, 6/5 Tamboula and Julio Jean Haitian American Dance: A Tribute to Haiti 7:00pm
Thurs, 6/10 Hezekiah Walker 7:00pm
Fri, 6/11 Sat, 6/12 The Etymology of Bird: A play by Zakiyyah Alexander 8:00pm
Wed, 6/16 Big Daddy Kane with DJ Jon Quick 7:00pm

Bronx SummerStage shows
Crotona Park
Wed, 6/23 Brand Nubian 7:00pm
Wed, 6/30 DJ Kool Herc 7:00pm
Thurs, 7/8 TKA, Corina and Noel : The 30th Anniversary of Fever Records 7:00pm
Fri, 7/9 American Schemes: A play by Radah Blank 8:00pm
Sat, 7/10 Summer Shake Up! with The Public and American Schemes: A play by Radah Blank 10:00am


Soundview Park
Tues, 6/22 Eddie Palmieri y La Perfecta II 7:00pm
Tues, 6/29 Papa San 7:00pm
Tues, 7/6 The Felix Hernandez Rhythm Review 7:00pm


St. Mary's Park
Thurs, 6/24 Conjunto Clásico 7:00pm
Fri, 6/25 Rennie Harris Rhaw & Le Soul Afrique with Akim Funk Buddha 7:00pm
Sat, 6/26 ABAKUÁ Afro-Latin Dance Company and Areytos Performance Works 7:00pm
Sun, 6/27 Family Day featuring Jose Ortiz and Bombayo with special guest Dan Zanes and Jose Conde's Baby Loves Salsa Noon
Thurs, 7/1 La Orquesta De La Gente and 8 y Más: A Tribute to Héctor Lavoe 7:00pm
Fri, 7/2 Sat, 7/3 American Schemes: A play by Radah Blank 8:00pm
Wed, 7/7 Hector Tricoche and Chris Alfinez 7:00pm


Staten Island Summer Stage Shows
Tappen Park
Tues, 7/13 Force M.D.'s 7:00pm
Tues, 7/20 Lisa Lisa 7:00pm
Tues, 7/27 Blue Magic 7:00pm

Queens SummerStage shows
Queensbridge Park
Thurs, 7/15 EPMD and Funkmaster Flex 7:00pm
Fri, 7/16 Seewe African Dance Company and Balafrohop 7:00pm
Sat, 7/17 The Dance of Light, choreographed by Vernard Gilmore & Abdur-Rahim Jackson 7:00pm
Wed, 7/21 Pharoahe Monch 7:00pm
Wed, 7/28 Olu Dara 7:00pm

Springfield Park
Wed, 7/14 Ryan Leslie 7:00pm
Thurs, 7/22 Smokie Norful 7:00pm
Fri, 7/23 Sat, 7/24 blood pudding: a play by Sharon Bridgforth 8:00pm
Thurs, 7/29 Jon B 7:00pm


Manhattan SummerStage shows
East River Park
Tues, 8/4 George Lamond, Judy Torres, DJ Lucho 7:00pm
Thurs, 8/12 White Rabbits 7:00pm
Fri, 8/13 Paul Taylor II and Naganuma Dance 7:00pm
Sat, 8/14 Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Wideman/Davis Dance 7:00pm
Thurs, 8/19 Our Latin Thing with DJ Lucho: A Tribute to The Fania All-Stars 7:00pm
Fri, 8/20; Sat, 8/21; Sun, 8/22 Goodbar: a play by The Waterwell Theater Company 8:00pm
Mon, 8/23; Tues 8/24 Five Days in March: a play by Toshiki Okada 8:00pm
Wed, 8/25; Thur, 8/26; Fri, 8/27 Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage: a play by Banana Bag and Bodice 8:00pm


Highbridge Park
Tues, 8/3 Elvis Martinez 7:00pm
Tues, 8/10 Bachata Heightz 7:00pm
Tues, 8/17 Alexandra and Daniel Monción 7:00pm


Jackie Robinson Park
Fri, 7/30 Creative Outlet Dance Theater and Kyle Abraham and Abraham.in.Motion 7:00pm
Sat, 7/31 Earl Mosely?s Institute of Dance and Motion Theater Lab 7:00pm
Wed, 8/11 Doug E. Fresh and DJ Dee Wiz 7:00pm
Wed, 8/18 Tye Tribbett 7:00pm


Marcus Garvey Park
Thurs, 8/5 Gil Scott-Heron 7:00pm
Fri, 8/6 Sat, 8/7 blood pudding: a play by Sharon Bridgforth 8:00pm
Sat, 8/28 The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival featuring McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Scott, Jason Moran and the Bandwagon and Revive da Live: Charlie Parker Revisited 3:00pm


Tompkins Square Park
Sun, 8/29 The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival featuring James Moody, Catherine Russell, Vijay Iyer and The JD Allen Trio 3:00pm Music

My newest short was reblogged! Check it out!

http://hdslrshooter.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/atychiphobia/

MIA & Die Antwoord 1 Show

It seemed like yesterday when Die Antwoord hit the scene. Shortly after signing with interscope, Die Antwoord played on a main stage at Coachella. Now they are one of the main bands touring with M.I.A. at HARD. A much anticipated new music vid directed by Neill Blomkamp (directed District 9) is next in their future.

Tickets are available now at GROOVETICKETS
Ticket Price Includes Water Taxi Fee…

Weekend Jams: vol 30

Busdriver- "Sun Shower"

BANDJO- "You & the Sun"

Tune-Yards- "Sunlight"

Caribou- "Sun"

Local Natives- "Sun Hands"

Wavves- "Here's To The Sun"

New Music Vid: Chiddy Bang- "Truth"

Dir: looseworld

SlotMusic, #82

-->Crookers (ft. Yelle)- "Cooler Couleur"<--

Northside Festival 2010

Northside Festival 2010 - FULL FESTIVAL 4-DAY PASS NOW AVALIABLE... HERE

L Magazine proudly presents the second annual Northside Festival: June 24-27, 2010, in the Williamsburg & Greenpoint neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NY. 4 days, 30+ venues, dozens of galleries, lots of showcases, hundreds of bands - check  often for updates!

Confirmed bands (more TBA):

The Albertans | Anamanaguchi | Apse | Au Revoir Simone | CALLmeKAT | Chica Vas | Cloud Nothings Cults | Darlings | Dinosaur Bones | The Doctors Fox | Dom | Eternal Summers | Eula

The Fiery Furnaces | Fucked Up | Golden Girls | Grails | Grandchildren | The Grates

Gray Young | The Great Unwashed | Grooms | The Gypsy West | High Places

The Hundred in the Hands | Islands | Les Savy Fav | Les Vinyl | Liars | Marie Stella

Memory Tapes | Men | Milagres (ex-The Secret Life of Sofia) | MiniBoone | Mon Khmer

Moon Duo | Parenthetical Girls | Polvo | The Rabbits | Real Estate | Red Rooster

The Senors of Marseille | Shark? | Shoney Lamar | Sic Alps | The Smoking Popes

The Sundelles | Thao and Mirah with the Most of All (Thao Nguyen with Mirah)

That Fleeting World | Titus Andronicus | True Womanhood | Twin Sister | Viernes

The Wave Pictures | Wavves | We Are Country Mice | Woods | WOOM (ex-Flying)| ZAZA

Alright Nullsleep! Tour time folks... get your tickets here for Nullsleep's Collapsed Desires Tour. Nullsleep is an electronic musician whose style is best described as post-cyberpunk: a combination of distorted synthpop, electro, and industrial produced with repurposed low-bit electronics. Something to listen to while experiencing the rapture/apocalypse/end of dayz. His mastery of sound and technology produces a sound that is simply a wall of digital noise, but driven by a deeper pulsing beat, that is inevitably torn apart in a cascade of complex glitches and drones emanating from cheap plastic devices.


Tour dates:
2010 05 19 CHICAGO IL, USA . REGGIES ROCK CLUB
2010 05 28 PORTLAND OR, USA . BACKSPACE
2010 06 03 SAN FRANCISCO CA, USA . DNA LOUNGE
2010 06 06 AUSTIN TX, USA . THE HIGHBALL
2010 06 09 NASHVILLE TN, USA . THE END
2010 06 12 PHILADELPHIA PA, USA . STUDIO34

Listen below for A little taste of what you can expect to hear from Nullsleep on the Collapsed Desires Tour this Summer.

Nullsleep- "2010 Promo Mix"

Tracklist: Wave Function Collapse | Pleasure Construct | Tel Aviv | Decade | Limit Break | Shadows in the sky | Disaster Fetish

This submission is licensed by author under CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

New M.I.A. Video (nsfw)

WARNING: Labled nsfw for being EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND VIOLENT in nature.

Dir: Romain Gavras
Dir of Photo: André Chemetoff
Producer: Mourad Belkeddar
Production Co. : elnino.tv

New M.I.A. Album out this June track list here... Tweet her some ideas as she still needs a title!

Weekend Jams: vol 29

Foals– "This Orient" (G.e.R.M. Remix)


Crystal Castles- "Baptism"


Crystal Castles- "Vietnam" (LightsoverLA Remix)


MIA - URAQT (DJ Steel Mix)


Das Racist- "Fake Patois"


Donnis- "Gone"(Nosaj Remix)

'Crystal Castles': An Album Review

Alright, digital release out today! Lucky for us fans there was a leak of the album, which surely caused a panic at the distributer, bumping up the original date of June 8th, to today (a physical release of the album will be May 18th). Given that, it's time to get down to brass tacks. Did this album live up to its hype? Did their sound change? Enjoy!

"Fainting Spells"

The album starts up with some super heavy vocal distortion and, in classic CC fashion, thumps you with some 8-bit beat. This song has its moments but the relief doesn’t come till the last 30 seconds when the listener has some time to recoup and collect their ear drums from the ground.

"Celestica"

Celestica is the first single off this album and is comprised of a droning baseline and soft vocals, which makes for a very sublime song. CC does a good job building up the climax of this one for you dancing fools.

"Doe Deer"

This song leaked a few weeks ago and has been the black sheep of this new release. The song is harsh and violent, but it’s a very short song, so I guess its tolerable. Im surprised they are trying to push this one as an E.P. because it doesn’t have that catchy flare.

"Baptism"

Duh… amazing. We all knew that this one was gonna rock the house. The album version kick ass and definitely lived up to the hype.

"Years of Silence"

This song has a nice crashing noise that occupies my brain and smashes my woofer, not sure but I think someone other than Alice is on vocals for this one.

"Empathy"

Turn this sound up at a party that has been going on and people are dancing and things will get nasty! haha It’s very smooth, cool beat fusing hip hop, electronic and classic CC (Crystal Castles) vocals sound. One of my favorite song on the Album and just like most songs on this album wait till the end where the best part is.

"Suffocation"

Driving down the highway, stereo up and windows down, play this song. Sounds like it could be off the 1st EP, airy synths and a driving beat, however it has a lot more mature sound. Love how the music builds up till it is literally “suffocating” you and then an extremely relieving drop.

"Violent Dreams"

Dreamy lyrics with annoying off beat synths, frustrating and forgettable sound and song.

"Vietnam"

This is a pump up song, fist bumpin beat, pushing the song forward. The addition of the bells and twinkles sends your mind on a journey through the longest song on the CD.

"Birds"

Fusion fusion fusion! Here it is heavy metal added to the mix, giving a very raw badass feel to the song. Feel like walking through a city and causing max destruction.

“Pap smear”

The essence of this song is in its lyrics. “Tell me she's alright, tell me she's OK”. Melodically it is a slow moving song except for the bridge, it’s a very ethereal song with celestial effects added to alices’ vocals. Ethan does a well to match the overtone by including drawn out synth created chords and a jumpy back beat.

“Not in Love”

I found this song to induce, in some places, a sort of breakfast club essence mixed with Nightmare on Elm Street/Anstey synth line. These tones just made me want to sway back and forth apathetically hoping for love in all the wrong places. ~Sigh~. The wall of sound at the end brings the song to an excellent end.

“Intimate”

Ah, here we go! Classic Crystal Castles. This sound is what made them so appealing from the start. Although Alice isn’t in it, I can feel that she was in the studio turning knobs and pressing buttons right alongside Ethan. It is not pretentious or overwhelming (except for the barrage of audio about 2/3’s of the way through. Live, this song is tour de force!

“I am Made of Chalk”

This is the last song for a reason. Looking at the cover in coordination with this song, strikes a powerful chord. Distortions of words sounding like some alien being yelling “mom!”/ “mommy!” fucking rock you to the core and really complete the haunting synths and immature melodic tones.

Ultimately this CD is amazing. We here at the Street Index loved every song from the first time we sampled on Crystal Castles (II), sophomore follow up. Although they kept us waiting, Crystal Castles has matured from the last CD enormously. We are hooked, more please. Cop the digital album here.

Deadmau5 + Designer Drugs Raid Soldier Field

Deadmau5 returns to Chicago to perform on Stadium Green at Soldier Field Friday, July 2, 2010 with special guests Brazilian Girls, Designer Drugs, and Rye Rye. Tickets for the event are on-sale this Saturday 4/24 @ 10 am via www.clubtix.com.

Deadmau5- "The Reward is Cheese"


Brazilian Girls- "Don't Stop"


Designer Drugs- "Zombies!"

SlotMusic, #81

--->Sunglasses- "Referee"<---

Super cool Vid for "Whiplash" was last week...
Sunglasses play a couple of shows in Bklyn tomorrow and Friday...

---- Museum of Bellas Artes ----

Presenting the latest wave of Swedish pop! Oh, how a a simple cover will catapult you state side! Covering the 1964 Sapphires hit, "Who Do You Love". Forty-five years later, Stockholm trio Museum of Bellas Artes remake this soulful oldie as light, carefree, dance-pop on a digital-only single released over the summer by Force Majeure. Bouncy synths and a crunchy down beat, run counter to the angst and truly inquisitive lyrics. Ok, the best part about this rendition is the where, alone, the single bass line and the synths carry us across the bridge and off a cliff! DROP... and then back up harder and more forceful at the chorus. There is no denying the Swedish pop that has graced this site. But, it is a fact that we need to hear more from this group. Hopefully they will not disappoint, should I suggest by releasing an original single? Only time will tell. Also anyone who likes jj's n° 2 will surely lose the better portion of a day addicted to this song! Check it out below...........

Museum of Bellas Artes- "Who Do You Love"

DOM- "Living In America"

Proud to be an American, where at least I know i'm free...

Concrete meets Evol

Video documentation of an installation done in dresden, germany, 2009. Painted in a 10x8m hole in the ground on the abandoned slaughterhouse area in dresden, probably the former foundation of a huge boiler plant to derive soap from rendered beef fat or other utilization of carcass. However, even 15 years after closing down, it still smells nauseating. The main slaughterhouse complex was built 1906 by Hans Erlwein, Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse Five" also takes place there and Caspar David Friedrich painted that area in 1832.
artwork: EVOL
filming/editing: Bianca Schemel
music: sickerman

METROPOLIS ART PRIZE ENTRY 2009

Trailer for Gaspar Noe’s 'Enter The Void'

With the US release pushed way back, here’s a NSFW French trailer for Gaspar Noe’s junky-porn-art-horror ‘Enter the Void.’ It’s pretty self-explanatory, no subs needed. Critics are either loving it up or hating on it. What are YOUR thoughts?

Crystal Castles- “Doe Deer” [preview!]

Last nights concert was NUTZ, also a snip of "Doe Deer" was leaked on BBC Radio. Check it out below...

Alright... seriously, Thoughts? Like? Dis-like? Last night they played a BUNCH of their new songs (setlist here!) and I have to say, I was a lil turned off by them, except for "Baptism", which is the single most bombastically amazing song! At one point Ethan was sampling some... guitar sound?? IDK about that. listen to song above and stay tuned to The Street Index for more as they come out!

[photo by Ryan Muir]

Throwback Video_ Ridin' Spinners

When the General Public Does Good

Astoria Scum River Bridge is an unauthorized city improvement by Jason Eppink and Posterchild

Crystal Castles Debut Album Details

Alice and Ethan announce their second self-titled release! It is set to be unleashed 6/8/2010. Gaze upon the supposed album art above and meander your eyes on the track listing below! fyi the first official single from Crystal Castles' sophomore album is called "Celestica".  

Track list is as follows:

01. Fainting Spells
02. Celestica
03. Doe Deer
04. Baptism
05. Year Of Silence
06. Empathy
07. Suffocation
08. Violent Dreams
09. Vietnam
10. Birds
11. Pap Smear
12. Not In Love
13 Intimate
14 I Am Made Of Chalk

The album has been reviewed, song by song, here!

Liars- "It Fit When I Was a Kid"(Crystal Castles Remix)

DINK!

Happy Bday BennyV

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iamamiwhoami- "o"

We know who this is... but what is this? why one letter songs? And for that matter... Who is directing these!? Such fantastical visuals! If anyone out there knows please comment below.

Distant Relatives

Sunglasses- "Whiplash"

Sunglasses- "Whiplash"

A music video directed by 8000 bam bam, starring Double Dick Ricky Pirozzi and performed by Two men from Savannah College of Art and Design, check them out at their myspace page...

Recycled Art

The Artist Derick Melander creates large geometric configurations from carefully folded and stacked second-hand clothing. These structures take the form of wedges, columns, walls and enclosures, typically weighing between five hundred pounds and two tons. Smaller pieces directly interact with the surrounding architecture where as his larger works create discrete environments. His rational is that, like architecture, clothing wears, and fades, and decays, representing an intimate record of the human presence. Also like buildings clothing defines the boundary between the individual and the outside world. Check out more at his website!


On September 24th, 2009, Mr. Melander created a monumental sculpture from 3,615lbs of second hand clothing. The resulting piece was a 5 x 7 foot cube made in 4 sections and sat outside the Borough Hall for the 5th Annual Green Brooklyn Green City Fair and Symposium.

Why 3,615 pounds? That's the amount of textile waste created by New Yorkers every 5 minutes. Clothing for the event was loaned by the textile recycling company, Wearable Collections.

HEALTH- "We are Water" ---> (dir. Eric Wareheim)!

I mean wow... this is the single most intense music video I have ever seen this year. I'm really digging the thrilling and grotesque imagery thats captured from Mr. Wareheims' vision for this song (and some of his comedy of late on Adultswim). But seriously, be careful watching this while eating....

Weekend Jams: vol 28

Sorry for the hiatus... weekend jams is back

White Hinterland - No Logic (Alan Wilkis Mix)

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Brahms Mix)

Boys Noize & Erol Alkan– "Lemonade"

Shark Attack- “Second in line at the used needle exchange”

Rusko- "Woo Boost"

End of days: Pixel Edition

The days of the 8 bit computers, Tetris, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, the Commodore 64, Bomberman, etc., have come to rue the day that we decided to advance technology and forget them all!

The movie has been directed by Patrick Jean and produced at One More Prod. Director of Photography: Matias Boucard.

Lollapalooza 2010 Line up is here!

More on Lollapalooza 2010 here!

Graffiti Stop Motion

Broken Fingaz -Graffiti Stop Motion from Broken Fingaz on Vimeo.

Daft at Yankee Stadium?!?!

This news must be taken with a ice cream scoop of salt, but according to undercover.com.au Daft Punk's summer tour will take them to Yankee Stadium as their only US stop. The alleged leaked tour dates are as follows:

7.30 Paris: Le Zénith
8.01 Amsterdam: Heineken Music Hall
8.03 Munich: Allianz Arena
8.05 Dublin: O2
8.07 Nice: Parc De Sports
8.15 New York: Yankee Stadium
8.22 Sydney: Football Stadium
8.28 Melbourne: Olympic Park Stadium
9.03 London: Wembley Arena
9.06 Manchester: MEN Arena

This is no April fools joke!

SlotMusic, #81

----->Woodhands- "Pockets"<-----

Bong! This song kicks ass!!!
Who is Woodhands? SI has the cure...
Hope they will play it this weekend at Brooklyn Bowl...

JJ on the scene

For those that don't already know, JJ is a duo out of Gothenburg Sweden who's two members are Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander. Their gentle electro style is intoxicating so take a listen...

JJ – "Things Will Never Be the Same Again"

JJ in the US...

Mar 31 Webster Hall - New York, NY

Apr 2 Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA

Apr 5 Wexner Center - Columbus, OH

Apr 6 Buskirk-Chumley - Bloomington, IN

Apr 8 Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL

Apr 9 Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, MN

Apr 12 Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA