Looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? I have just the thing…the limited edition Aquapet.
From the manufacturer:
Talk to her!
Laugh and play together!
Share your secrets with her!
Give her love!
Discover her songs and dances!
You know, it’s for the kids.
The holiday festivities continue to roll in as New Young Pony Club announced that they are finally making the trek across the pond for a select few dates here in the States. Us New Yorkers are quite lucky because we have not one, but two chances to catch the band’s genre-hopping live show. The quintet will be in town on December 8th at The Annex and December 9th for the Modular Monthly Xmas Party at Williamsburg’s White Room with Thieves Like Us and DJ sets by Juan MacLean, Tim Sweeney, and others. All tour dates below.
Wed 12/6 + Los Angeles + The Stone Bar
Thurs 12/7 + San Francisco
Fri 12/8 + NYC + Annex
Sat 12/9 + NYC + White Room for the Modular Xmas Party w/ Juan MacLean, Tim Sweeney and more
To hold you over, check out this sexy video of the band’s hit single “Ice Cream” and download the Van She Tech Remix below.
New Young Pony Club ”Ice Cream (Van She Tech Remix)” (via Slap You In Public)
I never really payed much attention to Brooklyn’s Mahogany when I would see them listed in the area for shows. It wasn’t until I read Music Snobbery’s review of them opening for Voxtrot the other week that I sat down and gave their Myspace page a listen. Yay! I was mightily impressed with what I heard, so I had to rush out and get a copy of their recent double CD release Connectivity! on Darla Records.
It pretty much hasn’t stopped playing on the ole’ Ipod, one of my favorite releases this year. I don’t know much about them but we need to get them to play our Friction (get in touch Mahogany). What can you say about a collective like Belle & Sebastian? I found this quote: “Mahogany are an 8 piece from Brooklyn, NY that play an original and imaginative blend of dreampop. Inspired by retro-futurism, architecture, space and city planning”. True. Fans of Stereolab and Broadcast will totally be into their sound. I also hear a few elements of Low and shoe-gaze. This is the kind of stuff that Justin would describe their sound as “lush”. ‘My Bed is My Castle’ is my song. Go get yourself a copy. Their shows look festively fun with the trippy light show.
Mahogany – My Bed is My Castle
Mahogany – Supervitesse
Mahogany – Springtime, Save Our Country
Atlanta’s Le Castle Vania also known as DJ DJ Dylan recently dropped two spankin new remixes of CU faves 120 Days single “Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone).” Dylan had previously remixed Snowden’s “Black Eyes” and is also releasing an EP titled Troubletron, under the moniker Le Castle Vania. The Electric Rock Mix for 120 Days “Come Out” is stellar, never straying too far from the original, download it below along with the Snowden remix and “Trouble In Daylight” from the Troubletron EP.
120 Days ”Come Out (Le Castle Vania Electric Rock Mix)”
Snowden ”Trouble In Daylight (Le Castle Vania Remix)”
Le Castle Vania ”Trouble In Daylight (Feat Factory Aire)”
I know it’s a little early, but you’ll be hearing those annoying little jingles soon enough. So if your looking for a handmade (sort of) gift this year, artist Halli Civelek made this super-cool paper robot for you to print and cut out.
You can wrap it in your own (w)rapping paper like designer Simon Hill did here by taking lyrics from you favorite rap song and printing it on large sheets. I think Justin would have some difficulty with this one since electronic music is mostly instrumental. I suppose he could do something like, “da-da-da, do-do-do / beep, blip, beeeep / boom, boom!”
Los Angeles’ Guns’n'Bombs are the American answer to the French dirty electro rock monopoly.
Guns’n'Bombs consist of former Junior Senior member and Ima Robot bassist Filip Nikolic aka Turbotito and Johnny Love of Chicago’s Opaque Project fame. The duo recently graced New York City ears with their sleazy robot rock during CMJ, djing two parties including Ruff Club at The Annex and Movida’s Robot Rock. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to either of these due to scheduling conflicts. They are currently signed to French label Kitsune Maison, and rightly so, because these two churn out some solid bangers that have already garnered them comparisons to Digitalism and Justice.
Check out “Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere” below and keep an ear to the ground for their forthcoming album on Kitsune.
Guns’n'Bombs ”Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere” (via Slap You In Public)
Since we have the bad habit of posting email forwards these days, I’d like to share one I recently received from my Dad, that crazy monkey (or what I like to call him, ‘con khỉ cuồng’, cause we’re tight like that). These funny but resourceful looking pics were taken in Vietnam, my motherland. Pretty amazing. A Billyburg hipster on his scooter with sacks of Trader Joe’s veggie burritos trying to trek back home pales in comparison.
