Sorry Mike…. this one’s FTW

that’s how we roll in North Cak

Live version

I know Patrick and Michael are with me here…

Free Kitten – Teenie Weenie Boppie

Pussy Galore – Dick Johnson

Pavement – Gold Soundz

Boredoms – Super Seeeeee!!!

Sonic Youth – Little Trouble Girl

Photo by Vinyl-Pulse

Check out Cyco Simon greeting all of his new found fans! Now that he’s had his coming out party, Simon’s gotta get ready for some big, big things!

Vinyl-Pulse has done a fantastic re-cap of last weekends Kaiju Inavdes NYC show that we were a part of.  Head over there for photos of most of the custom Kaiju from the event!

It’s looking like a shoegazer of a Summer. My Bloody Valentine’s reunion is old news at this point and it’s also seemingly overshadowing all sorts of other shoegaze goodness. It’s kind of surprising that Swervedriver’s reunion is falling by the wayside in comparison.

Swervedriver has always been a personal favorite of mine when it comes to shoegaze because of their more aggressive nature. So needless to say I think I may actually be more excited about seeing Swervedriver live than MBV for whatever show they end up doing in NYC that won’t cost $500 to attend.

As much as I love reveling in a 90s sense of nostalgia I’m glad that there are still a handful of bands out there keeping the shoegaze torch alive and doing it so well. M83 just put out their new album Saturdays=Youth and as with every single m83 release so far it’s terrific. A synthy shoegaze trip down nostalgia ala the Cocteau Twins.

Both M83 & Swervedriver are hitting Brooklyn this June. M83 will be performing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 3rd, while Swervedriver plays there on June 12th.

Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 N. 6th St. (b/w Wythe & Kent)
Brooklyn, NY

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Big Sweaty Techno!

The Sapphire Lounge

249 Elridge St.

Tonight! 9pm-4am!

Manslaughter for MISHKA! What can it be? Go and find out!!!

And right around the corner…

DJ EQUAL/MORSE CODE

205 Club Chrystie/Stanton

Go to both, go to one, just go out and support!

Just caught wind of this. If you live in NYC in the summer, one thing you always avoid are the subway grates. Nothing like having shorts on with your genitalia sticking to the inside of your legs and getting blasted with 100 degree air from the subway tunnels. It seems Joshua Allen Harris has taken it upon himself to construct a garbage bag monster on 21st in Manhattan.

Pretty cool hot idea.

Since Skinny’s always posting skate videos and DART consists of some old BMX kids, I figured I’d drop this bangin’ video on the Bloglin. The music is Benga “Crunked Up”

TUMULT & CHILDSTORE.SE DUBSTEP MIX from TMLTech on Vimeo.

I love the whole concept of All Tomorrow’s Parties. I can go see some of my favorite bands and not have to worry about them slipping in 2/3rds of their set full of crappy later or in some cases new “experimental” albums. It’s a concert, i want to connect with the band and I want to hear those songs live that I already have a strong connection with. Going to concerts with bands who have 4+ albums (some of which not that great) at this point has just become a roll of the dice. There’s nothing more excruciating than paying for Built To Spill and instead getting Doug Martsch pretending to be Trey Anastasio for an hour or so.

This years NY edition of ATP on paper is as amazing as some of those early Lollapalooza line-ups. So much so I had to shake my head in disbelief. Not only are you getting My Bloody Valentine playing in the U.S. for the first time in 15 years but some other equally amazing bands with the guarantee that they’re going to be preforming classic albums in their entirety! Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts! Tortoise performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die! The Meat Puppets performing Meat Puppets II! And the aforementioned Built to Spill performing Perfect From Now On… and hopefully it won’t be a hippie jam take on it. But if that wasn’t icing enough Polvo, Shellac, Low, Mogwai & Fuck Buttons will also just be preforming!

If you’re going “What the fuck!? How can I take in all that auditory goodness in one sitting” I haven’t hit you with the bad news yet.

All of this awesomeness is spread across 3 day festival at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello, New York. and come with a very un-awesome price tag! Only 3000 tickets are available for the show and they are ONLY sold as full 3 day passes at a cost of $225 per person. But w-w-wait it gets worse. Not only do you have to buy full 3 day passes you HAVE to also stay on the grounds and rent a hotel room for the 3 days! The minimum price for a hotel room which thankfully fits 3 people (1 double bed, 1single bed) is $450 for whole concert. So, if you can round up two of your pals to join you you’re looking at a minimum of $1125 or $375 per person not counting food, travel and “entertainment” expenses which will probably bring this concert to the $450 per person range. So in the course of writing this, what sounded awesome at first now kind of sounds like one of those sports star cruises! $450 for a concert even at 3 days long is I don’t know kind of ridiculous, even for that line-up. But what do I know, people were paying $1000 to see the Police. If you use that as a measuring stick then this is a downright bargain! Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 25th on the ATP website.

Perhaps if they don’t sell out quickly, ATP can try hawking them over at the Home Buying for Hipsters nights sweeping all of Hipsville, U.S.A. AKA Williamsburg. If you’re getting ready to plunk down the kind of cash needed for a mortgage to buy a home & STILL consider yourself a hipster… well then it stands to reason you just may have the kind of scrill needed to fund this once in a life time event with My Bloody Mortgage Payments! I wonder what these hipster specific home buying tricks may be!?? I hope they involve Gang Gang Dance voodoo chant circles meant to bring real estate prices and interest rates down!

Prolly singing out!