The Black Lips are gearing up for the release of their brand new album, 200 Million Thousand. In keeping with the numerically-massive album title, the band doesn't want ONE video for the first single, 'Starting Over,' they want 200 Million Thousand. And they want you to make them.
The contest will run until the 200 Million Thousandth video has been submitted. Or until February 15th. Whichever comes first. So get started. Submissions can be uploaded to vimeo.com beginning January 12th, 2009.
Spin & Adidas Originals present Chromeo live at the Key Club in Los Angeles on January 22, 2009. On December 16th a limited number of tickets will go on sale. The pre-sale only last 48 hours so get your tickets here while you can:
Pitchfork's own Pitchfork.tv will screen Electroma for one night and one night only this very weekend. It's just like their usual "One Week Only" feature, except, you know, for a night. The "odyssey" begins tomorrow (Friday) at 8 p.m. EST and concludes precisely 24 hours later, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, which should provide ample time for approximately 19 successive viewings of the 74-minute film.
If you can't make the screening, make sure to pick up a copy of the DVD here.
Following their life-perverting performance at the 2008 Pitchfork Music
Festival, King Khan and the Shrines took to the rooftops of Brooklyn
for a (literally) thunderous set. To put it another way, they made it
rain. Check it out on Pitchfork.tv:
Following their life-perverting performance at the 2008 Pitchfork Music
Festival, King Khan and the Shrines took to the rooftops of Brooklyn
for a (literally) thunderous set. To put it another way, they made it
rain. Check it out on Pitchfork.tv:
Following their life-perverting performance at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival, King Khan and the Shrines took to the rooftops of Brooklyn for a (literally) thunderous set. To put it another way, they made it rain. Check it out on Pitchfork.tv:
The Raveonettes cap a successful 2008 today with the release of Wishing You A Rave Christmas,
the final installment in the band's digital-only EP series. The initial
installment was loaded with remixes courtesy of Trentemoller, Nic Endo
and 80KIDZ and we offered it up to you for free! The Raveonettes
followed that up with Sometimes They Drop By and Beauty Dies.
Stream Wishing You A Rave Christmas on AOL Spinner. Click here.
TOURDATES: January 2009 15 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club tickets 16 New York, NY @ Webster Hall tickets 17 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
tickets 23 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club tickets 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theater tickets
It's always seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo's tracks and now Bacardi’s B-Live program brings these remixes to life for your listening pleasure. Start downloading…NOW.
It's always seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo's tracks and now Bacardi’s B-Live program brings these remixes to life for your listening pleasure. Start downloading…NOW.
It's always seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo's tracks and now Bacardi’s B-Live program brings these remixes to life for your listening pleasure. Start downloading…NOW.
October 30 Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy Theatre - w/ White Lies FREE November 1 San Francisco, CA @The Rickshaw Stop – w/ White Lies tickets 3 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's - w/ Electric Six tickets 4 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan – w/ Electric Six tickets 7 Sacramento, CA @ The Blue Lamp tickets 8 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Detroit Bar tickets 14 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre – w/ Mudhoney tickets 15 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah – w/ Mudhoney
tickets
This week Japanese Motors's Alex Knost lands in MTV's Hot Seat . Check it out here and see why he's interested in studying underwater basket weaving, among other things.
Do you like Chromeo? Have you heard their song Momma's Boy? Would you like the
opportunity to a) show Chromeo how badass you are and b) take home some
rad Chromeo swag?
Japanese Motors' new album Japanese Motors hits stores next week, but
you can get the party started a little early, by checking out the
entire album, right now, with The Leak on mtvU.
Vice Quebec is turning one and as an anniversary gift RVCA is sponsoring a party tomorrow and you are invited. Dark Meat, Quatro, Devil Eyes, and Amanita Bloom are going to be there. What an intoxicating line up! Plus, not only is our party free with RSVP but there's also going to be free stuff there. We can't tell you what kind of free stuff is going to be there, but it's the kind of free stuff that lubricates social situations and might make you late for work the next day.
VICE QUEBEC ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT POP MONTREAL
Presented by RVCA
Dark Meat (17 piece psychedelic punk free jazz band on VICE Records) Quatro (mems of Les Geoerges Leningrad, Duchess Says) Devil Eyes and Amanita Bloom
Chromeo have been nominated for the Left Field Woodie at this years mtvU Woodie Awards. Click here to vote for their amazing Momma´s Boy video. Check out the video below if you haven't already, and if you have, check it out again. Vote as many times as you like and watch for the results when the Woodie's air November 12th.
Dark Meat is touring USA and CANADA right now. Check out the mp3 of the song Three Eyes Open from Universal Indians, and make sure you check them out live. Dark Meat is also playing the VICE Quebec One Year Anniversary party at POP Montreal on October 1st. Entry is FREE if you RSVP: http://www.viceland.com/qc/events.php
TOURDATES:
September
22 Grinnell, IA @ Gardner Lounge
23 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry tickets
24 Rock Island, IL @ Daytrotter Sessions
24 Rock Island, IL @ Huckleberry's
25 Toronto, ON @ The Drake
26 London, ON @ Call The Office 27 Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
28 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl tickets
30 Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox October 1 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi FREE 2 Portland, ME @ Space Gallery
3 New York, NY @ Rocks Off tickets
4 Brooklyn, NY @ Schmarket Schmotel
29 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre tickets
30 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree tickets 31 New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar
First two dates (and Detour Festival) also with Japanese Motors.
BLACK LIPS CALIFORNIA DATES: 10/2 Solana Beach, CA @ The Belly-Up Tavern – w/ Japanese Motors tickets
10/3 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Detroit Bar – w/Japanese Motors tickets
10/4 Los Angeles, CA @ Detour Festival tickets
10/6 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall KALX PRESENTS tickets
10/7 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall KALX PRESENTS tickets 10/8 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse tickets
Check out this live clip. This is not something you want to miss!
Stop Smiling did a great article on Electroma with an amazing video from the cover shoot. Check out the video below and read the article by clicking on the cover image.
King Khan and the Shrines brought their soulful antics to the Rhythm Room in Phoenix this summer and filled the house on a hot Tuesday night, emptying beers on eager show-goers.
Following the success of this year's critically adored album Lust Lust Lust, Danish noir-rock duo The Raveonettes today announce plans to release a series of digital only EPs. Following today's remix EP will be Sometimes They Drop By on September 23. Two more EPs will follow on October 21 and November 25.
Today's free Remixed EP centers around three standout tracks from Lust Lust Lust, presented in radically different new versions. Hypnotic Japanese electro producer 80KIDZ, Alec Empire-conspirator Nic Endo, and Danish DJ superstar Trentemøller reconstruct these now familiar songs into new shapes.
Tracklisting for today's three song free remix EP: 1. Dead Sound (80KIDZ remix) 2. Aly, Walk With Me (Nic Endo remix) 3. Lust (Trentemøller Remix)
At Lollapalooza, Jared from the Black Lips drops by Roxwel.com and talks about touring,
getting free swag and tattoos. He also talks about the strippers in their latest music video
"It Feels Alright".
EVERYTHING IS BORROWED OUT OCTOBER 7 ON VICE RECORDS
Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, will be delivering his fourth album, everything is borrowed October 7th on Vice Records. Never one to take the same approach twice, Skinner is contemplating the impermanent nature of life this time around. Skinner has made a record to console the lonely and bring a smile to the saddest visage. Applying his homespun hip-hop sensibility to real instruments, Mike comes up with sing-a-long musings on such unconventional subjects as religion ("Alleged Legends"), evolution ("The Way of the Dodo"), biological destiny ("On the Edge of a Cliff"), and male friendship ("The Sherry End"). From the first time people heard The Streets' Mercury Prize-nominated debut Original Pirate Material, they couldn't make their minds up whether the person making this music was black or white, from London or the Midlands, serious or a joker. Having given the world plenty of time to get acclimated, Skinner now rediscovers his old irrepressible buoyancy and takes his trademark stop-start lyrical flow to entirely new places. Watch "The Escapist" video and receive a free download of the track:
"British MC Mike Skinner is a pale-faced poet laureate the geezer is so real it hurts." - SPIN
"Mike Skinner is to hazy slacker downtime what Hunter S Thompson is to Americana: a shrewd chronicler, a dizzying blurrer of creative forms." - INTERVIEW
"It's important to note that Mike Skinner (aka the Streets) is pop music's rarest commodity: a singular talentŠimplausibly imaginative." - ESQUIRE
"Skinner's ear for language and detail is vivid and hilarious. Call it Zen Hooliganism - ROLLING STONE Skinner, though, is life's real deal, an artists who knows that, if rendered honestly, even mundane experiences can produce the most powerful music." - NEW YORK MAGAZINE
We've left you guys kind of hanging but it is now Spring so the MP3 Blog is coming out from hibernation.
So King Khan and the Shrines will be blessing the US with their domestic release of What Is?! on April 21st. As a gift for you MP3 readers, we're providing you with "Land of the Freak." Snag the track here:
You must specify to us what type of rock you've been living under if you haven't already heard Black Lips' new album 200 Million Thousand. Don't despair, we'll give you "I'll Be With You" so you can pretend that you've been in the know from the start when you're around your friends.
The Black Lips are gearing up for the release of their brand new album, 200 Million Thousand. In keeping with the numerically-massive album title, the band doesn't want ONE video for the first single, 'Starting Over,' they want 200 Million Thousand. And they want you to make them.
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JUSTICE
120 Days 
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