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Deru To Support Glitch Mob | 03/2010 | Deru will be hitting the road late this spring supporting Glitch Mob with fellow LA beat-mangler Free The Robots. The tour, dubbed the Drink The Sea Tour, stops in over 25 cities, and will cover the entire United States as well as some spots in Canada. All informationa and tour dates have now been added. |
Deru iTunes Indie Spotlight / Derrick Carter Bonus Remix | 03/2010 | Deru's Say Goodbye To Useless has been chosen as the iTunes Electronic Indie Spotlight this month. The track Peanut Butter & Patience is featured on the Indie Spotlight Podcast, and for the next few months a special bonus remix by Derrick Carter will be included with all iTunes purchases. This remix will eventually make it to a more traditional release, but to grab it now, pick up the album from iTunes!. |
Open Mike Eagle Tours With Hellfyre Club | 03/2010 | Open Mike Eagle will be joining fellow Project Blowed MCs Nocando, Intuition, and co-Thirsty Fish rapper Dumbfoundead, along with DJ Zo, on the Hellfyre Club tour this spring. The first leg of the tour has been announced, with live dates on the west coast of the United States. |
Sibling Bands Feature Includes Lymbyc Systym | 03/2010 | Lymbyc Systym have been included in a San Francisco Chronicle feature on siblings in bands along with 10 others including CocoRosie, Boards of Canada, The Fiery Furnaces, Why?, and Tegan & Sara. |
Open Mike Eagle And Swim Team In Austin | 03/2010 | Open Mike Eagle will be joining his crew, Swim Team, in Austin for an unofficial SXSW event called the Underground Hip-Hop Summit. Joined by such indie-hop stalwarts as C-Rayz Walz, Icon The Mic King, Existereo, and many more, the show promises to be epic. Also, if you can catch up with Open Mike this week in Austin, he's carying thousands of free download cards for some of our latest and upcoming releases. |
Thavius Beck On Huskey Radio | 03/2010 | Producer/MC Thavius Beck stopped by Los Angeles' Huskey Radio, an online hip-hop radio station and news site. The interview may get a bit controversial, according to the folks at Huskey, so check it out for yourself. |
Open Mike Eagle Gets Fresh Daily | 03/2010 | Open Mike Eagle has profiled by Impose Magazine's Blake Gillespie in their Fresh Daily section. |
Head Like A Kite Featured Burrito Band | 03/2010 | Qdoba Mexican Grill has assembled a bunch of music for a free audio player on their site. The project is called Our Sound and also features artists from Peter, Bjorn & John to DJ Shadow. The music will also be available in Qdoba stores. |
Busdriver Supporting Rjd2 | 03/2010 | Busdriver (and trusty right-hand-road-man Antimc) will be hitting the road with Rjd2 once again. Rj is billing this as his final tour, and has tapped Bus to play the 10 west-coast shows with him. Also on the tour will be Rj's friend and band-mate Happy Chichester. |
Her Space Holiday On Broadway | 03/2010 | Her Space Holiday's "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" from The Young Machines can be heard on Broadway this Spring when it will be used as curtain call music for the Elton John produced play Next Fall. The show opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 11. |
Open Mike Eagle Profiled By WildStyle Mag | 02/2010 | Open Mike Eagle has been profiled by German hip-hop webzine WildstyleMag. The questions flow both ways, and the interview veers into numerous tangents, making it a fun read. |
Thavius Beck In UGSMag | 02/2010 | Thavius Beck has been profiled in UGSMag, one of the premier American independent/underground hip-hop magazine online. |
Open Mike Eagle To Play Obey Event | 02/2010 | Open Mike Eagle will be sharing the stage with fellow LA hip-hop artists Nocando, Dumbfounded, and Intuition at the end of this month in Orange County. The gig is a showcase for the Hellfyre Club and is being put together by Shep Fairey's Obey Records Radio. We've added details on the event to our shows page. |
Thavius Beck Scores Suicide Girls | 02/2010 | Billing itself as a "reality horror" film, the Suicide Girls have announced the release of Suicide Girls Must Die. Music for the film was entirely scored by our very own Thavius Beck, who's name appears on the poster. |
Thavius Beck Launches Novation | 02/2010 | Thavius Beck, already known for his love of and prowess with Ableton Live, discussed his feelings for Novation's new Launchpad controller with the folks at Novation Community. The profile also features videos of Thavius doing some live tweaking in between the talky bits. |
Busdriver Sits In With Kneebody | 02/2010 | Busdriver will join jazz ensemble Kneebody for two live shows at their residency in New York City. All pertinent information has now been added. |
Deru Plays California Dates | 02/2010 | Deru will be playing two events in California this month, a slot at 1015 Folsom and an night at Low End Theory. The LA Weekly has posted a preview of the show. Tour dates and information are now available. |
Daedelus Tours United States With Jogger & Nosaj Thing | 02/2010 | Daedelus has tapped two of the Los Angeles electronic scene's fastest risers, beat-composer Nosaj Thing and production-duo Jogger, to support him on his upcoming United States tour, which he's dubbed the Magical Properties tour. The three acts will be playing dates in over 20 cities across the US and Canada this Winter. The Cleveland Scene has run a preview feature of Daedelus' show at the Grog Shop. For more information on the Magical Properties Tour, go to the shows page. |
Daedelus On Tour In New Zealand | 01/2010 | Daedelus will be heading to the Southern Hemisphere to play an exsclusive set of live performances in New Zealand. Full details are now available. |
Deru Profiled In The Headphone Commute Again | 01/2010 | Deru has been featured once again in the Two-And-A-Half Questions, With section of Headphone Commute, making a grand total of five questions across the two profiles. |
Lymbyc Systym Electronic Musician Profile | 01/2010 | Mike and Jared Bell spoke to Electronic Musician Magazine about their new album, with a bit more of a focus on the technical aspects of their recording process. The feature is entitled "Brothers In Audio." |
Lymbyc Systym Live Session Online | 01/2010 | Lymbyc Systym recently performed an in-studio set at WOXY. The live session was recorded for part of their Lounge Act Recap series, and features Christopher Tignor on violin. Photos were also captured and posted alongside the acoustic set. |
The Attack Of The Thavius Beck Show | 01/2010 | Thavius Beck was busy working the Ableton Live booth at Southern California's NAMM Show when the cameras from G4 TV rolled up. He gave a brief presentation on Ableton and the Novation Launchpad and a quick description of what NAMM is. Check out the interview. |
Eliot Lipp United States Dates | 01/2010 | Eliot Lipp will be playing just over 10 shows around the United States this winter. He has been on the road constantly over the last few years and it is really showing as his peformances get better and better. If you have a chance to catch him in your city, don't pass it up. Info for the dates is available from our shows page. |
Ghost Clock On APM/NPR | 01/2010 | Lymbyc Systym's "Ghost Clock" off their recent release Shutter Release, was featured on APM's Marketplace with Kay Ryssdal twice in two weeks: on the January 12th PM program, and the January 18th AM program. |
Lymbyc Systym Post-Show Profile | 01/2010 | Lymbyc Systym spoke with Nichole Bennett of KVRX , the student-run radio-station at the University of Texas, after their live show at Emo's in Austin. They were alsoprofiled on the station's website and the article was reprinted for the Awkward Off blog. |
Shutter Release Heralded By Alarm, Others | 01/2010 | Lymbyc Systym's latest album Shutter Release has been tapped by Alarm for their list of 50 Unheralded Albums Of 2009. These are the albums that flew under people's radars, but should have appeared on more year-end lists. It also appeared on Tanya's (from Easy Street Records) list of the Best Albums of 2009. |
Lymbyc Systym Show Reviews | 01/2010 | The SF Examiner and San Francisco music blog Boy With Girls Name have both reviewed Lymbyc Systym's show at Cafe Du Nord. While the Examiner review is pretty cut-and-dry, Boy With Girls name actually suggests a recipe for vegan soup inspired by Lymbyc's performance. The LA Record reviewed Lymbyc Systym's performance at the Bootleg and raved about them in glowing terms. Visual Madness reviewed the show, as part of a group of shows he saw in LA for the week, he too had nothing but praise for Lymbyc System. |
Lymbyc Systym Tour The Wild West | 01/2010 | Lymbyc Systym is taking to the West Coast, in the dead of winter, for a series of nine dates down the I5 and across the 10 _ supporting their new LP Shutter Release. A tour preview post can be found at Showered & Blue Blazered; show previews for the Seattle Hi-Dive performance are up at Seattlist and the Seattle Weekly, a preview featurette of the Portand show is up at Pampelmoose, the San Francisco show is up on EpicSuace's Weekly Wooot, while a ticket giveaway for the SF show is posted at the Bay Bridged, a preview of the LA show ran in the LA Times' Buzz Bands section, and a preview of the Tempe show is up at Factory Made Future. In addition to concerts, Lymbyc Systym will be taping a live set on Seattle's KEXP on January 7. For more information, check out the shows page. |
Deru Live On New Year's Day | 01/2010 | Deru will be playing a live show entitled A Midwinter's Chill on New Year's Day alongside Apparat and Bluetech. The music event is being hosted by An-Ten-Nae, and tickets are available. For more information on the event, read a concert preview from Dance Fever 5000. |
CATASTROPHIC WEBSITE FAILURE | 12/2009 | Yikes!!!!! We have had a catastrophic website failure. Although we now have most of the site now back on-line, while we are finishing it up, some parts of the site will be non-functional or missing. In the mean time, please visit our myspace, youtube, or twitter pages. You can also download a FREE copy of our Ten Year Anniversary mix by Thavius Beck. |
Thavius Beck European Dates | 12/2009 | Thavius Beck will be travelling to Europe for a series of dates to mark the release of his latest LP Dialogue, which Big Dada has licensed for the European market. He will be sharing the stage with fellow Big Dada-ites Anti-Pop Consortium for the first leg of the tour, and then with French fellow-genre masher Debmaster for the tour dates in... well... France. |
Lymbyc Systym Wrap Up 2009 | 12/2009 | Lymbyc Systym's album Shutter Release was reviewed by the Skeleton Crew Quarterly on the ocassion of its release, and in time with the review, the SCQ profiled the brothers Bell, asking about what they saw as the nest music of 2009. They also discussed some of the high- and low-points of 2009 in a profile with Big Shot Magazine. Mike Bell picked his favorite 2009 release (and a few runners-up) at The End Of Irony. Shutter Release was chosen as one of the Best Albums of 2009 by Dylan Peterson at Total Darkness Vs. Blinding Light and by the East Bay Express. |
Lymbyc Systym "Ghost Clock" Clip | 12/2009 | "Ghost Clock" from Lymbyc Systym's latest LP Shutter Release has been video-fied. The clip, which features some heavy nautical themes shifting between a surreal restatement of the Noah's Ark tale, and a choppy beach-blanket dance-off, was directed by Jeff Kolar. |
Lymbyc Systym In The Marketplace | 11/2009 | Lymbyc Systym's track "Ghost Clock" was used as music for the Nov. 11, 2009 episode of PRI's Marketplace, which runs on NPR affiliates nationwide. |
Deru Performing With Blockhead | 11/2009 | Deru will be playing a live show with Ninja Tune artist's Blockhead and Yppah, as well as Amplive of Zion I, at the Echo in Los Angeles. All pertinent information has been added. |
Thavius Beck In Performing Musician | 11/2009 | Thavius Beck has spoken with Performing Musician magazine leading up to his European tour. The profile features some advice for Thavius to upcoming musicians and a look into how his stage setup has evolved through the years. |
Bibio Press Cavalcade | 10/2009 | Bibio's latest release, Ambivalence Avenue out now on Warp Records, has been earning him huge accolades in the press. Also, in a great majority of the press, there too have been mentions of his latest Mush release, Vignetting The Compost. We've collected a sample of these features and added them to the press page. Check out Part One and Part Two of a profile in Filter, as well as profiles in Pitchfork, The Guardian UK, Strangeglue, Caught By The River, The Line Of Best Fit, Olive Music, two related pieces in Model Art and Model Blog, and a video profile in 405. |
Mush Records Among The Best | 10/2009 | Mush Records has been selected by AudioGraphic as one of indie hip-hop's premiere labels. Sharing the honor are New York's Def Jux and fellow Angelinos Stones Throw. Check out why these three labels have been branded as the Best Indie Hip-Hop Labels. |
Busdriver On Tour In Europe | 10/2009 | Busdriver will be appearing in Europe to play a selection of shows in support of his latest full-length, Jhelli Beam. All venue and tour date information can be found on our site. |
Busdriver Press Deluge | 10/2009 | Busdriver has gotten a tremendous press push for his latest Anti- release, Jhelli Beam. We've managed to compile a bunch of his latest features. Check out print features from the LA Weekly, EQ Magazine, Urb, and the Washington Post. There was also online press, including Part One, Part Two, and Part Three from a Filter trilogy, LA Record, SF Weekly, a Profile and a Q&A in Westword, College Times, and Baeble. We've also added a great show review of a concert Busdriver played with Os Mutantes at LA's El Rey theatre called "Ave Mutantes." |
Clue To Kalo To Play Melbourne Festival | 10/2009 | Clue To Kalo will be performing at the Beck's Rumpus Room venue for this year's Melbourne Arts Festival. Mark Mitchell - the mastermind behind Clue To Kalo - will also be splitting a DJ set with partner Alan Beverley as Treasure Island. The festival has been added to our shows page. |
Thavius Beck In The Music Fix | 10/2009 | The Music Fix, a UK-based online music magazine, has taken some time to consider Thavius Beck and his new album, Dialogue. There's a heavy influence on Beck's process and what went in to creating the latest album in profile that makes it a great read. |
Thavius Beck Track On Clash | 10/2009 | Thavius Beck's track "Away (Flying Lotus Remix)" has been selected by Clash Magazine as their Track Of The Day for October 28, 2009. The piece features streaming audio of the track, as well as a few graphs about the song and the album that spawned it, Dialogue. |
Open Mike Eagle US Tour Dates | 10/2009 | Not letting any moss gather, Open Mike Eagle is going back on the road for ten West Coast tour dates to create hype for his upcoming release, Unapologetic Art Rap. If you caught him on Busdriver's Jhelli Beam tour, you know this man can rock a show; if you didn't catch him, now's your chance. Joining Mike are fellow indie MCs Mestizo and Robust. |
Yeezy Blogs Peanut Butter & Patience | 10/2009 | Further demonstrating his penchant for electronic music, Kanye West has posted Peanut Butter & Patience on his blog, KanyeUniverseCity. |
Bibio DJ Tour | 10/2009 | Bibio has been experiencing overwhelming success with his phenomenal latest full-length, Ambivalence Avenue on Warp Records. He has compiled a DJ set that he will be taking on the road on 15+ gigs throughout Europe and South America in support of the album. City and venue info has been added to our shows page. |
K-The-I??? Tours Europe | 10/2009 | K-The-I??? returns to Europe this October, this time teaming up with Walter Gross as Youth:Kill. If you haven't seen K-The-I??? command a stage before, be sure to hunt him down. We've added all 10+ gigs to our shows page. |
Deru Music Video | 10/2009 | Deru has submitted a phenomenal video for his track "Peanut Butter & Patience" from Say Goodbye To Useless. The clip was directed by Howie Shia of the PFF House, and animated by Shia with Pasquale La Montagna. |
Thavius Beck Dialogue Plays Two Low End Theories | 10/2009 | If you're in Los Angeles on October 7, make it down to the Low End Theory for a special show by Thavius Beck to celebrate the European music release of Dialogue on Big Dada. The US version will be released by Mush in January 2010. Then in early November, Thavius will again be featured at the Low End Theory, this time for the Novation Launchpad sponsored event. |
Clue To Kalo Screening At Indie Music Video Festival | 10/2009 | Clue To Kalo's "Inifnite Orphan" music video will be screening along with 18 other clips by artists on independent labels as part of the Indie Music Video Festival which travels the world, playing in 11 cities. Some other artists included in the festival are Neko Case, Roots Manuva, and D.O.A. Check it out when it comes to a city near you. |
Daedelus Back To Europe | 10/2009 | Daedelus is heading back to Europe for another string of 20 fantastic shows, but before he leaves he's helping Dublab celebrate their 10 Year Anniversary by appearing at a Monome meet-up back east. For fans of Daedelus, details of the live performances have already been added. |
Deru Scores For Paris Opera Ballet | 10/2009 | Deru recently hooked up with Joby Talbot to score a eight-part musical compostion for a ballet by Wayne McGregor titled Genus. It is based on Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution and is being performed at the Paris Opera Ballet. To commemorate the project, they've hand-made 100 CDs that include all of the music. If you happen to be in Paris, the ballet will be performed in November, and if you're interested in the music, check out Deru's webstore. |
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