March 2009
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Music, Sex + Nerds!
Do you like music, sex and nerds? Who doesn’t — but what about them all mashed up together? This combination has many possibilities — it could be frightening, or awesome.
In the case of this year’s EMP Pop Studies Conference, which takes place in Seattle in just over two weeks, that combination should yield some pretty great results. This year’s theme to the conference,...
Bim Marx- Personal Move
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Loudcrowd Pick of the Week
Bim Marx - Personal Move
This week’s Loudcrowd pick is brought to you by disco contortionists Bim Marx. Jorge Velez aka Professor Genius and NYC-based DJ Duane Harriott form the cut-and-paste duo, whose premiere tracks recently created a stir among trainspotters in the blogosphere and beyond.
Meshing the familiar with the obscure, Bim Marx’s tracks have been compared to the work of...
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Record Store Day Approacheth...
What are you doing on April 18th? I know it s a few weeks away, but Sat., April 18th is Record Store Day. That’s the day you wait in line in order to get awesome, exclusive stuff at the local record shop(s) that hopefully the rest of the year you are blowing all of your available money at. A lot of labels and acts are issuing limited edition vinyl records just for the event — records...
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Hot Spring Tour Action
Spring has sprung and SXSW is over, which means that hundreds of bands who days ago were all packed into one college town in Texas are unleashed to scamper back home or else scatter. Many will tour the country. And it’s not just tours; festival season looms, as well.
In terms of big shows, the Throbbing Gristle American tour promises to be amazing. The new leg of My Bloody Valentine gigs will...
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REWIND: Skinny Jeans And Sideways Hair
Every Friday, we hit rewind to visit one of our older playlists. The following is one of our favorites from the Loudcrowd vaults — our first indie rock playlist.
The term “indie rock” has become so super ubiquitous in the last dozen years or so that — what does it mean? What did it ever mean? The phrase was first used in the early ’80s...
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The Twelves Guest Playlist
REWIND: Guest DJs The Twelves
Every Friday, we hit rewind to visit one of our older playlists. The following is one of our favorites from the Loudcrowd vaults — the great, up-and-coming Brazilian duo the Twelves.
www.myspace.com/thetwelves
1. Thirty Minutes of the Twelves Mixtape #1
2. Despite being pretty much instantly huge across the globe since they got together in 2006, they took...
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Welcome to the Party!
When I take that inevitably damning “What am I doing with my life” self-survey, pretty much everything I care about — writing, DJing, record collecting, party throwing — has revolved around music. In my teens (true story!) I would often say that music was the only friend you could always count on; and while I might not be so emo on the subject now, the power of a good song...
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Electro Wars
These days everything is labelled electro. Give me a synth loop and a drum loop and boom. Cut Copy. Kid Cudi. Justice. La Roux. Anything on a blog gets called electro. My Mom is electro.
So what really makes a track electro? Is it an off-shoot of hip hop (Kid Sister) or synthpop (Ladytron) or blog house (my Mom, again — all her tracks sound the same)? Let’s take a look back to get to...
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A Playlist and Interview from Soulwax Steve!
REWIND: Soulwax Steve
Every Friday, we hit rewind to visit one of our older playlists. The following is one of our favorites from the Loudcrowd vaults — a playlist from (and interview with) Steve from Soulwax!
Last month I spoke with Steve Slingeneyer; Soulwax drummer, 2ManyDJs contributor, record collector, and DJ under the self-satisfied moniker One Man Party. Steve had just graced the gritty...
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Loudcrowd Release @ SXSW!
Its been a crazy few weeks here at Loudcrowd …we’ve been building up our private beta for eight months, and we’re right about to release! I for one have been zonked getting together our new playlists-can’t say who just yet, but trust that they’ll be featuring a slew of new tracks and rarities. It’s going to be a few more days of burning the midnight oil, but...
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Loudcrowd Pick Of The Week:
Runaway Use Me
Just in time for us LoudCrowders to run down to SXSW, DJ Dirty Jean is stepping in to help keep things running up in the Northernland. A good friend, I first met her in the early noughties as a resident at NYC’s The Hole for the debaucherous Mad Clams, a weekly party thrown by Miss Kim Ann Foxman (now of Hercules and Love Affair). I’ve seen her DJ’ing all around...
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Loudcrowd Pick of the Week:
Depeche Mode Wrong
Depeche Mode formed almost thirty years ago. Thirty! I’m old, and that seems old to me. Odds are, D.M. would be totally be performing at the Kansas State Fair and no one at all would care about their new music if they were a rock band from the same era. However, something about the magical brand of proto-Goth synth-dance-pop that they’ve practiced has not only saved...