In celebration of the election, I’m releasing a new mix I have been hard at work at for the past several weeks.  “For several weeks?!” you say? yes, that’s right, I’ve been building it bit by bit using Traktor DJ studio 3.4.  I don’t care what you say about replicating the authenticity of a live [...]

[ September 4, 2008; ]

We’ve already told you that tonight you should not miss Fuck Buttons & Mogwai at the Roseland Theater; an easy feat. Thursday however, proves much more challenging as there are sets all over the map, music-wise and genre-wise.
5:30pm No Age
7:00pm Battles
9:00 pm Calvin Johnson
10:00 pm M Ward
10:00 pm The [...]

[ September 5, 2008; 11:00 pm; ]

The first show I want to highlight in this years MusicFest NW is unfortunately at Dante’s, and unfortunately the same night as Nico Muhly’s last scheduled Portland performance: Friday September 5th.

8:00 pm
Rapids

9:00 pm
The Muslims

10:00 pm
Colour Revolt

11:00 pm
These Arms Are Snakes

12:00 am
The Night Marchers

The first time I saw These Arms Are Snakes was over 5 years [...]

[ September 3, 2008; 5:00 pm; ]

Starting today, and throughout the week I’ll be posting to the calendar shows you should probably be going to that correspond to this years MusicFestNW, along with MP3’s so you can preview the artists before the shows. At $50 for 4 days, there is no good reason not to make it out.
After the jump check [...]

If you haven’t heard it yet: listen to the Juan Maclean’s newest single “Happy House.” It is a disco house MONSTER and has been getting quite a bit of prime speaker time lately. It was the first song dropped by DJ JDH after Simian Mobile Disco’s well-lit and well received live set at Holocene last [...]

Not sure if this guy is serious or not (Read: SOFT PINK TUBE) but apparently he’s gone and changed his name from The Soft Pink Truth, to The Soft Pink Tube. Apparently now he’s drawing inspiration from You-Tube clips, which his songs are fully constructed from (now).
“In the manic and overstimulated spirit of the new [...]

No kids opened up a set in Portland at the end of their tour with Dirty Projectors on April 16th. I caught up with Nick for an embarrassing hug and a Q+A, and although things didn’t go that smoothly it all worked out, and all my questions have been answered.
Please ‘Continue to Read’.

FUCKBADMUSIC:
So… Tuesday [...]

-in which we discuss: Success where others have failed.

Let me preface this by saying, The Juan Maclean do not need to be remixed. Given the nature of their tunes, this is inevitable, but with all the fleshed out blips and beeps in their under-two-to-over-fourteen minute songs, they’ve pretty much covered every which way to [...]