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Music Serpents in My Mind: Sharon Van Etten

by Shop Keeper
January 27, 2012 - 10:15 am

Sharon Van Etten is announcing even more tour dates in support of her forthcoming album, Tramp, out Feb. 7 via Jagjaguwar. Next month, Sharon kicks off a headlining tour of the East Coast and Midwest with a sold out performance at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia. Before heading to Europe for a week, she’ll play three record release shows in New York – Fri. Feb. 24 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and Sat. Feb. 25 and Sun. Feb. 26 at the Bowery Ballroom (Sat. Feb. 25 is sold out). Then she’ll head down to Austin for SXSW, and make her way out west with The War On Drugs. The newly announced dates include a tour of the Southeast and beyond.

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Music The Sound of Sisters: The Pierces

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
January 26, 2012 - 10:52 am

We recently had the opportunity to sit down and get to know the sisterly duo of Catherine and Allison Pierce. If there is an award to be given for musical perseverance, these two deserve it. After three records and 10 years of making music together, the Pierce sisters were ready to throw in the towel and attempt their own solo projects. In the final hour, Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman stepped up and expressed interest in hearing their new demos. Berryman took The Pierces under his wing and produced their groundbreaking forth album, “You & I.” The ladies recently signed with Polydor Records and finally feel at home with a label that believes in them.

In the lobby of West Hollywood’s Andaz Hotel, Allison joked about continuously breaking her Kindle as Catherine told her somber tale of someone beating her to the house she had planned on moving into. The girls explained that listening back to their earlier tunes makes them proud of how far they’ve come and that being role models to artists who haven’t made it yet has it’s pros and cons.

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Music Deep Dish and Deep House: Tony Arzadon’s Guide to Chicago

by Rich Thomas
January 26, 2012 - 10:00 am

Worldwide by way of Chicago, Tony Arzadon has brought his big room crossbreed of deep, punchy house and infectious pop to the masses via some of dance music’s choicest labels, including Juicy Music, Movement, and System Recordings. Like many of his contemporaries, it was his success with bootlegs that ignited his approach into the mainstream, having produced unofficial rerubs for Justin Timberlake and One Republic that caught fire with other DJs and across the Beatport spectrum. Though he’s no stranger to nightclubs in Los Angeles and Vegas, Tony is a Chicago boy through and through, raised on a steady diet of deep dish pizza and Bulls basketball. Before he departed to Aspen to DJ the X Games, Tony gave us the head’s up on his latest production project, as well as a list of his favorite Windy City spots for food, drinks, and music.

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Fashion Get inspired at The Warehouse LA

by Zoetica Ebb
January 25, 2012 - 12:33 pm

The aptly-named Warehouse LA is a vast, 4500-square-foot expanse of vintage-hunting heaven, set apart by its distinct lack of clutter and its stylish furnishing. This isn’t a place you come to dig and hope, but a place you come with the option to get styled by in-store experts selecting from vintage, reconstructed and locally-designed pieces.

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Music Snow, Sex and Fujiya & Miyagi

by Courtney Dudley
January 25, 2012 - 10:36 am

Over here on the East Coast, it’s been a relatively mild winter for NYC so far, until the wee hours of last Saturday morning when prayers were answered. It’s almost February and not a lick of snow! My morning commutes have been so ice-free and I haven’t once slipped and broken my ass or had a passing bus spray me with foul brown toxic slush! With the Giants doing so well, people have run out of things to complain about until we finally got a nice layer of clean white snow that was properly turned into said foul brown toxic slush by early Saturday evening.

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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases From Lacuna Coil, Nada Surf, Foxy Shazam, and Gonjasufi

by Shop Keeper
January 24, 2012 - 9:59 pm

Lacuna Coil release their  6th album for Century Media, Dark Adrenaline; American Idol crooner Kellie Pickler is back; Nada Surf releases a particularly strangely-named album Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy; 60’s icon/bad ass Joe Cocker is back with his 21st album, and Chairlift does Something…Right. ‘Til next time then…

Foxy Shazam - The Church Of Rock And Roll 
Standard Fare - Out of Sight, Out of Town
Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes [of The Hold Steady]
First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar
Chairlift - Something  Cloud Nothings  -  Attack On Memory
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE.
Rodrigo y Gabriela  - Area 52
Ingrid Michaelson -  Human Again
John K. Samson – Provincial [Weakerthan's lead singer's solo debut]
Bhi Bhiman-  Bhiman
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Kellie Pickler –  100 Proof
Lamb of God – Resolution
Joe Cocker - Hard Knocks
You Me at Six - Sinners Never  Sleep
Scorpions - Comeback
Rise to Remain - City Of Vultures
Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
Seal - Soul 2
Tim McGraw - Emotional Traffic

Fashion Gallery Say Hello to Mister Bear: Mishka NYC’s Street Empire

by Zoetica Ebb
January 24, 2012 - 1:07 pm

Mishka is a diminutive of “Mikhail”, can be translated to “Little Bear” in Russian and happens to be the name of a streetwear company you should know about, especially if you like graphic art and cartoon eyeballs. Launched in 2003 by Ukranian expat Mikhail Bortnik and self-proclaimed toy nerd Greg Rivera, what began as a T-shirt line has grown into a lifestyle brand with shops in NYC, Tokyo and now in LA’s Echo Park neighborhood.

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Featured Gallery Music Keeping Rock Alive: Dead Sara

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
January 24, 2012 - 11:29 am

Dead Sara has been busy since we spoke with them last year. The female-fronted four piece has been packing in venues, exponentially growing their fanbase, and just finished recording their highly anticipated new album. Dead Sara was recently selected to be featured artist on this year’s Warped Tour and has been enjoying success on popular rock radio stations throughout the country.

We recently caught up with vocalist Emily Armstrong who explained that 2012 is shaping up to be the band’s best year yet.

Check out our conversation with Emily as she discusses being a female vocalist in a male dominated rock world, items in her tour survival kit, and the band almost being named Masturbation Salvation:

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Music Brother of the Jackal: You Can’t Tame Iran’s “The Yellow Dogs”

by Nicole Pajer
January 23, 2012 - 1:32 pm

Bands that perform in Iran must have permission from “The Ministry of Islamic Culture,” a task that is not easy to accomplish. After ruling this out as a possibility, The Yellow Dogs decided to risk imprisonment, fines, and lashes in order to perform their “Satanic” tunes. They began holding band practices on a rooftop which they sound proofed with garbage and started packing in the crowds at their “secret” underground basement shows.

After several years of gaining popularity as a rebellious Iranian band, The Yellow Dogs moved to New York and have been enjoying the freedom to perform without constantly looking over their shoulder. Lead singer/guitarist Obaash recently spoke with ChinaShop about “not giving a rat’s ass” about the laws in Iran, getting arrested for having long hair, and feeling at home in Brooklyn.

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