Photo by Joe Gall
A look back at the Top Ten mp3 downloads from the magnificent month of May!
Thunderheist – Nothing 2 Step 2
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ships with Holes will Sink
Music ChinaShop Tea Set Vol. #1
3.67 (3 votes)
Monthly Archives: May 2009
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Music FlyLo But Aim High
Forget J-Lo. There’s a new kid in town called Flying Lotus or, to his fans, FlyLo. In the past several years, Flying Lotus, whose real name is Stephen Ellison, has won accolades for his first album, 2006′s 1983, and last year’s Los Angeles, released by prestigious Warp Records.
That’s not a bad beginning for someone whose work is virtually impossible to classify. Ironically, he has as much trouble labeling it as anyone else. When pressed, he comes up with the term, psychedelic beats. When that draws blank stares, he refines it with “hip-hop rooted in psychedelic rock.”
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Contributors Ryan Patrick Hooper From the Inside Out
Here we have a fine young gentleman — Ryan Patrick Hooper, to be exact — showing off his bones like some sort of fashion statement. Cocky, isn’t it? Throwing himself out there for a whole world wide web of audiences to witness and observe from the inside out. It kind of disgusts us, but at the same time, this Detroit kid has got some swagger. While we can’t really define it and you certainly wouldn’t want to invite it over for dinner, it is certainly there in some shape or form, lurking in the shadows and never paying rent on time…
Welcome to the ChinaShop young man! Even though we can see right through you, we know you got Detroit covered!
5.00 (1 votes)
Contributors Joe Gall Shoots First
Attention ChinaShoppers….Joe Gall Employee of the minute!
Joe is a cutting-edge, professional photographer working throughout the entertainment industry shooting various bands, models and nightlife. Many of his photos have graced the covers of numerous publications and print ads Joe is truly a dynamic creative talent and is at the forefront in innovative editorial productions.
“Buying a Canon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Canon owner.”
4.00 (4 votes)
Music Long Live Other Lives
You know that floaty, nostalgic feeling you get when you wake up from a dream you don’t quite remember and you inexplicably miss your childhood dog, your kindergarten teacher, your mom’s pancakes or some other such non sequitur to your current life? (Admit it, you know exactly what I’m talking about.) Well, if those types of dreams had soundtracks, Other Lives would be the band to write them. Ethereal, orchestral, lush—all words that come to mind as I watch Other Lives perform at the famous KCRW studios in Santa Monica, CA during their slot on Morning Becomes Eclectic (Mon–Fri, 9am—12pm). This is not typically how I’d think to describe anything from Stillwater, Oklahoma, but for these scraggily haired, doe-eyed twenty-somethings, it fits.
4.60 (5 votes)
Event Featured Gallery Made in Detroit DEMF
4.00 (3 votes)
Event Gallery I’m on a Boat!
Before the festival, there were the parties. And while there are great party towns, few can match Detroit’s. So when the official Paxahau “I’m on the Boat” party, held Sunday night, was announced shortly before the festival, it quickly became the “buzz” afterparty of the weekend.
5.00 (1 votes)
Music Kenneth Thomas: Tranced Out in Detroit
Kenneth Thomas is one of the most successful DJs coming out of Detroit. He’s had a number one record on Beatport, has won Detroit DJ of the Year in the alternative weekly annual polls and is finishing an eagerly awaited artist album for Perfecto Records. But the only place you’ll find him in at Movement is in the audience. Because Kenneth Thomas doesn’t play techno. Or house. He plays progressive house and trance. And those are fighting words to the Detroit hardcore techno scene.
5.00 (1 votes)
Music Ape School
Words by Kyrstin Stone
When I first saw the artwork for the new Ape School album, I was expecting something completely over the top, but upon hearing the first song Wail to God, I was shocked (a good shocked)! Armed with a Moog synthesizer that dates back to 1965, Michael Johnson and Company deliver music that is sure to put you in a dreamlike state. Even though they are classified as Neo-Psych and constantly compared to groups such as the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev, Ape School is definitely in a league of its own. The catchy hooks paired with innovative sounds are what make Ape School a band truly worth checking out, especially if you are in the hunt for “a more cohesive, dramatic, and accidental love affair between machines and, less so, American Whitey.”
Ape School – Wail to God
Ape School – Wail to God Remix
4.33 (3 votes)
Music Exchange Bureau: All Agents on Deck
I’m down for breaking records. Not smashing my record collection (although it is quite smashing), but absolutely tearing about the expectations of the past with fresh goals, new levels of standard and freakishly potent ambition. One time, I won three consecutive races in what my friends and I like to call the Suburban Shopping Cart Downhill Finals. I am legally obligated to tell you that the police were eventually called and we returned every single tooth that we could find to the man of whom they once belonged (or so he claimed). But there are also those glorious aspirations that we can all appreciate (not just a gaggle of neighbors and your local police force), like when a young label-turned-collective by the name of Exchange Bureau decides to slam 18 of their musicians and artists into an hour and perform it all live on the Red Bull Music Academy stage.
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4.00 (4 votes)