Flash Sale! Flash Sale! Flash Sale! Go to here and name your price to get INNERPARTYSYSTEM’s Never Be Content EP + exclusive remixes of “Not Getting Any Better” by Darren Emerson and Sander Kleinenberg. 12% of the proceeds go to Charity Water! (which is awesome) and the sale ends Saturday at 2 PM GBT / 6 AM PST. If you have yet to discover INNERPARTYSYSTEM, we’ve attached a video for the band’s “American Trash” after the jump.
The unclassifiable Sleigh Bells are heading back into the Studio this coming June to start recording their follow up project to the wildly successful Treats. If you have not yet heard of this amazingly talented duo you must. They are fresh and forward. They sound like nothing before them and have a power all of their own. If Trent Reznor and Terri Nunn had a baby (assuming of course that the indelible Nunn could stomach the incorrigible Reznor) their offspring would most likely sound a lot like Sleigh Bells.
Melissa Dowell is a member of Blood Dumpster, a notoriously cutting edge Brooklyn art collective. Here she talks about artistic motivation, campfire stories, and the origins of the collective’s name.
With her explicit lyrics, edgy beats, and spunky personality, Yelle might single handedly be responsible for making the US fall in love with France. Julie Budet (Yelle) and her band, consisting of Jean-Francois Perrier (GrandMariner) and Tanguy Destable (Tepr), have been out on the road for a 6-week tour in support of their latest release, Safari Disco Club.
Backstage before the show at Los Angeles’s Music Box, Yelle greeted us with a smile and a look that would have taken the average person a team of stylists to assemble. Dressed in spotted animal print pants and a black scoop neck shirt, sporting a soft pretzel necklace and Eiffel Tower earrings, she pulled up a chair and began expressing her love for America.
In an interview with ChinaShop, Yelle discusses remixing songs for Katy Perry and Robyn, getting used to American culture, and dressing to impress on stage.
Blink 182 held a kick off party at the Rainbow Bar & Grill to announce they will be headlining the 2011 Honda Civic Tour with My Chemical Romance.
“It’s great to be going back out on the Honda Civic Tour,” Blink 182′s Mark Hoppus released in a statement, “We had a blast kicking off the tour ten years ago, and this summer we’ll be taking it to the next level with our friends in My Chemical Romance.” Indeed! Blink 182 tore it up on the very first Honda Civic Tour 10 years ago in 2001.
When it comes to street art, graffiti, or any artwork that winds up in public, there’s a certain process involved that can be as interesting as the final piece itself. With The Chicago Street Art Show, the work of Chicago-based artists like Don’t Fret, Chris Silva, Goons, and Mental 312 is hardly framed in a neat display; this show held at the Chicago Urban Art Society exists freely on and off the walls of the gallery, allowing people to really see the work and layers involved in contemporary street art. Personally getting to witness the final day of setup for this show illustrated how much life these pieces take on—especially when multiple artists bring their individual visions together.
Our final stop in Italy is Florence. The glamorous city is abuzz with tourism and, consequently, commerce in these Spring months.
The famous San Lorenzo leather market is bursting with colorful scarves, leather jackets and bags.
New one from Friendly Fires, Bala, is generating most of the buzz this week…New Kids do what they’ve been wanting to do for ages now and team up with the Backstreet Boys, who are also still here, dammit. And so is some band named Dot Dot Curve and their album of the same name, but really, who cares. Life goes on, and is really too short for such a weak week of releases (see above for proof that the rapture is here).
Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells – Everythings Getting Older
David Bazan – Strange Negotiations
New Kids On The Block & Backstreet Boys – NKOTBSB
French Horn Rebellion – The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion
Darwin Deez – Darwin Deez
Thurston Moore - Demolished Rocks
Fireworks – Gospel
Foster The People - Torches
Friendly Fires - Pala
Dot Dot Curve – I’m Still Here
Boris – Attention Please
Boris – Heavy Rocks
Johanna & The Dusty Floor - Northern Lights
PlanningtoRock – W
White Denim – D
She Wants Revenge – Valleyheart
Scarlet Season - The Taxidermist
Tara McPherson is one of the world’s top pop surrealist artists. Known for her heartless, candy pink and turquoise damsels, her staring balloons and her sweetly creepy creatures, McPherson has exhibited from the Phillipines to Sao Paulo. Along the way, she’s created an extraordinary range of merch.
Breanne Düren, the bubbly touring background vocalist/keyboard player for Owl City, has recently released an EP of her own. The 5-song disc, Sparks, debuted at number 3 on the iTunes pop chart on its May 3rd street date. Düren, who is currently on tour promoting her latest project, will be jumping back on the road with Owl City and opening up the set for several dates in major cities along the way.
Before her set at Hollywood’s Hotel Café, Düren sat down with ChinaShop to chat about her new solo career. She discusses leaving college to jump on the road for what she thought was a 2-month stint with Owl City, which turned into an opportunity that any artist would kill for, as well as how her experience touring inspired the songs she wrote for Sparks.
