Music Electric Zoo: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

September 8, 2011 - 7:44 am

It has been ten years since Daft Punk released Discovery, an album that many highlight as being a key player in pushing electronic music into the mainstream. Now, the demand for electronic music is greater than ever. Electric Zoo, the premier electronic music festival now in its third year, invaded New York this past weekend looking to meet that demand. By addressing several issues from the record turnout last year and upping the length of the festival from two to three days, Electric Zoo seemed to be living up to the symbolic phrasing introduced by the iconic Daft Punk ten years prior, to be: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. At the end of the weekend, approximately 85,000 people passed through the concert gates to take part in one of the largest electronic music festivals to ever take place on the east coast.

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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Nero, Breaking Benjamin, The Cool Kids, and Jeff Bridges

August 16, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Big release week, and too many names to mention — but fresh off his recent appearance at The Troubadour, Jeff Bridges releases his self-titled debut…dubstep young god Nero has Welcome Reality and Dead Can Dance bring you Towards the End (the best I could come up with) — and Matthew Friedberger wants you to Cut it Out. Haha. I’ll try to be more clever next week…see ya…

Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges

Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamins

Nero - Welcome Reality

Speed the Plough – Shine

New Villager – New Villager

Maria Taylor - Overlook

Ana Popovic – Unconditional

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Guy Clark – Songs and Stories

Matthew Friedberger – Cut it Out

Dead Can Dance - Towards the End (DVD)

Braid – Closer to Closed

Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud

Patrick Doyle - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (OST)

Case Studies - The World is Just a Ship to Fill the World

Fool’s Gold - Leave No Trace

Canon Blue - Rumspringa

Blue October - Any Man in America

Daily Dots Daily Dots: Gorillaz vs. Russell Brand, Plastikman, Insane Clown Posse, Moby Is A Bloodsucker

March 10, 2010 - 5:45 pm

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Today’s bloggin best…

- Gorillaz like Katy Perry, but hate Russell Brand. Prefix

- Plastikman, Model 500 and Inner City all to headline Movement Festival. URB

- Someone let Insane Clown Posse onto Nightline…oh, to make fun of them. Videogum

- 13th Witness directed the new Deftones video. Hypebeast

- Kavinsky has a new track to rave to. Fools Gold

- Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins and Moby all appear in Canadian vampire flick. The Playlist

Music A-Trak

February 12, 2010 - 12:08 pm

A Trak

If anything A-Trak can claim rights to being the very youngest (age 15) and the first Canadian DJ to win the prestigious DMC DJ Award. He’s also belonged to some of electro and hip-hop’s most beloved groups, including Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and worked alongside such artists such as Kanye West and MSTRKRFT. With an increasingly impressive list of accolades, he’s clearly become one of the industry/commercial darlings, and (refreshingly) one who has experimented with many different sounds and genres. Perfect for everything from raves to the sort of cyberpunkish-electronic wave, akin to Daft Punk (so aptly described on Red Bull Music Academy Radio). Get a closer listen at the RBMA website.