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Featured Music 10 Covers / 10 Days: Tokyo Police Club

August 8, 2011 - 4:09 pm

Canadian quartet Tokyo Police Club have announced an ambitious and riotous project, recording 10 cover songs from the years 2001-2010 over the course of 10 days. The project will begin at 12pm PST on Tuesday, August 23 at Red Bull Studios Los Angeles when the band enters the studio to rehearse and record a cover song over the next 10 hours, to be premiered the following morning at, 10am PST right here on ChinaShop starting Wednesday, August 24. The final song will be premiered on Saturday, September 3.

Starting next Monday, August 15, three potential songs from each year, between 2001-2010, will be revealed via Polaroid with the final track revealed each night prior to recording. The band will be creating daily Polaroid photo diaries and filming the entire recording process. In addition, each song will have unique artwork created from a Polaroid image shot that day in the studio.

Exclusive media partners include Alternative Press, ARTIST Direct, Entertainment Weekly, FILTER, Mashable, The Onion AV Club, Spinner. At 11am EST the song will be made available via all partner sites. Livestream.com will be offering fans a behind-the-scenes look into the recording process each day between 7pm-8pm PST.

Stay tuned for additional details in the coming weeks on the packaging of all 10-songs with commemorative pieces from the project.

While Tokyo Police Club was busy prepping for the event, singer David Monks spared a few moments to jump on the phone to provide us with some insider info on what we can expect from “10 Covers in 10 Days.”

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Gallery Music Deerhunter: No Headlights Here

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall

July 1, 2011 - 12:30 pm

Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox is not a shy man. Standing 6′ 4″ tall and almost too skinny for words, he is a perfect rock and roll skeleton… And it’s not from drugs or anorexia. Bradford suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome, a disease characterized by abnormally long limbs that makes carriers susceptible to cardiovascular disease. Bradford’s early life was plagued by ridicule and shame for his “strange” look. Pain I’m sure that feeds his art to this day, and he is the person (and performer) he is today because of it. And his presence is the perfect match for Deerhunter’s aberrant sound.

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Gallery Music A Modest Big Boi Thinks Outside of the Box

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall

June 28, 2011 - 2:08 pm

It seems that these days, Big Boi is collaborating with everyone… well not just everyone, pretty much the coolest most, keep you on your toes-iest artist like Modest Mouse and Janelle Monáe. Oh, and it seems he’s got a sweet spot for the banjo, telling fuse interview blank that he is itching to get down with Mumford and Sons (I know, kind of awesome hah), and to boot, we might have some new Outkast coming out soon (although Big Boi has been reluctant to “let anything out of the trunk” just yet). I guess we’ll just have to stay tuned.

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Gallery Music Intellect and Emotion: The Head and the Heart

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall

June 17, 2011 - 6:00 am

“Oh no, not another Avett Brothers wannabe, Mumford look alike,” you might say on first listen to Seattle based The Head and the Heart. They share a lot of similarities with the aforementioned bands i.e. “rootsy” Americana drenched, harmony infused songs, acoustic instrumentation, hand percussion, etc… (not always a bad think, by the way i happen to love those to bands and the simplicity, authenticity and emotion conveyed in the songs simple treatment). And like it or not, The Head and the Heart is one of this generation’s emerging Alt-Americana mainstays.

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Gallery Music Shoot First (While Smiling): Flying Lotus

by Ryan Patrick Hooper and Joe Gall

June 10, 2011 - 8:37 am

Within five minutes of Flying Lotus’ set on the Red Bull Music Academy stage at Movement on Memorial Day, it was obvious why he was closing down the stage for the weekend. Flying Lotus (born Steven Ellison) came in with a “shoot first, ask questions later” mentality. After rumors that he might be late (no one wanted to see his much anticipated set reduced), Ellison arrived like he had something to prove.

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Gallery Music Daedelus Graces Movement’s Red Bull Music Academy Stage

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall

June 9, 2011 - 12:19 pm

With a mission of bringing together musicians, DJs and producers from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas about music and their knowledge of how life in the industry works, Red Bull Music Academy has helped emerging, innovative talent get their wings including many of the acts that were seen on the dedicated stage throughout the weekend.

Daedelus, well-known around the electronic music industry as one of today’s cornerstones of new sound graced the Red Bull Music Academy stage incorporating a deep jazz element into his Movement set proving his nickname — “mad professor” — true.

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Gallery Music Com Truise Gets His Wings

by Ryan Patrick Hooper and Joe Gall

June 8, 2011 - 10:41 am

Mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk. How could you read it and not want to hear it? But Com Truise does you one better — he offers up a visual accompaniment with just about everything he releases. To announce a trio of shows — first trip overseas to Sweden, his two-hour show at Movement 2011 and a set in Toronto — Com pumped out a slick graphic to let you know. He designed the artwork for his Ghostly International debut, “Galactic Melt,” due July 5. He rocks a t-shirt he designed to coincide with said release.

These, ladies and gentlemen, are the perks of being the digital art director for a global pharmaceutical firm and a budding New Jersey-based DJ whiz.

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Gallery Music Skrillex: Electro Rock N Roll

by Barbie Brady and Joe Gall

June 7, 2011 - 4:38 pm

I first heard of Sonny Moore (better known as Skrillex) back when he was in a little punk rock band called From First to Last on Epitaph Records. His electro house/ dubstep inspired sound doesn’t feel very rock n roll at first blush, however his ability to mix sounds, create moods, and subvert the expected is very punk rock, even in the electro community.

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Gallery Music Sleigh Bells Chime into The Studio for More Treats

by Barbie Brady and Joe Gall

May 26, 2011 - 9:49 am

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.

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Fashion Gallery Bamboozler Babes in Boyland: New Jersey 2011

by Barbie Brady and Joe Gall

May 11, 2011 - 11:17 am

If you want a snapshot of America on any given summer just take a sampling of the trends set at its festivals. Bamboozle just occurred in New Jersey this past weekend and I tasked the talents of photographer Joe Gall to capture the people and mayhem of the scene. Check out the awesome that is an ever fashion forward Jersey scene…no seriously.

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