The Dirtybird lands at APT tonight, Thursday, August 23rd for its monthly New York residency.

If you missed last month’s Dirtybird night at APT, put on your dancing shoes and call in sick for Friday. If you came, we don’t have to tell you to come again—you’re already in line. These gents aren’t messing around.

Justin Martin and Worthy bring the heat.
10p / $10 / (wobbly house, techno, electro)

APT
419 W. 13th St. (bet- 9th Ave and Washington St.)
West Village
New York
212.414.4245

Quickie post here – Just wanted to share some artists/music that I am really lovin lately! Figured I’d just direct you to a few sites where you will find some STELLAR music that you should definitely have a listen to!! I’m especially feelin absolutely everything that FUKKK OFFF out of Hamburg, Germany is doing!!!!!!! “The Bottom” is just sooo rigid and “I’m a Freak” is the perfect tune to get down and deep to!! (take that as you please) Both have that perfect bounce throughout!!!!!!

FUKKK OFFF The Bottom / I’m a Freak / Black Phantom / Boy Who RMX – all superb! “I’m a Freak” was just signed to Coco Machete, NYC

FELIX CARTAL Ultra Magnetic TEASER

CROOKERS Chemical Brothers Cookers “WOW” mix

JFK MSTRKRFT Yuksek Remix ReEdit

THE BLOODY BEETROOTS Hostage GLUTTONY RMX
+ most everything I hear by BBR

Maybe the weirdest thing about the existence of This is Next, Vice and MTV2’s new Best Buy-targeted mainstream-indie comp, is that it isn’t really all that weird at all. As Pitchfork has pointed out, the compilation aims to be a sort of Now! That’s What I Call Music for indie-rock, and most of the compilers’ choices are appropriately obvious. Vice and MTV2 used the most nebulous definition of indie that you could possibly imagine. Indie here doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with actual independent record labels, so we get major-label stuff from Sonic Youth and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, as well as Vice beneficiaries Bloc Party, who, to be fair, fit as neatly into this album’s structure as any of the other bands. (Refreshingly, Vice opts not to exploit synergistic opportunities to shoehorn in any of its other acts; we won’t find any Black Lips or Boredoms or Run the Road album-tracks here.)

Most of the other acts come pilfered from bigger indies: Spoon from Merge, the Shins from Sub Pop, Ted Leo from Touch & Go. And while it’s a bit tough to see what might unite the Hold Steady with Of Montreal or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, it’s basically true that all of them occupy places in some loosely defined indie-rock continuum. The compilation’s press release mentions the Garden State soundtrack as a precedent, and the comparison totally holds water; the Garden State soundtrack might’ve featured a decidedly non-indie Coldplay song, but then This Is Next could absorb Coldplay into its fabric just as easily.

Probably with good reason, Vice and MTV2 mostly pull from the subsections of indie that share as little obvious lineage as possible with punk and postpunk. Even prog is in short supply; there’s no Muse or TV on the Radio here; either one might make cultural sense, but neither one would work aesthetically. Pulled from the contexts of their respective albums, Sonic Youth’s “Do You Believe in Rapture?” and the Hold Steady’s “Chips Ahoy!” are both a whole lot more MOR and palatable than those bands’ respective bodies of work might suggest. The only band that’s allowed to work up anything resembling a threatening clangor is Deerhoof, whose inclusion is pretty hard to figure out, even if their song here, “The Perfect Me,” is accessible as fuck by their standards.

The album isn’t targeted toward people who consider clangor to be a virtue; it’s a Whitman’s Sampler of blog-friendly pop-rock. The cover includes the term “indie’s biggest hits,” but it offers no indication of what that might mean. The packaging, in fact, looks like someone spent five minutes with some instant album-cover Quark template, and the liner notes don’t have any rapturous accounts of touring in busted-down vans and sleeping on strangers’ floors. Instead, we get the pictures of the bands’ albums and a quick note that maybe we should check those bands out. Plenty of people, after all, don’t have an hour to parse Pitchfork every morning, and so this approach makes a certain sense. It’s a quick, clean overview of what I guess we’ll be calling indie from now on.

As Reported By The Village Voice

Interesting read, wanted to share Bob’s thought of the day . . .

What if MTV just doesn’t count anymore.

MTV is like a band. Which instead of worrying about its integrity, pursued the flavor of the moment, did what was expedient, to garner cash now. If only Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam ran MTV, then it might mean something.

Kind of laughable if you think about it. In this sold-out era, MTV has sold itself out, and is left with a meaningless carcass. MTV promoting a music service is like a whore promoting abstinence. It’s a disconnect.

Oh, don’t tell me about the VMAs. The VMAs are a meaningless trainwreck equivalent to a TMZ broadcast. If you think it’s about music, then you don’t listen to music. Really, it’s about advertising. MTV will do whatever it can to sell advertising. Leaving a hail of bullets and used up reputations in its wake. How about an update on all those who’ve appeared on MTV. Not only the rappers, but the reality “stars”. I’d say MTV ruins lives. But, it did this after it helped ruin music.

Yup, MTV ruined music. Through OVEREXPOSURE! Acts take time to develop. Put them on TV right away, and you kill them, they never get to “Sticky Fingers”, but are stuck at “Tell Me” and “Not Fade Away”. Decent tracks, but the Stones would be a footnote if they hadn’t developed over a series of albums.

And that’s the Vedder/Pearl Jam point. They know the axiom isn’t true. All publicity isn’t good publicity. It just makes you a joke. Pearl Jam can sell out arenas. Vanilla Ice? All the one hit wonders broken on MTV? They can’t even sell out clubs.

So, this channel, which has failed online, with not only its own site but Urge, is suddenly going to be successful in the Net music sphere?

Make me laugh.

First and foremost, MTV has to explain rental/subscription. That’s too complicated for the idiots both steering and populating the channel. They can display boob jobs. And conspicuous consumption. But the intellectual quotient of MTV is equivalent (more…)

On Sunday I posted a lengthy feature, Adventures with Heartschallenger, on Lo & Ben of HEARTSREVOLUTION along with their track, “Choose Your Own Adventure C.Y.O.A.” I got a chance to peep the video and thought it was SO FUCKING ACE!!!! It is now out for the world to see just how very cool it is!!!! Reminds me of the “Dance” video done for Justice – And we all know how amazing that video was!!
Heartschallenger Store

Directed & retouched by Jean Demery
Model photography by Bastien Lattanzio
Additional photography by Podolux & Cassidy Curtis
Model Stylism by Guillaume Berg

And that’s not all, you’ll also get a FREE Moustache!

We know, A FREE MOUSTACHE!!!

Pretty unbelievable, but, YES, THIS IS FOR REAL!!! AND THAT’S NOT ALL! The first 5 winners to arrive at Studio B that night also get a subscription to XLR8R Magazine!

Last time Throne Of Blood and Ed Banger got together, we all know what happened . . . Some of us even lived to tell about it and share our experiences with others.

Throne Of Blood & Ed Banger, & Mas Dafter Party in NYC
You can catch more Throne Of Blood & Ed Banger Dafter Footage if you click HERE

Adding DJ T, to the mix? Wild is certainly an understatement!!!

To have a chance to win this most amazing contest . . ., all you need to do is click this little widget below, and join Mas Parties NYC’ rad group. (hmmm, widgets are attachable, kinda like fake moustaches? Interesting, eh?)

Picking The Winners
Mas will then close their eyes and point at the computer screen 100 times until they have all the lucky moustacheers’ chosen. (is that even a word?) They will notify the lucky folks on Thursday Aug 30th via their going profile. You then just need to drop your name at the door, stick on your ’stache, and your GOLDEN!

More info on Moustaches Wild
Mas Party Blog

*Also, not to confuse - RSVP’ing does not guarantee entry into the event, it just lets the promoters know you’re interested in coming, the 100 ticket giveaway winners are guaranteed entry, (and the stache, natch!) but the rest of ya’ll need to get there early and sort the cover, or you can purchase your tickets in advance.

Because I am so excited about the Riot In Belgium show coming up on wednesday I thought I’d throw up a quick little “collected works of” post for them. Finally Chicago is starting to realize that theres more music out there than fucking house and mash up.

(Most of) The Collected Works Of Riot In Belgium

The latest track and subsequent remixes:

Riot In Belgium - La Musique

Riot In Belgium - La Musique (JBAG re-edit)

Riot In Belgium - La Musique (Revolver Edit)

Riot In Belgium - La Musique (Sinden rmx)

Riot In Belgium - La Musique (Ooheeloot rmx)

Riot In Belgium - La Musique (Adam Sky rmx)

And all the other remixes:

Sneaky Sound System - I Love It (Riot In Belgium Forest Rave Mix)

Proxy - Destroy (Riot In Belgium’s Serious About Dance Edit)

KIM - Wet ‘n’ Wild (Riot In Belgium rmx)

Dardanelles - Of Course You Said (Riot In Belgium rmx)

Surkin - Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Second Mix)

Yelle - A Cause de Garcons (Riot In Belgium rmx)

Photo courtesy of Emily Lucas

Ladies & Gentleman, welcome to the podium THE GLAMOUR SOUNDSYSTEM.

So Time Out are raving about him, The Observer is foaming at the mouth about him, and now we’ve got him!

James a.k.a The Glamour Soundsystem has been using a catalogue of interesting machines to produce bleeps and electronic melodies with a dirrty edge then unleashing them on his myspace page for over a year now.

Based in Birmingham U.K. he has been infecting us with his tunes on the local live scene making us dance until our little legs drop off to tracks like ‘Lois Lane’ and my personal fave ‘Get Up’. ‘Get Up’ is a mish mash of catchy rythmns, psycho vocals and electro clash touches that have driving us insane to the point breakage. His pulsating basslines and delicious synths are more energizing than a RedBull although his tunes are far tastier.

I suggest you guys check him out quick smart as this boy is going to be huge with a capital H. With his determination to succeed combined with his individual style and time on his side (he’s very youthful) we will definitely be seeing more from this wonder boy for years to come. Listen to ‘Get Up’ right now (available for DL for 1.5 wks!) then go and don yourselves with The Glamour Soundsystem’s dapper merchandise and music for purchase available here. As always, support your artist!