The xx – Basic Space (Live in Brooklyn)

Matt & Kim New Album :: Grand

Brooklyn-based duo Matt and Kim return with Grand, their second album and first in over two years. During the period in between records the duo has toured extensively and developed a loyal and growing fan base that eagerly awaits the release of Grand. The band spent the last nine months recording and tweaking Grand in between tour dates. The result is an album that takes the band’s musicianship and songwriting to the next level and also serves as a glowing representation of how far Matt and Kim have come since their debut. Make sure to check out the video for ‘Daylight’ below.

Pacific Division Gets Loud

Pacific Division was in NYC a few weeks ago to meet the Universal Motown family and they threw a show at LOVE to celebrate. John Public of Loud caught up with them outside the spot and they spit a few of their favorite verses.

ATP Music Festival 2008

All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) is an east coast music festival set for September 19-21 at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello, NY. The 3 Day Festival curated by both My Bloody Valentine and ATP and will be headlined by My Bloody Valentine in their first US appearance in 16 years. Check out their website BELOW for the line-up, events, location and more information regarding the festival.

Source: ATP Music Festival Official Website

Jackie Greene :: The Prince of Americana

Dubbed “The Prince of Americana” by the New York Times, Jackie Greene is steeped in country, blues, jazz, rock and folk traditions, defying easy categorization. This Northern California native has been around for a while, but is slowly defying a new genre of music with his Bob Dylan-esque look and classic American sound.

“I’ve been writing, recording and performing non-stop. I’ve lived in cars, hotels, basements…slept on floors, couches, strange girl’s beds. I wrote lots of songs in those places. Some I’ll never remember, but that’s all part of it, I guess.”

Greene, who happens to be in his late twenties already has four albums out, a DVD, and miles upon miles of touring under his belt. Greene’s newest album, “Giving Up The Ghost” is by far his best work as an artist. He is currently living in San Francisco and touring various places along the east and west coast, although he is scheduled to play 14 shows with Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) in New York City at the Nokia Theater beginning on Halloween night.

After visiting Jackie Greene’s MySpace I was instantly captured by his sound, but what lured me in even further was his past and his progression as an artist. If this isn’t good music, I don’t know what is.

Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl is an American independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 and based in Los Angeles. Throughout its history, the label has had distribution deals with PolyGram, Warner Music Group, EMI, Red Ant, Rhino and Universal Music Group. UCLA student Michael Ross met New York City transplant Matt Dike while Dike was DJing at a Hollywood club called Rhythm Lounge in the mid 1980s. The pair discovered they were both members of Impact Record Pool, a service that provided new 12″ records to club DJs, and that they shared a taste in soul, funk, and hip-hop. Soon Dike became the top DJ at the legendary downtown Los Angeles club Power Tools and Ross followed suit. In 1987 they founded their own independent record label Delicious Vinyl and the rest is history.

Here is Akron’s own, LeBron James, sporting a Delicious Vinyl T-Shirt ($20) during the USA Men’s Basketball Team’s Olympic preparation sessions in Beijing, China.

Visit Delicious Vinyl’s Website and brush up on the legendary artists of DV from Tone Loc to J Dilla to The Pharcyde to Masta Ace.

MGMT :: Oracular Spectacular

MGMT – Electric Feel

40 years after The Summer of Love (and 30 years after The Summer of Hate), MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, the duo’s much-anticipated first full-length album, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. “We weren’t trying to start a band,” Ben remembers. “We were just hanging out, showing each other music that we liked.” Andrew and Ben realized that — despite their opposing views on methodology (one is spontaneously practical, the other is practically spontaneous) — they shared a common love of mystic paganism (ironic indeed on a campus named for the founder of Methodism), psychotropic sounds, and the belief that a joke (or a joke song) could be sad, profound, and funny at the same time. The pair was drawn to the music of other duos and found themselves incorporating the implications of the hallucinatory power-twee of the Incredible String Band, the roaring subway minimalist.

This is the gnarliest music I think I’ve ever heard. If you haven’t heard MGMT’s sound yet, you are definitely missing out. Check out their music & tour dates BELOW!

http://www.myspace.com/mgmt

Devendra Banhart’s Surreal Sound

Devendra Banhart (Houston, Texas) is a Venezuelan-American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician. Banhart’s music has been classified as indie folk, psych folk, and New Weird America; his lyrics are often surreal and naturalistic.

Though born in the U.S., Banhart was raised in Caracas, Venezuela from 2 to 13 years old. Years later he gained popularity while living in San Francisco after attending the San Francisco Art Institute and further gained popularity when he subsequently moved to New York City to record under Young God Records, based in New York City. Banhart currently lives in Los Angeles. Check out his music & tour dates BELOW!

http://www.myspace.com/devendrabanhart

Staten Island x Applebum New Era

Wu-Tang Forever!

Available Exclusively @ Amazing Store

Source: Hat Hype

The Wackness

It’s the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana—but change is in the air. The newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against “crimes” like noisy portable radios, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step daughter (Olivia Thirlby). Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen,and Method Man round out the cast in this edgy, bittersweet, and funny coming of age story.

Check out more artwork on the WEBSITE and the teaser HERE.

In Theatres: July 3rd, 2008.

Source: Exclusives