Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot”
Green Point Wines is giving away 4 VIP tickets to see Sonic Youth this Saturday at what will likely be the last McCarren Pool show ever. If you win, we expect you to come running in on platform shoes, with Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue.
Tickets are still […]

ReSolute will be bringing Marko Nastic to Bar 13 this Friday night for a rare club event.
The ReSolute crew has been responsible for some fantastic parties in the past few months, including a transcendent afterhours at TV Bar during this year’s DEMF and Bunker resident DJ Derek Plaslaiko’s birthday party in June here in NYC.
Playing […]

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Rubicon
Alan Braxe will be playing at this week’s Été D’Amour party. Alan is well known for his original material with Fred Falke as well as being an incredibly prolific remixer. Braxe also collaborated with Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on everybody’s favorite French house track, Music Sounds Better With You, […]

There’s less than two weeks left before Sunday School for Degenerates invades NYC on Labor Day weekend. Since 2006, Sunday School has held as the closing party for Winter Music Conference at Miami’s Pawn Shop and has gained a reputation for being one of the best and most outrageous WMC events.
Here in New York, we’ll […]

[photo by nudevinyl]
Matthew Dear will be playing a 4-hour DJ set during Thursday’s installment of Made Event’s Été D’Amour party at Santos Party House.
We’ve seen Matt play at least a half dozen times by now, and he always brings the ruckus.
We’re also excited to check out this fairly new space located at 100 Lafayette for […]

[photo by Seze Devres]
Local experimental photographers Seze Devres and Julian Sherida-McKenna will be showing their work this Friday, August 1st from 8pm to midnight at the home of art patron and filmmaker Charles Merritt, located at 240 Richardson Street in Brooklyn. You may know Seze already as the hostess and resident photographer of two of […]

Our good friends at minitek are in the middle of a second 24-hour presale, this time at $60 per ticket. If you slept on the earlier $40 24-hour presale, now’s the time.
Head on over to Resident Advisor to pick up your tickets only until noon tomorrow!
Also, there have been some new additions since the last […]

Minitek is doing a special early-bird presale for tickets until 11PM today. For one day only, weekend passes covering all 3 days of the festival are available for only $40. For our money, $40 is a damn steal for the lineup already announced, and prices will increase for the regular pre-sale happening closer to the […]

At Saturday night’s extra-glittery minimoo party, miss moo revealed some highly anticipated details about the mysterious “what is m?” flyers that have been turning up around town for the past month. Here’s the skinny - m is for minitek, a three day electronic music festival to be held right here in NYC!
Details are still forthcoming, […]

[photo by Amit Gupta]
The schedule for McCarren Pool’s annual summer film series has been released over at the SummerScreen site. Looks like a solid line-up this year, and Dazed & Confused in particular was a blast last summer. If memory serves, there was no booze to be had, so don’t forget to pack a flask […]

Trent Reznor and company continue to kick out the jams. Today sees the release of yet another Nine Inch Nails full-length album, The Slip. This record is being given away completely free. Trent says, “thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me.”
Much like Ghosts I-IV, The Slip […]

Ghostly International and Adult Swim have teamed up to release an excellent (and freely downloadable!) compilation of new material by Ghostly artists.
You can grab Ghostly Swim from adultswim.com.
Also, Nine Inch Nails have released a new track today, Discipline, which is available as a free download. And if you haven’t already, make sure to check out […]

Daft Punk playing live at Even Further in Wisconsin in 1996.
No computers, no pyramids. Bangalter’s killing it on straight hardware!

[photo by vinylslut.ca]
The MSTRKRFT boys are back in town this Friday at Studio B and they’re bringing reinforcements in the form of L.A. Riots, The Bloody Beetroots, and friend of Obscene Lazaro Casanova. Laz also runs a sweet mp3 blog - Shot Callin’ - it’s one of our favorites.
We’ve collectively seen MSTRKRFT half a dozen […]

[photo by digitaldefection]
Ex-Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins will be doing two nights of his new spoken word show, Provoked, at Warsaw in Greenpoint. The shows start at 7PM on Wednesday and Thursday night.
Henry has been doing spoken word for years now, in addition to fronting Black Flag and Rollins Band, acting, and generally getting things […]

[Kanye West featuring Daft Punk at the 2008 Grammy Awards]
This is a show that we’re all way excited about! Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark Tour will be up in Madison Square Garden on May 13th. The tour features Kanye along with Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D. and Rihanna. No word yet on when tickets will be […]

Curbed has some info about what’s to become of one of our favorite summer venues, McCarren Pool. As far as we know, the coming summer concert series is still a go, and there were rumors early on that any renovations to the pool would still allow for the possibility of shows to be thrown there, […]

We’re super stoked to hear that The Bomb Squad, Public Enemy’s legendary production team helmed by Hank Shocklee (seen above), will be debuting their new dubstep material at this month’s Dub War on the 15th! This looks to be a big one, as Loefah will also be along for the ride in addition to Blackdown […]

[photo by Tinhead]
minimoo is an NYC-based collective that has been throwing minimal techno parties around the city (and when they’re on vacation, around the world!) since late 2006. We were lucky enough to catch Paul Ritch at minimoo’s last party, held in December at an absolutely ill space in Long Island City. These guys do […]