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 […]

[photo by iamdonte]
The options for electronic music fans in NYC this Friday are major!
First up, Dub War will be filling out their residency at Love with a pair of huge guests, DJ /rupture and Martyn. Martyn made a ton of noise in the dubstep scene earlier this year with his Broken/Shadowcasting 12-inch, and /rupture is […]

[photo by Scootie]
Alex Smoke, Glasgow-based electronic musician and Soma Records artist, will be playing at The Bunker this Friday alongside residents Derek Plaslaiko and Spinoza. Word is that Galapagos will be staying up late for this one. We’re hoping to hear Alex close with his absolutely epic track 6AM at 6AM, at which point our […]

[photo by p_kirn]
Create Digital Music, Etsy Labs, and Make Magazine are throwing another Handmade Music this Thursday at Etsy’s Brooklyn space. Handmade Music is a show-n-tell style event in which musicians and hackers show off their DIY projects.
Check out CDM’s recap of the last Handmade Music for some more insight into what to expect.

The New York Times has posted an awesome and hilarious piece of work by artist Andrew Kuo. Kuo has created an intricate series of graphs and charts that visualize his observations from this past summer’s shows at Williamsburg’s favorite summer haunt, McCarren Pool.
[via Cool Hunting]

[Daft Punk - One More Time Live @ Wireless Festival 2007, London]
With Daft Punk set to take the stage in Las Vegas at Vegoose this weekend (we’re so jealous of our West Coast friends right now!!!) and a short string of dates in Mexico (including Mexico City on Halloween - so nuts!) over the following […]

Poet/musician/actor Saul Williams has been a long-time personal favorite, and Saul is dropping a new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails on November 1.
There’s no word yet on any release of the album on CD or vinyl, but it is clear that Saul’s well in […]

Andy Smith of Portishead will be DJ’ing at Ben Sherman and Filter Magazine’s CMJ event being held at the Ben Sherman SoHo store on October 19th. If you’re familiar with Portishead but not with Andy Smith as a DJ, stop reading this post immediately and go beg, borrow, or steal a copy of his classic […]