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Austin, Texas producer Xander Harris didnt know what he wanted for his video for "Night Fortress," he just knew it needed to be crazy. "I told [director] Melissa [Cha] to be as creative as she wanted to be," Harris says. "My only stipulation was that it ...]]> 02 May 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Xander-Harris-Celebrates-Psychedelic-Gyrating-in-Night-Fortress-Video-4746.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Hear-Perry-Farrells-Shockingly-Tender-Remix-of-Matthew-Herberts-Addiction-4705.html
Any good scholar of dance music can tell you that its history is a dialectical one - an interplay between experimental techniques and visceral immediacy, between mind-bending sonics and floor-filling functionalism - and few artists have navigated that ba...]]> 16 Apr 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Hear-Perry-Farrells-Shockingly-Tender-Remix-of-Matthew-Herberts-Addiction-4705.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Daft-Punk-Sign-With-New-Label-Prep-Fourth-Album-Report-4612.html Get pumped for a whole new era of digital love:Daft Punk have reportedly left EMI and signed with Columbia Records. The electronic duo are known for their colossal hit "One More Time," along with being the primary sample on Kanye Wests workout classic "S...]]> 30 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Daft-Punk-Sign-With-New-Label-Prep-Fourth-Album-Report-4612.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/First-Batch-of-Guest-Vocalists-Named-For-SUICIDE-SILENCE-Mitch-Lucker-Tribute-Show-4586.html From what I've heard, there are some big names lined up for the Suicide Silence Mitch Lucker memorial show, "Ending Is The Beginning". The show is scheduled for December 21st at the Fox Theater in Pomona, CA. The band will be playing a set of Suicide Sil...]]> 27 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/First-Batch-of-Guest-Vocalists-Named-For-SUICIDE-SILENCE-Mitch-Lucker-Tribute-Show-4586.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Woman-4468.html
Rhye are Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Milosh and Danish producer-songwriter Robin Hannibal - but you'd be forgiven for thinking their debut was the new Sade LP Milosh's androgynous voice bears a startling resemblance to that of the lite-soul queen ...]]> 24 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Woman-4468.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Charli-XCX-The-SXSW-QA-4457.html So on Friday (March 15) at South by Southwest, I woke up at the crack of 9:37 a.m. to interview Charli XCX at 10:00 a.m. I thought maybe her reps were playing a prank on me, because that is basically dawn during a festival. But it was real.Like her pal S...]]> 24 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Charli-XCX-The-SXSW-QA-4457.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/SXSW-2013-Free-Energys-Rallying-Cry-4420.html
Free Energy brought their straightforward catchy rock music to amp up the crowd at Rolling Stone's Rock Room The band tore through their eponymous battle cry "Free Energy" a song off of 2010's Stuck On Nothing a track that opens with a cowbell and doesn'...]]> 23 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/SXSW-2013-Free-Energys-Rallying-Cry-4420.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Parquet-Courts-Smart-Aleck-Kid-4405.html Last fall we shared Parquet Courts "Borrowed Time" and the title track from their album Light Up Gold. Now the band is releasing "Borrowed Time" as a 7 with two brand new b-sides. Check out one of them, "Smart Aleck Kid," below.Read More...]]> 23 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Parquet-Courts-Smart-Aleck-Kid-4405.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Devendra-Banhart-Mala-review-4385.html Devendra Banhart's taste for bathos and anachronism ensures that even his tiniest songs have character Such is his influence on psych and freak-folk in the last decade, Devendra Banhart no longer sounds particularly freaky - it's perfectly normal to rec...]]> 23 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Devendra-Banhart-Mala-review-4385.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Lutoslawski-Orchestral-Works-IV-review-4371.html Michael Collins (clarinet), Tasmin Little (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Gardner (Chandos) Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94) wrote much of his First Symphony during the second world war. The opening has an angular, witty quality mirrored in the last movem...]]> 23 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Lutoslawski-Orchestral-Works-IV-review-4371.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Camp-Lo-review-4268.html Cargo, London The murder of Notorious BIG in 1997 began a tumultuous time for hip-hop. Biggie's friend Jay-Z began his ascent to global stardom and his erstwhile mentor Puff Daddy - as he then was - secured a worldwide hit with his mawkish tribute, I'll...]]> 21 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Camp-Lo-review-4268.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Linda-Ronstadt-On-Piano-Jazz-4267.html Through a career that's encompassed folk, rock, country and operetta, the singer has even recorded with minimalist composer Philip Glass. In this session recorded live at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mass., Ronstadt sticks to jazz standards like "Lush Li...]]> 21 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Linda-Ronstadt-On-Piano-Jazz-4267.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Catz-N-Dogz-favourite-tracks-4195.html The Polish house players and Pets Recordings owners empty the contents of their psychic record bag The track we'll be opening our next DJ set with BLCKSHP: Close To Mine BLCKSHP are our friends from Warsaw and this is the best track they've done so f...]]> 21 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Catz-N-Dogz-favourite-tracks-4195.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Shostakovich-Symphony-No-8-review-4109.html Rozhdestvensky/London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) This dates from 1983, a time when Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony was something of a rarity and not universally regarded as the towering masterpiece we consider it today. Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestve...]]> 20 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Shostakovich-Symphony-No-8-review-4109.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/St.-Patricks-Day-Playlist-4078.html
Posted on ANDPOP: Kiss me, Im Irish! At least thats what Ill be telling any dapper looking dude this St. Patricks Day. Its the one time of the year when the colour green doesnt offend me and itspoliticallycorrect to pretend to be from another country...]]> 20 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/St.-Patricks-Day-Playlist-4078.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/The-New-CARICATURE-Single-Rules-4075.html You know how you get that feeling that a band is going to be huge? I've got that feeling. Just damn. Caricature take a pretty well-defined and heavy sound, throw in a hook that'sguaranteedto be stuck in your head all day, then pile on the shreddy riff-fe...]]> 20 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/The-New-CARICATURE-Single-Rules-4075.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Kitten-The-SXSW-QA-4059.html If music is a young persons game, then Kitten are in good shape. The under-21 band from L.A., led by the way-too-charismatic-for-a-teenager Chloe Chaidez, has already gotten a bunch of blog love (this one included) and a spot on Paramores tour without ev...]]> 20 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Kitten-The-SXSW-QA-4059.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Billy-Bragg-Tooth-Nail-review-4009.html (Cooking Vinyl) The British folk scene's singer-songwriter elite have a new way to record great albums: find a leading American producer with a home studio, and move in for a rapid recording session. It's what Richard Thompson did with Buddy Miller in N...]]> 19 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Billy-Bragg-Tooth-Nail-review-4009.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Lil-Wayne-is-in-recovery-3991.html
Posted on ANDPOP: If you were confused and concerned about Lil Waynes condition last night, you can now breathe a little easier. Contrary to what was being reported, the rapper is now recovering after being hospitalized for multiple seizures. Thing...]]> 19 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Lil-Wayne-is-in-recovery-3991.html http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Interview-Young-Chop-3941.html
Young Chop is loud and squiggly, with a generous laugh. The teenage producer behind "I Dont Like," "Love Sosa" and "Hate Bein Sober" (plus since-retracted tweets challenging Keef and Kanye West, who roguely remixed "Dont read more "]]> 18 Mar 2013 http://www.niuzer.com/debates/Music/Interview-Young-Chop-3941.html