Category: dance

21 May

Pink Skull Goes “Disco” For HEALTH

Philly’s Pink Skull (aka Julian S. Process and Justin Geller) are having a solid 2008. Following the release of their stellar and diverse debut LP, Zeppelin 3, they unleash one of the best remixes for HEALTH’s soon to be released HEALTH//DISCO remix album. Process and Gellar do justice to the FRICTION alums’ track […]

12 May

Syclops Has His Eye on You

Syclops lends itself as a bit of a mystery. Little is known of the “Finnish trio” featuring Sven Kortehisto, Hanna Sarkari, and Jukka Kantonen since they don’t tour, do interviews, take press photos, or reveal much information about themselves. The “band” does however play live shows, but only for themselves, not audiences. […]

24 Mar

M83 Saves Saturday’s for the Youth

A month or so ago I was lucky enough hear most of Saturday’s = Youth, the new album from Anthony Gonzalez, better known as M83. And although I only listened to Gonzalez’s fifth studio album just once through, I can confidently say that Saturday’s = Youth is the best thing I’ve heard so far […]

06 Mar

FRICTION @ The Mercury Lounge | 3.26.08 w/ Crystal Castles + HEALTH + Team Robespierre + Apache Beat

GET HYPE! Toronto’s Crystal Castles, along with Los Angeles quartet HEALTH, and New York’s Team Robespierre and Apache Beat are set to turn the next installment of FRICTION into a balls-to-the-motherfucking-wall dance party. Expect a night of dizzying strobe lights, throbbing basslines, blasts of noise, tropical and psychedelic freak-outs, and plenty of ruckus […]

11 Dec

Looking Ahead to 2008

I guess it’s time for me to start getting together one of those year end list things. While I’m at that I wanted to share a few tracks from some artists that I’m looking forward to hearing a lot more of in 2008. Myself and maybe even Nghia will try to get around […]

02 Oct

video of the week — teenage bad girl “cocotte”

Really digging this video for Teenage Bad Girl’s single “Cocotte.” The way it’s shot is very Godard-esque. For you Francophiles, cocotte is French for “chick,” which kind of gives you a little hint on what the video is about. No, not that kind of chick, the other one…yeah, the one that comes from […]

01 Oct

October Mixtape

This October is all about dancing. From the streets of Paris, New York City, Toronto, Seattle, and elsewhere we bring you our October mixtape to get you hype for the loads of killer parties happening this month. Nghia takes things down a notch for a little slow dance grind with his Band Of […]