beat/street/repeat

I can't tell if this song is referencing drugs, sex, all of the above, or none of the above. 

Virgins new two-track singles disc Venus In Chains just released at the end of May. I wish they would come out with more stuff already! They remind me a lot of a 2000's new wave/Talking Heads, which ovis im super down for. 

Seattle's Night Beats have psychedelic-soul garage sound that I don't find enough of around the city. Lee Blackwell's (Lead Guit & vocals) roots are from Dallas, Texas, and his sound goes all the way back to the roots of r&b--two things I totally love.

In 2006, Norwegian musician, composer and percussionist Terje Isungset founded the world's first ice music festival complete with harps, guitars, drums, and fiddles, just to name a few, carved from 600-year-old glacial ice. 

“The instruments are made from top quality ice. It must be free of any air bubbles. The instruments are carved using saws and knives. So far these instruments have been created and recorded: Iceofon, Ice Harp, Ice Horn, Ice trumpet, Ice percussion, Ice bass drum carved from one block of ice. In addition, all stands, supports and tables are also made from ice. Only the bass drum pedal, fish line for suspension, and the strings on the Ice Harp are made from materials other than pure frozen water.” - Isungset

"Call Me Maybe" Ben Howard 

"Mind Control" -Friends 

I've been going through an old-school funk phase, and when I listened "Mind Control" I was so pleasantly surprised to hear some modern psychedelic funk. Ya, they've got the dance-punk/indie-pop thing goin' for them, but this track is PHUNKYY.

"All Night Low" -Violens

Violens will be playing an album release event at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on May 16. Joining them will be Kuroma and New Lines. 

  Freshly off their string of east coast dates with Lower Dens, Violens depart for Japan following their NYC show and return to the west coast for shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco in addition to plaing NXNE in June.

SPRING TOUR DATES, more dates tba this summer

  5/16/2012 New York, NYLe Poisson Rouge (Album Release Event)

5/31/2012 San Francisco, CACal Academy of Science with Weekend

*6/03/2012 Los Angeles, CAPart Time Punks at The Echo