Let the silly indie kids have their silly SXSW, with their flannels and ironic t-shirts, their jangle and distortion. The rest of us have the cool, crisp, rhythmically dependable sounds of electronic music in its many-splendored forms: techno, house, dubstep, electro, disco, and more, plus all the hybrids and subgenres and unclassifiables. And they all come together once a year in sunny Miami for the annual .
This year marks the 22nd year of the festival. A true endurance test, it goes down at Miami Beach Resort Spa from March 20-25. All sorts of satellite events take place across Miami s club scene-- including the Ultra Festival-- and a whole heaping lot of the biggest names in dance music will be there, including the Cure (eh, sure, we ll dance to them), Peaches, Fischerspooner, Booka Shade, Matthew Dear, El-P, A-Trak, Kid Sister, Justice, Digitalism, Crystal Castles, Henrik Schwarz, MSTRKRFT, Tiga, M.
A.N.D.
Y., Richie Hawtin, Escort, Miss Kittin, Marco Bailey, the Presets, Deep Dish, Josh Wink, DJ Hell, Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox, and the inimitable Ferry Corsten, plus like a bajillion more.
It would be easier to tell you who s not playing, frankly.
Consult -- the official unofficial guide to WMC events-- and search for your favorites. And check out the for details on panels, interviews, and other fest happenings.
Trust us-- after this one, you will never want to dance again.
After one show at South by Southwest on March 17, will take the to venues across Europe and North America in April and May.
Most of Tobin s dates are DJ sets, but quite a few of those are in Surround Sound. For the Surround Sound sets, Tobin will mix material from The Foley Room with the music that inspired it, using his turntables more as samplers than as traditional turntables.
The tour begins April 3 in Montpellier, France and ends May 26 in Los Angeles. Datarock Sign to Nettwerk, Revise/Reissue Debut
Kick off U.S.
tour this week Hello hello! Today today we re pleased pleased to announce that have signed signed to -- normally home to tamer tamer fare like Sarah McLachlan and Hanne Hukkelberg. If you re seeing double double, good!
Because Nettwerk has plans to release Datarock s debut debut, Datarock Datarock, in physical formats on June 12. iTunes users can scoop it up March 19, and the most zealous fans can score it right now via the duo s .
Datarock Datarock is actually a slightly revised/expanded edition (tracklist below) of the , which the band released on its own (YAP) imprint way back in 1912.
Or maybe 2005. By revised, we mean that a few new jams have been added to the tracklist, and the most overtly gay numbers-- Night Flight to Uranus , anyone?-- have been conspicuously removed.
Where s Columbia s when you need it??
Datarock play an impressive six SXSW shows before embarking on their U.
S. tour. The duo then returns to its native Norway for scattered appearances.
will release frontman Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot on June 5. The second in a series of full-color, 6 X 8 hardcover book/CD packages that so far includes Aki Tsuyuko s , Tarot features six tracks and 48 pages of Higgs visual art.
According to the Thrill Jockey website, The yggdrasil is the great tree of Norse myth that connects all worlds of cosmology.
.. In his relentless pursuit of the indivisible, Higgs travels up and down this spine and hatches a new transubstantiation of sound and image into life form.
We smell a tour opening for Mastodon!
In addition to the book and CD, Thrill Jockey will also transubstantiate the album into a limited edition vinyl version.
Higgs is currently on tour in the UK, and he will return to the U.
S. with in April.
True to his depressive persona, will spend the summer mostly indoors, and mostly in the dark.
From late April through at least the end of June, Moz will woo these great United States on a gargantuan tour, according to Morrissey authority . Interestingly, he s sidestepping Coachella in order to play a casino in Sparks, Nevada. Oh, Morrissey!
Only the western half of the tour has been announced so far, save for June 30 date at Madison Square Garden. Look for the rest of the dates to be filled in later in the week. Kristeen Young will open all shows.
People of North America, get excited-- it s not often that acclaimed tech house duo grace these shores. After all, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier are in-demand producers and remixers, with a riveting live act that s won them invitations to festivals the world over.
But don t take our world for it-- scope these jetsetters 2007 tour itinerary below.
After a two-week run on this continent, they bound around the world...
for the next six months. Australia. Manchester.
Roskilde. Portugal. Greece.
Even Serbia, where we thought dancing was banned or something. It s all there. All in support of , Pitchfork s .
And you can witness it first, right up against the booth, making an ass of yourself. P4K Fest Discounted Three-Day Passes Sold Out, ATP Headliner to be Announced Friday Wow, that was fast. Just a little over a day after for the 2007 (taking place July 13-15 at Union Park in Chicago), our discounted three-day passes are all gone.
See, we told you they were extremely limited! You can still buy passes for all three days, but now they re up to full price. $50 gets you into collaboration with , as well as Saturday and Sunday, when Cat Power, Clipse, Of Montreal, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear, Professor Murder, and Ken Vandermark s Powerhouse Sound, among others to be announced, will perform.
Click on over to for tickets. A Saturday/Sunday pass costs $35, while Saturday or Sunday individual passes go for $25. Friday s ATP Don t Look Back series event is only $15.
However, buying a three-day pass will save you money on service fees. Speaking of Don t Look Back, we will announce that night s headliner-- one of three artists who will play their classic album in its entirety that evening-- this Friday, March 16. And don t forget that Friday, March 16 is also the date of the Pitchfork Music Festival/ at Emo s and Emo s Jr.
in Austin during SXSW. Festival artist Girl Talk will be there, along with Peter Bjorn John, Do Make Say Think, the Pipettes, the Ponys, Rjd2, Menomena, Deerhunter, Simian Mobile Disco, Fujiya Miyagi, Beach House, Marnie Stern, and Crystal Castles.
Specializes in eradicating John Wayne movies, Primal Scream albums Post- group , featuring frontwoman extraordinaire Jennifer Herrema, will release Western Xterminator, their follow-up to 2004 s , on March 20.
It is the band s second album, both overall and for . RTX will celebrate Western Xterminator s release with a party in Hollywood on March 30. Then, in May, they will take the party across the U.
S. with Totimoshi, starting May 1 in Denver.
Man, we hope this is just like Burning Man, except they set on fire.
Either way, the fifth annual -- which goes down August 17-19 at in Wales Brecon Beacons National Park-- is shaping up to be an event to remember.
Among the confirmed performers: Joanna Newsom, Stephen Malkmus the Jicks, Bill Callahan (fka Smog), Vashti Bunyan, Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animals), Vetiver, Dead Meadow, Euros Childs (ex-Gorky s Zygotic Mynci), Tunng, the Earlies, Alela Diane, Starless Bible Black, Monkey Swallows the Universe, and Richmond Fontaine. Bring mom and dad too: Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation headline the fest s second night!
Newsom tops the first night s bill, while Malkmus-- who now counts Janet Weiss among his Jicks-- closes out the fest.
will reissue s Champion Sound on May 8 as a two-CD set with a crateful of bonus tracks. The 2003 collaboration was a chance for producers and the late to don the MC cap over each other s beats, with Talib Kweli, Percee P, Guilty Simpson, and Frank-n-Dank making appearances as well.
The first disc of the reissued Champion Sound features bonus tracks Raw Addict and Pillz at the end, and the second disc is devoted entirely to instrumentals and Madlib remixes, some of which are previously unreleased. Madlib put his curating skills to work recently on a mix for and The Other Side series. The Other Side: Los Angeles is scheduled for a May 8 release and features tracks from such artists as Sun Ra Arkestra, Dabrye, and Madlib himself in various guises.
It is the fifth installment in the CD/DVD series, which has and will include mixes by Fischerspooner, Black Strobe, and Ellen Allien.
For the DVD portion of the package, Stones Throw founder provides his personal spin on life in L.A.
An in-depth interview with Wolf about Stones Throw s tenth anniversary and several music videos from artists on the label s roster are also included.
Zach Condon is the !!
Having officially triumphed over both the troubled Lebanese capital and the popular collegiate drinking game with which Zach s band shares its name, -- aka the No. 1 Google Search Result for Beirut -- are celebrating their world wide web victory with a few world wide engagements.
The jaunt, if you can really call it that, kicks off in Austin this week, as part of .
Zach and friends next make up some New York dates he , then take on the world, coming as close to the real Beirut as Istanbul.
Be sure to corner these little gypsies backstage and ask about The New Album, which is apparently three-quarters complete. Look for it in late 2007 on Ba Da Bing in the U.
S. and Beirut s new overseas home, , in the UK. Also keep your eyes peeled for an Elephant Gun UK single hitting shelves in June, and score those two exclusive early tracks via in the U.
S. or in the UK (bonus: the latter has a third old-school cut called Monna Pomona ).
In related news, hear Zach and company on the , and watch out for that .
Louisville weirdoes will go concept-free on Buncha Beans, their first album in five years. Though previous records have included storylines about a caveman and his love for a yak and a spaceman and his obsession with the imaginary Planet Kong, Beans is simply a collection of songs with some of the requisite King Kong themes, including animals and weather.
will release Buncha Beans on March 20, when King Kong will not coincidentally begin a little tour of the Midwest and East Coast in their hometown.
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