*** FREE ENTRY UNTIL 11PM W/ RSVP AT www.iheartcomix.com/ihcsundays *** Born Stacey White On November 8th 1990 & As Part Of The Brick Bandits Later Down The Line In Life, Which Include The Likes Of Tim Dolla, Dirty South Joe And Dj Sega, Dj Sliink’s Records Have Been Obliterating Club Sound Systems Through The Hands Of Some Of The Most Respected Soundboys In The Business. His Signature Blend Of Jersey/Philly/Baltimore Club, Incorporating Aggressive Uptempo Rhythms With Soothing Pop And R&B Samples Give Him Extensive Appeal Across The Pop And Underground Spectrum. His Dj Sets Run The Gamut Of Pop, Dubstep, Moombahton, Jersey/Philly/Baltimore Club, House, Rap, Hip Hop/Trap And Reggae – The Standard Loadout For A WorldWide Club Dj. With Releases On Hype Headz , Pelican Fly , Fade To Mind , Mean Bucket , Paradisica Recordings & Upcoming Debut Ep On The Label Body High Feb 28th, This Naturally Gifted Talent Out Of Newark, Nj Is An Artist To Watch In This Emerging Wave Of Hybrid Dance Music.

SECRET GUEST

CHUCK INGLISH

$U$PECT

 

Pictureplane’s “Thee Physical” will be released July 19th on Lovepump United. Since the release of Dark Rift in the summer of 2009, Travis Egedy has been spreading his scuzzy, deeply sexualbrand of 90s house & trance to become one of the most prominent figures in American DIY culture. Two years in the making, Thee Physical is a giant step forward for Pictureplane and is sure to be one of the most exciting releases of 2011. Based in Denver, CO, Egedy resides in the notorious rave-punk-house Rhinoceropolis. Thanks in large part to Pictureplane’s legendary shows at Rhino, his raging club night, “Real is a Feeling”, and his constant stream of mixtapes and remixes, Denver’s vibrant DIY scene has started to morph into a national movement. Egedy’s growing influence can be felt in ways that are both trivial and significant: Pictureplane’s punk rock-like approach to the production and dissemination of his work is democratizing electronic music the same way the Ramones, Minor Threat, and Black Flag liberated rock music in the 70s and 80s. Produced and recorded by Egedy and mixed/co-produced by Jupiter Keyes of HEALTH, Thee Physical is a celebration of human touch in a digital world. The album is also unquestionably Pictureplane’s best and most assured record to date: his vocals are confident and unnervingly sexy, the instrumentation is at once both purely electronic and surprisingly human. Pictureplane has managed to make electronic music deeply emotive—a synthesis of the human and the machine both in lyrics and sound. Summer 2011 belongs to Pictureplane.

ANTWON

ALEXANDER SPIT

CRIMEKILLZ

 

Crystal Fighters are an English/Spanish electronic band who formed in Navarra, Spain in 2007. They are Sebastian (lead vocals, guitar), Gilbert (electronics, guitars, txalaparta, percussion) and Graham (guitar/ txalaparta), plus Laure and Mimi (vocals). Sebastian and Gilbert were old friends, while Gilbert and Graham met through various parties. The three then began making music under various guises before being joined by Laure and Mimi. The band now play with a live drummer. The group took their name ‘Crystal Fighters’ from an unfinished opera which Laure’s grandfather had penned during his final months of insanity. Laure came across the manuscript while clearing out the reclusive old man’s remote home in the Basque countryside. She quickly became obsessed by the intriguing scrawls within it and shared it with the others. Captivated by its seemingly prophetic contents, the band took on the name and formed in an attempt to expand upon the wild and deranged spirit of the old man’s writings. Crystal Fighters’ style is a fusion of genres – fast progressive dance music joined by the melodies and dances of traditional Basque folk, alongside synthesisers, bass-driven wonk-funk, with beats fuelled by early 80s Spanish punk and experimental electronica from bands such as Aviador Dro, Las Vulpes and Dulce Venganza. Basque music informs much of their songwriting: the riff on ‘Champion Sound’ is lifted from the Basque folk piece ‘Sagar Dantza’ and ‘In The Summer’ draws upon music heard at the Carnival of Lantz in Navarroa.

ALPINE

COMING SOON

COMING

 

Anamanaguchi is a chiptune punk band from New York City that "makes loud, fast music with a hacked NES from 1985." The band has four members: lead songwriter Peter Berkman, bassist James DeVito, guitarist Ary Warnaar and drummer Luke Silas. Akin to other chiptune artists, Anamanaguchi creates music using synthesizers, albeit unconventional ones: namely a hacked NES and Game Boy. However, unlike most chiptune bands, Anamanaguchi employs live electric guitar, bass and drums on top of said synthesized music to create a fusion of digital and traditional sounds. From a technical standpoint, their music resembles that of video games from the mid to late 1980s; however, Berkman states that video games are not the band's main inspiration, as their songwriting is mostly driven by "[s]imple pop stuff, like Weezer and the Beach Boys." On March 26, 2010 at PAX East in Boston, the band announced they would be composing the music in the Ubisoft video game adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim franchise, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, which was released in August 2010. The soundtrack for the game was released on Amazon and iTunes by ABCKO Records on August 24, 2010. The Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game soundtrack debuted at #3 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart (AKA Soundscan's New Artist Chart). Their music also appears in the WiiWare title, Bit.Trip Runner. The song Jetpack Blues Sunset Hues is used as theme music for The Nerdist podcast hosted by Chris Hardwick and another of their songs, Helix Nebula, is used as the theme music for TalkRadar, the podcast for GamesRadar. In October 2010 it was announced that Anamanaguchi would appear in the popular music video game Rock Band with the track Airbrushed. On November 17th, 2010 Anamanaguchi performed a free concert in Union Square in support of embattled beverage Four Loko.

JUICEBOXXX

CHROME SPARKS

D/A/D

 

TILLY AND THE WALL It’s been four years since Tilly and the Wall has released an album, and it couldn’t have come at a better — or more crucial — time. With the one-year anniversary of the Occupy movement almost upon us and a divisive presidential election right around the corner, the quintet has re-emerged decidedly wiser and more mature, but with all its child-like exuberance intact, to offer musical and moral encouragement to these heavy times. At this juncture, Tilly and The Wall represents not one party or ideology, but its own radical movement, apolitical but fervently pro-people, reasserting its belief in the power of love, friendship and brash anthemic choruses that we all can chant, clap and stomp along to together. Since the group’s inception in Omaha, Nebraska more than a decade ago – recording its first sides with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes in his basement – Tilly and the Wall has managed to ingeniously combine folk-rock strumming, schoolyard sing-along rhymes, unison male-female vocals and rapid-fire beats via the amplified tap-dancing of Jamie Williams Pressnall, who fulfills the role of a traditional percussionist in a joyfully unorthodox manner. Their lyrics are as quirkily imaginative as the arrangements, embracing a kind of fearlessness and freedom in matters of the heart, the body and the soul. On stage and on record, singers Kianna Alarid Cameron and Neely Jenkins, keyboardist Nick White, and singer-guitarist Derek Pressnall evince a clear-eyed positivity, meant to keep darker forces at bay, to ameliorate the everyday struggles and setbacks we all face. The most life-affirming song of their early years was pointedly called “Night Of the Living Dead” and audiences everywhere would join them in the live-set closing pledge of “I want to fuck it up!” — boisterously declaimed en masse each night. ‘Heavy Mood,’ TATW’s fourth full-length album for Team Love, opens just as boldly with the war whoops that announce “Love Riot,” propelled by Jamie’s tap-dancing percussion, slightly ominous fuzz-toned guitar from Derek, and lead vocalist Kianna’s impassioned back-and-forth with a multi-tracked choir of punk-defiant voices. (“I can’t hold it in!” is the call; “No!” is the response.) The title track, featuring its pumping dance beat, is just as exhortative, a street protest recast as a block party, with Derek delivering the core message of the set: “I got the power because I live like I want!” The BPM’s may turn gentler in several of the songs that follow, but the atmosphere is no less compelling. The lyrics become more narrative and, especially on the eighties-flavored “Let Go” and the slow electronic rhythms of “I Believe In You,” take on a wistful, openhearted tone. “Static Expression,” with its bell-ringing chorus, feels like a contemporary indie-rock version of a Phil Spector extravaganza, courtesy of the band’s longtime producer and studio cohort Mike Mogis. By album’s end, with “Youth” and “Defenders,” this new version of Tilly and the Wall is once again defining its status as free-form musical activists while urging a younger generation to let its own freak flag fly. TATW hadn’t planned on an extended hiatus back in 2008, but Jamie became pregnant and that necessitated time off from a grueling tour schedule that had kept the group on the road for about eight months a year. The unexpected time away from Tilly allowed each of the band mates the opportunity to stretch as musicians and as individuals. Derek recently completed an album as part of Omaha-based trio Icky Blossoms for Saddle Creek Records and Nick toured with the Young Veins, an offshoot of Panic at the Disco. Jamie and Derek had a second child, while Neely moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of love and a side career as a yoga instructor. Kianna honed her yoga-teaching skills too and, more recently, became a first-time parent herself. Looking back, she now says, “I feel like I’ve been a thousand people since the last record came out,” a sentiment that surely rings true for all the band members. “It was crazy the amount of things I learned in the past three years. “ The band members are no longer all living in Omaha, with Nick also having moved to Los Angeles and Kianna resettling Kansas City. So when the ideas for new Tilly songs started to develop, they had to do some long-distance brainstorming. As Kianna recounts, “In 2010, I emailed Derek and said, I think I have a bunch of Tilly songs and he said, yeah, it’s time, I was thinking that too. We started that conversation and began sharing things with everyone, finally met with everyone and talked it all out. Last year we went into the studio in Omaha with Mike, and we knew exactly what to expect. He’s a proper genius. He’s not one of those producers or engineers who is just sitting in front of a button. He can play anything. Oftentimes we would record something then we would leave for lunch and when we’d come back he’d say, “I hope you don’t mind but I threw this melody down here…” and whatever he did was phenomenal. We knew that was how it would be again this time, so we deliberately didn’t fully arrange the songs, to allow Mike to do all that stuff. And he did.” Each member brings his or her own songs to the studio, but, explains Kianna, “we know that they will all be Tilly-fied by the end of the process.” And all of them will ultimately be credited to the band as a whole. Thematically, there are no rules: “We never predetermine any topics or feelings in our band. It’s a lot about who we are as people and how we look at the world. I have people ask me everyday, how are you so positive? I don’t know, man, it’s been a long journey to get here. But it’s definitely a part of all five of us.” Trying to encapsulate the spirit of the new disc in a title, Kianna says, “We had a couple names going. ‘Defenders’ was the first, but it was way too serious a word, and it was too literal. But ‘Heavy Mood’ —you can figure out for yourself what that means. When we finally decided on that, I thought – of course, obviously, that’s amazing. It’s really honest and it’s where we’re at as a planet. The whole point of that song is it’s a heavy fucking mood and we’ve got to lift it up. That’s the chorus: We’ve got to lift up that weight, that’s our job – literally. As artists, that’s our mission. We’re ambassadors of this planet, it’s a responsibility we have as artists because we are sharing something others can feel. That’s always been a big part of what we’ve done but maybe we didn’t always know we were doing it. But we’ve realized we have a job here, we have something to say, and we think it’s important: don’t let this shit get you down.” Tilly and the Wall is the party to join to get through these troubled times. As Kianna puts it, “Look to us if you need any help. Listen to the songs – -there’s a message here specifically for you.”

RAINBOW ARABIA

BATWINGS CATWINGS

JEFFREY JERUSALEM

 

With a robust early following and organic online buzz, Giraffage offers a fresh, sample-rich sound of dreamy pop beats, sensual synths and lush experimental electronica. The creation of 23 year-old Charlie Yin of San Francisco, Giraffage is an exciting new producer with an intuitive grasp of modern music manipulation, delivering beats that are dripping with vibes and accessible to all. Starting his musical journey in high school as a drummer for an eclectic array of bands from metal to indie rock, Yin turned to guitar and then soon moved to electronic music production on illegally downloaded software. Inspired by such pioneers as Daft Punk and Boards of Canada, Giraffage is a true bedroom producer that started playing out only after gaining solid traction for his music online. Sending out his first album for free to various music blogs and online publications, Giraffage quickly found an ardent fan following for his hazy and seductive style. Early supporters of Giraffage’s screwed-down soundscapes, sample-based pop music and future R&B include such publications as Pitchfork, XLR8R, The Fader and Gorilla vs. Bear. After an extensive tour with the artist xxyyxx through Europe last year, Giraffage has big plans for 2013, with numerous upcoming performance dates including a Brooklyn Vegan showcase at SXSW and at Los Angeles’ world-renowned Low End Theory club night. Considered one to watch by industry insiders and the online underground, Giraffage’s newest release “Needs” is out for free February 26 on Alpha Pup Records.

MISTER LIES

KNXWLDGE

Mike Gao

 

On the heels of the wildly-popular television debut of Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, the alternative-variety show takes its DIY brand of late night entertainment and punk-rock comedy live on the road. Just like on TV, the spontaneous performances will include musical guests, real and fake celebrity appearances, and all of the demented antics fans of the series have come to expect. Currently in its first season on Adult Swim, The Eric Andre Show may be the most manic and unorthodox late night talk show ever made. The show's traditional talk show format quickly devolves into chaos as its inept and bipolar host Eric Andre, along with his apathetic co-host Hannibal Buress (30 Rock, SNL), subvert all late-night conventions. Taking place on a dingy public-access TV channel within an alternate reality, The Eric Andre Show creates its own distorted pop culture universe by conducting interviews with an unpredictable mix of actual celebrities, "fake" celebrities and extreme real-life weirdos. These interviews are broken up with deranged man-on-the-street segments, surreal flashes of inexplicable studio chaos, talk show desk-pieces and the general deconstruction of late night's most beloved tropes in every quarter hour episode. The Eric Andre Show is produced by Abso Lutely and Executive Produced by Eric Andre, Daniel Weidenfeld (China, IL), Dave Kneebone (Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), Andrew Barchilon, and Kitao Sakurai.

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GEORGE CLOONEY

YACHT DJ SET

 

On the heels of the wildly-popular television debut of Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, the alternative-variety show takes its DIY brand of late night entertainment and punk-rock comedy live on the road. Just like on TV, the spontaneous performances will include musical guests, real and fake celebrity appearances, and all of the demented antics fans of the series have come to expect. Currently in its first season on Adult Swim, The Eric Andre Show may be the most manic and unorthodox late night talk show ever made. The show's traditional talk show format quickly devolves into chaos as its inept and bipolar host Eric Andre, along with his apathetic co-host Hannibal Buress (30 Rock, SNL), subvert all late-night conventions. Taking place on a dingy public-access TV channel within an alternate reality, The Eric Andre Show creates its own distorted pop culture universe by conducting interviews with an unpredictable mix of actual celebrities, "fake" celebrities and extreme real-life weirdos. These interviews are broken up with deranged man-on-the-street segments, surreal flashes of inexplicable studio chaos, talk show desk-pieces and the general deconstruction of late night's most beloved tropes in every quarter hour episode. The Eric Andre Show is produced by Abso Lutely and Executive Produced by Eric Andre, Daniel Weidenfeld (China, IL), Dave Kneebone (Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), Andrew Barchilon, and Kitao Sakurai.

HOT PACKAGE LIVE!

COMING SOON

COMING SOON

 

scort, "Brooklyn's finest disco orchestra," was founded by producers Eugene Cho and Dan Balis, and is fronted by lead singer Adeline Michèle. Initially known for a series of critically-acclaimed 12" singles, Escort is now just as well known for its live performances featuring a 17-piece line-up. The New York Post and Time Out NYC both described Escort as the "city's best live band," Pitchfork described their single "All Through the Night" as "one of the best New York disco tracks since West End Records' early 1980s heyday.", and Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears proclaims "It’s the best disco music you’ve ever heard." Also recognized for their remixes of artists including Tracey Thorn, Antena, and Feist, their highly anticipated debut album is set for release in 2011.

PHARAOHS

SECRET CIRCUIT

FRANKI CHAN