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This is amazing:

The Daily Swarm - Winter Music Conference 2008: Top 10 Reasons You're Not Going to Miami This Year

All the videos are hilarious and worth watching. To be fair, I actually really want to see the Diddy party... I also especially like how the cheesefest at #8 is brought to you by Minneapolis's own Sound in Motion crew.

LINKS

• webesteem art & design magazine : Lance Wyman : Wayfinding Systems : Case Study
  A Wayfinding system incorporates branding, signs, maps and directional devices that tell us where we are, where we want to go, and how to get there.
  
  
• :::: VOLUMEONE ::::
  sick retrofied design
  
  
• HOLY FUCK - LIVE ON DUBLAB (02.08.08)
  Oh shit! What's that noise? It's Holy Fuck my friend and your ears are in for an explosion.
  
  
• Vice magazine: LONDON - SOMALI SALAD
  Khat is an African shrub that contains herbal amphetamines and makes you feel ramped up and chatty when you chew it. Studies of native communities in Somalia—where up to 80 percent of the men chew it on a daily basis—have found that long-term use can...
  
  
• RA: The Main Event: Diddy vs. dance. International News
  Rap mogul Diddy is taking on Angello, VonStroke and TMB at the WMC. 'This party is not for commercial dance music muthf*%kas!" explains Diddy.
  
  
• just added to WMC lineup - Claude VonStroke vs. Diddy | RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads
  holy shit... Diddy vs. electrohouse!
  
  
• Illegal Signs and a Reporters Broken Camera - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
  The takeover of public space for commercial promotion may be offensive, but it is usually legal. Occasionally, however, it is not. On Friday, March 14, it bordered on the criminal
  
  
• Daft Punk Mix Sets
  all Daft Punk live sets
  
  
• d squared » Blog Archive » “Behind The Blog” - My Article For BPM Magazine
  I just got my copy of the magazine in the mail today - it's issue #90, and it's…The Hipster Issue.
  
  
• Dollars To Pounds: Foals Like Makin Love!
  More importantly I've been listening to that stirring Foals album a lot recently and while we're all excited about the Afrobeat trumpets and the fact that they had the temerity to record it all in Dave Sitek's studio and then sneak the tapes back to
  
  
• Don't Lose The Music: Home
  notes on hearing loss and earplugs and clubs and all that
  
  
• The Ten Greatest Albums Made by Actors -- Vulture
  it ends at 7. haha.
  
  
• Earplug | diskJokke Stays In
  Norwegian producer makes music for the hearth
  
  
• The Kills: Midnight Boom: Pitchfork Record Review
  On Keep on Your Mean Side and No Wow, the Kills managed to take a classic rock template and turn it into something more modern and audibly dangerous; here, the band pushes those edges even further.
  
  
• Kidz by Colette » Surkin speaks to Pedestrian
  
  
• Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Goldfrapp: "Happiness" (Rex the Dog Remix)
  "This is our remix for Goldfrapp's song 'Happiness'. Unfortunately for us, it didn't get approved, but we still really like this song so we did some cooking to celebrate. Happiness is a severed hand!"
  
  
• Live: Cut Copy Carries New Order's Torch
  Cut Copy + Holy Ghost + El Guincho, Mercury Lounge, March 17, 2008

OMG

Seriously fuck a sxsw. More info.

I WONDER...

GRADUATION ALBUM LISTENING EXPERIENCE PT. 3 - I WONDER from kwest on Vimeo.

NOT BLOG HOUSE

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WTFCNN?

This site never gets old.

BOW IN THE PRESENCE OF GREATNESS

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SMACK DEM HAMS

This Saturday, Millions Billions and myself will be gettin' you in da mood at Too Much Love.

To set the tone, here's a new, quick mix from Mils Bils.


Sally That Girl - Gucci Crew
100 Million (XXXChange Remix) - Birdman, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross & T-Pain
Juggle It (William Russell Remix) - Jokers Of The Scene
Cold Act Ill - Classixx
Stay Fly Cream (MB blend) - Federico Franchi + Three 6 Mafia
Day N Night (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi
Walking Down The Street (Bart B More Remix) - Ron Carroll
Shoulda Let You Go (DStar's Bassline Remix) - Keyshia Cole
U Don't Kno Meh (MB Edit) - Top Billin + Armand Van Helden
Wassup Wassup - Rye Rye
Sexual Unk - Snoop + Dj Unk

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VOTE OR DIE

Shameless self-promotion, on my own blog no less. You can now vote online for the City Pages' 2008 Best of the Twin Cities. If you have a sec, why not nominate First Ave for best club, and myself for best club DJ? Your vote is much appreciated. End shameless plug. Yaaay.

#1 CHAMPION SOUND

RAVE ON

Completely unrelated to St. Patrick's day, I went with friends to see the Raveonettes on Monday.



It was my third time catching them and I was definitely surprised by their new line-up. Previously they played with Sune Wagner on vocals/guitar, Sharin Foo on vocals/bass, this insane lead guitarist and a very bald drummer, plus lots of backing tracks. It always felt a little strange to have a full drummer playing along with so many backing tracks, and the Raveonettes fixed that by scaling back their line-up. Sune and Sharin both played guitar, accompanied only by a new girl on a very minimal drum kit of floor tom, snare, and ride cymbal.

Even if the drummer was a bit superfluous, it worked brilliantly. The songs came across as much more instinctive and visceral. And it was great to see/hear Sharin get into the feedback game with Sune on guitar. Nice to see that this band survived the garage-band craze of the early 00's intact and as virile as ever.



The only problem was NO "BEAT CITY"! That's the perfect set closer. Next time?

LINKS

• Charm City Cakes
  CRAZY CAKES
  
  
• The Daily Swarm - DMX on Barack Obama
  The Listenerd points us to this fantastic XXL interview with rapper DMX that covers many topics, including the presidential election. A felon, DMX can't vote, so he's not paying too much attention to the process.
  
  
• Portals - WSJ.com
  Why We're Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data
  
  
• FOOL’S GOLD » Blog Archive » Finished my record. Now Jay-Z is calling.
  A-Trak is doing an orginal run for Nike! yes
  
  
• Levi's®/FADER Fort Video: The Kills Interview
  Case in point, the effortlessly star-striking Alison and Jamie of The Kills talked to us about recording, Paris, Texas and feeling mischievous
  
  
• Xtra - Music: Disco love
  PARTY SCENE / The gyrating rhythm of romance. Hercules & Love Affair
  
  
• RA: Gui Boratto: Like you
  Kompakt's man from Brazil is an unlikely candidate for techno stardom, writes Jorge Hernandez. There's hope for us all yet.
  
  
• Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog » Blog Archive » Archie In… A Different Class!
  Archie does Pulp. LOL.
  
  
• Oh, Garfield.
  Garfield doesn't talk.
  
  
• Beggars Group USA - Blog
  Live Blogging: The Office Vibe At Our SXSW Staycation
  
  
• Rochester teen is world 'Guitar Hero'
  Chris Chike, 16, is the Guinness World Record holder for the highest score for a song on the video game "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock."
  
  
• vita.mn: Nightlife: Acadia by the Riverside
  The Acadia Cafe's new space on the West Bank is a perfect fit.
  
  
• PILOOSKI: Fact Magazine
  Cedric Marszewski, aka Pilooski, dented the charts and filled more than a few dancefloors last summer with his screwy pop edits of Frankie Valli's 'Beggin' and 'Who Loves You', though the Frenchman's preeminence among disco burglars was already we
  
  
• village voice music: Hercules & Love Affair
  Glorious dance music from an unlikely, warbling source (By DAN WEISS)
  
  
• The Month In Techno
  This month we examine 10 of the moment's finest dance tracks, from Kate Simko [above], STL, Fabrice Lig, and others.
  
  
• Fully Fitted / That Ol' Billy Ripken: LIve @ Home....Part 3
  In light of the upcoming festivities in Austin @ South by SouthWest, Live@home part 3 is a mix from a guy you can check DJing more times than a few in Austin this week...
  
  
• clapclap.org is my husband's faceless need: It Could Be Dangerous Living In This Valley
  If there's a contemporary band that's fallen prey to the cult of the serious, it's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
  
  
• Hercules and Love Affair: Hercules and Love Affair: Pitchfork Record Review
  DFA introduces Andrew Butler, a compelling new voice in American dance music. His debut album is a self-contained, self-assured set that runs vintage styles through a restless compositional imagination to create something joyfully, startlingly unique. Gue

YOU GOT YRS

I have been obsessed with this song for the past two weeks or so, so it's good timing for the video to be released.

Spoon was my favorite band for a while in high school, but after seeing them three times, and being progressively more disappointed, until an unbearably boring Gimme Fiction era performance, I got turned off. But Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga just sounds so good, I can't help it.

"You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" in particular sounds great. The snare, tambourine, xylophone/marimba/whatever, the little vocal effects, and the horns are all perfect. The drums especially stand out for me, since sometimes I really hate how Jim Eno gets way too involved with the production and everything comes out sounding over-produced and dead and boring. I also love this video. It's psychedelic and simple, and it syncs up with the music in all the right ways. I think more videos should sync with their songs.

MOMADFA

TRACK BY TRACK

LINKS

• Brooklyn Alternative Bands - Music - New York Times
  No longer chasing record contracts, young bands are making weird music and thriving.
  
  
• Nine Inch Nails - Snoop Dogg - Music - Review - New York Times
  
  
• City of blogs - Minnesota Daily
  So you want to build a music and arts community? First, contact your system administrator.
  
  
• TRASH MENAGERIE | KMD meets SMD
  I managed to tie Jas Shaw down for a quick chat before he escaped again to continue on their hectic schedule. We talked about their new EP - Clocks, The Chemical Brothers & 'Tits & Acid' obviously….
  
  
• FLUXBLOG: Love Is Just A Dialogue
  The Kills "Cheap and Cheerful"
  
  
• RA: Sounding off: Confessions of an MP3 blogger - Feature / Interview
  MP3 blogs are stealing music from labels for their own self-aggrandizement, writes Steve Mizek.
  
  
• 100% - Surkin interview
  Glitchy ghetto spliced-up dirty house purveyor Surkin used to hate dance music, listening to rap music exclusively until around 2003, when guys like DJ Assault, DJ Nasty and Disco D's ghetto rhythms began to seep through his guard, luring him over...
  
  
• brooklynvegan: MSTRKFRFT's JFK on techno artists "playing live"
  "someone wrote to me last night on myspace, saying we should play live and wear the masks etc. instead of DJing."
  
  
• The Wake » Blog Archive » Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles
  The "vitrola punk" sound.
  
  
• Jim DeRogatis: Pitchfork founder and indie-rock tastemaker Ryan Schreiber talks about branching out to TV and video game soundtracks while keeping the integrity in his Web zine’s journalism and criticism. Can it be done?
  
  
• Neenja - Daily Entertaining Media - Articles - 40 Movie References From The Simpsons
  We all love The Simpsons right? A lot of people really don't realize how much Matt Groening likes to reference movies in his episodes. There are a few here I didn't even realize he did. 100% credit goes to Actualidad Simpsons, a Simpsons fan site.
  
  
• Signalnoise.com | The art of James White » Inspiration: Superman movie design
  
  
• Alt Text | Super (Mario) Wedding Cake
  At perhaps the best wedding (congratulations Brent and Annette) I have been to, there was by far the best wedding cake I have seen.
  
  
• daughters: a series of interviews
  apparently the february issue of spin has a feature called "the return of disco"?
  

I'M DESIGNER

Too Much Love tonight with special guest Designer Drugs.

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LINKS

• MANTHRAXX
  half of Still Going
  
  
• 'I long for that sober connection'
  Dogged by his reputation as a non-drinking Christian, Moby comes clean to Dave Simpson about the drugs, the liquor, the sex parties and his true love - rave music
  
  
• Feeling Up, Feeling Young, Feeling Good
  The singer and the voice of Goldfrapp discusses releases by LCD Soundsystem, Beirut, Battles, Radiohead and Cansei de Ser Sexy.
  
  
• Wendy Bevan - Photographer
  
  
• Family Guy Spins Off Cleveland
  The network, along with 20th Century Fox, is currently developing a spinoff of its enduringly popular Family Guy to revolve around Peter Griffin's bathtub-loving, accident-prone neighbor, Cleveland Brown.
  
  
• Vice magazine: LONDON - FERGADELICA
  Fergus Purcell AKA Fergadelic styles himself as the Graphic Equaliser (after 80s TV show The Equalizer), patrolling the streets like a freelance vigilante, putting scumbag designers in their place.
  
  
• Tonite
  label site

EYES OF LIGHT

Awesome Color have an awesome band name. And a new album, Electric Aborigines, coming out April 29 on Ecstatic Peace. You can download the first track "Eyes of Light" from the label's site now.