Mar28

Cut Copy: Fabricated

The DJ mix is alive and well and living in Australia (by Richard Thomas) 

Sexy, synthetic and raw,  Cut Copy’s installment in the Fabric Live series illuminates a wealth of kitsch-free, post-disco material from artists like The Presets, New Young Pony Club, Midnight Juggernauts and In Flagranti. Frontman Dan Whitford took a few moments to give URB a track-by-track deconstruction of his immaculate mix.

Joakim “I Wish You Were Gone” > This guy is one of my favorite remixers-artists. This track seems so out there when you listen to it at home, but it still manages to shake the dance floor.

Cut Copy “Future Unlimited” > Because of problems with licensing, I was left with a few spots in the mix that had tracks taken out. On the day it was due, literally, I busted out my synths and sampler and wrote this track using parts of our original recording of “Future” to fill the gap.

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Mar28

The Horrors: Frights of Fancy

UK goth guys are worried you might think them a bunch of Victorian dandies...they aren't 

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By Si Hawkins

Really, you’ve never seen a mosh pit like it. Wave upon wave of frenzied shorties cascading toward the stage, minds super-stimulated by the raucous rhythmic din and inhibitions long-since abandoned as they shriek themselves hoarse; not that they had many inhibitions to begin with.

Dotted perilously along the imaginary line that once separated this manic throng from its target are a couple of hapless security guys, struggling manfully but hopelessly to keep some kind of order. The look in their eyes is pure, unprecedented panic. They’re slowly being submerged under a sea of kids.

We’re at something called the Underage Club, a popular all-ages bash run by the 15-year-old son of an eminent experimental musician, held in a converted Victorian cinema in South London, and headlined this afternoon by the country’s oddest new must-see band, The Horrors, who are causing …

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Mar28

Clipse: Hell Freezes Over

After four years of waiting. . .and waiting, Clipse finally deliver the fix hip-hop's been waiting for (by J. Paul) 

As one-half of the coke-centric rap duo Clipse, Gene “Malice” Thornton is not someone most people would look to for parental advice. This is a guy known for lines like “Got love for guns and ‘caine, let nothing come between us/You mistook me for a rapper, huh?/Well that makes me an actor cause I would rather clap a gun,” and from whom even the most innocuous-sounding line is often a disguised reference to cooking up the powdery white. But, as the 33-year-old MC begins talking about his kids, ages 14 and 10, a few things about the Clipse come into perspective.

“I have no problem with my kids listening to what we do because I talk with my kids,” Malice says. “Even watching TV with my daughter, I won’t say ‘Don’t watch that’ but I’ll make sure she understands what she’s …

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Mar28

Perry Farrell: Been Caught Healing

Lollapalooza founder resurrects the spirit of Jim Morrison in an effort to save the world 

By Steve Baltin

As I wait for Perry Farrell in an upstairs room at Santa Monica recording studio The Village, I hear him out in the hallway looking for me. He enters the room with a huge smile. “Come on, I’ve got a much better room for us,” he says, leading me upstairs.

Though we’ve become friendly over the years from seeing each other out often around LA and from the many times I’ve interviewed Farrell, it wouldn’t matter if I was a long-lost relative or we’d never met-he welcomes everybody into his world with the same warmth.

In his two decades in music, Farrell has done it all-fronted the iconic alternative band Jane’s Addiction; founded Lollapalooza, the most important outdoor festival of the last two decades and arguably one of music’s most revolutionary ideas (without Lolla would there have been Warped, Ozzfest, …

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Mar28

A JAZZ THING: New Orleans Hip-Hip Brass

By blending hip-hop with traditional horns, New Orleans's brass bands are attracting the next generation (Geraldine Wyckoff) 

There was a period when younger people considered the New Orleans brass band style to be old men’s music. Sure, kids would step out to watch a jazz funeral or second-line parade pass by, but the traditional music played by graying musicians didn’t excite them much. …MORE

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