TAG: Boris

Jun20

10 Electric Daisy Carnival Acts You Must See

This weekend, an estimated 200,000 party people will make the pilgrimage to Las Vegas to experience Electric Daisy Carnival, the three-day party to end all dance music parties marking it’s first year in Sin City (after 13 years in Los Angeles). Running from 8PM until 6AM, America’s only all-night mega-rave offers more bang than even the most ADD fan can experience. Here’s URB’s tips for the acts you positively don’t want to skip. …MORE

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Mar12

Dance.Here.Now…. A Full Frontal House Assault (Photos)

Last night Joshua Glazer, aka URB’s Editorial Guru and LA DJ, was in NYC.  I was supposed to catch up with him at Baddies ripping the decks up with Nancy Whang of LCD Sound System.  Supposed to.  Look, I packed the camera, my ears were on and I was ready.  The problem was I had to make one stop into Cielo and the weekly Dance.Here.Now. gig to wish a good friend happy birthday.  Sounds fair right?  It was, until Dance.Here.Now. and Boris decided to pull out all the stops.  It was carnage of the highest order in house music, a veritable Winter House Olympics for Cielo’s Funktion1 sound system.  ”How am I gonna explain this Josh” I thought?  I made it to Baddies promptly at 3:38 am and he was gone of course.  So Josh, I’m Sorry.  I hope you and our lovely readers will make the jump to see my photographic apology.

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Dec01

Yura Yura Teikoku – Hollow Me / Beautiful (Review)

Yura Yura Teikoku

Hollow Me / Beautiful

Released by DFA


In their native Japan, Yura Yura Teikoku are twenty-year psych-rock veterans, beloved above-ground vets with a ten-album discography revered for the sort of obstinate high quality of Sonic Youth more so than the fitful, morphing back catalogs of the Flaming Lips or Butthole Surfers. On Hollow Me / Beautiful, their tenth record, they ditch some of the prog and punk leanings of earlier stuff to pillage instead 1970s AM gold, in the process creating warped, dreamy pop-rock. It is as much fun as it is brazenly insane. The first ...

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