TAG: movement

May17

Download Flying Lotus Podcast For Stones Throw (MP3)

So we know that pretty much anything Flying Lotus touches is gonna get passed and praised by all corners of the musicsphere these days, right? Even something he had, by his own admittance, forgotten about. We first heard about this mix why FlyLo tweeted:

“OH dang found this mix i made of all these records I found in the valley… Slipped my mind. I meant to put it out last year..my bad. on it.”

He passed is on to his old bosses at Stones Throw (and by bosses, we’re referring to when he was an intern), and soon a whole bunch of new heads were signing up for the label’s awesome podcast series on iTunes to check out Flying Lotus’ Lovers Melt mix, …

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Mar08

Five Festivals You Can Still Get Tickets For

2011 will be remembered in the festival community as the year of the sellout. Coachella sold 75,000 tickets in 124 hours. Seattles Sasquatch festival moved its 100K tix (25,000 per day) in similarly fast fashion, while Pitchfork Festival managed to move all of their three-days passes while only announcing a small portion of the scheduld performers. And it’s all but certain that later mega-fests like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo will also be overwhelmed by demand over supply. So what do you do it you want to spend a weekend in the sun, but not lose a morning clicking refresh on the ticketmaster website? Fortunately, there’s plenty of more low-key, but not lower quality, summer music festivals on offer. …MORE

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Sep09

20 Best Summer Festival Performances

As the summer festival season wraps up for 2010, URB’s contributors tell us who rocked their world during the season’s long days and warm nights. …MORE

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Jun15

Sonar Festival Coming To Chicago

This weekend, the creme de la creme of the international electronic music scene will descend upon Barcelona for the 16th annual Sonar Festival. But while the dance music elite—including Plastikman, The Chemical Brothers and LCD Soundsystem—frolic late into the Catalan nights, plans are being made to bring the Spanish festival brand to Chicago this September 9-11. …MORE

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May18

Oral History of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival

Those crazy kids over at Resident Advisor went and did the seemingly impossible, interviewing over 50 people to get the complete(ish) story of Detroit’s annual techno festival. They even talked to URB’s own Detroit native Joshua Glazer. From Carl Craig and Richie Hawtin to Paxahau and the Mayor of Detroit, it’s a serious read.

To explain the many twists and turns of the festival thus far, we turned to the people that were directly involved. Artists, promoters, city officials, journalists, more than 50 in all, presenting an oral history of Detroit’s electronic music festival. READ


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