TAG: YACHT

Sep05

FYF Fest 2011: The Recap

Already in its 8th installment, the redundantly named FYF (Fuck Yeah Fest) Fest made for a great day in beautiful sunny L.A. of music, comedy and fun. Taking most attendants away of the hustle and bustle of the city and the workweek, L.A’s Historic Park became the getaway site to celebrate this year’s Labor Day weekend. This year line-up featured performers like Four Tet, No Age, The Olivia Tremor Control, Glass Candy, Girls, YACHT, URB favorite and L.A. native Nosaj Thing, Explosions in the Sky, Simian Mobile Disco, and the now-considered dance-punk classics, Death From Above 1979. With others like the Descendants, Guided By Voices, Broken Social Scene, Dan Deacon, Cold War Kids, Smith Westerns, The Weakerthans, Cults, and many more, the festival offered up a variety of talent to satisfy everyone’s tastes.

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Mar01

Ernest Gonzales: To Have and To Hold

Living up to his name, this is an earnest endeavor. Maybe it’s all the Sonic Youth he listened to as a kid, or perhaps the photographer and graphic designer in him. Anyways, this Texan beatsmith and innate emo, creative maelstrom has dedicated his new album to his wife, Devyn. And as its title suggests, this is music (and art) that conveys all that he’s “Been Meaning To Tell You.” It’s sentimental in all the best possible ways and, as well as being a beautifully crafted electronic ode to the girl, it features an extra 16 remixes and 13 exclusive pieces of art made into a hardback book–no less. Friends of Friends indeed. However, the Exponential Records label head doesn’t just do Winter blues electronica. There’s Get Busy, his (first Fridays of the month) party with DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, which has hosted the likes of Daedelus to YACHT, not to mention Gonzales’ banging, masked, electro dubstep moniker, Mexicans With Guns. Beauty and the bass.

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Feb09

Cudi x Green Lantern x Broke Mogul Present “How to Make it in America” Mixtape (MP3)

For a little more hype around How to Make it in America, Cudi and his crew have released this mixtape as if it were a roster of who’s who right now. But this is quite good, starting early with a current favorite, the remix of Dan Black’s “Symphonies” featuring Cudi, and touching on Chromeo, Lupe and Kenna’s Haiti track, and UK indie firecrackers Florence & The Machine and The XX, among others. In the intro, Cudi says the way to make it in America is to “cut through all the bullshit.” This mix sounds honors that statement.

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