• New Yorker opts for satire in this week's cover. Satire, right?
• Banksy uncovered?
• Double decker bus accident claims 2 lives in DC
• Green Party officially nominates McKinney/Clemente ticket. America needs a 3rd party, but is the long shot run before a presidential election the most effective way to build it? Discuss..
• Tats Cru do design work for Lord and Taylor. Tats are big on the corporate graf set, gotta give em props for getting theirs, but, yeah, when their work gets dissed in DC they shouldn't act so surprised.
• DubLab has the round up on the scandal involving Puerto Rican Governor Anibal Acevedo Vilá.
• Indigenous Issues Today has a great post about climate change and indigenous peoples. Look, let the G8 debate and obfuscate, I'm with the indigenous environmental justice movement.

Dolge, where are my shirts!?!

Come stop by and have a cocktail or listen remotely on the dubstream.

Also, hope to see you on July 19 for the amazing video & ambient music experience of Tonalism brought to you by dublab and SASSAS for the city of Santa Monica's glow festival. Goes from sunset to sunrise, 6p - 6a.

An evening of visions burning bright. Unseen music videos, documentaries, comedy clips, out-there animation, short films, eye melting magic, and special surprises!

Music Videos Featuring:
American Music Club, Animal Collective, Ariel Pink, Awesome Color, Battles, Beach House, Bon Iver, Caribou, Daedelus, Dan Deacon, Devendra Banhart, Dntel, Entrance, Excepter, Flight of the Conchords, MGMT, My Robot Friend, Nobody presents: Blank Blue, Okkervil River, Sebastien Tellier, The Dodos, Trans Am, and more…

Films By:
Ace Norton, Andy Cahill, Ben Barnes, Clay Lipsky, Dean Fernando, Fernando Cardenas, Damon Jones, Dave Hughes, Derek Waters, Eric Fensler, Erik Barnes, Ghost Town, Hashim Bharoocha, Jimmy Joe Roche, JFR/Fingered, John Leone, Josh Forbes, Julia Croon, Lana Kim, Matt Amato, Maximilla Lukacs, Miranda July, Nima Nourizadeh, No Domain, Ray Tintori, Roel Wonter, Saul Levitz, Skizz Cyzyk, The Masses, The Wilderness, Timothy Saccenti, Tim & Eric, Travis Peterson, Video Marsh, and more…

+ the debut of DUBLAB VISION VERSION

+ a live performance by TRS-80

films: 8-11pm
TRS-80 & dublab djs: 11-Mid

$10 general or $6 members / All Ages

Cinefamily
at the Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, 90036
323.655.2510

silentmovietheatre.com
dublab.com

I want to thank Honest Tea and IZZE for donating some product for this event... you guys are rad!

Los Angeles' own FLYING LOTUS today celebrates the release of his second lp (his first on WARP), by launching a six hour online radio attack. it is underway right now, and will be live until 7pm pst, and can be heard streaming here. tons of unreleased shit and remixes and guest sets from DAEDELUS, GLK, RAS G, and others. you must pick this album up, but here are a couple tracks to get you salivating.

FLYING LOTUS - RIOT

FLYING LOTUS - MELT

(right click to download)

Just got an email in the wee hours of this morning from the Lomographic Society International that they are going to send over some cameras to dublab for cross-promotion. These cameras are so awesome, I have been checking out the Diana (seen above) for awhile now. There's a huge group of people super in love with this particular camera that was born off some St. Petersburg Russians back in 1982; the lomography website has a huge community of camera owners that upload and share their cool photos. Go buy one, share them with us here in the blog... you can buy some cool ones at urbanoutfitters.com

It was nice to run into our friends from the House of Cassette at the show, and later Elaina and I brought some soju to the dublab studios where Frosty and Ale were in the middle of their 24 hour live fund drive. I guess they did pretty well and got a lot of support, which we are very happy to hear.

okay, people - get off your chairs...oh wait, you don't have to... because dublab is coming to you with 24 hours of music to your computers live from their studio tomorrow! TAKE THAT LIVE EARTH! dublab's carbon footprint is like, minus 50 ... so HA! AND if you donate to dublab, you can win one of these many many many prizes:

ok...seriously, i am not uploading the 20 more pictures that dublab gave me.... there's a ton of cool stuff being given away tomorrow if you show some love for good music - SO DO IT!

Big thanks to Apolis for donating some totebags to the dublab fund drive! The tea dyed Defend Tomorrow tote bag is exclusively sold at American Rag Cie, on apolisactivism.com/shop, and now a very lucky few who donate $300 or more to dublab will get this bag along with a tax write-off and a TON of other goodies. The tote bag is packed with an Invisible Children bracelet (check out the documentary - the story totally broke me down in learning about what's happening in Uganda) and a bottle of charity:water which will help clean the water in impoverished communities.

Defend Tomorrow / Defendons Notre Avenir!!

Et gros bisous a Apolis!

Cinco de Mayo has been quite an eventful day this year...

1. Rickey quietly releases Evil Monito

2. Elvis gets around to telling me that he is getting married to a Chilean

3. Julie Solomon of Visionary Media House and I begin planning a very exciting community art event at her eco-house in Echo Park that will be featured on the Discovery Channel

4. I receive a tempting and lucrative proposition to work in Korea for a year

..and yet I gotta say that the best of all things for me today was:

5. The dublab HANDS ON proton drive has begun! I shied away from going on-air with Frosty this am, and opted to nod my head to Matthew David, Anthony Valadez, and the cute-as-a-button Swedish singer, Kissy (anyone have a link for this girl??). Pink Cloud has been representing dublab for its sponsorships and tie-ins over the past few months now, and are very grateful to all those who sponsored this drive, especially to GOOD magazine who just came in with their support this evening. "5 foot Jen" is helping GOOD out and hinted to some ideas to get me tapped in to the goodness, we will see where that takes us... in the meanwhile, dublab will be filmed by Current TV on Wednesday, and you just might see me in the corner frame texting away as usual.

Venga! La cambia nunca cambia!

Not sure what it is about my India obsession right now but I'm riding it. I'm a sucker for a good curry. Damn, is that racist?

FROSTY of the Dublab Soundsystem is hearing me though and luckily we're just in time to shamelessly plug the DUBLAB PROTON DRIVE fund raiser. You gotta give it up to a crew that promotes positivity and has never sold out in 10 years of operation. I'm sure the opportunity to cash in has been there but luckily for us these cats have integrity; a rare thing these days.

But I digress. Indian music. Love it and so does Frosty. The interesting thing about this mix is that all the records were compiled when Frosty was asked to smuggle wigs into India for the movie The Darjeeling Limited. Yeah. Not only did homie get to go digging for records in India but he also got to tell people that he was there smuggling hairpieces. These are the lives my friends lead. Player.

LISTEN!!! - FROSTY'S BOLLYWOOD BLAST

Les plus fragiles d'entre vous, ceux qui ont les oreilles chastes et pures comme une Marie-Madeleine engrossée jusqu'aux oreilles devront s'y résigner, Holy Fuck sont présentement sur toutes les lèvres.

Pour 5 raisons: (notez ici que je pourrais écrire un truc du genre: "Holy Chrit Shit Fuck! That's a lot of reasons!" mais pour éviter les jeux de mots douteux, je vais me retenir).

1. Leur LP paru en novembre 2007 a obtenu des critiques, pour la plupart, favorables.
2. Thom Yorke a récemment mis une de leur track lors d'un dj set spécial pour/à la radio de BBC.
3. M.I.A. les a choisies pour ouvrir le concert du 3 juin au Métropolis.
4. Ils ont soumis un excellent remix pour la chanson Nude dans le cadre d'un concours organisé par le groupe Radiohead.
5. Dublab rend disponible une de leur récente session d'enregistrement (environ 30 minutes) qui déboite sa mère.

Holy Fuck - Dublab Session 08.fev.08 (via Mediafire)

Radiohead - Nude (Holy Fuck Remix)
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Holy Fuck Myspace
Dublab Website

Small news, but I'm excited.  Picking up my couch tomorrow after work.  Living room +1.

I really need to put this damn hookah away, (the lungs, they scream), but it speeds the second hand's monotonous drifting.

Things to see:

Daily Monster - Can't embed - damn you wordpress - but this one (165) is particularly fine.

Dublab - Search out the Holy Fuck session.  Greatness. 

That about sums it up.

I know some of you didn't believe me but I'm f'reals. Zen's mom is a DJ. I tried to write something clever about ATOMIC NANCY but this is what you need to know:

(via her MYSPACE)
The Atomic Cafe opened in 1946 in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles by Minoru and Ito Matoba. During the late 70's to mid 80's their daughter, Nancy, transformed the quiet neighborhood bar/ cafe into one of L.A.'s most popular hang outs for the local punk rock scene, politicians, and the Japanese mafia. On any given night you could see the likes of Blondie, The Go-Go's, Devo, X, Warhol, David Byrne, Bowie sitting down having a bowl of noodles in the company of old Japanese men with full body tattoos. The legendary jukebox played everything from The Germs to Mori Shinichi until 4 in the morning as crazy waitresses would be jumping on top of tables trying to serve food.

Yep...coolest ever. And she still rocks parties! LOVE YOU NANCY!

This is a mix of 45's from that same jukebox and originally aired on DUBLAB. Some real historical LA ish. There, enough said.

LISTEN!!! - ATOMIC NANCY'S 45 MIX

I was a far cry from the electronica and afro-cuban stuff the station usually played.  I think dublab just picked me because they had to have one rawk guy, and because my show served as a good prequel to Nobody's psychedelic show.  He would play Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks, the Zombies, and some other hippy-dippy stuff that I love now, but hadn't yet gotten into because I was soooo rock and roll.  I was impressed with his collection (he had just as much psyche vinyl as I had garage) but was even more amazed that this was just ONE show out of five he did every week, each with a different theme.  He probably had an electronica show, a hip hop show, and god knows what else on the other two days of the week he DJ'd that slot, each as complex and original as my one-day show.

So, I loved his taste in music, but it took me a couple years to find an incredible appreciation for the music he himself composed.  I wasn't too impressed with his first album (probably because it was all hip-hop infused) but his second album continues to blow me away.  It's electronic, sample-heavy, and trip-hoppy, but with a definite nod to the psychedelic music he loves.  There are even covers of the Monkees' "Porpoise Song" and the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year," and they're done tastefully: not extended dance remixes or mashups of the originals, but true reworkings incorporating everything good from his own sound with all the wonder of the originals (and I think the Beachwood Sparks' singer is the one doing the vocals).  For those who want to find some electronic music to love from this decade, I think it's a great "in" to this style of music, since it's mellow, full of dynamics, and definitely has a few toes dipped in the psychedelic sounds pioneered by the likes of Silver Apples, Gandalf, the Nice, Love, and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.  

Anyway, this week he was interviewed in L.A. Record (yet again).  It's short but sweet, and there's even a podcast there you can grab.  And for New Yorkers, he's coming your way.

Ended up at a ridiculous house party this weekend courtesy of your friendly neighborhood ECHO PARK AQUARIAN SOCIETY. Made it just in time to catch our new favorite DJ-HOSEH-setting it off at 3am for a basement full of dancy, sweaty, smiling people.

We've met Hoseh before but this was the first time that we got to see him control the floor like that- freaky stylee. MM!!! is stoked to present this mix which was originally done for his VERSION SOUNDS show on DUBLAB.COM but can be listened to here for all those in need of a chillout after an aquarian weekend. (That's us.)

LISTEN!!! - HOSEH VERSION SOUNDS (2.12.07)

Sucks if you're not in Los Angeles tonight. Two events worthy of your time and money: A-Trak and Kid Sister at the Natural History Museum and DJ Muggs at the UNDEFEATED release party. MM!!! is gonna roll thru to the Natural History Museum because it's not everyday that you get to dance amidst Giant Sloth and T-Rex fossils. Click on the images for details.

This is an A-Trak mix from around '96 to get your night going. This is some vintage shit from his INVISIBL SKRATCH PIKLZ days so if you ain't down with some hardcore scratching then this mix ain't for you.

LISTEN!!! - STYLUS WAR SIDE A

in the spirit of mix-tapes, oursoundtracks is a place to share sound-collages. displaying everyday peoples’ love for music and sound, and those around them…both made plain in the very need to share. like a film soundtrack making the images and the audience one, we hope to achieve the same when we share our own “soundtracks” with those around us.

SO - let’s press REC - for eachother.

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