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L I S T E N
Pete Yorn – On Your Side [Music for the Morning After, 2001]

Recently, Pete Yorn embarked on an American tour that will end in Charlotte, NC on November 8th.  For his Ridgefield, CT performance, Music Is Art was able to attend.  The intimate and greatly restored Ridgefield Playhouse has been housing entertainment acts quietly since the year of 2000.  Opener and touring band Alberta Cross created a perfect beginning to the evening, rocking out and showcasing how surprising a good band can really be.

A short time later, Pete Yorn was welcomed inside the small theatre playing melodic, favorite memories from his 2001 debut Music for the Morning After such as Life On A Chain, Closet, Girl Like You, Strange Condition, For Nancy (‘Cos It Already Is) and On Your Side.  Holding strong throughout the entire set including the humorous tambourine player who danced out of control every once in awhile,  the band maintained with a steady approach to a few choice songs from Pete Yorn’s latest album, Back and Forth.  Standouts from the evening included a cover of New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, the tease of Bruce Springsteen’s Hungry Heart and the always epic ending to On Your Side.

+ Listen: What Else is There (Ministry of Sound Remix)
by Royksopp (featuring Karin Dreijer)

+ What: Diesel Flash For Fun Party

+ When: October 27th

+ Wanna Go? You Need A Bracelet

+ Wanna Know Where? You Need A Bracelet

+ Wanna Bracelet? Go To 1 Union Square West, NYC
Ask For “The Baron” From Oct 19th – 27th

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After the Jump After Hours

This evening Music Is Art will be djing with Jen from The Music Slut at NYC’s Cake Shop, 1am to 4am. Come visit ATJ’s CMJ After Hours! This week we’ll be featuring bands such as Helado Negro, Sure Juror, You, You’re Awesome and many more to come! ♥

L I S T E N

Radiohead – Reckoner (Holden Remix)

Hockey will be performing at Maxwells in Hoboken, New Jersey on October 16th (they are playing with Portugal. The Man).  Music Is Art will be giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner!  In addition for those who enter the contest, three winners will be chosen at random to receive a copy of Hockey’s Mind Chaos sampler (which includes the following songs: “Too Fake” “Learn To Lose” and “Wanna Be Black.” )

***TO WIN***

Email musicisart@gmail.com with the subject line “Hockey Contest” and tell MIA how you stumbled upon the blog!  The contest will end October 6th, in support of Hockey’s release date for their debut, Mind Chaos.

LISTEN :: Hockey – Too Fake

between here and there is better than either or there

So, the Pavement reunion. I should start by saying they are by far my favorite band. Wowee Zowee is my favourite album of all time, and ‘Rattled By The Rush’ is my favorite song of all time. While a band like Radiohead’s brilliance comes from studio diligence and priding themselves on hard work in the studio, Pavement immerse themselves in spontaneous creativity. I think this might be part of the reason why I can honestly say there isn’t a single Pavement song I don’t like, and that includes B-sides and studio outtakes.

a voice coach taught me to sing
he couldn’t teach me to love

The combination of Stephen Malkmus’s breaking guitar tone and sideways singing draw me in and kept me hooked – he can be ironic and earnest at the same time. For me, Pavement do everything a great band should: catchy melodies, equally memorable guitars, quirks that only reveal themselves upon repeated listening, and lyrics that you want to quote to all of your friends. ‘The Sutcliffe Catering Song’ is a great example: it was possibly written in five minutes, the lyrics are probably meaningless, but the sound is so unique that it could only be Pavement. I encourage any fanboy/fangirl comments in the comment section for this post, and I’m even going to add my fantasy setlist for the reunion shows.

LISTEN: Pavement - The Sutcliffe Catering Song (Peel session)

“White Lies will embark on a Fall arena tour as main support for Kings of Leon kicking off September 28th following the release on Fiction Records, of their hit record To Lose My Life. The fall trek with Kings of Leon will have White Lies playing to packed crowds across the US. Prior to these dates, White Lies will be doing a few shows on their own including a headlining performance at New York City’s famed Webster Hall on September 25th and at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on October 4th. In addition, the band’s massively successful single “Death” is on the soundtrack for the film Jennifer’s Body, alongside bands including Silversun Pickups, Little Boots, and Black Kids.

This highly coveted main support slot comes on the heels of what has been nothing short of an already extremely successful year for London’s hottest newcomers. The band released their debut album To Lose My Life earlier this year and the record shot to No. 1 on the UK albums chart the week of release.”

For more information on White Lies, please visit:
www.whitelies.com
www.myspace.com/whitelies

—-SEPTEMBER—-
25- Webster Hall- New York, NY
26- Phoenix Theater- Toronto, ONT
28-Target Center- Minneapolis, MN*
29-Metro- Chicago, IL
30-Scottrade Center- St. Louis, MO*

—–OCTOBER—–
3-OK Ford Center- Oklahoma City, OK*
4-Austin City Limits- Austin, TX
6-Toyota Center- Houston, TX*
7- American Airlines Center-Dallas, TX*
9- Phillips Arena- Atlanta, GA*
10- Rupp Arena- Lexington, KY*
12- Mid America Centre Council- Bluff, IA*
13- Sprint Center- Kansas City, MO*
15- BJCC- Birmingham, AL*
16- Sommet Center- Nashville, TN*

*With Kings of Leon

A winner will be selected next Wednesday Sept 23rd!

ATJ presents DAS RACIST, Saturday, August 29, 2009, at After the Jump Fest 2009. This year’s 3rd annual festival is a three day extravaganza of independent music, and will take place at Brooklyn NY’s Littlefield Performance & Art Space.

The silly art rap, freak folk styling of Das Racist will be throwing a late night party along with artists such as Free Energy, Drink Up Buttercup, Talk Normal, Shark?, and Captain Ahab and the Sea Crackens.  Individual and weekend passes are available to purchase online here.

Listen :: The Combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell

In preparation for After the Jump Fest 2009, Music Is Art asked the lovely duo of Das Racist to answer our ATJF Interview questions, and below are their special replies.

Please share your earliest memory involving or creating music.

Victor: I was a concert pianist at the age of 8, mostly Chopin mazurkas and a couple Beethoven symphonies. I studied piano at Oberlin Conservatory. Professor Tom Lopez was a huge influence. And Sun Ra has always been a spiritual godfather.

Himanshu: I’ve been a master of the Tabla since I first started studying under the esteemed Zakir Hussain at the age of five. He taught me everything I know about rap also.

If you had to explain your sound to a stranger, how would you do so?

Victor: Using only hand gestures.

Himanshu: Interpretive dance.  A piece I put together called HARDBODY.

What are your favorite instruments to work with and what do you like most about using them?

Victor: I’ll always love the piano, but I also like the trumpet. It’s very intuitive.

Himanshu: My favorite instrument is the tabla, though like Victor I’m a huge fan of the trumpet.  Melodicas are also splendid.

What are your inspirations?

Victor: Flowers, birds, trees, everything in nature, mythical gods, real ones, the cosmos…

Himanshu: The Wayans family.

On average, how long does it take for you to create a song?

Victor: Every song I’ve made this year has been twenty-five years in the making.

Himanshu: Every song I’ve made this year has taken about twenty-five minutes to make.

With Music Is Art, our mission is to show how music and art are simply connected. Which albums do you credit as having the biggest influences as far as your life is concerned?

Victor: Sun Ra’s Nuclear War, Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, Flipper’s Generic Flipper, The Germs’s (GI), and KMD’s Mr. Hood.

Himanshu: Beastie Boys’ Pauls Boutique, Biggie’s Ready to Die, KMD’s Black Bastards, Wu-Tang Clan’s 36 Chambers, Nas’ Illmatic (duhh), Television’s Marquee Moon, The Stone Roses’s The Stone Roses, and Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

If you could have a drink with one musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you like to ask them?

Victor: Beethoven. I wouldn’t ask him anything, I’d just touch his hand.

Himanshu: Biggie, and I would say, hey Biggie, “Who Shot Ya?”

What do you hope people take from seeing you perform live?

Victor: Anything.

Himanshu: Everything.

What has been your favorite experience thus far in your career?

Victor: Falling asleep in a field full of flowers on a sunny day with Stephanie Smith.

Himanshu: This interview.

What would your number one suggestion be for someone who wants to do what you do?

Victor: Don’t do what I do, do what you do.

Himanshu: Don’t watch me, watch TV.

What exciting projects do you have coming up?

Victor: We’re starting a new super-group. We really can’t say much else.

Himanshu: Vic, you’ve already said too much.

May you have a particular inspired quote, statement or favorite words to live by?

Victor: “Ay!” –OJ Da Juiceman.

Himanshu: “Ay!” – Juelz Santana. Actually, no, scratch that – I’m going to go with “Ayyyyyyyy” – Young Jeezy

Please share a mix tape within a theme of your choice.

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Being able to see Beyoncé two weeks ago at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut was surreal.  Ever since the show it’s been impossible to go through a day and not listen to her music.  This time though it’s not because Beyoncé is heard always on the radio, it’s because when reflecting on her concert, her vocals, choreography, charisma, dancing, presence was absolutely illuminating. A good sign of seeing a good concert is when you just can’t stop listening to the music, because you want to.

Watching Beyoncé on stage, and understanding how much she puts into her own tour is overwhelming.  Between five different types of dress changes and the way each scene’s background blends in with the lights as the film-like video cameras circle around the stage and capture Beyoncé’s every moment.  She cascades from side to side, down and up stairs dressed so beautifully in a bright white gown that flows against an ocean-like background, and then soars throughout the air back-flipping into the sky while glittering inside yards of a gold dress and flying within seconds to a second stage in the middle of the stadium’s floor.

Still days even after seeing her show, it’s still almost unbelievable to have witnessed Beyoncé live.  The crowd is so diversified, and every person that attends knows all the words, even the scattered men throughout the crowd love it too.  It’s entertainment with elegance and times of pure naughtiness that make you finally see what Beyonce’s side persona Sasha Fierce resembles. Recommended for all fans of new and old, as she honestly showcases truly all the hard work of creating a world tour, and what it takes to be a true performer.

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