DJ Tim Sweeney has plenty to be happy about these days, not the least of which is that his long-running radio show Beats in Space turns ten this year. In addition to featuring his own eclectic selections, BiS has hosted a who’s who of dance music’s finest as guests on the show, with the likes of Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler, Carl Craig, Lindstrøm and many others either sending in mixes or dropping by WNYU’s studio on a Tuesday night to play their favorite records. We caught up with the DFA house DJ, recent producer, and inveterate music lover while he was making a pit stop in New York in between headlining BiS ten year anniversary shows around the globe.
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The inaugural Electric Zoo electronic music festival — which took over Randall’s Island over Labor Day weekend — was an unmitigated success. Not that the gorgeous weather didn’t do its part, but Made Event should be commended for putting on a large-scale festival that still felt intimate and for curating a diverse line-up of artists that didn’t feel schizophrenic. Perhaps there was no greater measure of the festival’s success than seeing fun fur-clad hoop dancers, shirtless frat boys, Wayfarer-wearing hipsters, and former club kids all getting down with equal abandon to James Murphy and Pat Mahoney’s closing night Special Disco Version set. Something had to be right if that mixed of a crowd was losing it to a Paul McCartney disco one-off at the same time that David Guetta was pounding the main stage with his arena-sized Sexy French House. Read More »
Earlier in the week we asked our San Francisco-based readers to regale us with tales of awful family roadtrips past, for a chance to win tickets to Killing My Lobster’s newest play, KML Hits Highway 101. And boy, did you deliver. From cereal-scented vomit to harrowing encounters with poultry, you are people who need comedy — and quite possibly therapy, but that’s not really our domain. To thank you, each winning contestant will receive a pair of tickets to the opening weekend performance of their choosing. So, without further ado, in no particular order, here are the McSweeney’s-worthy winning stories… Read More »
Killing My Lobster is back with KML Hits Highway 101, an absurdist, sketch comedy road trip through California and family dysfunction and we have tickets to give away. Here’s the deal: Tell us about your most awful and/or mortifying family road trip experience and publish it as a comment by noon PT tomorrow. Make sure to leave a valid email address so we have a direct way to contact you.
The top three entries will be announced on Thursday morning and each will win a pair of tickets to the opening weekend performance of their choosing.
Although the contest is technically open to all Flavorwire readers, please note that the show is in San Francisco, thus priority will be given to local residents and folks who plan on being in SF. (In other words, if you’re a lucky winner and reveal that you’re New York-based, we’ll be mad.) And yes, spelling and grammar count, but not as much as all out hilarity and wacky hijinks.
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It’s hard to think of a musician whose discography is as far-ranging in tone, mood, and texture as Stephen Stapleton’s. His prolific output as Nurse With Wound has included trance-inducing drones, hellacious tape cut-ups, and Krautrock homages — all guided by dark sense of humor and the Surrealist’s assertion of the primacy of the unconscious, that, to quote Andre Breton, “Man is but a plaything of his memory.” Words that ring even truer when thinking back on NWW’s March 26 show at the Great American Music Hall. After the jump, our San Francisco-based music guru Matt Sussman reviews the avant-garde legend’s rare performance. Read More »
