LCD Soundsystem
Dance Yrself CleanThis Is Happening 2010 via DFA/Virgin
first studio record from the group in exactly 20 years.
7.25.10 at The Intersection
Performing solo in LA at Largo on June 4th
Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison a.k.a. Juno Leed a.k.a. Flying Lotus is an electronic artist/hip-hop beat-maker, aka "FlyLo," Being the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane’s wife, Ellison comes from a musical heritage
Gauthier: "I was born to an unwed mother in 1962 and subsequently surrendered to St. Vincent's Women and Infants Asylum on Magazine Street in New Orleans, where I spent my first year. I was adopted shortly thereafter but left my adopted family at fifteen. I wandered for years looking for, but never quite finding a place that felt like home. I searched for, found, and was denied a meeting with my birth mother when I was 45 years old. She couldn't afford to re-open the wound she'd carried her whole life, the wound of surrendering a baby. The Foundling is my story."
For Bean!
The Budos Band are an "Instrumental Staten-Island Afro-Soul" outfit recording on the Daptone Records label. The band has eleven members (up to thirteen members at times) who play instrumental music that is self-described as "Afro-Soul," a term and sound which - in a 2007 interview - baritone saxophone player Jared Tankel elucidates as, being drawn from Ethiopian music the band had been listening to that had a soul undercurrent to it, which the band then "sprinkled a little bit of sweet 60's stuff on top" of
June 1: Detroit, Michigan -- St. Andrews Hall
feat. Natalie Cole and Will.I Am
A French and Finnish duo that takes its name from the first names of its members, the Do (that is to say, Dan Levy and Olivia B. Merilahtin) "the dough"