Cold Places

Getting real cold in NYC. Keeping spirits hott with some colder music from all over the world. Get into it! Eastvillageradio.com

Family

Family is beautiful. I read an interview in the L.A. Record a few months ago that stuck with me pretty intensely with Seun Kuti. Read it HERE. Seun talks about keeping the legacy of his father Fela Kuti's work going with his own music, not taking the general slash and burn to tradition approach to your forefathers' work approach but taking the lessons, celebrating the past and building. Seun says "They wanted everything to die with my father..." but he comes to term with the spirit by carrying it around and letting it song on stage with him rather than hiding it in a basement. "I am what I am"!

On that note, Femi Kuti another one of Fela's kids is putting out an album soon and it actually rips. Contrary to what Starbucks compilations (and on occasion this very blog) would have you believe, African music can be vital and exciting even when produced in a legit studio and given the room to make intentional beautiful music. Day By Day is loud, angry, funky and original- inspired in the best way by the legacy of Afrobeat but not governed into submission by it. Yes.

Femi Kuti- Tell Me

Skeletons on the Road

Some of the best buds a guy could ever hope for went and made one of the best albums I've heard in years. You see a tree and it looks so solid and strong, the base expands out into thick branches covered with healthy leaves....but you come down to the base of that tree, move some leaves and see a million bugs eating each other, crawling worms digging through rotting fruit, wet earth slippery to the touch dark and frightening to the eyes. MONEY is like that. Doubly beautiful and frightening, so stuffed with substance that it takes 50 paces backwards outside of your ears to see the fully realized whole- the righteous growth of months of nighttime labor. A totally fucked up masterpiece.

Skeletons- Stepper a.k.a. Work (available from Tomlab)

Skeletons are touring the country now.....

Nov 10 Someday Lounge Portland, Oregon
Nov 12 House of Nostromo Oakland, California
Nov 13 Eagle w/ The Mayyors San Francisco, California
Nov 14 The Smell w/ Nite Jewel, David Scott Stone, Vienna Noise Choir Los Angeles
Nov 16 Scoot Inn Austin, Texas
Nov 17 Club Dada Dallas, Texas
Nov 18 TBA New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 19 Eyedrum Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 20 Secret Squirrel Athens, Georgia
Nov 21 Pilot Light Knoxville, Tennessee
Nov 22 Skylab Columbus, Ohio
Nov 23 The Gypsy Hut Cincinatti, Ohio
Nov 24 Akron Matinee Akron, Ohio
Nov 25 Mike and Molly’s Champaign, Illinois
Nov 26 Empty Bottle w/ Elliot Bergman (NOMO), Lazer Crystal Chicago, Illinois
Dec 4 Velvet Lounge Washington DC, Washington DC
Dec 5 Fordham University Bronx, New York
Dec 7 Mercury Lounge

Go ask Alice....

Thank You

Thanks to everyone for making the CMJ showcase so special! A packed house! Amazing performances from Lemonade, Glasser, Suckers and all the excellent twosyllable bands! If anyone has photos send 'em our way. We'll have some video for you non-New Yorkers post-haste.

some photos HERE

Love,
True Panther Sounds

Lemonade on Mary Anne Hobbes today!!

WOAH!
About 1 hour 26 minutes through the show! "I love this. Pure, agile, pop music". RIGHT ON!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/

Eraser

Thanks Eugene

CMJ SHOWCASE!!!!!!!

CMJ SHOWCASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're really proud to announce our showcase for this year's CMJ music festival. Honestly, I don't think any of us could have seen this happening last year but it really is, along with our friends twosyllable records, and we're honored and overjoyed. We'd be really honored if you'd stop in and say hello and listen to some musics. It's a big night.

To hear an mp3 sample of all of the bands playing check out the FREE sampler at amie st HERE

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Digital Freedom presents:
twosyllable records and True Panther Sounds Official CMJ Showcase

Saturday October 25th
Pianos 158 Ludlow Street New York, NY

6:45pm Doors
$6/ $4 with RSVP @ http://going.com/twotruecmj
FREE with CMJ Badge

DOWNLOAD A FREE SHOWCASE SAMPLER @ http://www.amiestreet.com/twotruecmj

New York City labels twosyllable records and True Panther Sounds, along with DigitalFreedom.org, are proud to announce a joint showcase for this year's CMJ Music Festival. The show will feature performances by label artists and friends. There will be give-aways, a raffle, drink specials, and other surprises.

performances by:
Bell (DJ Set)
Lemonade
Suckers
That Ghost
Glasser (performing with Body City)
Inlets
Continental Divide
Special Guest DJ: Pumpkin Patch ( Dgenetics Musics)

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Sad Songs

What is a sad song in a language you don't speak? The sad heart reads a plaintive melody or a lonely horn as its miserable companion.

We've assembled a pretty brutal and beautiful collection of sad songs from all over the world for Cool Places Radio tomorrow morning. Just like the music, 8-10Am EST is pretty hard to stomach for most of you so I recommend signing up for the podcast at the show page and having it automatically appear in your world every Friday.

Listen HERE or sign up for the podcast.

River Phoenix

Welcome to my working weeeeek...wait, not ready to drop into it again? Here's a special gift from Girls and Aaron Buttig to give you a few more precious moments with yesterday's lazy sunday.

Girls-Lust For Life (video)