The Argentinian, Tango-inspired electronica collective Bajofondo are performing live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic today at 11:15 PST (2:15 EST). The live set of six songs from their album Mar Dulce will be accompanied by an interview - so don't miss it! Tune in here . Set list is below: 1. Monserrat 2. Miles de pasajeros 3. Fairly right 4. Zitarroza 5. Grand Guignol 6. Pa bailar

Summer's finally arrived on the East Coast, and fittingly several acts have just been added to the indie decadence that is the 3-day lineup of the All Points West Music & Arts Festival (Aug 8-10), making it that much more enticing. Grizzly Bear and The Duke Spirit will be joining the first day's acts on Friday, August 8th, and Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB featuring Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis and Ray Paczkowski, Robyn, Matt Costa and Ben Jelen...

Photo of Mickey Factz © Mel D. Cole I consider myself a hip hop head. But being a hip hop head with a vagina is not all tea and crumpets. For one thing, every show kinda feels like crashing a bachelor party. When I keep a hopeful eye for my sistren, I usually find a couple of ladies, eyes glazed over, clearly dragged to the show by their bedroom-producer boos. What really ruffles me is when MC Such and Such screeches, "this one's for the ladies!!" Like, what? The other hour and a half of...

Charting at #4 on the R&B/Hip Hop chart and #9 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, Al Green's highest debuting record of his career Lay It Down is a testament to his everlasting influence and soul songwriting genius. Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Parade, USA Today , the Los Angeles Times , the Washington Post, NPR and more have lauded it as the Reverend's best record since his work in the 70's....

The good people down at MeanRed productions are back in Brooklyn this Friday May 30th with another Lose Your Sh*t party - this time featuring an all-star lineup of Dego (4Hero), Herbaliser (Ninja Tune), Escort (Live), $mall Change, Memory 9 and DJ Stylus. Experts in hedonism and a twisted good time, they've moved locations to the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Ft. Green for this installment of LYS. There's plenty of room to dance and do whatever it is you do to exorcise the demons within, as...

Photo of James Pants Recently, I've discovered two bands who've made me want to slap my mama...out of joy of course. There's lots of buzz about shiny new bands brimming with spunk and glamour. But for The Kills and The Whitest Boy Alive , dizzying laptop-critic buzz is old hat. I absentmindedly downloaded "Cheap and Cheerful" after hearing journos in the American Apparel media ( Nylon, Fader, Pitchfork etc) yapping about the...

By way of Rome, Italy, Brooklyn's longtime Tricky vocalist and inspirational muse Costanza debuts her solo full-length Sonic Diary (July 8th) in which she sings, plays guitars, bass, synths, drum machines, and does the bulk of the programming and sampling to boot. On her zerOKilled EP (out on iTunes ) Costanza composes classic trip hop beats that have already been featured on CSI and...

Photo of Muhsinah and Don Will of Tanya Morgan © Dorothy Hong Hey lovers. Last week was all about the up-and-comers; the young'ns scrapping to the top of the heap with a song in their heart and a MySpace login. Tuesday night I hit up the issue release party for Theme magazine at 70 Greene Street (I love how "random recreation space" is the new "hot downtown spot") featuring Eric Lau , Kissey Asplund and...

Detroit electronic legend Carl Craig's Demon Days quarterly NYC residency continues tomorrow, Thursday May 15th at Cielo with Gamall opening. Cielo 18 Little W 12th St (between 9th Ave & Washington St) New York, NY 10pm - 4am $15 with RSVP to gamall@demon-days.com with word RSVP in subject line. $20 at door (RSVP list closes at 2.30pm Thursday) Special DJ mixes from Carl Craig and Gamall will be available as downloads...

In the Chemical Brothers' "Salmon Dance"/Isley Brothers' "Footsteps In the Dark"-sampling track by Daedalus, Taz of Sa-Ra comments, "____ what your mama say/Imma vote Obama way/We hood/We votin'/And throwin' it up" - in style, of course. "Vote Obama" by TISA