Archive for March, 2009

24
March
2009
tags: La Chansons, ATL, Blue Screen Love Scene, Atlanta, Artists.

Synths in Atlanta

Hello dear readers, long time no post from me. Seeing as how I’m the last of the Res family left in Atlanta after Shaun’s exodus to NYC, I’ll be writing more frequently and will do my damnedest to keep shining some light on ATL’s little music gems.

La Chansons are the husband and wife duo of Greg and Carson Keller, and for the past few years they’ve been steadily releasing their material and playing live in that all-too-familiar trapping of many electronic bands: girl singing out front, guy playing laptop and keys in back. Which is all fine and good, but admittedly not as fun to experience, especially in a city like Atlanta with widely diverging scenes and no real center…..bands without an actual band tend to have a hard time here. (Judi Chicago being a notable exception.)

They’ve since added a live band, and are poised to become pivotal among Atlanta’s electronic-centered talents.

La Chansons live

La Chansons - Candybar Man

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Res darlings Blue Screen Love Scene have remixed two of La Chansons songs, giving them their brand of creamy dreamy epic synthy feel:

La Chansons - Leotard Stories (Blue Screen Love Scene remix)

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La Chansons - Mall Magic (Blue Screen Love Scene remix)

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Blue Screen Love Scene is currently on hiatus due to their bass player moving to NYC, but they sent us a new track regardless. It’s got a brooding, darker tone than their previous tracks:

Blue Screen Love Scene - BeatBot

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Hopefully this isn’t the last we’ll hear of them!

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23
March
2009
tags: Tealights.

…where do i go now…

It’s officially t-minus five days and counting (well, four, really-ok, however many days lay between Monday and Friday) ’til I vacate the south and join Trixie and Hacks in the frigid, heathenistic northern wasteland of New York.

(Love ya NYC)

In case you’ve somehow managed to miss it, we’ve planned a giant party, the first of many, to celebrate on April 11. If you did miss it? Get familiar.

Before I leave here, though, I have definite plans to catch up on one of my favorite up-and-coming Atlanta bands, Tealights (no “the” before “tea”). Each time I see these kids, they just keep getting better and more cohesive, piling layers upon layers of sometimesboy but mostlygirl vocals, classical training and deft instrumentation on top of, over, under and through a heady mix of electronic programming that comes out sounding, all at once,

A) like Lali Puna having tea snacks with Jimmy Tamborello while discussing Monika records

B) like nothing else, really

and

C) instantly heart-breaking, comforting and familiar.

Tealights: Passport

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The first time I saw Tealights was actually their first public performance, and this was the first song of the set. During that show, the low-end of “Passport” rattled and hummed and filled the venue with a sense of foreboding and unease. I thought it was to be the definitive version of what’s become my favorite song in Tealights’ body of work thus far.

Months later, I saw them again. In a larger venue, with a larger crowd, on a larger stage, with an expanded range-the addition of a live drummer. This time, the heartbreak and uplift of the lyrical content on passport remained, and rather than be clouded under the murky, swampy electronic fuzz that I recalled from the earlier version, the updated, re-framed “Passport” was indeed carried by the live percussion, only subtly augmented by beat programming.

It was pretty-much heart-stopping.

Hyperbole aside (and derailing any potential tangent about how this song, right now, sums up my mental and emotional states), Tealights are opening for Asobi Seksu at Eyedrum this Wednesday. It’s my goal to make it out.

They have their first official EP coming out in the next few days, also. Watch Tealights’ myspace for that.

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19
March
2009
tags: Personality Crisis, SHAPES, Deejay Hacks.

Personality Crisis 3!

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Tonight plays host to yet another night of raucous partying and dancing @ Crash Mansion.

This month, however, I’ll be gracing the decks with a fuck it all dance party. I’ve got loads of good material lined up, so why miss it?

Your bands:
Le Rug
Datrua
SHAPES
Canon Logic

Your Price:
$10 for 18+
$8 for 21+

Your Doors:
8:30pm

Your WTF AWESOME:
- Silent Horror Movies
- “Personality Crisis Girl” Contest
- RSVP

Your Chunes:

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Shapes - “Shadows & Schisms Dancing In Prisms”

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choyce hacks! - “Winter 2009 Wasn’t-Supposed-To-Be-A-Mix Mix”

Got it?

Good

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16
March
2009
tags: Chewing Pics, Turbowolf, The Tank, Shows.

Turbowoif in NYC.. tonight!

Turbowolf

Hey kids!

Tonight UK rockers Turobowolf take the stage for their only NYC date (and their only non-SXSW U.S tour date!) @ The Tank tonight. They sound like a healthy mix of DFA1979, Eagles of Death Metal, and Korgs Gone Wild!! (I totally need to startup a web show about that…).

Sharing the stage with them are Brooklyn based, punked-out crazy-noise-rockers Chewing Pics. I’ve seen them twice now and they’re totally worth checking out live.

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Turbowolf - “Ghost Hunt”

Here’s the full details:
Turbowolf & Chewing Pics
The Tank
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
7:30pm | $5

Come say hi if you make it out!

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09
March
2009
tags: Last Year's Model, SoundMatrix, Ivana XL, Chiptunes, Resonator Presents, The Tank, Mp3.

We’re Having a Birthday Party– And You’re All Invited!

It’s been four years already?! How is that even possible? Since 2005, we’ve been bringing you our favorite new music from around the world and across the internet, and it’s been amazing how you have responded. Our readership went from a handful of our friends, on to people who hated us for Shaun’s only-slightly-disparaging Panic at the Disco live show review, to Hacks’ Remix Post faithful to more than 500,000 of you and 2,000,000 hits a month.

Now we’re taking our love of new music off of the screen and into the real world. On April 11th, to celebrate our 4th birthday, we’re launching a series of monthly events dedicated to bringing you up and coming live acts. Every month, Shaun, Hacks, and myself will each pick an artist and bring you a show with no genre restrictions, true to our eclectic Resonator M.O. To tie it all together, we’ll each play short intro DJ sets for our chosen artist, guiding you from one sound to the next: essentially, think of it as dancing and drinking inside a lovingly crafted mixed tape.

April’s party, REStart is all about beginnings– celebrating our birthday, Shaun’s arrival in New York (and with it, the first time the Res staff have all lived in the same city since the year we started), and a new look to the website which will launch in conjunction with the party. Here’s the details:

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Resonator Presents: REStart
ALL AGES!

When: April 11th, 2009 @ 8:00 pm

Where: The Tank
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036

Who:
8:00 - Shaun Bateman (Resonatormag.com)
8:30 - Ivana XL (Brooklyn)
Red Red Sun - Ivana XL

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9:00 - Trixie (Resonatormag.com)
9:30 - SoundMatrix (Liverpool)
Sophea - SoundMatrix

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10:00 - Hacks (Resonatormag.com)
10:30 - Last Year’s Model (New York)
Dancing With Myself - Last Year’s Model

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How much: $10

What else: FREE Champagne and Cupcake Happy Hour from 8:00 - 9:00* with booze from Gnarly Vines and tasty treats from Spatula Factory.

Presale tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets. As a special offer to our readers, we’ve added a discount that gets you half price tickets if you buy in advance (these won’t be available at the door!). Enter discount code 4MOREYEARS and tickets are only $5 (plus a small service fee– but Brown Paper Tickets donates some of it to charity, and you get to choose where it goes!).

Keep posted for reminders and updates as we get closer to the event. We hope to see you all there!

*While supplies last.

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06
March
2009
tags: live review, Salem.

In Memory Of Dr Zelig

Dr. Shlomo Zelig, Born July 20, 1979, died at 10:59 PM on March 4, 2009 on assignment for Resonator Magazine. As a frequent cited member of the Res Mag “Away Team”, Zelig oft participated in various “live-blogging” events such as Resonator’s innovative “Grammy LiveBlog”, the first of which kicked off a trend of such events being done to a lesser degree of skill by various other music and culture blogs.  Zelig’s fondness for dark, obscure and obscene techno, as well as the dirty “ghetto” music of the southern U.S., caused him to instantly fall in love with mysterious, up-and-coming goth-tech-crunk duo SALEM. Assigned to cover their recently released WATER E.P., Zelig, under unknown circumstances, found himself in amongst the highly-selective invitees to a rare live performance by SALEM to celebrate the E.P.’s release. The performance, which took place in a small venue in Salem village, just outside the historic city of Salem, Mass (30 minutes north of Boston), would be the last time any would encounter Zelig alive. Zelig was found, in the morning light, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning inside the venue, along with about 50 others. Police reports on the event have ranged from baffled confusion to outright angered lunacy at the mysterious circumstances regarding the mass poisoning.

Dr. Shlomo Zelig’s twitter feed serves as our only documentation to what occurred in Salem, Mass on the night he witnessed what must have been a once-in-a-lifetime live performance. Zelig’s twitter documentation can be found here, and should be read, for chronology’s sake, from the bottom up-exactly as Zelig lived his life.

SALEM could not be reached for comment.

We dedicate SALEM’s “Skullcrush”, the second song on SALEM’s Water E.P. to our fallen comrade Dr. Zelig, as we continue to piece together what happened on this fateful night.

SALEM: Skullcrush

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