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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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31
August
2007
tags: One Hand Loves The Other, Resonator Presents.

Lest Ye Forget

Tomorrow (Saturday) night.

Wordsmiths Books -Decatur, GA

7 P.M.: The least serious panel on the future of media EVER. Ft: Wine. Not Winehouse. Though Winehouse may be discussed, who the hell knows.

8pm: DJ whatshisfaceohyeahHacks

9PM-ish: One Hand Loves The Other

In case you need a reminder of how epically awesome OHLTO are:

One Hand Loves The Other: Rubbernecker Nightingale

One Hand Loves The Other: Don’t Know 

At some point:French Vanilla Kahlua.

Also possible: a discussion on the major heartbreak that is Kanyeezy’s Graduation. Flying bears my ass…real talk.

Come out. We’ll see you tomorrow night. Yell for “Stronger”, I promise you Hacks’ll play it. I. Promise.

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29
June
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore.

MORE LIS. LIS. MORE.

Trixie IS right. Come celebrate Resonator’s second year of being…uh…the thing that it is (nepotistic? Bitchy? What did that guy from that PR company say once, in regards to us and our review policies-”less than forthcoming”?) tonight as two (maybe three, if R. Jamz’ll leave the damn skate rink) of your Res Friends bring it, for the first time ever, with Lismore in Atlanta.

WANT:

7pm show: Deejay Hacks opens.

9pm show: Magicicada opens.

Happy birfday to us.

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26
June
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore, Shows.

Thresholds

I’m trying to determine what is the what with the new Interpol record. I’m sure I’ll form an opinion at some point soon.

In the meantime, one more call-to-arms (or more like “call-to-kittens”)

Resonator Mag, New Street Gallery and Wordsmiths Books present Lismore, twice, this Friday, June 29th, in the dirty dirty Georgia. At 7 P.M. they’ll be playing a free acoustic in-store at Wordsmiths Books (and our own resident Deejay Hacks will be playing the deepness beforehand), and around 9ish (you know how these things go), for five bucks, you can see them plug in and let go at New Street Gallery.

This is the first-ever Resonator-sponsored show, so, yeah, we’re excited. Tired of hearing about it? Tough.

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Lismore: Cherry Bomb

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Closing out their most recent E.P. (well, other than the All That You Are tour release that you can get your lovely paws on at the show before anywhere else), “Cherry Bomb” is the song to hear when you’re curious of the scope of the Lismore sound. I originally dismissed it (and a lot of the It Takes Guts… stuff) as a bit too lo-fi, a 2 A.M. sound being housed in a two-car garage at 4 in the afternoon. More recent listens, though, have proven these songs have amazing subtleties, and “Cherry Bomb”? Apparently I’d never bothered to realize it wasn’t actually two songs. Diving right into steady, driving beat, Penelope works her magic and sound wraps around sound (which is the Lismore trick, really: never leave your feet or your percussion uncovered) and, in the end, what was a poppy little dance tune claws into some rawer stuff. There’s apparently nothing Lismore can’t do.

If you’re anywhere at all, in the world, we’ll see you out Friday night for Lismore.

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23
June
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore.

The urgency of now

The first ever Resonator Presents show is coming up very, very soon…

What’s that, you say? You’ve “forgotten”? You need “help remembering”? Howabout a flyer?

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I can’t blather, praise or rave (and I’m fully aware of my word choice there) on the music Penelope and Stephen make, and at this point I’m just belaboring my own quotes-”prettydrone”, “lush and gorgeous”, “music for cats to sleep to”-all of the above and more.

Lismore: All That You Are

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The first song to surface from Lismore’s new E.P., in case you missed it LAST time I posted this monster of a gauzy, fuzzy elec-done glitch-rave jam.

Lismore: 1979

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It’s tacky (or at least achingly uncool) to cradle, nurture and fall madly in love with cover tunes.

(so, then, what excuses that whole Jose Gonzalez thing last year? Oh, I digress…)

I shirk any and all cool points, then, when I say that this song, a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ Melancholy alt-classic, gets as much play in my iTunes as any Lismore original. They know the song inside and out, and Penelope’s voice brings out an ache and a longing that got avalanched over by the Corgan whine.

So, if you’re anywhere at all, you have no excuse to miss this Friday, the 29th. 7 P.M. acoustic at Wordsmiths Books (free), 9 P.M. electric at New Street Gallery (a fiver for cover). It’s worth noting that our own Deejay Hacks will be playing for a bit at Wordsmiths to get you in the proper, chilled and spaced frame of mind.

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23
May
2007
tags: Resonator Presents, Lismore.

We could (and will) connect

One of my favorite, slow-burning, wraps-around-your-subconscious-‘til-invading-your-daily-life bands of the past few years is Lismore. During our livejournal days, I wrote a quick missive on the Jersey City electro-glitch-drone-pop group (I believe I called them, and henceforth became quoted using this label, “prettydrone”).

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As with all good things, Lismore bears repeating. Earlier this year, they released their home-made “It Takes Guts To Deceive So Eloquently” e.p., which indulged a bit more of their lo-fi indie rock sensibilities than had previously been shown on their lush-‘n-lovely debut album We Could Connect Or We Could Not. Now, they’re about to mid-point 2007 with another e.p., “All That You Are”-the title track from which is available, to quote that classical, lyrical poetic genius Norman “Fatboy Slim” Cook, right here right now:

Lismore: All That You Are

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If this is the direction Lismore’s going with their newest bunch of songs, I’m floored-they’ve always had a harbinger of full-on big-room 4/4 sensibility, but it’s more-oft-than-not controlled, moderated, by a desire to wrap their lusciously thick bass beats in a gauzy blanket of fuzz. This time around the fuzz is there, but rather than determining where the song goes it simply provides an undercurrent to the full-out frentic cut-and-splice dancey goodness. It all comes together with Penelope’s crystallized vocals to create something not unlike early-90’s WARP and today’s Monika Records throwing a party together. Prettydrone? Maybe last record-this is Prettyrave.

If there’s anyone that’s in love with the PrettyRave, it’s us here at Resonator Mag. That’s why, in conjunction with our friends at Wordsmiths Books and New Street Gallery, we’re proud to present the first-ever Resonator Sponsored show- two very, very special and awesome performances by Lismore, in Atlanta, GA, on June 29th.

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At 7pm, they’ll be doing a acoustic-and-literary themed in-store at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur-and, later on in the evening, just a short hop, skip, jump down the road, they’ll be doing a full-on wrapped-in-’lectronics show at New Street Gallery.

More information will, obviously, be available as it comes together-but for the love of good music, you don’t want to miss this.

Lismore online.

Be Lismore’s VIRB friend-not only is it better than myspace, it’s prettier. and not corporate. think globally, social network non-murdoch-ially.

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