Live: Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (BEMF) returns; finalizes line-up

The all-day juggernaut now in its second annual volume, BEMF, is back with a line-up that scares the ever-loving-existence out of us, some rad toss-ins to sweeten everyone's minds and a very secretive ploy. Happening this year at The Old American Can Factory, BEMF is helmed once again by Famous Friends, the golden ticket-possessing trio of DJs and promoters that brought you the nine-hour inaugural event last year. But this, well, it's 33% longer. Yup, 4pm until 4am. And it's got two stages, doubling last year. And two hours of PBR open bar (4pm - 6pm). We're sort of losing our minds over the list of acts they've been able to secure, like (tip of the proverbial iceberg here) The Juan Maclean, Adventure, Viking, NROTB and Awesome New Republic, but we don't think anyone in their right mindset could argue that this isn't the best line-up of independent music acts of the summer.

About that secret? Famous Friends will be announcing a very special surprise guest headliner via twitter on the day of the show. Follow them on Twitter to receive the latest news in advance. Advance tickets are $25 and can be purchased now. RJD2 will not be performing as previously announced.

Full line-up after the jump.

Live: The Get Up Kids announce a full fall tour

Reuniting last November for a show at Record Bar in Kansas City and then following that with terrifically sold out shows in New York, LA and San Francisco, The Get Up Kids (110% one of our favorite bands ever) have just announced a full fall line-up of tour dates, all of which are going up for sale tomorrow. And right before the tour, on September 8, the band will mark the 10-year anniversary of their amazing LP, Something To Write Home About, with a reissue CD/DVD version of the album. The DVD portion of the package features the full live performance the guys played in March of this year in the Lawrence, KS venue Liberty Hall.

Full tour dates after the jump.

Live: Japandroids playing NYC this week + new single

(photo by Leigh Righton)

Vancouver duo Japandroids have just signed with Polyvinyl Records and we'll all finally see the release of their third spazzed-out-rock record, Post-Nothing, this September. They'll be playing a few dates around town this week on their spring tour and in ten days, they'll hit the stage at the Village Voice Siren Festival. So, to get you in the mood for these local dates (and the festival ones too), here's the new single from the boys, "Young Hearts Spark Fire", a jangly, noise rock anthem full of shouts, driving drum beats and an infectious, fists-in-the-air chorus.

Dates:

Jul 08 Washington, DC DC9
Jul 10 Brooklyn, NY Cameo Gallery
Jul 11 New York, NY Pianos
Jul 12 Boston, MA Great Scott
Jul 14 Montreal, QC Club Lambi
Jul 15 Ottawa, ON Lebreton Flats
Jul 16 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
Jul 18 Brooklyn, NY Coney Island (Siren Festival)
Jul 19 Chicago, IL Union Park
Jul 20 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
Jul 21 Denver, CO Hi Dive
Jul 23 Boise, ID Neurolux
Jul 24 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill
Jul 28 Portland, OR Holocene
Jul 29 Sacramento, CA Blue Lamp
Jul 30 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
Jul 31 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
Aug 01 Visalia, CA Howie & Son's
Aug 02 San Francisco, CA Hemlock Tavern
Aug 07 Vancouver, BC Richard's On Richards

(mp3)    Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire

Godspeed!

Live: The last "Flashing Lights" at Studio B this Friday

The monthly capital-d dance party "Flashing Lights" is rounding out their final night at Studio B (the closing no one saw coming) with a juke and pop line-up for the ages, including the usuals of Nick Catchdubs, Jess Jubilee and DJ Ayres alongside Chicago's finest mix-heads, Flosstradamus. So get ready for this Friday night's epic last dance party, full of smiles, sweat and deeply affecting tracks. Studio B is at 259 Banker Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

(mp3)    Kanye West - Champion (Nick Catchdubs remix)

(mp3)    Flosstradamus feat. Caroline Polachek - Big Bills

Godspeed!

Live: The 10,000lb Hamburger Tour kicks off this weekend

Thanks to the kids at Fool's Gold, this summer brings together three of the biggest tickets in electro and pop--the 10,000lb Hamburger Tour. The live shows, which pair the new king of disco, Treasure Fingers, with one of the best DJs in the world, A-Trak, and one of the illest talents seen in the past 2 years, Rye Rye, sets sail in North America tomorrow night in Tampa and wraps up at LA's Hard Fest on August 8. There will also, of course, be special guests in most of these city stops. Get ready to sweat. Just saying.

Dates:

Jul 05 Tampa, FL Crowbar
Jul 08 Miami, FL Liv
Jul 11 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Jul 13 Phoenix, AZ Club Red
Jul 14 San Diego, CA Voyeur
Jul 16 San Francisco, CA The Independent
Jul 17 Portland, OR Rotture
Jul 18 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
Jul 21 Victoria, BC Element
Jul 22 Vancouver, BC Venue
Jul 23 Calgary, AB Hi-Fi Club
Jul 24 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
Jul 25 Toronto, ON Time Festival
Jul 30 Ottawa, ON Ritual Nightclub
Jul 31 New York, NY Webster Hall
Aug 01 Montreal, QC SAT
Aug 02 Quebec City, QC Ozone
Aug 07 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
Aug 08 Los Angeles, CA Hard Festival (The Forum)

(mp3)    N.A.S.A. - Gifted (Treasure Fingers remix)

Godspeed!

Live: JellyNYC Pool Parties 2009 line-up announced

Hooray for New York! Hooray for Brooklyn! Hooray for humanity as a whole! The JellyNYC-helmed juggernaut known as the Pool Parties may have moved from their initial home at the McCarren Park Pool (this year reclaiming the Williamburg waterfront), but their tried, true and rad formula still remains, booking some of the biggest and best tickets imaginable. From next Sunday until right up to Labor Day, you'll find us and thousands of other know-it-all kids raging. Hard.

Dates:

Jul 12 Mission Of Burma, Fucked Up, Ponytail, Jemina Pearl
Jul 19 Dirty Projectors, Magnolia Electric Company, White Denim
Jul 26 And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Black Lips, Health, Grupo Fantasmo
Aug 02 Round Robin show w/ Deerhunter, No Age and Dan Deacon
Aug 09 Simian Mobile Disco (DJ set), Fiery Furnaces, Dark Meat, The Netherlands
Aug 16 Del tha Funky Homosapien, Gravytrain!!!!, DD/MM/YYYY, Kenan Bell
Aug 23 Girl Talk, Max Tundra, Wiz Khalifa
Aug 30 Grizzly Bear, Beach House

(mp3)    Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge

(mp3)    No Age - Cappo

Godspeed!

Download: Univox - "I'm A Lying Fuck" + tour dates

Philly four-piece Univox melt the sounds of the sixties and seventies northern Midwest (revolution, awareness, angst) into a barrel of fiery punk/indie pop that's arresting and endearing--and they're the newest signees to the once cassette-only punk label ROIR who are releasing their Lying Fuck 7" on August 18. If you're fans of the brand of technicolor danger rock of groups like the wild brother hymns of Black Lips or JEFF The Brotherhood, you'll feel at home with these guys for sure. They make pop songs for pop fans, not pop songs for teen girls or too-emotional boys. Balls to that. The boys are heading out on a few dates next month too.

Dates:

Jul 03 Nashville, TN The End
Jul 12 Baltimore, MD TBA
Jul 13 Philadelphia, PA The Khyber
Jul 16 Detroit, MI PJ’s Lager House
Jul 17 Chicago, IL Cal’s Bar
Jul 18 Chicago, IL House Party! (TBD)
Jul 19 Murfreesboro, TN House Pride
Jul 25 Brooklyn, NY Don Pedro’s
Jul 26 New York, NY Cake Shop

(mp3)    Univox - I'm A Lying Fuck

Godspeed!

Live: Atmosphere tour again behind When Life Gives You Lemons...

Embarking on the final leg of their tours in support of their sixth(!) studio record When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, Atmosphere will find themselves on the stages of clubs, halls and a few festivals, including Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. The "When God Gives You Ugly" tour kicks off a month from today at Minnesota's 10,000 Lakes Festival. When Life Gives You Lemons... is obviously still out now.

Dates:

Jul 23 Detroit Lakes, MN 10,000 Lakes Festival
Jul 26 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
Jul 27 New York, NY Webster Hall
Jul 28 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
Jul 30 Orlando, FL Firestone
Jul 31 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
Aug 01 St. Petersburg, FL State Theater
Aug 02 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
Aug 04 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Aug 05 Austin, TX Stubbs
Aug 06 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
Aug 07 Kansas City, MO Beaumont
Aug 08 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
Aug 10 Sioux Falls, SD Nutty's Outside Theater
Aug 11 Des Moines, IA Simon Estes Riverfront Amphitheater
Aug 12 Wichita, KS The Cotillion
Aug 14 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Aug 15 Santa Fe, NM Paolo Soleri
Aug 16 El Paso, TX Club 101
Aug 18 Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues
Aug 19 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
Aug 21 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
Aug 30 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Festival

(mp3)    Atmosphere - Give Me

Godspeed!

Live: La Roux is coming back to North America

La Roux's principal talent Elly Jackson and the man behind the beats and arrangements, Ben Langmaid, are coming back to the states and Canada riding their white horses for another two weeks of shows coming up at the end of next month. Following La Roux's record-selling single this year in the native UK, "In For The Kill" and the impending hurrah coming their way from their debut record (set for an October release at this point), this should be a really rad set of shows for a North American proving ground for one of the year's most promising acts. Pop music for 2009 at its best.

Dates:

Jul 22 San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord
Jul 24 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour     
Jul 27 Vancouver, BC Biltmore
Jul 28 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
Jul 31 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
Aug 01 Montreal, QC Osheaga Festival
Aug 02 New York, NY All Points West Festival
Aug 06 Washington, DC Town 
Aug 07 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza

(mp3)    La Roux - Bulletproof (Foamo remix)

Godspeed!

Live: THE CULTURE OF ME presents The Legends next week

That's right our NYC friends! Johan Angergard aka The Legends dropped his latest record, Over And Over, here in the states this past Tuesday and he's coming round the mountains next week for three live dates in the greater Gotham area, his first Manhattan date being next Wednesday, June 24. We're more than proud to be sponsoring the show, which goes down at the Andrew W.K.-helmed Santos Party House. Doors are at 7pm sharp and Angergard will be supported by the NYC doom rock faves Blacklist as well as We Are Country Mice and indie pop/artsy girl duo Eagle And Talon.

(mp3)    The Legends - Seconds Away

Godspeed!