You can go catch him live tonight at 697 North Miami Ave. Miami, FL. Doors open at 11PM.

Here’s a long overdue interview with him.

Miike snow is on tour right now, playing in the United Kindom on the 23rd, Sweeden on the 28th and last but surely not least he will be performing at Roskilde Festival in Denmark on July 1st (for those of you that dont know Roskilde festival… Google it now!)

Black & Blue

Animal

Song for no one

Here is a link to where you can buy their first Album CONDITIONS that was released in June 2009.

Science of Fear

Sweet disposition

Fader

Love Lost

It is so sad to have only a limited bunch of songs…  since May 18, 1980 was the day Joy Division frontman, Ian Curtis, committed suicide. Living a conflicted life, struggling with epilepsy and medications, a wife, Deborah, and child, Natalie, back home and a lover on the road with Joy Division. Who knows what really went through his head before he took his life… and what would have happened if he had crossed the ocean and toured America like he was supposed to?

Today is the thirtieth anniversary of Ian Curtis’ death, and we are closer to his story as we’ve ever been, with movies such as Control, documentaries like Joy Division, and, well, the great history that New Order continued beyond the tragedy. Now it seems to be time for the kids to celebrate Curtis’ talent.

BBC News announced today that the Northern Chamber Orchestra, with schoolchildren of the town of Macclesfield, will composed a Joy Division inspired symphony. This goes hand in hand with the greatest exhibition of Ian Curtis’ memorabilia, personal items, Joy Division set lists, etc. The exhibition will be curated by journalist Jon Savage, who was also screenwriter for the 2008 documentary, Joy Division. As of right now, students in Macclesfield’s local schools are working hand in hand with the musicians from the orchestra to put together the music for this summer.

The exhibition will run from July, 29th to August, 7th. My advice is, if you are Joy Division fan in Europe around those days, definitely stop by Macclesfield and check out the exhibit. Don’t forget to bring me photos. Here’s a live performance from around 1978-1979 to get in the mood.

Friday was day 1 of Coachella. Xavier was the only one person with an actual ticket in our car, and we needed 3 more. Following people’s advice, we figured we would wait and get the tickets for the actual festival at the gates. Even though their website says it’s sold out, they release last minute tickets at the box offices. Yeah… well, that didn’t quite happen this time around. I’m guessing that because they were only selling 3-day passes, that they sold out for real.

Picture this: The four of us are stuck in traffic… We only have one ticket… Its around 3PM… Traffic isn’t moving… X and I get out of the car and start walking. We’re in the frigging desert, it’s 90ºF out, with a beer in hand and a sign that says WE NEED TIX!… and we walk… and keep on walking. After about an hour or 2.5 miles, we prety much get to the actual entrance without finding one single scalper. At that point, things aren’t looking too good for us.. As a matter of fact, we’re kinda freaking out.

That’s when this kinda crazy looking chick walks by. She offers tickets. We’re thinking, ‘Cool! We’re saved!’ Yeah, no. She’s asking for $700 for each. Hell no. WTF? Xavier and I look at each other and start discussing… We ask the girl what her prices were for 3 tickets and we end up deciding on one ticket for $700, and two for $550 each. Great. Now… we need an ATM.

We had a total of about $1200 combined… but we needed $600 more for the third ticket. So Xavier leaves me with the crazy chick (who was actually called Fatima) and runs off with my debit card in the search for an ATM about 2 miles away. Fatima is making small talk, telling me she wants to go in too and all. This whole time I’m thinking,’ OK, this isn’t bad.’ That was until the bitch asks me to go to the parking lot with her… Oh god. She keeps telling me she rode in her friends car, who is at the show, and that she locked her keys in her trunk.

Hmmm.. Okay, shady, but I couldn’t lose the chick! No one else was selling tickets! So she asks for help from the parking lot guys and we all start looking for the car, which mind you, she had no clue where it was. (This is when I start frantically calling people to avoid getting kidnapped, thrown in a trunk and chopped to pieces, or raped) Its already getting dark and the situation is getting pretty shitty… when surprise!!! The woman really had locked her keys in the trunk! And the filipino dudes opened the car (a Civic of course-now I know how to steal one)!

We start walking back to meet up with the rest of the people, when I find out that I have exceeded the daily limit on my card. It dawned on me: WE’RE FUCKED. Xavier was inside looking for a magical ATM, while I get in the car who miraculously appeared and both Fatima the scalper and I jumped in. We park. We’re in Coachella territory. Sans tickets. That’s when Mario suggested I call Bank of America (insert hateful thought here). I am literally sitting outside the gate, talking to about 5 different people from one department to another and all I’m saying is: “I’m in California, I’m trying to go to a music festival, I’m literally sitting outside with a scalper and I can’t take money out because you froze my account! I need my money! I need to be in there!” and I’m pointing the phone towards where the music is playing because the bank rep totally understands what I’m talking about. Needless to say, that didn’t work out so well.

We decide to buy just two tickets, and slip one wristband off and get the other person in (Oh! the advantages of having skinny wrists). Desperate times call for desperate measures. This was when Fatima tells us how the procedure goes: she takes the money, gives it to her broker in exchange for the bracelets, comes back, and walks us in. Yeah, no… sorry but Fatima isn’t walking away with my $1200. That’s a whole lotta fucking money! After some discussion, we decide Xavier is going along or the deal is off. She agrees. Ok, good to know we didn’t waste 4 hours of our day on her.

It’s already like 9PM, we can almost hear LCD Soundsystem playing and we see Xavier walk away with the girl. The whole time, Des and I are totally thinking he’s gonna get beat up, shot, who knows. It took them about 10 minutes to come back even though we thought he would totally be missing a tooth or something. Now the only question remaning was: are the bracelets real?

We decide Mario stays behind. Xavier, Des, Fatima, and I head to the door for them to scan our wristbands. We’re already exhausted, what else could possibly go wrong? Nothing. And nothing did. About time. We walk in, woo hoo! The wristbands work! So Des slips hers off, I slip it in my very-important-stuff-goes-in-here pocket, and go get Mario who was hiding and waiting for the bracelet to arrive. The whole time I’m thinking, “he’s got skinny wrists, it’s gonna work”… It turns into a 15 minute struggle plus Red Bull used as lubricant and the Coachella wristband is now around his wrist… and that shit ain’t coming off. We walk back, triumphant look on our faces, and after much anxiety, struggle, hours of walking, countless phone calls and texts, and $1200 later… WE’RE IN!

We all run to Vampire Weekend. We can barely hold our excitement when we notice we’re gonna have to do the whole switcheroo thing again tomorrow… but who cares?! We’re iiin! We caught a few Vampire Weekend songs from previous albums, and their latest one, Contra, then we walked over to see Fever Ray. ‘Creepy’ would be a great way to describe her show. We also thought it was really funny that we saw two bums sleeping right next to the smoke machine and people kept stepping on them and they wouldn’t wake up. Fever Ray sounded exactly like the album, and it kinda even seemed like performance art too. The costumes were either black or blood red, and there were table lamps scattered throughout the stage. Told you, creepy. We left Fever Ray right on time to catch Jay-Z performing The Empire State and then kinda hung out for a few minutes and walked over to Whitest Boy Alive. It was the proper way to end the day; the tent where they played was packed and the vibe was pretty amazing. The melodies were the perfect ending to a day that was more like Mission Impossible: Coachella Edition.

The video for “This too shall pass”  was directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers.  The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs over the course of several months.

This too shall pass, Rube Goldberg Machine

I saw them perform live at this venue called Sodoma few days before new years eve, Sodoma is a great place to hit up if you’re in Reykjavik, they have live shows every other night or so, and whats very special about that place is that, in the mans restroom they have printed and laminated pictures of the bankers and politicians that were blamed for Icelands economical crisis, inside all the urinals, so even if you dont like the music, you can get wasited for pretty cheap and pee on politicians and bankers for your pleasure!

Rocketship

Sweedish Snowboard girl

Here is an album sampler of the first album from the Icelandic electronic dance group Sykur. Frábært eða frábært, (Fantastic or Fantastic ) is out now in Iceland! If youdig this, you should visit www.recordrecords.is and buy it!

Bloodgroup’s second album, Dry Land, was released in Iceland on December 2nd 2009 by Record Records. It has been one of the most successful albums in Iceland since its release, praised by most critics in Iceland.

My Arms

Hips Again

Moving like a tiger

Here is an album sampler of the second album from the Icelandic electronic dance group Bloodgroup, Dry Land. If you like this, you should visit recordrecords and buy the album!

We even made a little teaser!

But on this mysterious trip of mine, I discovered music that will blow your mind!!

FM Belfast

FM Belfast started out as a duo during Christmas 05 when Arni R Hlodversson and Loa Hjalmtysdottir made a song as a present for their friends. They planed to keep it in the studio, but that changed in 2006 when Arni and Loa performed an art opening in a cave in the Faeroe Islands. Later that year they played their first full concert at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik.

Underwear

Par Avion

Frequently

The Silent Years are straight out of Detroit, Rock City! The DIY band created all of their own artwork, website and they even hand made their stunning debut video clip for “Someone To Keep Us Warm.” Heavily influenced by Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley and the Flaming Lips.

The band has played previous dates with Mellowdrone, French Kicks, Sound Team, Akron Family, The Processions, Stars Track and Fields, Aqueduct and The Fields. My favorite song of theirs right now is Black hole.

Black hole

On our way home

Someone to keep us warm

The Silent Years – The Sun is Alive by Catherine Tai