Klaxons absolutely killed at Coachella. It was the tightest, hardest set I've heard from them since first seeing them back in November. I was really happy to see that the road has really put the boys on the top of their game. Their tracks are all fantastic in their own right, but the live show was heretofore a bit lacking. No longer. Come with me.

Keep an eye out at Brooklyn Vegan for an interview I did with Tony Wilson (the fucking Factory Tony Wilson) that turned into a group chat with James and Jamie from Klaxons over Kalimachos.

My photos from Bjork's fantastic Wednesday night show are up over at BV. Here's one of my favorites.

The Week in Dance is also over there. Hot parties this weekend include my boys at Cut and Trouble & Bass teaming up for MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE at Studio B on Saturday. Rave it out with Moby and Curses! and Passions and Captain and Shark. BASSSSSSSS.

(photo: Masters of the Universe via P.Captain.R)

If I know you personally and you make music, I've probably said "Someone needs to make this track in to NEW YORK...man" while drunkenly pumping my fists to Fedde Le Grand's ode to Detroit.

My prayers have finally been answered and with extra speed garage bass to boot(leg).

I missed the world debut of this track at Masters of the Universe last weekend, but fear not. Curses! will be dropping the love bass on you this Friday at People Don't Dance No More: INSTITUBES PARIS TERROR CLUB!

Trouble & Bass: Party Crashers Unite - Put Your Hands Up 4 New York (zShare)

$40? 4:30 pm? At least Oakenfold isn't playing with them...

everythingeverythingeverythingi'minvisiblei'minvisible

Friday, September 14

Underworld
in Central Park
with JAMES HOLDEN

Doors at 4:30 PM EDT
$40 Advance tickets while supplies last
available Thursday, May 10 at noon EDT

Rrépondez s'il vous plaît...motherfuckers!

Das Glow destroyed it! Holy shit.

Curses! went old school meets new school and had everyone jackin', even the bouncers. Next Stop Chicago!

DAS!

GLOW!

Lots of GLOW.

More photos are coming here, check out Robot Glow's photos over at Music-for-Robots!

Live at People Don't Dance No More NYC: INSTITUBES PARIS TERROR CLUB.

(The sun coming up on our rooftop afterparty on Friday. Everyone bolted for home soon after this shot was taken. From Robot Blair's Flickr.)

Some amazing spaced out shit I've been listening to trying to ease my dazed mind and body:

Lindstrom + Prins Thomas BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 5.04.07 (Click Through to Mssr. Jacques Renault's site)

Pilooski Mix for Beats in Space (download|stream|tracklist)

Dirty Soundsystem Mix for Beats in Space (download|stream|tracklist)

Great article in the New Yorker about Banksy. Street art is already replacing proper art, so what's next? I need a live-in graf artist. Get in touch.

Banksy:

“I don’t think art is much of a spectator sport these days,” he began. “I don’t know how the art world gets away with it, it’s not like you hear songs on the radio that are just a mess of noise and then the d.j. says, ‘If you read the thesis that comes with this, it would make more sense.’ ”

Design is creeping up in the art world too: ICFF is this weekend.

"When we play: you freak out."

!!! chk chk chk absolutely destroyed last night. It must've be the motherfuckin moon, but people were going apeshit. I went apeshit. The backup singer that !!! brought on tour with them went apeshit and then stage dove right on to the floor. Craziness.

If you have a chance, go freakout to !!! sometime soon. Thankfully, they are coming back to Studio B on May 30th.

I've been sitting on this one for a bit, but here's Hot Chips remix of !!!'s new single!

!!! (chk chk chk) - Must Be the Moon (Hot Chip Remix)

I can't reccomend !!!'s new album Myth Takes highly enough. Go. Buy. Now.

The remainder of !!!'s tourdates after the jump...

My Week in Dance is up over at Brooklyn Vegan...

I'll repost a bit on the events going down this weekend in NYC here:

Friday - 5/18
RONG at APT
Modular Monthly at 200 Orchard (RSVP)
Curses! at Ruff Club at the Annex

Saturday - 5/19
Everyone in New York DJs at PHONO at Rebel (Seriously this is huge & retarded: A Guy Called Gerald, Metro Area, Tim Sweeney...)
Trouble & Bass invades Don Pablos

The whole crew raved out tonight. Cobra Kai, La Decadanse, Local Hero, Mistaker, Hot Fucking Pink, TROUBLE & BASS, Modular...

New York is shakin and poppin.

Claude Von Stroke and his Dirtybird crew roll into town Thursday night for the launch of the new Dirtybird residency at APT. CVS's wierd and wobbly beats have turned up in many a DJ set, from techno purists to hip hoppers to the super club set. Peanut Butter Jelly Time? The Whistler? You've heard the bird...check Hype Machine for a refresher...

Claude Von Stroke Promo Mix (MP3)

APT has another killer night on Friday lined up for Max Pask's new residency.

Joining Max will be Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair. H&LA are one of the newest DFA signings and are putting out some very exciting music, including work with Antony (of ...and the Johnsons) just like Bjork.

Listen up to Andy's Beats in Space mix for a few Hercules tracks and a sampling of Andy's excellent taste...

Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair on Beats in Space March 20th, 2007 (stream | download)

People Don't Dance No More is looking forward to hosting Hercules and Love Affair on June 15th. Save the date for some disco freakouts this summer.

It's a bank holiday weekend. Proper time for a rave, innit?

My Week in Dance is up over at Brooklyn Vegan. This week features a contest for tickets to Jesse Rose's wobble throwdown at Fixed at Studio B on Saturday night.

Jesse Rose - A Sided

I'm going to try and hit as many parties as possible this weekend. It's as warm as Ibiza, might as well act like we're there. Hit me on my beepa people.

Holy shit. Might be the flyer of the year.

Gettin' after it with the Runaway boys is always fun. Lit is a special place where smoking laws go to die.

RUNAWAY FRIDAY @ LIT

FRIDAY JUNE 1ST

YES, IT'S FREE

HOSTED BY CHASE

WITH RUNAWAY DEEJAYS
MARCOS CABRAL &
JACQUES RENAULT

2ND AVE PEOPLE
DOWNSTAIRS OF COURSE
MIDNIGHT TIL 4AM
GETTIN INTO IT

I love Shakes. No "the" bullshit, just SHAKES. These two brother dudes from the fuckin Isle of Wight make some strong electro rocking jams. No shortage of electro and definitely no shortage of rocktro. If you've seen me DJ, you've heard "Sister Self Doubt" more than a few times.

Bear with me here: Shakes remixed Datarock's "Fa Fa Fa", Datarock play NYC on Saturday night at my boys' CUT party at Studio B, Passions also debuts his live show at said party, and now I'll debut Passions' remix of Shakes.

Ah shit, I was dreaming. I think I'll have to make that happen though. Shakers, send through the tapes: Ben, get to work.

Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (Shakes Remix)

Shakes - Sister Self Doubt

Shakes' shit was very hard to comeby until the brilliant boys of IAMSOUND records picked up the Sister Self Doubt EP for the US. Meaning you can now download it on IDrones.

Shakes video and all of the Cut details after the jump...