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So they never fulfilled my interview and it kinda bummed me out, but I fucking love this video. Great Kylie cover.

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Folks, here's your chance to see and hear everything that's right about the DC music scene right now. Thursday night we've got DC friends-of-robots The Roosevelt and These United States along with NYC's Phonograph at the new H St. venue The Rock and Roll Hotel on Thursday, December 21. If you're still in town or coming in for the holidays this show comes with our highest recommendation.

You've heard These U.S. on the site before, but they've got great new tracks on their myspace (and you'll be hearing more from us about them in the not-too-distant-future).

And here's one from The Roosevelt

The Roosevelt - American Drunk

This one is an older demo I believe, the stuff on their EP shows how fast these guys are taking off.

To top it off the show is at one the newest spots on the H St. corridor, the Rock and Roll Hotel . Say what you will about its location--personally I love it because I can stumble home--but the greatest thing about this new little area in DC is that it's just about tripled the number of live music venues in this town. And that can't be bad. It's finally getting to the point where you can have a legitimate choice of good shows to go to on a given night! It's almost like a real city here. Of course, what I personally am counting down for (bring on the haters) DC goes smoke free on Jan. 1!!!! What this means for me is more shows more shows more shows.

New indie rock bands, new clubs, the holidays. It's the most wonderful time of the year in DC.

P.S. If you're in the Philly area, The Roosevelt and Phonograph are playing The Khyber on Wednesday, Dec. 20, so don't miss out!

I am heading home down south for the holiday’s. So I am taking advantage and spreading christmas cheer to all of you BigStereo fans. Wanna dance with half of your favorite blog on earth? Come check out my DJ sets among other top notch DJ’s of SoCal and Baja.

Let’s party it up!!! Don’t be shy and say hello. I should be bouncing off the wall.

Thursday(Tijuana)

Friday(San Diego)

Next Tuesday(Lost Angeles)

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Chateau Flight - Track 3

Once again, this robot turns his eyes to the East and looks fondly to Paris, but this time, it is a nod to the old guard, relatively speaking.

Chateau Flight is Nicholas Chaix (aka I:Cube) and Gilbert Cohen (aka DJ Gilb'R) - Cohen has been running the Versatile label for a decade-plus, and the two of them together have been responsible for some fantastic dance music throughout that time.

This project, to create a new soundtrack to the 1915 silent-film classic 'The Vampires' was commissioned for a retrospective of the work of director Louis Feuillade last summer at the Cinémathèque Française. Chaix and Cohen worked in their studio (the press materials for the album calls it their "lair" because it is right next to the Père Lachaise cemetery) for nearly a month on the compositions whilst watching the movie on a continuous loop, then decided to bring in guitarist Nicholas Villebrun for some improvisational tone and texture. The result is what you hear now. They performed this live for the screening, but decided it was good enough, and interesting enough, to see release on its own, which I think was a great decision.

This is certainly a different side to Chateau Flight, as there are only a couple of tracks in the 40+ minutes of music that could be considered 'dance music'. For more of that side of CF, look to the incredible 12" out right now on the Inner City Visions label, that is getting played out and charted by the best DJs in the world.

The Versatile label itself has a lot going on right now too, with the new 12" singles out by Joakim and Basic Soul Unit, as well as the long-awaited Joakim full length, Monsters & Silly Songs coming out early next year (expect a full review here shortly). The Les Vampires: Original Soundtrack will be available from our friends at Forced Exposure in the next few weeks, and you'll also find it at your favorite retailers and on iTunes, so keep your eyes peeled. I myself am going to have to track down the film, and try playing this soundtrack with it... I bet it is amazing!

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PS: Advance Notice My buddy David Bruno over at Slap You In Public and I are putting together a ridiculous dance party together for Friday, January 5th at Element - "People Don't Dance No More" with James F!@#$&^ Friedman (Throne of Blood) and Druzzi (Throne of Blood/The Rapture), as well as a super-special guest DJ, very likely from Paris from Chicago... it will be off the damn hook, and will likely become a monthly party with the best of the best as our guests. So, mark those calendars NOW!!!

The Valentinos - “Nightmoves” (YouTube)

I totally thought the new video for The Valentinos’ “Nightmoves” was like some poorly converted flash video or something. But… it’s supposed to look that. I’m slow. After figuring that out… “Nightmoves” is a pretty damn cool video.

And I know most of you have already heard the Bagraiders remix of “Kafka” off of Kitsuné Maison 3… or at least you should’ve. Well, it is soon to be released along side the Comets remix of “Nightmoves” on a Kitsuné 12 inch. I have to say this remix is the most exciting remix to pass my desk in a while. You’re going to be dancing your life away to this…

The Valentinos - “Nightmoves” (Comets Valitalo Remix) (mp3)

And I hate making predictions because I end up wrong and you call me on it and it’s embarrassing… but keep your eye on both The Valentinos and Comets in 2007. If you haven’t noticed, the Comets (Tim from Cut Copy and Joel from Riot In Belgium) have been putting out some fucking amazing, amazing remixes. And The Valentinos are working on an album that I can honestly say I can’t wait to hear.

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Y'all might remember a while back we co-sponsored a tour that featured the Mobius Band and Baby Dayliner. They wrapped up their tour, and brought back a full recount of the experience. So here it is - more pictures and the full story after the jump:

"a rock band piled together in a passenger van circling the united states is a strange phenomenon, but you can read about that anywhere. how about this though: a rock band mobius band and a solo artist baby dayliner on a month-long MFR-sponsored tour, sharing the same van, sleeping on the same floors, eating the same filet-o-fish's... having never met before the first show! it's got all the built in drama of a classic sitcom, no? will one kill the other under cover of night? will mobius band leave baby dayliner at a south dakota gas station 'on accident'? will baby dayliner ever learn to navigate the hall-of-mirrors sarcasm that is mobius band's trademark?

or... will mobius band and baby dayliner get along so well, and bond so thoroughly, that it affirms all humanity in a warming glow of trust and friendship? yeah the last one. little did mobius band know that baby dayliner (born ethan marunas but anyone with any sense calls him 'baby'), is that one in a million individual that could navigate the intricacies and eccentricities of our band, and in fact- this is where the tv show angle comes in - teach us something too. here's baby dayliner showing mobius band how to serve this royalty in wisconsin.

and how about the national, who we had the good fortune to play with up and down the west coast. go look up 'classy' in the dictionary and there's a big family-style pen and ink drawing of the national. how classy? brian just gave me a jacket the other day, that's how classy. never mind that it was 3 sizes too small for him. how classy? padma taught us how to speak australian. how classy? here's a picture of matt serenading his niece at a soundcheck.

the singular highlight of this tour was an unplanned stop in with baby's cousin earle in bozeman, montana, just as the season's first snowstorm reared up. we had a long (long, long) drive to chicago looming, but the lure of earle's restaurant was too good to pass up. what followed was an honest to god oasis in the desert of too-much-driving: we dined on bison and rabbit, we drank fine wine, and we had conversations with people that were not selling us gasoline. we saw all that bozeman had to offer an underfed, overtired band. here's baby feeling overtired, and probably overindulged too, at earle's two-car-garage-cum-bachelor-pad.

it was a good tour, and all brought to you by the one and only MFR. back home now, and both mobius band and baby dayliner are holed up in our respective labs writing songs for our next records. feel free to roll by our practice space next to the manhattan bridge to share in some artisanal drinking waters and fine, imported grapes. we'll go get a filet-o-fish for old times sake. happy holidays."

Not to pay Minneapolis' Parts For All Makes a backhanded compliment, but I often really like bands that sound like a pastiche of other bands I love. This band, for example, sounds to me the illegitimate love child of Sleater-Kinney and, say, Letters to Cleo. I also just love the sweet vocals by Katie Marshall and Laura Meloy on this song, which is why I wish they were a bit more prominent in the mix. But enough of my rambling.

Parts For All Makes - Former Jezebel.

This song is from their debut record, Shrinkwrapped Hearts and Paper Dolls, which is very solid overall. There are only six tracks, but they each have their own thing going on. Another good one is "Every Now And Then" (hear it on MySpace), which starts with a creepy little Blur-like piano line and gives way to a satisfying pop chorus.

You can buy Shrinkwrapped Hearts and Paper Dolls from CD Baby. You should.

My Cousin Roy - Bobbi's Back

Blam!

Here we are, it is Friday, and I have got some delicious disco goodness for you.

I got an email from this guy My Cousin Roy earlier this week - I'd actually been hearing good things about this record, as the kids at some of my favorite record shops (like the Lab and Picadilly Pecords) have included it in their featured new releases write-ups in the last week or two. My Cousin Roy is a mysterious disco-loving dude from Brooklyn who has started a label for disco edits and other weirdness called "Wurst Edits" - this song comes from their first release, which has been getting a lot of love from tasteful DJs like Lindstrøm, Tim Sweeney, Trevor Jackson and Carl Craig (and now yours truly). Hotness.

Roy tells me there's lots more great shit coming out on the label, including unreleased remixes of Home Video by The Loving Hand, the debut single from Runaway (Marcos Cabral, who has done some techno for Trapez, and Jacques Renault, of the Thursday night ISS party in NYC), as well as another My Cousin Roy release. Roy also does a weekly radio show called "Apocalypse Wow" on East Village Radio - check out the show here.

You can pick up Wurst Edits #1 from Turntable Lab (US) and Picadilly (UK), and a select handful of other fine retailers.

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PS: Tomorrow (Saturday) night, the place to be is Studio B for Fixed - JDH and Dave P are back from a successful DJ-trip to Europe, and to help bring the noise, they've got guest-DJ Boys Noize in from Berlin, and live guests Crystal Castles and Foreign Islands - advance tix are $7 from Other Music or IGetRvng, or it is ten bucks at the door. It will be well worth the price of admission. See you there!

By now I'm sure you know that Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun has died. I'm not going to list all the music he was responsible for because much more will be said elsewhere, you should just put on some old Atlantic and ATCO records today and marvel. There was a great piece on NPR this morning that you can listen to here the nice thing is they play various Atlantic tracks throughout.

Unfortch rave is back, but if it is reinventing itself like madonna, then I don’t mind so much. These guys were introduced to me by my good friend Sleazemore(watch out for this guy). I checked out their webpage and its quite a hot hoot, go check it out. They’re from London and they rock it out with their glowsticks out. I am definately anticipating a full length from these guys. You can listen to more songs on their site, and trust me they are all good. Get your panties in a tangle and check out Trash Fashion!

Anyone smell buzz?!!!! Rock N’ Rave!!!! Just don’t New Rave! That’s old rave!

Check out their video too, I hope these guys are in on it. Oh and buy their single!!!!

Trash Fashion- “Rave Dave” (mp3)