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Saturday March 24th
Studio B + XLR8R present Cut

DJ's:
Ellen Allien (BPitch Control) & Miss Kittin (NovaMute/Astralwerks)
w/ Lauren Flax (White Lightning)
and residents: The Captain + Shark

Studio B - 259 Banker St (between Calyer & Meserole) - Greenpoint, BKLYN

If I wasn't recovering from some kind of springtime flu thing, I would be there in a freakin' heartbeat. There is no way this won't be bonkers, so get your ass there.

Today at 5 PM we hit ArcadeFire.net and here's what we found: video of Lily Tomlin cursing out David O. Russel and a link to a page with the 10 coolest trees ever. We refreshed to double-check and it was...

Björk.com's got the goods for our massive graphic designer contingent. Feast your eyes on the cover of Volta. An artistic depiction loosely based on reality, eh? Like we have to ask....

Another cover for your dreary Friday. This one comes from the sonic alchemists of Blitzen Trapper, who generally enjoy taking country conceit and twisting its corners with whatever accoutrements they can kick up, be it an errant synth line or...

After struggling out the door to see Dappled Cities, a friend's text mentioned another hardly filled room with talent worth scoping; Wimbledon's Jamie T was playing one last US show, at Mercury Lounge. You guys buying into the Brit buzz...

Another thing we would have loved to hit while in Austin last week was David Byrne's "Record Companies -- Who Needs Them?" talk -- which suggests new marketing models for an industry that, he says, will see digital sales out-pace...

A dazzling cadre of our favorite artists have been assembled for the "first major US tribute album" to the illustrious Joni; we told ya about it earlier this year, but now we have a little audio to accompany our salivation....

A "rising Scottish crossover star," Calvin Harris, has lambasted Bloc Party for their musical tedium, and it is most definitely, not at all a publicity stunt! Calvin told The Big Issue In Scotland (via NME):A lot of these people think...

One of the most-hailed sets of last week's fest came from the disrobed, black parade of The Polyphonic Spree at Hot Freaks! bloggapalooza at Club de Ville. Tim DeLaughter regaled the crowd, acting as military-fatigue clad conductor and corralling his...

It's spring again! I think I mention this on Robots every year, but I can't help it: spring music just may be the best kind. And some contenders always come to mind, most namely Modest Mouse's "Float On," "Fresh Feeling" by Eels, anything by Go! Team. Spring songs are ones that just sound like renewal, like everybody waking up. This is what I think of when I hear We All Have Hooks For Hands.

We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Man Trying To Outfox Us All.

Fun! What I really want is for these Minneapolis guys - a big-ass collective on the Afternoon Records label - to tour with Mates Of State and Tilly And The Wall. It would be a cute popfest.

(I should put a disclaimer here that Afternoon Records owner Ian Anderson and I write for the same blog, so we're internet buddies. But he passed this record on to me, and it's objectively awesome.)

The debut of We All Have Hooks For Hands, The Pretender, comes out on April 17. You can pre-order it from Afternoon Records.