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If you aren't out on your yacht, come get discofied with us again in the Vault at Element.

People Don't Dance No More
Friday July 6, 2007 with special guest DJ

JUSTIN MILLER (DFA)

w/ residents: Robot Blair (Music.for-Robots) & David Bruno (Slap You in Public)

10 PM/21+ $5 with RSVP to peopledontdancenomore@gmail.com
In the Vault at Element - 225 East Houston Street @ Essex St / Avenue A (Entrance on ESSEX Street -- Directions: F and V Trains to Second Avenue)

BUT FIRST, I'll be DJing along with some other fine folks (Lauren Flax, Huggs, and the Disconappers) up on the roof of Bar 13 on the 4th of July for our friends at We Are Your Friends - the party is all afternoon (Noon to Six PM) with cheap eats and cheap drinks and free goodies!

Party!!!!

It’s the summer of Modular. They have so much stuff going on these next few months that I just had to give you guys a heads up. They have FOUR releases coming out from some of our favs:
1. Bang Gang (Light, Sound Dance on 7/31)…i posted the teaser a while ago. if you haven’t listened to it, yet, you haven’t lived yet…look out for them on tour in August
2. Muscles (Ice Cream Digital EP on 8/7) Ice Cream has come to save the day
3. New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom on 8/28 and a tour in the fall
4. Bumblebeez (Prince Umberto & The Sister of Ill on 9/25)…..Travis just posted an A-trak remix of ‘dr. love’…if you haven’t heard it, you’re dead to me

PLUS: monthly partiessss…..
NYC - 200 Orchard
SD - Beauty Bar
LA - Standard Sunset Pool Parties (1st one on 7/21)
SF - Mezzanine
Chi-town - Debonaire Social Club

and just b/c Bigstereo and Modular love you there’s a few give-aways:
whomever can tell me the first song on the Modular USA Myspace page will be entered to win one of the following (and tell me your preference of prizes when you email me)

- a bitchin’ 12″ of Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (Joakim rmx) that’s super sold out in Australia at the moment

OR

- a sexy Modular t-shirt (mine gets almost ripped off every time i wear it)

New Young Pony Club - The Bomb (Phones edit)

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Wow, there's gonna be a shitload of videos from Drums And Guns -- especially if there are no live-action logistics to contend with. This makes the second animated clip for Low in recent months (first was for the rad Optimimi version of "Hatchet"), and it paints the portrait of a high-noon spaghetti western showdown, bookended by a fire 'n' brimstone faced church organ player. It's the big issues we're dealing with here, cartoony Low style.

Another day where Stereogum's complexion is starting to look Broken Social Scene, eh? The Stars cut earlier today was a promising peek at the BSS-affiliate's fall-released record, but impatient Social Scene fans have less days to wait for the latest from Raising The Fawn, the Broken Social spawn of the collective's guitarist John Crossingham.

After taking care of that bout of exhaustion set in from too-much-too-fast, blogosphere crown prince Zach Condon has admirably kept his name in your bloglines with well-timed and excellent EPs; videos with rampant, mustachioed debauchery; Grizzly Bear covers; and collabs with the likes of Get Him Eat Him in the studio and the Arcade Fire + Final Fantasy at Bowery. Top that? Young master Condon's got LP #2 in the can and ready to roll, set for release this fall.

So it's road test time, and Zach's been keepin' it Beirut across the Atlantic, doing a set for the sopping wet Glastonbury attendees. And a couple of days ago, the Condon crew gave a more intimate performance at London's Koko, where the band showed off some of the new including full-brassed, accordion oom-pa-pa track "Nantes" and the gorgeous ukulele lament "The Penalty." You can hear both tracks (along with the rest of the set) at Rewritable Content, who have snatched passable-quality audio for your LP-previewing pleasure.

The Flying Club Cup is out 10/9 on Ba Da Bing! Newbies sound great, really psyched for this record. Obviously we are not over our school girl crush on the kid. Tracklist after the jump.

Good news for Stars-gazers young and old: The bellicosity of recent times are over (at least by the Canadian quintet's assessment), and it's time to take stock of the fallout with the band's upcoming LP In Our Bedroom After The War. And to celebrate this new, most definitely proverbial reign of peace, the good folks at Arts & Crafts make an offering of the band's first single from the newbie, "The Night Starts Here." Very cool stuff, Torquil and Amy doing their you-sing/I-sing thing set to some programmed beats, symphonic sounds, and a sorta smoldering guit/bass rumble.

Stars - "The Night Starts Here" (MP3)

Cute cover art -- tip and a nod to Van Gogh's bedroom/color palette.

In Our Bedroom After The War is out 9/25 on Arts & Crafts. Tracklist after the jump.

No we still haven't held one of these things, and with that price tag, it'll probably be awhile. But we've read the reviews, and for all the talk of "justified hype," on paper at least, Apple screwed the pooch by not providing direct iTunes Store access/purchase via iPhone. Bare with us here. Via AP:

Some music industry watchers are surprised the iPhone will not offer over-the-air song downloads at launch. They see such a feature as the Holy Grail of digital music sales, allowing subscribers to buy music on impulse while on the move.

Sure, there are other phones that offer cellular MP3 downloads, but not on phones we'd actually be interested in having, and not from iTunes ever-expanding store. We've spent embarrassingly little on music over the past few years (we're ashamed -- honestly), but if possessed of an over-the-air iTunes-purchase ready iPhone, we bet our music purchases go through the roof (like AT LEAST two tracks a year, if not three).

Sorry kids, the new Of Montreal video has nothing on "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" -- mainly 'cause we get precious little of OM's stylist fashionably victimzing Kevin and crew. No giant lobster claws, no spermy-guy suits. Sure there's blush and guyliner involved for the few seconds Kev graces the screen, but otherwise it's a collagist construction/deconstruction, which matches Barnes's cut 'n' paste electro aesthetic and all, but come now: what's the point of looking so fabulous if you ain't gonna flaunt it? Great song though, of course. And a great fucking record.

Watch it at MTV.

Ssion - “ASAP” (YouTube)

Here Ssion’s new video for their track “ASAP.” Ssion’s album Fool’s Gold is one that we haven’t posted much about, but it has been a bit of a favorite this year… though I have to admit it’s not nearly as epic as their near classic Opportunity Bless My Soul.

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Gotta give Gough his just propers; seasons change, but he's sticking with that stapled-on skull cap. Actually, this clip for "Promises," from '06-released Born In The UK, may explain the reason for his knit headgear -- judging by that lighting, somebody's not paying their electric bill.