Jamie Stewart Tour Photos Available

When Jamie Stewart first announced his solo tour, one thing promised for each show was the presence of longtime collaborator David Horvitz, who would be armed with a camera and taking portrait photographs of each and every attendee.

“On a big tour, there is always 100,000,000 tons of gear to deal with… so there is never time to do a detailed parallel project. These shows will all be very intimate and microscopic, so there is space to blow up the normal mode,” Stewart told XLR8R in February of this year.

True to his word, Stewart, with Horvitz’ assistance, snapped show goers from Greenville to Tucson, and the pics are currently on the Xiu Xiu blog. The boys have organized them by city, so fans can easily view the many poses and fashion statements of Xiu Xiu/Stewart fans.

The best 300 photos will be published in a forthcoming book, but not before Stewart and Co head to Europe for another round of dates and, presumably, photos.

Jamie Stewart:
05/09 Cologne, Germany – King George?
05/10 Paris, France – Maroquinerie?
05/11 Lyon, France – Grrnd Zero?
05/13 Napoli, Italy – Galleria Toledo?
05/14 Milano, Italy – La Casa 139?
05/15 Ferrara, Italy – Zuni?
05/16 – Carpi, Italy – Mattatoio?
05/18 Istanbul, Turkey – Arkaoda?
05/19 Prague, Czech Republic – A-Studio Rubin?
05/20 Berlin, Germany – Privatclub?
05/21 Poznan, Poland – Kisielice?
05/22 Warsaw, Poland – Powiekszenie?
05/24 Brighton, UK – Freebutt?
05/25 London, UK – Cargo?
05/26 Tilburg, The Netherlands – 013?
05/27 Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Paradiso?
05/28 Oslo, Norway – Revolver?
05/29 Bergen, Norway – Straedet?
05/30 Trondheim, Norway – Blaest

Hell Teufelswerk

Veteran troublemaker DJ Hell has always produced a steady stream of sinister tunes, but few would have guessed that he could drop an opus like Teufelswerk. Split into two discs, the album manages to both reaffirm his mastery of post-electroclash techno and stake a proper claim to lighter parts of the sonic spectrum. Night, the album’s first disc, is vintage Hell, full of cutting synths and driving beats, not to mention vocal turns from Bryan Ferry and a surprisingly hilarious Diddy. The album’s second disc, Day, comes out of nowhere to deliver a chilled-out collection of airy keys and pastoral soundscapes. Apparently directing a night of debauchery isn’t enough for Hell—he also wants to soundtrack the morning after.

Ras G Brotha From Another Planet

After one listen to this sonic opus, it becomes apparent that Ras G is part of a brazen new group of pioneers in hip-hop sound architecture. Dexterously weaving vocal sound bites from sources as varied as Janet Jackson (“Penny’s Confession”) and The Last Poets (“Nothing But Change”) throughout his digital-versus-analog soundclash algorithms, Ras G fearlessly connects the dots between ancient African civilizations, Rastafarianism, and the extraterrestrial. “Earthly Matters” shows Ras G’s bent for further exploring the philosophies of his most dominant musical muse (the unorthodox, late jazz legend Sun Ra) through the binary code of his MPC’s circuitry. Metaphysical, mind-expanding beats from the great beyond have officially landed. Earth will never be the same.

Ableton Takes Live 8 on Tour

We reported earlier this month that Ableton is currently touting a new version of its Live software to the masses, in the form of Live 8. Appropriately then, the Germany-based company has teamed up with DJ/production institute DubSpot for an eight-date educational tour that should satiate the appetites of those eager to learn every nook and cranny of the music-making software (and catch some noteworthy performances at the same time).

The tour kicks off May 7 in San Francisco, where DubSpot instructor Jon Margulies will be joined by music supervisor Barry Cole, Universal Music’s Dub Gabriel, avant-garde electronic musician Christopher Willits, and others. The crew will lead a series of interactive workshops in the daytime and live performances at night, with a closing night party on May 10 at longtime S.F. party Dub Mission.

Tickets for the weekend are currently going for $225, and $125 for a single day pass. The DubSpot, website is currently packed with information on schedules, participating artists, and more.

Stay tuned for Live 8 stops in Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Boston, and other cities.

Deastro “Parallelogram”

“I wake up and I’m just determined to write a better song than I did yesterday,” says Randolph Chabot. For the time being though, a new album under his Deastro guise will have to suffice. Moondagger is an album that darts between controlled electronics and wailing guitar riffs, grand vocal choruses, and frenzied vocal hooks, as seen on this track.

Moondagger is out June 23.

Deastro Parallelogram

Junk Science “Running Shoes”

MC Baje—one half of Brooklyn-based hip-hop duo Junk Science—has explained “Running Shoes” as “an Obama song that has nothing to do with politics.” The lyrics, laid over Baje’s partner-in-crime DJ Snafu’s lo-fi beats, celebrates the election of the current U.S. president and looks towards the possibility of change. “Running Shoes” is the first track being released as a free download in preparation of the duo’s third studio album, A Miraculous Kind of Change, due out later this year.

Junk Science – Running Shoes

Betty Padgett Betty Padgett

A soul singer who started out in Miami in the mid-’70s, Betty Padgett has a sweet, down-home sound. The disco-laced single “Sugar Daddy,” with its polite requests for ice and a trip to Italy, comes from an era far removed from Beyonce’s self-made assertiveness. But Padgett’s simple vocals and delivery belies the multicultural mix of music on her reissued debut. Here she champions Miami as a cultural crossroads, a city where slack reggae grooves, conga beats, soul flavor, and pastel disco melodies mingle on the South Beach sand. This fusion clicks on tracks like “My Eyes Adore You,” unrequited love set to a smooth downbeat. Not quite a lost treasure, Padgett is a decent find filled with charm.

Clothes Captioned: D-Structure

A San Francisco store and clothing label keeps it all local, all the time.

Never mind a child—it takes a village to raise a store. At least, that’s true of San Francisco’s D-Structure. The shop is a testament to the Bay Area’s streetwear scene, repping local lines Exact-Science, Free Gold Watch, Gold Coin, and Rebel 8, alongside their in-house labels D-Structure and Dirty Six. Located at the historic corner of Haight and Fillmore—where upscale salons and stores meet gunshots and medical marijuana clinics—D-Structure is a prime hangout spot for local skaters, sneaker fiends, and fly ladies, whose familiar faces can be seen modeling clothes for the company’s online shop.

D-Structure supports the local art and graffiti scenes, holding monthly gallery shows and channeling S.F.’s chilled-out street styles into its casual pieces. “Our art-driven apparel is really our bread and butter, and we wouldn’t have it any other way,” says owner Azikiwee Anderson. With exotic herbs wafting in the breeze, iced coffee in hand, and the new Hieroglyphics record bumping on the stereo, Anderson tells us a bit more about D-Structure’s favorite in-store items.

1. Gold Coin 1 Up ?rugby shirt ($70)
“With only 300 pieces made, Gold Coin keeps your steeze exclusive. Check out followthecoins.com.”

2. D-Structure Smoking Hands t-shirt ($30)
“Josh Lawyer strikes again with an abstract and inquisitive piece exclusively for us.”

3. Iron Fist Dirty Harry women’s hoodie ($60)
“A reversible hoodie with a Debbie Harry tribute on front and leopard all-over print inside.”

4. D-Structure I DSSF t-shirt ($32)
“Our logo is the lightning bolt. It can mean something different to everyone but it’s still a sign of power, strength and the idea of size and scale.”

5. New Leaf Deep Breath t-shirt ($32)
“Inspired by life, New Leaf clothing blends organic, handmade works of art with modern design aesthetics by artists Erik Otto and Deny Khoung.”

Pterodactyl Worldwild

It’s a safe bet that Pterodactyl slays in the warehouse circuit. Where you’re crammed into a random hole-in-the-wall locale, spastic bands powered by angular guitars, chugging rhythms, chirping vocals, and DIY spirit make a whole lot of sense. Unfortunately, capturing that energy on record is exceedingly difficult, and Worldwild finds the Brooklyn quartet falling short in the attempt. Bands like Oneida and Deerhoof long ago set the bar for this kind-of hi-brow, lo-fi art-rock, and Pterodactyl simply doesn’t measure up. Propulsive rocker “Share the Shade” is a highlight, but most of the songs here fail to coalesce into anything particularly memorable.

Buck 65, Greetings from Tuskan Team Up

The never-ending cannonade of projects coming out of the anticon. stable have always managed to seize our attention, but this new one, from Canadian rapper Richard Terfry (Buck 65) and Belgian electronicist Joelle Phuong Minh Le (Greetings From Tuskan), called Bike For Three! has got us doubly stoked this time.

For the pair’s debut album, More Heart Then Brains, Terfry and Phuong unleash their superpowers full steam: Phuong Minh Le with her ambient beatscapes and Terfry with his rhyme-spitting mastery. What’s awesome about this album is that the two have never met in the flesh, and constructed the tracks by mailing bits and pieces to each other from their native homelands. The result is Terfry’s first all-electronic production to date, and from what we can hear on tracks like “Lazarus Phenomenon” and “First Embrace,” a damn good one at that.

More Heart Then Brains
01 “Beginning”
02 “All There Is To Say About Love”
03 “Lazarus Phenomenon”
04 “Nightdriving”
05 “There Is Only One Of Us”
06 “No Idea How”
07 “Always I Will Miss You, Always You”
08 “The Departure”
09 “First Embrace”
10 “Can’t Feel Love (Anymore)”
11 “One More Time Forever”
12 “MC Space”
13 “Let’s Never Meet”
14 “More Heart Then Brains”
15 “Ending”

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