DEJOUR MAGAZINE PRESENTS: THE VIRGINS AFTERPARTY
I’m proud to announce that on Wednesday June 4th I will be hosting the Virgins after party at my loft after the show. $15 gets you as much beer as you can handle. DJ sets from my friends Matt from Doppelhertz and Vaneska. It’s going to be crazy and the place is small so its going to be sweaty.Here is a bonus new track from to get you in the mood :
THE VIRGINS - PRIVATE AFFAIR.mp3
DISPATCH
A young Glenn O’Brien and Jean Michel Basquiat on TV Party
Vice photographers have hot Ex-Girlfriends.
Kenneth Cappello shoots hair hats by Nagi Noda.
What exactly does Ryan McGinley ‘inspired’ mean?
Naked Girls and Disney Characters via Passarella Death Squad
PLEATED PANTS?
Everyone know that pleated pants are for senile old men and guys who hate their jobs, but I’m a huge fan of the look. Patrik Ervell (left) does a good version and I especially like the Carin Wester version. Start to worry when I begin to praise socks and sandals…
M. WARD + ZOOEY DESCHANEL = SHE & HIM
I’ve been giving an un-proportionate amount of love to electronic based music lately so now it time to give some shine to real authentic music made with real instruments. Enter She & Him. Comprised of super cute actress Zooey Deschanel and a previous folk/indie/pop musician M. Ward. I love their official Bio:
“The She & Him story begins when in 2006 , renowned one man band M. Ward, recorded a duet with a girl named Zooey Deschanel. A delightful recording session, the experience lead to a dialogue between the two about collaborating further. This, in turn, led to Deschanel admitting to secretly making dozens and dozens of home demos and hoarding them like acorns for the winter. Sick and tired of being stingy and secretive about music, Deschanel realized that if songs were acorns then this was indeed her wintertime: she sent the recordings to Ward and these demos became the basis for their first record, entitled Volume One.”
They craft really charing catchy country inspired pop songs that sound like they are lost treasures found in an attic from 30 or 40 years ago.They recently played to sold out audeinces in NY and LA and today they have anounced their North American tour:
Wednesday, July 23 Toronto, ONT @ Opera House
Thursday, July 24 Northampton, MA @ Academy of Music
Friday, July 25 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
Saturday, July 26 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
Monday, July 28 Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
Tuesday, July 29 Atlanta, GA @ Varsity Playhouse
Wednesday, July 30 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
Thursday, July 31 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
Saturday August 2 Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival
Tuesday, August 5 Chicago, IL @ Park West
Thursday, August 7 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Friday, August 8 Madison, WI @ Barrymore
Sunday August 10 Washington, DC @ V Fest
I’ll see you at the Toronto Show…
NEW FROM TINY VICES…
Coming soon from Tim Barber and tinyvices.com is TV Books. Look out for monogrpahs, books and zines. You know to expect great things from Tim and Tiny Vices so keep your eyes peeled
MAKE YOUR OWN DEJOUR PAPER
What do Kanye, The Cobrasnake, Justice and DJ AM all have in common? They all have copies of Dejour Paper and now you can too. If you didn’t manage to get you hands on one of the Dejour Papers (I only made about 50), now is your chance. I’ve put all the pages in a zip file and all you have to do is print them and staple them together. Pretty self explanatory.
HOLY GHOST!
I know this is nothing new, but I’ve been playing HOLY GHOST! from Brooklyn (where else?) non stop latley. I wouldn’t expect anything less from DFA. Now that all the Serato DJs are slowly moving from blog electro to italodisco/whatever you want to call it, expect to hear a lot more from them. I’m sure you have already heard “Hold On” (a.k.a. the new D.A.N.C.E.) but check them out on their mysapce.
ONE CITY LEFT
This morning I got an email from Kevin at Given Collective and he put me on to his new project that he has been working on. He explains it better than I do: “The project itself is titled ‘One City Left’ and is a photography project that involved ten individuals in five North American cities. Each participant was given a disposable camera, and asked to set about the task of documenting the culture, places, and experiences they encounter in a particular time frame. The final images were compiled and have been turned into a website.” I love the concept of using disposable cameras for their raw organic quality. Ever since Polaroid film has been discontinued people have been jumping to disposable cameras and I like what I see. He has photos from about 10 artists, musicians and weirdoes, Heron Preston being one of them.
DEJOUR ENDORSES: ‘SUP MAGAZINE
Josh just brought me a copy of ‘SUP MAGAZINE that he picked up at Nom De Guerre. ’Sup is a music magazine based out of Williamsburg and the current issue, 18 features The Kills, The Virgins, Band of Horses, Dragonette, Santogold and a lot more…
MGMT
No vowels needed here. You’ve heard about them on the blogs and you know you’re supposed to like them. Dejour talks to Ben Goldwasser of MGMT about being on the tour, fashion people and being Googled. By Kyle Morrison
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