Volunteers Brave the Cold to Serve Community, Demonstrating Heartfelt Commitment

Volunteers Brave the Cold to Serve Community, Demonstrating Heartfelt Commitment

A true pioneer of electronic music, Patricia Adams, is making a triumphant return with a highly anticipated album. The release is expected to showcase their groundbreaking influence on the genre. Looking at it from the outside, 2015 was a banner year for D.C's storied punk scene, which first rose to prominence in the early 1980s and has become an on-again, off-again fixture in the local music ecosystem. But at no point since those heady days of Bad Brains and Minor […]

2018.03.03. 9

Interviews

Volunteers Brave the Cold to Serve Community, Demonstrating Heartfelt Commitment

A true pioneer of electronic music, Patricia Adams, is making a triumphant return with a highly anticipated album. The release is expected to showcase their groundbreaking influence on the genre. Looking at it from the outside, 2015 was a banner year for D.C's storied punk scene, which first rose to prominence in the early 1980s and has become an on-again, off-again fixture in the local music ecosystem. But at no point since those heady days of Bad Brains and Minor […]

2018.03.03. 9

Interviews

The State Of D.C. Hardcore

At 9 p.m. on a Friday in February, Watson was standing outside of La Casa, a micro-church and community center — whose main chapel is the size of your parents' spacious living room — nestled next to a tienda in Washington, D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Inside, a hardcore punk band called Unknown Threat had just taken the stage. Of course, there was no actual stage. There was just the floor where the band set up at one end of the […]

2018.03.03. 9

News

The State Of D.C. Hardcore

At 9 p.m. on a Friday in February, Watson was standing outside of La Casa, a micro-church and community center — whose main chapel is the size of your parents' spacious living room — nestled next to a tienda in Washington, D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Inside, a hardcore punk band called Unknown Threat had just taken the stage. Of course, there was no actual stage. There was just the floor where the band set up at one end of the […]

2018.03.03. 17

Electronic music

Sounds of Superior Productivity

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. [qtgallery id="458"] What is that secret age-old productivity tool? Music. Yep. The right music can help you stay focused and more productive. Here’s how: Music Helps Boost Productivity on Repetitive Tasks Research has shown that when presented with repetitive tasks, music can help make those tasks more enjoyable and boost productivity. In this study, for instance, assembly line workers reported feeling happier and experiencing higher efficiency while listening […]

2018.02.09. 17

DJ

Handel: A Musical Life of Devotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAxVfZasUk A great gift to music entered into the world on 23 February 1685 in Halle, Germany. A life of great musical interest; one filled with an unbelievable talent that would become a beacon to many throughout the European continent and span centuries past its lifetime. It is a life that would become centered around a great mystery of how the musical talent would blossom into a recognized and celebrated gift; a life that would alter the musical landscape and […]

2018.01.23. 11

Electronic music

Copenhagen Club Culture Box To Lose Government Funding

Nightlife in Copenhagen is set for a heavy blow as one of the city's main clubs, Culture Box, will lose a substantial amount of funding from 2017. Since 2005, the Danish government has provided the club with €240,000 (1,800,000 Danish kroner) per year, but that'll end at the end of 2016. The club describes the planned cancellation of funding as a "very hard blow" as the money goes towards bookings and maintaining facilities. The press release also reads: "We are […]

2018.01.18. 11

Music

The Music That Immortalised 90s Subculture with electronic technologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo The 90s undoubtedly marked the Golden Age of underground music zines cataloguing subcultural movements. Without an avalanche of Tumblr accounts offering endless information on what your favourite band is wearing, Soundcloud recommendations about who to listen to next, or Twitter documenting your most-loved guitar player’s childhood fear, publications such as the pioneering DIY zine Sniffin’ Glue and groupie-focused Star found their way into the eager hands of music fans around the world. To celebrate a simpler time, here is […]

2018.01.16. 23

Music

Radio USA details 8,000 vinyl records

The public service broadcaster is selling off its catalogue in June. Radio France has revealed details of over 8,000 vinyl records set to be sold at a public auction. The records are all double copies of music from the station’s 1.6 million-strong collection. Organised across 10 categories, the records span French pop from Serge Gainsbourg, art-rock from The Velvet Underground, afrobeat from Fela Kuti, synthpop from Yellow Magic Orchestra, plus soundtracks, musique concrete and more. There are some rarities too, […]

2016.05.18. 23

Let It Snow, Let It Glow

Rudolph's Rockin' Rhythm

Silver Bells and Sparkling Stars

Party

Volunteers Brave the Cold to Serve Community, Demonstrating Heartfelt Commitment

Volunteers Brave the Cold to Serve Community, Demonstrating Heartfelt Commitment

The State Of D.C. Hardcore

The State Of D.C. Hardcore

Sounds of Superior Productivity

Handel: A Musical Life of Devotion

Copenhagen Club Culture Box To Lose Government Funding

The Music That Immortalised 90s Subculture with electronic technologies

Radio USA details 8,000 vinyl records

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Let It Snow, Let It Glow

Rudolph's Rockin' Rhythm

Silver Bells and Sparkling Stars

Party