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Posted Jun. 5, 2008,
SONAR 2008: See You in Barcelona!
By Gary Pini
One of the best summer music festivals doesn't involve outdoor camping or slogging through the mud. In fact, Barcelona's SONAR ( June 19, 20 & 21) is held at the city's Museum of Contemporary Art during the day and at night in a gigantic convention center with five stages, an indoor carnival, numerous bars and clean bathrooms. Now in it's 15th year, SONAR is more about artists and music that you've probably never heard of rather than headliners and superstars, yet it still draws over 70,000 people every year. Yes, you can see Justice, the reunited Yazoo, M.I.A. and Richie Hawtin but you'll also find hundreds of new acts and DJs like The Dukos, Neon Neon, XX Teens, Doozer, The Field, etc. And New Yorkers have an extra incentive to attend this year: American Airlines has started direct flights from JFK to BCN. See you there.
Each year, Sonar has a visual theme. Check out this year's, pictured above.
Posted May. 14, 2008,
Tommie Sunshine's Coachella-ella-ella
By Tommie Sunshine
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I have been on a great tour with Junkie XL for the past month and haven't had a ton of time between remixing tracks and working on vocals for a handful of artists around the world during the time I am actually home. However, I had always said that I would never go to Coachella unless I was playing it. This year I broke my word on that as I had been invited to play at a few day parties and figured it would be nice to go hang in the desert while the weather in New York was still shit. I am not exactly sure what I expected but what I got was quite different than I could have ever dreamt of.
Daniela and I arrived on Thursday night late and had a chance to rest a bit and enjoy a night that was both warm and devoid of humidity, much unlike New York at any time of year. Now you see, I have a love/hate relationship with California in general so going there is a process every time. I love the weather there and I like the terrain but the stoned/K-Hole attitude of most everyone who lives there grates on my nerves. I will take the hard working East Coast attitude (from those who actually do) anytime, but I digress. I played a party for BPM that had a Smurf theme on Friday afternoon and it seemed that most of the people hadn't arrived yet so the attendance was slight. I had a great interview with Imeem and got a great Smurf blue hoodie and Daniela grabbed a great '70s bikini from 55DSL before I played a noisy set with a mountain behind me on a very hot day. After all that we grabbed a few things from Trader Joes and went home in time to sneak in a quick skinny dip in the pool before our housemates got home. Fuck yeah!
Posted May. 2, 2008,
New Awesome Justice Video Alert: "Stress"
By Mike Nouveau
A big departure from their earlier videos, Justice's new video for "Stress" is like a Parisian version of Grand Theft Auto and City of God mushed together and set to French electro. The video and the song go together perfectly because it is indeed pretty stressful to watch. Check it out...
Posted Nov. 26, 2007,
Justice: Frat Boy Band of Choice?
By Meagan Brant
France has produced some killer DJs of late. And the resurgence of gritty electronic music fusing raunchy rock and pop with even raunchier house beats has created a sound of its own. Much of this popularity can be attributed to the electro music label Ed Banger Records, which has been globally broadcasting their tracks over the last five years. But beyond bringing electronic music back, a hype has evolved -- not only amongst the nü-ravers, but with the jock rockers as well.
Electro duo Justice (the most popular of the Ed Banger crew… so says Wikipedia) seem to appeal to a younger and more pop-oriented audience. MTV’s college division, mtvU, aired its annual Woodie Awards the other night to celebrate university-student-approved music. Amongst the TRL-favorite nominees like Motion City Soundtrack and Say Anything, Justice was up for Best Video Woodie with their single “D.A.N.C.E.” They lost. But their music still made it onto the iPods of beer-pong-playing students (and even into the crime drama show C.S.I.: NY).
Posted Nov. 7, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Paul McCartney Canoodles, Britney Spears Gets an Asterisk, Felix Da Housecat Hates on Justice
By Gary Pini
1. While Paul McCartney was spending a "romantic weekend in the Hamptons with his rich MTA-board gal pal" (NY Post) his former drummer was hard at work in L.A. Ringo Starr spent yesterday standing on the roof of the Capitol Records building in Hollywood promoting the DVD release of the Beatles' 1965 film Help!
2. Britney Spears’ new LP Blackout is going into the Billboard Top 200 at number two with an asterisk. She would have been number one, but the trade magazine this week changed their chart eligibility rules to allow "proprietary" albums (those only available in one store or chain) to appear on the chart. Number one? The Eagles’ first studio album in 28 years Long Road Out of Eden, which was available only at Wal-Mart.
3. Felix Da Housecat disses Justice: "Justice is nothing but Daft Punk without the robot. It's like Daft Punk had a baby and kicked the baby out." (via rythmism.com)
4. Flashback to the summer of 2006. Nicky Hilton was launching her "sexy, glamorous" Nicky O hotel chain at the Breakwater Hotel in South Beach and she was doing the designing. Over the weekend we noticed this ad in The Wall Street Journal: "For Sale By Auction on November 19th 2007, The Breakwater Edison Hotel, Free and clear of brand and management, Redevelopment partially completed."
5. Four people were killed and several wounded by gunfire at a rave in Venezuela over the weekend. British DJ Carl Cox was just a few minutes into his set when the violence began. The incident was captured on video and (briefly) posted on YouTube but has since been removed.
Posted Oct. 30, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Albert Einstein Makes More Than Bob Marley, Kelis Dropped from Jive, OK to Eat Squirrels
By Gary Pini
1. Travel highs and lows. A low-fare bus line called Megabus is offering $1 fares between L.A. and Las Vegas. Using a business model based on airlines like EZ Jet and Ryan Air, the fares go up closer to departure. Amtrak on the other hand is heading in the opposite direction by offering Grandluxe service between selected US cities that includes lounges, fine dining, suites and "floral arrangements." The one-way fare between Miami and Washington, DC, is $789.
If money is really no object, just buy your own plane. Airbus recently confirmed that somebody has purchased an A 380 super-jumbo jet for $300 million that is being converted for personal use.
2. Forbes magazine announced their annual list of Top Earning Dead Celebrities. Albert Einstein ($18 million) made more than Bob Marley ($ 4 million) and Andy Warhol ($15 million) made more than Tupac Shakur ($9 milion). While you can't take it with you, you can still sell a ton of T-shirts.
3. PAPER cover girl Kelis was dropped by Jive Records (sort of). The "Milkshake" hit-maker has actually been more of a victim of record company consolidation. After recording for Pharrell Williams' StarTracks imprint, she went from Virgin to Arista when the Virgin label folded and then Arista fell under the Sony/BMG umbrella when those two merged.
4. The Daily News claims today that it is now OK to eat squirrels caught in North Jersey. The EPA thought they had detected lead in a dead squirrel and issued a warning. However, "a blender used to process squirrel tissue samples was defective and the lead actually came from the blender."
5. The Zen Palate vegetarian restaurant on Union Square here in New York closed yesterday due to "astronomical and non-negotiable rent increases."
6. French electro duo Justice would like everyone to refer to there album as (insert a funny glyph that looks like a cross but isn't). Also Led Zeppelin's fourth album is not called Zoso and (insert a funny glyph that looks like a guitar combined with the "male" symbol) is back to being called Prince.
Posted Oct. 22, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Nightlife Week Edition!
By Gary Pini
1. Here's what CBGB looks like today.
2. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing on October 30 at 1 Centre Street to consider East Village club Webster Hall for official landmark status.
3. Idolator spots Beastie Boy Mike D at buzz-band Black Kids concert: "wide-eyed and wizened and looking like a wrinkly hobbit, lost and frightened in Mordor."
4. Everyboby's talking about PAPERMAG bloggers The Cool Kids! Rolling Stone: "their fresh stripped-down sound definitely feels like it has a future." The New York Times: "they long to go back to 1988 with clever rhymes about subjects other than crime and raw sex."
5. Members of Squeeze, Stray Cats and The Alarm performed yesterday at Mount Everest base camp in what USA Today described as "the highest concert ever performed."
6. Tickets are still available for Justice tonite at Terminal 5 (610 West 56th St.)
Posted Oct. 8, 2007,
Mr. Mickey Takes on Paris Fashion Week: Jean Charles de Castebajac
By Mickey Boardman
If a person was given one issue of PAPER and told to flip through it and then name a French designer who would fit in the magazine, chances are a lot of people would say Jean Charles de Castelbajac. JC/DC is Fashion's King of Pop and loves playing with iconic cultural images just the way PAPER does. The runway itself, painted with giant stripes, was an eyeful. Music sensation Pedro Winter (producer of Daft Punk and Justice) worked some beats (or whatever the kids say!) in lieu of the traditional runway soundtrack. The show had such themes as Olympic disco and his name alone makes us crazy with glee!!!
Posted Jun. 9, 2007,
Justice Make the Coolest Video Ever
By Shanon Kelley
Justice, the French DJ duo, also known as "The Hipster's Wet Dream" (p.s. I'm copyrighting that), sure knows how to make a hit. Seriously these guys can do no wrong! Case in point, this amazing video for their latest single, D.A.N.C.E. Honestly, how amazing is this?