#terrorbird media

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Zavala Releases Surreal Music Video “Roosevelt & Letting Go” Chicago based Electronic music producer Zavala just released his upcoming music video "Roosevelt & Letting Go". This very surrealistic music video is off his forthcoming debut album…

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Hot weather hotness.

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If you’re in New York next weekend, make sure to add to your calendar! 

Northside Festival Showcase Featuring Diet Cig, Beverly and More: http://bit.ly/1AKL6nb

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Terrorbird Media CMJ Showcase

I love Cake Shop. And Win Win are cool. And Michna's new EP is solid. And that new Flume track is cool. And I met Prince Rama once...and they seemed like nice enough girls. So even though there is no way I can get to this, I thought I'd share.

Terrorbird x CMJ x Cake Shop from polychronicus on 8tracks Radio.

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I am by no means a New Yorker, native or otherwise. Still, I have plenty of (mostly sweaty) memories related to Cake Shop, like:

- a bourbon-shooting Shilpa Rae playing a set best described as Stereolab fronted by Glenn Danzig

- standing next to Avey Tare of Animal Collective as some guy endlessly bugs him with questions about Noah while Avey is DJing

- Marnie Stern's "vag bag" and the beginning of her exhausting "seven shows in five nights" run at CMJ 2010

- My first Math The Band "load out"

- Several Terrorbird Media day parties, at which I've seen countless bands I'll likely never see here in Norfolk

So take a minute to click the title link and head to Cake Shop's Pledge Music site. They've got a bunch of cool pledge incentives, like free drink tickets, guest list passes, a mix tape of rare cuts from bands that have played there, and access to "secret showcases".

And, sure, there are hundreds of venues in New York City. But take it from someone who's seen venue after venue close - you don't realize what you've got until it's gone. 

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Agesandages covering Jay Reatard's "Death is Forming."

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The first time I heard Teen Daze was at Terrorbird Media's 2011 CMJ showcase. I couldn't help but think that if Tron:Legacy had been created in some alternate universe that he would have created the score. After all, with his new record, All of Us, Together , Jamison AKA Teen Daze says: "I wanted to make a record that sounded more synthetic but also inviting - this is futuristic music with heart."

While we wait for the new album, arriving May 22nd on Lefse Records, he's just released the first single, "Brooklyn Sunburn." I have no idea how a Brooklyn sunburn differs from a regular sunburn, but somehow, this track feels more like the balm you place on after you've received said sunburn. Also, feel free to visit Teen Daze's Bandcamp page to hear /purchase his previous EPs and check out this self-curated mix of his remixes of artists such as Toro Y Moi, Tycho, and Earth, Wind, and Fire.

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I remember seeing Cloud Nothings at Carpark's CMJ showcase back in October and being surprised. The first time I heard Dylan Baldi's voice, I pictured him being some awkward guy wearing oversized cardigan sweaters, flannel shirts, and torn jeans. Maybe his hair would be in his eyes and he'd be hunched over his microphone. Then I remembered: this was 2011, not 1991. And I was in New York, not Seattle.

Instead, I saw a fully confident, bespectacled, twenty-something that was putting his all into music from an album coming out next year. On "Stay Useless" it seemed as if the two biggest rock bands of the past twenty years had mated, mixing the jangling guitars of The Strokes and throat-shredding vocals of Nirvana. And songs like "No Future, No Past", "Wasted Days", and "No Sentiment" made me want to scramble onstage just to throw myself off. "Wasted Days" especially left me with flashbacks to all the "angst-filled alternative rock" music I heard growing up, with its scrawling guitars and Baldi's declarations that:

I know my life's not gonna change/and I live through all these wasted days/Never thought that I'd end up this way/And I know it's gonna stay the same

The album featuring these songs (and more), Attack On Memory, will be released on January 24th by Carpark Records. In the meantime, click the link above to stream the full album via Complex.