SXSW show with Pentagram, Odd Future, Das Racist, Killer Mike, Fang Island and more

Thrasher Magazine and Santos Party House present:

DEATH MATCH DAY PARTY at South by Southwest!

Pentagram, Odd Future, Das Racist, Green & Wood, Killer Mike, Alpha & Omega, Green & Wood, Fang Island, Danny Brown, and Balance & Composure with Ghe20 G0thik DJ's and your host Andrew W.K.

Friday, March 18, 2011

The Scoot Inn (1308 E 4th St, Austin, TX 11230)

12PM - 6PM
FREE PABST!

Not long ago we lifted our building up by its foundations and moved int 8 feet to the right. Quite a feat indeed if we do say so ourselves, but it's nothing compared to what we have planned for March 18th, when we will have a large fleet of military-grade helicopters airlift us to Austin, Texas, where we will host perhaps the most insane South by Southwest party perhaps ever. And not to outdo ourselves, but the next move will be to fit our venue within the confines of the Scoot Inn for an intense, FREE party that we've put together along with the folks at Thrasher Skateboard Magazine, Converse and Official.fm. The line-up is absolutely awe-inspiring. Pentagram, who was paving the way for metal at the same time as Black Sabbath, will clean up after grindhouse child prodigy rap crew Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All puts it down, Das Racist mesmerizes with rhymes way ahead of their time, Killer Mike (aka Mike Bigga) blesses us with his new futuristic material, and Fang Island sets the floor ablaze with uplifting riffs. Also playing live sets will be Green & Wood, Alpha & Omega, Danny Brown, and Balance & Composure, with New York's own Ghe20 G0thik crew cutting up the turntables and your host, the United Nations recognized King Of Partying, Andrew W.K.. The party is free, starting at noon, and Pabst will be in the housing distributing their sweet nectar for free. To anyone who has any appreciation for music as a concept, this show will be an absolute must.

reOPENed finale party 2/25 at Santos! - A-Trak, DJ Premier, Clark Kent, Stretch Armstrong and more join residents Just Blaze and crew

reOPENed Grand Finale!
special guest DJ's A-Trak, Clark Kent, DJ Premier, Evil Dee, Stretch Armstrong and Tony Touch
with residents Just Blaze, DJ Soul, DJ Gravy, Max Glazer (Federation Sound) and Micro Don
Friday, February 25, 2011
11:00 PM 21+
$10 before midnight, $20 after

Immortal memories were made at reOPENed. Wild, unpredictable, unspeakable and mesmerizing things occurred under these epileptic lights and juggernaut speakers. It's true that all good things must come to an end, but all great things must end in an explosion. A handful of the people that have made New York City such an incredible place for music will be assisting reOPENed's platinum-selling producer residents. A-Trak, Clark Kent, Dje Premier, Evil Dee, Stretch Armstong and Tony Touch will join the normal line-up of superproducer Just Blaze, DJ Soul, DJ Gravy, Federation Sound's Max Glazer, and MC Micro Don. This invincible line-up of beatmakers, remixers and selecters will carry us off into even bigger and brighter things. You'd think the story's over but it's ready to begin.

Party bio:
Dubbed "Best DJ Night" at Paper Magazine's 4th Annual Nightlife Awards and nominated again this year [Best Party and Best DJ: Just Blaze and Max Glazer], reOPENed has earned the reputation for being the most important Friday night in the Five Boroughs for the masses to get down. From movie stars to breakdancers to workplace warriors of every collar, the crowd is a beautiful and authentic representation of New York City's soul, and the music is engineered accordingly.

Upstairs is JUST BLAZE, the multi-platinum producer and remixer who has laid tracks for Eminem's current release, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Beastie Boys, Mariah Carey, MF DOOM, Janet Jackson, Jay Electronica, Kanye West and many more. While his sets do feature plenty of classic hip-hop, less obviously he makes liberal use of house music, soul classics, electronic disco, and just about anything with a serious beat. DJ SOUL is at his side, stepping it up with some ecclectic selections adored by his crowd of music moguls and celebrites.

Meanwhile, DJ GRAVY, MAX GLAZER and MICRO DON establish the Friday night headquarters of Caribbean grooves in our downstairs level, spinning dancehall, soca, as well as classic reggae and reggaetronica. Max's track "Whine" with Jamaica's undisputed #1 artist, Vybz Kartel, is currently enjoying spins on Hot 97 while Gravy is effortlessly connecting the dots of global pop culture as founder and publisher of Largeup.com, the web's premier Caribbean Lifestyle site hosted on Questlove's Okayplayer.com. He also has a new mixtape called "Forever Summer" dropping soon.

Chronic Youth keeps it heavy with Weedeater and Trapped Under Ice

Weedeater, ASG, Naam and Clean Teeth

Thursday, February 24, 2011

7:00 PM ALL AGES
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

WEEDEATER
Weedeater sounds and feels like motor oil running through your veins. Their bluesy sludge riffs would make Dimebag proud, and Dixie Colllins' growl resonates in your liver.MetalReview said of their 2011Jason... The Dragon, "The bass tone is simply crushing, and the overall sonic wallop packed here is enough to give you goosebumps when turned up to an appropriate volume level.

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Trapped Under Ice, Dead End Path, No Values, The Last Stand
Friday, February 25, 2011
7:00 PM ALL AGES
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

TRAPPED UNDER ICE

The music of Trapped Under Ice is as dense and solid as their name would suggest. They move from syncopated grooves to rapid fire brutality with ease, thunderous riffs battling against bludgeoning percussion. By carefully measuring technical proficiency against brilliant songwriting, they successfully redner their native Baltimore streets in hardcore. Scene Point Blank says of their 2011 LP Secrets Of The World, "The strength of the album is in the fact that it doesn’t stop to let you think until it’s already halfway over. After that, it gets back to it’s strengths. No posturing - just heavy and fast."

Fujiya & Miyagi to kick it with you

PopGun Booking presents:

Fujiya & Miyagi, Project Jenny, Project Jan and more

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

18+ 8:00 PM

Tickets Available

FUJIYA & MIYAGI
Though concise and focused, the Brighton pop quartet Fujiya & Miyagi can be hard to pin down. Constructed of Krautrock riffs arranged into snappy downtempo grooves, their tracks achieve a subtle complexity by weaving together numerous influences, of which the band cites Can, Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin. The band came together in 2000 during a game of soccer football and their most recent upgrade was the addition of a live percussionist. Playful lyrics approaching dark subject matter are uttered by Davie Best, who claims, “I physically am unable to shout. It’s a medical condition.”

Their 2011 album Ventriloquizzing is the bands newest evolutionary step, displaying a level of skill that fully and effectively utilizes the quartet format for deeper personal exploration. Best describes the band’s topical choices on the album, “Themes like control, frustration, disappointment, violence. It doesn’t sound like a barrel of laughs when you say them out loud, but it’s not a depressing record.” Popmatters says the Ventriloquizzing “expands the band’s palette” and “may be Fujiya & Miyagi’s best album to date.”

PROJECT JENNY, PROJECT JAN
Jeremy Haines and Sammy Rubin are masters of sonic disguise, using their production prowess to create an extremely diverse repertoire of jams completely disembodied from physicality or genre. Most of their songs are danceable with cheeky lyrics and labyrinth beats but the similarities end there. Gothamist remarked, “This is a band that should be taken seriously, even while singing about homemade sex tapes and the Chinatown bus."

Emergency Is Coming

New promo video for the launch party of our Somebody Arted In Here! series. The Emergency Party is back!

Somebody Arted In Here! - "Basement Bacchanal" unveiling and launch party
with additional pieces by Lizzi Bougatsos and Rita Ackermann
DJ's Peter Doig, Brian Degraw (w/ live instruments), Thomas Bullock, Spencer Sweeney
Saturday, February 26, 2011
11:00pm 21+

The Nods Must Be Crazy - VOTE SANTOS "BEST CLUB"//ODD FUTURE

MetroMix knows their shit. Best of polls are a dime a dozen, but when your fellow nominees include 88 Palace, Pies-N-Thighs, Quality Meats, Fette Sau, Brooklyn Winery and Eastern Bloc (home to our own Sam Chiera - vote for them in the "Best Gay Bar" category!), you know you're doing something right. True, this isn't our first time on this poll, but as we've been improving our clubbing and live experiences, we can only assume that we remain quite eligible for your vote. So help us out and VOTE HERE! Then switch computers and vote again!

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Odd Future, the LA collective of arthouse shock hip-hoppers invaded SPH for a sold-out show. Celebrities, musicians, politicians, models, punks, rappers and scumbags of all stripes were in attendance for the raucous evening helmed by the team of syllable-slinging teenagers signed to XL Recordings. The media was also in the building, resulting in a heap of photos documenting the melee.

Don Morris for The Source




Urban-Gear

More at NYU Local, Slant Magazine, BrooklynVegan and Stereogum.

Props to Brook Bobbins for the vid

The Fallon performance video that's making the rounds.

Peter Doig inaugurates "SOMEBODY ARTED IN HERE!" series

Somebody Arted In Here! - "Basement Bacchanal" unveiling and launch party
with additional pieces by Lizzi Bougatsos and Rita Ackermann
DJ's Peter Doig, Brian Degraw (w/ live instruments), Thomas Bullock, Spencer Sweeney
Saturday, February 26, 2011
11:00pm 21+

The Emergency Party produces a rotating art installation series
which will open on February 26, 2011.

(New York - February 10, 2011) - While many people associate Santos Party House with late-night dancing, the best live shows, and co-owner Andrew W.K., the venue quests for creative domination in more ways thanvonly music, the most recent of which is turning the venue into a canvas for some of the most forward-thinking luminaries in the visual arts. “Somebody Arted In Here!” is an ongoing rotation of diverse art installations.

Each visual event will be accompanied by a late-night rager, a party complimenting the theme of each unique art piece in an idiosyncratic way. The first event in the series showcases world-renowned artist Peter Doig, who will take over the Santos South Pole (downstairs), while Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance, and artist Rita Ackermann transform our massive storefront windows with their own custom installation pieces.

“Somebody Arted In Here!” -- Spencer Sweeney, one of the founding owners of Santos Party House and an art visionary in his own right, will lead a series of legends and emerging icons as they push the venue beyond its limits, converting the nightclub into a full-on optical playground. Santos is grateful for the tremendous support of our partners, including Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, White Columns, The Social Registry, and Leg Up Management. Sweeney’s aim is for the art displayed at Santos to reflect the spirit of creative freedom that is associated with the club. “Somebody Arted In Here!” is the next evolutionary step for Spencer’s ongoing vision of a living art statement - a tradition he began with a weekly underground party called “Sessions” in Santos’ downstairs space. This series eventually mutated into the “Emergency Party,” Sweeney’s legendary late night DJ dance party produced in tandem with some of New York’s most innovative visual and conceptual artists.

With the maiden installation of “Somebody Arted In Here!,” Sweeney extends an invitation to painter Peter Doig, a native Scotsman raised in Trinidad and Canada. His exclusive installation for Santos Party House is entitled “Basement Bacchanal” and is influenced by Caribbean wall treatments. The piece will be divided into sections according to the placement of the Santos cinder-block walls. Doig will also be DJing at the launch party on February 26 at 11pm, alongside Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance, Thomas Bullock of A.R.E. Weapons and Rub N Tug, and Sweeney himself, with DJ Harvey manning the upstairs level.

Peter Doig’s otherworldly paintings have been exhibited internationally at major institutions to great acclaim. He is one of the most sought after contemporary artists (with paintings fetching auction prices of over 10 million dollars). Santos is pleased to have Doig on board for the first iteration of this new artist project. To commemorate the ‘Bacchanal Basement,” Doig will be compiling a limited-edition Soca mixtape CD with his own cover art design, that will be distributed, free of charge, to the first 300 launch party attendees.

“Somebody Arted In Here!” is a convergence of visual art, music, and movement, as executed by the most innovative and capable minds in those fields. New York City thrives on the creative energy of these individuals, and Santos Party House is proud to give their work a living and breathing home - something beyond, beneath, and besides a museum or traditional gallery. In addition to his work at Santos, Spencer Sweeney is currently presenting the ongoing installation “The Museum of Spencer Sweeney” at Gavin Brown’s Pantyhose in New York.

Diamonds Are Forever 5: Rich Medina, Spinna and more put it down for the J Dilla Foundation

Rare Form presents
Donuts Are Forever 5: Rich Medina, DJ Spinna, DJ Parler, OP!, Sam Champ, DJ Chela, DJ Tara

Saturday, February 5, 2011
10:00PM 21+

Tickets available when doors open

James Dewitt Yancey, known to music lovers as J. Dilla or Jay Dee, became a prominent force in production as a part of the seminal hip-hop group Slum Village. With a reputation for magnifying spacious vintage samples with well-measured drums, he became a favorite producer of A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, as well as a member of the Soulquarians supergroup (alongside Questlove). His solo career yielded the amazing Donuts series, as well as a cult favorite duet project with the producer Madlib (entitled JayLib), whose style was influenced directly by Dilla's.

Dilla's untimely death in 2006 left the hip-hop world grieving and amiss for his work. To this day artists are finding new and creative ways of using his distinct production, resulting in a posthumous career that rivals 2pac's. As a tribute to this legend, Rare Form have put together the annual Donuts Are Forever parties, with proceeds going to the J Dilla Foundation which supports inner-city music education and provides scholarships for the underprivileged. Providing music will be New York's turntable king Rich Medina, the production renaissance man DJ Spinna, and many more, each a talented DJ and selector in her/his own right.

White Ring, Shams and Pictureplane play a dark party

S!CK: White Ring, Von Haze, Blissed Out, Shams
DJ's Pictureplane, XMOFOX, Becka Diamond, Aaron K, Anton Glamb, Cool Hand Luke, Jermaine Jagger
Thursday, February 3, 2011
8:00 PM 18+
Tickets here

There is much talk now of the collective malaise fermenting around apocalypse theories, building to a climax due 12/21/2012, which has been exploited for the sake of books, movies, marketing, music, just about everything except for an ill post-goth dance party. To fill the void (void-house?) comes S!CK, in tandem with the Sentimentalist Magazine, postulating a bill with magick beats and okkult sound trickery. White Ring headlines with their droned-out nether realm resonances punctuated with spare drums. Von Haze's textured and unnerving synth-based nightmare pop is the perfect compliment to our urban deathscape. Rough Trade's Blissed Out employ haunting keyboards and demented samples propelled by percussion that nods to grime and drum 'n bass. Also taking place will be one of the infamous"okkult performances" of Shams, a dark dance pioneer known for coining the term "witch-house," whose music is the devious perversion of minimalism, early house, and modern pop. An impressive line-up of forward thinking DJ's, including the inventive Travis Edegy (Pictureplane) and downtown visionary Anton Glamb, will provide a steady feed of soul twisting jams for your grinding or gazing pleasure.

Kylesa pics/ Peter Bjorn & John debuted new album/ Andrew W.K. talks to Asylum

Last Wednesday, Kylesa stopped in along with Rosetta, Rosetta and East of The Wall. The following ensued, as documented by BrooklynVegan's Samantha Marble

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BEFORE YOU MOVE ON:

Kool Herc, father of hip-hop, is very sick, has recently recovered from emergency procedures, and is lacking the funds to cover his medical bills. Hip-hoppers worldwide are doing what we can to raise money and awareness. Back in '72, Herc pioneered looping a part of a track to create an extended break, a sonic atmosphere in which breakdancing and rapping could come into existence and flourish. According to DJ Premier, here's how to donate:

KOOL HERC PRODUCTIONS
P.O. BOX 20472
HUNTINGTON STATION , NY 11746

or you can wire you donation internationally via paypal to this address:

cindycampbell1@aol.com

Check this video of KRS-One on Herc, and Herc on hip-hop. Also in attendance was Coke La Roc, credited as the first rapper in the world.

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Peter Bjorn & John stopped by with their forthcoming album in the form of a live performance, making hard to rip and leak on a blog or to a girl you like, but easy to enjoy nevertheless. Spin did a nice little write-up detailing the strengths of this trio's finely polished performance with photos by Kyle Dean Reinford. Gimme Some drops March 29 and we give it our full-hearted endorsement.

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Andrew W.K. sat down with Asylum not too long ago, and discussed numerous topics including zombies, food, and the bizarre discotheque that he calls home.

The interior of Andrew W.K.'s rock and dance club Santos Party House, just south of Houston Street in Manhattan, is black.

Totally black.

It is designed, W.K. says, to literally resemble outer space, so that the walls cannot be seen by the naked eye before you smash into them.

The speakers inside Santos are ludicrous too. There are dozens of them, and they are everywhere. They look like space ship rocket boosters. They all work, incidentally. And they are loud.

Essentially Santos is a blank party canvas. A sheet of black paper on which to bleed, puke and sweat, to taste. It is precisely the kind of place Andrew W.K. should call home. The kind of place that Toys R'Us would sell as a playset to accompany an Andrew W.K. action figure (which, by the way, does exist).