npr.org: "With a sound that combines dance, electronic and punk music, New York-based DJ and multi-instrumentalist James Murphy (a.k.a. LCD Soundsystem) has made being a music geek sound cool again." Hear an Interview and In-Studio Performance

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• found via echoes-online.de

sfburning.com: AFRIRAMPO is a Japanese female wildcat duet-cute, loud and a little crass. Their over all sound oscillates between wild and loose to tight and complex arrangements. Like a rock supernova caught in a perpetual loop, exploding and imploding upon itself. This is all done with minimal gear: vocals, guitar and drums." More info + MP3 download

• Afrirampo Live at WFMU, Video

sfburning.com: Early this year, musician Joanna Newsom, opened some shows for Devendra Banhart. Word soon spread around that this was a musician to check out. The 21-year old harpist Joanna Newsom grew up in Nevada City, California.

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• MP3: Joanna Newsom April 10, 2004 Live At The Earl

The whole article from THE WIRE 251.

LCD Soundsystem debuted with Losing My Edge, a single that became one of the most talked-about indie releases of 2002. A self-effacing spoof of the outrageous pissing contests that often occur whenever music geeks cross paths ("I was there at the first Can show in Cologne," etc.) laid over a puttering electronic beat with the occasional bursts of discoid clatter, the track was also one of the first released on the DFA label. More

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• The whole article from THE WIRE 251
  
• MP3: LCD Soundsytem - disco infiltrator

From sfburning.com:
Early this year, musician Joanna Newsom, opened some shows for Devendra Banhart. Word soon spread around that this was a musician to check out. The 21-year old harpist Joanna Newsom grew up in Nevada City, California. She had been in bands before and had been writing songs, but never before had she played her songs in public in front of a large audience. The first shows were such a success that Joanna was invited to play with Bonnie Prince Billy and Cat Power.Read more

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• Interview for THE WIRE Nr 251
  
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• Video: Sprout and the Bean
  
• Some streaming media files here

From sfburning.com
"AFRIRAMPO is a Japanese female wildcat duet-cute, loud and a little crass. Their over all sound oscillates between wild and loose to tight and complex arrangements. Like a rock supernova caught in a perpetual loop, exploding and imploding upon itself. This is all done with minimal gear: vocals, guitar and drums." More + MP3 download

• Afrrampo live @ wfmu
  
• Official homepage

first appeared on the scene in 1997 with a provocative demand. zeitkratzer finishes with the ensemble musicians’ group model and brings new modes of artistic collaboration to fruition. zeitkratzer says goodbye to the standard repertoire of the past century and welcomes the normality of the composer/performer which has been practiced for centuries from Bach to Webern. zeitkratzer work as and with componists, makes pacts with sound sculptors, electronic avantgardists, body artists, rockstars, video- and light sculptors, ... zeitkratzer follows the ears with utmost consistency: the eyes hear as well. More info @ zeitkratzer.de

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