Just when you thought a Robyn tune couldn't get any dancier, it does.

Check out DJ/producer A-Track's remix of Robyn's "Indestructible" below.

Indestructible (A-Trak radio edit) by robyn

Get Robyn's latest record, Body Talk Pt. 3, here.

Kicking off the first night of the event series Check Ya Ponytail 2 last night in Echo Park, the Echoplex opened it's doors to Los Angeles. A prime location and seen as a home to an emerging and ever-growing cultural and arts scene, Echo Park prepared it's visitors for an explosive weeknight, bringing in foreign acts from Toronto, New Zealand, and Australia. The event cultivates a scene for weekday dancing, showcasing the skills of guest DJs, and new and notable artists. Opening the night on stage was Diamond Rings, a young lad from Toronto, strumming guitars riffs along side electro beats from his keyboard. In all his shimmering, stylish glory, Diamond Rings amped up the attendees with his shining energy and excitement for hitting up the town.

The suspense was steaming for the following buzz-worthy and quite notable New Zealand five-piece band, The Naked and Famous. After hitting up the weekly event School Night the night before at Bardot in Hollywood, the band already had a taste of the L.A. crowd. Taking the stage with humbling grace, complimented by their ease and promptness at the scene, the quintet owned the crowd with their contageous energy right away. Pinning down the followers with their upbeat electro hit, "Punching In a Dream", The Naked and Famous wowed new listeners and mesmirized fans with their live performance. Playing tracks off their awaited but soon to be released U.S. full length debut, Passive Me Agressive You, such as "The Sun" and "No Way", the band really gave the music lovers a better taste of their overall sound. Embracing heavy guitars strings, and harder rock sounds that electro-indie rockers aren't necessarily used to, the Naked and Famous impressively succeeds using hypnotic vocals (Thomas Powers and Alisas Xayalith), dreamy synths, heavy percussion and catchy riffs to create a more than must-see performance as well as dier listen. Sealing the night with their blog-hyped single "Young Blood", dancers and non-dancers alike all let it out on the floor, singing along to better known hit. The Naked and Famous - expect great things to come from this band.

Check out the photos below for some of the show coverage.

 

Diamond Rings amps up the crowd.

 

Packed house at the Echoplex.

 

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Ran$om Note's Wil Troup and Ian McQuaid provide the BLOC site with a meaty run-through of the city's underground sounds (YouTube clips included), from 1969 through to the present day.

Brooklyn's Here We Go Magic has just released their new video for "Casual" off their latest LP, Pigeons.

The tune is lofty and upbeat, the video, not so much.

Check it out below. Careful, it is NSFW!

Pigeons is out now.

England's trip-hop electronic connoisseurs Portishead have been tapped to headline and curate the UK's first I'll Be Your Mirror event presented by All Tomorrow's Parties on July 23rd and 24th.

I'll Be Your Mirror will be acting as a sister event to the world famous ATP Festivals which normally take place in holiday resorts. The event will be a new series of artist curated music, film and art events taking place in cities worldwide.

I'll Be Your Mirror will be taking place at the beautiful Alexandra Palace in London which has hosted special events and acts including Led Zeppelin in 1972, New Order, The White Stripes, The Pixies, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and many more.

There will also be performances by Swans, Beach House, Liars, The Books, Doom, Anika and more. There will also be a slew of DJs and other activities that will be confirmed in the coming months.

For those of you who would like to attend, a limited amount of Early Bird Tickets will be available for £50 (about $79) per day or £90 (about $142) for the weekend.

Tickets go on general sale Friday, November 6th at 9am Right Here. Pre-sale are available now Right Here.

Get all of the event details HERE

Initial Line-up:

July 23rd
PORTISHEAD
DOOM
COMPANY FLOW
(original line-up - first UK show in 10 years)
THE BOOKS
FACTORY FLOOR
BEAK>
& MORE

July 24th
PORTISHEAD
SWANS
BEACH HOUSE
LIARS
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
ANIKA
& MORE

The ES-2-2 is a Eurorack-format synthesizer module designed for use with software such as Expert Sleepers Silent Way.

One of FILTER's favorite radio stations KCRW teamed up with Walt Disney Pictures and Walk Disney Records to host an exclusive TRON: Legacy soundtrack preview event this past weekend. In case you missed, it will also be streaming on Monday, November 29th on KCRW.com!

You will also get to hear a portion of the soundtrack on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic at 10am on November 29th. Five never-before-heard tracks will be debuted on the show as well as an exclusive conversation between "TRON: Legacy" Music Supervisor Jason Bently and Director Joseph Kosinski.

If you are in the Los Angeles area, tune in to 89.9, for all others, you can tune in to KCRW.com for the show!

The "TRON: Legacy" soundtrack arrives December 7th.

TRON: Legacy the film hits theatres on December 17th.
 

Yesterday, the FCC released four different items to implement the changes enacted by Congress in the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, better known as STELA. With one item addressing significantly viewed out-of-market stations, two items regarding signal prediction and measurements for the reception of DTV signals, and a Public Notice requesting comments and data for a report to Congress, the FCC has wrapped up several open issues regarding STELA. As we have written about previously, here and here (among others), in addition to extending the blanket copyright license allowing satellite television providers to deliver distant signals to "unserved" viewers unable to receive a signal from their local network affiliate, STELA raised a few additional issues that the FCC needed to address through various rule makings.  With yesterday's flurry of activity, the FCC has now addressed those issues.

With the first item, the Commission modified the significantly viewed rules that allow for the importation of distant signals in certain circumstances.  The item clarifies that a satellite subscriber need only receive the local-into-local package as a precondition for that subscriber to receive a significantly viewed station, they don't have to receive the specific local (i.e., in-market) affiliate of the same network as a precondition to receive a distant station affiliated with the same network.  The item further clarifies that STELA no longer requires that equivalent bandwidth be dedicated to in-market and significantly viewed stations, so much as there is an HD format requirement.  Accordingly, subscribers can only receive a significantly viewed HD signal, the satellite carrier must carry the HD signal of the local station affiliated with the same network.  In reaching its decision, the Commission was cognizant of the tension between the protection of localism and Congress's intention of achieving closer parity between the rules for satellite TV providers and cable TV providers, and it worked to reach a balance between those two sometimes competing goals.  A copy of the Order is available here.

The next two items address the signal prediction and measurement rules, which guide determinations as to whether or not a particular location receives an adequate digital signal.  The reception of such a signal is the crux of the determination of whether a particular household is served or unserved, in which case it is eligible to receive distant signals.  Specifically, the Commission adopted a point-to-point predictive model for determining reception of an over-the-air DTV of a suitable strength at a particular location.  As proposed, the predictive model for digital signals is based on the current model used for predicting reception of analog signals.  And settling one of the main issues up for debate in this area, the Commission decided to retain the use of an outdoor receiving antenna as part of the predictive model, declining to change its rules to contemplate an indoor antenna. 

In addition, in the event that it becomes necessary to measure the field strength of a digital television signal, the Commission's second item updates the Commission's rules to address the measurement of DTV signals.  As an initial matter, the Commission clarified that only in-market signals are relevant for determining whether a station is unserved.  Consistent with the approach for the predictive model, the Commission decided that the rules would continue to rely on an outdoor signal intensity test to determine eligibility to receive distant network signals.  The Commission found that no reliable indoor testing method had been proposed and sided with the broadcasters as it found the methodology proposed by the satellite carriers for indoor testing to be flawed.  The Commission also refrained from making any special provisions for multicast signals in either the predictive model or the field strength measurements, reasoning that the reception of any particular program stream is equally available in the station's signal.  A copy of the Order on the predictive reception model is available here, and the Order regarding the field strength measurements can be found here. 

Finally, in the last item in the bunch, the Commission released a Public Notice soliciting input regarding the reception and consumer use of signals from a community licensed to a different state than the subscriber.  STELA mandated that the FCC prepare a report to Congress by August 27, 2011, addressing the following issues:  1.) the number of households in a State that receive the signals of local broadcast stations assigned to a community of license located in a different State; 2.) to what extent do consumers in each local market have access to in-state broadcast programming over-the-air or from a multichannel video programming distributor; and 3.) are there alternatives to DMAs to define “local” markets that would provide consumers with more in-state broadcast programming.   Clearly, the answers to some of these questions could have a significant impact on local television stations, and interested parties should consider filing comments to provide the FCC with data on these issues.  The issue of access to "in-state" television stations, regardless of DMA boundaries, has come up in previous Congresses.  By this request for a Commission report, Congress could be fishing for a basis to change the rules governing the importation of signals and the determination of what signals a particular subscriber is eligible to receive.  Comments will be due 45 days after the item is published in the Federal Register, with Reply Comments due 30 days after that.  A copy of the Public Notice is available here. 

Juno Plus mark Australian producer Tornado Wallace as one to watch, chatting about Simpsons-themed track titles, the Australian house scene and his recent trip to Europe.

Radiohead’s famous front man, Thom Yorke, will lend his voice to the Earth350 project, the first climate art exhibition to be visible from space.

Yorke’s plan is to recreate the legendary viking King Canute in order to "show how climate change is already impacting our world as well as offer visions of how we can solve the crisis (…)The plan is to make images from the skies to remind those in Cancun that we’re running out of time (…) we can’t keep putting this off!" as he stated on the band’s website.

With pretext to the 350.org project is the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conferencein Cancun, Mexico from November 29 until December 10th, where future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protoco shall be discussed.

If you are in the UK-area you can register here to be a part of the human installation. The first 2,000 people to register are guaranteed a spot. The event takes place Saturday, November 27th.

How the viking King Canute has anything to do with climate change beats us.

We have some huge news direct from disco world. Yes, that’s right: Pulp’s frontman Jarvis Cocker has made the ‘Disco 2000′ leap and teamed up with Pentile and Pilooski’s side-project Discodeine.

The single in question is called "Synchronize" and will appear this winter. The duo has shared an illustrious remix CV together reworking Metronomy, Whomadewho, Bot’ox, Photonz and Yelle.

We all know what Pilooksi is capable of, he has dished his ‘dirty edits‘ and collaborated with artists like LCD soundsystem, Jarvis Cocker, Iggy pop, Brian Ferry and Nina Simone.

Not only that but the very exciting duo has announced that they will release their debut LP next year. Telling the public, "[Discodeine will] write and record their debut album, consisting of only original material, written from scratch and including an honorable handful of yet-to-be-announced guest vocalists to be featured on some of the tracks coming next year." We can only imagine the vocalists lining up to hit those production gems.

This huuuuge 12 ” will be released on vinyl by the prolific DFA and Dirty on December 6th.

A1. “Synchronize” (Extended vocal)
A2. “Synchronize” (Extended instrumental)
B1. “Synchronize” (Jam Factory remix)
B2. “Synchronize” (Jam Factory dub)

Have a listen to this great track right here:

One more small piece of business, there will be a an very limited version of the 12" made available called Extension blue 10” (500 numbered copies only) released on the DIRTY/ Psychent imrpint.

Tracklisting:

A1. “Synchronize” feat. Jarvis Cocker – Extended vocal
B2. “Singular” feat. Matias Aguayo – Extended vocal

Despite appearing on a release together in 2009, the French selector tells Burlington Project that he never got the chance to meet the late Detroit producer in person, but did speak to him just a couple of days before his untimely death earlier this year.

The surprise anti-drug Public Service Announcement of the year comes from The Glass, whose video for "Four Four Letter" is an unnervingly realistic portrayal of a lonely, possibly narcissistic, definitely self-destructive drug abuser. "Four Four Letter" is the new single from the New York/Berlin duo of Dubliners Dominique Keegan (Plant Music) and Glen Brady (DJ Wool); a tight, punchy slice of downtown nu-disco, its piano lines are as addictive as, uh, those other kinds of lines. The single is packed full of remixes from Black Van, HeavyFeet, Ian Pooley, Bad Decision, and My Fellow Citizens. Fresher still is the Glass' new album, At Swim Two Birds, which came out last week, offering 10 tracks of their synth-pop, funk-punk, and nu-disco stylings, including "Michael McDonald," an ode to the Doobie Brothers singer and patron saint of yacht rock. Click on through to watch the video, which we've buried after the jump because we know that some bosses might look askance at seeing a dude hoovering his way across your computer screen, no matter what the underlying message is.

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Crowd surfing, Ibiza jigs and '80s German TV appearances: it's all here as the fabric blog rounds up a collection of Sven Vath funnies ahead of his appearance at the club this weekend.

Steve Goodgold of the Windish Agency (who look after acts like John Digweed, Four Tet, Michael Mayer, Martyn) has hit out at the WMC via a lengthy statement for their decision to move the date of 2011's event.