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Carlos Niño & Friends "High With a Little Help From" out now on iTunes!

Amazing new project from our favorite person here at Plug, Carlos Niño.
Carlos produced this album with his closest buddies, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Dntel, Madlib, Jesse Peterson, Build An Ark, and many more.
One of our favorites of the year!

Milosh @ Hotel Cafe (May 20th)

Along with his gig @ the Silverlake Lounge on May 19th, Milosh will also be playing a set @ the Hotel Cafe on May 20th @ 11pm. See you there!!!

Where: Hotel Cafe
1623 1/2 N Cahuenga Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 - (323) 461-2040
When: May 20th @ 11pm

Milosh @ Silverlake Lounge (Los Angeles, CA) - May 19th

Plug Research artist and Toronto native will be playing a rare US show on May 19th @ The Silverlake Lounge!!! If you're lucky enough to be in the LA area, make sure you grab your ticket for a mere $8! See you there!

Where: Silverlake Lounge

2906 Sunset Blvd

LA 90026

When: May 19th, 8pm (Milosh has the opening slot, so make sure you get there early!!!)

http://www.myspace.com/milosh

Also, make you sure you check out Milosh's new project with Paul Pfisterer called Milosh Pfisterer. Their new EP is available NOW only on iTunes!

http://www.myspace.com/miloshpfisterer

EXIILE!!!!!!

Exile "In Love" Video

Dntel "Early Works" on iTunes now!

A collection of Dntel sketches and songs from 1995 to 2003.

phthalo.com
dntelmusic.com

Exile "Radio" Available Now On iTunes

These days, one would be hard-pressed to find a Hip-Hop fan that is satisfied with the culture’s representation on mainstream radio. Take Los Angeles’ Exile, the man responsible for the exceptional production work on 2007’s critically acclaimed collaboration with rapper Blu, Below the Heavens. Long exasperated by the lack of originality on the radio, the sought-after producer brainstormed a concept to reinvent radio through the use of Hip-Hop’s first technique, sampling. -Allhiphop.com

New Exile 12" on iTunes Now!

Check out the new Exile 12" on iTunes.
Stay Tuned (Stay Here) E.P.
Includes remixes by Musinah and Shafiq

Yeah!!!!

New Milosh Single On iTunes, and European Tour Dates.

New Milosh single, "Remember The Good Things" featuring remixes by Lanark (Hot Chip) and Daedelus.

Milosh also kicked off his European tour today, make sure you pay a visit and check out his live show at a city near you.

09.10. TAPE CLUB Berlin
14.10. LUMINAIRE London (UK)
17.10. MAROQUINERIE Paris (FR) w/ MINOR MINORITY
29.10. LA CASA 139 Milano (IT)


Date: Tue 21 October
Venue: Stress!! at Club De Burgo's
Doors: 9.30pm
Address: Augustine st., Galway
Tickets: €10/8
weblink: www.myspace.com/stressahah

Date: Wed 22 October
Venue: Whelans Upstairs
Doors: 8.00pm
Address: Wexford St, Dublin
Tickets: €12/10
weblink: www.whelanslive.com

Date: Thu 23 October
Venue: Spirit Store
Doors: 8.30pm
Address: Georges Quay, Dundalk
Tickets: €10/8
weblink: www.spiritstore.ie

Date: Fri 24 October
Venue: Triskel
Doors: 8.30pm
Address: Tobin St, Cork
Tickets: €12/10
weblink: www.triskelart.com

Date: Mon 27 October
Venue: Belltable
Doors: 8.30pm
Address: Belltable Offsite
Tickets: €10/8
weblink: www.belltable.ie

CHESSIE OPENS FOR STEREOLAB IN D.C.

Check out Chessie's first live show this year at DC's biggest venue, The 9:30 Club, on 9/30/08. They will open for Stereolab, and Brendan Canty (Fugazi) will play drums for Chessie. This will be an amazing event, so if you're in the neighborhood, make sure you check it out!

Milosh "iii" now available in Japan

New Milosh full length album "iii", now available in Japan.
The Japanese version will include a bonus track, and is available now through iTunes Japan.

Milosh Live @ Transmission 08

Welcome to the official site of Transmission Festival '08, the new European Arts festival with a difference! Transmission '08 takes place in Kufstein, Austria between July 4th - 6th 2008.

Combining live musical performances, visual art, multimedia installations, music seminars, and arthouse cinema, Transmission will provide its visitors with the complete aural and visual experience. Our aim is to make Transmission a personal and intimate arts and culture experience, not just for the audience, but also for the artists taking part in the event.

Roommate "We Were Enchanted" NOW ON iTUNES!

When infinite information is available 24 hours a day at the click of a button, it can become difficult to distinguish between waking life and dream life. Virtual identities supersede their real-world counterparts as images both horrific and idyllic are browsed casually. Scenes that once seemed possible only in nightmares are captured and sold as reality, and sleeping states become repositories for the mundane details of increasingly surreal routines. It is in this blurred cycle of waking and dreaming that Roommate’s We Were Enchanted finds its foundation.

Much like a dream, the album does not follow a purely linear structure; instead, it is formed from a series of startling images, both gorgeous and grotesque, from which a series of themes emerges: The escapism and anonymity of digital life; the endless, vacuous cycle of modern news; the struggle to connect meaningfully with the earth and other humans in a wasteful and destructive society; the seductive appeal of fantasy and nostalgia in a landscape defined by American Idolatry and Wars of Terror. Avoiding easy cynicism, Roommate examines these and other themes with earnest idealism and self-observant irony, finding hope, beauty and humor where little seems possible.
The production of We Were Enchanted began in the spring of 2006, just before the release of Roommate’s critically acclaimed debut album Songs the Animals Taught Us. This period saw Roommate complete its transition from the solo project of Chicagoan Kent Lambert to a cohesive and versatile live band and recording ensemble. Preliminary tracks were recorded in Lambert’s bedroom studio, but it didn’t take long for the album to become a wholly collaborative project. All manner of experiments were conducted, from the recording of a choir of canjos (instruments made by Southside Chicago high school students from coffee cans and plywood) for the album’s opening to the use of turpentine cans, empty kegs and beat-up hubcaps as percussion. Old friends and new acquaintances were invited to contribute horn parts and guitar solos or join in on chorus vocals. By the time of the album’s completion in October 2007, the band had worked in seven different recording environments with over twenty musicians, including some of Chicago’s most celebrated free jazz players as well as former and current members of such bands as Califone, Till By Turning, Imaginary Folk, Fruit Bats, and Mucca Pazza.

Dramatically shifting and evolving over the course of the album, the sounds of Lambert and his cast of backing musicians strike a deft balance between organic and electronic, dissonant and harmonious, all the while capturing the elusive, abstract emotions of the lyrics. It is not a sound easily described with a laundry list of influences. While there are moments here and there that may spark a memory of 60s & 70s psychedelic rock or 80s synth-pop, a hint of Nilsson-esque bar-room piano, Faust-ian analog synths or delicate strings ala Talk Talk, this is music with eyes gazing into the future, seeking out new ways of expressing a poetic, ecstatic truth.

We Were Enchanted is an album that moves beyond casual listening and begs participation. This is a work so utterly of its time, and so reflective, that it is impossible not to engage it; these characters aren’t just people we know or archetypes we can relate to, they are us. In its execution, the album opens a new dialogue, something few works of art can do. In a world full of easy answers to impossible questions, there is no greater rebellion than an honest conversation.