Alexandria Wojcik

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  • Discogs Leads Vinyl Boom, Exceeds 43 Million in Sales for 2015

    Discogs, the online vinyl and CD marketplace, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the site has shared some propriety information regarding its role within the US vinyl boom with Billboard: so far in 2015 the site has exceeded $43.5 million in sales. To translate that figure into terms we audiophiles prefer, that's 2.5 million records, half a million CDs and 50,000 cassette tapes. Furthermore, as Resident Advisor reports, the figures reflect an industry-wide increase in vinyl sales, with the stats in the US at their highest in 25 years.

  • Bill Murray Collaborates with Phoenix, Miley Cyrus, More in New Christmas Special Trailer

    Bill Murray is ringing in the holiday season with the Sofia Coppola-directed Christmas special A Very Murray Christmas airing on Netflix on November 4th. When Netflix announced the special back in May they called it an "homage to the classic variety show," which of course means the special boasts an all-star cast and lots of quirkiness. The new trailer dropped this week and with it came more glimpses of guest stars including including Miley Cyrus, Jenny Lewis, Phoenix, George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Jason Schwartzman, and Maya Rudolph among others.

  • Nicky Romero Admits He Suffers from Anxiety, Shares New “Lighthouse” Video [WATCH]

    Dutch EDM producer/DJ Nicky Romero has admitted he struggles with anxiety in a personal message posted via his artist Facebook account. Shortly after opening up about his mental health (don't worry: it ends on a positive note) the progressive house artist shared a video for 2014's "Lighthouse" which is the first installation of the Nicky Romero Trilogy. Watch the new video below.

  • DJ Kill Paris Changes Stage Name to Chill Harris After Terrorist Attacks in France

    Electronic producer Corey Baker, AKA Kill Paris, has decided to change his DJ name in light of the tragic terrorist attacks on Paris, France late this past Friday evening. As Dancing Astronaut reports, Baker explains in a lengthy Facebook post that after the recent violent events he feels it would be inappropriate to continue to use a stage name that risks being associated with, in his words, "the negatives in life." He changed his Twitter handle to @SaveParis and will now perform under the new moniker Chill Harris.

  • Fred Armisen and Bill Hader’s Blue Jean Committee Band Shares New Song From 'Catalina Breeze'

    Fred Armisen and Bill Hader's fake '70s soft rock band, Blue Jean Committee, has graduated from a "Saturday Night Live" sketch to a full-grown comedy band with a very real recording. The blue-eyed soulful parody band is releasing their debut EP, 'Catalina Breeze,' on November 20th via Drag City. Today, they've shared a new song from the forthcoming album entitled "Gentle and Soft," which you can listen to here.

  • Dozens Dead and Hostages Held During Eagles of Death Metal Concert in Paris

    Earlier tonight, a series of shootings unfolded at several Paris venues. Reports state that the deadliest of the multiple simultaneous attacks seem to have targeted the Bataclan concert hall during the Eagles of Death Metal’s sold-out performance Friday evening. The news is still breaking, but various media outlets have stated that there have already been multiple fatalities and anywhere between 60 to 100 hostages were held at the venue.

  • Missy Elliott Shares New Video for “WTF (Where They From)” Featuring Pharrell

    Missy Elliott has dropped the video for her new song "WTF (Where They From)," featuring a verse from fellow Virginian Pharrell Williams. It's been over a decade since the iconic late 90s/early 2000s futurist rapper has released an album and three years since she released a single. The new video, co-directed by Elliott and her longtime collaborator Dave Meyers, marks the artist's return to her roots. Watch "WTF (Where They From)" below.

  • Arcade Fire's Will Butler Reviews Grimes' 'Art Angels' Album

    Will Butler of Arcade Fire has reviewed Grimes' new Art Angels album on Talkhouse, the website where artists talk about other artists. Despite asserting early-on that "Grimes is coming, to a large extent, from the world of 2000s pop, but she creates a giant, esoteric, viable world teeming with all sorts of poisonous Jurassic life" the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer overcomes his general disdain for 2000s pop (and Jurassic-era life on Earth) for just long enough to compare Grimes to Eiffel 64 and discuss the cultural importance of Bob Dylan and Prince, among other pop music and literary icons.

  • Unheard Jeff Buckley Songs, Including Covers of The Smiths and Bob Dylan, to be Released

    A new album of previously unheard Jeff Buckley recordings, entitled You and I, is due out March 16 of next year via Legacy Recordings, NPR reports. Most of the forthcoming album's tracks are covers, including The Smiths' "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" and "I Know It's Over," Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman," Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" and Led Zeppelin's "Night Flight." Check out the full tracklist at the end of this article.

  • Computer-Generated Vocaloid Hatsune Miku Announces First North American Headlining Tour

    Digital pop star Hatsune Miku has announced her first North American headlining tour, Miku Expo 2016. For the uninitiated, the Japanese star is a computer-generated avatar that sings with the help of a synthesizer and performs with a backing band consisting of human musicians. The animated character is more than a performing hologram: fans can use her synthesized voice to create their own songs.

  • Flaming Lips, Glenn Danzig, Louis C.K. and More Appearing on 'Portlandia' Season 6

    "Portlandia" is scheduled to return for its sixth season, and today, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen have announced the full roster of guests that will be joining them on the IFC sketch comedy show including Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips as well as comedian Louis C.K. among others. The new season will premiere January 21 on IFC.

  • Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, Was an Extra in Radiohead’s “Creep” Video

    Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, has revealed that he was an extra in the music video for Radiohead's seminal classic "Creep." The London-based electronic producer revealed the details of his 1993 cameo as part of the thrashing mass of moshers in the now-iconic video in a conversation with BBC 6 Music's Gilles Peterson during a special about Hebden's career entitled Worlds and Music With Four Tet. It's pretty much impossible to discern the artist's silhouette from the others in the video's crowd, but try to spot him in the video anyway, below.

  • Aziz Ansari's Netflix Show 'Master of None' Shares Season 1 Playlist [LISTEN]

    Aziz Anzari's new show, Master of None, debuted last Friday via Netflix to a flood of rave reviews from fans all over Twitter. As one might guess considering the show shares a title with a Beach House song, the show's soundtrack which is curated by the show's music supervisor Zach Cowie alongside Anzari makes for an awesome playlist. In response to fan demands, the show shared a Spotify playlist of the first season's soundtrack featuring everything from Aphex Twin to The Zombies, including the titular track by Beach House. Watch the video for the Baltimore dream-pop duo's 2006 song "Master of None."

  • Leftöver Crack Share New Songs, ‘Constructs of the State’ Album Coming Soon

    A few weeks ago, Leftöver Crack announced their first new album in 11 years, 'Constructs of the State.' With the announcement, they released the first single, "System F*cked," which features Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy. Today, the seminal crust punk band from Alphabet City shared another new song, "Bedbugs & Beyond," via Brooklyn Vegan.

  • KRS-One Announces ‘Now Hear This’ Album, Drops First Single - "Drugs Won" [LISTEN]

    KRS-One, AKA the famed Teacha of hip-hop, has announced a new album, entitled 'Now Hear This.' The album is reportedly produced by Predator Prime and is due out November 24th, when it will be available to purchase via the producer's Bandcamp page. Following the announcement, the Bronx-based rapper dropped the forthcoming album's first single, "Drugs Won."

  • Lana Del Rey Covers Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time” [LISTEN]

    Lana Del Rey has covered Daniel Johnston's 1990 single, "Some Things Last a Long Time" as part of the forthcoming short film "Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston." The film stars legendary pop singer and songwriter Johnston himself and is out November 11th to rent or buy via Vimeo. You can hear a brief clip of Lana Del Rey's cover in the film trailer here.

  • Time Warp Techno Festival Faces Opposition From Brooklyn Community

    The second US edition of Time Warp, Germany's longest-running techno festival, is scheduled to bring some of the world's best techno, deep house, and minimal producers and DJs to the Bedford Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in two weeks. However, the festival is facing some serious opposition from the community: local residents and elected representatives including Assemblymember Walter Mosley have been voicing concerns regarding various quality of life issues and lobbying City Hall to shut the event down. As Mosley stated to local news outlet DNAinfo, his constituents are mostly worried about parking and "potentially intoxicated" ravers meandering the neighborhood after the event.

  • SXSW Hit-and-Run Drunk Driver Who Killed 4 Sentenced to Life

    Rashad Charjuan Owens, the hit-and-run driver who killed four people when he plowed through a crowd of people at 2014's South by Southwest festival in Austin, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. A Travis County jury convicted the 23 year old of capital murder after relatively brief deliberations.

  • Riff Raff Just Leaked New ‘Trench Coat Towers’ EP, Poetry Book Coming Soon

    Riff Raff has just leaked his new mini-EP entitled 'Trench Coat Towers,' which is set to officially drop next week on iTunes. His new poetry book, "NEON ViBES," is also due out next week. After teasing new music all over his social media accounts all week, the rapper finally shared the four-track EP (it's actually eight tracks if you count the instrumental versions) via his Jody Highroller alter-ego's Spotify.

  • Mysteryland USA Will Return to Woodstock ‘69 Grounds in 2016 on a New Date

    Mysteryland, the world's longest-running electronic music, culture and arts festival, has announced that it will return for its third annual U.S. edition on the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock festival. While the event is returning to the Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center, it's not coming without some major changes in 2016. For starters, festival organizers have chosen a new date. The tens of thousands of attendees will descend upon New York's Catskills the weekend of June 10-13, rather than raving in the woods on Memorial Day Weekend like in years past.

  • Chase & Status Drop New Track “Funny,” Announce ‘London Bars’ Series [LISTEN]

    The London electronic bass music production duo Chase & Status, aka Saul Milton (Chase) and Will Kennard (Status), have announced their new London Bars series. With the announcement they shared a new track entitled "Funny," featuring Frisco. The track and the entire series is being released via Chase & Status' own label, MTA Records. Listen to the track and watch its official video via the artists' YouTube below.

  • David Hasselhoff Stars in ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’

    David Hasselhoff is starring in an off-off Broadway musical entitled Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. In it, the star of Baywatch, The Knight Rider, and countless hilarious drunken YouTube videos plays a dad named Ross who happens to be Ibiza's top 80s DJ, apparently at some point in the 90s. The play is from the creator of 1997's jukebox musical Boogie Nights and is touring the UK through February 2016.

  • Seth Bogart Collaborates with Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna on New Song [LISTEN]

    Hunx and his Punx frontman Seth Bogart has announced a new solo album, due out next year via Burger Records. With the announcement, he has shared the forthcoming album's first single, "Eating Makeup," which features Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and The Julie Ruin and was produced by Cole MGN. Listen to the new synth punk song, "Eating Makeup," below.

  • Santigold Announces New Album ‘99 Cents’ & Shares Track "Can't Get Enough of Myself"

    Santigold, the solo project of Santi White, has announced a third full-length studio album, entitled '99 Cents'. The Philly-based electronic singer-songwriter and producer broke the news and shared the album's first single, "Can't Get Enough of Myself," by calling in to Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show. Listen to "Can't Get Enough of Myself" via Lowe's show here.
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