SUFJAN STEVENS TO PLAY PROSPECT PARK IN AUGUST

April 4th, 2011 , by

Summer in Brooklyn: friends, fireflies, stoop sales, racial tension, black-outs, car theft, homicide, real estate busts, and…Celebrate Brooklyn! Where the World's Greatest Borough puts on the World's Greatest Summer Festival in the World's Greatest Urban Park. That's what we call Prospect Park!

Our Very Own Megalomaniac Master of Musical Disguises Sufjan Stevens will be making a rare outdoor appearance at the infamous bandshell on Tuesday August 2, 2011 for the annual Celebrate Brooklyn! festival. He'll be performing with his 10-piece intergalactic ensemble of musical muppets from the Age of Adz tour. What does that mean for you? Do the math: Prog-pop space jams + extra-terrestrial dancers + excessive neon gaff tape + cosmic eurhythmy + hot booty moves + a frenetic video display + hometown advantage = Life Affirming Summer Spectacular Event of a Lifetime (and other superlatives).
 
Did we already say it's outdoors? Under the Brooklyn sky, surrounded by sycamores and flickering fireflies, and city smog…This is a rare treat! Sufjan does not typically play outdoor stages. Nor does he have any festival appearances scheduled for 2011. This is your last chance to see Adz in all its glory! And we promise it will be a total blow-out!
 
Tickets for the show are will go on sale for general public on Friday, but you can get special preorder tickets for $35 (+fees) from Etix on Wednesday April 6th. Those tickets will be at this link at 10AM EST April 6th: http://bit.ly/gauVaq. The password is (whisper): Heirloom.

INFINITIROCK AND LEB LAZE EXPAND THE LIBRARY CATALOG

March 29th, 2011 , by

The Library Catalog Music Series is a lot like the sun; it grows ever larger all the time, absorbing more and more life situations into the repertoire of the Library Catalog. With just a few additional releases, the light of the Library Catalog will shine upon every single one of your life situations. At that point you will have no choice but to score your life with music.

The addition by Leb Laze, Music for Troubled Machinery, is the equivalent of a mecho-technical freakout. Imagine R2D2 on steroid withdrawl while tight-rope-walking at a circus. And pulling it off with style (leave your anachronistic booster jets in the closet Lucas).

Clocking in as the fourteenth LibCat release, InfinitiRock adds the meta-rific Music for Primordial Recollection. It's as much a statement on the meaning of music as it is music. But if you think you're going to be listening to this on headphones while reading Kant you've got the wrong idea bud. Think less headphones and more dance floor, and less Kant and more asking your best friend to move and groove with you because you've had a secret crush on him or her for the last six years. That's Primordial.

You can stream them in entirity for free, but to truly integrate the music into your lifestream, you're just going to have to pocket up and buy them. Trouble Machinery is here and Primordial is here. 

#THISWEEKEND

March 25th, 2011 , by

Via our Twitter feed…

FRI: Castanets are in Boise @ Neurolux. Schlarb in Echo Park @ Origami. Helado Negro in Santa Cruz @ 418. MBD in South Bend @ Subkirke. Julianna Barwick in Seattle @ Sunset. 

SAT: Castanets in Portland @ MI Studios. Helado Negro in San Fran @ The Ind. Julianna Barwick in Vancouver @ Waldorf. 

Details here.

HELADO NEGRO TOURING WEST COAST

March 24th, 2011 , by

In a couple months, we'll get to release Canta Lechuza from Helado Negro, aka Roberto Lange. It's good, good stuff. You can likely hear it as early as we have if you manage catch him on tour; an easy thing in the next couple of weeks if you reside on the west coast. Roberto's traveled all the way from Brooklyn to tourmates o'death to catch some early sun – and say hello. Details here.

INFINITIROCK RELEASES EP

March 23rd, 2011 , by

Next week, InfinitRock contributes to the ever-expanding Library Catalog Music Series. Today, he has released a superb EP via iTunes. You may purchase here. While you do so, here is some downhill lawn skiing to get you in the mood.

JULIANNA MINI-TOURS WEST COAST

March 23rd, 2011 , by

Today Julianna Barwick kicked off a short but sweet mini-tour across the West Coast. She opened tonight in San Francisco, and will be in Portland on Thursday, Seattle on Friday, and Vancouver on Saturday. 
 
Pitchfork gave Julianna Barwick's recently released album, The Magic Place, it's prized Best New Music moniker. Esquire called her performance at SXSW "a religious experience" (no easy feat at SXSW!). You can watch NPR's "Tiny SXSW Concert" with Julianna above. 
 
Details on the tour are here. You can buy and stream The Magic Place here.

WELCOME WAGON TO MINI-TOUR MIDWEST

March 20th, 2011 , by

The Welcome Wagon, consisting of Rev. T. Vito and Monique Aiuto, do play shows rather regularly and they are quite good. But, as life often does, the rigors of their chosen professions (Reverend, Stay-At-Home-Parent, respectively) often anchor them to their home camp in Brooklyn. 

But. Once in a while, when the season is right, and they look toward the sky and feel the pull of the wind and the push of the sea, The Welcome Wagon ventures out, onward, and westward from their abode in Kings County. The equinox is soon. They will venture out again and begin the short and significant journey from Charlottesville, to Louisville, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago, and then finish in Lancaster. Touring with them for a few of the shows is none other than Liz Janes, still fresh from her success of Say Goodbye and the recent release of Time & Space. It will be a good time for all involved. See details here.

ROBERTO LANGE AND DAVID ELLIS MAKE TRASH SING

March 17th, 2011 , by

Our ever prolific Roberto Lange (Epstein and Helado Negro) has produced another amazing kinetic sculpture with artist David Ellis. Enjoy!

New Liz Janes Poster, Includes MP3

March 15th, 2011 , by

It’s been just about a year since we released Liz Janes’ Say Goodbye. About six months ago, Argentinean graphic designer Leandro Castelao contacted Liz. He was so inspired by the album that he offered to design a poster based on one of the songs. When Leandro delivered a final version based on “Firefly,” and Liz showed it to us, we knew we had to share it with her fans. It’s terrific!

The poster is 12×15, and Liz sees as a great way of wrapping up the last year since release! Purchase the poster and we’ll also email a link and code to download the full MP3 version of Say Goodbye. See more pictures of the poster  here, or you can buy it for $25 by clicking here (sorry, we only ship posters to N. America).

SON LUX, BLACK HEART PROCESSION, MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND & OTHERS COVER LIZ JANES

March 15th, 2011 , by

Liz Janes has been making records here at Asthmatic Kitty for a while, with each new record taking her music and style into wilder and weirder places. On the EP Time & Space, which we are releasing today, seven artists transport Liz's discography to even further frontiers. 

Some of Liz's labelmates make appearances on this EP, including Helado Negro, Brightest Diamond, and Fol Chen. Also doing some equally amazing work with Liz's music are Danielson (fresh off a brand new release), Arrington de Dionyso, Black Heart Procession, and Son Lux (recently featured on NPR's Album-In-A-Month Project). Put it all together and you have a repertoire that is itself an accolade to Janes' music over the years. Read more about this project here.

You can hear it for free or own it for $5 right here, or below. Or, if you're so inclined, share the whole stream on your Facebook page by linking to:
http://lizjanes.bandcamp.com/album/time-space

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