"As time went on the crowds grew from small ones to a couple hundred people. Then of course came commercialism."
Bio: Michaelangelo Matos is a staff critic for Resident Advisor, and has written for Spin, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Guardian and The Daily. He lives in Brooklyn.
Atkins has been playing steadily around the globe since 1988, when a Virgin Records’ U.K. sub-label, Ten, released a compilation titled Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit, featuring Atkins’ own Model 500 track, “Techno Music.” Though he hasn’t issued a lot of music in recent years, he’s seldom been out of the shops with new material for long, and as a number of recent mixes and podcasts show (see below), he plainly likes keeping himself surprised when he plays. More
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on December 31st, 2012 11:41am“My family has a house on the Jersey Shore in Manasquan,” he explained. “It's the beach where my parents met, when they were 12 and 14, and they've been together ever since. And though the benefit took a lot to arrange, Sunshine hopes it won’t be a standalone concert. “Basically, this is a bit of a litmus test. If we pack the place, which I am confident we're going to do, then we're looking to do it in more places and we're looking to do a bit of tour. We want to take it to the Stone Pony in Jersey. We want to do one on Long Island. We already found a place in Philly. We want to do one in D.C. It's all dependent on how this goes.” More
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on November 19th, 2012 2:45pmFall Preview 2012: Dance music More
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on September 6th, 2012 3:02pm“Disco nowadays means so many different things to different people—to one it’s ‘YMCA’ by the Village People, symbolized by the embarrassing uncle trying to do the moves at a wedding, to another it’s the orchestral splendour of MFSB in Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, whilst yet another, as you say, equates it to the ‘Theme From Miami Vice.’ But stuck with it we are. It’s weird how we keep ending up with genre names that have been previously used, R&B and electro being the other examples. It would have been nice if the current scene could have been named with a bit more originality, but such is life.” More
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on August 24th, 2012 4:09pmSet and setting aside, and even against better music, it was hard to be actively irritated by Teengirl Fantasy. The band, which comes out of the "chillwave" scene—which is to say synth-pop turned to blobs—evinces their dance-music roots at the best moments: the best track they played all night sounded kind of like Orbital. But there's a fundamental unapproachability; they sort of hang their music there like gallery art, rather than songs or grooves meant to make a connection. More
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on August 24th, 2012 2:38pmLawrence Arabia’s new album, his third, The Sparrow (Bella Union), plays as more of a piece. Compact (nine songs in under 35 minutes) and finely etched, every guitar fleck, each arcing string sweep, is tightly controlled, but the music is expansive and graceful, not knotty: A perfect example is the way the bell-like keyboard part and the pert, nearly invisible handclaps linger at the outer edges of the chorus to “The 03.” (New York fans have a chance to hear the new songs tonight, August 14, at Mercury Lounge.) More
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on August 14th, 2012 10:51am“I wanted to play a mix of grime and dubstep and U.K. funky and U.K. garage, all these niche underground genres,” she said. “I had this idea that they all made sense together with other stuff like Miami bass and Baltimore club. At the time, compared to indie dance and disco stuff, genres we were playing … sounded so much more raw and unhinged and in-your-face, much less polite and palatable, much more hyper and intense and tear-shit-off-the-walls.” More
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on August 10th, 2012 3:20pmThis was welcome in music that's so focused on sounding woozy and ethereal: subtlety counts for a lot. Sometimes Beach House can be negligible: listening blindly, I might have sworn that "Other People," from this year’s Bloom, was a soft-rock radio hit circa 1982, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. But most of the material stood up nicely, the main set climaxing appropriately with Bloom’s gorgeous “Myth.” More
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on July 24th, 2012 4:03pm“Every Dirty Projectors album is a world unto itself,” said Longstreth. “This one, I think, turns its back on a lot of the things that Bitte Orca did. Bitte is about these shimmering surfaces, these tapestries of guitar woven together, or these vocal pockets that interact in a [certain] way, or about this certain kind of color spectrum.” More
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on July 10th, 2012 12:49pmFor the past few months, I Heard Your Single has taken stock of the best singles—everything from 7- and 12-inches to “focus tracks”—from local acts. The column is coming to an end, but for this final edition, we’ll skip our usual survey of new releases by New York musicians and go all-year and all-world. Below, a look at my Top 20 (or so) singles of 2012’s first half. More
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on July 2nd, 2012 10:22am
jawnita: @matoswk75 AND ALSO, LATER ON, THE SMART BAR
maura: @matoswk75 @nickminichino @DesNoise @anniezaleski @keyescore @marathonpacks um…
EvieN: @matoswk75 I don't mean I would sell it rather than give it to you, I mean I may still want the ability to read it :-).
dancharnas: @matoswk75 yeah, it was more of a rhetorical question. :-) superb article, thanks! Hope book is coming along well...
annkpowers: @matoswk75 point taken... I was thinking of these guys http://t.co/hn3qI9yc7H
nickrkm: @matoswk75 performing arts library at lincoln center
britticisms: @matoswk75 But when will I get a chance to hear it? #sigh
jesshopp: @matoswk75 How did you even come to be listening to Bad Religion?
