Upcoming Events This Week: February 10th - February 16th

Wednesday, February 13^th

Why? | Baths | Astronautalis | Sarah Winters | Dream Tiger

Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY)

Tickets - $18

Thursday, February 14^th

Valentines Day BASSacre 

Static and Bass | ImanoS | Schlång (Space Jesus and Supersillyus) | Bloom B2B Stanfield

Saloon NYC

Tickets - $12-15

Toro y Moi | Wild Belle | Dog Bite

Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY)

Tickets - Sold Out

Friday, February 15^th

The Pleasure Tour

Up Until Now w/ David Murphy | Zoogma | Business Casual Disco

Highline Ballroom 

Tickets - $16-19

Just Blaze | Baauer

Webster Hall

Tickets - $30

Saturday, February 16^th

Big Gigantic | Kill Paris | Manic Focus

Terminal 5

Tickets - $25-30

the Official Big Gigantic After Party

Skytree | Spankalicious | Psymbionic | Cosmal

HK Lounge

Tickets - $12-15

Song Of The Day: Up Until Now - Little Piggy

Image Courtesy of 1320 Records

Up Until Now (aka Jay Murphy) has just released a new four-track EP The Pleasure Sessions, available for free at 1320 Records.  The EP is varied, putting his hip-hop instrumental and electro-pop influences on display. Murphy is currently performing at Mayan Holidaze, and will be performing in Nashville, at the Snowglobe Festival in Lake Tahoe, and with Sound Tribe Sector 9 on New Years Eve in Denver, CO.  Check out the promotional video for the new EP below.

 Up Until Now "The Pleasure Sessions" Promo from Up Until Now on Vimeo.

Up Until Now - Little Piggy

Fall Tour Announcements: BassNectar, SBTRKT, Alex Grey & Up Until Now feat. Special Guests

Mark your calendars! Several events have recently been announced, and for two of them tickets go on sale this Friday.

Alex Grey & Up Until Now
Thursday, September 20th - Highline Ballroom
Tickets (available 9/13) - $25-$30

In a rare joint music and artistic collaboration Alex Grey will be collaborating with fellow psychedelic artists Mars-1, Oliver Vernon and Damon Soule to accompany Up Until Now featuring David 'Murph' Murphy of STS9, and Jon The Barber of the Disco Biscuits. I've personally had the pleasure of seeing Up Until Now perform with Murph at Camp Bisco X, and it was easily one of my favorite sets of the weekend. Here is a video of them performing together in the Good Life Village VIP at this year's Electric Forest Festival. 

SBTRKT (LIVE)

Thursday, October 11th - Terminal 5
Tickets (available 7/27) - $32-$35

SBTRKT was one of last year's surprise acts. Donning a mask, the anonymous DJ revealed himself to London-based DJ Aaron Paul. Now SBTRKT performs live with singer and fellow producer Sampha. I managed to see them perform last year at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and their rich, vibrant sound left me hungry for more. It will be interesting to see what they've come up with over the past year. Here is a video of SBTRKT featuring Sampha performing their song "Trials of the Past" live at Abbey Road.

BassNectar
Friday, November 16th - The Wellmont Theatre (feat. Gramatik & Gladkill)
Tickets (available 7/27) - $40-$45
Saturday-Sunday, November 17th-18th - Terminal 5 (feat. GRiZ & Gladkill)
Tickets (available 7/27) - $40-$45

It seems that Lorin Ashton, aka BassNectar is incapable of slowing down. After a successful album launch with Vava Voom, a hectic summer festival schedule which will soon be taking him to Europe, he's just announced his Fall 2012 North American Tour. Supporting him on this ambitious ride will be Gramatik, GRiZ and Gladkill. The tour still has a few "surprise dates," but will be finishing up in the New York area with 1 show in Montclair, NJ at the Wellmont Theatre, and 2 back to back nights at Terminal 5 in NYC.