THE WALL MUSIC SHOWCASE
Austin Soho Lounge – Austin, TX
3/15/12

Not only does the NBA have their overnight sensation, Jeremy Lin touting the Taiwanese banner, there’s this year’s SXSW.  If you’re headed to Austin and want to experience the authentic flavor of Taiwanese culture and music.

THE WALL MUSIC proudly presents the artists:  Fire EX., White Eyes, and WonFu, joining forces with the Taiwanese promoters THE WALL MUSIC, to bring  vivid original music and delicious traditional Taiwanese food into one theme party -“Sounds Delicious!” →

Image Via NotCot

A Cosmic Night of Ambient Music Under the Texan Skies
El Cosmico – Marfa, TX
3/10/12

DUBLAB, El Cosmico & Marfa Public Radio presents Tonalism, a dusk-to-dawn event inspired by La Monte Young’s “Dream House” as well as the work of musicians and composers such as Terry Riley, Yoko Ono and John Cage. Tonalism combines harmonious textures in a surround sound system with visual elements to create an atmosphere where the audience is encouraged to bring pillows, cushions and sleeping bags to lay down, listen and watch for an extended period of time. DJs, live musicians and video artists play and perform throughout the night; starting at sunset and ending at sunrise. Complimentary tea and water are provided to all who attend. →

Interview with DJ Vidis
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The Dance music aficionado, DJ Vidis created a unique partnership in the sphere of the burgeoning Lithuanian dance music scene.  He teamed up with seasoned producer, Mario Basanov in 2007 to form what is cited as a highly influential production duo whose delivery is a fresh approach to electronic music and the art of video making, with a distantly Baltic vibe.  After dropping their debut album, Changed, to critical acclaim across the blogosphere, EM takes some time out to chat with Vidis about their current and upcoming projects. →

Live from TED Global, the artist and 2011 TED Prize winner JR launched a web series as part of his TED Prize “wish to change the world.”

JR’s wish, the Inside Out Project, calls on men and women to stand up for what they care about by contributing to a large-scale participatory art project.  They do this by uploading a personal statement and portrait to a website (www.insideoutproject.net) and pasting them in the streets. →

Rob Hornstra’s Photojournalistic Foray into Sochi, Russia
VBS.TV, VICE’s online television network, and Incase are proud to announce the release of the latest episode of Picture Perfect, a photography show dedicated to documenting our favorite photojournalists. In this episode, VBS goes on assignment with Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra to Sochi, Russia as he continues to captures the city as it exists before it is thrust into the international spotlight as host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. This time around, Hornstra is photographing lounge singers in restaurants, cabarets and hotel lobbies. →

Mali Artists, Amadou & Mariam, Fight Hunger ‘Round the World
The award-winning musicians are the first The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassadors dedicated to raising awareness among the European public of the scourge of global hunger and efforts to tackle it by WFP and the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO). →

BRAIDS – Lemonade

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BRAIDS is a four-piece band from Montreal with one of the strongest debuts of 2011. Its full-length album Native Speaker clocks in at a little over 40 minutes, but the resulting effort is so expansive and dream-like, listening to it feels as if you’ve embarked on a day trip through the senses. There are albums which, when listened to as a whole, seem to take on a kind of biological life. The songs breathe and ripple as if an entire ecosystem is taking place →

YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA + CIBO MATTO W/ OTHERS!
The Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA
6/26/11

The biggest names in Japanese pop music have come together for a once-in-a-lifetime concert spanning genres and generations. As part of KCRW’s World Festival, the Hollywood Bowl will set the stage for electro-pop pioneers, Yellow Magic Orchestra (with original members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi). Their performance at the Hollywood Bowl on June 26th will be their first Los Angeles performance since 1979! →

Interview with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
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The Orchestre Poly-Rythmo can best be described as musical godfathers of the West African nation of Benin, where successive generations of musicians have been inspired by the sounds of funk and vodoun (voodoo) music which first emerged from the homes of young men living in 1960s Cotonou, the economic capital of the country. →