Join us Thursday, June 25 at Studio B for our B-B-Queued Up party with the best dudes Super Family! Super Family is Saheer Umar (from House of House) and Jamal Ali (from Turntable Lab) and they'll keep it dirty and funky for all our party peoples. It's starts early at 6pm and it's FREE and there will be cheap drinks and food.
Modular Presents
B-B-Queued Up
Thursday, June 25
w/ Special Guest DJs
SUPER FAMILY
(www.myspace.com/superfamilynyc)
& Modular DJ Cliktrax Jen
FREE ENTRY
6pm-10pm
18+
Studio B
259 Banker St
Greenpoint, BK
WORD!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
Modular Presents
DOWNTOWN DOWNTURN... is going on Summer Vacation
Hosted by LEGS
www.welcometolegs.com
Free! No List!
$5 drink specials all night!
w/ Guest DJs
Josh Druckman (Chinatown Records)
DJ Fake Mexican
& Resident DJ Cliktrax Jen (Modular)
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4amwww.welcometolegs.com
Free! No List!
$5 drink specials all night!
w/ Guest DJs
Josh Druckman (Chinatown Records)
DJ Fake Mexican
& Resident DJ Cliktrax Jen (Modular)
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4am
Check out pics from past parties:
HERE HERE HERE HERE & HERE
Downtown Downturn is supported by our friends at LoudCrowd, a music gaming site soundtracked by indie dance and electro like our own Van She and Cut Copy. Made by guys who worked on Guitar Hero and Rock Band, all of Loudcrowd's music is handpicked by DJs. Check it out: http://beta.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
Check out pics from past parties:
HERE
HERE
HERE
& HERE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
Modular Presents
DOWNTOWN DOWNTURN
Hosted by STREET PEEPER
www.streetpeeper.com
Free! No List!
$5 BEER SPECIAL
w/ Guest DJs
LAUREN FLAX
PHIL OH
MC GAFF E (Live!)
& DJ Glass Hand
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4am
Downtown Downturn is supported by our friends at LoudCrowd, a music gaming site soundtracked by indie dance and electro like our own Van She and Cut Copy. Made by guys who worked on Guitar Hero and Rock Band, all of Loudcrowd's music is handpicked by DJs. Check it out:
http://beta.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
Check out pics from past parties:
HERE
HERE
HERE
& HERE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10th
Modular Presents
DOWNTOWN DOWNTURN
Hosted by EVIDENT RECORDS
Free! No List!
$5 BEER SPECIAL
w/ Guest DJs
LOVEFINGERS
MATTHEW RADUNE
& Resident DJ
CLIKTRAX JEN (Modular)
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4am
Downtown Downturn is supported by our friends at LoudCrowd, a music gaming site soundtracked by indie dance and electro like our own Van She and Cut Copy. Play to beat matching dance and DJ games while winning virtual loot like music tracks and apparel.
Check it out: www.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
We've got a moment of Modular madness happening next week and your attendance is most certainly expected, nay required!! Featuring a line up of bands we've been feeling lately, we thought it was about time to step out of the club for a minute and put on an old fashioned show punctuated by far-from-old-fashioned bands. Tanlines are our buddies from Brooklyn and play a mix of tropicalia and disco jams (and have remixed our very own terrible twosome, Tough Alliance). Solid Gold have been building a strong rep for smooth indie and electronic sounds straight outta Prince's backyard of Minneapolis (We're told they've hung out at his house on occasion.) And finally, DFA's newest signing Free Energy will be shooting bolts of electricity out of their instruments with some tunes crafted in the City of Brotherly Love.
The party is only $5 if you RSVP HERE. And, it's part of the Northside Festival, so if you have a badge, you get in free.
Thursday June 11
Public Assembly (Front Room)
70 North 6th St. (Williamsburg, BK)
9pm
Modular Presents
A Northside Festival Event:
Tanlines (Live)
www.myspace.com/tanlinestheband
Solid Gold (Live)
www.myspace.com/solidgoldband
Free Energy (DFA) (Live)
www.myspace.com/freeenergymusic
w/ DJs
Justin Miller (DFA)
Cliktrax Jen & Marizla
& Soviet Panda
$5 w/ RSVP HERE
$8 without
FREE w/ a Northside Festival Badge
www.modularpeople.com/blog
www.northsidefestival.com
Check out pics from past parties:
HERE
HERE
HERE
& HERE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3
Modular Presents
DOWNTOWN DOWNTURN
Hosted by PETE MISZUK
(BIRTHDAY BOY)
Free! No List!
$5 BEER SPECIAL
w/ Guest DJs
DISKOKAINE (Austria)
THE OLD SEADOG & PETE MISZUK
& Resident DJ
CLIKTRAX JEN (Modular)
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4am
Downtown Downturn is supported by our friends at LoudCrowd, a music gaming site soundtracked by indie dance and electro like our own Van She and Cut Copy. Play to beat matching dance and DJ games while winning virtual loot like music tracks and apparel. Check it out:
www.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
**Your RSVP on Facebook automatically registers you to win a prize pack of CDS and a t-shirt courtesy of Loudcrowd & Modular**
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27
Modular Presents
DOWNTOWN DOWNTURN
Hosted by Loudcrowd
http://loudcrowd.com/
Free! No List!
$5 drink specials all night!
w/ Guest DJs
Rok One (The Bangers)
Fucci (Loudcrowd, Excess Energy)
Dirty Jean (Crucial Get Down, Loudcrowd)
& Resident DJ
Cliktrax Jen (Modular)
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4am
Past Photos by Hobo Gestapo:
http://hobogestapo.com/galleries.cfm?id=113
http://hobogestapo.com/galleries.cfm?id=88
http://hobogestapo.com/galleries.cfm?id=63
http://hobogestapo.com/galleries.cfm?id=68
Downtown Downturn is every Wednesday at B.East.
Downtown Downturn is supported by our friends at LoudCrowd, a music gaming site soundtracked by indie dance and electro like our own Van She and Cut Copy. Made by guys who worked on Guitar Hero and Rock Band, all of Loudcrowd's music is handpicked by DJs- Check em out:
http://beta.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
Check out pics from past parties:
HERE
HERE
HERE
& HERE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 Modular Presents
DOWNTOWN DOWNTURN
Hosted by 2 MANDY DJS
http://www.myspace.com/2mandydjs
Free! No List!
$5 BEER SPECIAL
w/ Guest DJs
MANDY C. & MANDY B. (2 Mandy DJs)
ANNA LUNOE (Sydney)
& Resident DJ CLIKTRAX JEN (Modular)
Early set by Tavlin & Kristin!
B.East
171 E. Broadway (at Rutgers)
New York City
10pm-4am
Downtown Downturn is supported by our friends at LoudCrowd, a music gaming site soundtracked by indie dance and electro like our own Van She and Cut Copy. Made by guys who worked on Guitar Hero and Rock Band, all of Loudcrowd's music is handpicked by DJs.
Check it out: http://beta.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
It’s with an overwhelming sense of excitement and delight that we would like to propose a toast and introduce you to the freshest and funkiest dogs in the Modular pound, the producers of the swampiest fantasy house music from Australia’s wild west, Canyons. Canyons equal two DJ’s/producers Leo Holiday and Ryan Sea-mist, Perth transplants who’ve been residing a rearranging dancefloors in Sydney for a shade over 12 months.
Drawing influences from the far corners of planet Earth and beyond, Canyons’ music strikes a balance between sand dunes and icebergs, psych and acid house, volcanos and valleys, pop and disco, fiction and fact. Not ones to claim genres or adhere to them, the Canyons approach to writing music is one of intuition and feel. Dancing is encouraged, and quiet listening works just as well.
Holiday and Sea-mist have been producing their distinctly boundary-less modern cacophony for a couple of years now, in that time attracting interest from all four corners of this rock from fans of eclectic, irreverent dance music. Canyons run their own label Hole in the Sky, used simply to put out music they believe should be heard.
Their debut album is in the making and will be released on Modular Recordings in the near future, preceded by a single release before 2009 is out. With the odd remix in the pipelines and a 12” single release due out this July on DFA, Canyons are also working towards piecing a full live band together to take their musical healing on the road and to the people.
www.myspace.com/thecanyonsinfo
www.aholeinthesky.com
WOLFMOTHER STUDIO UPDATE:
Wolfmother are currently holed up in a studio in Los Angeles with the unenviable task of following up their monumental debut album. However from all we’ve heard it’s well on the way to greatness, as is the working title of the album, Cosmic Egg.
Wolfmother stepped out of the studio last Friday to play a show amongst the taxidermy buffalo and elk at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. There they ripped through a suite of songs old and new to an LA crowd that’s been starved of Wolfmother in recent times in a show that saw the new lineup perform for the first time in the states. Check it out HERE. You can also still get hold of the brand new track Back Round from over HERE.
More Wolfmother news very soon...
www.wolfmother.com
VAN SHE UNLEASH ZE VEMIXES
Being the dashingly post-modern modern pop outfit that they are, Van She have gone and completely reworked the bulk of their debut album V into a brilliantly banging techno techno called Ze Vemixes. Taking tracks like Strangers, Cat & The Eye, Changes and Talkin, re-imagining and destroying the early single Sex City and with the addition of a new track, the seriously titled Techno Music, Ze Vemixes is a stunning showcase of the Van She Tech side of the Van She coin.
Ze Vemixes will be available as a second disc alongside the US release of V complete with reworked artwork, or as a stand alone digital release, later in the year.
www.vanshe.com
TAME IMPALA
Tame Impala are a psych/kraut/rock and roll/space loving trio hailing from Perth, Australia. One of the newer additions to the Modular clan, these guys recently made their live debut in the UK to rave reviews and supported MGMT and Yeasayer in Australia. Now, you can finally pick up the self titled debut EP by Tame Impala at Itunes, Turntable Lab, EMusic & Insound! Our favorite psychedelic shoeless West Australians are sure to be a welcome addition to your summer of endless BBQs, pot smoking, & beer drinking.
They also have a brand new utterly blissful track called Sundown Syndrome on their MySpace page, recorded in fair London town.
"Half Full Glass of Wine" Live in London: HERE
www.tameimpala.com
www.myspace.com/tameimpala
EINE KLEINE NACHT MUSIK
In the weirder, wilder and whimsical back pocket of Modular, we have our little gem of cosmic Krautrock called Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, or A Little Night Music. EKNM is the exceptionally wonderous, cosmically exquisite project of Henry Smithson, aka Riton. This record is a blissful trip down the autobahn, circa 1974, a genius motorik rythmn and shimmering atmospherics of churning basslines and tripped out sitar, relentess drums and drifting synths. In the spirit of the Krautrock forefathers and their synth pioneering mothers, Modular is proud to present the ITunes release of EKNM,
It's also available at Turntable Lab, Insound, and EMusic.
http://www.einekleinenachtmusik.tv/
http://www.myspace.com/einekleinemusik
Our weekly party is GREAT!
Check out some pics at hobogestapo.com:
HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE
Our weekly party in NYC, Downtown Downturn keeps you moving in May with DJs sets and parties with Famous Friends, the 2 Mandy DJs and more! You can check our weekly schedule on Facebook and MySpace! Downtown Downturn is every Wednesday night at B.East!
Sponsored by LoudCrowd.com
http://beta.loudcrowd.com/welcome/modular
NOTE: The Ladyhawke & Bumblebeez tour dates in NY, Chicago, LA & SF have been postponed due to visa issues. We are very sorry and will try to reschedule as soon as possible. REFUNDS AVAILABLE AT POINT OF PURCHASE.
Van She Tech still playing in NYC on October 14.
VAN SHE TECH US DEBUT!!
Modular is making a sad face this week since Ladyhawke and Bumblebeez had to cancel their US tour dates next week. However, VAN SHE TECH IS STILL COMING and will be making their US debut next Tuesday, October 14 in the basement of Santo's Party House in NYC.
Van She Tech is Nicky and Michael from the band Van She. Van She Tech is their electronic/DJ/producer/remixer alter ego and they've remixed Ladyhawke, Feist, The Presets, New Young Pony Club, Klaxons and the infamous DAFT PUNK - AROUND THE WORLD AGAIN (Nicky Van She & Dangerous Dan) that you've probably heard ad nauseam, but we still love it. VST has never DJed in the USA before so come on out and show them a good time.
Tuesday, October 14 - Modular Presents Van She Tech (US Debut) w/ JDH & Dave P (Fixed) & Mattie Safer (The Rapture DJs) Santo's Party House (Downstairs) - 10pm $5 w/ RSVP and $7 without
www.myspace.com/vanshetech www.myspace.com/fixednyc
Visit our TOURING section for more details.
