Oak’s Happy Hour Special
- story Alex Frank
When we spoke to Jeff Madalena and and Louis Terline of Oak for our 10th anniversary issue last year, opening a bar was still just a glimmer on the horizon. Blackout is now officially open, and in true Oak fashion, is bringing the best of the best tonight, with DJ sets from DFA and LCD Soundsystem whiz James Murphy, amongst others. We predict a bar filled with Brooklyn kids (and probably a few Manhattan folk too) dressed in asymmetrical black ensembles. And If you mostly can’t afford Oak’s pricey duds, like us, the promise of an hour of $3 well drinks tonight might be your best chance of buying into the Oak way of life.
Free Energy, “Free Energy” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Maybe there are a million bands making Cheap Trick/Thin Lizzy-style rock these days, but most of them, we are guessing, are made up of dudes with bald-tops and girlfriends whose saggy bellies hang precariously out of the front of their tank tops, not skinny Evan Dando types who dance like your 6-year-old niece trying to copy the latest Ciara video. The latter is what Free Energy is and that is why we like them, aside from the fact that they do what they do really well and James Murphy makes it sound like the last couple decades didn’t really need to happen.
Download: Free Energy, “Free Energy”
Bonus: Free Energy Live on MPR’s The Current
Special Disco Version
- story THE FADER
Today two things became clear: 1. James Murphy and Pat Mahoney, members of LCD Soundsystem and duo behind an epic Fabric mix are starting a regular DJ night in New York City called Special Disco Version and are starting by Euro-tripping it (dates after the jump) and 2. The party’s NYC base is going to be at a new club called 100 Lafayette, which means that Andrew WK’s venture is no longer called Santa’s Party House, but 100 Lafayette. Total bummer.
