7th Annual City-Wide Cambridge Arts Open Studios
May 9-10, 2015 from 12-6 pm
Explore the work of over 100 visual and performing artists over one vibrant weekend! Celebrate the special women in your life with a memorable mother's day weekend celebration of the visual and performing arts in Cambridge. Discover exceptional works of art and find unique presents to wrap up for mom.
View our interactive web map, download the brochure, or find us in your smartphone app store to see who is participating and plan your weekend!!
Watch this video for more info.Explore the work of over 100 visual and performing artists over one vibrant weekend! Celebrate the special women in your life with a memorable mother's day weekend celebration of the visual and performing arts in Cambridge. Discover exceptional works of art and find unique presents to wrap up for mom.
View our interactive web map, download the brochure, or find us in your smartphone app store to see who is participating and plan your weekend!!
The richly researched, vividly detailed chronicle that America’s electronic dance culture has long deserved.”
– SIMON REYNOLDS, author of Energy Flash /Generation Ecstasy
“Like seeing a familiar face in your family as if for the first time — to finally appreciate the depth of their genius and the scope of their struggle, and to revel in their triumph.”
— DAN CHARNAS, author of The Big Payback: The History of The Business of Hip-Hop
“For a novice like me, The Underground is Massive provided a necessary, nuanced explanation of a global subculture going mainstream . . . a graceful, nimble writer.” – AMANDA PETRUSICH, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records
“Anyone who cares even a little about music will love this book . . . Michaelangelo Matos tells these hidden histories with the love, care and joy of a seasoned mage passing down spells to a trusted novice . . . a genuine service to history.”
-JOHN DARNIELLE, the Mountain Goats; author of Wolf in White Van.
Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture—electronic dance music—from the noted authority covering the scene.
It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music “defining youth culture of the 2010s” (Rolling Stone). Rooted in American techno/house and ’90s rave culture, electronic dance music has evolved into the biggest moneymaker on the concert circuit. Music journalist Michaelangelo Matos has been covering this beat since its genesis, and in The Underground Is Massive, charts for the first time the birth and rise of this last great outlaw musical subculture.
Drawing on a vast array of resources, including hundreds of interviews and a library of rare artifacts, from rave fanzines to online mailing-list archives, Matos reveals how EDM blossomed in tandem with the nascent Internet—message boards and chat lines connected partiers from town to town. In turn, these ravers, many early technology adopters, helped spearhead the information revolution. As tech was the tool, Ecstasy—(Molly, as it’s know today) an empathic drug that heightens sensory pleasure—was the narcotic fueling this alternative movement.
Full of unique insights, lively details, entertaining stories, dozens of photos, and unforgettable misfits and stars—from early break-in parties to Skrillex and Daft Punk—The Underground Is Massive captures this fascinating trend in American pop culture history, a grassroots movement that would help define the future of music and the modern tech world we live in.
John Tejada (born 21 April 1974 in Vienna, Austria), is an electronic music artist, music producer, DJ, and record label owner. His Austrian father was an orchestra composer/conductor who met his mother, a soprano singer of Mexican-American descent, while she was studying in Vienna.
He has recorded under diverse monikers for various labels. Names he has recorded under include Mr. Hazeltine, Lucid Dream, and Autodidact. He also provided a remix to "Such Great Heights", from The Postal Service.
19+
$20
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Ever wanted to make live video? Want to create real time works of art? Want to add video to your band or DJ set to up your game? Resolume might be for you! Jon Bonk and his team will be teaching an introductory class on this powerful live video tool. Learn how to input videos, master effects, and projection map video onto anything you desire.
Thursday at The Middle East is going to be funky as hell. Soul Clap and fellow Crew Love label friend Tanner Ross will provide the soulful, funky-smooth tunes while Life on Planets bring the deep house. Life on Planets began in Baltimore and debuted their first full-length live show at the Wolf + Lamb Marcy Hotel, a starting ground for other great deep house artists such as Nicolas Jaar – and also a favorite of Soul Clap. Their mixes are big on the vocals, and provide a deep and sultry introduction to the sound of funk. Expect to dance but also be completely entranced by the deep house electronic hypnosis their music will provide. Judging by recent mixes Life on Planets have been dishing out, they’re big on the smooth transitions and constant slow jams. Life on Planets are two drastically different personalities clashing into an explosion of creativity, their music draws on the duo’s individual tastes and becomes a combination of all the influences they have between the two of them. There’s no hesitation when it comes to trying out newer genres, even sampling the seductively smooth sounds of Rhye in one of their recent deep house mixes.
Tanner Ross honed his talent at Boston’s own Berklee College of Music, and because of this he has a very technical approach to his music. He is as excellent a producer and sound engineer as he is DJ. Having Charlie from Soul Clap as a roommate for a little while definitely had an effect on his sound; while he’s always been a big fan of hip-hop and R&B the Crew Love inductee put him on the path to funk. Tanner Ross is a big name in Boston; and to have him on the same bill as Soul Clap is akin to watching a family reunion. His music is a little more heavy on his personal hip-hop influences so the line-up is a guaranteed perfect mish-mash of funk, soul, and R&B. I couldn’t think of three artists who go better together.
Soul Clap are a big Boston name. Eli from Soul Clap recently found some vinyls in his basement and spun them at The Middlesex and the line went around the block outside (I know – I was waiting in it). Charlie and Eli, aka Elyte and Cynce, play the grooviest sets you’ll hear all week – and a recent collaboration with soul and funk grandmaster George Clinton only proves their worth. Debuting the track “In Da Kar” at the Marcy Hotel they set the tone for the four-track EP we’re all waiting for – and judging by their instagram an even better music video is in the works to go along with it. Expect a high-energy show, and one that has each artists meld perfectly into the next DJ’s set. By the end of the night you’re going to want to dig out your flared jeans from ten years ago and dig through some old funk vinyls.
DJ Kon joins the bill as well, his name is an acronym for “King of Nothing” and that reflects his attitude towards his music. He doesn’t have any hubris when it comes to his productions – Kon has been in the game since the mid-80’s and his knowledge and vast record collection are his greatest strengths. His forays into disco and soul are truly magnificent and his set will blend flawlessly into the other DJ’s on the setlist for this evening. His love for vinyl is reflected through his participation in the NYC collective “I Love Vinyl” which put on vinyl-only parties all across the city.
Soul Clap, Tanner Ross, DJ Kon and Life on Planets play Thursday May 14th at the Middle East Downstairs. To get into all the shows purchase a Together Boston pass today!” To see this show buy tickets here!
Soul ClapOne of Boston’s biggest nightclubs plays host to one of the world’s biggest DJs on Friday 15th May. Alongside East Coast native Tamer Malki, DJ Sasha headlines the Together Festival this year and we are honored to have him. Catch them both at Bijou during the festival and experience two experienced DJs doing what they do best – blowing the minds of anyone in the crowd.
DJ Sasha has been a global institution for almost two decades, it’s almost impossible to just write a short blurb about him considering the amount he has contributed to the music industry and how he has changed the face of electronic music in general. Sasha is one of the originals, playing illegal warehouse raves and clawing his way into the public eye through whatever means there were – his trance/techno hybrids inspired a whole new generation of DJs. Acid house is what it is because of the guy, and even now he is still changing his sound and playing around with new aesthetics. Known as well for his partnership with fellow DJ Digweed, perhaps their most well known collaboration was the “Northern Exposure” sets – an exploration of the concept album through the gaze of electronic music.
Tamer Malki knows Boston as well as the rest of us. A BU graduate turned DJ, Malki gave up the textbooks to focus on studying the art of music. He has influences as far reaching as Pink Floyd; “Steel Breeze” uses the guitar riff from “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” – and it’s not just classic rock he manages to imbue into his music. With a basis in house techno, he utilizes groovy funk and jazz to keep his music unique and interesting. If anyone can play a bill alongside Sasha this guy can do it; Tiesto himself featured Tamer Malki’s cuts on his radio show Club Life during the 2010 Miami Winter Music Conference.
These guys playing together is going to be a night of hypnotic dance music. Thanks to Bijou’s sound system in particular I’m imagining the crowd sort of entranced by the epic nature of Sasha’s music. Spanning over fifteen years of musical evolution, the genres don’t even matter between these two DJs – they can flawlessly flit between house, techno, trance, their sets flow too evenly to get caught up in analyzing the stylistic changes.
A dream come true thanks to Bijou Boston. Sasha at Together.Working on a cool custom instrument? Cooking up nifty music discovery app? Share it at the TogetherBoston festival on Saturday, May 16th!
TogetherBoston (http://togetherboston.com/) will be hosting a mini-expo for Boston-area music tech projects, at Danger! Awesome in Central Square.
It's a great way to get feedback, find collaborators, and jam about ideas for music with folks.
TogetherBoston will provide power outlets and space for a laptop or poster. You provide the rest.
See you there!
What do Justin Martin, Ardalan, and Randy Deshaies have in common? They’re all what you would call “party animals” and they’re going to light up the Middle East downstairs Saturday 16th May!
Justin Martin Music Page (DirtyBird)
Ardalan (Dirtybird)