Cool Hunting

The International Chiptune Resistance Tour
In Japan currently, the International Chiptune Resistance Tour touches down stateside next week, bringing "lo-bit tactical specialists" Bit Shifter and Nullsleep to North America. The Nintendo-based music makers are rising fast and each stop on their tour features different visual and audio artists who are also worth checking out. San Franciscans get to experience a line-up that includes x|k using his Midines (hardware that...

Electro Screw
Lost on the way back from the bathroom you trip into a private pinball machine party, naked but smeared in glitter. This is Diskocabine, a collection of exclusive tracks from Paris, London and Berlin. Found pogoing frantically over your strapped body are Stereo Total, legendary French mad woman Brigitte Fontaine, Boy from Brazil, Stereolab, iconic Japanese mad woman Hanayo, Cobra Killer, Robots in Disguise,...

Cut Copy -- Let's Try it Again
Here’s a case of maybe needing to listen to a CD more than a few times before making a solid judgment call. Or maybe actually believing other music lovers and giving a CD another shot when you’ve written it off yourself. Such is the case with Cut Copy’s Bright Like Neon Love. While listening to iTunes on shuffle the other day, I found myself...

A New World Vision: Aram Danesh and the Super Human Crew
Aram Danesh and the Super Human Crew, sounds like a ridiculous amalgam of a Middle Eastern hip-hop collective, right? Wrong. More like a throwback to old school rap, the Crew represents all that is great about the Bay Area's music scene. Danesh, who lives in beautiful Tiburon, across the Bay from San Francisco, brings together disparate sounds, including pepper-infused salsa set to funky urban...