Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I've been away from my friends, my blog, and myspace...but for a good reason. I got a new job!! Coordinating events for a pretty cool publishing company, powerHouse Books. I miss my friends at Cornerstone and I miss having a laptop to dj with, haha. Ultimately, when I get myself situated at the new job I won't be staying at work til 10pm every night:/ Ya, I've been going into work at 9:30am and getting home around 10:25pm...
Anyway, come out and party with me this Saturday night at Nacotheque and help me remember what it's like to have fun!
xo Amylu
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

EL ESPÍRITU DE LA PROHIBIDA

This is such a funny promotion-like video for La Prohibida's album...
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NACOTHEQUE
Thursday, Sept 14th

Route 85A
85 Avenue A, Mahattan
10pm-4am
FREE
21+ w/ ID

LINKS:
Nacotheque.com
route85a.com

DIRECTIONS:
F - Take the F train to Second Avenue, use 1st Avenue/Houston exit. Walk North on 1st Avenue for four blocks. Take a right onto 4th Street. Walk East for one block. This should put you on Avenue A. Take a left on A, go two more blocks. We are on the West side of Avenue A, between 5th and 6th Street.
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Monday, September 11, 2006

MY ARTICLE IN THE TRIPEWIRE NEWS (LINK HERE)

Live - Los Super Elegantes @ Starbucks Salon | NYC

On Sunday, September 10th a unique punk-mariachi-hip-pop group from Los Angeles (via Tijuana and Buenos Aires), Los Super Elegantes, performed in NYC. They were the exclusive act for the evening at the Starbucks Salon (other performers include Jose Gonzalez & Lansing Dreiden). The Salon was set in Soho on Greene Street in a rented out store front with Starbucks colors painted in swirl designs all over the walls. A coffee kiosk sold cups of hot coffee in ceramic mugs while Starbucks baristas passed out shots of new coffee samples.

I had never seen Los Super Elegantes live and I was excited to see a full house from the beginning to end of their set. Milena Muzquiz was wearing a short, black, baby doll dress and a black crop sweater. Martiniano Lopez-Crozet dressed in all black with a Torero-like look (bullfighter) from the waist down with knee high socks and tight black pants.

Their live performance was amusing and expectedly, very kitch... perfect for a Sunday evening show with comfy benches and coffee. But don't think they didn't pop the roof off just because people were sitting down! The band bopped along gleefully with Kenny on bass, Dave on drums, Ben on guitar and Mike on trumpet. People bounced up and down in their seats and others were dancing in the isles while singing along to every song. They performed all my favorites, "Je Suis Bien," "Por Que Te Vas," "Dance" (ESG cover), and "Sixteen."

Favorites of David Byrne and featured in Index and The FADER, Los Super Elegantes have played with Beck and recently performed in Mexico with underground electropop/cumbia artist, Maria Daniela y su Sonido Lasser (performing in NYC Oct. 7th), are working on a new album to be released in 2007. Their album, Channelizing Paradise, is available to purchase at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, Sea Level Records in Echo Park and online through iTunes, Napster, and Aquarius Records.

Los Super Elegantes (official site)
MySpace
Starbucks Salon
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Friday, September 08, 2006

Online radio programs rule!
OMG! I found the best website that will help me educate my readers on the music I write about!!! It's called Radio.Blog.Club.com (check it out here). From now on I will be able to blog songs of the artists I write about;) woohoo!

Click my jukebox to listen to amyluinluv radio!
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Thursday, September 07, 2006

DOLLS IN DEUTSCHLAND - Sixties girl-pop in Germany

My darling friend, Sheila B. from Cha Cha Charming recently sent me an email with the latest scoop on girl-pop. She included an article about dozens of girls who made it big in '60s Germany and I thought it was only fitting to share it with you all.

xo Amylu
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Dolls In Deutschland

Sixties girl-pop in Germany

By Graham Welch
Chachacharming.com article link

In the early '60s, Germany was still trying to come to terms with its past. The division of the country into capitalist West and communist East cut deep into the national psyche, and musically, Germany was no less torn. The almighty European beat boom turned German teens off their country's pop fluff, thus setting the battleground for foreign versus domestic. But German record companies refused to hear the call for something more hip, and continued to force-feed schmaltzy, high camp fare to their artists. Girl singers, traditionally consigned to a diet of stolen kisses, salty tears, and song contests, found it particularly difficult to pass through the German music industry's Checkpoint Charlie. Very few were granted access to the catalogue of cool. For the majority, Schlager (hits)—the kind of low-grade pop lite that gave German music a bad name—was their domain, whether they liked it or not.

But Deutschmark-filled pockets eventually changed hard German minds. When a post-war economic miracle gave Germans greater spending power over their neighbors, international travel became de rigueur for the country's newly wealthy residents, and international influence on Germany's pop culture was inevitable. Themes of love and adventure in foreign climes dominated German lyrics, demonstrating the strength of Germans' musical wanderlust. For a country low on national pride, foreign was fab. Click here to read more


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Wednesday, September 06, 2006



NACOTHEQUE goes to Williamsburg!
Record release party for Kinky's new album "Reina"
Saturday, Sept 9th

The Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street (between Driggs & Roebling)
11pm-4am
FREE
21+ w/ ID

GUEST DJ: Papichulo (Fresa Salvaje)
RESIDENT DJS: Marcelo Cunning & Amylulita

LIVE PERFORMANCE BY: Psychedelic rockers Psiconautas from Puerto Rico!

FREE KINKY giveaways to celebrate their new album release, REINA!

LINKS:
Nacotheque
The Lucky Cat
KINKY
Psiconautas

DIRECTIONS:
L - Bedford Ave. Turn left on Bedford Ave. and walk south until you
hit Grand St. Turn left on Grand and it's one and a half blocks on
your left.

G - Lorimer / Metropolitan Turn left on Metropolitan Ave. and walk 4
blocks until Roebling. Turn left on Roebling and then right on Grand
St.
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Saturday, September 02, 2006

I'M HOSTING RATED X TONIGHT!! CONTACT ME FOR GUESTLIST @ amylunyc@gmail.com






Lets celebrate tonight!
xoxo

Rated X Link here
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Rated X @ Luke and Leroy's
21 7th Ave South and Leroy St.
DOORS @10PM
21 to Booze/ID A Must!
Mention Shaw Promotion for $5 reduced admission ALL NIGHT!
RSVP@ShawPromotion.com for your comp admission!

theo and michael t present:
RATED X - THE PANTY PARTY
Complimentary drinks provided by X Rated Vodka FROM 10-11
2 4 1 Mixed Drinks & Domestic beer
all nite...only for pant checkers!
2 4 1 mixed drinks & domestic beer
plus, $3 kamikazie shots for everyone btwn 3-4!

MC Peppermint Gummybear and the infamous
HOT BODY CONTEST
2am $100 Grand Prize

Guest DJ's are On the mainfloor:
dj alex malfunction
(trash) ground floor:DJ'S Cobra and Kim Ann!
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