The Detroit Electronic Music Festival or Movement 2010 has announced its lineup scheduled to take place May 29-31, 2010. This is the 10th anniversary of Detroit’s yearly electronic music festival. The event is held in Hart Plaza in Detroit Michigan. Stand outs include Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman Live, Claude Von Stroke, Mr. Scruff, Radio Slave, A-Trak, Josh Wink and Kid Sister (Live).

For more information on the event visit www.demf.com/

2010 Lineup
A-Trak / Acid Didj / Agoria / Anthony “Shake” Shakir / Cassy / Chris Liebing / Claude VonStroke / Dan Bain / Derrick Carter / DJ Dick / DJ Godfather / DJ Hype / DJ Koze / DJ Pierre / DJ Sneak / Francesco Tristano – Live / Hudson Mohawke / Ida Engberg / Inner City / ItaloBoyz / Jamie Jones / Jennifer Xerri / Joel Mull / John Acquaviva / John Johr /Josh Wink / K-HAND / Kenny Larkin – Live / Kid Sister – Live / Kraak & Smaak / Kyle Hall / Larry Heard / Luke Hess – Live / Magda / Mark Ernestus (Rhythm & Sound) / Martin Buttrich – Live / Martinez Bros / Martyn / Matthew Hawtin / Michael Mayer / Minx / Model 500 / Mr. Scruff / Onur Ozer / Paco Osuna / Phat Kat & Guilty Simpson w/ Will Sessions – Live / Pretty Lights – Live / Punisher / Radio Slave / Recloose / Rex Sepulveda / Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman Live / Rick Wilhite / Rob Hood – Live / Rolando / Ryan Crosson / Scion – Live / Secrets – Live / Simian Mobile Disco / Stacey Pullen / Starski&Clutch / Theo Parish / Woody Mcbride and more TBA.

Check out the slept on Blu video from his critically acclaimed Her Favorite Color Mixtape. It’s was uploaded back in August but is now only seeing the light of day.

In this month’s visual stimulation, we are more than happy to feature world renowned artist, Dalek. He personally sent us these pieces to be featured in this month’s installment of Visual Stimulation.

James Marshall, aka Dalek, is one of the most celebrated artist today. As the son of a military family, Dalek lived all around the world including a brief stint in Japan. He turned to skateboarding, graffiti, and punk music for inclusion. While attending the art institute in Chicago, Dalek created a character that would soon become his first signature piece. Dalek’s “Space Monkey” was seen everywhere.

From 2001 to 2002, Dalek served as assistant to the influential Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. The six-month assistantship proved to be a major turning point in Dalek’s career: “I didn’t have a real set direction for how I wanted to paint. I had seen a show of [Murakami’s] that August at the Boston Museum, and when I saw those painting close up, I realized that was the end product I wanted to see my ideas come out in. I realized I needed that sort of apprenticeship.”

In 2007, Dalek produced a show and the world saw a drastic departure from the “Space Monkey” character. Gone was the iconic character he had been known for, and new was the grand hand painted pieces featuring an abundance of color and shapes. The concept behind the new series was the meditation of the push and pull of life forces.

Visit Dalekart.com for more information on James Marshall, aka Dalek.

Check out an interview from Walrus TV below.

Andy Cato of Groove Armada sat down with our friends at URB.com to chat about “Black Light”, SaintSavior, and the new Groove Armada Live show.

Check the interview….

You might have noticed the name Groove Armada around a bit lately. It could be due to their “Paper Romance“ single that has been on heavy rotation globally or maybe the massive new album released today. Either way, we thought we needed to corner these lads and get the goods for you. Thankfully, Andy Cato recently took time out of his busy schedule touring the sunny climes of Australia with the Big Day Out Festival to chat with us about where Groove Armada has been, where they’re headed in full force, as well as coffee, cigarettes, and lazers. Let the games begin.

URB: Thanks for chatting with URB while on tour down in Australia, Andy. You are over halfway through the tour, how have they been treating you down under?
ANDY CATO: It’s always special for us over here. We’re playing to 30,000 people a day. The new songs, the show and Saint Saviour on the vocals is feeling pretty electric.

URB: Do you guys have a city in Oz that really does it for you? The Big Day Out Tour does afford you the luxury of hitting all the best spots in Australia.
AC: The Gold Coast crew are the ravers, Sydney does things on a large scale and works the after parties well, and Melbourne’s got a San Fran vibe.

Click here to continue reading at URB.com

Yankee Zulu is about to drop a new single on Anabatic featuring remixes from Edu K, and more. Here is the promo music video for the upcoming single which drops March 16th.

Film director Spike Jonze sat down with the owners of one of the most unique retail boutiques, Opening Ceremony. Spike gets the background on how the store started and their unique vision. This is not the first time the director has sat down with the brains behind Opening Ceremony. Spike and Opening Ceremony collaborated on a limited line for the release of “Where the Wild Things Are”.

Updated: Check out Part 2 here.

An amazing music video to an amazing song. All except for the Bruce Willis guest appearance.

Stussy Deluxe enlisted famed photographer Mark Borthwick for their Spring 2010 Lookbook. The Brroklyn based, experimental filmmaker, photographer and musician is best known for his award winning photography. Check out the Stussy Deluxe Lookbook here.

Grame Clark (aka The Revenge) is one of the most talked about artist of the moment. Graeme began producing in his early teenage years, making a skewed blend of electronic music using a couple of his dad’s old drum machines and a sampler. Influenced by his parents collection of rock, soul and funk aswell as eighties daytime radio and the burgeoning rave scene, he began the process of dissecting and re-imagining the music.

Productions for his own labels Instruments Of Rapture, Five20East and his DJ edits for L.E.S.S. Productions have had across-the-board support from scene heavyweights including Danny Krivit, Jimpster, Radio Slave, Prins Thomas, Fabrice Lig, Todd Terje, The Unabombers, and more.

Graeme has also provided his engineering experience to several projects over the past few years and has recently mastered Harri & Domenic’s 20 Years Underground / Sub Club mix for Soma aswell as new material for Mark E, Jisco, Under The Shade and Fine Art Recordings. His other collaborative projects currently include Deportivo Street Team, OOFT!, Cronk Family Enterprises, 6th Borough Project and The Hong Kong Micros.

Catch The Revenge at Om Miami 2010.

Listen: The Revenge Delusions of Grandeur Podcast

Aaaah MUSIC… that sweet, sweet fuck-all else of a ride. What else is there? To paraphrase the once great, now sadly laughable singer from one of the greatest bands in recent history, THE VERVE’s Richard Ashcroft, “… the feeling you get from live music can’t be bought from any drug dealer in the world”.

Indeed… gotta love those “Holy Shit!” moments of awesome. The ones that give you “THAT GRIN”, like yer seeing something special. I was just in one of those same moments this weekend for the Noise Pop festival in SF. I was lucky enough to get into the sold-out MEMORY TAPES show at the Bottom of the Hill, but my joy wasn’t just for the chance to see the headliner, i was super-charged to see a local band called BIRDS AND BATTERIES.

Their sound is fresh, as it should be. In today’s age, where “everything” has been done (not really-have faith in creative evolution, monkies!), it seems like the most exciting shit comes out of the deepest grab bag of influences. Take a band like OASIS… they’ve written some great songs, but when you admittedly sound like the BEATLES and the STONES, i can pretty much see where yer going. A band like ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, on the other hand, who pull from so many areas, are at the forefront of what’s possible in bringing nuance to what we know is already out there. Just being different doesn’t mean it’s gonna be cool (BJORK’s Medulla anyone?), but it sets the possibility of something that pushes the boundaries to be a new form of great…. SF’s own BIRDS AND BATTERIES do that for me and many others. They brought Noise Pop attendees a fresh style of music that brought to mind the production values of the DFA label’s dirty rock disco, and the psychedelic song-writing side of SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, all delivered in a TALKING HEADS-ish package ripe and ready for the indie-rock dance floor. And they did it with “THAT GRIN”, which made the rounds throughout Bottom of the Hill after their set. So it’s with “THAT GRIN” that i offer my first blog for my dear friends at OM… that grin, and a message to music rookies and vets… fuck apathetic complacency. Dig deep and find something that moves you. It’s out there… somewhere.

As always,

Loving you…. sooooo loving you…..

COLE (just can’t get enough)

Visit www.myspace.com/birds&batteries.

Listen & Download: Birds & Batteries “Out In The Woods” (Right Click To Download)