“This debut album is a self-contained, self-assured, 10-song set that runs vintage styles through a restless compositional imagination to create something joyfully, startlingly unique.”– Pitchfork album review, 9.1 rating

Mute has licensed DFA recording artist Hercules & Love Affair for release in the USA. The debut album “Hercules & Love Affair” will be released in America on June 24, 2008. The album release is preceded by the first single “Blind” – already a dancefloor favorite – May 27, 2008.
Hercules & Love Affair is 2008’s most exciting dancefloor concoction, an arthouse vision of pure pop by way of futuristic electronica and classic dance music, where beautiful, bruising harmonies and tensile rhythms collide in resurgent soundscapes and emotive disco workouts.

Called “A gloriously burnished fusion of 3 decades of classic dance music” by the UK’s Mojo, the album was a top-40 UK chart debut. The NME calls the album “The most-blessed thing you’ll be freaking out to on the dancefloor,” and Vogue UK says “If Ziggy Stardust made house music it would sound like this.”
Hercules & Love Affair is Andrew Butler with Antony, Nomi, and Kim Ann. Butler emerged from making music for college-based dance projects into a fully-fledged recording artist, via the New York art scene. He hooked up with his friends from there, including Nomi, Kim Ann and Antony and Hercules & Love Affair is the result.
The album is co-produced by Andrew Butler with Tim Goldsworthy of DFA at Plantain Studios in the midst of Manhattan, New York City.

More here:

http://www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair

http://www.herculesandloveaffair.com

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and this man is NOT one of them.  The dude who thought it would be a good idea to rent his $9 million home to the cast and crew of Rock of Love is now suing mad-claiming that the production trashed his dream home.

The suit alleges that although contractually the house has to be brought back to it’s original state post filming, they left holes in the walls, various colors of paint everywhere, and thousands of dollars worth of dead landscaping.

What did he think they were going to do be doing during filming? Tea parties and spooning while whispering sweet nothings into eachother’s ears?  It’s Rock of Love buddy! Maybe you should have watched Season 1 before agreeing to loan your home to a bunch of unstable lunatics.

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John Varvatos, a fashion designer in New York, has opened his latest boutique in the same space that once was the famous underground music club CBGB.

Artists such as The Ramones, Patti Smith, and Blondie all performed there.

CBGB first opened in 1973 and lasted all the way through October of 2006, when they were forced to close after a rent dispute.

Varvatos has decided to preserve much of CBGB’s original look, such as CBGB posters and walls covered in graffiti along with crystal chandeliers, velvet curtains, and a black ceiling to help recreate the look.

There are even plans to have an in-house DJ and concerts.

Varvatos tries to defend his decisions, by stating that “We’re not trying to reinvent CBGB’s. We’re just trying to respect the past and let people have an opportunity to enjoy what was there. It sounds kind of hokey, but the walls kind of talk in that place.

The store has already been open for a few days, but it’s scheduled grand opening will be on Thursday, April 17th.

You hear that???

That’s the sound of dead rockers rolling in their graves!!!!

[Image via WENN.]

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