Decibel Festival has spent the last 11 years building a movement. This is no run of the mill, mindless EDM party. Instead, Decibel is a unique multi venue music, arts, and lecture series that brings some of the best, brightest, and most interesting to the Emerald City. And night one at Showbox at t…
Nicolas Jaar embraces house music and releases one of his best works yet under the A.A.L. (Against All Logic) moniker
Tons of great new albums are hitting the racks today, and you can stream most of them online, too: Pixies, Solange, Danny Brown, Nicolas Jaar, just to name a few. And, Bon Iver offers his latest, 22, A Million, for online stream, and includes this bonus video for the track "715 - CR∑∑KS." Watch be…
It had to be one of the stranger pairings we heard about this year: acclaimed electronic producer Nicolas Jaar and the relatively unknown Dave Harrington. That the two might be friends from their Brown University connection (both studied there) mades sense, but what would a composer of heady ambien…
Nicolas Jaar is one of those young musicians who you can already imagine in 10, 15, 20 years as being an staple who is looked up to by musicians who are young when he is older. Not only did his most recent album, Space is Only Noise, reflect a seeping depth of influences, but it was incredibly matu…
This morning, Decibel Festival founder, president and curator Sean Horton stopped by KEXP to preview the full lineup to the 10th Annual Decibel Festival taking over Seattle on September 25th through 29th. Today's announcement is the third wave, adding 46 additional artists and 25 new showcase annou…
It's an unlikely cover, but they make it work: downtempo duo Darkside (electronic producer Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington) take on the 1972 Nick Drake track “Things Behind The Sun,” from his classic Pink Moon album. The cover was recorded for Modular’s Modcast podcast: stream their hou…
I don't know if there is a physical, mental, or spiritual way to come away from a Darkside show unaffected. Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington brought their two-man gateway to musical nirvana to Neumos Wednesday night for a sold out show and wowed the room from the first second to the last. The build…
Dave Harrington (of electronic duo Darkside with Nicolas Jaar) got his hands on a track by The Antlers. Stream his remix of the single "Director," which appears on the Brooklyn band's most recent release, Familiars, out now on Anti-. The Antlers also just released their live album, The Antlers in …
DARKSIDE, a brilliant pairing of electronic producer Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington, is getting a ton of buzz on the internet lately and in fact yesterday earned a "Best New Music" rating of 9.0 on Pitchfork. Our Music Director, Don Yates, describes their debut album, Psychic, as "a moo…
