Luxa to Play with The Sight Below and Svarte Greiner

New Luxa show announced with The Sight Below and Svarte Greiner. Mark your calendars, May 19th. The Sight Below's latest album Glider just got reviewed on Pitchfork--read it here.

Also, thank you is due to Tristan in Singapore for letting us use his image. Check out his Flickr stream for more great shots.

Stills from Luxa Visuals

Been spending a lot of time lately making video visuals for the upcoming Luxa show on the 25th at the Bell House with Mark Van Hoen and Ulrich Schnauss. Both these guys not only produce incredibly moving music, but with their live shows, they produce equally incredible visuals. Here is a peek at some stills from our first stab at editing moving images to music so hopefully we won't so starkly pale in comparison...

Here is a link to a Luxa song, Red Rover, to check out, and here is a video of "On Your Love" that's in the vein of where our show visuals are going.

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Luxa Opening for Mark Van Hoen and Ulrich Schnauss

My band, Luxa, is opening for Mark Van Hoen and Ulrich Schnauss at the Bell House on February 25th. While I am of course excited to play the show, I completely cannot wait to get to see Mark Van Hoen and Ulrich Schnauss on the same bill. It is such a complete honor to be on the bill with these two greats.

Here's a favorite MVH song:



Here's a favorite Ulrich Schnauss song:



Here's the press release for the show too, with all the juicy details:

"Ulrich Schnauss is best known for his hand in the resurgence of 90’s shoegaze, influenced particularly by My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and Slowdive. With these influences, Schnauss has taken the shoegaze-defining wash of sound from a different approach, relying heavily on electronics rather than guitars to produce an analogous effect. On top of his three successful albums Far Away Trains Passing By, A Strangely Isolated Place, and EP Goodbye, Schnauss has remixed countless bands from Depeche Mode to Asobi Seksu to Mojave 3 to A Sunny Day in Glasgow. Schnauss has announced plans to release an album of selected remixes entitled Missing Deadlines, available on March 22th on Rocket Girl Records. In collaboration with Loveless Music Group, Schnauss has remixed, performed, and toured with New York shoegaze bands Soundpool, Elika, Dead Leaf Echo, Project Skyward, and Mahogany as well as Luxa.

While the name Mark Van Hoen may not immediately garner as much recognition as Schnauss, his reach and influence is arguably as authoritative. As an original member of Seefeel, the BBC noted, “In a brief listen one can hear the influence on Boards of Canada’s damaged melodies and dense claustrophobia, more so than even the usual suspects like Aphex Twin.” After tours with Massive Attack, Orbital, and opening for Slowdive, Van Hoen formed Scala with three members of Seefeel, releasing three albums. Van Hoen has also released four albums as Locust, including the electronic masterpieces Morning Light and Playing with Time, succeeding at infusing electronic music with moving emotional swells. Among his many production credits, Van Hoen has produced multiple titles for Mojave 3 and Sing Sing (Emma Anderson of Lush), as well as Seven Principles of Leave No Trace by Edison Woods.

Van Hoen will be releasing a new album, Where Is the Truth, in late February, his first in over five years. The Bell House performance will also be Van Hoen’s first in several years to feature backing musicians, including members of Edison Woods and Anthony and The Johnsons, accompanying his heavily visual and electronic performance."

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New Luxa Video: On Your Love

Started this project on a whim last night, and have to say I'm pretty happy with the results. Enjoy!

Luxa, Dead Leaf Echo, and Mark Van Hoen Playing MonkeyTown August 14th

Luxa is playing a show next Friday with Mark Van Hoen and Dead Leaf Echo at MonkeyTown in Williamsburg.

Mark Van Hoen. OMG. Mark Van Hoen. OMG. Check out this new write up in Jezebel.

OMG/MVH aside, I personally am really excited to play this show because we're going to be playing some new songs that I think are our best yet, and we're going to be reinstating our long-neglected visuals.

If you haven't gotten a chance to check out MonkeyTown yet, it is fantastic for visuals and for any kind of intimate performace. All the aucience seating is on low banquette style cushions while the performance goes on in the middle of the room. All four walls have visuals projected on them, making for a very enveloping/psychadelic experience (but in a good way!).


I've seen Dead Leaf Echo--who we carry in Deluxa, and with whom we are sharing this bill--play there once before, and have to report that it was quite a lovely and mesmerizing experience. Kudos to LG for the great vintage edgy (read: kinky) footage and beautiful ambient set. Here's hoping he'll have an experience for us this time just as entrancing...

PS. the poster image was taken from a vintage magazine in store--pretty fantastic pie, right?

Luxa Show Tonight

Luxa is playing a show tonight with Aarktica, Millimetrik, The Drug Models Love, and Mark Van Hoen DJing.  Come on out...

UPDATED 6/20 Official Make Music New York Line Up Announced!

UPDATED 6/20

DUE TO STUPID RAIN, MMNY IS MOVED TO THE BELL HOUSE.

11am Her Vanished Grace

1155am By Night With Spear

1245pm Telltale

130 Ghost in the water

215pm Elika

3pm soundpool

4pm Lawrence Chandler

12pm Meghan Halle (front lounge)

1pm Rebecca Pronsky (front Lounge)

2pm Sharon van Etten(front Lounge)

We are so excited!

Lawrence Chandler (of Bowery Electric)
Luxa
Sharon Van Etten
Soundpool
Elika
Rebecca Pronsky
Ghost in the Water
Telltale
By Night With Spear
Her Vanished Grace
Meghan Halle

and Djs:
Mark Van Hoen of Seefeel and Locust
LG of Dead Leaf Echo
The Invisible Kid
Rich Bennett
DJ Stephan C of Telltale

I'm going to try and do posts on everyone on the bill before the show, but you can check out where I've already blogged about the profoundly talented Sharon Van Etten here, and the excellent Self Storage Recordings artist By Night With Spear here as well as the not-to-be-missed Dead Leaf Echo. I've also featured a video of Locust, one of Mark Van Hoen's many projects, which is highly recommended.

So mark your calendars! Sunday, June 21st, the first day of summer! Free music! Block party! Amazing bands! Good eats in the neighborhood--Eton on the block just won TONY's "Best New Dumpling" award and they serve amazing Hawaiian shave ice.

It's going to be awesome.

Deluxa Music Mix

A quick playlist of some of our latest favorites music we've been playing in store:

Touched on Every Side.Locust.mp3
The Jungle Line.Joni Mitchell.mp3
Keep the Keys from Me.My Majestic Star.mp3
I Am The Sub-Librarian.Piano Magic.mp3
Porpoise Song.Monkees.mp3
Circumstance.Real Cool Rain.mp3
The Romance of the Telescope.OMD.mp3
The Heart That Hears Like A Bat.Hotels.mp3
I Am Waiting.Rolling Stones.mp3
Happy Time.Brendan Perry.mp3

We've got copies of Hotels latest album Where Hearts Go Broke that has the "Heart That Hears Like a Bat" track on it, and we've also got Ideas Are The Answer by My Majestic Star that has the "Keep the Keys from Me" track. Both are on Hidden Shoal Recordings.

Hotels

My Majestic Star

Mark Van Hoen of Locust (also of Seefeel) on the first track will also be DJing at our next two Luxa shows, the first on May 21st, the second for the Make Music New York festival on June 21st--much more exciting news and info to come on this event! mark your calendars now!



PS I updated the sidebar playlist too--now it features Deluxa's in store artists available in our music section.

Some of My Favorte Pics

From Luxa's mini tour over Easter Weekend:

The beautiful Kim of Screen Vinyl Image.

At the Octoraro.

Favorite dress of all time. And Smurf tights.

Handsome amps.

On stage at the Velvet Lounge. DC.

Luxa Going on Tour

The band is going on tour this week: Thursday, DC; Friday Philadelphia; Saturday Oxford, PA; and Sunday at Fontanas here in good ole NYC (Easter Sunday!). Deluxa of course will still be open though!



In other news, DiskUnion in Japan just placed a wholesale order for all the Self Storage Recordings titles, so if you're on that side of the world, check out our new releases there in the upcoming weeks...

Another Project

Luxa is my music project I work on with my love Andy Durutti and dear friend Andrew Conrad. We're playing a show tomorrow at Union Hall with Elika and Arbol. It's Andy D.'s birthday also, so should be a good time--come check it out!

We also are working on an upcoming EP and have more shows planned for April.