Congratulations to all Windish acts nominated in this year's Grammy awards:
Diplo + Switch (Record of the Year)
Hot Chip (Best Dance Recording)
Sam Sparro (Best Dance Recording)
No Age (Best Recording Package)
Justice (Best Remixed Recording)
Jorge Drexler (Best Latin Pop Album)
Cornelius (Best Surround Sound)
Best of luck to them all!
Congratulations to Chromeo, winner of the 2008 'Left Field' MTV Woodie! Read more about it at woodies.mtvu.com/nominees/left_field_woodie
With CMJ 2008 set to invade New York City in just under two weeks, we wanted to post the schedule for the 50+ shows that Windish Agency artists will be playing between October 21 and 25. Please check back often, as the schedule will be revised with changes and additions.
Check out the schedule here.
Congratulations to Caribou, winner of this year's Polaris Music Prize! Learn more at www.polarismusicprize.ca
Windish clients No Age, Chromeo, Simian Mobile Disco, and Lykke Li have all been nominated for MTVU Woodie Awards! Cast your ballots at woodies.mtvu.com/nominees/left_field_woodie. Unfortunately you'll have to choose between Chromeo and No Age in their category..unless you vote twice!
The Austin City Limits Music Festival will take over Zilker Park from September 26-28 with 130 bands spread out over 8 stages. Windish Agency artists Hot Chip, Jose Gonzalez, Yeasayer, and Jamie Lidell will be performing at the festival, so make sure to check them out!
Friday, September
1:30 PM :: Yeasayer :: Dell Stage
3:30 PM :: Jamie Lidell :: Dell Stage
5:30 PM :: Hot Chip :: AT&T Blue Room
Saturday, September 27
1:30 PM :: Jose Gonzalez :: Dell Stage
On September 20 and 21, the Treasure Island Music Festival will take place on Treasure Island in San Francisco. On Saturday at the Tunnel Stage, Amon Tobin will play at 5:50 PM and Mike Relm at 6:45 PM. Over on the Bridge Stage, Hot Chip will work up the crowd at 4:20 PM and then Justice will headline the day's show with a set at 9:15 PM.
The Windish agency is proud to announce the hiring of its newest agent, Steve Goodgold, formerly of Chaotica & Vital Talent out of New York City.
Steve has been an agent for many years and brings to The Windish Agency his roster of remarkable and acclaimed talent including, Adam Freeland, Black Ghosts, John Digweed, Laurent Garnier, Midnight Juggernauts, Paul Oakenfold, and Sasha.
After a great weekend for Windish Agency artists at Lollapalooza, the fun heads to New Jersey's Liberty State Park, where Animal Collective, Chromeo, CSS and Girl Talk will be performing.
On Friday, you can catch CSS on the Bullet Stage at 5:45 PM and Girl Talk at 7:15 PM.
Saturday will see the Blue Comet Stage come alive with Chromeo at 2:30 PM and Animal Collective at 5:00 PM.
The Windish Agency is gearing up for a big Lollapalooza weekend in Chicago. The festival runs from August 1 through 3 in Chicago's Grant Park. Make sure to check out the following Windish Agency artists:
Friday, August 1:
Holy Fuck :: 12:15 PM :: AT&T Stage
Yeasayer :: 2:15 PM :: AT&T Stage
Holy Fuck (DJ Set) :: 2:30 PM :: Perry's Lounge
VHS or Beta Dee Jays :: 6:00 PM :: Perry's Lounge
CSS :: 7:00 PM :: Citi Stage
Saturday, August 2:
Devlin and Darko :: 1:00 PM :: Perry's Lounge
Spank Rock :: 5:00 PM :: Citi Stage
Jamie Lidell :: 5:30 PM :: MySpace Stage
Battles :: 6:30 PM :: Citi Stage
Sunday, August 3:
Kid Sister :: 12:15 PM :: AT&T Stage
Chromeo :: 3:15 PM :: MySpace Stage
Black Kids :: 3:30 PM :: Citi Stage
Girl Talk :: 6:30 PM :: Citi Stage
Franki Chan :: 4:15 PM :: Perry's Lounge
Flosstradamus :: 6:15 PM :: Perry's Lounge
In addition to the Lollapalooza shows, there are various afterparties taking place throughout the city.
Thursday, July 31:
Hollywood Holt (8:30 PM) and Walter Meego (10:30 PM) :: Subterranean
Friday , August 1:
Drop The Lime (12:00 AM) :: Abbey Pub
Matt & Kim (12:45 AM) :: Subterranean
VHS or Beta Dee Jays (11:00 PM) :: Metro
Saturday, August 2:
Yeasayer (11:00 PM) :: Metro
Battles (12:15 AM) :: Double Door Liquors
Hollywood Holt (10:00 PM), Franki Chan (11:00 PM), HEARTSREVOLUTION (12:00 AM), Devlin and Darko (1:00 AM) :: Abbey Pub
VHS Or Beta Dee Jays :: Vision
CSS (10:00 PM) :: House of Blues
CSS DJ Set (12:30 AM) :: Debonair Social Club
Sunday, August 3:
Flosstradamus (11:00 PM) :: The Underground
The Pitchfork Music Festival will once again take over Chicago's Union Park for three days of music in fun on July 18, 19 and 20. Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, No Age, Dizzee Rascal, Caribou, Cut Copy, and King Khan & The Shrines will light up the festival's stages. The fun doesn't end there, though. After the festival grounds close each evening, you will be able to check out Hollywood Holt, A-Trak, and Trevor Loveys as they perform at afterparties across Chicago.
The Windish Agency is pleased to welcome a bevy of new artists to the roster. In recent weeks, we've added Yeasayer, Goose, Feadz, The Sea & Cake, The Rapture DJ Set, Sam Sparro, diskJokke, Hollywood Holt, Franki Chan, HEARTSREVOLUTION, The Toxic Avenger, and Micachu.
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will take place from June 12-13 in Manchester, Tennessee. This year, Windish Agency artists playing the festival will be Battles, Jos\xC3\xA9 Gonz\xC3\xA1lez, Ladytron, The Coup, and Chromeo."
A big congratulatons to all clients of The Windish Agency who made The 2008 Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival a huge success! With 27 artists performing this year, this was the agency's largest involvement with Coachella to date.
For more reviews and photos, check out Pitchfork's festival review here, Rolling Stone's review here and Spin's recap here.
We'd also like to thank the entire Goldenvoice, Coachella and AEG team for booking such an excellent event.
The Windish Agency is pleased to announce that it will have 27 artists appearing at the 2008 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Yes, that's right. 27 artists! Aphex Twin will be making an extremely rare appearance. Also on the lineup are Justice, Battles, Hot Chip, Animal Collective and Spank Rock, among others. There's just too many to name, so better to check out the complete list of The Windish Agency clients, the stages they will be performing on, and their set times here.
The Windish Agency invites you to join us Friday March 28th from 2pm-9pm at
the South Seas Hotel for our first ever WMC Pool Party. Admission is free
for all people, all day (subject to capacity). Switch, Gui Boratto, John
Acquaviva, Jesse Rose, DJ Mehdi, Drop The Lime, and other special guests
will perform. We hope to see you in Miami!
Congratulations to Windish Agency clients who won Plug Awards this year:
Animal Collective - Indie Rock Album of the Year
Justice - New Artist of the Year, Electronic/Dance Album of the Year
Hot Chip - DJ Album of the Year
Battles - Music Video of the Year
In addition to the Windish-Pitchfork party (taking place on Friday, March 14 at Emo's), the Windish Agency has a number of other shows we suggest that you check out. You can download a full schedule of our bands' SXSW by clicking here.
The 3rd annual Windish Agency / Pitchfork Media SXSW day party will take place on March 14 at Emo's indoor and outdoor rooms. The lineup features Windish acts No Age, A Place to Bury Strangers, Atlas Sound, Fuck Buttons, White Williams, and Lykke Li, along with other awesome acts like Yeasayer, Times New Viking, Bon Iver, Jay Reatard, and High Places. The show starts at noon - hope to see you there!
Check out Animal Collective, CSS, Girl Talk, Chromeo, and Black Kids at the debut of the All Points West Festival, this August right outside of New York City.