Condolences to everyone in New York who didn't go hear Carl Craig on Thursday night. Brilliant as ever, Carl [in an "Acquaviva-style maneuver"] played a special version of the Talking Heads' Once In a Lifetime for the NYC crowd. Nice.

A short break from the Techno for news from my favorite indie-rock band: LA's UNIVAC has finally landed prestigious gigs at Spaceland [Silver Lake] Tuesday August 20 and The Knitting Factory [Hollywood] Tuesday September 10. They will also appear on FM KXLU 88.9 on Monday 9/9 [time TBD] and are set to release their 2nd EP on Thursday October 10 at 56 [I don't know where 56 is... some help from the LA Lab please.] UNIVAC percussionist Dave Lentz's former band American Mars continues to get praise from the music press and appears at Detroit's Magic Stick on Friday September 6, and the Magic Bag [not to be confused with the Magic Stick, but also on Woodward Avenue, only eight miles north or so... that's a whole lot of magic for a band that writes moody songs about a gloomy city] Friday September 13.