This is the end of a looong week, let's celebrate! We invite you for a concert in Berlin. This is one of our fave concert videos ever and if you are a real AudioPorn Freak it will fill you up with a lotta positive NRG.
Many many THX to Steaner for this rocking vid!

Berlin's legendary club Weekend
is located in a skyscraper off Alexanderplatz and opens its terrace
during the summer. Regulars to the club specially love the early hours
when dancing outside to enjoy the sun rising above Berlins roofs. It
offers a fantastic view over the city combined with the latest popluar
electronic tunes.

The Weekend planned regular open air live
concerts on the large terrace on the 15th floor and wanted to kick off
this series with up and coming electro trio Bodi Bill,
one of Berlin's darlings. Right after that first performance, Berlin's
city officials decided to prohibit all future concerts so we guess it's
safe to say that this is a one-time thing and will remain unique. Word
on the streets is that this is the concert of the year to a lot of
Berliners that attended it live.
Check it out for yourself, put it on fullscreen and turn it LOUD!

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Weekend by The Sea and Cake, the first single from their forthcoming album Car Alarm…. do stuff like they do in the video!! Eat candy, bike with the bros in the woods, read APC, and stuff ;)

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As you know we are having a poll about making APC better . We are asking you to tell us what kind of things you wanna see more here. After you voted you will see the  current result and right now in your third most wanted theme is ‘more classics and forgotten gems’ . So here is a great tune from 2000 by Arling & Cameron. It’s W.E.E.K.E.N.D. Indeed its weekend!! Have fun, do the poll and enjoy your weekend!

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The weekend officially just started! Lets have fun and stuff!!

If you dunno what the heck is this or how to submit your pick check here.
In nutshell: this post will stay on top till Monday morning and we want you to send in stuff via comments, its easy as hell and we will be seriously disappointed if there won’t be any feedback.

the stuffs 4 this weekend are:
- political mashup by DJ Not-I
- the cheesiest eurodiscotrashmash by A plus D
- Papal Skateboard Art Design Contest
- can Madonna save the world in 4 minutes?
No, but we found a brilliant picture…

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As you know already we don’t post at the weekends anymore, but many visitors arrive on weekends too and for some ppl this is the only time to get away from the daytime job and focus on hobbies in our case music. So we have a new feature, the weekend & stuff. This post will stay on top till Monday morning and we want you to send in stuff via comments. Its easy as hell and we will be seriously dissappointed if there won’t be any feedback.

Here is how the weekend & stuff works:
1. Leave a comment bellow
- you can send in your fave song ATM (the url of the song on YouTube or other videosharing sites or IMEEM playlist etc)
- the url of an interesting music related article
- the url of your latest song, mashup, remix
- any kool and interesting music related internet finds, something what you like or what you recommend for the others
2. make sure to leave you name and website url
because we will credit you for sending in stuff
3. subscribe the comment feed of this post
to follow the conversation and get notified about new stuffs
4. comment and enjoy what others send in
5. send this to your friends, invite them, recommend this post to them so they might join us too, you know more ppl, more fun, bigger party :D

anytime a comment will be posted, we will get an instant notification, we will check every stuff you send in and we’ll pick and paste the best ones together into this post, so hopefully we will have a lotta great and new stuffs

The weekend officially just started! Lets have fun and stuff!!

the stuffs 4 this weekend are:
- the new single of the Ladytron
- article about why disco doesn’t sucks
- mashup about Life, Summer, Happiness and Ketchup by Xam
- the new album of Firefox AK
- mashup about a knight in shining paris by DJ Fac
- article about $5/month music tax on U.S. residents
- Annie and Richard X strikes again

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we are recommending you some nice, but longer reads about music, again
it’s a weekend, you have more time, so just go
read and think
and let us know what you think about the recommended subjects
this week you can read and think about these:

OMD [Guardian]
How to lose 3 million fans in one easy step
With just one album, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark more or less destroyed their career. And they weren’t the only ones: the early 1980s were littered with commercial suicides. Bob Stanley finds out how it all went wrong 

Are wacky bands a rock’n'roll sin? [Guardian]
I don’t know about you, but I’m quite partial to a bit of black humour, bad taste, or elegantly crafted pun
Fresh from conquering the DVD market, Flight Of The Conchords – the comedy partnership of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, "formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" – have announced they’re due to release their self-titled debut album on Warner Bros/Sub Pop. In doing so, they enter somewhat more troublesome waters.

Celebrity junkies
UN attacks celebrity drug use
It looks like one of the most popular subject nowadays and if you think about the everyday appearances of Amy, Peter Doherty or even Britney you just can’t say that this issue is not everywhere. Let’s have see few articles
[BBC] [CNN] [Guardian] [Yahoo]

weird lists about this issue
Top 10 Celebrity Drug Users (living)
Top 20 Celebrity Drug Confessions

They think it’s all over for the NME [TimesOnline]
With the demise of any real rock underground, plus fierce competition from online rivals, the magazine must adapt or die
Last week’s biggest-ever New Musical Express awards show at London’s O2 Arena should have been a triumph for Britain’s longest-serving rock weekly. It was, says the Editor, Conor McNicholas, “one of the greatest nights on my life” watching Klaxons, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs and Manic Street Preachers play to 15,000 indie/rock fans.

But there were glum faces and dark mutterings among the assembled media insiders. One key reason for this gloom was the magazine’s circulation figures for the second half of 2007. Averaging around 64,000 per issue, they are the lowest ever, and a steep decline on previous years.

+ bonus video of the shortest reunion of the music history

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this is the third volume of the APC’s new weekly series
recommending you some nice, but longer reads about music
it’s a weekend, you have more time, so just go
read and think
and let us know what you think about the recommended subjects
this week you can read and think about these:

Girl Power [FemaleFirst]
The rise of British Girl Power
Despite Britain arguably producing some of the world’s best bands, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Oasis, outstanding female artists have never really been the nation’s forte. Until now.

There’s a new wave of female talent coming through and these girls are really something to shout about.

Mike Oldfield’s back in control [TimesOnline]
Mike Oldfield regains control of Tubular Bells
At 19, Mike Oldfield achieved huge success with Tubular Bells – and has lived with the consequences for 35 years

Doo-wop [TimesOnline]
Authors celebrate golden age of doo-wop
The doo-woppers of 1950s America may be gone but their sound is not forgotten

A&R conference [Wired]
How Will Recording Artists Be Discovered in the Digital Age?
Maria Egan-Cohen, A&R, Columbia Records:

- If a MySpace band has more friends than comments, chances are their page is being gamed.  If an artist is gaming their page, though, it indicates that they have ambition. -

+ a Hot Chip interview by the MTV after the jump

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this is the second volume of our new weekly series
recommending you some nice, but longer reads about music
it’s a weekend, you have more time, so just go
read and think
and let us know what you think about the recommended subjects
this week you can read and think about these:

RIAA [Wired]
RIAA Training Video Leaked onto Torrent Sites
The RIAA apparently produced a new video, already available on a variety of torrent tracker sites, in conjunction with the National District Attorneys Association with the goal of instructing U.S. prosecutors on how to deal with music piracy cases.  According to early reports, the video, called In Trial, also provides instructions on how to get an RIAA investigator qualified as a court expert.

Indiepop [TimesOnline]
Pop bands shun major labels to go indie
As the music industry implodes, we introduce the rising young pop bands taking a leaf out of the indie rulebook

Men VS Women [Guardian]
Women and men do not listen to music differently
They might react emotionally to different things – but the theory put forward by Lesley Douglas, co-ordinator of the BBC’s popular music coverage, is patronising bunkum

Old Nick [Guardian]
Nick Cave interview
He has been spitting hellfire and damnation for years, but now that he has turned 50, is Nick Cave finally mellowing? Of course not, he tells Simon Hattenstone 

this is a new weekly series here at the APC
from now on we will recommend you some nice, but longer reads about music
it’s a weekend, you have more time, so just go
read and think
and let us know what you think about the recommended subjects
this week you can read and think about these:

sampling [Guardian]
When did sampling became so non-threatening?
Starting out as the working-class black answer to punk, sampling is now the stomping ground of white internet nerds

paparazzi photos as art form [Reuters]
LA gallery portrays paparazzi photos as art form
Paparazzi are getting a lot of bad press these days, so it takes some chutzpah to launch a photography exhibit called "Paparazzi as an Art Form" in the heart of celebrityville.

Cocaine-And-Vodka Fueled ’90s Music Industry [TimesOnline]
‘Til death did we party: the music business in the heady Nineties
Flying around the world on a diet of vodka and cocaine while being wildly overpaid does not make for well-adjusted people

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