In light of DJ AM’s death last Friday, those who worked with him are paying tribute. The DJ, born Adam Goldstein in Philadelphia, regularly performed in Los Angeles, New York and held a weekly residency at the Palms hotel in Las Vegas. The Village Voice has compiled DJs like Diplo, A-Trak and ?uestlove of the Roots speaking about their connection to DJ AM, while DJ Khaled and DJ Whoo Kid shared their thoughts with MTV.

An unconfirmed report from TMZ today states law enforcement officials have ruled Goldstein’s death an accidental overdose, but other outlets say suicide has not yet been ruled out. Though an initial autopsy was inconclusive, drugs are suspected to be the cause of death. Goldstein struggled with addiction, and some have suggested that medication he began taking after surviving a plane crash last year fueled a relapse.

MTV recently wrapped a reality series, Gone Too Far, with Goldstein helping others struggling with drug addiction. The show was to premiere October 5th. No decision has been made yet on whether it will air.

Saturday afternoon thousands of Michael Jackson fans are expected to gather at Prospect Park as Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz declares August 29 Michael Jackson Day. Organized by film director Spike Lee, the event will feature a prayer from the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jackson hits courtesy of New York City hip-hop staple DJ Spinna.

As the date would have been Jackson’s 51st birthday, the event is intended to be a celebration rather than a memorial. Similar events are scheduled at nightclubs across the country.

The event takes place at the Nethermead meadow near the center of Prospect Park from noon to 5 p.m and is free.

Check out “Shout It Out,” the new song from Los Angeles-based Princeton, and the top music pick of the day from influential radio station KCRW. The band has a new album out next month, Cocoon of Love, via Kanine Records, and they’re releasing the song in 7″ vinyl form b/w “Moonbeams,” a song you won’t find on the album.

As previously reported, Princeton kick off a cross-country tour this weekend, with an expanded itinerary. Along the way they’ll be playing with Ra Ra Riot, Phil and the Osophers, Maps and Atlases and Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos.

Download track: Princeton – “Shout It Out”

And if you’re curious as to what they’ll be blasting in the tour van, we leave you with this gem.

Electronic music takes center stage at Decibel Festival, the four-day festival now in its sixth year. The lineup includes over 50 performers, including Caspa, Mad Professor, Daedelus, Benga, Nosaj Thing, Johnny Fiasco, Gaslamp Killer, BBC Radio 1′s Mary Anne Hobbs as well as Seattle locals like dubtek and Sun Tzu Sound.

Taking place September 24-27 at multiple venues across Seattle, Decibel Festival also features visual art, workshops and panel discussions. There are also several label showcases (including Ghostly International’s tenth anniversary jam), plus it wouldn’t be an electronic music event without plenty of afterhours options.

And if you see any musicians rolling around in a fancy Mercedes-Benz, it’s because electronic artists got hip to the corporate game long ago.

The manipulation of wooden, plastic, catgut, animal skins; the wild distortion of one’s voice; the practice of donning strange textiles when performing the aforementioned tasks–all are used as a form of “self-expression” by young people today. Our job is to figure out what all of the hijinks signify.

Join UI as we Flashion Forward to a magical aesthetic land through which we coquettishly zip about the closets of our fave new interviewees and explore their closets to examine the physical and psychological baggage they pack their shizzle in–and ask ourselves important, meta questions about, ya know, clothes ‘n shit.

Today, we’re poking our noses into Japandroids’ multi-colored coats to see what chicanery their folds conceal.

Japandroids–though their name sounds like they’re going to sound like yet another ironic post-pop electronica cooler-than-thou snarkfest–actually manage to trod well-worn musical paths and make them their own. Singing songs about busting into mom and dad’s stash of booze, driving too fast and hanging out with your friends may sound inauspicious at best, but Japandroids manage to churn out “terminally catchy music played with punk’s enthusiasm and velocity…[it] makes you feel like joining in to bash along. It’s as fun as an ill-gotten sixpack and there really aren’t too many bands doing stuff like this well anymore.”

Their new album, Post-Nothing, is the perfect antidote to the empty cacophony the vast majority of primping popsters have been producing (with mixed results) for about a generation now.

And unlike so many of the Lower East Side shine-and-sparkle-focused musical vanguard, Japandroids, small town boys at heart, seem to draw inspiration from the simpler things in life. (And yes–those are cutoff jean shorts they’re wearing. No one can accuse them of posing as pretty boys, a change of pace I think we should all get down on our knees and thank Beezlebub for).

Below, check out Japandroids’ sentimental look back at the zany summers spent working thankless, sweaty corn-bred jobs at mills, cherry-picking farms…and places containing respirators. They sound like my Grandma and Grandpa waxing nostalgic about the good ol’ bad days on their hardscrabble farm in Indiana. And they’re almost as cute.

Welcome back to Almost Famous, where we select one lucky Uncensored Interviewee who we deem to be on the verge of taking over the cultural zeitgeist in the coming months. This time around we’re mixing it up a tad by spotlighting a pair of musicians more well-known for their comedic chops: The Mighty Boosh.

Comedians Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt created the British series nearly a decade ago as a stage show and radio series. Their writing so taut and characters so wonky–crazed zookeepers, gay policemen, talking animals–the duo’s series was picked up by the BBC, first as a pilot. By the third series it would draw one million viewers.

North American audiences can catch The Mighty Boosh on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, and there’s talk of a full-length feature film. Fielding and Barratt both have some talent in the music department and thusly there’s an album in the works featuring music heard on the show, though they’re still shopping around for the right production team. (Safe to say it probably won’t be released via the fictional PieFace Records).

Should you still be under the impression British humor is dry and a bit too self-referential for outside audiences, hordes of screaming fans at this year’s Comic Con in San Diego would like to prove you wrong. The appearance marked the cast’s first Stateside trip, where they noted the difference between British and American fans (not much), how they initially came together (nasty pun intended) and how to find true love by wearing a cape (if those trendy mustaches don’t beat you to it).

But it turns out The Boosh wasn’t always beloved by audiences. Fielding was once bottled (as in, had one thrown at him), while Barratt encountered an internationally recognized symbol which needs no translation at all.

The last few sweat-drenched weeks of August that leave one simultaneously cursing and reaching for the thesaurus to find alternatives to the word “hot” can only be described one way–the dog days of summer. Baking. Blazing. Humid. Sweltering. If you’re lucky, sultry. But you know what? Be glad you don’t have a fur coat.

In honor of the dog days of summer, we tip our hats to our furry friends in this sticky installment of Six Degrees. This is our feature inspired by none other than Mr. Kevin Bacon. You know the game–it’s a small world and we’re all somehow related. This theory applies to the music scene as well, no matter what you listen to, where you hang or who you know. We’re just showing you the connections.

6. OK, we have to include at least one band based on animal-related-name alone. That’s where The Antlers come in. Here they describe the fierce competition in New York City. One might even say it’s (warning: bad pun) dog eat dog.

5. The Antlers are labelmates with The Dodos on Frenchkiss Records, who describe how they came up with the band name, anyway. Turns out it involves learning to spread your wings and love a little bit more.

4. The Dodos reside in San Francisco, also home to one Funky Homosapien by the name of Del. If he could have written any song in history, it probably would have been this one.