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So the first good news of the week, or perhaps month, is that LA Riots is doing 4 free shows with Felix Cartal and the Bloody Beetroots courtesy of Scion in the end of April. Ever since they let us lounge in the plush seats of their luxury-sized tour bus this spring (seeINTERVIEW and details here), we've been eying them for new releases. So good news numero dos is they've just released new gnarly tracks. Better yet? The boys also invited their friends, like Bloody Beetroots, White Noise and Le Castle Vania, to remix tracks as well. I guess that's what DJs who like DJs do for their DJs friends. (Let's be honest, if I were BFFs with Bloody Beetroots, I'd hand them my whole damn I-Pod and say "Go ahead, fuck with whatever you want...as long as I can keep it. and maybe sell it. Later bud. ') Regardless, in case you weren't salivating yet, here's a free taste from the compilation, Toxic Avenger's Escape remixed by the bloody boys themselves.
PS For more news on the Scion tour, stopping through San Fran, LA, NY and Chicago end of April), check LA Riots myspace for more details.
SPECIAL ALERT for our NYC readers: We have five VIP passes for T-Mobile's launch event on Tuesday, May 20th celebrating a hot new phone. Not only will you get to see live sets from Fool's Gold's latest hot shot MC Kid Cudi and electro prepsters Chester French and a DJ set from Kid Capri, every guest of RCRD LBL will walk out with a brand new phone. To enter, just email us at info AT rcrdlbl dot com with "T-Mobile Contest" in the subject line. You must be 21+ to enter.
Winners will be announced Monday, May 19th. Good Luck!
P.S. - We also have a free download from Kid Cudi to get you started!
This is Dim Mak’s Account Manager Andrew Huang, and no, he’s not in a band (as far as we know), but Dim Mak have started a new series of blog posts called “Staff Picks” where, you guessed it, they get DM staffers to pick their favorite tracks from the label’s extensive catalog. Andrew picked out Mike Skinner side-project Grafiti’s “What Is The Problem” and Automato’s “Walk Into Light”. Both tracks highlight how DM were (and are, obviously) all about pushing the envelope and exploring new sounds. Stay tuned to the Dim Mak RCRD LBL blog for more Staff Picks coming soon!
Australian post-punk band (and newest Warp Records signing) Pivot’s new video, for their mesmerizing single “In The Blood” is on some hardcore crazy, and that’s not even the half of it. Turns out the director broke his shoulder and basically destroyed his house in making it… and you can tell. It looks like what would happen if Gang of Four scored ‘80s horror classic Dead Alive, only with dead sharks and puppet divers instead of Peter Jackson and tons of zombies. Check out the exclusive video premiere at the Warp RCRD LBL blog:
During Coachella last month, Boosted Mobile did a series of interviews at their lounge, where Fool’s Gold were doing their three-day line of events and performances. Boosted got it all on video, as well as exclusive interviews with Treasure Fingers (pictured above), XXXChange, Flosstradamus and loads more. Check out some of the footage at the FG RCRD LBL blog!
I used to be a huge sissy. Last December the almighty Mudhoney came to New York to play their classic album Superfuzz Bigmuff (20th Anniversary re-release and new album, Lucky Ones, due 5/20) at Bowery Ballroom and throughout their most gnarly of sets, a large pit consumed much of the floor just in front of the stage. Somehow I've been been able to avoid moshing most of my life, but there was a moment (and it could have been the many man sodas that night) during "Here Comes Sickness" where I decided it was time to put some hair on my chest and finally check things out. Everything was going really well until my sneaker caught a slick spot on the hardwood and I hit the deck preeeeetty hard. A dude helped me up right away, looked me in the eye and said, "You are wearing the most amazing windbreaker I have ever seen." Bros forever and sissy no more.
I'd like to believe that moment is distilled in all of these tracks. I'm so excited to post them.
We typically have something of a love/hate relationship with saxophones—i.e. we love the Specials and hate Sade. So when the sax solo hits about three-quarters through “Going to Where the Tea Trees Are” by Swedish singer songwriter Peter von Poehl, we had an initial split-second of “Oh God why”, until we totally got into it, because the song is an amazing pop ballad that takes its brass very, very seriously. The SEEN RCRD LBL blog has an MP3 of “Going to Where…” as well as some video and other useful links from Peter.
Sounds like: Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, Jose Gonzalez
We had such a rainy, crappy weekend indoors that we self-inflicted a total Cure-in and listened to loads of their records on repeat. Not that it was punishment, as more often than not Mr. Smith & Co made the most brilliantly depressing pop singles of the '80s (though have you ever listened to "Hand On Your Heart" by Kylie? What a downer, right?). Anyway, here's a clip of the Cure doing one of our favorite songs, "A Forest", live in Amsterdam in 1980.
Welcome to the mighty RCRD LBL Podcast. This week, we have some ace jams from the likes of Jamie Lidell, Sunny Day Sets Fire, and Lykke Li and hot newcomers like My Best Fiend and Cuizinier—plus some witty banter from our host Elliot Aronow. Like we said, we're going to continue doing these on the reg from now on with help from our stellar podcast producer, Trent Wolbe, so please add our RCRD LBL podcast RSS feed to your RSS or iTUNES so we can hit you with the goodness.
Our favorite pop blog ever, Popjustice.com, just posted an awesome interview with our girl Santogold where they discuss, amongst other things, her work on the Ashlee Simpson album, how Santogold can be categorized as “indie rock”, and that pesky horse that made her sick on the set of the “L.E.S. Artistes” video.
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