These songs deserve the boombox-outside-your-crush's-window treatment. That or clammy palm slow dancing (preferably with smoke machines). Tears For Fears, Disintegration-era Cure, Phil Collins–all are a suitable reference points for Kamtin Mohager's The Chain Gang Of 1974. Nostalgia may be at a premium and we should probably be tired of listening to stuff that sounds like it came out the year we were born, but a good pop song is still a good pop song, regardless of zeitgeist points. White Guts, the Denver band/project's debut album, is forthcoming.
So, you’re a cute-as-a-button Stanford grad with a penchant for poppy seed buns and Air Jordans. What’s your move? For K.Flay, it’s garnering the respect of Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg and Asher Roth by rocking the mic with soul. Check her softshoe between lyrical verse and husky harmony on “2 Weak,” the pop jam we wished we had when we were cruising six deep in the CVS parking lot in our dad’s van. If you’re not bopping your head by the third key, you’re grumpy. Remedy that by downloading the rest right here.
The Mad Decent Block Party has until now been a Philly-only thing, a free summer blowout in the heart of their spiritual hometown. This year, it's happening on a larger scale–not only will there be the annual Philly jumpoff this Saturday, July 31, but Diplo et al. will bring the party to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles over the coming weeks. Details and line up info can be found at the above linked site, while all related music residing in our stacks is just a few clicks away below.
Memory Tapes continues his quest to remix seemingly every band in existence with this new one for twitchy British dance outfit Everything Everything. If Dam-Funk made bumpers for Nick Jr., this is what they would sound like–squishy-like-stuffed-animals playtime funk. Everything Everything's debut album, Man Alive, is out August 30.
On Drake's make-it-or-quit mixtape, So Far Gone (he made it), Bun B came through with a crucial co-sign, blessing the young spitter with a scene-stealing verse on the album's hardest cut, "Uptown." Things have changed a bit since then–Drake's famous, platinum, stanky rich, but doing the right thing pulling verse and hook duty for one of hip-hop's last living legends. Bun let "Put It Down" go for free yesterday on Twitter, but you can pay him back next Tuesday when his new album Trill OG drops.
Neon Indian's Psychic Chasms: the album that keeps on giving! Originally released by Lefse back in October of 2009, the bedroom-as-swampy-dancefloor odyssey is now getting a blown out re-release from the FADER Label and main Indian Alan Palomo's newly formed Static Tongues imprint that will include a bonus remix disc called Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed. Not on there but freshly out in the wild is this refit from Brooklyn's Apache Beat, which sounds like Aphex Twin meditating with Duran Duran. Psychic Chasms/Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed is out September 28.
Abe Duque's been partying longer than many of you have been alive. "Bumble Bee" is taken from his new acid house and techno comp Live And On Acid, and its 303-tweaked clubland stamina is a fitting window into a career that's run on and on, through various mutations, since 1993. The 2-CD compilation also takes in tracks from Fingers Inc., Underground Solution and Logic, and is out through History Records on August 16.
If my mother had been trite, she would have instilled in me the idiom that I should be the change I wanted to see in the world. I don't know if Calories are big Ghandi fans, but "You Could Be Honest" is the epitome of its chorus plead: good, solid post-hardcore with a sense of teenage rush sucked from pop-punk's teenage summers. The band's second album, Basic Nature, will arrive on September 13 through the heroes at Tough Love.
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