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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)

Posted 11/20/2009 11:20 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: rock, lounge, indie

Holiday Shores (Floridians, CMJ darlings, and all around affable guys) have a new tour-only cassette called Through The Thin Cloud and today they're gifting one of its exclusive tracks. Below, the band channels lounge lizards past in this boozy little cover of Arthur Russell’s “Your Motion Says,” replete with downtempo chords and cowbell. Hit up MySpace for tour info on where to lift the tape, or return the love by picking up their album.

 

Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)

Previously:

Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Fued

Holiday Shores - Edge Of Our Lives

 

DOWNLOAD: Birds & Batteries - Sneaky Times + Out In The Woods

Posted 11/19/2009 12:06 PM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: funk, alt-country, electro, rock

Birds & Batteries’ new EP Up To No Good came out this week and there’s been some talk about honky-tonk layering, Halloween freak boogie and lost in the woods funk. Also, cough syrup-induced dancing. Below, a little more throat coat with “Sneaky Times” and "Out In The Woods" until the full length anodyne drops in 2010.

 
 

Birds & Batteries - Out In The Woods

Birds & Batteries - Sneaky Times

Previously:

Birds & Batteries - The Villain

Birds & Batteries - Lightning (UTNG Version)

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Alice Russell - Let Us Be Loving (KidKanevil Remix)

Posted 11/18/2009 10:46 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: pop, jazz, soul

Alice Russell is from England? We call foul, she’s got to be from Rogers, Texas, thrice divorced, her congregation's star alto and Alvin Ailey’s muse with pipes like these. Below lift the excellent, soul and funk-kissed KidKanevil remix of “Let Us Be Loving” before it drops next week. Show support here by purchasing Pot of Gold or a slew of singles and 7-inchers including The White Stripes covers and Mr. Scruff remixes. Also, dainty limited edition teacups. Okay, she’s British.

Sounds like: Duffy, Aretha Franklin, Jill Scott

 

Alice Russell - Let Us Be Loving (KidKanevil Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Skewby - Flobots Remix + Two More

Posted 11/17/2009 11:10 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: hip hop, rap

When our buddies at Loudersoft sent Skewby our way, it was kind of impossible to pick our favorite track. The kid hails from Memphis, his hooks are Philly, his flow’s New York, and every song is different. Reminiscent of backpack-era Kanye, Skewby’s killing the campus scene, and rightly so. Below, his rework of “No Handlebars” bests the original, and two tracks—wild with old school giggles and blasting horns—prove mixtapes don’t have to suck.

Sounds like: Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Kanye

 
 
 

Skewby - No Handlebars

Skewby - Get Retarded

Skewby - No Critics Allowed

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DOWNLOAD: The Bravery - The Spectator

Posted 11/16/2009 11:26 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: dance, rock, indie

Fresh off releasing “Slow Poison” (and our favorite steel drum remix), The Bravery has kindly gone ahead and dropped yet another track from their upcoming album Stir The Blood. “The Spectator” is lush with angst, strangled melodies and the band’s nuanced strain of dark dance. It also sounds a bit like MGMT, right? We think it works.

Sounds like: Editors, The Killers, MGMT

 

The Bravery - The Spectator

Previously:

The Bravery - Slow Poison (Drop The Lime Remix)

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DOWNLOAD: Au Revoir Simone - Another Likely Story (Aeroplane Remix)

Posted 11/13/2009 9:46 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: pop, Italo, indie, dance

(Photo: Jeremy Williams)

Our friends at The FADER have been jamming on this Belgian-cum-Miami funkfest for a minute, and it is righteously good. We were already drawn to the coffeepop sway of Au Revoir Simone’s original, but this rework does ten better, snapping the songbirds off their chilly branch and blasting south in a stained-glass Maserati. Below, Aeroplane re-affirms our faith in the Flemish, just in time for the weekend.

 

Au Revoir Simone - Another Likely Story (Aeroplane Remix)

Previously:

Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song (Pacific Remix)

Au Revoir Simone - Shadows (It's A Fine Line Remix)

Au Revoir Simone - Grateful

Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: WHY? - One Rose (Alias Remix)

Posted 11/12/2009 11:06 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: indie, folk, hip hop

WHY?’s original “One Rose” is a quiet, well-crafted, singer-songwriter-type of tune. Just like Yoni Wolf said—it’s not hip-hop, you guys. But those missing the beat of yore get a break as hip-hop producer Alias (Aesop Rock, Sage Francis) matches Wolf’s folksy bleating to Casio beeps in this swimmy little rework. It claps, it crests, it sways. And then, the Autotune kicks in! Eskimo Snow is out on Anticon now.

 

WHY? - One Rose (Alias Remix)

Previously:

WHY? - The Hollows

WHY? - These Few Presidents

WHY? - The Vowels, Pt. 2 (Amplive Remix)

WHY? - This Blackest Purse

Themselves & WHY? - Canada

EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Rifle Recoil - Bad Girl

Posted 11/11/2009 11:06 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: electro, folk

Rifle Recoil's bio leads us to think he waxes cosmic on the spaces between defining moments as the defining moments themselves. Kind of like in yoga class when Ursula says, “The divine in me is the divine in you,” and we pretend to get it. “Bad Girl” is a meditative electro-folk hymn—heavy on the organ, circular in lyrics, and narcotic in atmosphere. Something to lure us back from the edge, when we could easily jump or stay.

Sounds like: Prince, a wall of delay pedals 

 

Rifle Recoil - Bad Girl

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DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)

Posted 11/10/2009 10:49 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: shoegaze, noise, alternative, new wave

(Photo: Joel Barhamand)

The first single off A Place To Bury Stranger’s sophomore album follows the record’s maxim: to make the “craziest, most f*cked-up recording ever.” This slept-on Cereal Spiller rework of "In Your Heart" somewhat mitigates the original’s nightmarish reverb and gut-wrenching frequencies, favoring a slicker, snythier ode to 1980. Exploding Head is out now and will hurt your insides in a good way.

 

A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)

Previously:

A Place To Bury Strangers - The Light (Love And Rockets Cover)

A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You (The Clapp Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: J. Cole - Grown Simba + Lights Please

Posted 11/9/2009 11:20 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: hip hop, rap

NC-native, Jay-Z protégé, the dude on tour with Jigga and Wale who doesn’t have an album yet—you may recognize J. Cole already via guest spots on The Blueprint 3 or Back to The Feature. His own mixtape The Warm Up is 22 tracks of easygoing flow where laid-back vocals effortlessly meld with anything from hi-frequency samples to piano bars. Debut album comes out next year, “Grown Simba” and “Lights Please” available below. Any rapper who references The Lion King has got our vote.

Sounds like: Wale, Jay-Z

 
 

J. Cole - Grown Simba

J. Cole - Lights Please

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