While we just LOVE sitting around on the Internet, our hope is that you are only reading this right now because you're waiting for another burger off the grill. Yes, it's officially summertime! Here's your Memorial Day 2012 playlist, featuring some of our recent favorites, including the perfected-rock of The Men, Sean Kuti's worldly rhythms, the Jagger-tipped rock of Foxygen, Pears' highlife by the water, Highlife's seance 'round the fire and much more. Download away, stream it from your phone and, no matter what, go outside and enjoy yourself. See you tomorrow!
Early release and a holiday weekend make for good spirits all-around. So does new music! Here's some favorites from the week, including the simple beauty of Katie Kate, throwback awesomeness of Foxygen, Sebastien Tellier's international disco, a killer Orbital remix and more. Check back on Monday for our Memorial Day playlist and get even more free MP3s! Until then, Mark Morrison foreva'.
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Music videos are so back. They preview new music, often provide a solid streaming experience and many acts are starting to return to experimentation with visuals that can really change the context of a song. But what are the good ones? You know we got you! Here are our three favorites of the week in a new recurring feature called Three Clips. This week features the gory Light Asylum, DIIV's jangly heavens and the blunted celebration of Wiz Khalifa. Happy viewing!
The Windish Agency, a Chicago-based artist booking company, has one of the most stacked rosters in the music world. Really, they have so many of our favorites that we asked them to curate some special Spotify playlists highlighting their touring artists and their newest releases. Here's the first one – a spring-ready mix that features bombastic rock from Japandroids, Hot Chip's dance mastery and some sun-drenched indie-pop from Best Coast.
On the week we mourned Donna Summer and Chuck Brown, watched a tech bubble nearly explode with the Facebook IPO and celebrated major releases by indie-darlings Beach House and Best Coast, the fantastic music just kept rolling in. Check out our weekend playlist for ya proof. Featuring highlife dusty dance from Pears, the Dead-meets-fried folk of MV & EE, Doseone's nasally riffing, muscular rock from Crocodiles, remixes from Active Child and Fort Romeau plus more, there's a free MP3 somewhere in here that shall warm your cold, cold heart. We promise!
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Music videos are so back. They preview new music, often provide a solid streaming experience and many acts are starting to return to experimentation with visuals that can really change the context of a song. But what are the good ones? You know we got you! Here are our three favorites of the week in a new recurring feature called Three Clips. This week features Royal Headache, Nicki Minaj in a Chris Brown/Nas love triangle(!) and Kindness. Happy viewing!
Uh, newsflash! We at RCRD LBL love ourselves some playlists. That's why we formed a partnership with fantastic playlist/Internet radio site 8tracks. Here's our new one. It's called "Independent Spring" and features some of our favorite recent indie rock tunes as chosen by editor-in-chief Carter Maness. Now go get jangly and enjoy the weather.
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