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DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)
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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)
DOWNLOAD: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Trouble
Mazzy Star chanteuse Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig are back as Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions after an 8-year break to deliver a sophomore dose of wandering, disembodied melodies. “Trouble” is the dimly-lit stage in a smoke-stained lounge, where the air is heavy and each note is a blissful narcotic. Through the Devil Softly drops today on Nettwerk and is awash with gauze-wrapped chords and misty vocals invoking a sparse landscape of love and loss. Get busy getting lonely here.
DOWNLOAD: Jamie T - Chaka Demus (Ben Bones Remix)
When I interviewed Jamie Treays a few months back, he told me that one of the main influences on his new album Kings & Queens was the work of Nineties reggae-troubadour Finley Quaye. While Quaye's not exactly a de rigeur touchstone for modern day indie rock bands, the comparison wasn't as surprising as it perhaps should have been - Jamie's work has often exuded that easy, drunken Saturday feel tracks like "Even After All" and "Sunday Shining" revel in, while his voice is similarly skewiff; even if T is at times more Daffy Duck than Quaye's Satchmo squawk. This remix of "Chaka Demus" by Pacemaker cohort Ben Bones keeps things yoot and fresh but, in keeping with Jamie's latest fixation and the solo work of Ian Brown, it's hard to figure out if this one's designed for the mosh pit or the coffee table.
Sounds Like: Micachu, Finley Quaye, Rancid
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Twin Atlantic - Caribbean War Syndrome + Lightspeed
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The Scottish Blink 182. That’s what Twin Atlantic conjures and it is hypnotizing. The well-timed drums, the sing-along pop punk, the danger of the screaming fangirl stampede. It’s all there! But you know? Today is not a day to shun mass-emo-Commonwealth joy just because it's familiar. Instead it’s a day to look Top 40 in its unflinching eye and give a happy sneer because these Glaswegians could knock Britney off for good. Their tracks are as universal as belly-flopping in the pool at high school graduation and on top of that, these blokes have toured with Smashing Pumpkins. Twin Atlantic's new album Vivarium comes out stateside on Red Bull Records on Sept. 15th.
DOWNLOAD: The Boxer Rebellion - Evacuate + Semi-Automatic Stream
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Hungover from our steady summer diet of electro bursts and folk murmurs, we sat down to clear our heads with some good old-fashioned alt-rock. Do it! It feels nostalgic and pure and you’ll vow to ingest it more often. The Boxer Rebellion brings the well-crafted noise below, with stadium clash and dirty-Bono-blend vocals. See them rock it sweaty tomorrow at Mercury Lounge after checking their latest album, Union. It’s good for whatever your musical ails.
Sounds like: The Verve, U2
The Boxer Rebellion - Evacuate
DOWNLOAD: Bastila - Ghosts (The Time and Space Machine Summer of Love Remix)
Arguably the most important news you'll hear all week is that a band have finally gone and merged early 90s baggy with math-rock guitars and the suffocating MDMA-haze of nu-rave. This truly is the final frontier, folks, and Bastila are there waving the flags for a Braver New World, guitars flying like kites in the warm sea breeze of this remix from Richard Norris, known here as The Time and Space Machine, known better as Erol Alkan's partner in Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve. Norris's 'Summer of Love' refit will have office eyes fixated suddenly upon and through the window, as the usual sunshine pining rises in the chest.
Sounds Like: Errors, Happy Mondays, Klaxons
Bastila - Ghosts (The Time and Space Machine Summer of Love Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Abigail Warchild - Nixons Guns + Three More
Abigail Warchild are a Brooklyn-via-Boston quartet that sound like Wolf Parade with Marshall stacks or The Murder City Devils if they'd put out records on Merge. Unafraid of copious distortion but certainly in league with a lot of the new grizzly psych set, the band has just joined the roster at our RCRD LBL label and we're stoked to be putting out four of their tracks today. There are some big guitar sounds amongst these tunes, but we're mainly geeked on their unabashed use of B3, which will hopefully soon become the indie rock version of AutoTune.
Sounds like: Wolf Parade, Crystal Antlers, Awesome Color
Download: Abigail Warchild - Nixons Guns
Download: Abigail Warchild - The Dive
Download: Abigail Warchild - Trash Can Fire
Download: Abigail Warchild - The Silence
DOWNLOAD: 1913 - Can't Move On
Manchester group 1913 make open-ended rock music, stuff reared on the hooks of classic UK stadium bands like Manic Street Preachers and Duran Duran but still taking some energy from the fresh faces gracing the cover of the music weeklies over there (what up Kings Of Leon). Their first single “Can’t Move On” is a mid-tempo tune that’s got some great Johnny Marr guitars and a big hook that you can probably pump your fist to or whatever if you’re into that level of participation. Download below and if you live in the UK, you can pick up a copy of the limited edition seven-inch (only 500 pressed) at a handful of record shops, info over at their MySpace.
Sounds like: Manic Street Preachers, Glasvegas, Kings Of Leon
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Bell Hollow - Eyes Like Planets (Halo33 Remix)
Brooklyn post-punk quartet and RCRD LBL signees Bell Hollow are unveiling a new remix of their tune “Eyes Like Planets” today, courtesy of frequent NIN remixer and Revel Hotel drummer Barrett Hiatt, aka Halo 33. While Nick Niles’ dramatic tenor anchors the chorus with the line “It’s a yarn I spin for you,” Halo33 actually unravels most of the tune’s instrumentation, stripping away all percussion and leaving only some sanguine fishing-line guitars and scattered synth pads to fill in the rest. It’s pretty spare but still effective, managing to coax us our ears out of a groggy and rainy morning here in New York. More Bell Hollow remixes will be available on their upcoming b-sides EP Foxgloves Extras, due in December through five03 Records.
Sounds like: Nine Inch Nails, I Heart Lung, The Smiths
Exclusive Download: Bell Hollow - Eyes Like Planets (Halo33 Remix)
Previously:
Download: Bell Hollow - Copper Crayon (Project Jenny, Project Jan Remix)
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