DOWNLOAD: Bloc Party - Signs (Armand Van Helden Remix)
Bloc Party might not be the first people you'd go to for cheap Friday thrills, but this Armand Van Helden refit of "Signs" sounds like it can glug and snort with the best of them, filtered synths coming up to meet the clubland empathy of throbbing four-to-the-floor rhythms and grubby bass muck. Taken from Intimacy Remixed, the forthcoming guest reworking of their previous album, this version of "Signs" sits well alongside efforts from the likes of No Age, Mogwai and Herve. You'll be able to hear them all come the record's release on May 11.
Sounds Like: Justice, Eric Prydz, Mr Oizo
Bloc Party - Signs (Armand Van Helden Remix)
Previously:
Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices
Bloc Party - Helicopter (Weird Science Remix Featuring Peaches)
DOWNLOAD: Cursive - From The Hips
Cursive have been putting out records for over a decade, and each has been collection of creaky tell-alls and sharper, brasher rock songs, tunnels into the mind of a disturbingly talented and often super-depressing individual, frontman Tim Kasher. His last-legs whine and observant barflyism has produced a lot of beautiful songs about vice, loss, and general sadness, so when he opens "From The Hips" with the line, "I'm at my best when I'm at my worst," it might be the first time dude has lightened up a little and squeezed in a joke. Not that Mama, I'm Swollen, the band's sixth album for Saddle Creek and seventh overall, isn't full of some bummy moments. It's just there's a general pep sprinkled throughout, a turn to non-Ugly Organs and jazzy saxes, and the reflexive apathy of "From The Hips," if you can call it that, is a great example. Download the song below and head over to the band's website to buy a digital copy of the album. It's available for 3$ now and the price will increase a dollar each day until the official release date on March 10th. So, uh, hurry?
Sounds like: Rites Of Spring, The Good Life, Conor Oberst
DOWNLOAD: Data.Select.Party - The Woot, The Hot, The Hotness + Wake Up The Town
Having made the move from the sleepy seaside Brighton suburb of Eastbourne to the make-it-or-break-it surroundings of London proper, the four young dudes in Data.Select.Party are putting their guitars to the grindstone and actually making shit happen. Like a smoother, less-nerdy Foals, the quartet are doing enough with their circuitous guitar figures and summer house-party shouts to head out on a full UK tour next week (dates up here), and this is all on the strength of one proper seven-inch (their debut album, Hanging Out With Humans, gets released on the 23rd.) Because we like songs that remind us of being fifteen and crushing on this one girl in bio class, we've picked the band up for our in-house label, unloading your future summer anthem, "The Woot, The Hot, The Hotness" and the more aggro "Wake Up The Town" on you today. Pick 'em up now, I'm sure there will be a ton of NME ink spilled over these guys soon enough.
Sounds like: Foals, M83, early Thursday
Data.Select.Party - The Woot, The Hot, The Hotness
Data.Select.Party - Wake Up The Town
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VIDEO THRWBCK: Rites of Spring - Spring
I like to think that Washington, D.C.'s Rites of Spring only lasted a year or so and only recorded one album because they burned themselves out giving birth to such intense music, crashing and spiraling into history like an emo comet. Extra points for a shirtless Guy Picciotto.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Hadouken! - Crank It Up (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Remix + Get Smashed Gate Crash
On their remix of “Crank It Up” from UK nu-rave grime troupe Hadouken!, Does It Offend You, Yeah? actually manage to make another band sound less abrasive. If their punctuation marks are anything to go by, DIOYY? play cheeky and self-depracating to Hadouken!’s unrelenting energy, both going for broke with the kids that’ll be out till dawn on Saturday morning, crawling back to East London flats in neon leggings and LA Gear pumps. "Get Smashed Gate Crash," the leadoff track to the band's stateside debut Music For An Accelerated Culture (out October 28,) is like an Atari Teenage Riot song writen by ex-screamo fans, kids who just learned to make beats but still need chugga-chugga breakdowns. Who could do without?
Sounds like: Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Klaxons, the Kitsuné Maison compilations
Exclusive Download: Hadouken! - Crank It Up (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Remix)
Download: Hadouken! - Get Smashed Gate Crash
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Golden City - Big Country
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As a young man my allegiances shifted radically from ska to punk to hardcore and back again, and I was always quick to talk down on the previous genre. But even after the bell tolled for emo I couldn't bear to part with my Christie Front Drive records. Lead singer Eric Richter was the key; the man's voice is a revelation. After CFD he fronted Antarctica and The 101, and is currently making music with Brooklyn's Golden City. This unreleased track from their upcoming record has the clean, melodic guitar lines of Christie Front Drive married to the muscular beat and poppy basslines of the Buzzcocks and the Police. Downloading this is the key to a successful Friday.
SOUNDS LIKE: Christie Front Drive, The Promise Ring
VIDEO THRWBCK: Embrace - Do Not Consider Yourself Free (Live at 9:30 Club 1986)
Post-Minor Threat and Pre-Fugazi, Ian Mackaye was in this little band called Embrace who pretty much invented modern emo. Don't let that throw you off, this is the OG stuff—pretty much the peak of the genre as far as I am considered. 'Nuff said. This is vital viewing.
-Elliot Aronow
DOWNLOAD: Paige 3 - Prophets (Frankmusik remix)
Frankmusik (né Vincent Frank), is a fire hot electro pop producer out of Croydon, UK. We first got into him about a year ago when we came across his MySpace and fell in love with “Three Little Words”, a high octane pop song that sounded like Panic at the Disco ripping off Simply Red at warp speed (we know that that hardly sounds like a reason to listen to a song, but trust us, it is). As well as writing and producing his own work under the Frankmusik moniker, FM is also known to remix whatever suits is fancy, and today we’re releasing one of those tracks. You wouldn’t necessarily think that an American emo band (in this case, Paige 3) and a British electro producer would go hand in hand, but it works—Frankmusik reworks “Prophets” with his signature glitchy, sugary synths and manic drum machine. Frank just got a slot on the Popjustice Wonky Pop tour and his debut album is in the works, so believe us when we say keep an eye on this one.
FEATURED: Atom and His Package
We once interviewed Adam Goren, a.k.a. Atom and his Package, at what turned out to be his last NYC performance, and retreated to the back of the room afterwards to watch 200 16-year-olds go completely insane over his sampler punk rock. Within his 8-year run as AAHP, Adam released five albums, toured hundreds of venues, accidentally invented radcore, and left thousands of little emo tears in his wake when he "disbanded" with his Package (his trusty sampler) in 2004. The best thing about Adam was that he was never, ever ironic, even when he was being funny: each one of his songs has a core of sincerity that makes them worth listening to. Matt and Kim, Totally Michael, Best Fwends, and every band that ever wanted to jump up and down to electro-punk filtered through a computer at 10,000 BPM owes Adam a big favor. Indie blog Midwestern Housewives paid homage to AAHP by posting a live video of "Snowshoe BBQ", given the current climate here on the East Coast. Enjoy!
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