EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Zola Jesus - Smirenye
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It's probably too late for ghoul puns now, but you suspect that for Zola Jesus it's Halloween all year round. Taken from recent album The Spoils, "Smirenye" is as haunted as anything else Nika Rosa Danilova's put her name to thus far, either alone or alongside Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Freddy Rupert in Former Ghosts. Former ghosts? What do ghosts become after they die? Where do they go? Do they weep? Zola knows. Just look into those eyes.
Sounds Like: U.S. Girls, Kate Bush, Trailer Trash Tracys
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: IVANSXTC - The Deepest + Breathe
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It's not hard to see why everyone's so hype about IVANSXTC - the guy's anonymous and sounds like Mike 'Blank Dogs' Sniper singing SALEM songs. A more accurate equation for hype I never heard, but if he keeps spewing out tracks like "The Deepest" and "Breathe" it'll all be justified; Suicide-al crooning indie-friendly melodies that do war with steamy atmospherics and none-more-ominous bass grumble. Good shit.
Sounds Like: Zola Jesus, Roy Orbison, SALEM
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - The Light (Love And Rockets Cover)
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There is perhaps no current band better suited to cover goth-rock legends Love and Rockets than Brooklyn's A Place To Bury Strangers, so their appearance next to acts like Black Francis, The Dandy Warhols, and Better Than Ezra on the new L&R tribute album, New Tales To Tell, had us hoping for a faithful reinterpretation. We certainly get that in their version of "The Light," from 1987's Earth Sun And Moon, though they swapped the original's acoustics for belligerent sheets of pedal noise. Shocking! MP3 is only up for a week, so get the goods while you can.
A Place To Bury Strangers - The Light (Love And Rockets Cover)
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A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You (The Clapp Remix)
DOWNLOAD: KASMS - Male Bonding
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KASMS' shrieker Rachel-Mary Callaghan sounds like the sort of person you wouldn't leave any of your loved ones alone with - sons or daughters, family pets, sweethearts or cherished elders. Most foolhardy of all would be to pair her up with your father, but that's what the lyrics to "Male Bonding" demand: to dance with daddy, to drugs with daddy, to bed with daddy, all to a vicious backbeat of post-punkish drums and guitar stabs, both of which are played by former Test Icicle Rory Atwell. The London quartet's debut album Spayed is full of such heart-shattering threats and is out now.
Sounds Like: Billy Idol, The Violets, Siouxsie and the Banshees
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: frYars feat. Dave Gahan - Visitors (Stephen Hague Remix) + Original Stream
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When you're trying to conjure the solemn euphoria that lurks in disco's darkest corners, allying with past masters of the trade can only aid you in your quest. So it is that "Visitors", a throbbing rush of defiant, decadent clubland pop, comes into this world: 20-year-old Londoner frYars backed up vocally by none other than Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan, while legendary synthpop producer Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, New Order, PIL) comes with a starry-eyed remix. Both their influences are felt; "Visitors" boasting a bassline a major chord change and some TLC away from Gahan's classic "Just Can't Get Enough" and the doomy rush of New Order's "True Faith" - produced by Hague - courses fresh through his jaw-dropping refit. It's the prodigously talented frYars - known to his mother as Ben Garrett - who rules the roost here though, presiding over the track with the same dark sense of romance fellow oddball Patrick Wolf drags around in his gut, lyrics talking of bartered for hearts and lovers living on each other's backs.
Sounds Like: Patrick Wolf, Cut Copy, The Source
frYars feat. Dave Gahan - Visitors (Stephen Hague Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Wasting (The Vandelles Remix)
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When we last caught up with Brooklyn rock troupe Cruel Black Dove, they were hooking up a bumpy remix of their single "Love Song" from Gregory Shiff. Now they're back with another killer refix in hand, this one a noise-drenched industrial take on "Wasting" from fellow Brooklynites The Vandelles. Under showers of high-frequency noise, the snares sound like Gatling guns and the bass in little more than a squirmy, hyper-distorted mess, making this the dirtiest tune we've ever heard from CBD and a welcome addition to their growing collection of remixes. On Saturday, the band will be linking up with some RCRD LBL pals for a gig at the Mercury Lounge, sharing a bill with the always-terrific Blacklist, Mahogany, Home Video, and The Depreciation Guild. Our Creative Director Elliot will also be spinning records in-between bands, so expect lots of RCRD LBL-approved vibes in the air that night. The Vandelles remix, along with tunes from the other bands playing on Saturday, is below.
Sounds like: A Place To Bury Strangers, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
Cruel Black Dove - Wasting (The Vandelles Remix)
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Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
Cruel Black Dove - Love Song (Gregory Shiff Mix)
Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It
Home Video - Maybe What You Need
FEATURED: Wierd Celebrates Five Year Anniversary On 11/21 + Downloads
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This Friday, 11/21 at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg, the cats behind the weekly NYC shindig Wierd and its accompanying label will be throwing a righteous five-year-strong bash. Celebration is in order, a lot of great minimally-minded synth bands and deejays have rolled through their doors and appeared on their releases over the years, and running a weekly party for five years in New York City deserves commendation in its own right. Four bands from the label will chop it up on stage--Blacklist, Xeno & Oaklander, Led Er Est, and Opis Finis--while deejays Pieter and Glenn will spin afterward until 4AM. Flyer after the break. Download a track from each band playing below, and if you can't make it to the big one this Friday, Wierd Wednesdays happen every week at Home Sweet Home in Manhattan.
Download: Blacklist - Blue Shifted
Download: Xeno and Oaklander - Blue Flower
Download: Led er Est - Woman in a Cafe
Download: Opus Finis - Perplexed Pathos
VIDEO: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
Last Friday we dropped a download of Cruel Black Dove's single "Offer" and now we have the visual accompaniment for your viewing pleasure. Directed by lead singer Anastasia Dimou, the video is pretty dark and mildly sadistic and kind of reminds us of Hostel and that one Black Rebel Motorcycle Club video that was shot in Bulgaria. Tomorrow the band plays at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik so if by SOME CHANCE you live there, head out and check their first international gig. For those a little closer to home, the band will also be playing at Brooklyn's Vanish Point on October 24th.
Cruel Black Dove's RCRD LBL Page
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Download: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
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Like Placebo if they’d lost the whole androgyny shtick and linked up with Shirley Manson, Cruel Black Dove’s “Offer” is a bit of post-industrial pop music for people who really like to wear black, music that's dark but not morose and still danceable. The RCRD LBL band will board a plane next week for Rejkjavik, Iceland, where they’re due to play their first shows outside the States at the Iceland Airwaves festival with bands like White Denim and Crystal Castles. After that their next show is an unofficial CMJ party at Vanishing Point in Brooklyn on the 24th. Full info for both is over at their MySpace. We’ll be premiering the video for “Offer” sometime in the next week or so, so make sure to check back if you’re digging what you hear.
Sounds like: Placebo, Nine Inch Nails, Garbage
Download: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
Cruel Black Dove's RCRD LBL Page
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Download: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
Exclusive Download: Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
Brooklyn art-goth group Cruel Black Dove will be playing Club NME tomorrow at The Annex in New York and in advance of the show the RCRD LBL signees have shot over a new remix of their tune “Come On Over” from NY/Detroit duo The Clapp. According to their MySpace the two guys in The Clapp communicate entirely through the internet and have yet to actually meet in person, so their remix of the tune is a predictably digifried Detroit throwback, boasting the big synth crescendos and circuitous Pac-Man programming. Grab the remix below alongside Cruel Black Dove’s single “Love Song”, and check out more info on the show right here.
Sounds like: Gui Borrato, Matthew Dear, The Field
Exclusive Download: Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
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