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April 28 2010
DOWNLOAD: Streetlab - Rat Racer (feat. Noelle)
After a flood of Internet bootlegs and one original EP, rock-loving NYC remix mavens Streetlab finally enter the album realm with Auto Spkr, their debut, fourteen-track long-player that arrived just last week. First single "Rat Racer" is more of the swaggering, Need For Speed-y electro-house they've lit up our pages (and Entourage!) with in the past, but with a subtly snarky, unsubtly diva-ish vocal from the singularly named Noelle to ease the impact.
Streetlab - Rat Racer (feat. Noelle)
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March 23 2010
PREMIERE: Kerretta - Sleepers
For those of you guilty of assuming all Kiwis are chummy sprites forever seeking the next hacky sack, meet Kerretta—a blistering New Zealand metal trio. They make explosive rock with heart, maneuvering their angst-ridden guitars into something sparse, melodic, and at times, even catchy. Think Mogwai or ISIS, but leaner and less grandiose. Kerretta is fresh off their SXSW dates and on to the rest of the country. Those stops can be found here, while their oft-lauded ‘silent to violent’ LP Vilayer is out through Midium Records now.
March 5 2010
DOWNLOAD: Califone - Funeral Singers + Ape-like
Califone is a band that makes makes fun, folksy, Chicagoan post-rock. Califone is a band that makes a film that looks all screwy and artsy and hilarious and ends up being kind of a big deal at Sundance. Califone is a band that celebrates this by touring with Wilco. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is out through Dead Oceans now and below we have two mpfrees showcasing why we're into these guys and all their sweeping, strumming, twitched-out glory.
February 22 2010
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Eternal Summers - Able To
There’s an intellectual way to describe Eternal Summers, one rife with pop-punk-surf-psych witticisms, but we awoke this morning with a massive cold and therefore we can’t think straight. It’s better this way, because the Virginian duo’s “Able To” went in and out like a warm and stinging saline solution, quickly clearing the gunk from our brains with a bright wash of guitars, properly primitive drums and straightforward melodies. Eternal Summers’ eponymous debut EP drops on Chimney Sweep Records March 13th and we’re dousing early below.
October 19 2009
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Bodega Girls - Ain't That Cold
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And so, after remixes and un-PC song titles, it was "Ain't That Cold" that clarified for us that Boston's Bodega Girls are basically (awesomely) dancefloor scions of the Afghan Whigs, a band doing soul music as smutty warehouse disco. We're releasing the song today through our in-house digital label, just as the band Fung Wah it down to New York this week for CMJ. Those dates and others, including a headlining show in Brooklyn at the end of the month, after the break.
Bodega Girls - Ain't That Cold
Previously:
Bodega Girls - She's Into Black Guys
October 14 2009
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Spectre Folk - Falling Off the Map
If this new Spectre Folk jam was dropped into the next Michel Gondry film, it could cure millions. As it is, “Falling Off the Map” is the first blurt from Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo, the new album coming ’round the end of the month (on Arbitrary Signs) by this side/solo project from Pete Nolan, drummer-skater of Magik Markers and one of NYC’s raddest. The honeyed song drifts along on gentle, trippy impulse power; it makes your heart feel psychedelic. Grab the track below, and check out a lysergic video directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon for another song from the album here. And — stay mellow.
Spectre Folk - Falling Off the Map
