Check out Beck's new amazing video featuring the always lovely Charlotte Gainsbourg. Thanks to Gorilla vs Bear for posting this video. Head over to Gorilla vs Bear to test out their amazing Sirius radio show. This week the shwo featured: Beach House, Best Coast, jj, Burial, Nite Jewel and more. Click here.
Corey Chisel on Luxury Wafers
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Cory Chisel (Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons) exudes a forcefield of palpable anguish. It squeezes through his pores and squinted eyes and lassos ears and bleeding hearts through swaying seranades you'd expect to hear on a back porch next to rocking chairs and whiskey bottles, overlooking vast fields and accompanied by choruses of chirping crickets. Chisel's voice, beguilingly accurate and smooth as glove leather, slides in like a slightly frayed slip-knot, applying steady and sufficient pressure as it pulls itself with just eno....for more tracks and more of this great write up please visit http://www.luxuyrwafers.net.
Buffet Libre: Remix 2
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Do you like remixing? How about covering your favorite bands? Well now thanks to Buffet Libre, you can visit their site and download the stems for free from dozens of artist from Passion Pit to Stereo MCs and submit your own remix as part of their Batidora project. Make sure you also check out the Rewind project which asks bands to cover their old faves. A standout is Amiina covering Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s “Souvenir”. Travel back to 1981 with this video from the original OMD song.
Cheap Girls - "Ft. Lauderdale"
Untitled Document For fans of early to mid-90’s indie rock, check out My Roaring 20’s by Lansing, Michigan’s Cheap Girls. Accurately compared to Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr., and Superdrag by blog Can You See the Sunset From the Southside?, the tracks posted got us in the mood to revisit some old favorites, and most definitely check out the remainder of My Roaring 20’s as well as Cheap Girls’ previous album Find Me a Drink Home.
New Music: Northwest Ordinance
Untitled Document Even though we missed the show last night, we’d like to thank Dayton-centric blog The Buddha Den for introducing us to the Northwest Ordinance. NWO is a great garage rock/punk band out of the blog’s hometown and they are offering up two free downloadable tracks on their site for a very limited time, so head over there today! Click below for “Watchin’ the Clock” one of the two tracks available at The Buddha Den.
New Hip Hop: Fly Gypsy
Untitled Document Fly Gypsy's track record for quality music over the past few months hasn't failed to impress and their newest release, "You" feat. Tattiana Aqeel-de Oliveira, is as strong as ever. The track, the second single off their forthcoming Change For A Dollar EP is a departure from the upbeat sound that encapsulated the duo's first single, "2 Step,"with producer Alexei Jendayi laying a more mellow instrumental forKowboy Kom's vivid imagery. Lines like, "Close your eyes, let me describe for you a beautiful place/ Just use your mind and through the rhyme me and you can escape / The palm trees blue skies, it's a beautiful day" illustrate Kom's lyricism and ability with words. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the layers built around Kom's vocals are just as poignant - Alexei's production, a perfect blend of strings, horns, and percussion, builds initial emotion, while Tattiana's sultry voice captures the essence of the song as the chorus arrives.
Arawa FM
Untitled Document Always bringing us the greatest selection of obscure electronica, Arawa FM doesn’t fail their task today. Click on over to check out a rad edit of (The Ballad of) Lone Ranger by Chris Keane. The track comes from the 2008 compilationMiserable Edits Vol. 2. While you’re on the site, be sure to scroll down and check out all the video goodies as well. Click here for Arawa FM.
New Grizzly Bear Video
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Off arguably one of the best albums of 2009, Grizzly Bear released a new video for their track “Ready, Able”. The trippy claymation video brings a whole new outlook to the track with its UFOs, monsters, and shape-shifting faces. Watching this video is the closest you can get to taking acid without actually doing the drug. Thanks to Badical Beats for showing us this one!
Tape Deck Mountain Remixed
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Ghost is the debut album from Tape Deck Mountain, project of San Diego native Travis Trevisan. Laid off from his job almost a year ago, Trevisan took full advantage of this free time in crafting Tape Deck's debut album of slacker-fuzzed lullabies. Ghost takes the listener on a journey from lo-fi to hi-fi (self proclaimed "mid-fi" to be exact), from quiet hushes to loud guitar sonics. Influences range from Phil Elverum to My Bloody Valentine and back to the Beach Boys. The record is out today via Sacramento label Lefse.
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New Album: Toro Y Moi
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Toro Y Moi (a.k.a. Columbia, South Carolina's Chaz Bundick) is the sound the world has been waiting for. This multi-cultural juggernaut gathers up the best musical elements from around the globe- R&B, Indie Rock, Electronic Dance and Psychedelica -and creates something-freaking-else! Over the course of his first groundbreaking full length Causers Of This, Toro Y Moi turns the aforementioned musics upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative approach. The incendiary power of Toro Y Moi's funky synth and guitar play, pumping digital rhythms and gorgeously bright vocal harmonies makes for a formidable combination. A soon to be masterpiece of a currently unnamed genre.
Toro Y Moi is 23 year old Columbia, South Carolina native and resident Chaz Bundick. After earning a BFA in Graphic Design at The University of South Carolina, Chaz decided to push his music further now that he has more time on his hands. His mom came from the Phillipines to the United States, where she met her future husband (who's African American) in college. They lived in New York City taking in all the wonderful cultural influences the city's rising underground scene had to offer at the time (late 70s/early 80s). Deciding to slow down and be closer to family, they moved to Columbia, South Carolina where they had their first child...
Chaz Bundick's methods are constantly changing and evolving. Heavily influenced by his parent's vinyl and tape collection, he also possesses great admiration for contemporary influences like Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, J Dilla, and Daft Punk. Like most prepubescent teens, he had his punk band and once that died out, the "side project" soon became the main focus.
Toro y Moi started in 2001 as a bedroom project but quickly grew into the live performance realm. The songs are born from a plethora of different genres, from freak-folk to R&B to French House.
Before any full length album has been released, Toro Y Moi has already received praise from music websites like Pitchfork and Gorilla Vs. Bear as well as print features in the NME and Dazed and Confused.
