MP3 – Haim : Falling (Leonard Friend Remix)

R&B whiz kid Leonard Friend takes on the catchy single from the the buzzed about Los Angeles sister trio HAIM.  Friend re-imagines the song with sparkling synths, a slowed down drum that gives a nod to Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit” (aka the sample for Biggies “Juicy,”) oldZapp records, Phil Collins and TLC.

MP3 – Happy Lives : Feeling Right

 

 

 Listen – Happy Lives :  Feeling Right

 
 

Brooklyn’s Neo-pop group  Happy Lives take an entirely different direction on their first focus track  “Feeling Right”, stepping deeper into the absurd and unknown. “Feeling Right,” is a youthful gloom-pop track sung from the perspective of two teenage lovers.  The un-named female part swoons over her boyfriend, Jimmy, while Jimmy, crooning like Elvis, has a little less to say. Playful and sarcastic, the song manages to capture the quintessential feelings of teenage angst: “Tense and horny, what a special story.”  If you are looking for the band’s previous grungy, intense machine sound- you won’t find it here.  Sounding almost unrecognizable from the previous EP, Happy Lives probe an entirely new landscape of abstract thought here – weird, bouncy and unbelievably catchy. 

MP3 – Peace : Follow Baby

Here is the new single “Follow Baby” from the new Peace album –  IN LOVE.

Album pre-orders available at the Virtual Superstore

MP3 – Beaches : Distance

Check out the blissed-out new track “Distance” from Melbourne’s Beaches, off the band’s second LP – She Beats – out this  May via Chapter Music.

MP3 – Ghostpoet : MSI MUSMID

Two years on from the release of his Mercury nominated debut, Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam, Ghostpoet announces his sophomore album Some Say I So I Say Light dropping May 6 through Play It Again Sam. On his second album, ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’, he pushes even further in all directions than on ‘Peanut Butter Blues’, mixing the abstract and the concrete with uncanny skill. Industrial beats, sonorous piano lines and hyper-detailed ornamentation provide a backdrop for an artist who sounds ever more like a man old before his time.

MP3 – Belgian Fog : Wait for Help

Belgian Fog hails from Seattle via LA – recording, mixing, and mastering his entire project solo from his  home studio. There are lots of contemporary bands and producers/influences  in here, but a big influence for this project is the songwriter/chanteur Jacques Brel, who could sing his philosophy through realistic characters he’d invented.

MP3 – Still Corners : Berlin Lovers / Fireflies

Download the new track ” Berlin Lovers” and “Fireflies” from London’s Still Corners, off the upcoming album Strange Pleasures, dropping this May on Sub Pop.

MP3 – Nervous Nellie : Gloves (Adam Boy Remix)

 Swedish quartet Nervous Nellie sound like a mash of Phoenix against Peter Bjorn and John. They just dropped their first US release – an EP centered around title track “Gloves”. As a bonus, we have the song remixed by ‘Adam Boy’ (Shout Out Louds).

MP3 – Hibou : Glow / Hollow

19 year-old Seattleite Peter Michel aka Hibou spent a year touring North America and Europe as the drummer of Craft Spells (Captured Tracks),then began creating his own music. “Dreamy and washed out. There’s a bit of Beach Fossils’ summer haze in there and even DIIV’s repetitive, kraut tones.” (The Line of Best Fit)

MP3 – Glass Candy : Gheto Boys / Iko Iko

Italians Do It Better just posted up Glass Candy‘s old Geto Boys/Iko Iko track for free download on soundcloud.

Recorded In 2008.
Sampled From The Geto Boys 1991 Hit “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”.
We Also Sampled The Classic Isaac Hayes Track “Hung Up On My Baby” From 1974.
Ida Sings Sugarboy Crawford’s “IKO IKO” Over The Beat.

“…FOR A GOOD TIME….CALL 1-800-GLASS-CANDY…”

Everyone Keeps Asking Me To Put This Ultra Rare 12″ Online…
Enjoy!

xo
Johnny Jewel

MP3 – Big Black Delta : Side of The Road

Big Black Delta’s new single “Side of The Road” is a slice of rocky, distorted, melodic loveliness, from the LA group who has been praised by everyone from Jay-Z to Dave Navarro. The debut album will be out on April 9th and the band will also perform at SXSW.

MP3 – Sin Fang : Young Boys

Icelandic collective Seabear’s founder and mastermind Sindri Már Sigfússon, has offered an exclusive first listen of his third album under the solo guise Sin Fang at Conan O’Brien’s website TeamCoco.

Long time admirers of his work, the renowned skateboard company celebrates the release of Sin Fang’s new album with two special edition decks (below) featuring artwork by Sindri, who has been an avid skateboarder for most of his life. Each deck including a download code for Flowers.

MP3 – Andrew Wyatt : And Septimus…

Andrew Wyatt, better known to most as the front man of indie powerhouse electronic pop band Miike Snowhas announced his first solo project, Descender, slated for release on INGRID/Downtown Records [ INGRID is an imprint and artist collective founded in part by Wyatt and Miike Snow themselves, sharing curation duties with Lykke Li, Peter Bjorn and John, and several others.]
The album, Descender, is a 32 minute meditation into the darker side of Andrew Wyatt not seen on his latest endeavors with Miike Snow. Stay tuned for a more in depth look into the making of Descender captured in a documentary directed by Sebastian Mlynarski that will premier on Creators Project this March.

MP3 – Kill Paris : To A New Earth

LA-based electro funk authority Kill Paris dropped his “To A New Earth” EP today via Skrillex’s OWSLA. It is 3 originals (and six remixes from the likes of Gramatik, Griz and more) perfect for making this Tuesday afternoon all gltiched out.

MP3 – Gypsy & The Cat : Sorry

Grab the new single “Sorry” from Melbourne’s Gypsy & the Cat this week. Gypsy & the Cat has been getting love worldwide since the release of their Gilgamesh album in 2010.  The Late Blue followed in the same trajectory with “Bloom” seeing praise from The Fader, and Pretty Much Amazing cautioning, “don’t say we didn’t warn you about their impending hugeness.”

MP3 – CHVRCHES : Recover

Glasgow’s CHVRCHES unleash their newest  pop anthem, off the band’s upcoming March EP – Recover. 

MP3 – The Splits : Ghosts / Crazy For You

Meet The Splits – an all-girl “rock n’ roll” outfit from Finland, who sound like a clash between Bikini Kill and Best Coast.

EP Free Download – Body Language : Grammar

In preparation of their upcoming second full-length album, Body Language are releasing their Grammar EP for free download on their website! The full-length album, also titled Grammar is set to drop in Summer of 2013 on Lavish Habits. This five-track EP shows how the Brooklyn quartet’s sound has grown since their highly-lauded Social Studies LP; these new sounds streamline the band’s restless pop experiments with a future-shocked blend of soul and R&B. Or as they put it, “Our world still exists in an indie- disco bubble; we’re just pushing the limits of every genre to a point where the bubble’s about to pop.”

 Click Here To Download ‘Grammar’ EP

MP3 – The Strokes : All The Time

Listen to the second new Strokes track – “All the Time”.  BBC Radio host Zane Lowe  premiered the track today from the Strokes’ forthcoming album, Comedown Machine, which  is due out on March 26th.