MP3 – Classixx : All You’re Waiting For
Classixx are giving away their summer anthem “All You’re Waiting For”, which got Best New Track honors from Pitchfork. The bouncy tune featuring Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem is free via iTunes Single of the Week. Their debut album Hanging Gardens is out now.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-youre-waiting-for-feat./id643409609
Album Stream – Nightlife : Days in Other Days
An album written over the course of more than a year, the story throughout is an eclectic compilation of loves lost and found. The result is a sort of synth based diary: personal and poetically candid.
MP3 – FTHRSN: Middle School Swag
Immediate download of FTHRSN’s 7-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
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.
Album Stream – Prudence Rees-Lee : Court Music from the Planet of Love
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.
Southern Band Radar – Dillon Hodges
If You Like: The Civil Wars, Merle Haggard, Ben Harper, Bob Dylan, check out Dillon Hodges.
Dillon Hodges plays Americana in the spirit of old-time music (bluegrass, folk, country and soul) with a deep bluesy voice and haunting melodies. His debut full-length album, Rumspringa drops May 14.
MP3 – Peace : Follow Baby
Here is the new single “Follow Baby” from the new Peace album – IN LOVE.
Album Stream – Dead Owls : Small Talk
Western Australian duo Dead Owls are streaming their special breed of garage-pop from their debut EP titled Small Talk with ONLY CHILD.
New Release – The Strokes : Comedown Machine
The strokes’ fifth studio album Comedown Machine is out today. If you didn’t pre-order, you can now stroll over to iTunes to grab it instantly or you can order the physical album on Amazon or directly from the band’s official store. limited edition black vinyl and t-shirt bundles are still available at the store that include instant album downloads too.
The band is gearing up for more announcements, coming soon. You can enter-to-win an exclusive vinyl test pressing of Comedown Machine by letting the band know your favorite track from the album on Twitter using hashtag #ComedownMachine. More details and official rules can be found here.
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)
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