2011
12.24
12.24
Happy Holidays out there. See you in 2012.
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Stevesy: Fitz and the Tantrums – Santa Stole my Lady tis the season
Gunz: Tom: Kano: noobchumpsky: whacker: |
- SOTW
- SOTW
2011
12.17
12.17
After another long hiatus, we’re back! Thanks to the two fly shorties Lisa and Lindsay for submitting two new tracks this week!
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Stevesy: Nero – Doomsday No reason to pick this track other than the fact I want to kick songs of the week off with a huge bang after a little absence.
Gunz: Tom: Kano: noobchumpsky: whacker: Lisa: Lindsay: |
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2011
12.13
12.13
It’s that wonderful season once again- the one in which you just wanna ruin some fools with concentrated laser-beams. Here’s your anthem. Download it over here.
- Stevesy
2011
11.15
11.15
Deadmau5 has released a cover of Radiohead’s Codex from their latest album ‘The King of Limbs’, choosing to replace Thom Yorke’s haunting vocals with a wash of synths and reverb. According to …Hang the DJ, the cover contains no samples from the original recording. Surprising choice for a cover from the popular DJ but manages to stay quite close to the original track while putting his own fingerprints on the track. A remix this is not.
- Gunz
2011
10.31
10.31
Man Man’s latest video for Piranhas Club depicts a particularly badass group of kids taking a stand against bullying. Inspired by Johnny Depp in John Water’s Cry Baby, the kid’s grease up, rock some leather, win the hearts of some shorties, defenestrate eggs from an overpass, abuse a dead cat, destroy a car and generally just rock the F out. This is my feel good video of 2011.
- Tom
2011
10.28
10.28
Happy Halloween weekend! 7 spooktacluar new tunes! That’s actually not true at all but enjoy regardless!
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Stevesy: The Stone Roses – Fools Gold 16 long years but the reunion’s now official. Now we just sit back and wait for some US dates…
Gunz: Tom: Kano: noobchumpsky: whacker: |
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2011
10.14
10.14
Oh hey guess what it’s the weekend and we’ve got a smorgasbord of new tracks for you to feast on. Stay safe out there amigos!
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Stevesy: Bombay Bicycle Club – Shuffle Been meaning to post this track for months. Easily one of the catchiest tunes of the year and anyone who says otherwise is wrong so there.
Gunz: Tom: Kano: noobchumpsky: whacker: Mark: Dan Tan: |
- SOTW
2011
10.13
10.13
Radiohead, who could easily sell out Madison Square Garden in a matter of minutes (if not seconds), recently performed two shows at Manhattan’s Roseland Ballroom, capacity 3500. Our pal Gunner and his magic fingers were somehow able to score 2 tickets via Ticketmaster for the second show, and it was confirmed: we were going to see Radiohead at what will most likely be the smallest venue of our lifetimes. Needless to say, we were both incredibly excited to see our favorite band in such an intimate venue, and it was a show I will surely never forget.
Their setlist (which you can see below) may not seem like the greatest Radiohead setlist of all time, especially on paper. But it was pretty clear, the band is warming up for a much larger tour in 2012, and they set out to play a lot of their newer material, particularly from their last few records and The King of Limbs. They also made it a point to play three new songs, only one of which has been released in some form (Supercollider). Keep on reading below to get some of my inpressons of the show, see some of my photos from the night, and watch the whole entire concert if you so please (just click each track in the setlist).
- Tom
2011
10.12
10.12
Who are we to say if Lana Del Rey is really the “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” she claims to be or just a ruthlessly-cruel creation of some 5th ave record execs. All we know is we kinda like her style. Peep her flaunt it live on the inimitable Jools Holland’s show above. Real or fake, we haven’t heard the last from this chick.
- Stevesy
2011
10.12
10.12
Paul Basic is one of the latest DJs on the Pretty Light’s label, and he is well suited for it. His downtempo electro hop keeps you grooving from the start of the album to the finish, just like Pretty Lights producer Derek Vincent Smith originally does.
Pulling sounds from many other of the electro-hop/glitch-hop/whatever-the-hell-people-are-calling-it-hop artists while mixing in his own dusty samples and hard beats, Paul Basic is easily able to draw you into the music, and does an excellent job at setting a mood. Interestingly, he still very clearly uses a verse, chorus, and bridge structure, which gives each track clear highs and lows.
My favorite tracks of the album, Daydream and Daylit, are below the break, and download the whole album here.
- whacker
2011
10.11
10.11
DJ Shadow is out with a new album, The Less You Know The Better. Check out the video for the first single, Border Crossing.
- Kano
2011
10.10
10.10
Charismatic. The word which should be used to describe the genuine duo from Sheffield, Slow Club. However up until 18 days ago, the prominent word floating around used to describe the pair’s sound was twee. Their edgy and memorising performance at Lancaster Library was far from the dainty and sugary descriptions previously used in conjunction with them, however. Their debut album “Yeah, So” was the initiator of these comments and the time between this and their new album “Paradise” has seen them grow not just with age and as people but in regards to their music too. In their own words:
“We’ve done so much since the first album. Like some of the songs on the first one we wrote when we were like sixteen, and you’re not writing the best thing you’ve ever done when you’re sixteen! So it’s good to take what you have learnt emotionally and everything and it’s kind of capturing what we always wanted. I always felt like “I wish we’d done that on the first record” and it was a chance to do that this time.”
Their new album has received much praise, with Rebecca’s ardent and passionate voice twinned with Charles’ equally strong yet warm sound showing off their musical compatibility. Harmonies flow, interweaving throughout the album creating interesting dimensions, meaning boredom and repetition is avoided. Catchy beats and heartfelt lyrics lead the way, particularly in “Beginners” and “Where I’m Waking” with energy and passion at the forefront. However there is a nice mixture with more mellow, caressing tunes such as “Hackney Marsh” or “Gold Mountain.”
We caught up with them to see how they felt about their new album and our interesting venue.
- Stevesy
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