March 23, 2012 · 9:56 am

Introducing: Danny Avila

Danny Avila, the 16-year-old Spanish DJ and producer who recently floored clubbers in London and Germany with astonishing debut performances alongside the likes of Fedde le Grand and Martin Solveig, announced today his official summer residency at Blue Marlin Ibiza.

The iconic venue, which each year plays host to the beautiful, the jet-set and the who’s who of Balearic royalty, welcomes Avila as their youngest ever resident – and in doing so adds its weight to the growing numbers inside the industry swiftly touting Danny as one of the most exciting talents to hit house for years.

To give you just a taste of what Blue Marlin can expect from Avila, check out his official video from Ministry of Sound in London. Making his first ever UK appearance at the express invitation of le Grand for the Dutchman’s roadblock Takeover party back in February, his two and a half hour set blew the capital’s collective clubbing mind. In the words of one London clubber, “Danny Avila was the madness – he’s one of the DJs of the year!”

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March 23, 2012 · 9:40 am

Video: Morgan Page – Body Work ft. Tegan and Sara (+ more T+S news!)

Canadian pop-rock icons Tegan and Sara are in the studio recording their as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2009 album Sainthood.

“Sara and I are trying to step outside of our comfort zones and push ourselves to the extreme with this one so get ready for a whole new T+S sound!” Tegan says. “We strive to keep things fresh and exciting with each new record and I definitely feel like we’re accomplishing that so far.”

Fans can keep up with their progress via an online web series “Carpool Confessional,” which captures them in the car as they travel to and from the studio each day. New episodes (which have featured such special guests as fun., Sia, and AFI’s Hunter Burgan) are posted every Tuesday on www.teganandsara.com. Rolling Stone is documenting the action as well, with new photojournals being posted every Wednesday. See the ongoing behind-the-scenes photo gallery here. Alternative Press also ran a Q&A with Tegan about working on the new album.

 

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March 21, 2012 · 3:58 pm

The Voice Project

This video is related to the terror caused by the menace that is Joseph Kony.  Appropriately timed while interest is very high because of the Kony 2012 project, this video is about the mothers of the children stolen and forced to kill in Kony’s army. They are hoping to reach their children via radio broadcasts by calling and singing to them to let them know they are forgiven and to please come home.  There is NO other way for these mothers to get messages to these kids in the jungle.

The Voice Project raises money to build the radio towers throughout and around the jungle.  Please watch this video (actually made by Invisible Children co-founder Bobby Bailey, who shot a lot of Kony 2012).  It encourages people to buy a scarf with the money going to build the towers.

Please share the video. This project coupled with any efforts to actually stop Kony could yield real results for the first time in over a decade.

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March 20, 2012 · 10:44 am

The Flaming Lips Exclusive Album for Record Store Day

In between one-off shows scattered around the world in the past several months The Flaming Lips have still found time to record a series of unique and experimental sessions for an album featuring a diverse cross-section of heavy friends from every corner of the musical cosmos. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends includes vocal and musical assistance from such disparate playmates as Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bon Iver, Ke$ha and many more.

Some of these tracks have already appeared on previously released, extremely limited edition color vinyl 12″ EPs released in past months, which sold out as soon as they became available. Most of the tracks on the album are being released here for the first time and will surprise even the most ardent LIPS fans.

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends will be pressed on two high-quality, multi-color vinyl discs housed in separate custom art jackets and poly bagged together. No two discs will look exactly alike. This double album will be very limited and released exclusively for RECORD STORE DAY. Once it’s gone, it will not be repressed again making THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS the most anticipated RSD release this year.

Track-listing for The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is as follows:

Side 1:

Side 2:

  • Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee (featuring Prefuse 73)
  • Children Of The Moon (featuring Tame Impala)
  • That Ain’t My Trip (featuring Jim James of My Morning Jacket)
  • You, Man?  Human?  (featuring Nick Cave)

Side 3:

  • I’m Working At NASA On Acid (featuring Lightning Bolt)
  • Do It! (featuring Yoko Ono)
  • Is David Bowie Dying? (featuring Neon Indian)

Side 4:

  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (featuring Erykah Badu)
  • Thunder Drops (featuring New Fumes)
  • I Don’t Want You To Die (featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay)

About Records Store Day:

Record Store Day is managed by the Music Monitor Network and is organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS), the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) and celebrates the culture of independent record stores by playing host to in-store events/performances, signings and special product releases on a global scale on Saturday, April 21st, 2012.

For more about National Record Store Day, please visit www.recordstoreday.com

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March 19, 2012 · 10:39 am

Video: Clock Opera – “Man Made”

Their debut album Ways To Forget is out on 23 April on Moshi Moshi / Island Records.

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March 19, 2012 · 10:27 am

MP3: Lux – “Coroner’s Office”

Seattle duo Lux has issued another peek into the sound of its debut album We Are Not The Same, due for release on April 3rd, 2012.  The new single “Coroner’s Office” follows up the album’s first single “The Window” which was recently featured as a Magnet Magazine “MP3 At 3PM” and on the KEXP “Music That Matters” podcast.

The band wrote “Coroner’s Office” “in an addled haze of oblivion” according to the male half of the duo, David Chandler. “I was watching a lot of ‘Forensic Files’ and ‘Cold Case Files.’ There was a channel that ran this stuff 24/7. I also saw documentaries about Gacy, Gein and Dahmer. This inspired song ideas and “Coroner’s Office” seemed to encapsulate these ideas the most. The song ended up being recorded at the very last minute for inclusion on the album.”

Inspired by some of the most essential artists of the era of indie and underground music (Pavement, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The Magnetic Fields, The Jesus & Mary Chain, New Order, Blondie), Leah Rosen and David Chandler trade off vocals, guitars, synths and drum programming on We Are Not The Same which they also wrote, recorded and mixed themselves. The album is due for release on April 3rd.

Listen/download: Lux – “Coroner’s Office”

Track Listing: 

01. Coroner’s Office

02. Out Of Love

03. The Window

04. Valerie, They’ll Never Understand

05. Little Cripple

06. X

07. Cerebellar Ataxia

08. Candy Lux

09. Cachexia

10. A Study In Apathy (Drugs, Etc)

11. 1000 Airwaves

12. I’ll Try To Ignore The Fact That You’re Drowning

13. Blackout

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March 15, 2012 · 11:27 am

Video: Escort – “Why Oh Why” and SXSW Schedule

Escort has been setting dance floors ablaze with their disco-infused beats, irresistibly catchy hooks and seductive live show since releasing a series of 12” singles in 2006. Those who have not had a chance to experience the band’s energized live show will have several chances to catch the band at SXSW including the outdoor stage at SPIN Magazine’s show @ Stubbs. The band will also play a special Last.FM “Live In NYC show on March 23.

For an early taste of the 17-piece disco party powerhouse, check out the brand new “Why Oh Why” video, created by Marisol Baltierra.

Escort Tour Dates

  • 3/16: SXSW @ Stubbs, (SPIN Party), 1:30pm
  • 3/16: SXSW @ Empire Automotive (Keep A Breast Foundation, Official Showcase), 1am
  • 3/17: SXSW @ Malverde (Bond Showcase), 7:30-8:15pm DJ SET
  • 3/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl w/ DFA DJs, Last.FM “Live In NYC”

Escort’s highly anticipated self-titled debut record has received acclaim from New York Times, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, WNYC Soundcheck, The Village Voice, RCRD LBL and more. The seventeen-member “disco orchestra”, founded by producers Eugene Cho and Dan Balis, and fronted by lead singer Adeline Michèle, features an incredible cast of musicians who have played with everyone from indie-rock titans Arcade Fire to avant-classical luminaries Alarm Will Sound. Steeped in the venerable tradition of club-land’s holy trinity, New York, Chicago, and Detroit, Escort’s self-titled new album pays homage to mutant-pop luminaries such as Kid Creole and the Coconuts & Ian Dury.While embracing the legacy of these forward-thinking but classic acts, Escort has managed to create something strikingly new.

Featuring the theatrical masterpiece “Caméleon Chameleon,” the piercing horns and silky smooth vocals of “A Bright New Life” and “Makeover” which effortlessly explores the lost possibilities of another era the album also includes versions of their 12” DJ releases remixed, re-mastered, rearranged, and re-recorded specially for the LP, completing the album as a sonic experience from beginning to end. Escort’s long-awaited debut LP was released January 31st on vinyl and CD as well as iTunes and all digital retailers through Escort Records.

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March 15, 2012 · 10:57 am

Download: Midnight Magic – “Drop Me A Line” (Holy Ghost Remix)

Serving up a feast of funk, disco, electro and soul, Midnight Magic has unleashed banger after banger including their dancefloor smash, “Beam Me Up.” The Drop Me A Line single which features remixes from Holy Ghost, Juan Maclean and more was released last October and today the band has released the “Drop Me A Line” (Holy Ghost Remix) MP3 with RCRD LBL.

Listen/download: Midnight Magic – “Drop Me A Line” (Holy Ghost Remix)

Receiving accolades from Pitchfork to BrooklynVegan, for What The Eyes Can’t See, the nine-piece party powerhouse will perform live at Brooklyn Bowl on March 24th to celebrate the official release of the EP April 3 on Midnight Sounds. The special new package will feature several previously unreleased b-sides.

What The Eyes Can’t See EP Tracklist
1. What The Eyes Can’t See
2. Heat
3. Julio
4. Calling Out
5. Psycho For Your Love (Bonus)
6. Magic Midnight (Bonus)

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March 15, 2012 · 10:47 am

Video: Fedde le Grand, Deniz Koyu & Johan Wedel – Turn it

Fedde le Grand returns with his first track of 2012, the Deniz Koyu & Johan Wedel collaboration “Turn It”. Check out the cool video above that makes the viewer feel kinda like they’re in on a part of the whole collaboration.

After FIVE Beatport no.1 hits last year alone, the world has been on tenterhooks to see what Fedde unleashes as his first production of the new year – and from the first listen it’s safe to say “Turn It” totally smashes it.

Classic le Grand with an electric Koyu and Wedel twist, the track has unsurprisingly proved a hit with the biggest EDM artists throwing their considerable support behind it.

Fedde le Grand, Deniz Koyu & Johan Wedel – “Turn It” is released through Flamingo Recordings and available exclusively on Beatport from March 19th.

 

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March 12, 2012 · 2:19 pm

Video: Eric Hutchinson – “Watching You Watch Him”

“Watching You Watch Him,” the first single from Eric Hutchinson’s upcoming album Moving Up Living Down, tied with Coldplay’s new single for Most Added in its first week at Triple A radio, where it has since rocketed into the Top 20. “Watching You Watch Him” is already Top 50 at the Hot AC format and was heard in the opening minutes of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy season premiere.

Fans who purchase the single on iTunes will instantly receive a free download of the teaser video for “Breakdown More.” Originally included on his independently released live EP Before I Sold Out, “Breakdown More” has been a fan favorite, so Hutchinson at last included it on Moving Up Living Down.

Hutchinson, a Warner Bros. Records artist, will kick off a headlining tour at Denver’s Bluebird Theatre on April 17th, coinciding with the release date of Moving Up Living Down. Moving Up Living Down is the follow-up to Hutchinson’s full-length debut album, Sounds Like This, which entered Billboard’s Heatseekers chart at No. 1 and featured the Triple A No. 1 singe “Rock & Roll.”

From its first single “Watching You Watch Him,” which Perezhilton.com likened to “a happier version of Adele’s ‘Someone Like You,'” to the reggae lilt of opener “Talk is Cheap,” and a smoking celebration of classic soul music entitled “The Basement,” Moving Up Living Down taps a spectrum of influences that includes Paul Simon, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder and integrates them into a truly Hutchinsonian whole. Moving Up Living Down makes good on the promise of Sounds Like This, which Popmatters.com hailed as “refreshingly inventive and uniquely soulful” and The Washington Post praised for its “clever songs, quirky grooves.”

Hutchinson was selected as a VH1 “You Oughta Know” artist and performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

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