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Highly Anticipated: The Hood Internet

Chicago DJ duo, The Hood Internet, featuring STV SLV and ABX, are releasing their debut album of original material, FEAT with Decon on September 18, 2012.  The Hood Internet are infamous for their mixtapes featuring blends of a wide array of artists including the late Whitney Houston, Justice, Fleetwood Mac, Jay-Z and more. Their foray into production work has found them collaborating on new songs with hyped rappers and artists from across the nation that range from Chicago artist Show You Suck to Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco. This release marks The Hood Internet’s first completely original, sample-free album with vocal and instrumental collaborations highlighting different artists including erudite rapping by Psalm One on ‘More Fun’, synth-pop trio Class Actress alongside Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon on the chimerical ‘Critical Captions’ and the infectious track ‘Won’t Fuck Us Over’ featuring the raw energy of Chicago group BBU.

Since the inaugural release of their first, critically acclaimed mixtape in 2007, their rise to glory has steadily landed them performances at festivals like Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, SXSW, CMJ, Pitchfork’s #Offline, Mad Decent Block Party, and The Roots Picnic.  When they aren’t busy playing huge festivals or touring the country,  they’re releasing upwards of 500 mixes on their website, leading to millions of free downloads since their start in 2007.  The Hood Internet will be going on a west coast run with Psalm One and Tanya Morgan in July and August.  A national tour will take place in September and October, coinciding with the album’s release.

FEAT TRACK LISTING:

  1. Critical Captions (ft Class Actress, Cadence Weapon)
  2. One For The Record Books (ft AC Newman, Sims)
  3. More Fun (ft Psalm One, TOBAXXO)
  4. Nothing Should Be A Surprise (ft Isaiah Toothtaker, Show You Suck)
  5. Exonerated (ft Zambri, Hooray For Earth, Junior Pande)
  6. Won’t Fuck Us Over (ft BBU, Annie Hart)
  7. Do You Give Up Now? (ft Donwill, My Gold Mask, Junior Pande)
  8. Our Finest China (ft The Rosebuds, Astronautalis)
  9. Uzi Water Gun (ft Millionyoung, Kenan Bell, The Chain Gang Of 1974)
  10. These Things Are Nice (ft Kid Static, Slow Witch, Kleenex Girl Wonder)

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

  • SAT JUN 22 – Beauty Ballroom, Austin TX
  • WED JUL 25 – Wild Buffalo, Bellingham WA*
  • THU JUL 26 – Chop Suey, Seattle WA*
  • FRI JUL 27 – Mississippi Studios, Portland OR*
  • TUE JUL 31 – Catalyst Atrium, Santa Cruz CA*
  • WED AUG 1 – The Independent, San Francisco CA*
  • THU AUG 2 – Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa CA*
  • FRI AUG 3 – The Central, Santa Monica CA*
  • SAT AUG 4 – Casbah, San Diego CA*
  • THU AUG 9 – U Street Music Hall, Washington DC
  • SAT AUG 11 – Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn NY

* with Psalm One and Tanya Morgan

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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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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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Highly Anticipated: Poolside

This early taste from Poolside’s debut album (due in 2012) is this gorgeous, thumping slice of anthemic disco-pop. Poolside’s Filip and Jeff filmed this video during a wilderness excursion into the legendary Red Rock landscape of Sedona, Arizona. LOVE.

 

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Free Download: Exlovers – “Starlight, Starlight”

After a busy year touring with Noah and the Whale and recording their debut album “MOTH”, Exlovers have a new single available from the album…and you download it right here, right now – for free!

Download: Exlovers – “Starlight, Starlight”

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Free Download: The Hood Internet’s Debut Album!

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I’m very happy to present to you the newest release from Chicago duo The Hood Internet, a self-titled compilation of original remixes and production. Known for their amazing mashups (many of which were showcased on their two prior  releases with Мишка, Trillwave and Trillwave 2), The Hood Internet are also bangin’ producers and remixers. The proof is in this album.

For over four years, Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV)  have been blogosphere maintstays with their musical work as The Hood  Internet. Seeing the opportunity in a genre that many had written off,  The Hood Internet almost single handedly ran the mashup game.

If you’ve heard their music, you know they ran it well. However,  during that time they’ve also been hard at work on original material and remixes, many of which are collected here for the first time. We  already premiered “The Future,” the first single off the comp, and now the whole thing is available for streaming and free download.

Enjoy production for artists like Ninjasonik, BBU, Das Racist, Johnny Nelson, Freddie Gibbs and original remixes of songs by Tobacco, Foster The People, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, and many more.

As expected, it’s another great entry into the constantly expanding  Hood Internet canon. Also be sure to check out the video for the  story behind their cover art (I’ll give you a hint: it involves over  $400 worth of Taco Bell).

Free Download: The Hood Internet – The Hood Internet (self-titled debut)

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Newest Love: Pajama Club

Pajama Club, the new band from Crowded House and Split Enz frontman Neil Finn, are getting to release their self-titled debut album this Tuesday September 13th on Lester Records/Redeye.  For a taste of what to expect check out the band’s eye-popping video for opening track “Tell Me What You Want.”  The track is a tete-a-tete between singers Neil and his wife Sharon Finn, who coyly blend heaving breathing and falsetto vocals.

Like “Tell Me What You Want,” the rest of the album, the song is anchored by a massive rhythms and quirky electronics, topped off by Neil and Sharon’s back-and-forth vocals. The pair have an alluring natural chemistry that forms the core of the band.  Pajama Club has a wonderfully spontaneous feel to it, which stems from the way in which it was recorded.  The skeleton of the songs were formed when Neil and Sharon began jamming together just for fun at home, drinking wine, wearing pajamas and realizing they had something going on, bigger than just raw grooves.

Eventually Neil added additional layers of guitar, keys, and other melodic lines to the bare-bones songs while he toured with Crowded House in 2009.  The final piece of the puzzle came when Sean Donnelly began rounding out the tracks with electronic loops and texture, in a similarly independent, creative, and organic fashion that Neil and Sharon had first begun.

Pajama Club’s debut bursts with a joyous, free spirited energy at every turn.  However it is Neil and Sharon’s impeccable melodies that bring it all together – burrowing in the listener’s brain while giving each song an immediate likeability.

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Check ‘Em Out: White Wives (Pittsburgh Natives!)

In anticipation of their forthcoming debut LP Happeners, due June 28 on Adeline Records, White Wives have premiered “Indian Summer, Indian Summer” on their website. Their tour kicks off tomorrow with their record release party here in their hometown of Pittsburgh!

This quartet brings together Western Pennsylvanian natives Anti-Flag’s Chris “#2” Barker and Chris Head, Roger Harvey of Dandelion Snow and Tyler Kweder of American Armada. While they share a hometown, they have as many creative and ideological similarities as they do differences. “I think our varying influences are what helps create the sound and aesthetic of White Wives,” offers “2”. “I grew up listening to a lot of music from the mid nineties: Nirvana, Pixies.” Harvey, on the other hand, cites traditional literary songwriters: “Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons. Of course Dylan and Woody Guthrie.” The diversity of inspiration speaks volumes about their creative origins, and serves as a reminder to set pre-conceived notions aside and allow the music to be the voice. The collection of 11 tracks range from high-gain electric rock n’ roll, to punk/indie rock, to carefully orchestrated acoustic songs.

White Wives is not, nor was ever intended as a side project. “I think that anyone who goes into listening to our record believing that it is an Anti-Flag ‘side project’ is going to be surprised and to be honest, perhaps a bit shocked,” affirms #2. The band will tour in support of the release, beginning in June, alongside quintet Touche Amore and Balance & Composure. They promise to bring a raucous live show – the stage is left in disarray after every set.

Happeners Track List

1. Indian Summer, Indian Summer

2. Sky Started Crying

3. Hungry Ghosts

4. Spinning Wheels

5. Paper Chaser

6. Another City For A New Weekend

7. Hallelujah, I’m Mourning

8. Grow So Wild & Free

9. The Devil’s Alibi

10. Let It Go

11. Like A Runaway Slave

WHITE WIVES TOUR DATES

June 24 – Pittsburgh, PA – 222 Ormsby/record release show*

June 26 – Altoona, PA – The Archway Center

June 27 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s

June 28 – Toledo, OH – Frankies

June 29 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme

June 30 – DeKalb, IL – House Café

July 1 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews

July 2 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club

July 3 – Milwaukee, WI – The Project Lodge

July 5 – Toronto, ON, CANADA – The Horseshoe Tavern*

July 6 – Ottawa, ON, CANADA – Mavericks

July 7 – Quebec City, QC, CANADA – Café L’ Agitee

July 8 – Montreal, QC, CANADA – Divan Orange^

July 9 – Albany, NY – TBA^

July 10 – Brooklyn, NY – The Party Expo^

* without Touche Amore

^ White Wives only

 Pre-Order Happeners

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Newest Love: French Horn Rebellion

Watch the video for “Up All Night”

“Next big thing…Electro” New York Times
“Irresistible, panting synth-pop, with fat new wave key tones and ecstatic vocals.” Pitchfork
“A roller-coaster ride of an album that is as uplifting as it is beguiling” Q Magazine
“Warp speed eclectic” Time Out London

French Horn Rebellion (Robert and David Perlick-Molinari) kick off 2011 by announcing the US self-release of their debut album The
Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion
on April 19th digitally and May 24th physically (Once Upon A Time Records) and play 27 North American live shows supporting French electro pop outfit Yelle starting 17th April. MySpace Music exclusively premieres the band’s debut early, go here to listen to it.

Written, produced and mixed by Robert and David, ‘The Infinite Music…’ is a debut album that warps the fabric of dance, electro, rock and funk and may just turn out to be a contender for this year’s most ambitious, multi-faceted and engaging debut album. Crucially, the album also follows an intergalactic narrative that tracks the physical and emotional journey of an unknown French Horn player. “There is a story running through the album, it’s about the Universe. We’re pretty clear on what the story is, but what you take away from it may be something entirely different,” says David.

These two unassuming brothers, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have already toured and played with the likes of Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, The Drums and Cut Copy. The band have also remixed the likes of MEN, Two Door Cinema Club, OMD, Young Empires and Alex Winston.

Check out this hilarious video for “Broken Heart”

You can have a listen at the entire new album on MySpace by clicking here.

Download “This Moment” here

Download “Up All Night” (Clubfeet Remix) here

Download “What I Want” (JD Samson’s EVA HESSE remix) here

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New Downloads: WOLFRAM

Euro and Italo disco, in their purest forms, are undeniably worthy strains of this thing we call club music. Austrian mixer Wolfram believes that the populace often forgets this, and we’re partial to agree—like any genre, there is a lot of bad Euro/Italo out there, clogging our ears with tacky, unimaginative glitter.

This Johan Agebjorn take on “Fireworks” (feat. Hercules & Love Affair) is the first step in Wolfram’s campaign to rid the world’s dancefloors of junk. Supple and slinky, this track is cold new wave, golden ballad, and irresistible 90s-tinged synthpop all in one. — RCRD LBL

The full debut won’t be out until April, but here’s something to hold you over.

WOLFRAM ft Haddaway “Thing Called Love” (Legowelt Remix)
WOLFRAM ft Hercules & Love Affair “Fireworks” (Johan Agebjorn Remix)

 
WOLFRAM’s full-length debut tracklisting

01.  Hold My Breath feat. HOLY GHOST!
02.  Fireworks feat. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR
03.  Out Of Control feat. PAUL PARKER
04.  Roshi (loopable)
05.  Thing Called Love feat. HADDAWAY
06.  Teamgeist feat PATRICK PULSINGER
07.  Norway feat. SEBASTIAN MURAVCHIK (loopable)
08.  So Fine All The Time feat LEGOWELT
09.  All For You feat. DIDI BRUCKMAYER
10.  Hold My Breath (SALLY SHAPIRO version)
11.  Pianopella + Breathless (hidden cd tracks)

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