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January 28, 2012 · 1:39 pm

MP3: Nneka – “My Home” (Coki of Digital Mystikz Remix)

It’s been over two years since Nigerian-German songstress, Nneka, has toured the United States, and with the upcoming release of her third album, Soul Is Heavy, she’s more than ready to return.

Nneka has also just released the Coki (Digital Mystikz) remix of “My Home” (premiered on Fader) which offers listeners a lively rendition of the heartfelt lyrics and powerful vocals derived from the original track. Nneka explains the song as the realization that “there is no peace on Earth until you accept that both bad and good are part of life.”

Encompassing a combination of hip hop beats, reggae grooves, brass riffs and African-pop, Nneka’s album Soul Is Heavy is a raw and honest window into her beliefs of love, pain, politics and God. The album will be released on February 28th on Yo Mama’s Recordings/Decon.

Listen/download: Nneka – “My Home” (Coki of Digital Mystikz Remix)

Nneka Tour Dates

  • 3/6: Vancouver @ The Biltmore Cabaret
  • 3/7: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
  • 3/8: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
  • 3/10: San Francisco, CA @ Red Devil Lounge
  • 3/11: West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour
  • 3/13 – 3/17: Austin, TX @ SXSW
  • 3/18: Houston, TX @ House Of Blues Bronze Peacock
  • 3/21: Chicago, IL @ Double Door
  • 3/23: Toronto @ Virgin Mobile Mod Club “Canadian Music Week”
  • 3/24: Montreal @ Cabaret du Mile End
  • 3/26: Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear’s
  • 3/27: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
  • 3/28: Philadelpha, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
  • 3/29: Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java Music Club & Cafe
  • 3/31: Atlanta, GA @ Vinyl

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January 27, 2012 · 2:16 pm

New Music: Liz Green – “Hey Joe”

Liz is a 28-year-old songwriter from the UK. She first came to prominence in 2007 after winning the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. She followed up winning that prize with the release of her first single “Bad Medicine” in 2008. O. Devotion! is Liz’s first full-length since then, which she recorded with Liam Watson. She also enlisted a New Orleans brass band to create the woozy, brassy arrangements that appear on the album.

Listen/download: Liz Green – “Hey Joe”

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January 26, 2012 · 7:45 pm

Check ‘Em Out: Ane Brun – “Do You Remember”

Much like her music, the path that led Ane Brun to It All Starts With One was peaceful, unhurried and full of unexpected, subtle surprises. It’s taken her from her small Norwegian hometown of Molde, to Barcelona where she was a street performer, and across the US last year supporting Peter Gabriel and singing on his New Blood album. The adventures culminated with the making of her new album It All Starts with One, a platinum hit in Norway for which she just won their Grammy equivalent, the Spellemann award, for best female artist.

Lead single “Do You Remember” is a euphoric, almost tribal track characterized by three drummers and backing vocals from fellow Scandinavians First Aid Kit. Album closer “Undertow” is a widescreen epic that brings the album to a heart-wrenching climax. Ane Brun has created an album full of struggles and the strength it takes to move forward. It All Starts with One is a revelatory work by an uncompromising artist at the height of her powers.

Listen/download: Ane Brune – “Do You Remember”

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January 24, 2012 · 2:56 pm

New track: Plants and Animals – “Lightshow”

“Proggy without being self-indulgent…folky without being boring. They’ve got enough pop chops to keep even the most casual music fan’s ears glued to the stereo.” – KUT Austin

“Punching into the Canadian band’s strolling folk rock are these warm, tall sips of guitar solos. They sound as if they’re conjured from the shag-carpet of an old 70′s studio — it’s palpable as shit.” – Consequence of Sound

“Clocking in at a lean three and a half minutes, ‘Lightshow’ is neither stripped-down or overblown — instead, it’s a perfect example of rock ‘n’ roll precision…that sort of big-time, anthemic rock song that says what it has to say in a half-dozen ways, and as hard as it may try, never goes out of style.” – MTV Hive

Plants and Animals are pleased to announce a North American tour this March and April in support of their new album, The End of That, out February 28 on Secret City. This is the band’s first tour as a four piece, having added a bassist to their live show.

The band will also release a 7” for ‘Lightshow’, the first single off of The End of That, which will be available in stores on the same day as the CD/LP. The 7” features a live cover of Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything” on the B-side. A digital version of the 7” is available now via iTunes and other online retailers.

The live cover comes from the band’s “Live at Breakglass” performance during the Pop Montreal Festival in September of last year. The renowned Montreal studio hosted a combined live recording / intimate concert event as part of the tenth anniversary of the festival. Plants and Animals celebrated the milestone by covering local Montreal acts in addition to performing their own material.

Listen/download: Plants and Animals – “Lightshow”

Tour Dates:

  • Thu. Mar. 8 – Ottawa, ON @ Ritual
  • Fri. Mar. 9 – Quebec, QC @ Le Cercle
  • Sat. Mar. 10 – Montreal, QC @ Le Cabaret du Mile End
  • Mar. 13-18 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
  • Tue. Mar. 20 – Victoria, BC @ Lucky Bar
  • Wed. Mar. 21 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
  • Thu. Mar. 22 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
  • Sat. Mar. 24 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
  • Tue. Mar. 27 – Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room
  • Wed. Mar. 28 – Calgary, AB @ Republik
  • Thu. Mar. 29 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigo’s
  • Fri. Mar. 30 – Winnipeg, AB @ West End Cultural Centre
  • Sat. Mar. 31 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
  • Wed. Apr. 4 – Boston, MA @ TT The Bear’s
  • Thu. Apr. 5 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
  • Fri. Apr. 6 – Washington, DC @ The Red Palace
  • Sat. Apr. 7 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
  • Sun. Apr. 8 – Atlanta, GA @ 529
  • Wed. Apr. 11 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
  • Fri. Apr. 13 – Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree
  • Sat. Apr. 14 – Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe
  • Wed. Apr. 18 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
  • Thu. Apr. 19 – Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
  • Sat. Apr. 21 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace

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January 23, 2012 · 11:55 am

Free Download: Yuksek – “Always on the Run” REMIX by Tom Furse of The Horrors

Album opener “Always on the Run,” sets the album’s underlying tone of chaos and movement grabbing you with a transfixing vocal melody that submerges you into the album. Tomethy Furse of The Horrors recently put his special touch on the song and you can download the “Always On the Run” (Tom Furse Remix) MP3 now!

Listen/download: Yuksek – “Always on the Run” (Tom Furse Remix)

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January 23, 2012 · 11:44 am

Check ‘Em Out: Lux

“…filled with synthy goodness, fuzzy guitars, and purty purty duets, making them a band worthy of your attention” – Three Imaginary Girls

“It’s My Bloody Valentine assaulting The Raveonettes with an antique synthesizer.” – The Devil Has The Best Tuna

The Seattle-based duo Lux has sewn a unique sleeve to wear its influences on. 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), this boy-girl duo offers its own take on these sounds with the debut album We Are Not The Same, set for release on April 3rd, 2012.

Lux was formed in early 2010 when David Chandler, a Seattle transplant from Los Angeles began looking for a girl to form a band with. At the same time, Leah Rosen, a Seattle native with a decade of songwriting experience was looking to team up with a male musician. With some luck (and Craigslist), the pair found each other.

The duo set up shop in Rosen’s basement and set about writing, playing and recording the first Lux songs with Rosen and Chandler trading off on vocals, guitars, synths and drum programming.  The tunes immediately found their way onto the internet in the form of the digital EP, Disorders, released just a scant five months later in July of 2010.

Lux is still contemplating how it will play live (they never have!) as both Rosen and Chandler are self-confessed control freaks susceptible to the unpredictable nature of the stage. “Really, we just haven’t got around to it yet,” says Chandler. “We were actually offered a tour of Europe, but decided to focus on recording the album instead.”

It’s a good thing that they did as our ears are better for it. Check out the single, “The Window” from their debut album, We Are Not The Same, due for release on April 3rd.

Listen/download: Lux – “The Window”

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January 20, 2012 · 5:19 pm

Free Download: Ducky – “Like Rain”

The other day I posted a brand new song and free download from new artist Ducky. Now here’s the video for you to check out, directed by Waverly Mandel.

AND here’s another song for ya, too!

Listen/download: Ducky – “Like Rain”

 

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January 17, 2012 · 7:54 pm

Free Download: Eat More Cake – “Age of Sin”

Click the cake to go listen and download "Age of Sin"

I am IN LOVE with this track from Eat More Cake’s Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream

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January 17, 2012 · 7:37 pm

New Music: AVAN LAVA

The new AVAN LAVA EP Flex Fantasy shows the band in a more high-energy and dance light in contrast to the shoe-gaze chillwave style of their 2010 debut EP Vapors. The self-released six-song EP, mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling, with the first single “It’s Never Over” and highlights “Slow Motion”and “Feels Good” will be available on February 21st. After a sold out Mercury Lounge show, AVAN LAVA added more shows quickly, with 2/11 at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn and 2/25 at Mercury Lounge to preview their EP and before traveling down to Austin for their first ever SXSW Festival in March. Their show has been described as “a trippy MTV Europe Music Awards performance” with energetic sing-along pop tracks and slow R&B-Prince swooners, all while the band’s moves are choreographed by TC and Vanessa Walters (Fischerspooner).

AVAN LAVA have worked as producers, composers and mixers for recorded works and live performances with bands such as Cold Cave, Fischerspooner, CSS, Frankie Rose, SSION, Lemonade, Lia Ices and the prestigious The New York Philharmonic, and have created remixes for R.E.M., Passion Pit and New Villager among others. The band began as a conversation between producers/musicians Le Chev and Ian Pai during an overnight bus ride after performing at the Sao Paulo Bienal with Fischerspooner, a band with which both still work and perform.  That night in the fall of 2008, en route to Rio de Janeiro, Le Chev and Ian shared their love of Prince, Daft Punk, electronic beats, R & B, and indie music and contemplated how those things could all be melded into one sound, one band.  A few months later, back in New York, while at a reading of “The Last Goodbye”, a musical adaptation of Romeo & Juliet set to the music of Jeff Buckley, they discovered vocalist TC.  They knew that they had found the perfect vocalist for their new band the moment he sung the first words of “Corpus Christi Carol.”

AVAN LAVA is singer TC and producers/musicians Le Chev and Ian Pai. Their live performances are with the help of musicians, vocalists and technicians Andrew Schneider (The Wooster Group), Drew Citron and Jo Lampert.

It was like if Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, and the Spice Girls all came together and decided to have a sing/dance off.”– Charged.fm

Listen/Download: AVAN LAVA – “It’s Never Over”

AVAN LAVA – Flex Fantasy EP track listing

01.  Tear it Down

02.  It’s Never Over

03.  Pure As Love

04.  Slow Motion

05.  Sisters

06.  Feels Good

Click here to listen to the Flex Fantasy EP Minimix

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January 16, 2012 · 3:00 pm

Check ’em Out + Free Download: CREEP

Brooklyn producer duo CREEP will release their newest single “Animals” featuring guest vocals from Holly Miranda tomorrow, Tuesday, January 17th.  “Animals” is a ghostly blend of Holly Miranda’s ethereal vocals and CREEP’s sinister beats & string arrangements.

Download: CREEP ft. Holly Miranda – “Animals” (Modern Machines Remix)

CREEP are producers/ DJs Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard. Lauren Flax is an internationally renowned house DJ and producer. Their ghostly debut singles “Days” ft The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft and “You” ft Nina Sky came out earlier this year. Stay tuned for upcoming new releases from CREEP including their debut full length, which will feature collaborations with Planningtorock, Andrew Wyatt & more.

“We’ll be moping to it all night.” – FADER

“putting this one on repeat and indulging in the gothy splendor” – XLR8R

“ …their cadaverous beats at the helm, inspirie us mortals to dance to our deaths.” – RCRD LBL

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