It’s here! the debut album from Two Door Cinema Club, Tourist History is available TODAY for your listening pleasure. Finally, an entire album to go along with all the hype the band’s been receiving. Click here to check it out on Amazon. Oh, and my favorite track (because I know how much you care) is “What You Know.”
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Though only recently launching his solo career, Rene Lopez is one of the more enduring figures on the New York music scene. He has been writing and performing music in New York since the early 90s when he was part of The Authority, a cult favorite and staple of venues like Nightingales and The Wetlands. More recently, Rene’s high-energy solo shows at Nublu have earned Rene a reputation as one of the best performers in The Lower East Side and The East Village, playing a version of latin soul that pays tribute to the that area’s past. In many ways, it’s musical style that’s at the heart of his upbringing. The son of a trumpet player in the Latin band Tipica ‘73, Bronx native Rene grew up in the salsa clubs of New York City and from the first moment he stepped inside a club, Rene was hooked on live music, and choosing to spend his life creating it “felt so natural that there was never a thought that I would do anything else.” His father’s influence, along with the influences of Rene’s own favorite artists, contributes to a unique and distinct sound all Rene’s own. (From: MusicRemedy)
Rene’s new album People Are Just People, will be out May 4th through Liberation Label. Click here to check out the video for his new single from the album “Wednesday.” Honestly, I hadn’t really listened to Rene’s stuff previously, but after listening to “Wednesday” and checking out some of his other stuff, I’m a big, big fan. It’s catchy, it’s happy, it’s fun. Think Lou Bega but even cooler.
Aaaaand, if you’re in New York, be sure to check out his release party at Nublu on the day of the release, May 4th.
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The new Hot Hot Heat album Future Breeds will be out June 8 through Dangerbird Records.
The band’s fourth album is a call to action. After leaving their previous label, the foursome stripped away all the unnecessary elements in their lives, built their own studio in Vancouver, and emerged renewed and recharged. The resulting record is at once propulsive and volcanic, and fueled, as ever, by candy-coated melodies that hurl you through Bays’ lyrical world.
Over the years, the Canadian band has delivered their kinetic brand of rock and roll live to thousands, toured the world with bands such as Modest Mouse, Kings Of Leon, The Walkmen and Queens of the Stone Age, and released several albums, garnering praise from everyone from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone and Spin who described their sound as “aggressively exuberant funk-punk.”
Here’s the tracklist for all to see:
1. YVR
2. 21@12
3. Times A Thousand
4. Implosionatic
5. Goddess On The Prairie
6. Zero Results
7. Future Breeds
8. JFK’s LSD
9. Jedidiah
10. Buzinezz Az Uzual
11. What Is Rational?
12. Nobody’s Accusing You (Of Having A Good Time)
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It’s been 2 years since Foals blew us away with Antidotes. I cannot wait to hear their new album, Total Life Forever, and it seems I’m not the only one. (It’ll be available May 10th!)
Click here to listen to “Balloons” from Antidotes (my favorite old song of theirs)
AND then be SURE to click here and watch the video for their new single “This Orient”
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Go to MGMT’s website where you can have a listen to Congratulations, the entire new album (via streaming). ALREADY! As in…NOW!!!
(Still can’t physically have it until April 13th, though.)
What do you think of it?!?!
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Pitchfork’s got it! Click here to go listen to the new single from LCD Soundsystem’s upcoming new album This Is Happening.
When’s the album set for release? MAY 18th!
From Pitchfork:
James Murphy told us that the song is “about drunk people and fun things and the fact that all of the boys of the L.A. mansion we recorded at were called ‘the girls’ by our chef. We were the ladies of the mansion.”
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Danger Mouse and James Mercer’s collaborative project Broken Bells FINALLY released their self-title debut today.
Track listing: (my favorites are in BOLD)
1. The High Road
2. Vaporize
3. Your Head Is On Fire
4. The Ghost Inside
5. Sailing To Nowhere
6. Trap Doors
7. Citizen
8. October
9. Mongrel Heart
10. The Mall & Misery
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We still have a few weeks to wait for MGMT’s new album Congratulations to hypnotize our ears, BUT Spinner has put up a stream of their first single “Flash Delirium.” Click here to get there and listen! Hurry!
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Ninjasonik – Daylight Remix
The trio Ninjasonik is unleashing a raw and uncut synthesis of styles with their Art School Girls full length debut album via Green Owl / Chief Records due April 20th, 2010. Green Owl is a label that is ahead of the game in itself by respecting the planet both economically and environmentally through sustainable technology, news, and information.
The Brooklyn trio has established themselves as the next generation of live hip hop by creating a synergy between their rhymes and a newly evolved performance art in the making. Having shared the stage with artists such as Spank Rock, Dan Deacon and The Cool Kids, Ninjasonik has melded enough sounds to bring in fans across all genres.
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Prolific remixer Classixx has produced a light and playful remix of Groove Armada’s Black Light highlight “Paper Romance,” replacing the hard four-to-the-floor of the original track with bubbling synths, softly skittering drums, and delicate, swooning guitars that bring out the passionate vocal takes from SaintSavior and Fenech-Soler.
Click here for a free download!
And guess what other remix I’ll be sharing with you soon? DAN DEACON’S remix, that’s who! Whoooo!!!
Also, here’s some upcoming tour dates for Groove Armada:
03/19: San Francisco, CA @ Grand Ballroom
03/20: San Bernardino, CA @ NOS Events Center (DJ Set)
03/21: Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
03/22: Los Angeles, CA @ KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic
03/24: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
03/26: Miami, FL @ Ultra Music Festival
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