Check out the newest single from Coldplay, “Major Minus.” The band’s new EP, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall, is scheduled to release digitally on June 26th and physically on the 27th.
Here’s the EP’s title track for your listening pleasure, too…incase you haven’t heard it yet.
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The Australian band Strange Talk has been climbing the Hype Machine charts lately with “Climbing Walls”. They now released a video for their other signature track “Eskimo Boy” of their Strange Talk EP, which was released on Neon Gold on May 2nd.
The video for “Eskimo Boy” was first premiered by UK’s Dazed & Confused.
Download: “Eskimo Boy” (Lightwaves Remix)
Download: “Eskimo Boy” (Vanguard Remix)
The last few months have seen Strange Talk flex their musical muscle as a live act, honing their show opening for the likes of The Rapture, Neon Indian and Marina and The Diamonds. Coming off like the perfect hybrid of Friendly Fires and Phoenix with a bit of that Down Under electro touch thrown in for good measure, Strange Talk are one of the most polished and exciting new acts to emerge. Fully equipped with an arsenal of stadium-ready anthems, “Climbing Walls” is all shimmering synths, cascading bass surges and expert delay pedal use, while next single “Eskimo Boy” shines as the bands flagship anthem, churning synths and heavy basslines slowly building up to the kind of dancefloor-swallowing breakdown Neon Gold dreams are made of.
The Strange Talk EP is available for HERE from the Neon Gold website.
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Click image to listen to the new EP at Spinner
This week Datarock has revealed a secret EP titled California. The tracks on the album are excerpts from the forthcoming opus, DATAROCK – the musical! Check out a stream of the full California EP exclusively on AOL Spinner.
And click here to go behind the scenes into the studio for the making of California with Fredrik Saroea.
California is now available digitally on iTunes. The earlier released single, “Catcher In the Rye,” is also available digitally on iTunes.
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On the heels of an extremely successful trip to the UK which landed Luke Rathborne love from NME and the BBC, Luke returns to the US just in time for the release of his debut album, the split EP I Can Be One E.P. / Dog Years E.P., which is out now via Dilettante Recordings.
People have been asking – why the split EP? Rather than muddling his music’s disparate take on the world around him, attempting to intertwine songs written under different circumstances and in different frames of mind, Rathborne decided to offer audiences his ideal window into his headscape – two EPs, each unique in their own right, as one album.
Dog Years EP (stream in its entirety on Soundcloud) embraces Rathborne’s more pop aesthetic – not shiny, happy pop, but effervescent, melancholic pop. The title track offers a cynical poke to not letting the “dog years” pass you by. The material from the I Can Be One EP was penned following Rathborne’s move to New York City after high school and completed with members of Antony and the Johnsons contributing to the arrangements. The material on this EP takes on a somber, darker hue.
But while the tones change, the inspiration is largely the same. “All of the songs – on both EPs – are about being afraid of connecting, because connections open up the possibility of being harmed…It’s interesting that they intersect here, because I’d been playing with the idea of putting them together and seeing how they mix, but this seems a lot more pure – this is my music, this is what I want to say, and this is how I want to say it,” Luke explains.
If you’re headed to SXSW, don’t miss Luke Rathborne when he opens for The Stokes.
Download “I Can Be One” for free here
Download “Dog Years” for free here
LIVE TOUR DATES:
03.11.11 – Vinyl Release Show @ Harvard and Stone – Los Angeles, CA
03.15.11 – The Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA ** (Sold Out)
03.17.11 – Auditorium Shores Stage @ Lady Bird Lake – Austin, TX (SXSW) @@
03.17 – Paste Magazine Stage – Austin, TX (SXSW)
03.18.11 – Filter Showcase @ Cedar St. Courtyard – Austin, TX (SXSW)
03.21.11 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY ** (Sold Out)
** w/ Noah and The Whale
@@ w/ The Strokes
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If you don’t get in quick on Foster the People, you will be sorry. I mean, yeah, you can get in on it later but that’s no fun. That would be like me just now getting into reading the “Twilight” series. Little late — that boat left the docks a looooong time ago.
I think huge things are to come for Foster the People. They are who I’ll be paying attention to this year. Last summer, people fell in love with “Pumped Up Kicks.” Tomorrow, their EP will be released. It’s got three songs: “Helena Beat,” “Houdini,” and “Pumped Up Kicks.” These are the kinds of songs that you never get tired of hearing. That’s rare and awesome.
Check out your new favorite song, “Helena Beat.”
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It’s been since 2007’s Hexes For Exes that we’ve heard from Moving Units. But, now we’ve got a new track to hold us over until their new EP Tension War comes out on Valentine’s Day next year.
Head over to their website for a download of “Pink Redemption.” Also, if you haven’t heard any Moving Units yet, this is what you need to listen to “The Kids From Orange County”:
Tracklist for Tension War:
1) Until She Says
2) Paris, New Mexico
3) Liquid X
4) Pink Redemption
Plus some super secret remixes to be announced…
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Pretty Lights has stayed true to his promise of releasing three EP’s in 2010…and deliver, he has! Glowing In The Darkest Night, the third installment of his trilogy of 2010’s EPs is available now (for free) at his website.
2010 has been quite an exciting year for Pretty Lights. Besides releasing his trilogy of EP’s, Derek Vincent Smith (accompanied by live drummer Adam Deitch) has been busy touring the U.S. and Europe, including many festival appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. He recently surpassed one million album downloads through his website- not bad for an artist who has only been releasing music since 2008. He even surprised his one millionth downloader with a VIP trip to catch him later this month in Las Vegas!
Pretty Lights is touring extensively to support Glowing In The Darkest Night, with the North American tour kicking off Wednesday in Tulsa, and continuing through early December. There’s a New Year’s Eve run of shows taking place at The Congress Theater in Chicago on December 30th and 31st! Supporting the shows will be Major Lazer on the 30th, and Holy Fuck on the 31st.
Check out the last 2 EPS:
Making Up A Changing Mind
Spilling Over Every Side
Upcoming Pretty Lights Tour Dates
October 27 – Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa, OK
October 28 – Lyric Theatre – Oxford, MS
October 29 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
October 30 – Patriot’s Point – Charleston, SC
October 31 – MoogFest 2010 – Asheville, NC
November 2 – Bourbon Street Ballroom – Baltimore, MD
November 3 – Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
November 4 – The National – Richmond, VA
November 5 – House of Blues – Boston, MA – SOLD OUT
November 6 – Washington Avenue Armory – Albany, NY
November 7 – Higher Ground – Burlington, VT – SOLD OUT
November 8 – Higher Ground – Burlington, VT – SOLD OUT
November 10 – Madison Theatre – Covington, KY
November 11 – Boma – Columbus, OH
November 12 – Fillmore – Detroit, MI
November 13 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
November 14 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
November 15 – Sokol Auditorium – Omaha, NE
November 17 – The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
November 19 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
November 20 – McDonald Theatre – Eugene, OR
November 21 – Arcata Community Center – Arcata, CA
November 23 – Knitting Factory – Reno, NV
November 26 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
November 27 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
November 28 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
November 30 – Rialto Theatre – Tucson, AZ
December 1 – The Marquee – Tempe, AZ
December 2 – Sunshine Theatre – Albuquerque, NM
December 3 – Telluride Conference Center – Telluride, CO – SOLD OUT
December 4 – Telluride Conference Center – Telluride, CO – SOLD OUT
December 5 – Belly Up – Aspen, CO – SOLD OUT
December 30 – The Congress Theater – Chicago, IL (w/ Major Lazer)
December 31 – The Congress Theater – Chicago, IL (w/ Holy Fuck)
Click image to listen to and download "The Other Ones"
Boston’s indie-pop quintet The Hush Now is gearing up to self-release their new EP, Shiver Me Starships, on September 28th.
But, til then here’s a new track “The Other Ones” which catches the band at their finest, combining catchy hooks with the bands’ irresistible pop melodies.
The Hush Now Tour Dates
September 24th – New York, NY – The Living Room
October 2nd – Allston, MA – Mad Oak Studios
October 4th – Chicago, IL – Elbo Room
October 6th – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
Colorado-based producer Pretty Lights, aka Derek Vincent Smith, is as good as his word, and his word is clearly great. As promised, he has released his first EP of an ambitious trilogy project, within minutes of finishing it and making the deadline of March 2nd. Making Up a Changing Mind, can now be downloaded for free off of his site by clicking the above image!
Pretty Lights spring tour includes stops at SXSW, Ultra Music Festival and Coachella.
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