The first time I heard this song, the chorus elicited an involuntary “Oh my god wow.” Love it!
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Girls Aloud: The Promise
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Group Dynamics: Pretty bands (Plastiscines, Au Revoir Simone, Amiina, Yo Majesty, Electrelane) look pretty. (via)
Lava: Boys Noize + Wzt Hearts
Grab your swim trunks and sunscreen.
mp3 | Boys Noize - Lava Lava
Don’t be afraid to get your hair wet.
mp3 | Wzt Hearts - Lava Nile
Boys Noize: Official Site | Myspace
Buy Oi Oi Oi: Amazon | Insound
Wzt Hearts: MySpace
Buy Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones: Amazon
Photo credit: Patrick Taschler, APOD
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Daft Punk + Ratatat, SebastiAn & Kavinsky @ LA Sports Arena, 7/21
It’s been almost a week since Daft Punk’s Rainbow Pyramid of Joy touched down (complete with the 5-tone “Close Encounters” greeting) in Los Angeles and shook 20,000 very happy people into a lather. I don’t have much of a review beyond that. Regardless of how I might come across, the show was a complete thrill. [...]
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Los Campesinos! + Lucky Soul
0:35: “It’s your party, but I’ll die if I want to, I’ll die if I want to.”
mp3 | Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
2:45: “It’s your party, you can die if you want to, die if you want to, die if you want to…”
mp3 | Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Cardiff septet [...]
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Girls Aloud
“Sexy! No, No, No…” is a fairly typical Xenomania/Girls Aloud single:
Not a “song” in the academic sense so much as a bunch of ironclad choruses stacked atop one another.
Rarely does what you expect it to. Surprises: goes quiet(er) for a short time, ends.
Not apparently about any damn thing in particular.
Generally awesome.
Despite the presence of a [...]
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The Knife
Released in the states this week, the deluxe edition of The Knife’s awesome awesome so-awesome Silent Shout comes with the original album, a live cd, and the DVD Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience. On that DVD, you’ll find the April 2006 concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, 11 music videos, and the short film “When I [...]
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The Orb + Alan Parker
Maybe you don’t live in Arizona. Maybe you can’t see the stars at night. This is for those days when you’re just not feeling fluffy.
mp3 | The Orb and Alan Parker - Grey Clouds
The Orb Official Site | The League Against Tedium
Buy Annie Nightingale Presents Y4K: Amazon UK
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St. Vincent
Blog darling and Sufjan Stevens/Polyphonic Spree alum Annie Clark released her debut album under the St. Vincent moniker, Marry Me, a week ago. An exemplary work of alt-pop, um, singer-songwritersmanship, it can sit comfortably alongside—or above—recent releases by Andrew Bird, Rufus Wainwright, and My Brightest Diamond. Most of the press I’ve been reading on Marry [...]
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Party ’til you’re hysterical and useless.
10 YEARS OLD TODAY!
Paranoid Android
Karma Police
No Surprises
Official site | Dead Air Space
How To Be Like Colin Greenwood In Ten Easy Steps
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Róisín Murphy
Apparently, I just can’t put off posting news about Ms. Murphy the way I can put off posting anything else. “Overpowered” now has a thoroughly charming video that further develops her new promo campaign’s theme of utter fabulousness in even the most mundane circumstances.
Be sure to hear the new b-side, “Sweet Nothings,” on HerSpace.
Update - [...]
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Róisín Murphy
Popjustice has the first words and noise on Róisín Murphy’s follow-up to the best album of 2005, Ruby Blue. What they have to say –
A lot of the album is a bit like Goldfrapp meets Annie meets Grace Jones meets quite a bit of 80s soul with Timbaland-esque knob-twiddling, although it is also fair to [...]
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