Listen to the FULL album right here from the Beastie Boys! This is such a good way to start the week… back on form!
First Listen: Beastie Boys ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part Two’
Category: Music
Yuksek “On A Train” (The Magician Remix)
This remix by The Magician is excellent. Release date is May 2nd.
New Music: Polarsets
More good music from the UK- this time from Newcastle. ‘Sunshine Eyes’ is a proper summer track- all we need is a pool and champagne. Check out here.
New Music: Timothy Bloom
This video stirs so much in me it’s lovely and gross at the same time… Ahem… All I know about Timothy Bloom is that he’s written stuff for Chris Brown’s new F.A.M.E album, but it’s obvious something more will come of this man. Check out here.
New Music: The Kill Van Kulls
This is my favourite band at the moment. Hailing from Manchester, The Kill Van Kulls create a really rich, epic, new sound that’s a bit like Friendly Fires on Vallium. Wooden Heart is beautiful! Check out here.
First Listen: Neon Hitch ‘Silly Girl’
Neon Hitch was one of the first artists featured on this blog, and this is her second single. It’s dirty.
Probably Sweden’s biggest pop song this year…
I love this video for two reasons. First is the song is so catchy and summery it’s impossible for it not to stick in your head the whole day. Secondly the words popping up on the screen are teaching me a bit of Swedish, which is good. Love it. It’s a matter of time before they turn this with English lyrics and release it across Europe. It’s by Eric Amarillo and will be released in Sweden this Monday. It’s almost on loop on Swedish radio these last couple of weeks.
First Listen: Frankmusik feat Far East Movement “Do It In the AM”
After the success of his top ten UK debut, Frankmusik is preparing to release his fresh blend of synth-pop, hard-knocking beats and flowing melodies in the US with Do It In the AM featuring Far East Movement (out July 18th) a new album inspired by the energy of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles. The single is produced by Billboard (Britney), Martin Kierzenbaum (Lady GaGa) and Frankmusik, and is one of his catchiest songs to date. So exciting!
The Streets ‘OMG’
Released last week as a single, one of my favourite songs from their very last album. I was at the crowd in Brixton when he did a bit of the crowd surfing in the video. Next single has to be ‘Blip on a Screen’… I hope…!
New Music: Oh My!
This is pure British pop- chimes a bit with Lily Allen’s old stuff. It’s catchy, fun. Check out here.
Free Download: Carl Barât ‘This Is The Song’
This is one of the most gorgeously destructive and pretty songs I’ve heard in a really long time. Taken from the forthcoming EP- Death Fires Burn At Night EP (released 2nd May 2011). He has just embarked on a tour of the UK with support on all dates from Foreign Office and in April a documentary about The Libertines gets its premier at the East End Film Festival. The EP contains Carl’s recording of an unreleased Libertines track called ‘Grimaldi’, a new recording of ‘Death Fires Burn at Night’, a cover version of the Langly Sisters track ‘Sing For My Supper’ and ‘This Is The Song’ previously unavailable in the UK. You can download the song for free right here!
New Music: Dom Liberati
This is excellent rock coming out of LA. There’s a lot of The Police, Jimmy Eat World and Kings of Leon in Dom’s sound- which is a good thing! A few years ago I spent a short time out in California during my summer breaks and memories rushed back a little when I heard ‘We Own The Night’. It’s the sort of music that works well played loud in a car racing down a sunny highway to somewhere exciting. Check out here.
New Music: Team Me
From Norway. “Warm waves of silky spring air evoke that European charm that has flooded the UK of late” – beardedmagazine.com after seeing Team Me @ Hammersmith Apollo. Check out here.
New Music: Club Smith
Already picked up on radio plays from indie arbiters of taste Steve Lamacq (who came to see them play in London) and Tom Robinson, who had the band in for interview after their shows on the BBC Introducing stages at Leeds/Reading 2010.
They’ve also had plays from Huw Stephens, Frank Skinner (Absolute Radio), Rory McConnell (Radio 1) and have supported The Naked and Famous, Iliketrains, The Sunshine Underground, The Mystery Jets, Two Door Cinema Club, The Neat and Hockey. Check out here.
New Music: Somersault
Kind of stargazing electronic mixed with some surf influences. There isn’t much on these guys online yet so check out their Soundcloud above!
New Music: Brookes Brothers
Good British drum & bass that doesn’t dive in too dark like others- it’s pretty uplifting actually. The album’s out in June. Check out here.
Lowest traffic ever…
I’ve had the lowest traffic on this blog for probably over a year… But then its sunny outside and its ice cream orgy time… Have fun in the sun people!
TVXQ with their epic K-Pop sound
New Music: Christoffer Skoug
This is a bluesy/ poppy sound that feels light and fresh. Has been signed by Universal Records so world domination is likely to ensue shorty. Check out here.
New Music: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Very late with this one but they’re just too good not to mention. Excellent electro power pop! He’s playing London’s Scala in June. Check out here.