The National debuted “Terrible Love,” the lead track off their highly anticipated Boxer follow-up, High Violet last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The audio doesn’t sound too great on regular computer speakers, so I suggest you pop in the headphones.
High Violet is out May 11th on 4AD. Are you ready?
Vancouver’s Needles//Pins, are giving away their excellent First World Problems EP for fwee.
Earlier today, we hit a bit of a lull (rare!) when our inbox was nearly clean (read = only 2,000 emails left to go through), a pause in the day job occurred, and I felt the need to take my good fortunes and pay it forward. So out went a call for submissions via twitter...only stipulation? That I have NEVER written about the artist before. Welcome, Madeleine Bloom, you were both quick and make rad tunes...so here we go.
Hailing from Berlin, Madeleine Bloom is a self-described "musician, producer, singer, looper, mediadesigner, a bit of a tech nerd". A multi-instrumentalist with a unique style, Bloom creates an eclectic blend of cinematic and emotional pop music. She's also opened for Imogen Heap, which is infinitely cool.
Last November, Bloom released her debut album, Minutia. The freshman offering from the gifted German is a sweeping wash over 12 tracks of lovely lullabies and passionate yearnings. Buy the album here.
As a bonus, there's an eerily cool vocal remix of her song The Tide, which we're dishing out to you. Win!
mp3: Madeleine Bloom -The Tide (Alexis Sinking Remix)
Listen to this new jj bonus track, “I Know”, which can only be found on the jj nº 3 LP (via).
You can buy jj nº 3 here.
Back in the day when I was just starting out blogging, I was mad for the then more underground French house scene. Well, what might have been mainstreaming in France was more underground here, we’re like 2 years behind. I haven’t really listened to Kavinsky or SebastiAn for a while now, but I’m happy to have a post of a bunch of them now. Nightcall was actually produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo from Daft Punk, mixed by SebastiAn and has guest vocals from Lovefoxxx. That’s a pretty crazy list right there. Totally digging Nightcall, I like that the track doesn’t have to depend on being fast. And back to what I’m more used to from Kavinsky, Pacific Coast Highway with the retro sounding electro. And I also included a downloadable MMMatthias remix of the track.
Kavinsky – Nightcall
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Kavinsky – Pacific Coast Highway
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Kavinsky – Nightcall (MMMatthias Remix)
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Cosine returns to The Shirtcast to drop some fire.
“So I got the idea of taking listeners on a tour through multiple genres… and also got the idea to remix paper planes by M.I.A. these two ideas coalesced (rather messily) into this podcast… Please try to look past the lack of professional DJ fades and whatnot… I do what I can.”
-Cosine
Walter Murphy feat. Kanye West: A 5′th of Golddïgger
Daft Punk: Harder Better Faster Stronger (Daft Punk Remix)
Kid Cudi: Day & Night (Crookers Remix)
Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting Feat. Will Smith (Fatboy Slim Remix)*
YMCK: The Legend Of Zelda/Dungeon Theme
Unicorn Kid: Holding Hands
Ram Rider: Music
BitShifter: Hexadecimal Genome
Gangpol Und Mit: Ghetto Galaxy
Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
Rubi Dan: Crazy Hype
Silverlink: The Message Is Love
Mr. Oizo feat. Super Cat: Flat Tour
Wiley Feat. Beenie Man: Rolex It Up
The Heatwave: Walk & Wine
Evol Intent: The Foreword
Concord Dawn/Slayer/Reggie & The Full Effect: Raining Blood
The Chemical Brothers: Galvanize (Eskalation Remix)
M.I.A.: Paper Planes (Cosine Remix)
The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die (Chase & Stratus Remix)
Venetian Snares: Hajnal/Dance Like You’re Selling Nails
Passion Pit: The Reeling
Thanks for the ears.
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