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February 16 2012
DOWNLOAD: Ugly Kids Club - My Soul
Posted by Emily Zemler
Tags: rock, indie pop
Nashville, TN duo Ugly Kids Club (Aleigh Shields and Steve Wilson) joined forces in early 2011 and self-released their debut album in January – a collection of fuzzed-up indie-pop songs. “My Soul,” an energized track from the album, pairs electro beats with static-heavy guitars and Shields’ howling yelp. Imagine an even poppier Sleigh Bells.
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DOWNLOAD: Moonlight Bride - Lemonade
Posted by Emily Zemler
Tags: rock, indie rock, noise-pop
Chattanooga band Moonlight Bride will offer a new EP titled Twin Lakes on February 28. The foursome, which formed in 2007 and released its debut, Myths, in October of 2009, craft noise-pop songs in the vein of Pains of Being Pure at Heart or Blonde Redhead. Here's “Lemonade" – a brooding indie rock number, imbued with just enough energy to keep you from shoegazing.
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STREAM: Diplo - Express Yourself (feat. Nicky Da B)
Posted by Carter Maness
Tags: dance, electronic
(Photo: Loren Wohl)
Diplo is on fire this week. After he dosed Usher with a Top 40 contender, he's back with "Express Yourself" – the lead single off an upcoming EP going by that name on Mad Decent. This one is so much more in the 'bonkers Diplo' territory with rapidfire toasting and a barrage of Jamaican drum patterns dropping like, well, bombs. Go make it clap!
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DOWNLOAD: Snowmine - Curfews + Twin Sister Remix and Twin Sister - Meet The Frownies (Snowmine Remix)
Posted by Hillary Kaylor
Tags: indie, electronic
Reciprocity ahead for Snowmine and Twin Sister, first with the original “Curfews,” then with Twin Sister’s mix of it and finally with Snowmine’s revise of a Twin Sister jam. But don’t call it a swordfight: each progression is unique and massages the listener quietly into the next. “Curfews” is pastel-colored indie rock, propelled by lush guitars and lovely, yelping vocals. With Twin Sister, it becomes a piece of unrecognizable robotic beat poetry floating atop a warm electronic soup. By the time we get to Snowmine’s mood ring redux of “Meet The Frownies,” we’re well primed for the sleepy, celestial head-nod that ensues. And also a nap. We’re primed for a nap.
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DOWNLOAD: K-Holes - Rats
Posted by Carter Maness
Tags: rock, punk, post-punk
I strongly considered trying to punch through a wall the first time I heard "Rats" by Brooklyn punk bludgeoners K-Holes. It's just so amped and raw as a mess of propulsive guitar noise, blaring saxophone and sneering vocals ooze filthy attitude. Dismania, their upcoming album, comes May 1 via Hardly Art.
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February 15 2012
DOWNLOAD: Tu Fawning - Bones
Posted by Emily Zemler
Tags: rock, indie rock, folk
Portland band Tu Fawning will release its second album, A Monument, on May 15 via City Slang. The effort, a follow-up to 2010’s Hearts On Hold, features the band’s folky indie rock. “Bones” is the flagship offering from the new album – a seven-plus minute explorative number that only arrives at the vocals three minutes in. The trick works, luring the listener in with layered, pensive orchestration that slowly builds a mood until tapering out in the end.
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STREAM: Nite Jewel - In The Dark
Posted by Carter Maness
Tags: electronic, indie pop
From the bedroom to the top of charts? It rarely happens, but there is something in Nite Jewel – the project of California's Romona Gonzalez – that's just totally irresistible. It was there already when her songs were tinny, blurry and slathered in fuzz, but "In The Dark" is seriously fresh, clean and widescreen. Hear more on One Second Of Love March 6 via Secretly Canadian.
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DOWNLOAD: Foster The People - Don't Stop (St. Lucia Remix)
Posted by Hillary Kaylor
Tags: rock
If you thought Foster The People couldn’t get even more pumped up, you friend, should get acquainted with St. Lucia (the band, not the place, though you should probably go there too; we hear it’s awesome). The St. Lucia we mean is actually one super-stoked South African dude named Jean-Philip Grobler who apparently has a gang of laughing monkeys, singing birds and huge ‘80s guitars and saxophones at his disposal, ‘cause he throws them all into this left turn of a remix. “Don’t Stop (Color On The Walls)” was once a boppy, high school dance tune. Now it’s a wild zoo rock-out. Solid.
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