EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Golden City - Big Country
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As a young man my allegiances shifted radically from ska to punk to hardcore and back again, and I was always quick to talk down on the previous genre. But even after the bell tolled for emo I couldn't bear to part with my Christie Front Drive records. Lead singer Eric Richter was the key; the man's voice is a revelation. After CFD he fronted Antarctica and The 101, and is currently making music with Brooklyn's Golden City. This unreleased track from their upcoming record has the clean, melodic guitar lines of Christie Front Drive married to the muscular beat and poppy basslines of the Buzzcocks and the Police. Downloading this is the key to a successful Friday.
SOUNDS LIKE: Christie Front Drive, The Promise Ring
VIDEO THRWBCK: Embrace - Do Not Consider Yourself Free (Live at 9:30 Club 1986)
Post-Minor Threat and Pre-Fugazi, Ian Mackaye was in this little band called Embrace who pretty much invented modern emo. Don't let that throw you off, this is the OG stuff—pretty much the peak of the genre as far as I am considered. 'Nuff said. This is vital viewing.
-Elliot Aronow
DOWNLOAD: Paige 3 - Prophets (Frankmusik remix)
Frankmusik (né Vincent Frank), is a fire hot electro pop producer out of Croydon, UK. We first got into him about a year ago when we came across his MySpace and fell in love with “Three Little Words”, a high octane pop song that sounded like Panic at the Disco ripping off Simply Red at warp speed (we know that that hardly sounds like a reason to listen to a song, but trust us, it is). As well as writing and producing his own work under the Frankmusik moniker, FM is also known to remix whatever suits is fancy, and today we’re releasing one of those tracks. You wouldn’t necessarily think that an American emo band (in this case, Paige 3) and a British electro producer would go hand in hand, but it works—Frankmusik reworks “Prophets” with his signature glitchy, sugary synths and manic drum machine. Frank just got a slot on the Popjustice Wonky Pop tour and his debut album is in the works, so believe us when we say keep an eye on this one.
FEATURED: Atom and His Package
We once interviewed Adam Goren, a.k.a. Atom and his Package, at what turned out to be his last NYC performance, and retreated to the back of the room afterwards to watch 200 16-year-olds go completely insane over his sampler punk rock. Within his 8-year run as AAHP, Adam released five albums, toured hundreds of venues, accidentally invented radcore, and left thousands of little emo tears in his wake when he "disbanded" with his Package (his trusty sampler) in 2004. The best thing about Adam was that he was never, ever ironic, even when he was being funny: each one of his songs has a core of sincerity that makes them worth listening to. Matt and Kim, Totally Michael, Best Fwends, and every band that ever wanted to jump up and down to electro-punk filtered through a computer at 10,000 BPM owes Adam a big favor. Indie blog Midwestern Housewives paid homage to AAHP by posting a live video of "Snowshoe BBQ", given the current climate here on the East Coast. Enjoy!
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