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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: 31Knots - Compass Commands + Turncoat
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In a recent interview with a prospective intern I asked what she'd been listening to on her iPod on the way over to the office. The music you listen to when walking into an uncertain situation can be the tunes that make you feel powerful and cool or relaxed and together or can just be the tune that you know you need to listen to or you'll have it in your head the whole time you're supposed to be focused on the prize. The intern said 31Knots and I knew I was out of the loop. Even more so when I went back and realized Worried Well, out last Tuesday on Polyvinyl, was their 6th full length album. Bands still make 6th LPs and are the "cool" band mentioned by interns wanting to work in music? Sign me up. 31Knots takes care of all the things you need from pre-interview music. Check out new album track "Compass Commands" and grab RCRD LBL's exclusive B-side "Turncoat," and thank my new intern.
Sounds like: The Morning Benders, Sam Champion, The Dodos, Shout Out Louds
Download: 31Knots - Compass Commands
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Monsters Are Waiting - I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses Cover)
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Monsters Are Waiting list several bands on their MySpace that they've toured with, and with due respect to those other bands one gets the feeling listening to MAW's new Ones and Zeros EP (out on Kanine Records on October 14) that they probably blew the headliners out of the water. It's next to impossible to create a collection of songs as doggedly midtempo while still managing to be playful, sexy and exciting as Monsters Are Waiting have culled for their upcoming release, but the combination of shoegazer noise, hummable synth lines, gloomy pop's clouds with indie rock's bursts of light is undeniable. Under "sounds like," MAW simply say "Heaven," and you'll be hard pressed to disagree. And if you don't hear this cover of "I Want to Be Adored," on some TV/film soundtrack this fall, I'm a monkey's uncle.
Sounds like: Metric, Beach House, Johnny Boy
Download: Monsters Are Waiting - I Wanna Be Adored
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DOWNLOAD: Project Jenny, Project Jan - You Said (feat. So Percussion)
“You Said” is one of those slinky, percolating tracks with a whole lot of vibraphone and faded gang vocals that when you listen to it in the morning sounds like wind chimes cheering you out of bed. Nice feeling. The cut comes from a new project from Brooklyn’s Project Jenny, Project Jan, who’ve spent their summer making tracks with their good buds in Mixel Pixel, Fujiya & Miyagi, Nate Martinez from Pela and a slew of others to craft a collaborative EP that's due out this fall. “You Said” features New York-based thwackers So Percussion, an ensemble known for working with everyone from Steve Reich to Matmos and The Dirty Projectors. Grab the track below and make sure to cop the EP when it comes out, as all the proceeds will be going to charity. To hold you over until then you can catch Project Jenny, Project Jan play the free McCarren Pool After Party at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on August 24 (that's on Sunday).
Sounds like: Lykke Li, Annuals, STOMP! playing pop songs
Download: Project Jenny, Project Jan - You Said (feat. So Percussion)
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Download: Project Jenny, Project Jan - Train Track
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Vadoinmessico - In Spain + Cave + Sisma
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If the super intense tango scene in Scent of a Woman was transposed into The Red Balloon, the soundtrack would be "In Spain." If Frankie and Annette's Beach Party also featured the arboretum scene from Sabrina, the soundtrack would be "Cave." If the "Stella!" scene in Streetcar Named Desire was filtered through The Science of Sleep, the soundtrack would be "Sisma." Vadoinmessico has created 3 cinematically charming demo songs that have the rare ability to seem more epic than their 3 minutes. The core of Vadoinmessico is Giorgio Poti's soaring vocals and the constantly beguiling and inventive instrumentation that seems more Mediterranean Island than London, but that's where the fellas call home and where this delightful live performance comes from. Grab these songs and let the Vadoinmessico magic unfurl.
Sounds Like: Orouni, Johnny Boy, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li
Download: Vadoinmessico - In Spain
Download: Vadoinmessico - Cave
DOWNLOAD: That Ghost - I Crossed Out The Options
Santa Rosa, CA is about fifty-five miles north of San Francisco off the 101 highway, the largest city in California’s wine country and home at times to ultimo artistes like the late Charles Shultz and Tom Waits. That Ghost is Ryan Schmale, an eighteen year old Santa Rosa resident who makes fuzzy pop music that sounds like Guided By Voices dealing with the pressures of high school (which, I guess, is kind of what it is). According to dude’s MySpace, he’s already chalked up five out of print releases since December of 2006, including three full-lengths and two EPs (holler prodigies), but just finally released his first proper seven-inch on Brooklyn startup Two Syllable last week. We’ve got the A-Side for download—“I Crossed Out The Options”, a swift three-chord pop song sticky with over-trebled guitars and Schmale doing his best Jonathan Richman by mumbling lines about calling and walking down halls and wasting time and stuff like that. This, however, will not waste your time, unless you consider sitting around drinking Dr. Pepper and eating goldfish while listening to records a waste of time, which would be pretty lame.
Sounds like: Guided By Voices, The Strokes, Deerhunter
DOWNLOAD: Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve + Johnny Boy Dub
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The first time "You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve," came charging out of my stereo speakers, I knew Johnny Boy was going to become an obsession. Bucking the notion of how much noise 2 people can make, what it means to participate in the music industry, what it means to make a wall of sound, what worshiping Phil Spector and being "modern" and "British" can sound like, Johnny Boy has put together tunes so undeniably catchy members Davo and Lolly could rest comfortably knowing that they've created songs indelible enough to stand up to classic tracks from the Ronettes to the Clash. But what would be the fun in that? Grab these two tunes and just try to get them out of your head. Watch out world, here comes Johnny Boy.
Sounds like: The Clash, the Ronettes, the Ting Tings, Panda Bear, Au
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Black Gold - Detroit (Shark Attack Beach Party Remix)
Brooklyn duo Black Gold have paid their dues as musicians-for-hire in some small bands you might have heard of (Panic At The Disco, Ambulance Ltd., and M. Ward to name a few) but after a chance jam session on the set of the Craig Kilborn show keyboardist Eric Ronick and drummer Than Luu found something spark and decided to call it Black Gold. The band play crafty pop songs with big hooks (a la their bosses), but flesh them out with Luu’s creative percussion and the ace key chops of Ronick, who sounds like Bruce Hornsby's son discovering Hot Chip. Today we have an exclusive remix of "Detroit" from Shark Attack that sounds like a slip-n-slide of square wave devastation, so make sure grab that below and be sure to buy the whole Detroit EP when it hits iTunes tomorrow through Red Bull Records.
Sounds like: Midnight Juggernauts, A.R.E. Weapons, Boys Noize
Download: Black Gold - Detroit (Shark Attack Beach Party Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Voyeurs - Things That People Say + Something Sets Me Off
The Voyeurs seem aptly named. Their mod-inspired pop songs are sly and shady but deliberately harmless, like spying on someone from across the street (or just riding through alleys on your Vespa at night…What? You don’t have one?). The duo of guitarist/keyboardist Jonathan Hylander and drummer Sean Johnson have and continue to keep their paws involved with a bevy of projects—Hylander recently collaborated with Tom Petty keyboardist Benmont Tench—but their music as The Voyeurs hardly suffers from lack of focus. “Things That People Say” and “Something Sets Me Off” are concise, poppy guitar jams, a healthy addition to the Los Angeles chapter of the Village Green Preservation Society. While anchored in familiar sounds these tunes also bridle with some new West Coast energy, so welcome our new RCRD LBL signees by copping their fine sounds below and keep a look out for their debut album dropping this fall.
Sounds like: Albert Hammond Jr., The Kinks, Phantom Planet's The Guest
Exclusive Download: The Voyeurs - Things That People Say
DOWNLOAD: Freshkills - I Know I Know + 2 More
Freshkills’ bio mentions that they’re pretty into Drive-Like Jehu and Nation Of Ulysses. That’s obvious when you listen to the songs below—acute guitars, pummeling rhythms, barked lines of poetry—but that fails to mention the quintet's obvious infatuation with more anglo sounds. “I Quit Smoking” is a slower, Mancunian wanderer in debt to the toppling bass lines of Peter Hook and Gary "Mani" Mounfield (of Stone Roses and Primal Scream fame) while the shifty beats in “I Know I Know” quote the epilepsy of young British band Foals. That aside, these guys obviously own a large chunk of the Dischord catalog and play garage-burners for the coffee house set, so download three tracks from their debut full-length (out September 2) below and go out and eat a vegan cookie or something.
Sounds like: Foals, Crystal Stilts, The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Download: Freshkills - I Know I Know
Download: Freshkills - Revelations
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