EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)
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Holiday Shores (Floridians, CMJ darlings, and all around affable guys) have a new tour-only cassette called Through The Thin Cloud and today they're gifting one of its exclusive tracks. Below, the band channels lounge lizards past in this boozy little cover of Arthur Russell’s “Your Motion Says,” replete with downtempo chords and cowbell. Hit up MySpace for tour info on where to lift the tape, or return the love by picking up their album.
Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)
Previously:
Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Fued
Holiday Shores - Edge Of Our Lives
DOWNLOAD: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Trouble
Mazzy Star chanteuse Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig are back as Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions after an 8-year break to deliver a sophomore dose of wandering, disembodied melodies. “Trouble” is the dimly-lit stage in a smoke-stained lounge, where the air is heavy and each note is a blissful narcotic. Through the Devil Softly drops today on Nettwerk and is awash with gauze-wrapped chords and misty vocals invoking a sparse landscape of love and loss. Get busy getting lonely here.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Nite Jewel - What Did He Say + Spiritual Nite Life
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Nite Jewel’s been beguiling for a while now with her fizzy lo-fi. “What Did He Say” is a champagne cocktail priming us for the mellow synths in “Spiritual Nite Life”—a pretty and discordant track that’s got us wondering if cats could be taught to play old 80’s Casios. September brings the release of Good Evening in the UK, where Ms. Gonzalez will be touring. Londoners will get a taste on October 3rd when Ms. Gonzalez gets loungey alongside Gold Panda and Geneva Jacuzzi.
Sounds like: The Octopus Project, The Books
Nite Jewel - Spiritual Nite Life
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DOWNLOAD: Kat Edmonson - Just Like Heaven (The Cure Cover)
I don't own a TV (I say I am against its consumption of one's creative properties) but I binge-watch cable during family holidays (truth is TV is too damn expensive). During one of those said binges, I watched the whole damn season 1 of United States of Tara (I heart Diablo Cody*), within which fluttered a euphoric track, "Lucky," by Kat Edmonson. A few Googles and a handful of stalk emails later, I corroborated her 'next big thing' status and got us a track.
With "Just Like Heaven," Edmonson has the balls to take a well-known Cure song and completely deconstruct it into mellow purring-on-top-a-piano bossa nova jazz lick. On upcoming full-length debut, Take To The Sky, she gives the same swift, smooth makeover to Cole Porter’s “Just One of Those Things,” Carole King’s “One Fine Day,” and John Lennon’s “(Just Like) Starting Over.” In a word, it's delicious.
* Favorite Diablo Cody music quote: “Booty rap is the nectar of life. I hate that shit the cool people listen to.”
Sounds like: Trolle/Siebenhaar, Sia, Sade
DOWNLOAD: Mike Bones - What I Have Left (Alexis Taylor Cover)
One of the best things about Hot Chip is when the beat drops and the tracks turn away from the party. It's in these low-lit moments - on "Made In The Dark", or "We're Looking For A Lot Of Love", for example - that bespectacled singer Alexis Taylor gets to indulge his fairly blatant inner diva and here, with his cover of Mike Bones' "What I Have Left", the Hot Chip man's in his element, cooing over a funereal drumbeat and downbeaten organ keys. The track will be released on the B-side of Bones' fantastically-titled new single "Today The World Is Worthy Of My Loathing", out May 11th through Vice.
Sounds Like: Celine Dion, Hot Chip, SALEM
Mike Bones - What I Have Left (Alexis Taylor Cover)
Previously:
Mike Bones - What I Have Left (Sian Alice Group Remix)
Mike Bones - What I Have Left (Brian Degraw Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cold War Kids - Bullies Always Win
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The beginning of this unreleased Cold War Kids track—a b-side only previously available with the iTunes pre-order of Loyalty To Loyalty—is about the closet thing the band have ever come to playing jazz. The guitars sound like they’re dripping down the walls and Nathan Willet’s feline stammer is born for Reno cocktail lounge, shuffling these cats towards a refrain that surrenders the mix to sheets of milky organ and a coda of jamming Velvet Underground noise with the usual soul hooks poking through. The track’s now available exclusively here to you at RCRD LBL, so make sure to grab it below.
Sounds like: Steve Winwood, The Velvet Underground, The Walkmen
Exclusive Download: Cold War Kids - Bullies Always Win
Previously:
Download: Cold War Kids – Something Is Not Right With Me (Richard Swift Onasis Remix)
Download: Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me
We're getting there, kids!!
Posted 8/25/2008 1:03 PM by The Voyeurs
Tags: The Voyeurs, Vaudeville, The Mind Blasters, Les Blanks, Otik Records, Saturday Night Live, Silverlake, Silver Lake, Lounge, Dark Knight, Upright Citizens Brigade, Robocop
We certainly are...Looks like our rcrdlbl fan base has exceeded 5! To that, I say those 5 people are invited to watch Robocop at my house whenever they want. Ohhh, you wanna watch Robocop too? Well, join the family! We will try and post as many of these useful blogs as possible and offer more free songs and up to the minute Voyeur info. That, and Robobcop....
Anyway..... September is shaping up to be a busy month. We have shows spread out the month, including "The Show We Will Never Forget" on Sept. 11th @ Silverlake Lounge in Silverlake wih Les Blanks (check em out if you haven't) as well as a show at The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre in Hollywood. It's like a Saturday Night Live format and we'll either be ripping up photos of important religious figures or playing a song they didn't ask us to play. All shows are posted both here and our myspace (www.mysapce.com/wearethevoyeurs)
September is also busy because it MAY be the month we finish our full length record!!! We've been working on it ever since the first Dark Knight trailer last summer. Fucked up, huh? It'll be done and we'll be disappointed...But YOU'LL LOVE IT!!
Till then, enjoy the two tunes we have here and the few others on myspace. While you're there, check out some various Voyeur projects like Vaudeville, The Mind Blasters and our very own "record label" OTIK Records.
lots of hugs!
Sean and Jonathan Voyeur
DOWNLOAD: DJ Bitman - My Computer Is Funk
Chilean artist Jose "Toto" Romero is self-taught and proud of it. He crafts a cowboy mix of everything that sizzles under the sun- reggae, rap, funk, soul, blues, jazz, etc... The result- electro latin lounge grooves with a splash of panache and hip-hop attitude- has propelled him far within South American borders. Today, we bring a bit of his funky, synthed out grind state-side - with "My Computer Is Funk" and "Shine." So put down that caipirinha with lime and dance, god damn it.
CONTEST: Win tickets to see Little Dragon at the ROXY in LA
We’re really excited for Swedish lounge-pop outfit Little Dragon to finally be coming Stateside. We’ve been spinning “Fortune” pretty much non-stop since it first came into our realm a few weeks ago, and now we have the opportunity to offer some tickets for you guys to win (we know—no need to thank us). The band are playing at the Roxy in West Hollywood, CA on April 4th (with guests Garth Trinidad and Jason Bentley), and we’re sure it will be a magical night to remember. We have two pairs of tickets for giveaway, and all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list if you haven’t already (email field on the right) and send an email to contests@rcrdlbl.com with “LITTLE DRAGON” in the headline. Winners will be chosen at random. Good luck!
STREAM: Carla Bruni - Those Dancing Days Are Gone
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Carla Bruni has been making headlines recently as that First Lady of France (for real) but let us not forget that her primary scene is music, not world politics... And totally laid-back, jazzy, sultry, amazing music at that. “Those Dancing Days Are Gone”, from Carla’s first English-speaking album No Promises, sounds like her fellow countrywoman Charlotte Gainsbourg’s loungy jazz-pop: soft, sweet vocals, insightful lyrics. The best part is the soothing harmonies in the second verse—wait for it. Chills.
Stream “Those Dancing Days Are Gone” at Carla’s RCRD LBL page, and make sure to keep your ear peeled for more awesome music from her and Downtown Records…
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