Koji, Kurt Travis, and Bearcat just recently finished up a full US tour with Never Shout Never. The tours over, but we’ve put all three artists together for a great new PropertyOfZack Playlist feature. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs on Spotify while reading everyone’s thoughts! (Click on image to listen in Spotify) IT’S SPRING TIME. SOUTHERN MUSIC IS WHAT’S GOOD. First thing you should know, my favorite singer is—without a doubt—Otis Redding. “Dock of the Bay” is one of the first songs I ever heard, ever learned. Secondly, B.B ...

Last night was a big one for El-P . After emerging from the kind of semi-exile that swallows lesser rappers whole following 2007's I'll Sleep When You're Dead , El released two of the year's best rap albums, in two consecutive weeks: the incendiary Killer Mike record R.A.P. Music , which he produced entirely, and his own majestically gloomy fourth album Cancer for Cure . He is in the giddy flush of a late-career resurgence, and at Santos Party House, he gathered everyone responsible for the moment together. Inside Santos, the camaraderie was thick-- I overheard people claiming ...

These days cultural critique can feel a bit like form meeting function. "Society has gotten too loud," you scream, predictably, into some digital megaphone. "Things have gotten too fractious," you note, obliquely, in between attention-deficit monitoring of multiple social networks. "No one has time for big ideas anymore," you trail off; people are done listening and you have no useful second movement. So, you double-down on your contrarianism, becoming oppositional and distant, unaware, or perhaps helpless, that this is - that you are - now the new, ever-shifting majority. And then along comes a song like "And Then The Girls" from Pittsburgh ...

Download link is in the original post Song: Ratatat - Three Kings (Ft. Slim Thug, T.I. & Bun-B) [download here ] What's so good? A lot of poseurs try to remix hip-hop over a slick instrumental line, but none of them come close to Ratatat. Homeboys have by far the best hip-hop remixes to ever live. No doubt. In fact, they’re so dope that I’m not even going to call this a “remix.” Nope, this is straight up Ratatat, featuring Slim Thug, T.I. and Bun-B. Off the Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2  (a shit, just threw myself under the ...

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. The only words that come to mind when this amazing cover of M83′s already out of this world “Midnight City” comes up in my big ass headphones : The knocks ft. Mandy Lee – Midnight City (M83 Cover) Related posts:SDW032 | Beastie Boys / The Knocks / Ratatat / Is Tropical / [...] Related posts: SDW032 | Beastie Boys / The Knocks / Ratatat / Is Tropical / The XX + many more… SDW#030 is out | Britney / Justice / The Knocks / Winston">Alex Winston & more… The Limousines – Call Me Al (Paul Simon cover)

Lake Bell , costar of How to Make It in America and Childrens Hospital , on the soundtrack to her life What band were you obsessed with in high school? From ten on, I had a profound love of Guns N' Roses. Axl, mainly. That was the first time I remember having sexual feelings for anyone. On that note, did your parents ever object to anything you were listening to? Let's go ahead and say they weren't huge fans of Axl and Slash. But they didn't know any 
better. My mom helped me dye my hair red. What's ...

Jonny Litten’s “Ratuir” is a journey through a colorful scheme of feelings, stirred with big beats and looped vocals. Would it make sense to say that it sounds like Ratatat mixed with a filtered Explosions In The Sky? Maybe not, but give it a try. It’s from his free EP, Carnival. Download it at bandcamp. [...]

Click image to download full album Sounds like: Le Tigre, Hot Chip, Crystal Castles, Peaches "CSS - La Liberacion" What's so good? I’ve probably spent hours mindlessly jumping around to CSS’s self-titled debut. Their second album, Donkey , kept up the energy, even if big hits failed to emerge. But the latest, La Liberacion , is something of a ghost of the passion of those. The balance between Lovefoxxx’s ultra sexy vocals and the dynamism of the band wavers, leaving the album feeling more like a compilation than an uprising. I desperately wanted to like this album, but the ...

Tomáš Dvořák Machinarium Soundtrack [Minority; 2011] by Gumshoe Rating: After years of being relatively chilled by movie soundtracks peddled as full-length albums — anyone remember Zidane ? — I've come to view the medium as ample enough on its own (by dint of the Fantastic Planet , Once Upon a Time in America , and Brown Bunny scores, among many others), as important to underground/above-ground listeners as proper albums and, occasionally, even more important. But what about video game soundtracks? In this case, I'd say it's a big 10-4: Machinarium , by Tomáš Dvořák (now in a third pressing of 500 circa ...

unerwähnt möchte ich nicht lassen, dass diese große ihrer zunft ende juni auf naïve records ihr bereits 23. album veröffentlichte, auf "horses and high heels" befinden sich vier neue songs und acht covers von carol king bis zu greg dulli & mark lanegan: marianne faithfull - why did we have to part? die brasilianer veröffentlichen ende august ihr drittes album, "la liveración" wird via v2 music/cooperative music/downtown records erscheinen, aufgenommen wurde im heimischen studio in sao paulo und unterstützung erhielt man von bobby gillespie und ratatat: css - hits me like a rock (depressed buttons remix) zu cirlce into square habe ...

Click image to download full album Song: The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (Ratatat Remix) "The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (Ratatat Remix)" What's so good? Anything Ratatat touches turns to solid gold. I challenge someone to convince me otherwise. From Notorious B.I.G.’s “ Dead Wrong ” to Kanye West’s “ Get ‘em High ,” I find myself always enjoying their remixes. Unfortunately, they haven’t done any for quite some time now (to my knowledge, at least). This remix of The Knife’s “We Share Our Mother’s Health” made its way into the ...

If you don’t live in the Northeast, it’s possible you haven’t heard of Camp Bisco (www.campbisco.net), a music/arts extravaganza that’s grown over the past 10 years to sell out [final numbers not yet announced] all three of its nearly round-the-clock-programmed days. Curated by jammers extraordinaire the Disco Biscuits, the festival takes place each summer in upstate New York. With most of the attendees camping out for 72 hour s-ish, the event seems to take on a life of its own — sanctioned wee-hour raves, raucous tent parties, hula-hooping/devil-sticking, illicit activities, and the like ...

Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011 WILD BEASTS @ LE POISSON ROUGE 158 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012 $20, 7PM We know that you REALLY want to stay home and listen to WHFR all night (we've got Ultrabunny coming on our show at 9PM), but just in case you are feeling that strange desire to go out, why not head out to Wild Beasts at Le Poisson Rouge? Old 97's @ The Bell House Tom Vek & Cookies @ Union Pool Wild Beasts @ Le Poisson Rouge Ratatat @ Central Park Summerstage A Perfect Circle @ Hammerstein Ballroom Urge Overkill @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises ...

WHAT: EXIT Festival WHEN: July 7-10 WHERE: Novi Sad, Serbia WHO: Fire">Arcade Fire, Pulp, M.I.A., Portishead , Grinderman , Santigold , Beirut, Amadou & Mariam, Magnetic Man, Underworld, Photek , Big Audio Dynamite, Girl Unit, Thing">Nosaj Thing, Bok Bok , Tiga , Digitalism , Femi Kuti, Carl Craig WHAT: Garden Festival WHEN: July 6-13 WHERE: Zadar and Petrcane , Croatia WHO: Soul Clap, the Phenomenal Handclap Band, Wolf & Lamb, Tensnake , Motor City Drum Ensemble, Mark E., Benoit & Sergio, Art Department, Appleblim, Andy Bell WHAT: Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival WHEN: July 6-10 WHERE: Sete , France WHO: James Blake, Flying Lotus, Jamie xx, Dam-Funk, Konono N ...

Requested by Geoff • Compiled by Maxwell Allison In the terminal stages of paper writing, you need kinetic, stimulating tunes in a major key (to keep things optimistic) that aren't attention-grabbing enough to distract you from the task at hand. This is two hours of music that eases you into a working mindset before picking up intensity at the one-hour mark to drive you through those last few paragraphs. 01. Fridge - "Cut Up Piano and Xylophone" (Happiness) 02. Neu! – "isi" (Neu! ’75) 03. Sigur Rós - "Unitled [Track 3]" ( () ) 04. Jim O’Rourke – "94 The Long Way" (Bad Timing) 05. Brian ...