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… The Limousines – Call Me Al (Paul Simon cover) SDW#030 is out | Britney / Justice / The Knocks / Winston">Alex Winston & more…

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 ...

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Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys [Atlantic; 2011] by Jakob Dorof Rating: It’s always interesting to hear what an artist’s intentions are with his or her latest record, if only because they are often so far removed from the final product. Even in my brief time behind the desks at TMT, I’ve encountered a few real headscratchers. The fact that Girl Talk thought All Day was something deeper than a crude party mix still saddens me. Sometimes, while listening to the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs, I ponder how a sober Eminem could’ve possibly ...

Ratatat @ Terminal 5 in 2008 (more by Leia Jospe) Ratatat, previously announced on the lineups of Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and HARD Fest in LA this summer, will play their own big headlining NYC show at Central Park Summerstage on...

As the sun becomes a more permanent fixture in the skies, it is apt that we feature a duo who's music will be stoking the worlds disco fires summer long. The Welsh pair (Tom Morgan & James Thomas) have recently put pen to paper with Kris Menace's Paris based label "Work It Baby" which is enough to grab the attention of any french filter house aficionado. They'll be rubbing shoulder's with label brother's such as Fred Falke, Lifelike, Xinobi, Patrick Alavi, Serge Santiago and, of course Kris Menace who's debut single together with Lifelike 'Discopolis' is a certified summer classic. The boys have been busy of late producing their own material as well as remixing the works of Louis La Roche, Pony Pony Run Run, Passion Pit and Fred Falke. Keep your ears to the ground for their debut EP which is will be released on Work It Baby on June 20th , perfect timing for summer! Vanguard - Loving Someone Else by VANGUARD Vanguard - Morning Light by VANGUARD Download "Morning Light" exclusively on Vanguard's Facebook Page I caught up with Tom prior to their show with french touche pioneer Alan Braxe in London last weekend, which was, as you can imagine an absolute riot in capital city! - First thing’s first, when are you boys coming to the states? At the moment we don't have any particular plans to play Stateside but very soon we'll have a booking agent who will hopefully get us some dates in the US. - Where did you two meet? We met through starting a band when we were 16. We both had friends who had similar music taste so we started a post hardcore band in which I was the singer and James was the guitarist. - Who would you class as your main influences ? We're influenced by many different genres and artists, we listen to a lot of Funk and Disco for samples and ideas, Punk, new and old French House; pretty much anything that's good really. - Congratulations on the ‘Work It Baby’ deal, how did it come to fruition? Our management (Three Six Zero Group) have been looking after Work It Baby for a while. They forwarded our EP to Kris and he liked what he heard and accepted it immediately! - If you could choose one festival to play at this summer, which ...