Get a taste of Belleruche 's new sound at London's Scala on May 31st. The turntable soul group has gone a bit darker on new LP Rollerchain , which is out now on Tru Thoughts Records. Check out our exclusive mix from the band, and grab tickets to the show (which also features Py and KidKanevil ) here . Belleruche - Train Tracks: A tour mixtape by DJ Modest 1. Blue Train, John Coltrane 2. Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train, Louis Armstrong 3. Take the "A" Train, Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald 4. All Aboard, Muddy Waters 5. The Rock Island Line ...

It sounds like the act of creation in a lot of ways, each individual song tentatively creeping out into the light and then there’s that moment—in each song, mind you—where everything falls together and the song commits to whatever it is with confidence. — Patton Oswalt , on Fables Of The Reconstruction  Fables Of The Reconstruction isn’t my favorite R.E.M. record. I’ve warmed to it a lot in the last few years, but it’s probably the one I’ve played the least from R.E.M.’s “golden” era. But it was Fables —the ...

Dummy Mix 121 // Rem Koolhaus

In preparation for tonight's party featuring Madteo and Anthony "Shake" Shakir , TURRBOTAX® resident Rem Koolhaus has premiered an exclusive mix for Dummy . read more

Weve all been there. Youre working, creating a musical masterpiece no doubt, but the clock is ticking. The solution is simple, down an energy drink and keep going. Nothing could be worse than breaking your creative flow, right? Fortunately for you sleep lovers, its pure illusion that decreasing the hours of sleep will increase your productivity. Sleep is important to your mental and physical health for a number of reasons. For one, your attention span shortens. Trying to go on a lack of sleep also attributes to the inability to accumulate knowledge, compromising your imagination and memory in the process ...

New album “Are’s & Els” featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra to be released June 5 th . +++     Michael Gerard Levasseur of Michael The Blind. Photo Credit: Rachael Renee’ Levasseur. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “Sympathies” is the latest single and video from the upcoming Michael The Blind album “Are’s & Els”   [VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bno82uSxmMY   [SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/michael-the-blind-sympathies [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/michaeltheblind/mp3/michaeltheblind-sympathies.mp3 +++ “Michael’s songs create a rare phenomenon. …this cavernous space feels almost too intimate.” – Willamette Week (Portland, OR) “...the velocity of punk rock with mellifluous traditional folk instrumentation... ... one ...

New album “Are’s & Els” featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra to be released June 5 th . +++     Michael Gerard Levasseur of Michael The Blind. Photo Credit: Rachael Renee’ Levasseur. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “Sympathies” is the latest single and video from the upcoming Michael The Blind album “Are’s & Els”   [VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bno82uSxmMY   [SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/michael-the-blind-sympathies [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/michaeltheblind/mp3/michaeltheblind-sympathies.mp3 +++ “Michael’s songs create a rare phenomenon. …this cavernous space feels almost too intimate.” – Willamette Week (Portland, OR) “...the velocity of punk rock with mellifluous traditional folk instrumentation... ... one ...

Best Coast The Only Place [Mexican Summer; 2012] by A.S. Little Rating: At first, I attempt a bike ride with The Only Place , Best Coast’s latest. It’s spring-going-on-summer, after all, and they’re notorious pop-adepts, catchy and pithy, heavier on concision than meaning. But there’s a hitch in my plan: the fab couple won’t play on my little MP3 gizmo, an equally sun-eager Philips Songbird. The music files are in the wrong format. 50 Cent and El DeBarge once implored their shorties, as if dealing with unresponsive radio stations, to “switch up the format.” Sadly ...

The PM has named Dark Side of the Moon as his favourite album of all time. How do you rate his musical tastes? David Cameron has named Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as his favourite album of all time. The Prime Minister revealed his choice on Facebook as part of the GREAT campaign, an initiative designed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to promote the UK abroad. Given that the campaign "aims to deliver long-term economic benefits" from interest in the UK generated by the Olympics, a financially successful British act such as Pink Floyd ...

This week's "Albums That Changed My Life" contributor is Kevin Devine! Kevin will be spending this summer on his first coast-to-coast solo tour since 2006, supporting mewithoutYou. Check out the full routing here . Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction For the record, I was one of those 13 year olds who converted to indie rock via "Nevermind" and that was that, and furthermore I currently think Axl Rose is a sick, sad, massively uncool guy. That said, this album was MINE before any other music was. I was obsessed from first hearing "Sweet Child O' Mine" in my cousin ...

Remixing Keane is no small task, but Alesso absolutely nailed it with this remix that I see as his follow up to the pivotal “Good Love” rem…

May is here and when you're in Myrtle Beach that means only one thing: Bike Week is Back! It's been a tumultous spring and the dates of this year's rallies have been a thing of much dispute locally, with some organizers from the Harley-Davidson rally wanting to move their rally closer to Memorial Day weekend and the county threatening to not issue vendor permits before giving in in the end. The "official" rally dates for the Cruisin' The Coast Spring Rally are now May 14-20, with many businesses also hosting events the previous weekend. On the other ...

“I mean, the thing is, we’re all so in love with being in this band that it was very difficult for us to understand how you could not be.” —Mike Mills The departure of Bill Berry in 1997 is R.E.M. ’s obvious pivot point, splitting the band’s history cleanly into two markedly different parts. This can be measured quantifiably, in terms of record sales: R.E.M. would never again go platinum in Berry’s absence, and in some cases the band sold fewer records than it did on IRS in the ’80s. It can also ...

I'm a sucker for a good cover song, and that's something that I've noted often over the years. In a way, I guess you could say that I'm a 'collector' of covers, with countless compilations devoted to artists putting their personal stamp on another artist's work residing on the shelves and in the files of my personal archives. This week there's a new piece available in the form of A LITTLE LOVE , a 10-song collection of acoustic re-imaginings from RENEE & JEREMY . While the duo is known for their kid-friendly works, A LITTLE LOVE is ...

"If you knock me, you'll get mocked / I'll stir fry you in my wok / Your knees will start shaking and your fingers pop / Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock" goes one of the more memorable couplets on the Beastie Boys' 1997 hit 'Intergalactic'. It may not be one of Adam Yauch's best (and it certainly isn't one of his worst), but it's a classic example of the playful braggadocio he – under his MCA moniker - and the group excelled in from their formative years in the early '80s through to Yauch's untimely ...