Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: The xx, Lykke Li Song: YACHT - I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvet Underground Cover) [download here ] What's so good? I didn’t think it was possible to make the Velvet Underground sound even more badass than they normally do. But Yacht’s cover of the 1966 Nico-led classic is pure magic – synthy blips and and thrumming back beat add a cool modernity to the smokey, sexy track (following their cover of Bridgette Fontaine’s 1969 song “Le Goudron”). This version remains largely close to the original, with a more upbeat tempo and ...

Celebrities are used to having things like sandwiches,  streets or drinking games named in their honor, but there have only been a chosen few that have had a spider named for them. Today news surfaced that a new genus of the velvet spider has recently been named Loureedia, “in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground,” in honor of the Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed. The  spider, which is described as having a “dark and shiny” appearance and is known to live in Africa, Asia, Europe and Brazil. Reed joins both Frank Zappa and Neil Young ...

Setting the sneaker scene ablaze is ASICS’s latest, the Gel Lyte III that represents one half of the new Orange Blaze Pack. Contrasting in its colors, the sneaker boasts neon orange tongue flaps, laces and other accents, while black suede adorns the back and tip that surrounds the shoe’s body of smokey white and grey. [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

Every week we invite a reader to share with us some of the songs they've been listening to recently. This week, a selection of music from Sydney-based artists Each week, we invite someone to share a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. This week it's the turn of Marcus Thaine, a 19-year-old media student from Melbourne who writes at totemmag.com. Follow him on Twitter here . Here is just a selection of some of the best new music coming out of Sydney. Melbourne gets all the attention on the Australian music scene when really Sydney-siders ...

This short track is DOPE! This summer will be filled with Smoke, as the group prepares for the release of their new album, "Hurricane Dove." For the next few months, Smokey Robotic will release selected songs to give the wooers of the world a deep look into themselves. Enjoy, Musik Junkies!

mp3: Howlin' Wolf - Going Back Home Going Back Home is the side with which I start my latest travelling-themed NTS radio show . It was recorded on a cold 1956 December day in Chicago. Howlin' Wolf sings about leaving the city and returning to the country. Like many others, he had migrated from Mississippi to Chicago during the 1950s. It features the guitar sounds of two other bluesmen who made the same journey North, Willie Johnson and Otis 'Smokey' Smothers. Johnson is remembered as an electric guitar pioneer. He would turn the gain right up to produce a distorted sound, one ...

One Room released another smokey, hazed out track the other day in the form of “Tip Toe.” These dudes are the masters of generating a sound that instantly makes you feel high as shit. I don’t know how they do it — whether it’s their sample choice, the soft-spoken, laid back rhyming style or what. I have no idea. I just know that I’m into it. Shout out to Samuel and Chris P for brewing up some sounds that put me on another planet. Download: One Room – Tip Toe Tweet

A completely surprising yet equally welcomed cover of one of the biggest (and most overplayed) party anthems from LMFAO. Unsigned Americana-acoustic artist Noah confronts the dance tune head on, bringing us one of the most genuine renditions of “Sexy and I Know It”. His talented smokey voice paired with quite acoustic guitar strums breaths fresh air into the already worn out single. Download below. Noah – Sexy and I Know It (LMFAO Cover) (Sunset in the Rearview)

Pitchfork : The duplicability of the Quiet Storm format is what separates it from a traditional genre of music. If genres are communicative forces that bind songs, artists, and albums together, then radio formats are an especially commercialized, top-down breed—the results of expensive marketing plans designed to deliver specific groups of listeners to prospective radio advertisers. Quiet Storm appropriates R&B; and soul “slow jams” and recontextualizes them into rotations with their peers and predecessors. An artist might only have one ballad on an album, but to Quiet Storm listeners it might be the only track they hear. Artists and labels ...

P. Diddy may hate the Smokey Robinson classic “The Tears of a Clown” — as he explains in “Coming Home,” he feels like he’s always being addressed whenever it comes on, something that’s obviously quite unsettling — but that doesn’t stop the track from being covered by an ever-growing number of artists. This version comes to us courtesy of Pond, an Australian garage-psych band featuring several Tame Impala alums (not to be confused with the 90s alt-rock band from Portland of the same name). It’s a punchier take on the familiar track, riddled with swaths of swampy guitar ...

Antes de embarcarse en su gira europea para presentar el álbum Beard, Wives, Denim , los australianos Pond se divierten haciendo esta versión del clásico de Smokey Robinson Tears Of A Clown . Mp3: Pond. Tears Of A Clown

Monica took a break from promoting her album New Life and enjoyed some family time with her favorite boys at Jungle Island zoological park in Miami on Tuesday. The R&B; songstress, her husband Shannon Brown, and sons Rocko and Romelo got up close with the wildlife. They met a monkey named Smokey, held a red [...]

In questi giorni esce via Modular Recordings “Beard, Wives, Denim” quarto disco dei Pond.… MP3: Pond – Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson cover) pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Tracklist: 01. New Day 02. Rusty Griz Feat. Lazy Grey 03. I Am Legend Feat. AG and Delta 04. The Truth Feat. The Tongue, Hau and Dazastah 05. Soldier and A Thinker Feat. Hau and Blak Twang 06. Highs and Lows Feat. Fashawn, Solo and David Dallas 07. Ruthless Feat. Simpson">Guilty Simpson and Brad Strut 08. Intergalactic Feat. Vast Aire and Dialect 09. Smokey 10. [...]

Generally, it's probably not a good idea for an indie-rock band of any genre to cover classic American soul and ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/hear-pond-cover-smokey-robinsons-tears-of-a-clown/65196/