Filed under: concerts, music, songs on the internet, the internet & things we find there | Tags: Brooklyn, Headless Horseman, pregame playlist
Everyone, check out this band. Headless Horseman clangs and jangles like a rusty tin box filled with diamonds. If you live in NYC, you can go see them at Piano’s when their residency starts in Jan.
Image courtesy Headless Horseman
Headless Horseman – SH8KR
Filed under: music, songs on the internet | Tags: Micachu & the Shapes, mp3, music, pregame playlist
Woo! Happy Saturday! So I’m not even going to pitch this like dudes I just found this cool new band because, realtalk, I’m a little late on the uptake here.
Really the most disappointing thing about this whole scenario is that Pitchfork beat me to the Pokémon joke. bastards!
Not only p fork of course but everyone else who talks about music on the internet has already been losing their cool over Micachu et al since their album came out last summer.
All of this being said, I still felt the need to write about this band because I am feeling very good about them on so many levels. Their frantic, jumpy electrobeats make me think of Le Tigre or something, and that fiercely wide-eyed, technicolor spunkiness is a little bit Alphabeat-ish…
…but finally the music that the apparently immensely talented and classically-trained Mica Levi and her Shapes are making on their weird menagerie of homemade instruments is really just doing its own thing. Sometimes it’s pop for just a second, but then it clicks or it bloops or it sizzles or they shout something like “after this we’ll slip your disc” and suddenly you realize you’re at a birthday party in the 4th dimension.
Also, she looks like a boy but that’s ok.
You can buy all their records through their label’s website. Plus not that I condone this but pretty much all the songs off their new album are to be gotten free on various music blogs. Just ask the hypemachine.
PS Also props for not putting a ‘Crystal’ in their name like all the other little electropoppers are doing these days. Micachu and the Crystal Shapes? Nope.
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: Birds & Batteries, electropop, mp3, music, pregame playlist, San Francisco
O MY! How have I left you alone in a world of silence without giving you any new music to listen to for so so so long? Were you bored? I’m sorry!
Here is something fresh for your atrophied ears.
Birds & Batteries are from San Francisco. All the leading authorities agree that no one can agree what their style is. They are like a kaleidoscope of twangy clangy folk, rushing American rock, something kind of psychedelic, a bouncy chunk of funk, the tendency to sound a little bit spooky, and a healthy jolting current of electropop lighting the whole gig up like christmas.
I’m not going to say any more, because I want you to listen. This song is on my workout playlist and releases breathtaking adrenaline cascades whenever it comes on. I kick into hyperdrive and run all the way to next Tuesday. But you can stay right here in Saturday where the party is. Everybody wins.
**Birds & Batteries – Lightning (UTNG Version)**
This is off their new EP, “Up to No Good”.
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, miami horror, music, partyy, pregame playlist, treasure fingers
WHOA watch yourself this is some treacherously catchy I-cant-believe-its-not-80s synthesizer mayhem here, the original will make you joggle your leg if you have lots of self control, the remix will make you moonwalk. true. f-in. story.
So Miami Horror, what is its deal, how is it all over the bloggs all of a sudden hmm?
let’s ignore the fact that blogs have been blogging about it since like ’07. who cares
the remixes are great (yea try like Pnau, Midnight Juggernauts, &c.), remixes of the originals, remixes of the remixes are great,
Miami Horror is a cute lil Australian hipstertype guy (band, whatever) and we just love it. listen listen.
O-RIGINAL
RE-MIX
**Don’t Be On With Her (Treasure Fingers Remix)**
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, mp3, music, partyy, pony pony run run, pregame playlist, stereoheroes, work
Good god what’s gotten into me Ive actually been working these days and so haven’t been able to blog all day as I truly wish I could..
This means I’ve been sitting on a number of delicious dance remixes which I will deploy as the mood strikes& time allows.
Here a perfect one to make even Tuesday twinkle with magic.
Pony Pony Run Run name Weezer as one of their greatest influences, though I dont rly hear the likeness except maybe in terms of like, both make me want to move my feet, and it’s sort of impossible not to sing along by the time they reach the second chorus, &plus their songs display a special stealthy ability for getting played on repeat by me until I hear them quietly continue in my ears when they’re not even playing anymore.
They maintain a certain mystique, identifying their 3 members by only the letters G, A, &T.
What this is is fun fun synthpop, Cut Copy comes to mind a little, very much in the vein of the chimey dancey discoey stuff coming out of the French electropop scene these days. The early 80s come back to life with a yearning heart, a sexy french accent, adorable falsetto moments, & the whole thing lends itself amazingly to the creation of slightly more intense remix versions. I heard it first a week ago and thought it was sugarsweet, embarassingly happy stuff…but i sat on it, and listened to it again, and again, and it has gotten its claws into me somehow. I’m even falling for the cutesy video
And now presenting the downy little songlets themselves: “Hey You” is off their new album, “You Need Pony Pony Run Run” (check out their myspace to buy it for your own) which dropped earlier this month. First the original, then a remix which makes you want to run run like a pony pony.
**Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You**
**Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (StereoHeroes Remix)**
original + remix courtesy Trash Menagerie
Filed under: club, concerts, getting dancey, music, songs on the internet | Tags: cookies, disco, electropop, glass candy, mp3, music, partyy, pregame playlist
True, this event has come and gone, but in honor of their appearance at Cookies on Tues. we raise our first glass on this Friday night to Glass Candy–Ida No (vocals) & Johnny Jewel (everything else), that is–an electropop (most recently with Italo Disco leanings, but they are prone to experimentation) outfit from Portland, OR.
The duo’s look is just as decadently retro eurosexy as their sound. Perfect soundtrack for rifling through ur lamé, diamonds, furs, painting your eyes pink and teal before venturing into the urban night.
(music courtesy Gorilla vs. Bear)
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: cubic zirconia, dance remix, jubilee, mp3, music, nacho lovers, partyy, pregame playlist, proper villains
beyond the fact that the title of this track really speaks to me, the song and all the remixed incarnations with which it’s about to be released (jun 22) are wacky and fun and new. you want to think about it, maybe, or you want to just dance to it.
1) *Cubic Zirconia – Fuck Work (Proper Villains & Jubilee Remix)*
2) *Cubic Zirconia – Fuck Work (Nacho Lovers Remix)*
Cubic Zirconia are a fledgling hybrid from Brooklyn (who isnt?) that might be best characterized as a “spaced-out RnB acid house revivalist outfit”. Singer Tiombe prefers the designation “Soul white boy nerdy disco dance house fun party time music.” sounds good to me.
in any case they may be a little difficult to classify, but thats what makes it interesting, duh. the group’s founding members are Nick Hook, Todd Weinstock, and Tiombe Lockhart, more recently joined by percussionist and keyboardist Daud Sturdivant. for some reason they seem really into sake. they have another song called ‘i wanna freebase you’, which you can hear on their blog.
if you happen to be located in nyc, CZ is playing bklyn yard on june 13 and santo’s party house on july 2.
1) courtesy of RCRD LBL, who also have the Dâm Funk remix available for streaming, btw. 2) courtesy Discobelle.net
Filed under: getting dancey, made in berlin, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, fred falke, mp3, music, pregame playlist, the whitest boy alive
yea its monday but this is also berlin. anyway here is a lowkey, turn the lights down low and find the one you dressed for tonight kind of track.
**The Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)**
the Whitest Boy Alive has existed since 2003, so why don’t you know about them yet? theyre based in Berlin and their singer is Erlend Øye, that guy from kings of convenience. they’re into making electronic dance music, among other things. they have a new album out called Rules. rule #1, listen to this song.
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, lykke li, mp3, music, partyy, pregame playlist, punks jump up
if the mere fact of friday isn’t enough to make you want to dance
**Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Punks Jump Up Remix)*
this song is making me feel great just now
