Luther Van Cheese - Never Too Much Dross

hard to beat

Swans - The Seer

Ballin' Jack - Found a Child

You may recognise this as the source of a certain sample..

Earl Sweatshirt - Chum

New stuff from the Odd Future crew.

Rhye - The Fall

Metz - Metz

Metz self titled album is out imminently on SubPop. It is available on Soundcloud to stream here.

Tobi Vail - Free Pussy Riot

Lijadu Sisters - Come On Home

A slice of Nigerian Soul, from the 70's.

Ghostface Killah vs Beirut - Save Me Concubine (ABX)

Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang :-)

Andy Scott - Numb

An old favourite from my DJing days with the Modern Love label. I like this new direction, good to hear some interesting things happening in electronic music again. This will be the first cut from new album Luxury Problems out on October 29th.

Death Grips - Deep Web

More envelope pushing from Death Grips. Their penis toting album, No Love Deep Web out 1st October 2012:

1. Come up and get me 

2. Lil boy 

3. No Love 

4. Black dice 

5. World of Dogs 

6. Lock your doors 

7. Whammy 

8. Hunger Games 

9. Deep Web 

10. Stockton 

11. Pop 

12. Bass rattle stars out the sky 

13. Artificial death in the West

Check it out in full...! http://thirdworlds.net

Crystal Castles - Wrath Of God

More from Crystal Castles, which is no bad thing.

Solange - Losing You

The best thing about this is definitely the ridiculous dancing. Dev Hynes has his paws all over this one as well. Nice video zooming around South Africa. Is Solange Knowles sad about losing you...? naaahhh.

And yes - that is you know who's little sis.

Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing

Slightly embarrassing... Produced and co-written by Ariel Rechtshaid and Dev Hynes. Ferreira is again re-inventing herself on her Ghost EP, out October 16th on Capitol. Tracklist for that below.

1. Sad Dream
2. Lost in My Bedroom
3. Ghost
4. Red Lips
5. Everything Is Embarrassing

Gun and Roses - Mr Brownstone

Flying Lotus- Putty Boy Strut

Looking forward to hearing the album, out start of October on Warp.

FIDLAR - Cheap Beer

Sometimes simple pleasures are the best.

Tops - Diamond Look

Quite a sweet pop song, irritatingly catchy!

Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes - Teaser

Short teaser for Flylo's up and coming new ablum Until the Quiet Comes out October 1st/2nd on Warp Records.. Along wth the snippets, some beauty in the accompanying video by Beeple.

Tracklisting


01 - All In
02 - Getting There feat. Niki Randa
03 - Until the Colours Come
04 - Heave(n)
05 - Tiny Tortures
06 - All the Secrets
07 - Sultan's Request
08 - Putty Boy Strut
09 - See Thru to U feat. Erykah Badu
10 - Until the Quiet Comes
11 - DMT Song feat. Thundercat
12 - The Nightcaller
13 - Only if You Wanna
14 - Electric Candyman feat. Thom Yorke
15 - Hunger feat. Niki Randa
16 - Phantasm feat. Laura Darlington
17 - me Yesterday/Corded
18 - Dream to Me

Philip Glass - Rubric (Tyondai Braxton Remix)

To celebrating minimalist Philip Glass's 75th Birthday in January, Beck and Hector Castillo are putting together a double CD of  Remixes. Also involved are Amon Tobin, Memory Tapes, Dan Deacon and Cornelius among others. Here former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton re-works Rubric. He will also be collaborating with Glass for a performance during the upcoming ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival, Manhattan's Pier 36 in September.

Check out glass performing 'Closing' from his seminal album 'Glassworks'.

Four Tet - 128 Harps

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, ... Been a fan of that Four Tet sound for going on a decade now. Good to hear Kieran is still coming up with fresh sounding stuff.

Swans - Mother Of The World

Mother of the World? 'End of the World!' May be more fitting..

Gregory Porter - Be Good (Lion's Song)

really good..

Alabama Shakes - Hold On

Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freeky

Die Antwoord - Baby's On Fire

CAN - A Swan Is Born

Buy the lost tapes! Saw Damo Suzuki a few weeks ago, incredible energy.

King Creosote - Ankle Shackles

Dan Deacon - True Thrush

The sun came today.

Liars - A Ring On Every Finger

Like.

Crystal Castles - Doe Deer (Milano Rmx)

Glass Candy - Warm in the Winter

I hear those snobs, 'corny', 'cheese', 'rubbish' you say. You know you love it.

Sam Flax - Fire Doesn't Burn Itself

The man is obviously a genius.

Subrosa - Simone Barraco

Great song, great video.

Video :: Darkside - A1

We featured this song last year, but this video has just been released. It is nicely shot, featuring three dopey basket faced sand people.

DIIV - Doused

Reminicent of The Cure, The Stone Roses and some of that early Nineties Manchester sound.

Azelia Banks - Jumanji

Harlem's Azelia Banks released a new track yesterday, listen to it via SoundCloud.

real bitch all day, uptown, broadway etc..

Phèdre - Aphrodite

DIRECTED BY: Phèdre

SHOT BY: Calvin Thomas

EDITED BY: Sofia Bohdanowicz

STARRING: Lola Pacita Labayen

ALSO FEATURING: Gold Star, Jods, Gold Star Wanderer, Charzz, Ren, Ananda Gabo & Beta Frontiers AKA Pretty M.

CHOREOGRAPHY: Leah Gold & Jodinand Aguillon

Here We Go Magic - How Do I Know

That robot is taking the p*ss!

Not the first Pecknold video featured on here.How Do I Know is a track from their forthcoming album, A Different Ship (out May 8th worldwide on Secretly Canadian). Directed by Sean Pecknold and starring Janet Pants.

Video :: Black Dice - Rodriguez

More psychedelic insanity from Black Dice.

RIP Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys

Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, rapper, film-maker, activist, buddist, has sadly passed away after a long fight against cancer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/05/adam-yauch

Video :: Grimes - Genesis (On Later..)

Good to see Grimes make it over the Atlantic, and not being afraid to look slightly ridiculous in the pursuit of her art..

White Denim - Covers

Coincidentally to digging up the old White Denim video a few days ago, when James Petralli found an old Tascam portastudio in his garage over the weekend, he looked to Facebook for some requests on covers. Several classics made the cut including Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, the White Stripes, and a few others. 

Some help coming from WD guitarist Austin Jenkins on a couple tracks. Download them here. I look forward to catching them live in a few weeks time.

Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

What needs to be said?

White Denim - All You Really Have to Do / Mess Your Hair Up

Milk Maid - Do It Right

Like it, done right..When is it ever going to stop raining?

Video :: Shlohmo - Rained The Whole Time (Nicolas Jaar Remix)

Nicolas Jaar works his magic on this Shlohmo track.

Directed by Video Marsh
Cinematography and editing by Nic Brown
Produced by Nic and Chris Brown
Featuring Aaron Dickinson and Victoria Street


From The Vacation EP

Video :: Death Grips - I've Seen Footage

Genius or over-hyped rubbish??? You decide.

Beck - I Only Have Eyes For You

Recorded as part of the Song 1 multimedia project by artist Doug Aitken, the old crooner classic has also been covered by the likes of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, No Age, Devendra Banhart, Lucky Dragons, among others.

Daughn Gibson - Tiffany Lou

There's a lot to say about this, so I won't say a damn thing.

Prinzhorn Dance School - Stool Pigeon Mix

If you don't like a bit of Dub/Roots reggae occasionally, then there is something officially wrong with you. Nice selection from Prinzhorn Dance School on DFA.

Death Grips - I've Seen Footage

Prepare to be blown away..
I've Seen Footage is an anthem of a tune taken from their forthcoming album out on 24th April.
Which can be heard in its entirety on SoundCloud, now.
They talked to Pitchfork about themselves, and their interesting cover:

We consider ourselves feminists, we fiercely support homosexuality, transparent world leadership, and the idea of embracing yourself as an individual in any shape or form. Acceleration is a mantra, we're not a political band, we are freaks and outsiders. It was important to project that message and energy through the artwork of this album. This is free thinking and eternally open-ended music… [The cover] is like an ambassador to the sound.

Niki and the Dove - Tomorrow

This will be the first track on Niki & The Dove’s debut album, Instinct.
Out on SubPop, 7th April and May 14th in the UK.

Thundercat - Walkin'

Disturbin'

Kwes - Let Go Of Your Hurt

Kwes -'Let Go of Your Hurt' taken from forthcoming debut EP on Warp, 'Meantime'

Beta Frontiers - Hondo

Move 80s vibes from Hondo featuring Becky Ninovic, out this month.

The Black Keys - Your Touch

I just hate google ads, feel like i'm walking around in Minority Report.

The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So

Just because I wanna... Would love to see them live.

King Tuff - Bad Thing

Yes! summer is coming and King Tuff have a single out on Sub Pop that kicks ass.

Release date: May 29, 2012

Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger

New Dirty Projectors single out 29th May.

Chromatics - Kill for Love

The Chromatics released their first record in 5 years on Monday. The single is from the new album of the same name. A fittingly perfect pop song to complement the LP. Johhny has put the whole album up on sound cloud so check it out! Magnificent.

Sigur Rós – Ekki múkk

Sigur Rós have released details of their new album coming out in May.

The tracklisting for 'Valtari' is as follows:

'Ég Anda'

'Ekki Múkk'

'Varúð'

'Rembihnútur'

'Dauðalogn'

'Varðeldur'

'Valtari'

KID A - BB Bleu

Definitely a talent to look out for. Celebrating the impending completion of her next release - BLCKRSECHLL, Kid A has remastered one of the most moving songs from her imaginary sound track PPPONEY OST. Download the album here.

Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart

Bobby Womack is still alive! And he can still sing! Wow.

Taken from the new album The Bravest Man In The Universe to be released on 11th June (UK) and 12th June (US) 2012 on XL Recordings.

Produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell.

Hot Chip - Flutes

Cool new tune from Hot Chip, shame about the video.. 'Flutes' is taken from Hot Chip's forthcoming album 'In Our Heads' released on Domino on June 11th.

Jonathan Galkin / DFA Records Mix

Check out this mix by Jonathan Galkin for DFA records, brilliant selection.

Chromatics - Back from the grave

More 80s grooves from the chromatics and a retro Alberto Rossini video to complement it. Nice!

Mix :: Mr. Scruff - Koko Feb 2012

I will be in Koko on Tuesday night, but unfortunately missed this with Mr. Scruff on the 18th. You can download it for a limited time from here using Download Code b6ScPw and enjoy it at your leisure.

Video :: Chromatics - Lady

chromatics' third single from "kill for love"

filmed live at silver city prom 2010

photography by rhys balmer & alberto rossini

Grimes - Visions

New album release from Claire Boucher's one woman Montreal based project Grimes.

Although a massive phenomenon in recent weeks, was not sure about posting these tracks at first. But Oblivion and Genesis with their high pitched floaty vocals have a strange way of sticking in ones head.

The whole album can be heard on NPR here.

Sharon Van Etten - Give Out

News: Joyce Manor new album announced

In pop-punk rock news.. Joyce manor have released deatails of their forthcoming album, entitled 'Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired'.

The album will be out 17th April on Asian Man Records. This is the followup to their self titled début last year, which brilliantly came in at less than 20 minutes in total. Check it out below, one of my highlights being 'Leather Jacket'.

Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired track listing

These Kind of Ice Skates
Comfortable Clothes
See How Tame I Can Be
Drainage
Video Killed The Radio Star
If I Needed You There
Bride of Usher
Violent Inside
I'm Always Tired

Four Tet - A tribute to Jef Gilson (Isma'a records 2004)

Four Tet have just posted this, a tribute to Jef Gilson who sadly died yesterday. I think this is reason enough to  check him out..

They recommend two good compilations of Jef Gilson's music :

http://www.amazon.com/Zao/dp/B001NVE6EG

http://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk/v2/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=0&P_ID=586&strPageHistory=search&numSearchStartRecord=1

Coldcut - Say Kids What Time Is It?

'Say Kids What Time Is It?' was the very first Coldcut white label 12" vinyl record release, first picked up by Coldcut to sell 25 years ago to the day on 1 February 1987.

Coldcut are giving away the download to celebrate 25 years!!! Shit.

http://www.coldcut.net 

http://www.ninjatune.net

Released by: Ninja Tune

M.I.A. - Bad Girls

M.I.A.'s poppy new track with video directed by Romain Gavras of the ginger murdering 'Born Free' video fame.

Trying to resist posting this the last few days, but eventually relented, the driving is worth it alone.

Phèdre - In Decay

Video :: Nicolas Jaar - Materials

Directed by: http://pondr.co.uk 

Produced by: http://tidal.ie/

Edit: John O'Connor

Song: Nicholas Jaar - Materials

This is a fan video

Lower Dens - Brains

After featuring the new Black Dice video a few weeks back, here another solid release on Ribbon Music

'Brains' is from Baltimore-based Lower Dens' forthcoming second album, Nootropics

Realease May 1st (North America) / April 30th (Rest of the world)

The Men - Open Your Heart

Great new track from the Brooklyn based quartet's forthcoming Album.

Release date March 6th on Sacred Bones

Video :: Symmetry - Over The Edge

'over the edge'

written by johnny jewel & nat walker

from the symmetry album 'themes for an imaginary film'

directed by alberto rossini exclusively for italians do it better films. shot on location in maui december 2011.

driver : megan louise

Video :: ASAP Rocky - Wassup

Video :: Desire - Don't Call

FILMED ON LOCATION IN MIAMI DURING A HURRICANE WATCH OCTOBER 2011.

DIRECTED BY ALBERTO ROSSINI

Hot Chip - No Fit State

Nemes - Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana cover)

Check out their bandcamp here. Their album is available for download at only $1.

feedtime - your favourites according to mark arm

Sub Pop Records has announced The Aberrant Years, a 4-CD/LP reissue of the first four feedtime records, to be released in March 2012. Check it out here.

Lorn & Dolor - My Keys // Black Ice

Sea Oleena - Sleeplessness

Grimes - Oblivion

Nicolas Jaar - With Just One Glance

New track from Nicolas Jaar featuring Demi Moore's youngest on vocals.

John Talabot - So will be now ... (feat. Pional)

Video :: Black Dice - Pigs

Black Dice 'Pigs' from their up coming album

Mr Impossible

Out April 10th / April 9th

on Ribbon Music

Interelektrika - Rosemary (Matthias Meyer and Patlacs Diskoutier Remix)

James Blake - Love What Happened Here