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!! OMG, download the new Ray Mang track featuring Lady Miss Kier !!
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What better way to start the weekend than with Ray Mang's clubby cover of George Clinton's anti-war funk jam "Bullet Proof"? We posted about it a while back, but now we have the radio edit of the track for your downloading pleasure. Who is Ray Mang? He is the party time alter ego of writer/producer Raj Gupta. Fans of fabulous female vocalists should note that this song features a rousing performance by former Deee-Lite front woman Lady Miss Kier.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Bullet Proof" by Ray Mang (featuring Lady Miss Kier)
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posted by Kevin on Friday, March 12, 2010
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!! OMG, new Tracey Thorn album: "Love and its Opposite" !!
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Former Everything But the Girl vocalist and active tweeter Tracey Thorn announced the details of her third solo album Love and its Opposite earlier today via Pitchfork. It's due out in the States on May 18 and will feature appearances by Jens Lekman, Cortney Tidwell and members of Hot Chip, as well as a cover of Lee Hazelwood's "Come on Home to Me".
The first cut on the album "Oh, the Divorces!" is available for free download below. Here's what Tracey had to say about the song on her MySpace blog:
The last couple of years have seen so many of my close friends and family heading for the divorce courts that I couldn't help but write about it (sorry, that is one of the perils of being friends with a songwriter). The truth is that not only have I not got divorced this year, I have in fact got married. Yes, you do know who to. A twenty seven year engagement may seem cautious to some of you, but I think in these uncertain times, it is as well to be sure of someone before you make any rash commitments. So stop worrying, the divorce bit isn't about me. Sadly, the middle-aged bit is.
(She married Ben Watt, the other half of Everything But the Girl.)
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Oh, the Divorces!" by Tracey Thorn (Email sign-up required)
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posted by Kevin on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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!! OMG, new Erykah Badu single: "Window Seat" !!
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Over the weekend Erykah Badu leaked the lead single off her new album New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh via Twitter and I've had it on repeat ever since. It's called "Window Seat" and it's all about the urge to skip town - pertinent subject matter with gloomy winter weather in full effect.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Window Seat" by Erykah Badu
The track was produced by Erykah and James Poyser and features ?uestlove on drums. New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh is due out March 30 on Universal Motown.
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posted by Kevin on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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!! OMG, Marina And The Diamonds' "Hollywood" gets remixed !!
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The latest precocious pop star to emerge from the United Kingdom is 24-year-old Marina Diamandis, a husky-voiced singer-songwriter who will release her debut album Family Jewels under the moniker Marina and The Diamonds ("The Diamonds" actually does not refer to her backing band, but rather you, the fans) in late February. This year is already off to a promising start for Marina: the BBC listed her as number two on its tastemaking 'Sound of 2010' list and her new single "Hollywood", about her obsession with the all-American way of life, comes out on February 1.
We have two remixes of "Hollywood" for you to check out: a deeply gay house remix by DFA Records recording artist The Juan MacLean and a bounce-y new wave reworking by someone called 'Monarchy Gliese'. Marina has just released a video for the acoustic version of the song, which is also very nice.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Hollywood (Juan MacLean Remix)" by Marina And The Diamonds
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Hollywood (Monarchy Gliese Remix)" by Marina And The Diamonds
Marina and the Diamonds will tour the UK in February and the United States in March. Dates after the jump.
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posted by Kevin on Friday, January 22, 2010
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!! OMG, Thunderheist's Isis Salam flies solo with "Avenue" !!
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Isis Salam is best known for her commanding stage presence as the emcee in Canadian club rap duo Thunderheist. Since the band went on hiatus late last year, the Nigerian-born performer has been busy working on solo material with Toronto-based producer Alixander III. The word on the street is that Isis solo is more Grace Jones than hip-hop and judging from the glossy new wave number "Avenue", the first track to hit the web, the comparison is spot on.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Avenue" by Isis
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posted by Kevin on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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!! OMG, coming soon: The Knife's experimental opera soundtrack !!
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Swedish pop duo The Knife announced plans yesterday to release the soundtrack for the experimental opera Tomorrow In A Year. Inspired by the life of Charles Darwin and his book On the Origin of Species, the album will be available on February 9 in digital format and a month later in physical form. The music was commissioned by Danish theater company Hotel Pro Forma and composed in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock. We interviewed The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson shortly after the opera's September premiere in Copenhagen and here's what she had to say about the process:
It's a choreographer and us making music and there's a light designer and a stenographer and costume designer and everybody was supposed to work without knowing what the other ones did... Sound-wise, we have been trying to work theoretically with the music because we've never done that before. Really following in a subject to work with the music in ways that sometimes we have made music of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution in some specific species... He was a geologist in the beginning so it starts with... rocks. [laughs] And it ends up with a diversity of everything. It's hard to say so much more about it.
The Knife have made the track "Colouring of Pigeons" available for free download to members of their mailing list. Preview the track below and if you like what you hear, sign up here to download it.
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posted by Kevin on Thursday, January 7, 2010
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!! OMG, new Final Fantasy track: "Lewis Takes Action" !!
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According to Domino Records, Final Fantasy's third album Heartland is "a song cycle of Contemporary Fiction" and a "unique modern musical statement" that comprises "twelve concise songs informed by the traditions of pop, which are based on one long narrative concept, and played by an orchestra." What that basically means is it's a red-blooded concept album about a super hot religious zealot named Lewis who lives a homoerotic fantasy land called Spectrum over which Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett presides as God. Things really heat up when Lewis takes off his shirt during the song "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt".
We haven't heard Heartland in its entirety yet so we don't know how the story ends, but as a prelude to the album's January 2010 release, Final Fantasy has made the song "Lewis Takes Action" available for free download. You can listen to it below and then grab it via Domino's website.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Lewis Takes Action" by Final Fantasy (Email sign-up required)
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posted by Kevin on Thursday, December 3, 2009
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!! OMG, Jake Shears and Stuart Price remix The Hidden Cameras !!
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To whom does a super gay band turn to commission a super gay remix? None other than Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears and mega-producer Stuart Price, apparently. Whilst staying in The Hidden Cameras frontman Joel Gibb's Berlin apartment a while back, the two pop superstars found some time to turn sunny single "In The NA" into a pumped-up dance floor work out with pitch-shifted vocals that kinda sound like what would've happened if Kool Thing turned to Kim Gordon and said "Fuck my face" right before he snorted a line of meth out of Thurston Moore's buttcrack.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "In the NA" (Crystal Pepsi Remix) by The Hidden Cameras
Oh and for all the retro-commercial fans in the house, it's called the "Crystal Pepsi Remix". Remember that ass-tasting "clear alternative" to regular Pepsi? No? Crank up your volume and remind yourself after the jump.
Remaining Hidden Cameras 2009 tour dates:
Dec 2 - Minneapolis @ 7th Street Entry
Dec 3 - Chicago @ Empty Bottle
Dec 5 - Toronto @ The Opera House (co-presented by omgblog.com!)
Dec 12 - Glasgow, Scotland
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posted by Kevin on Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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!! OMG, new Sia song: "You've Changed" !!
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At the beginning of the year we blogged about Lauren Flax's '90s house throwback "You've Changed" featuring her friend Sia on vocals. Now, the Aussie pop singer has reworked the track into a disco banger and released it online as a teaser for her new album, due out in the New Year. Cop it below.
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "You've Changed" by Sia
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posted by Kevin on Monday, November 23, 2009
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!! OMG, gay runway appeal: new Azari & III song !!
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"Reckless (With Your Love)" is the latest catchy house banger from T.O.-based production duo Azari & III. Dare I say this one has even more gay runway appeal than their last effort? If you're like me and you feel like stabbing someone when the DJ plays "Show Me Love" for the seven hundred zillionth time but still crave that '90s old school Detroit-meets-Euro house sound (by way of Canada), then this track is for us. An alternative title might be "Flawless (With Your Style)".
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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: "Reckless (With Your Love)" by Azari & III
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posted by Kevin on Friday, October 30, 2009
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