WednesdayAcid Washed - Acid Washed Well, it just seems that french electronic music is booming at the moment, and so here is another treat from that part of the world. Influenced by a combination of 90s-era Detroit techno/house and DFA disco anthems, Acid Washed delivers fairly minimal and usually hypnotic electronica. Please see video below for their first single, "General Motors, Detroit, America," to gain insight into their minds and their recommendation on how to perceive the things around you. Prepare your eyeballs. TuesdayMock & Toof - Tuning Echoes Nudisco, cosmic/space disco, digifunk, however you want to call it...Mock & Toof make it. And they do it very quirkily. About half of their latest LP's 13 tracks are fantastic while the other half are either weirdly interesting or just nice soundscapes. If you are into this, grab the album, Tuning Echoes, and give them incentive to keep us dancing. Below is a clip for the funky track "Shoeshine Boogie." To give you a sense of their capability to construct captivating science-fiction-y soundscapes, here is a really nice fan-made video for "Day Ken Died." If you like hot air balloons or the idea of them, you will like the video. ThursdayDigikid84
80s-loving, synth-crazy, retro digifunk, disco-diva outfit. From the same womb as Daft Punk?
WednesdayCirculus - My Body is Made of Sunlight
Not really sure what to say about this...i'm a little scared of it but ultimately fascinated by its strangeness. No, it scares me.
TuesdayTheophilus London - Flying Overseas And it's official. Psychedelic has hit hip-hop. You can find it here and there with the Houston and Huntsville scenes, in Kid Cudi's stuff, among others, but with Theophilus London, you get a new slice of psych-hop laced with nostalgic elements from the funk, soul and R&B meccas of the 1970s. A bass line so deep, funky, and simple...it takes control of your nodding and hip-pulsing controls immediately. Sandwiched with the bass, there is London's vocal delivery, which focuses on the breathing pronunciation of syllables and their syncopated blend with the music, Devonte Hynes' and Solange Knowles' (Beyonce's sister) beaming soulful Motown-drenched chorus, as well as a filming style that combines old film static, pulsing auras, beach haze, and psychedelic visuals.
MondayAriel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round & Round
Please find below the Wayne Coyne-directed/filmed and George Salisbury-edited psychedelic video for Ariel Pink's latest hit track Round & Round. This was all captured on Coyne's iPhone during The Flaming Lips/Ariel Pink tour. The entire album, Before Today, is a refreshing reminder of certain ingenious songwriters from times before today. Artists like Iggy Pop, David Bowie, and other enigmatic, schizophrenic-at-times, and androgynous-when-necessary funky frontmen.
FridayThe Upsidedown - The Town With Bad WiringMore evidence that psychedelic music is here to stay, The Upsidedown's new album The Town With Bad Wiring is filled with widespread influences including shoegazey guitars, Dandy Warhols trippy pop weirdness, and Velvet Underground style groove, haziness and imagery. If that doesn't help you read into their sound and style, they are signed to the Dandy Warhols' record label, Beat the World Records, and also to Reverb Records (latest release), reverb being a key word. Video for "Hang On" below. Videos for "Silver Wind" and "Mea Maxima Culpa" from 2008 release Human Destination below: ThursdayLord Huron - Mighty EPHere we have a tropical psych-folk group from L.A. by the name of Lord Huron. Have some patience with this one and it will pay off as it is a floating tune that just carries you higher as it goes along. Enter their world below:
TuesdayThe Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called MorningRecorded in a London bedroom but bred for a psychedelics-enthused arena, this ladyled outfit pulls out a comfortable shoegaze-soaked blanket from a closet that has been shut for too long.
FridayBachelorette - My Electric FamilyOnce again, the third wave of psychedelia has washed ashore in New Zealand. Great review of the album here. Basically, Bachelorette is a one human collective including Annabel Alpers and no on else. She is from Christcurch and describes her music as "Bachelorette took too many mushrooms and fell in love with a computer." That is good enough for me. The first video is for "Her Rotating Head" off of My Electric Family. The second video is for "Complex History of a Dying Star" off of her first album Isolation Loops, also great. Fiveng - Jonah (Star Slinger Remix)
UK hip-hop-beat remix chillwave electro happy artist Star Slinger with his take on Jonah's "Fiveng." Use this track for listening.
ThursdayStarfucker - Biggie Smalls (VIDEO)Alright then, no more of this hiatus. "I get a lot of flak for a lot of things. Potty this, potty that, loony this, loony that." That is a recent quote by the eccentric Prince Charles of Wales. And what's really loony is the following video for Starfucker's "Biggle Smalls." Yeehaw! This is silly! New posts very soon.
TuesdayIncan Abraham Los-Angeles-based psych-pop-rock band Incan Abraham has released their debut EP Adult World. Video for the track "Pantheons" is below. Some relaxing vibes for sure.
MondayPlants and Animals - Feedback in the Field (video)
Video for the hit song off of Plants and Animals' 2008 debut album Parc Avenue. Their second release, La La Land, is out now on Secret City.
SaturdayTOBACCO - Maniac Meat There is a lot to say about this album, but to start off, lets just say it is "in my pants", with that meaning that it is quite amazing and as fun as bobbing for apples or eating a full rack of meaty zesty ribs covered in sauce with a kick that makes you sweat. This is the kind of album that you turn up as loud as possible until you get slight ringing in your ears that throws you off balance. Electronic Madness. Maniac Meat is the second album released by Tobacco, who is a one-man stint out of Pennsylvania also responsible for psychedelic indie electro-pop outfit Black Moth Super Rainbow (their 2009 album "Eating Us" is tittillating). Many of the sounds he uses in Black Moth Super Rainbow can be found in Tobacco's music. The major difference is that the overall sound feels more crunchy with a bass boost on pretty much everything. There are large hip-hop style beats and plenty of thick chainsaw-sounding analog synths that immerse you into the louder, more in-your-face world of Tobacco. If you can get your hands on it, there is a limited edition bonus CD-R entitled "Mystic Thickness" that was included with first-come copies of the album. Some videos for tracks from both the album and the bonus CD-R are below along with a track to stream on the player at the bottom of the page. Tobacco - Motorlicker From Mystic Thickness FridayMaximum BalloonMaximum Balloon is Dave Sitek's new solo project. He is well known as the guitarist and record producer for TV on the Radio. The new project is essentially music created by him with a star guest vocalists on each track, including Dragon of Zynth's Aku Orracu-Tetteh, Brooklyn rapper Theophilus London, David Byrne, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano, Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone, among others. Track by track prose preview here. In an interview with SF Station, he talks about how much of a sandwich of influences he is, which is pretty evident based on the diverse group of guest vocalists above. Dave grew up in Columbia, MD and fell in love with a style of music called D.C. hardcore. Once he got bored with that, he got into Jamaican music, psychedelic music, and English pop-synth music, which have all greatly affected the way he plays instruments and produces records. Marijuana has also contributed to his entrancing and orgasmic walls of sound. Understandable from a producer's standpoint, "there is no way I could play a song back to myself 3,000 times unless I was stoned. I don't ever want to repeat myself, so I try not to be too conscious of the process." In the past two years, he has produced albums for Foals, Scarlett Johansson, TV on the Radio, Telepathe, Iran, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pink Noise, Wale, Holly Miranda, and Daniel Higgs. Is marijuana the new ritalin? Here is a music video for Maximum Balloon's "Tiger" with guest vocalist Aku (he sounds just like Tunde Adebimpe, it's absurd). Below that is another video presented by Esquire magazine featuring the same song and also featuring Daisy Lowe. If Sitek can listen to the same song 3,000 times, trust me, you can listen to the same song twice. Another track and more commentary once the record comes out on August 31. WednesdayCrocodiles - Summer of Hate Although this album was released in 2009, we didn't get a chance to write about it last year due to life's deep embrace into its very active bosom. This was a perfect '09 summer album so why not include it in your '10 summer listening quest if you havn't heard it yet. Rife with rampant sexual energy, fuzzed-out bass, blissed-out organ, ethereal Spiritualized-style guitar reverb and vocals, as well as some psychedelic freakouts, Summer of Hate is a fitting playlist for a summer of love. Crocodiles are signed to Fat Possum Records. They deliver a well-balanced mix of great driving bluesy rock tunes and fluttery hazy ballads. Crocodiles - Summer of Hate Their sophomore album is due for release this year. Below you will find a video for the first single "Sleep Forever." More on the album when it comes out, so check back often. Interesting to note that one of the producers is Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford, who has also worked with Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, and Peaches. If the below video track is a result of this new collaboration, I cannot wait to see more results. Listening to it makes me feel truly spiritualized. Would like to see them play at Austin Psych Fest. TuesdayMondayDream Cop (Tommy Davidson)
Via Pitchfork:
"Blacksburg, Va., artist Dream Cop is really multi-instrumentalist Tommy Davidson, but it only takes one listen to his gauzy tunes to understand why he works under such a somnambulant moniker. "Beach City/Carol I Know" is a hypnotic interpolation of portions of the Beach Boys' "That's Not Me" and "Caroline, No", while original composition "Marooned" is a more structured, shoegazey tune with chiming guitar tones and ghostly sighs. (via Get Off the Coast)" mp3s Dream Cop - Beach City-Carol I Know Dream Cop - Marooned SundayBonnaroo Live Feed
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Sorry, there's only two more live shows left but if you see this in time, check it out. Anoraak (new tracks) From Anoraak's MySpace Page: "Late 2008, French electro was all about banging beats and distortion when Anoraak flashed across the musical landscape with his extra-terrestrial romantic synth-pop. "Nightdrive With You" was soon to become the underground anthem that lead him to tour the world for about 2 years and remix artists such as Junkie XL, Shy Child, Neon Indian or Mika. Recently signed to french label naïve, Anoraak has just finished recording his first full length effort, due August 30th 2010. We are happy to share with you this brand new track Above Your Head." Here is the new Anoraak track and his latest remix. Enjoy. Anoraak - Above Your Head Mika - Blame It On The Girls (Anoraak Remix) WednesdayTuesdayThursdayMondayNeon Indian - Terminally ChillNice fan-made video for the song "Terminally Chill" off of Neon Indian's Psychic Chasms.
TuesdayDjango Django - WORAh yes. Django Django. We all know what that means...it means what the hell is that? This is a four-piece band out of London, England that has a singing style and overall sound very similar to that of The Beta Band. I also smell some Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino movie soundtrack influences. Check them out. They'll get bigger. The following festivals are on their radar: Great Escape Festival, The Trip Festival, Beatherder Festival, Wickerman Festival, Stop Making Sense Festival (in Croatia, looks insane), Jersey Live Festival, End of the Road Festival. Is there a profession that involves attending all of these and drinking all of the milk and licking up all of the honey? I will begin searching. Django Django is a step ahead of me.
SundayThursdayMondayThe Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring NightBefore reading the short story and commentary below, please press play on the Youtube video below. It is the first two songs of the album combined. Pink Floyd and The Beach Boys meet on a street on a dark and eery night circa 1974. Pink Floyd is like, "Hey guys, cool voices, jump in our hovercraft and lets starjump to Canada." The Beach Boys respond, "Well hey! Thank you for the compliment. We like your epic space rock. We will stop surfing and start exploring space with you. This is a great opportunity. Let's begin." So the two groups hop into a ship. Soon after takeoff, some weird alien shit starts happening. The members of Pink Floyd become one giant man. The members of The Beach Boys become one giant woman. They decide to reproduce. They spawn 4 children who they plop out into Montreal, Canada and leave to fend for themselves, although they leave them notes about life and all of their recordings. Time passes and the children become adults who form a musical group entitled The Besnard Lakes.  The following tracks are from their most recent album The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night. In all seriousness, this CD sets a precedent for any modern day psych-rock. The ethereal Beach Boys-esque vocals and Pink Floyd-ish psychedelia (especially in the bass, synth/keyboard, drums, guitar solos) blend perfectly and spine-tinglingly into the neo-prog sonic expanse of this otherwordly album. There are also walls of sound, guitar fuzz, and hazy female vocals on tracks like "Albatross" that come from the shoegaze cookbook and masterpiece My Bloody Valentine - Loveless. You need to listen to this LOUD. It is a great driving and headphone record. Support this husband/wife duo and their team. They are currently on tour, and put on a very memorable and entrancing show. This album is historic. The Besnard Lakes - And This Is What We Call Progress The Besnard Lakes - Light Up The Night The Besnard Lakes - Albatross Official - Myspace - Facebook - Twitter - Last.fm - HypeM - Wikipedia - Amazon SaturdayFridayAlan Braxe A famed French remix artist, Alan Braxe released The Uppercuts in 2005. Like his collaborations with Fred Falke and Kris Menance and remixes of tracks by Goldfrapp, Royksopp, and Justice, this album is incredible! If any of the above artists make the parts of your body move rapidly, then most of the below will likely do the same. Feel free to post videos of yourself moving in strange innovative ways. Alan Braxe - Most Wanted Alan Braxe - In Love With You Alan Braxe - Music Sounds Better With You Alan Braxe - At Night Alan Braxe - Paladium Working For A Nuclear Free CityHere is a hypnotic video made by Vimeo member Andrew Books scored to the song "Asleep at the Wheel" by Working For A Nuclear Free City. These guys have created an album dubbed by Stylus Magazine as a "flawless lucid-dream trip through a thousand fantastical influences." That is a very accurate statement indeed. Their 2007 US release, 'Businessmen & Ghosts', is a double album made up of their UK-only self-titled debut album and followup Rocket EP (with the exception of one track). mmm mmm's TuesdayStarfucker Say hello to Starfucker. Their newest album Jupiter is a homage to their home planet. They deliver a unique funky style, incorporating vibalicious electronic synths and sounds from their habitat into spacey jams like "Boy Toy" and "Biggie Smalls." The video below is for the hit "Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second" from their 2008 self-titled first album. It is a musical documentary of their journey from the misty unpredictable atmosphere of Jupiter to the more stable and developed Earth. To confuse the people of Earth and exhibit their omnipotence and connection to the star/pyramid worshippers of Ancient Egypt, they changed their name in the fall of 2009 to PYRAMID, then to Pyramidd, and are now once again Starfucker. Listen at your own risk of becoming brainwashed. Starfucker - German Love Starfucker - Medicine Starfucker - Biggie Smalls Starfucker - Boy Toy Starfucker - Pop Song SaturdayFridaySundaySurf City - Surf City EP Fun. What is fun? This is fun. As in, this is really fun music to listen to. Surf City's lyrics are not necessarily decipherable, and this is the best part. Not that the lyrics are bad. But I mean, are you not happy that a song called "Dickshakers Union" is not only listenable, but 1000 times relistenable? This is a quick musical spurt of happy energy and is very much in line with those other gem-like EPs that come out every once in a while like The Little Ones - Sing Song EP and Suckers - Suckers EP...totally full of quirky anthems that cause instantaneous headbobbing. I would call it surfpunk-garage beach psych-pop...except that it's from New Zealand. They have aptly played alongside Surfer Blood at Surf Bar in Brooklyn, NY, a city that is really becoming one of the main vortexes of this new wave of psych music. Buy it at the Amazon link below...and watch for their debut album. No word yet, but passage of time and commensense says soon. FridayBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album Beat The Devil's Tattoo is a good mix of their past styles. They have gone through ups and downs trying to define their sound, with the first two albums B.R.M.C. and Take Me On, On Your Own good examples of darker neo-psychedelic garage rock and shoegaze with some sprinklings of retro punk. Howl drifted into americana and folk/acoustic-tinged blues. Baby 81 was a loud mix of bluesy hits and drone-y ballads. and The Effects of 333 was just plain weird (and I like weird...so that's weird). Their 2010 release is reminiscent of their first two albums (not afraid to douse you with ethereal, chunky, and loud walls of sound) but ties in the intense blues feel they played around with later on. Influences from The Jesus and Mary Chain and also Spacemen 3/Spiritualized can definitely be heard on many of the tracks, especially the longer ones. There are Howl-like footstompers, lots of tambourine, dark reverb-drenched waves of electrocuted guitar licks, and just a good mix of loud and soft. Good music for driving...good neo-psychedelia. Couple of tracks (each a different style that they play well) and video (one of their first hits) below. "War Machine" has a very thick and entrancing heavy sound...turn that one up loud. There are a lot of naysayers of this band. I don't see any nay to say about them; they consistently deliver fresh product, are awesome live, and are from San Francisco, a beautiful place. ThursdayDeli Special
Every once in a while we will post something weird that we found somewhere or was delivered to us, depending on how you look at it/life. Here's a thing:
SaturdayOK Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (2010) OK Go's third album, Of the Blue Colour Of The Sky, was produced by Dave Friddman. Friddman has contributed elements of his "massive, expansive, 3-dimensional surreal beautiful world" (Spin interview) to the music of Mercury Rev, Mogwai, Elf Power, Phantom Planet, Low, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes 'N Tapes, MGMT, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Flaming Lips (since 1990), and now...OK Go. The sonic difference between this latest album and previous Oh No are heard right off the bat with "WTF?" (video for this track below). This is very dance-y Prince-influenced stuff replete with huge drums, heavy synths and reverb, captivating raspy vocals, and seriously catchy choruses. The album's name, lyrics, concept, and above cover art are based on The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky, a pseudoscientific book published in 1876 that seems to study the relationship between color and theme (one of our goals as well). Read more about it here.OK Go have put out some of the most creative and most watched music videos of modern times, with the treadmill-based "Here It Goes Again" racking up about 50 million views on YouTube. In the above-linked Spin interview, frontman Damian Kulash answers a question I feel many people ask-- Q:"In what way can a music video make a song better or worse?" A: "Oh boy. That's a really good question. I think a video works best when it gives the song an extra dimension as opposed to just illustrating the lyrics. When a video can hurt is when it seems like an advertisement for coolness, or the band, or ideas that are explicit in the song anyway. I'm shocked when people take a sad love song and then do a video that's a narrative treatment of a break-up. Those kinds of videos are almost implying that the song was a failure because it didn't communicate what the song was about. What we want to do with our videos is have a short burst of feeling; to give you a cool little world to live in for three minutes. That's what we're going for." So again, here is the video for "WTF?" You can watch the pretty hilarious "the making of WTF?" here. A couple of more tracks can be streamed below. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass OK Go - White Knuckles Shout Out Louds Just released last Tuesday, February 23, 2010 is the Shout Out Louds' brand new album entitled 'Work.' link Passion Pit Remix of the Song 'Fall Hard' + Shout Out Louds - Fall Hard (Passion Pit's Summer Radio Remix) TuesdayRad Omen - Rad Anthem
Introducing Rad Omen. Broken of secrecy, his true identity is LA's DJ Troublemaker. In his new hit single, 'Rad Anthem,' Rad and the gang take it to the streets for a casual night on the town. The video was directed by Nicholas Goosen (Grandma's Boy). Cameos by Dirt Nasty, Nick Swardson and more.
+ Rad Omen - Rad Anthem WednesdayAnimal Collective - Transverse Temporal Gyrus Yesterday, Animal Collective announced a new piece called Transverse Temporal Gyrus. It is a collaboration between the ever-progressive Animal Collective and artist Danny Perez that will be a site-specific performance at the Guggenheim for the New York museum's 50th Anniversary. As mentioned on the description page here (where you can also buy tickets starting tomorrow), the piece will transform the museum's rotunda into a kinetic, psychedelic environment. Here is the purpose of Transverse Temporal Gyrus as described by Animal Collective: "One of the things that you notice almost immediately in the jungle are the birds; so many different sounds coming from so many different directions. Are they communicating to each other? What are they saying? Does each variation serve a purpose? Why are there repetitions? Is there a pattern or is that just your imagination? If you don’t know the first thing about bird songs, these questions can rack a brain for days. The jungle seems louder than most New York apartments but its symbiosis makes it subtler if not more pleasing to foreign ears. The longer you sit awake in bed listening at night, the more you hear... But as the environments around us change quickly, as people encroach more and more on land where only select symbioses occur, we wonder how this will change the sounds around us and how this alters the way we hear things and react to them. As New Yorkers we are all familiar with the everyday noise around us—the car alarms, the subway trains braking, the music in bars—so familiar that sometimes we drown them out. But then do we not realize how these sounds are affecting us? How they make us feel or act? With this in mind we wanted to create an environment where people could take some time to listen to other kinds of sounds and get away from those familiar sounds of the city. Keeping in mind the birds of the jungle, we’ve created an array of sounds with Animal Collective's music that is seemingly random...or is it? We invite you to come take some time out and sit with us. As time passes it is our hope that you will wonder if you are hearing songs or patterns or maybe simply hearing more. The visual work of Danny Perez has been incorporated to turn the environment of an empty museum into a more mysterious hideaway. The core elements and colors are worked into the piece in order to unite this room of sound with the inside of your brain. We hope you enjoy." So there you have it...Interesting to note that a transverse temporal gyrus, circled as #41 in the brain map above, is one of two gyri found in the primary auditory cortex on both sides of the brain. It is the first piece of neural tissue to process incoming auditory information. I am close to booking a ticket to this as I would thoroughly enjoy these transverse temporal Gurus and their aural/visual experiment. When you close your eyes, do you still hear? When you cover your ears, do you still see? The answer is yes, but the fact remains that you would experience those senses individually of each other if one was completely absent (unless you have synesthesia). Some sights do not have sounds, and some sounds do not have sights. It will be interesting to see how they have set up the sights and sounds of their creation to communicate with each other because as we know, Animal Collective are capable of unmeasurable creativity. Here is their offical video for Brother Sport: MGMT - Congratulations Today, MGMT released the album cover for their sophomore album entitled Congratulations. Instead of predict what the album will sound like (knowing that "It's definitely going to shock people" according to Andrew Vanwyngarden), let's just say it is probably going to be in line with the theme of this website/blog...the celebration of all things psychedelic. There is no question as to their devotion to the genre. Their major label debut, Oracular Spectacular, was recorded with The Flaming Lips' producer Dave Friddman. MGMT contributed to "Worm Mountain" on The Flaming Lips' 2009 album Embryonic. They have opened for/toured with Of Montreal, Asobi Seksu, Radiohead, Chairlift, Paul McCartney, and the list goes on...The upcoming album is co-produced by Pete Kember also known as Sonic Boom, his musical alias associated with bands Spacemen 3 and Spectrum and also a reference to the sound his guitar makes upon liftoff. Pre-order the album here. Make sure to get the limited edition CD or vinyl LP with scratch-off front cover and custom metal coin. I hope it blows my mind. I have every reason to expect it to. Here are some cool tracks to keep you subdued until further sound exploration on April 13, 2010. Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happiness feat. MGMT and Ratatat (Sandy Vee Remix) MGMT - Time To Pretend (High Contrast) The Flaming Lips - Worm Mountain (Feat MGMT) Sleepy Sun - Video for New AgeWell, Sleepy Sun most certainly are not very sleepy. As mentioned in a post below, they worked with UNKLE on a track that is coming out on April 6th. Below is an HD video the band made for their track "New Age" off of Embrace. On top of that, here is a link to some in-studio tracks recorded with The Bay Bridged, a leading source of independent music in San Francisco. Sleepy Sun is definitely an evolving band, describing their last album as a snapshot of the songs in their repertoire at that particular time. This makes sense...as the album is incredible, but the Live iTunes Session is just plain otherwordly. As mentioned in the interview at the same link, their second album has been recorded and mastered and will be released by the end of May 2010. They say it is "the soundtrack to a burlesque adaptation of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. " I am mucho excite. That is a combination of Spanish and Borat language FYI.
TuesdayMiike Snow Miike Snow. Who? Miike Snow. These Swedes are ahead of the curve. With an extensive DJ background, these animals have recently marked their territory around the world. An easy listen with weightless synths and graceful vocals, Miike Snow (the band) are redefining what pop can sound like. Songs Added to Playlist: Miike Snow - Miike Snow (2009): Miike Snow - Song For No One Miike Snow - Black & Blue Miike Snow - Cult Logic Remixes: Passion Pit - The Reeling (Miike Snow Remix) Jónsi - GoMost everything from Iceland is beautiful. Jónsi, lead singer of Sigur Rós, will release his debut album Go in April of this year. Here is a video of "Go Do" that is amazingly Icelandic. P.S. - If you didn't catch the first and title track on Tiësto's 2009 album Kaleidoscope, you can listen to it below, as it is a long ambient electronic sprawl featuring Jónsi that is very listenable/enjoyable and not dominated by schizophrenic synths at all. Tiësto - Kaleidoscope (Feat. Jónsi) FridayUNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall UNKLE - Natural Selection (feat. The Black Angels) Well...this album comes out in May. But an exclusive single was released digitally a couple of days ago. It's available free here and you can stream it below as well. The single is called "Natural Selection" and features vocals and musical contributions from The Black Angels. Less intense/dense than most of The Black Angels' material, UNKLE's track is a chill psychedelectric meshing of their two worlds -- electronica & psychedelic rock -- that seem to be working in tandem these days. Also of note, future plans between The Black Angels and Roky Erickson of The Velvet Underground are currently in the works. Oh yea..some other tracks on UNKLE's upcoming release feature Sleepy Sun, Mark Lanegan, amongst other folks. Can't wait for the Sleepy Sun collaboration.
Wiki - YouTube - Last.fm - HypeM - MySpace - Facebook - Amazon TuesdaySolid Gold A psychedeli-funky-chill pick. Daydreamy jams with relaxing verses. On the contrary, it makes for some great ski music. Also, they will be performing at SXSW in Austin this year, so go check them out if you can. YouTube - Last.fm - HypeM - MySpace - Facebook - Amazon - Bio Songs added to playlist: Bodies of Water (2008) Solid Gold - Get Over It Solid Gold - Bible Thumper Solid Gold - New Kanada Here is a video: ThursdayPop Levi Deliciously blends bubblegum pop, 60's-ish rocknroll, Robert-Planty vocals, and Of Montreal/Ladytron eccentricity/glam into a psychedelisandwich of sexy eargasms and love ballads. Pop Levi has quite a few releases and videos out that will most likely trip you out whether you choose to let that happen or not. Here are some videos, pics, info, playlist tracks and a psychedelectro remix. Definitely someone to keep an eye on for 2010. Enjoy.Wiki - YouTube - Last.fm - HypeM - MySpace - Facebook - Amazon Songs added to playlist: The Return to Form Black Magick Party (2007) Pop Levi - Blue Honey Pop Levi - Hades' Lady Never Never Love (2008) Dita Dimoné (2008) Pop Levi - Dita Dimoné (Pink Enemy Mix) <-- the psychedelectro remix Police $ign/Terrifying (2009) Pop Levi - Police $ign Some nice videos............................... 
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