Red Monroe 3 song release

Red Monroe is back with three new songs, available for Free downloading on MP3 format, or 5.1 digital surround sound on their website: Redmonroe.com. I was talking to this duche bag at this after party and we where talking of how much we enjoyed Red Monroe's last album Policia! Policia! And this guy said that they had broken up just like this other band form Dallas had, which seemed weird since not long ago I had seen their live video of "Pat Mayse Lake" but I kept quiet since I hadn't heard from my friend of the band that with love I call "Vagina". I was really happy to hear their latest project releases, first of all it sounds like they've mature their sound without loosing their essence, but at the same time they seem to be having more fun than ever. I love how on their song Eastern PA they've added some voice distortion, it has been a while since I've seen them preform live, but I can already tell that the next time I seen them I'll feel as exhilarated as I always do and since they seem to come with more energy than ever its going to be an F'ing show!!!.

Red Monroe - Eeastern PA
Red Monroe - Pat Mayse Lake
Red Monroe - Private Ballroom

Patrick Pleau

From the beautiful city of Montreal comes a new artist called Patric Pleau. Patric Pleau is an Indie Pop artist whose sound is comparable of those rock bands of the 70's, I don't know if its because he is singing in french or is just the music, ether way the music is superb. He send us his latest album called "Hype-moi" to share it with you all, but you can show him some love at his myspace page, hopefully his lyrics are as good as they sound.

Patric Pleau - Cimetiere Lunaire

Patric Pleau - Antigenie

Patric Pleau - Linoceros

Patric Pleau - Bocalophobe

Patric Pleau - Tous Les Cliches

Bonus:

Yeah, I know there are so, so, so, may remixes of this song out there, I just happen to like this one, my apologies.

Lykke Li - Little Bit (Villains Remix)

The Ropes

A few days ago I posted about The Ropes and their amazing ep"Be My Gun". Today the Ropes are back with a video of their single "Be My Gun". What I love about The Ropes is their chill sound, it almost reminds me of The Knifes meet the The Chromatics, aside from that their music always leaves me wanting for more.

The Knifes - Be My Gun
The Knifes - Kitty Get Down

Bag Raiders

The people from Famous Friends send over an email with a list of the shows they are putting together for the month, one of the highlights is the party in Manhattan featuring Bag Raiders, Jess Jubiliee, Kap10Kurt, and DJ Rudeny. The Famous Friends are the people responsible of some really awesome parties SXSW so if you are in the area this show is definitely something worth attending.

Bag Raiders - Turbo Love

Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars

Bonus:

My Dear Disco is a band from Detroit with a bits and pieces of different influences, their music is an 80's revival with synths and dance beats, they have remixed people like Kanye West, and Franz Ferdinand; today they come with a song from their Lp "Dancethink" called "White Lies".

My Dear Disco - White lies

Franz ferdinand - Ulysses (My Dear Disco Remix)

Great Northern

Great Northern has just finished their SXSW shows and are now prepping to do their May tours with the The Dears. Great Northern is a California band comprised of Solon Bixler (30 seconds to Mars), Rachel Stolte, Michael Regilio, and Davey Latter. Their music is Indie Pop with a touch of melancholy, mixed with elaborate arrangements of electronic synths all around. On April 28th they will be releasing their third album entitled "Remind Me Where The Light Is " under the independent label Eenie Meenie Records, and they've send us the album for listening and reviewing, as well as to share it with you all; picking a song out of the album resulted into a more difficult task that of what I first thought, but I think that the following three songs are a great indicative of how great this album is, I think it helps if you turn the volume up and let your self indulge into the music.

Great Northern - House

Upcoming Shows:

• Mar 26 2009 9:00P

The Roxy Theatre
Hollywood, California

Apr 22 2009 1:00P KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic
SCHENECTAD

May 1 2009 9:00P Bell House
Brooklyn, New York

May 2 2009 9:00P Valentines
Albany, New York

May 4 2009 9:00P Bowery Ballroom
New York, New York

May 5 2009 9:00P Johnny Brenda’s
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 7 2009 9:00P Black Cat
Washington, Washington DC
May 8 2009 9:00P Diesel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

May 9 2009 9:00P Grog Shop
Cleveland, Ohio

May 10 2009 9:00P Skully’s
Columbus, Ohio

May 11 2009 9:00P Magic Stick
Detroit, Michigan

May 13 2009 9:00P Lakeshore Theatre
Chicago, Illinois

May 14 2009 9:00P Mojo’s
Columbia, Montana

May 16 2009 9:00P Hailey’s
Denton, Texas

May 17 2009 9:00P Warehouse
Houston, Texas

May 18 2009 9:00P Parish
Austin, Texas

May 21 2009 9:00P Rhythm Room
Phoenix, Arizona

May 22 2009 9:00P Casbah
San Diego, California

Lemonwilde

California band Lemonwilde has just recently finished their first ep. called "Red Room", a rock electronic ep featuring dark moody songs. Recently they've have started to take off and becomed more well know on the music business, by recently being featured as the "New Band of the Week" by Indie103.1 FM and playing on Sarah Michelle Gellar Penthouse party. Today they are bringing us some two songs of their ep. and if you wish to get the ep. in its entirety you can now purchase it on iTunes.

Lemonwilde -Just This Ashtray
Lemonwilde - Danse

Leerone Coldwarkids

Part I. Before the show
I arrived to the Cold War Kids show 2 hours early. I was determined to be in the very front in order to have an unobstructed view when taking photographs. I brought flyers with me, the flyers advertise my free download offer on my website, along with labels to stick onto the flyers while I waited. The labels included my show information (my show was the following day). I would later hand out flyers to any willing recipients. I was pleasantly surprised when three lovely ladies who saw me at work kindly offered to help me with the tedious task (Kelly, Amulya & Charu). Then, another sweet soul joined, and then another and another. After conversing, I learned that they were all Austin natives. Their generosity left me thinking that Austin people are awesome!!



Original Link:
http://leerone.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/sxsw-2009-cold-war-kids-part-i/
Thanks Leerone

Leerone SXSW St. Vincent

Annie Clark of Saint Vincent is not apologetic and I like that. She performed at the Presbyterian Church- the acoustics were gorgeous! She is a sick guitarist. Her voice is deliciously sweet… Definitely a fantastic performer.

Original Link:

http://leerone.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/sxsw-2009-st-vincent/

Thank's Leerone

Cesi Bastida

Cesi Bastida, a Latin indie artist from Tijuana, performed at Flamingo last night. She sings in Spanish, dances and plays an array of instruments including the melodica and a tom (drum). She’s pretty darn amiable! The band (James Bairian, Jorge Villanueva, Dave Green, Louis Castle, Danny Rukasin) was very tight and looked like they were having the best time (that’s always a pleasure to witness). I heard quite a few people in the crowd saying “Te Llamó” and in addition to professing their love, the audience was jumping and dancing. Her energy is contagious, uplifting and fun.

Original Link:

http://leerone.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/sxsw-2009-ceci-bastida/

Thank's Leerone

Leerone SXSW Shameless Promotion

It takes tremendous courage, strength and conviction to self-promote. It is one of the most challenging and daunting tasks, especially when you are humble and the thing you are promoting is intimately embedded with your deepest emotions. I give Tony Avitia serious props for his approach and execution. Not because it was an effective method (I hope it was), but because he was doing what most artists are too scared and proud to do. I shot this clip inside the Austin Convention Hall, where he stood wearing a gigantic sign with information about his band.




Original link:

http://leerone.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/the-art-of-shameless-promotion/

SXSW Day 2

On Day 2 of the SXSW festival, the day started after I desperately tried to cure my hangover from the night before, it didn't help that I spend the whole morning running around the American Apparel Flea Market Sale running through boxes to bring presents to my friends back at home, but failed miserably; however I'm a professional so I decided to toughen up and head to the Waterloo Park to the "Mess with Texas Party", some of the headliners there included Kid Sister, The Black Lips , and Akron Family to name but a few. To be honest with you I didn't care much about what I saw, specially for Kid Sister, in my opinion she is just as fake as Kanye West who was at the festival but I intentionally proceeded to ignore and succeeded. The only thing that called my short attention span was The Black Lips who put an amazing adrenaline filled show, with their 1970 Rock and Roll revival music.
The Black Lips - Take My Heart

After leaving the Waterloo my friend got invited to a house party where some bands where playing (duh! this is Austin), I wasn't expecting to see anything worth my while, but oh, how wrong I was; there I was fortunate enough to see a hair raising show by the Earth People Orchestra, a group from Boston who in unison sing and play an array of instruments, kitchen utensils like pot pans, and toys, the lyrics where touching and so pure that I could not help but drop my mouth wide open.
Earth People Orchestra - Earth People Anthem

To finish my SXSW experience I decided head back to the Canvas bar where all my friends from Dallas had united to provide our support to the guys from Vega who played one of the best shows they've ever played, demonstrating that when you make music with friends it can not only be fun but entretaining. That was not the only reason why I decide to go there, the list of performers was amazing, I was able to dance to Miami Horror, Treasure Fingers, Evil Nine, Futurecop!, and Ac Slater to name a few, Wow!!! What else do you want !!!

Vega - Well Known Pleasures
Miami Horror & Dan Hartman - Starmaker (Reign my fire remix)
Evil Nine - They Live
Futurecop! - Transformers (Ghosthustler Remix)
AC Slater - Rock it out

SXSW Day 1

SXSW was this past week and although I would have loved to be there through out the entire festival I was only able to enjoy a night and a half, due to poor scheduling. I arrived late in Friday afternoon on a warm Texas day to a City full of traffic and music enthusiast, I've never seen so many cutoff shorts and bikes going around the streets of downtown Austin; for those people up north who are looking for the new trend of this summer you've been warned, cut your jeans to a mid to upper thigh and you'll be ready.

After dinner I proceeded to head down town to Antone's since I had already missed the Under the Radar Party, with Viva Voce and Camera Obscura. At Anotone's I was lucky to enjoy the beautiful talent of Mirah a soft spoken singer and song writer form Portland Oregon. After a beautiful performance came the girl of my dreams Annie Clark of St Vincent (which is now a band) with here new helpers Annie Clark showcased her new material of her upcoming album "Actor", unfortunately they weren't selling any merch so I could not purchase it before time.

St. Vincent - The Strangers
Mirah - Generosity

Later that night I proceeded to head down the street to Canvas bar where after a long wait on the line I proceeded to enjoy the show by Casiokids, The Golden Filter, and Le Castle Vania to name a few, a combo of about 30 minute shows of dancing goodness and then after after party was in need.

Casiokids - Fot i hose (Axemax Remix)

Golden Filter - Solid Gold

Le Castle Vania - Zero Machine

MMMatthias Röyksopp Remix

MMMatthias is back yet again with the smoothest remix ever this time form Norway Electronic/Ambient duo Röyksopp and if you've never listened to Röyksopp please free free to go their myspace their music is simply superb. I must say Mmmatthias not only is a great remixer but he also has really good taste in music.

Röyksopp - Vision One (MMMatthias Remix)

Utters is a producer form the UK with a slight Motown sound, he has been working with different artist around the UK, has just recently produced Zarif debut single "Let me back" though the RCA label, today is he is bringing us a remix of Frankmusik's single "Better off as two" as you know I've posted of Frankmusik's remix of Heads We Dance, this song by Frankmusik remixed by Utters is funky enough to make you dance.

Frankmusik - Better off as two (The Better off with Uttermix)

Heads We Dance - Love in the Digital Age (Frankmusik Remix)

Chrome Kids

Chrome Kids has send us some really good mashups full of base exclusive from their blog; I'm normally not keen on the Hip Hop idea but I've come to the conclusion that Busta Rhymes is one the few Hip Hop artist I can stand. If you would like to follow their blog here is the address : http://chromekids.blogspot.com/.

Monkey Vs Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs Remix
Busta Rhymes vs Stagga -I Got Base Fresh Remix

Bonus:

Hoshina has just sent this amazing remix of Portishead's song "The Rip" is just simply brilliant with a nice touch of Electronica without having to compromise the original song's integrity, typical of Hoshina's chameleon like style which compliments the song to a different level of greatness.

Portishead - The Rip (Hoshina Anniversary Remix)

Rosie and Me at James Bar

Rosie and Me have just had their second live performance, at James Bar and they have sent me their live sessions as well as some videos; however due to time constraints I'm just posting a video, but you can see the rest as well as watch some picks at this address :
http://blogs.myspace.com/rosieandme . Maybe one day they'll make it to the US!!


Rosie and Me- To The Bone
Rosie and Me -Ready for the Floor (Hot Chip cover)

Tesla Boy

Tesla Boy is a band from Russia that where recently featured in Valerie that caught my attention for their 80's digital sound, just like almost everything Valerie features, the sound is either discoish or 80's retro, this song sounds like a remake of "She is a Maniac" only, it's not it is something is worth checking out, so I didn't want to miss my chance.

Tesla Boy -neon love

Tesla Boy - spirit of the Night

Chili Hifly

Chili Hifly was one of my favorite musicians back in 2001. Recently I decided to pop in an old mix of mine from way back when and though my taste has changed greatly, I still found my heart raising whenever "Is it love" came through the speaker. One day I decided to just see if they had continued making delicious dance music, but alas they hadn't; however I did stumble into a really amazing Remix by Les Rythmes Digitales that I think can translate nicely to the Elector beats we are accustomed now a days.

Chili Hifly - Is it Love (Radio Edit)

Chili Hifly - Is it love (Les Rythmes Digitales RMX)

A-ux Mochipet Remix

A-ux has been taking care of business for those of you who have missed him; however fear not he has just remix California's favorite Electro Pop extraoridinare Mochipet's song "Sharp Drest", hopefully once A-ux finishes to take care of bizznezz he can shoot us some more original works we've learn to love.

On a separate note as you might have already know, the festival SXSW is happening this week in Austin, of which I'm planning to pop in for a few days; however our friend Leerone of whom I've posted before will be sending me post from her own personal blog of events and her own performances in the SXSW festival. I'll will also will be having my weekend recap of the fest, but I'm not taking my computer (Papa is gettin' drunk) so it will have to wait till Monday.

Mochipet - Sharp Drest (A-ux Remix)

RedGorilla Music presents:

LEERONEFriday, March 20th @ 5pm

Vintage Lounge504 B Trinity

Austin, TX 78701

Viva Voce Devotion

Viva Voce has just released a single of their up coming album Rose City to be released May 26th. If you know me you know that I have a men crush on Kevin Robinson ever since I became aware of his side project the Electric Ill and I saw him playing drums and acoustic guitar when ever Viva Voce played live in Dallas; recently Viva Voce announced that they where doubling in size adding two new members Corrina Repp and Evan Railton. In their new album the change is palpable, in the single "Devotion" the band has a more complete sound although without loosing their harmonious feel characteristic of Viva Voce; the Robinson's together made an amazing band, Viva Voce now is an amazing band.

Viva Voce - Devotion

Viva Voce + SXSW 2009*
Wednesday, March 18th - My Old Kentucky Blog Showcase [Radio Room – Midnight]
Thursday, March 19th - Little Radio Party [Red Eyed Fly – 4:00pm]
Friday, March 20th - Under The Radar Party [Flamingo Cantina – 1:30pm]
Saturday, March 21st - Hot Freaks Party [The Mohawk – 3:00pm] **I'm going to this one**:)

***Bonus***
Another obsession of mine is Anne Clark of St Vincent , well she recently released a single of her also upcoming album called "Actor", of which I placed a commercial on the side of the page to pre-order. The single "The Strangers" is a more electronic inclined song blended with her beautiful soothing voice; as far as I know it is still only her, but if you where lucky enough to see her last concerts before she went on hiatus, she was accompanied with box from which she created different sounds kind of like the one "Little Boots" uses (I don't know the name of that), still, the song is amazing hope you enjoy it.

St Vincent - The Strangers

Phoenix 1901

Phoenix is about to release their album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" on May 26th 2009. Phoenix is a french Indie Rock band who have been together since before Y2K, their first hit was called "If I ever feel better" from their 2000 album United. Wolfgang Amadeus is the bands fifth album and to give us a sneak peak they are offering a free download of the albums first singe, 1901 on their website; DJ Lapse just released a remix of this single, which as always is simply brilliant.

Phoenix - 1901

Phoenix - 1901(Lapse Remix)

Phoenix - If I ever feel better

The Ropes "Be My Gun"

Well, I got those MP3 faster than I thought and thank God. Yesterday The Ropes released latest Ep called "Be My Gun" a mesmerizing work that brings back the glory of the Indie Rock, their sound mixes drums, guitars, and synths, which reminds me of kind of music that Californians used to make and I fell in love back a few years back and now wonder why would anyone would stop making such an amazing sound; the sound is relaxed and unapologetic, yet with a great depth provided by lead singer Sharon Shy (is she single handedly bringing back platform shoes?).


The Ropes - Kitty Get Down
The Ropes - Be My Gun

The Ropes

New York band The Ropes have just released a brand new Video of their single "Kitty Get Down" an amazing song of a band that I hope to soon get some MP3s of. I honestly love the mute the mixture of the guitar, drums, and muted voice, it gets my hair standing.

Fredrick Carlsson Remixes

Frederick Carlsson is a Swedish producer, who has done an amazing work on different remixes of today's top electro and independent artist. Today this handsome mustachio guy is bringing us two remixes one by Digitalism and the other by Hammarin and Robin, both seem to be flawless

top of the chart remixes, as he has already been known back home.

Digitalism - Taken Away (Fredrick Carlsson Remix)

Hammarin And Robin - Lingering Regret (Frederick Carlsson Remix)

Bonus remix:

I actually forgot to post this last week, a remix by Mighty Mouse celebrating the soon to be release album by John and Jehn entitled "Oh my love" to be released April 6th, I really tryed to get some more other material to complement this awesome remix but I wasn't able to so I hope you guys enjoy it .

John and Jehn - Looking for you (Mighty Mouse NYC Sensations Mix)

Kid Cudi Viking Remix

I was really impressed by the sound of The Viking; this Virginia DJ has remade this song by Kid Cudi who for those of us who have absolutely no idea who that is, he is a Hip Hop artist form Cleveland; I honestly dislike Hip Hop, however you can tell the Viking has loads of experience on the club scene and if you wish to listen to other remixes please feel free to go to his myspace page, in it you can listen to an array of different music which are an amazing testimony of his talents, I personally like his song "Blood Candy" but that's just my personal taste.

Kid Cudi - Dat New New (Viking Remix)

March Playlist

No, I didn't forget about March playlist, but you seem to forget that I'm a procrastinator and this things take time. This is a take of the things that in my humble opinion shined on the past month and that you should be listening now.

1. Faded Paper Figure - North by North
2. Here We Go Magic - Fangela
3. Baron Von Luxxury - Y Control (Yeah Yeah Yeah cover)
4. Funeral Party - Carwars
5. The Rest - Coughing Blood
6. Dan Black - I Love Life
7. Say Hi To Your Mom - Ohohohohohohoh
8. Does it Offend you, yeah? - Dawn of the dead (Station X Remix)
9. La Roux - In For The Kill
10. Futurecop ! - Transformers (Ghosthustler Remix)
11. Jensen Sportag - Cocktease
12. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
13. Presets - If I Know You
14. Peter Walker - 39Stars
15. Mottorama - This or That
16. Heads We Dance - Computer Love
17. Jeniferever - Green Meadow Island
18. Asobi Seksu - Familiar light (Twins Remix)
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
20. Little Boots - New in Town (Fred Flake Remix)
21. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Air France Remix)

Say Hi to you Mom

Say Hi to your Mom has just released their sixth album on the third, this is really exciting because their sound is really electrical and yet mute; I can't pretend that I've been a fan since their first CD debut "Discosadness", I actually discovered them on 2006 but still I am a big fan of them. This new album "Oohs & Aahs" is actually really good I specially like the odd titled song Ohohohohoho, is actually really high energy, you can stream the whole album through AOL Spinner.

Say Hi - Ohohohohohohohoh

Say Hi - November was White

Cocktease!!!

Jensen Sportag

So yeah it was released today buy it at itunes.

Jensen Sportag - Cocktease

Jensen Sportag - Cocktease Max Tundra Remix

Jensen Sportag - Jackie

Jeniferever

Jeniferever is a Sweedish band that are setting to release of their album "Spring Tides" on April under Monotreme label. Their sound is intense and really nostalgic, it pairs well with a gray day. Here is a new song of their upcoming album, as well as a live video.

Jeniferever - Green Meadow Island

WE ARE THE PHYSICS

A quick and easy post for this amazing video by WE ARE THE PHYSICS nominated for a Scottish BAFTA.



You Can Do Athletics, BTW from This Is Fake DIY Records on Vimeo.

Jensen Sportag Max Tundra Remix

Tomorrow is the big day for this kids of Jensen Sportag the release of their extended Ep "Jackie" is something I'm definitely savouring. In order to instill this excitement in my readers I'm posting the remix of "Cocktease" by Max Tundra, I'm not quite sure that this version is as good as the original, it definetly has the quickness that Max Tundra uses for all of his music. Ill try to post something tomorow for the release.

Jensen Sportag - Cocktease (Max Tundra Remix)

Jensen Sportag - Jackie