May
18

Here Today. Gone to Maui. - The Passenger

Here Today. Gone to Maui.

by The Passenger
album Here Today. Gone to Maui.

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Soup of the Day: The Passenger- Here Today. Gone to Maui.

Formed in the summer of 2011, The Passenger is an alternative rock band hailing from the state where old people go to die: Florida.

Mentally rooted in the mid-nineties Saturday Night Live/”Grunge” Era, The Passenger’s music wants to inspire you to dust off your Doc Martens and tie a flannel around your waist. Their self-produced debut album, “Here Today. Gone To Maui.,” mixed by Ed Rose (Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Appleseed Cast…), embodies a well-rounded, full bodied, super catchy rock sound reminiscent of bands like Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, and Weezer.

Buy “Here Today. Gone To Maui.,” here.

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May
17

Footsteps - Hidden Orchestra

Footsteps

by Hidden Orchestra
album Night Walks

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Listen to: Hidden Orchestra- Footsteps

Footsteps is the first single to be lifted from Hidden Orchestra’s fantastic debut album, Night Walks. 

Edinburgh-based Hidden Orchestra combine two live drummers, organic samples and dubby basslines to make cinematic, emotive, percussive music. Their sound, resplendent with layers of intense soundscapes, takes audiences on a deep and truly original sonic journey containing elements of jazz, classical, drum’n’bass, rock and hip hop, molded into a coherent whole.

“intriguingly masterful concoction of sinister samples, eerie electronics and raucous acoustic beats… a dark and rich sonic layering that seems to inspire tranquility and disquiet in equal measure. This night walk takes you from a smoky jazz bar through dodgy estates to the open expanse of the sea.”

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I Will Wander - The Features

I Will Wander

by The Features
album Still Lost Volume One

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Soup of the Day: The Features- I Will Wander

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With their major label debut looming (Wilderness, Serpents and Snakes/BMG, June 5th), Nashville rockers The Features have compiled an awesome collection of b-sides, outtakes, demos, and alternative versions called Still Lost, Vol. 1. Throughout the collection, The Features will make you fall in love with their no frills, upbeat sound that mixes a variety of influences from numerous eras and genres.

The song we are featuring in this post, I Will Wander, is hard not to like. With its infectious beat, saucy strings, and pop-rock chants, The Features provide a Franz Ferdinand-like pulse, but with more pop-power. This is definitely one band to keep your ear on.

You can download Still Lost, Vol. 1 free of charge by providing your e-mail address.

Paralyzed (Bon Iver) - Oddisee

Paralyzed (Bon Iver)

by Oddisee
album Renditions

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Oddisee- Paralyzed (Bon Iver rendition)

The multi-talented MC/Producer Oddisee has just released a free EP full of remixes and edits of songs from Bon Iver, Metronomy, Marvin Gaye, and K-Os. The song above, “Paralyzed”, is a twist on Iver’s song “Stacks” from his acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago album.

You can also check out the DIY video of his Marvin Gaye rendition below.

Free Download: Oddisee- Renditions

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Before my new album “People Hear What They See” drops (pre:order now http://tiny.cc/phwts), I wanted to share some remixes & edits I put together of various tracks. I created four unofficial remixes of songs by K-Os, Bon Iver, Metronomy & one of my favorite artists of all time, Marvin Gaye. After recording vocals to all of them, I felt it was only right to slap a cover on it & release it.

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May
16

Adorable British kids review a Skrillex track and divvy up faux-molly in a fake nightclub.

The internet, everyone.

Today in cute dubstep videos: Vice had children listen to “Bangarang,” a track of Skrillex’s latest EP that bears the same name. Their reactions are, of course, charming.

“This music makes me feel crazy, like I’ve eaten loads of sweets,” one boy notes. “This song makes me want to smack my sister’s fat bum,” adds a young girl.

Intercut with the listening-room reactions are scenes of kids dancing and boys and girls sharing their general thoughts on nightlife. One boy, presumably asked what adults do in nightclubs, offered this nugget: “They drink lots of drinks to keep them awake.”

What’s less cute, however, is having kids reenact a rave and pass out pills (which represent MDMA, or ecstasy). As for Skrillex himself, the young dubstep producer was described thusly: “His hair looks like a girl and his face looks like a boy, and that’s really funny.”