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Today, award-winning singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger releases Choose Up Season, a free mixtape featuring nine brand new songs, via HotNewHipHop.com. Guest artists include The Game, Teeflii, Pleasure P, Teyana Taylor with production by K. Roosevelt and Da Internz. Choose Up Season serves as a precursor to Bellinger’s upcoming major-label album debut Cuffing Season.
Continue readingLA’s Angelo De Augustine releases his debut album, Spirals Of Silence, on November 18th, 2014, the day after his twenty-third birthday.
Continue readingn conjunction with the launch of their new North American tour, Cloud Nothings are back today to share the video for “Now Hear In,” taken from this year’s Here And Nowhere Else LP. The clip, directed by Jordan Blackmon (of Toro Y Moi and Fork & Spoon Records fame) is a compilation of footage spliced together from the vaults of Los Angeles’ acclaimed Cinefile Video that features his Toro Y Moi band member Patrick Jeffords as the video’s protagonist.
Continue readingNative America unveiled the second single from their upcoming studio debut, Grown Up Wrong, premiering the breezy and care free anthem “Naturally Lazy” on The FADER. The single finds Native America in full on dream pop mode, digging deep within their myriad of influences and taking only the finest elements from their world of New Orleans soul, fuzzy power pop, and gorgeous psychedelia. The FADER called it “a reminder that sometimes being a creatively restless night owl is a choice, not a curse,” describing the sound as “a saturnine melody and nonchalantly sung lyrics about bumming around”. In the case of “Naturally Lazy” though, bumming around has never sounded better.
Continue readingRecorded over 3 evenings this summer, this 2014 Shrimper cassette store day release features 9 Smiths songs reinterpreted by Allen & Dennis Callaci (Refrigerator) with Aaron Alcala (previous recordings w/ Refrigerator & Adam Lipman) on guitar/piano. All songs were recorded live with the brothers harmonizing onto one mic offering dramatic reinterpretations of some classics & some slightly obscure songs in the Smiths canon.
Continue readingThe Check Yo Ponytail Tour 2014 is proud to share a Nature World DJs (Antwon) remix of tour headliners The Presets’ “No Fun.” The Check Yo Ponytail Tour brings Australian darlings The Presets across North America with select support from LE1F, Antwon, Saint Pepsi, Chela, and DJ Franki Chan to create a stellar, multi-genre tour reminiscent of the legendary events CYP and it’s parent-company IHEARTCOMIX have been producing for years in Los Angeles.
Continue readingInnovative Leisure is proud to share, “Sut Sanaen 2,” the first stream off of Khun Narin Electric Phin Band’s self-titled album. Khun Narin Electric Phin Band is a recording of a group of musicians from Northern Thailand which was executed by Josh Marcy, a US music supervisor who discovered their music via a Youtube clip. Josh dropped everything to journey to Thailand in hopes of making contact with these mysterious players. He came back with more than anyone could have hoped for, an entire album of psychedelia rooted both in the traditional music of the region as well as in Western music brought over by soldiers and tourists during the 60’s and 70’s. Recorded in open air through homemade sound-systems, the album was released via Innovative Leisure on August 26th and is currently available for purchase here.
Continue reading2013 proved to be a pretty monumental year for the chart-storming Breach aka Ben Westbeech, heralding the release of one of the most infectious songs of the summer in the form of his dancefloor behemoth ‘Jack’ and seeing him follow that success with yet another UK top 10 hit in ‘Everything You Never Had (You Had It All)’, featuring the honeyed vocals of Flying Lotus and Bonobo collaborator Andreya Triana.
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