by summer826

Merry Christmas From Golden Filter

It’s the holidays and New York City’s Golden Filter wants to share a special treat with their fans to close out 2010. Their cover of Psychic TV’s “White Nights” is available as a free download from their Web site.

Adding their own bright electro-pop twist to the dark song featuring words spoken by cult leader Jim Jones before that fateful night where he and all of his followers drank a little too much Kool-Aid. The line “Santa Claus is checking his list, going over it twice, seeing who is naughty and who is nice” was a rhyme used by Jones to spread paranoia to the children of the Peoples Temple. Pretty festive, huh?

Golden Filter’s debut album Voluspa is available for download on iTunes.

12.17.10

by nmcollins

Erasure Re-release ‘A Little Respect’ To Support LGBTQ Youth

British giants, Erasure, have released a remixed version of their smash hit ‘A Little Respect.’ The updated song, which has become sort of a gay rights anthem over the years, will also feature a new video shot in New York. All the proceeds will go directly to The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York, and the True Colors Fund. In the wake of the recent gay bullying and suicides, Erasure felt it necessary to raise awareness, tolerance, and money for those organizations promoting the cause.

The band has also announced their Total Pop! tour for Summer 2011, taking place in spectacular woodland areas of the UK. Tickets go on sale December 10th at 9 AM. Buy your tickets here.

12.14.10

by Justin Sarachik

Merry Hitchmas? Neon Hitch’s Christmas Give Away!

Techno/Electronica artist Neon Hitch is unavailing new music for every fan who “Likes” her fan page on Facebook every Friday.

Recently Neon Hitch has been picking up steam and working with well known artist. Most recently she worked with DeadMau5 on a song called “I Can’t Behave Myself” which was leaked on the Internet.

For more info on Neon Hitch, check out her brand new website here

12.13.10

by mcirigliano2

Tokyo Police Club Premiere New Remix & Add Winter Tour Dates

Tokyo Police Club have premiered a new remix of the Champ album track, “Favourite Colour” by Brooklyn-based DJs PUNCHES, now available for downloading on RCRDLBL.com . PUNCHES is the Brooklyn-based disco project of twin brothers Greg and Darin Bresnitz-who can be found tearing up the dance floor as DJ duo Finger on the Pulse and nightlife pioneer Alan Astor. After iterating the original track’s piano lick, PUNCHES takes over with heavy beats and synth, adding even more energy to TPC’s material.

Tokyo Police Club just announced additional dates to their Winter tour, kicking off January 13 in Ottawa, and taking them through their native Canada and most of the U.S. by mid-February. Also, Champ just made Myspace.com’s “Year In Music”, landing at #31 – “In the end, this is TPC’s most “mature” effort, but the fact that they managed to create it without losing their sense of youth or spirit is what makes it such a rare, unlikely joy.”

Check out the remix, as well as the full list of tour dates below:

12/6/10 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

12/8/10 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom

12/10/10 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones

12/13/10 – Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep

1/13/11 – Ottawa, ON @ Capital Music Hall

1/15/11 – Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus

1/16/11 – Montreal, PQ @ Club Soda

1/17/11 – Pawtucket, RI @ The Met

1/19/11 – Boston, MA @ Paradise

1/20/11 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

1/21/11 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5

1/22/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero

1/23/11 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall

1/25/11 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

1/26/11 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar

1/27/11 – Orlando, FL @ The Social

1/28/11 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room

1/29/11 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbit’s

1/31/11 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon

2/1/11 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater

2/2/11 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa

2/3/11 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

2/5/11 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In

2/7/11 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note

2/10/11 – Covington, KY @ The Mad Hatter

12.10.10

by tunmer

New Pains of Being Pure at Heart Single, “Heart In Your Heartbreak”

The fact that The Pains at Being Pure at Heart can make a lyrically anguished song like “Heart in Your Heartbreak,” sound so damn cheery is an achievement in itself. It’s a power pop ballad about falling victim to the vixen that cast you aside and it’s simultaneously sweet, fun, pathetic and resilient.

It’s a multifaceted song with edgy electric guitar, effervescent and gliding vocals and a fun, dance summoning synth bit toward the end. It begins immediately with a really cool line that kind of epitomizes the single: “Take a look around when you’re goin down cause you’ll never get so high.”

California based label Slumberland will release the single on December 14th as a teaser for upcoming album Belong, their second full length to be released in March 2010.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “The One” by Slumberland Records

12.06.10

by wesleyambrecht

Tame Impala Give Abby May Remix Treatment

After months in the studio, Australian born Abbe May has emerged with a whole lot of material. Sporting a new band and an even darker rock sound, May released the first single from her forthcoming album in October. The song, entitled “Mammalian Locomotion,” recently received remix treatment from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Cam Avery. I’m not sure the remix really improves on May’s song, but we’ve included it down below for your listening pleasure.