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Fossil Collective – Wolves

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The hour is drawing ever closer to Fossil Collective’s debut album; so here is one final cut before it’s officially time to pour yourself a warming beverage and sink into your life long companion of a listening chair, eyes closed while you carefully breath in every soothing moment of David Fendick and Jonny Hooker’s wonderfully crafted collection of songs. “Tell where I lie” will be released April 8th and can be pre-ordered from Dirty Hit here and in the meantime stream the next single “Wolves” to your hearts content. By Nathan Hetherington

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Rating 8.3

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Burn Water – I Just Want You (Forever)

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Aussie producer Burn Water pours one out for the Alicia Keys we all once knew with the deeply soulful “No One”-sampling “I Just Want You (Forever)”. Very very nice, Mr. Water.

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Rating 8.4

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Carousel – Another Day

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Summertime in March; sounds wild and crazy, right? Well, you’re just one play button push away from realizing your very own summer in the bleak later winter with Boston duo Carousel’s sunny new joint for “Another Day”.

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Rating: 8.2

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FYFE – Lies

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“Paul Dixon, aka FYFE, is 3 for 3 and it seems like the more he puts out the more his Solace EP, expected release of April 7th, will grab record execs attention. Lies is a different direction than his two other singles Solace and St. Tropez, but still features his signature voice and great use of space for the track. In a 2008 interview with BBC Manchester, Chris Long said of Paul Dixon’s music, “With a striking fragility that belies the solid songwriting rooted within them, his tunes are at once brilliantly fleeting, strangely timeless and surprisingly shimmering.” I think this quote still holds true today. By Brian Litwin

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Rating 8.4

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03-28-13

Lab Coast – For Now

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Check out the wonderfully acoustic strum-driven (there’s definitely been a dearth of these sorts of tracks recently) and melodic “For Now”, excerpted from Calgary band Lab Coast’s upcoming Walking On Ayr LP, which is due in May on Mammoth Cave Records.

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Rating 8.4

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03-27-13

Janet Jackson – Rock With U (FS Green Rework)

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We’ve likely reached some sort of Janet Jackson sampling/remixing high water mark today; something like 3 or 4 songs released today (like this one and this one feature a source track from Ms. Jackson If You’re Nasty. So what makes this new “Rock With U” mix worth your attention? Start with one Janet’s best latter day tracks, the vastly underappreciated “Rock With U”. Next put in the hands of the mega-talented Dutch producer FS Green. The result is a standout mix that leaves many of the lesser populaters of the Janet remix/sample genre way back at the start. Go and get it.

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Rating 8.3

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Stalley – Swangin (Feat. Scarface)

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Our man in the 330/Milk City Stalley rides out on new single, the low-ridin viber “Swangin” featuring the legendary Scarface. Premiered last night on our hometown hip hop station Z 107.9 Cleveland, “Swangin” will be the Massillon rapper’s first official single from his as of yet untitled debut LP.

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Rating 8.3

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Giveaway: The 1975 @ Santos Party House, New York City THIS FRIDAY

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The 1975, who straight murdered it at our SXSW showcase a couple weeks ago & left Austin levelled in their wake, are playing a free all ages show at Santos Party House in New York this Friday. The first b3sci’er to email us with the subject line “I Want To Party Like It’s 1975” wins a +1 on the V.I.P. guestlist. You can RSVP for the show here.

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Rating 10.0

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Giveaway: 12 Reasons To Die LIVE w/ Ghostface Killah, Adrian Younge, Blu, Exile, The Gaslamp Killer + MORE! In L.A. 3/28/2013

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Join us at The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles tomorrow, Thursday as ArtDontSleep Presents 12 Reasons To Die with Ghostface Killah, Adrian Younge, Blu, Exile, The Gaslamp Killer and MORE! Host Mark Luv will be curating this celebration for the release of the new Ghostface Killah x Adrian Younge Record. The jams are fresh, think Wu Tang Clan meets Portishead meets Kill Bill.. get a taste here.

Tickets for the show are $20 presale / $25 at the door, and you can get more info on purchasing tickets here. OR you can drop us a line and we’ll enter to you to win a FREE pair of tickets to this event. To enter our raffle, just email us here and let us know that you want to catch 12 Reasons To Die on Thursday night. We’ll enter your name in our random drawing to take place on Thursday morning. Keep an eye on your inbox and good luck!

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Cloud Boat – Youthern

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Check out “Youthern, the stunning new piano ballad as-performed-from-the-heart-of-the-solar-system (which I guess would be the sun anyway) , from rising UK act Cloud Boat. Dressed in just the smallest bit of 2013 R&B/indie James Blake-y wrapping, the beautiful hymnal-esque melody and harmony unfold and lift “Youthern” into some very special rarefied territory.

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Rating 8.4

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03-26-13

Mikal Cronin – Weight

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New Merge-signee and Ty Segall broham Mikal Cronin releases possibly his strongest track to day with the shimmering West Coast pop of “Weight”. A sharply focused mix of disto guitar, Wilsonesque harmonies, and one world beater melody after another, “Weight” is a major step forward in class for the Laguna Beach, CA native. Cronin’s MCII LP is due May 7th.

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Rating 8.5

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Niagara – Seal

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We’ve been into “Seal” from Italian artists Niagara since the vid for the track dropped back in January. Today marks the release of the band’s Otto LP, from which the aforementioned “Seal” is lead track. Reminding a bit of Foals & Junip on the clattering soulful indie pop of “Seal”, the balance of the record veers quite a bit from this sound; covering varying genres from synth pop to bossa to stomper indie rock. Stream Otto on Soundcloud here.

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Rating: 8.4

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