The Veronica crew have their self-titled debut LP at the ready, (The LP was recorded live in three days! After initial sessions were scrapped.) the wide open, jangly “Come On Over” dropped a few weeks ago, and now it’s a second preview from the LP, a tune called “Bad Feeling”. “Bad” ventures into reverb-heavy cowboy/surfer territory (cowboysurferwave) in the verses with a poppy major keyed chorus adding variety into the track. Put it on repeat.
Veronica Falls 
(Facebook) (Official)
Rating 7.9
Aussie kids DAMNDOGS are invading California this week with gigs from Diego to The Bay. Previewed here is “Cocaine” from the band’s excellent “Strange Behaviour” EP. The EP is sort of in the vein of Kasabian or even The Rapture if those bands listened to a ton of dub reggae and/or Donna Summer. Give “Cocaine” a spin below.
DAMNDOGS – CocaineDAMNDOGS 
(Official) (Facebook)
Rating 8.0
Holy shit. Yeah, we can’t say we saw this coming. Drumma Boy(!) grabs Shabazz Palaces (who knew they were bros?) for what can only be described as one of our favorite remixes of the year thusfar. Press play and just throw that shit on repeat.
SBTRKT – Wildfire (Drumma Boy Remix) (Feat. Yukimi Nagano & Shabazz Palaces)Drumma Boy 
(Official)
Rating 8.5
Drop Out Orchestra rolls out the first major “Foreign Language” remix and its an absolute smash. We’re talking one of the best basslines of 2011. Win.
Flight Facilities – Foreign Language (Drop Out Orchestra Remix)Drop Out Orchestra 
(Soundcloud) (Facebook)
Rating 8.8
Guetta links up Afrojack here for “Lunar”, which is excerpted from the “non-commerical” second disk of the Guetta man’s upcoming Nothing But the Beat double LP.
David Guetta & Afrojack – LunarDavid Guetta 
(Official) (Twitter)
Rating 7.9
Here goes a rip of Rusko’s newest joint. Track is called “Somebody to Love”. Better quality when we get it. How are y’all feeling about this?
Rusko – Somebody to LoveRating 8.2
Wale’s anticipated “Chain Music” got a first spin tonight on Atlanta station V 103. After the first couple listens, we gotta give it up to Wale and the MMG crew, “Chain Music” slaps pretty hard. We’re into it. Get a preview below.
Wale – Chain Music (Feat. Rick Ross)Wale 
(Official) (Twitter) (Myspace)
Rating 8.5 + CHAIN
Electro heavyweights collide at the House of Blues, Boston (what up, BOS! miss ya!) this Tuesday when b3sci favs Caspa & Digitalism hook up with Destructo for electronic music pandemonium. It’s the HARD Summer tour and it invades BOS Tuesday. Be there.
Tickets: (Here)
The legendary DJ Premier breathes life into the Game’s corpse of a rap career on the track for “Born in the Trap”. We’ve all heard Jayceon rhyme and flow like this over 9000 times but, and prob as a testament to Primo’s skills, some how Game sounds FRESH here. So add this to “She Wanna Have My Baby” as a second non-skip through track on Game’s upcoming R.E.D. Album, due August 23.
Game – Born in the Trap (Prod. DJ Premier)Game 
(Official)
Rating 7.8
LA collective Fiore stride, in a sense, toward recent bands like Tame Impala and MGMT with their welcome appreciation for psychedelic pop music. Granted psychedelic music has seen its fair share of cliche, but like the genre’s worthy projects past and present Fiore’s LP (self-titled, debut in this case) works as a whole. It’s a record that encourages in the listener that appreciation for the art of tone and statement, in other words… it’s not a throw on and fall in love in 30 seconds type of listening experience. The LP makes its moves sonically in favor of something more substantive. “Ruins (Part II)” has been a favorite of our experience thus far check it out below:
Fiore – Ruins (Part II)Rating 8.5
More soul melting sounds coming at you from The Shakes. But hold that soul for a second and listen to the writing on “I Found You”. Can we get a SWEET ALABAMA!? Can’t wait to hear more from these guys.
The Shakes 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.6
