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Tinashe – Saved (Bombay Bicycle Club Remix) / Shlohmo – Naps / The Count and Sinden – After Dark (Feat. Mystery Jets)

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Bombay Bicycle Club give some love to the new single and title track from Tinashe‘s forthcoming Saved LP. bbc help make this tune go from cool to killer… GET FAMILIAR!

[Download] Tinashe – Saved ( Bombay Bicycle Club Remix)

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a favorite cut from Shlohmo’s new Camping EP. goes places.

[Download] Shlohmo – Naps

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UK-based The Count and Sinden call up Mystery Jets for “After Dark” from the forthcoming Mega Mega Mega LP. track gets you moving, not too mention it’s catchy as hell…

[Download] The Count and Sinden – After Dark (Feat. Mystery Jets)

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07-29-10

Laura Veirs – Summer is the Champion / Bombay Bicycle Club – Lamplight / J. Cole – Premeditated Murder

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“summer is the champion”, by pacific nw’er laura veirs, comes from a record called “july flame”. its hot as fuck up here right now. it’s july. coincidence? but for real, this is a great pop song, horn riffs + percussive melody = win. get into it.

[Download] Laura Veirs – Summer is the Champion

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“I’m not gonna pick up Bombay Bicycle’s record ’cause of the stupid fuckin’ name they’ve got.” –LG

[Download] Bombay Bicycle Club – Lamplight

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cole also on production. “premediated murder” is straight up sick. check it.

[Download] J. Cole – Premeditated Murder

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07-16-10

Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust on the Ground

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a nice tune from london, uk four piece bombay bicycle club. the “i had the blues but i shook them loose” LP is out now.

Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust on the Ground

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rating: 8.2

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01-14-10

Bombay Bicycle Club – Magnet

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“Magnet” is the next single off BBC’s debut I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose. the chorus is incredible, it just takes off with “oooooooo” and hooks baby hooks. so with guns blazin, who wins in a draw: “magnet” or the interpol catalogue?? our $$$ is on zombie ian curtis after an entrance from another dimension. either way, “magnet” is a glance at the future of a young and rather promising group..

Bombay Bicycle Club – “Magnet”

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rating: 8.6
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09-23-09

COMPNY – Gently Let You Down

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South London band COMPNY reveal latest track “Gently Let You Down”. Produced by UK indie hitmaker and all-time great name Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club, Peace),
“Gently Let You Down” fixes a sharp summery atmosphere about kinetic polyrhythms and a subtle but infinitely catchy vocal hook “sometimes we’re out of love (or luck)…”.

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06-23-15

In The Mix: 24/7 vol. II

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For you scientists on the hunt for some music, here’s a collection of tracks that we’ve spinning amongst ourselves at B3HQ as of late. Get into the mix with B3SCI 24/7 vol. II below.

Los Angeles Police Dept – Enough is Enough

D.D Dumbo – I Woke Up Covered in Sand

COIN – Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkle cover)

Marika Hackman – Wolf

ALEOS – Tranquil

I’lls – To: All The Blurred (Rat & Co Remix)

Bombay Bicycle Club – Carry Me

Benjamin Clementine – I Won’t Complain

ODESZA – If There’s Time (Kodak to Graph Remix)

Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way (uschu Remix)

Thunder/Dreamer – Murderous Love

Saint Motel – Ace In The Hole

Ulla Nova – Kid From London

ELIM BOLT – Dingy

Shy Boys – Keeps Me On My Toes

Joanna Gruesome – Tugboat (Galaxie 500 cover)

Trails and Ways – Lost (Frank Ocean Cover)

Bo Saris – Little Bit More

The Rebel Light – Jukebox Dream

Flume – The Greatest View (feat. Isabella Manfredi)

Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble (APSPDR+ Remix)

Stijl – Seoul Searching

Hayden James – No Time (Hanami Remix)

Daithi – Case Closed (Feat. Senita)

Sea Change – Bursting

Lizbet Sempa – On These Hills

Temples – Mesmerise

Young Yeller – War

River Tiber – What Are You Afraid Of

WULF – Lairs

Quinzhee – The Voluntary Butler Scheme

Simian Ghost – A Million Shining Colours

Keel Her – Don’t Look At Me

Vancouver Sleep Clinic – Collapse

The High Wire – The Thames & The Tide

Lil Debbie & Riff Raff – Squirt (Nacey Remix)

Wave Racer – Stoopid (DE$iGNATED Remix)

Diplo – Revolution (Drek Martinez Remix)

FELIX CARTAL – New Scene (TOKiMONSTA Remix)

Ella Eyre – Going On

Vladimir – Come Over

Dios Mio – Proto

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11-29-13

As Elephants Are – Lucifer

UK band As Elephants Are ready sophomore single “Youth Blood”. “Lucifer”, the b/w “Youth Blood” is being given away for free by the band to mark the new single’s release. The excellent “Lucifer” is built on a sort of Slowdive meets Explosions in the Sky meets modern UK indie pop sound of dramatic percussion swells, delayed tremolo guitars and vocalist Ben Stratford Bombay Bicycle Club-esque croon. Give it a spin and see what you think below.

As Elephants Are – Lucifer

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Rating 8.2

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01-09-13

Interview w/ Trails and Ways

Team B3SCI recently got to chatting with guitar and synthsmith K B B from hotly tipped, Oakland based quartet, Trails and Ways. Back-and-forth we went about geography, the band’s explosion to the heights of the blogosphere, and even philosophical aesthetics. For those of you in Los Angeles, you can catch Trails and Ways at The Bootleg on Thursday, October 25th for their first ever gig in town. Tickets and details for the show here, and take a look at our conversation with the band below.

B3SCI: What inspired the formation of Trails and Ways, and is there a particular vision behind the tropical rhythms and melodies that the band explore?

T&W: We all knew each other living in the student cooperative houses at Berkeley; after graduating, Emma and I lived in Spain and Brazil, respectively, and came home full of little skeletons of songs. Quirk and I started playing shows in the middle of 2011, and Emma and Hannah joined us later that year.

B3SCI: You guys have mentioned Jorge Ben and Joao Gilberto as influences. We love Brazilian
music. What can you tell us about the impact the music of that country has had on the band as writers and as people, etc…?

T&W: When I lived there, the music was a way for me to understand something more whole than what I got through the colander of words. If I were to make a list of what really left an impression on me from Brazilian music, that list would start: how the old samba or forro songs are cultural bedrocks to the point where everybody at the street parties sings along to every word; how the music isn’t about a spectacle of famous musicians, but about amateurs showing up at bars and playing the hits as a community ritual; how Joao, in “Corcovado”, says “que lindo”.

B3SCI: There’s so many textures and colors throughout your recordings. What’s the most unique instrument that you’ve ever used on one of your tracks?

T&W: The bass drum on our cover of “Animal” is a sample of Quirk rhythmically dropping a large book.

B3SCI: No secrets that Trails and Ways has taken the music blogosphere by storm. How has this effected the band, it’s career and what’s next?

T&W: Definitely feels like it’s opened a lot of doors to us, and it’s great to have felt that a range of folks out there are touched by what we’re doing. We’re cruising along on recording our album right now, getting our live act super on-point, and getting set for an LA tour.

B3SCI: What else can you tell us about the album?

T&W: We’re working on it now, it’s called Trilingual and it’s about what language can and can’t say, and it’ll be out when it’s ready.

B3SCI: Any more details on touring?

T&W: We’re touring to LA 10/25, with a few other Southern California dates around that. We play SF like once a month, so hopefully everybody here knows that! We aim to do some serious touring behind Trilingual when it’s done, so NYC, we’ll see yall in 2013.

B3SCI: When the band isn’t making sun drenched tunes, what do the members of Trails and Ways find themselves doing to bide their time?

T&W: Quirk and Emma are surfers, Hannah and I rockclimb, also Emma and Hannah urban homestead and paint, Quirk and I also work in the clean energy bizness, ACTIVE LIFESTYLES.

B3SCI: Where does Trails and Ways see itself in five years? Where has the band’s evolution lead to?

T&W: Where we wanna be in five years is feminist socialist utopia.

B3SCI: We loved the Marxicized cover of Miguel’s “Sure Thing” (which is really great song btw). Where’d the idea come from to do that with it?

T&W: I’d been living over the summer at a house full of community organizers who loved R&B and Grace Lee Boggs with about the same heft; we blasted Miguel all the time. I knew if we were going to cover an R&B standard I wanted it to speak more from our Oakland reality than Miguel’s LA original.

B3SCI: Troy from our crew studied aesthetics in college. Theodor Adorno’s notion of pseudo-individualization is pretty apt in describing the current indie milieu. Any thoughts?

T&W: Shit, you’re trying to get me to write an essay. Indie music has become part and parcel of the culture industry; it’s a DIY outsourcing of the formerly-studio-centralized songwriting/recording process, and it just leads to nominally quirkier pop music that is no less challenging to the capitalist reproduction of art than is Katy Perry (much respect to her though, she worked damn hard to get what she’s got). This makes me think about something Mike Davis asked in regards to the crass commercialization of NWA; “If the dream factories are equally as happy to manufacture nightmare as idyll, what happens to the oppositional power of documentary realism…?” Indie music does documentation of cool subcultures and bizarre minds, and the culture industry has found a way to package up and resell nearly all of it, from Nirvana pitch-dark or Bombay Bicycle Club sugary. In deep ways, the music business model is changing to make advertising the most lucrative source of revenue for most young indie artists. Advertising becomes dependent on indie music to do its social networking—to make you say, “Whoa cool song, this product must be targeted towards people like me.” And the artists become slyly dependent on the ad revenue, and maybe unconsciously start to make pseudo-individualized hooks and safely quirky production choices that suit 30-second TV spots. In the long run, there is only one solution; public financing of art, like Sweden and Brazil do already in a limited way. In the short term, what’s a band to do? To come back to Mike Davis (can you tell I’m transfixedly reading City of Quartz right now in preparation for our LA tour?), I think we need to make art that is not “advertising art that advertises itself as art that hates advertising”. I don’t know exactly how to always do that, but I think you start by making music that is explicit and proud in its politics, and then by setting clear lines as a band as to what kind of advertising and business bullshit you will not ever take part in.

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10-17-12

B3SCI TOP 50 SONGS OF 2011

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2011. What wasn’t to love? The rise of weirdo R&B, the fall of chillwave, the end of R.E.M. We started the construction of this list over a month ago. One truly epic and extensive Google spreadsheet later, we arrived at this Top 50. We sorted and sorted and sorted, listened through a TON OF STUFF, “traded jabs” on whether James Blake or Jamie Woon put on the tougher persona, etc. Thanks for reading and we hope y’all enjoy the list!

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01. James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream (Buy It) (Read)

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02. The Weeknd – The Morning (Buy It) (Read)

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03. Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Buy It) (Read)

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04. Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (Feat. Kimbra) (Buy It) (Read)

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05. Britney Spears – ‘Till the World Ends (Buy It) (Read)

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06. Maverick Sabre – I Need (Buy It) (Read)

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07. Drake – Marvin’s Room (Buy It) (Read)

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08. Beyonce – Party (Feat. Kanye West & Andre 3000) (Buy It) (Read)

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09. Jamie Woon – Lady Luck (Buy It) (Read)

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10. Michael Kiwanuka – I Need You By My Side (Buy It) (Read)

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11. Kendrick Lamar – ADHD (Buy It) (Read)

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12. The Alabama Shakes (formerly The Shakes) – I Found You (Buy It) (Read)

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13. Nneka – My Home (Buy It) (Read)

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14. Rihanna – We Found Love (Feat. Calvin Harris) (Buy It) (Read)

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15. DJ Khaled – I’m On One (Feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil’ Wayne) (Buy It) (Read)

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16. Adele – Rumour Has It (Buy It) (Read)

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17. Labrinth – Earthquake (Feat. Tinie Tempah) (Buy It) (Read)

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18. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis (Buy It) (Read)

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19. Flo Rida – Good Feeling (Buy It) (Read)

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20. Bon Iver – Towers (Buy It) (Read)

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21. Azealia Banks – 212 (Buy It) (Read)

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22. Big Black Delta – Huggin’ & Kissin’ (Buy It) (Read)

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23. Florence + The Machine – What the Water Gave Me (Buy It) (Read)

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24. Flight Facilities – Foreign Language (Feat. Jess) (Buy It) (Read)

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25. Cults – Abducted (Buy It) (Read)

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26. Raphael Saadiq – Good Man (Buy It) (Read)

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27. Spector – Never Fade Away (Buy It) (Read)

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28. Marina & the Diamonds – Radioactive (Buy It) (Read)

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29. Afrojack – Lionheart (Buy It) (Read)

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30. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – If I Had a Gun… (Buy It) (Read)

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31. Active Child – Playing House (Feat. How to Dress Well) (Buy It) (Read)

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32. M83 – Midnight City (Buy It) (Read)

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33. Radiohead – Lotus Flower (Buy It) (Read)

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34. Madlib & Freddie Gibbs – Thuggin’ (Buy It) (Read)

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35. The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love (Buy It) (Read)

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36. NO CEREMONY/// – Hurtlove (Buy It) (Read)

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37. Ifan Dafydd – No Good (Buy It) (Read)

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38. Bombay Bicycle Club – Shuffle (Buy It) (Read)

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39. TOKiMONSTA – Little Pleasures (Feat. Gavin Turek) (Buy It) (Read)

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40. Colleen Green – Cujo (Buy It) (Read)

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41. Foxes – Youth (Buy It) (Read)

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42. Jacques Greene – Another Girl (Buy It) (Read)

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43. Grouplove – Gold Coast (Buy It) (Read)

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44. Family of the Year – St. Croix (Buy It) (Read)

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45. Lucy Rose – Middle of the Bed (Buy It) (Read)

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46. LIPS – Everything to Me (Buy It) (Read)

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47. Trophy Wife – Wolf (Buy It) (Read)

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48. Dev – In the Dark (Buy It) (Read)

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49. John West – Lovely (Feat. Pusha T) (Buy It) (Read)

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50. Anchorsong – Ghost Touch (Buy It) (Read)

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12-26-11

RAVE’S FAVE: Justice – Parade

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Finally the Justice Audio Video Disco album drops next Tuesday. Initial track “Civilization” is one of the most-requested songs on my radio show this year. The guys cite a strong Led Zeppelin influence on this album and “Parade” is all over that intensity. The intro bass line is definitely Zeppelin. “Parade” is packed full of 70’s progressive with almost too many memorable melody lines to count. It’s like “We Will Rock You” for the next generation. Contributed by Bruce Rave

Justice – Paradise

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Also, Mike of b3sci and I chatted with Bombay Bicycle Club back at SXSW which I’ll be running as an interview special on this Friday’s “Go Deep” show around 2p Pacific, 5p Eastern. Be sure to check past shows at Bruce’s blog.

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10-18-11

LIVE SHOW REVIEWS: Virgin Mobile Freefest, September 10, 2011 Columbia, MD

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The b3sci family traveled this past weekend to suburban Baltimore to check out the Virgin Mobile Freefest. Here’s a little “photojournal” on our experience!

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Favs Alberta Cross kicked shit off with a serviceable set of Anglo-American rock.

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The handsome half of Bombay Bicycle Club sat down with us for a post-set interview.

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In between some weird Drake-lite ballad non-jams Big Sean otherwise wrecked it.

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Running into Sir Richard Branson and his shimmering CEO mullet backstage was some surreal shit.

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Calvin Harris got Freefest moving with a sharp DJ Set.

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So many bees.

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Grace Potter is a powerhouse.

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Ms. Potter gave easily the best interview of the Festival.

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Someone forgot to clean up.

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NE Ohio bros 4 life.

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Deadmau5.

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09-15-11

RAVE’S FAVES: Prima Donna – I Don’t Want You to Love Me

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Contributed by Bruce Rave

Had an ace time hanging with the entire B3Sci team last week in Austin. We interviewed Chapel Club, The Vaccines, and Bombay Bicycle Club. The three will run weekly on my Moheak Radio Show with songs included, beginning with Chapel Club tomorrow (Friday). For this week’s fave, we have the LA band Prima Donna. Their “I Don’t Want You to Love Me” is on fire. It takes me back the the glam-punk best of bands like The New York Dolls. Here you go:

Prima Donna – I Don’t Want You to Love Me

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Rating: 8.3

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03-24-11