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Seapony – Dreaming

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Contributed by Christopher Gedos

Seattle’s Experience Music Project unveiled its Nirvana exhibit last weekend, but Seapony proves that Seattle hasn’t lost it’s rock relevance here in the year 2011. Dreaming, the 7″ of which was released by Double Denim records, has been rippling throughout the superhighway as of late. Intelligent rock from the city with the most PhDs per capita in the United States. These black and red flannel patterns don’t run! Seapony is rock regionalism at its finest. Dreaming infuses all the saccharine elements of dream-surf while discarding all the insincere ones. Color me excited for their show at The Echo on May 31st. And don’t you worry Brooklynites — they play Glasslands on June 15th.

Seapony – Dreaming

Seapony: (Bandcamp) (Facebook)

RATING: 8.3
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04-22-11

Jamaica – Jericho (Tepr Remix)

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The finest in the City of Light collaborate on a flip from the No Problem LP. Never anticipated hearing Jericho’s verse vox with this kind of sound, but it works so well. Track is bound to get people bumped for the weekend!

Jamaica are eastside LA bound tomorrow at Echoplex in LA. We’ll be there, review to come..

Tickets HERE.

Jamaica – Jericho (Tepr Remix)

Jamaica: (Facebook) (Twitter)

Tepr: (Facebook) (Twitter)

Rating: 8.2
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04-22-11

Cubic Zirconia – Night or Day (CZ Club Mix) (Feat. Bilal)

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Cubic Zirconia are vocalist Tiombe Lockhart (who also directed the mix’s vid) and sound makers Nick Hook and Daud Sturdivant. This is the remix.

Cubic Zirconia – Night or Day (CZ Club Mix) (Feat. Bilal)

Cubic Zirconia: (Official) (Myspace)

Rating: 8.2

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04-21-11

Spector – Never Fade Away

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As is the mark of many great songs, “Never Fade Away”, new from UK band Spector, works on multiple levels. The track plays both big (large passes over simple chord progressions, dynamic building rhythms and instrumentations) and intimate (lyrical content, you feel like you and you alone are privy to sentiment and desire that is revelatory but tightly guarded by its author.) “Never Fade Away” sums up to a great expression, eruption, explosion of emotion and feeling. The moment is pivotal and important and the music plays to that notion perfectly.


Spector – Never Fade Away

Spector: (Facebook)

Rating: 8.7

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04-21-11

Jakwob – Right Beside You (Feat. Smiler)

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Yesterday’s Hottest Record in World c/o Zane Lowe. (Is it less hot now? Like Very Warmest Record in the World?) On “Right Beside You” Jakwob triangulates around the crevices between pop, dubstep, and hip hop. Upstart MC Smiler chips in with a few choice bars. Into it.

Jakwob – Right Beside You (Feat. Smiler)

Jakwob: (Myspace) (Official) (Soundcloud)

Rating: 8.2

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04-21-11

XV – Watch Me Go (Prod. J. Cole)

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Grade A shit via XV. The Wichita rapper works it over a soulful uptempo J. Cole beat. Look for Cole to continue to be more and more sought after as a producer; dude crafts what seems like nothing but heaters.

XV – Watch Me Go (Prod. J. Cole)

XV: (Myspace) (Facebook)

Rating: 8.4

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04-21-11

The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out

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So, I feel like I gave The Antlers’ 2009 LP Hospice a few listens and kinda liked it, but being real, never really got into it. Additionally, I tend to avoid bands of the indieverse in that sort of indie/lo-fi/folk-fi wasteland that have animals in their names ( ____ Deer, Wolf _____, Frog _____ Goat) or animal body parts or bodily functions, etc. So hearing the excellent “Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out” (ain’t that a bitch?) was a really nice surprise. Understated guitar distortion frames a percussive rhythmic melody that you’ll have a real shit time trying to keep out of your head. Try it.

The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out

The Antlers: (Official) (Myspace)

Rating: 8.3

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04-20-11

RAVE’S FAVES: The Kills – Nail In My Coffin

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Contributed by Bruce Rave

This new Kills album is looking like a great bet to make my 2011 year-end list. Between the sultry Allison Mosshart and the guttural guitar sounds coming from Jamie Hince, the sexual tension on this album is off the charts. The songwriting is their best to date. “DNA” is almost pretty, and the first time I heard that track was when the B3Sci team posted it. “Nail In My Coffin ” is The Kills at the top of their game.

The Kills – Nail In My Coffin

The Kills: (Official) (Myspace) (Facebook)

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04-20-11

Chris Turner – stickyGREEN (Prod. Pete Rock)

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Our buddy Chris Turner does it for y’all and serves up this fresh Pete Rock-produced tribute to Weed Day for FREE, baby! Chris Turner + Pete Rock for FREE! Only in America, baby! p.s. This track is dope! The Pete Rock groove is ridiculous. Check it!

Chris Turner – stickyGREEN (Prod. Pete Rock)

Chris Turner: (Myspace) (Twitter) (Bandcamp)

Rating: 8.6

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04-20-11

BOAT – Classically Trained

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BOAT’s “Classically Trained”, new off their recently released fourth LP Dress Like Your Idols, is a proper guitar tune with GREAT melodies. From verse to chorus, prechorus to bridge, vocal harmony and guitar layering abound, building the song’s excellent dynamics. Sounds good, right? You know what to do! Get into it below.

BOAT – Classically Trained

BOAT: (Official) (Myspace)

Rating: 8.3

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04-20-11

FaltyDL – Brazil (Cairo’s Falling Down Remix)

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FaltyDL tracks are mint on release. As such, any sort of remixing, refixing, and other like noodling of Falty’s tracks can prove difficult and/or futile. To be frank, most FaltyDL remixes we get are pretty shit. Cairo, a DJ out of Australia, manages to break that trend with what totals up to one of our fav remixes of the year thusfar. Cairo absolutly nails the groove on this. The hook, the vocal track, all expertly interpreted. Finding tracks like Cairo’s “Brazil” remix are why we do this.


FaltyDL – Brazil (Cairo’s Falling Down Remix)

Cairo: (Soundcloud) (Twitter)
FaltyDL: (Myspace) (Tumblr) (Soundcloud)

Rating: 8.9

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04-20-11

Grouper – Alien Observer

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Grouper’s “Alien Observer” is beautiful. The track feels almost sacred, like sacred choral music. A track perhaps best heard in context of a some edge of the galaxy cathedral or, in my case (fast forward about 20 minutes), my bedroom as I drift off and away into sleep.

Grouper – Alien Observer

Grouper: (Myspace)

Rating: 8.3

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04-19-11