Four Tet’s latest remix creation (this time for Tennessee-based R&B singer Justin Timberlake) sent the synapses the internet-wide ablaze earlier today. So in the event that you were up to something this afternoon that didn’t involved being parked in front an internet screen and you haven’t heard Four Tet’s “Suit & Tie” remix yet, you can sort that out below. (p.s. it’s really really good).
Four Tet 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
“Things You Do” is the latest single from Orlando soul band Fat Night. We’re vibin’ on the track’s neat early 70’s vocal group harmonies and cool dusky chorus hook.
Fat Night – Things You DoFat Night 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
B3SCI fam Erin Feathers recently caught up with hotly-tipped British singer-songwriter Misty Miller. Having just released her Girlfriend EP last week, Miller has made her track “Little Drummer” available as a free download (grab it below) ahead of UK tour dates this March supporting both Jake Bugg and Tom Odell (on different stints). Check out what Misty Miller had to say about musical influences both past and present, her various side projects, and a blossoming career…
B3SCI: You list your key musical influences as Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Irma Thomas, The Sonics, and The Gories. Surprise us with a couple random artists who color your musical outlook in a significant way…
Misty: Depends what you mean by surprise. A band called The Fat Whites who my drummer plays in. Blondie, maybe thats a surprise? Listen to “One Way Or Another” .. or “Dreaming”. She was so cool.
B3SCI: We’ve heard you mention that your musical palette varies from listening to performance. Do you think something like rap music could ever permeate your writing and performance?
Misty: Not in a really obvious way. If I saw someone do it and do it really well it would inspire me to perform with the same passion (or whatever it was about their performance that i liked).
B3SCI: Do you have a songwriting process and does your ukelele always play a role?
Misty: I havn’t written a song on my ukulele for about 2 years now. When I finished that album I was already starting to write songs on the guitar and have ever since. I don’t have process as such. It depends on the song and time.
B3SCI: Is there an instrument that you hope to learn someday?
Misty: I just wanna get better at guitar, really. Maybe play a few solos one day..
B3SCI: What has most influenced your musical evolution an vision as an artist?
Misty: The music scene I got involved with. I left college and started playing shows and meeting people around South London. The bands and people that I met influenced me a lot.
B3SCI: Tell us something quirky about Misty Miller…
Misty: Quirky eh?! I don’t like having clean hair. Or, I like to book bind.
B3SCI: What is your favorite place to jam and play music, aside from your gigs?
Misty: I have started rehearsing with my band at a mate of mine’s studio in peckham. It’s a small room but we work way better in there than in some fancy rehearsal studio. Or i just like play on my own if there is a guitar lying about in someones house or something.
B3SCI: If you could live somewhere other than London where would it be?
Misty: I don’t really have an answer to that as of yet. I would love to travel around America soon. Maybe after touring I’ll fall in love with a particular place.
B3SCI: What do fans need to know about Slit Lizard?
Misty: It’s a band I started with my friend Olivia. I couldn’t really play the guitar and she couldn’t really play the drums but I hadnt enjoyed playing and writing music so much until Slit Lizard. Heavily inspired by our friends band, The Midnight Barbers. A few of the songs off the EP were origonally Slit Lizard songs. “You Know What I Mean” and “Little Drummer”. My label weren’t too keen on the whole thing but without Slit Lizard (and Olivia) I wouldn’t have gotten away from playing music I wasn’t actually that happy with.
B3SCI: Tell us about the Girlfriend EP and where it leading Misty Miller…
Misty: I can’t tell you how good it feels to finally have this music out there and to be playing it in front people that actually want to listen now! It took a while to get my label to ‘get it’ and I’m so glad I didnt give up and decide to do something that I wasn’t really passionate about. Hopefully the next EP will sound as good and lead on to a killer album. I am not a natural in the studio yet but my band help me a lot.
B3SCI: How has your history growing up in an artistic family affected your experience as an artist?
Misty: Having music around me from a young age, being in the studio and backstage as a kid. All things those sorts of things. Making music my natural habitat.
B3SCI: It sounds like you dabble a bit with inking your own tattoos. What tattoo is next on your list?
Misty: Yeah i have about 6 or so now, all pretty shit, and all hand done. I have no idea what the next one will be.
B3SCI: We’re hooking you up with a ride in the B3SCI time machine. Where are you going?
Misty: Stonehenge “where the demons dwell!” But if i can’t come back to now then i aint goin’ anywhere.
Misty Miller (Facebook)
With only a handful of tunes released to date, and a debut LP in pipeline, UK act Dan Croll has been making a name for himself. The the young songwriter has been on the radar since his track “From Nowhere” first hit the interwebs, not to mention his receiving the Songwriter of the Year Award via the Liverpool institute of Performing Arts. This Saturday The Fold Silverlake will present a night of live music featuring Croll in the Bootleg Bar, along with support from blogosphere and Oakland rainmakers Trails and Ways, and Boston trio Carousel.
Be sure to catch this show before all three acts take SXSW 2013 by storm! B3SCI has got a pair of tickets to give away for one lucky reader. For your chance to win, email us here and say that you’d like to to be entered in the Dan Croll ticket giveaway. We’ll be picking our winning email submission at random this Saturday morning (one entry per person). Get more information on the show and purchasing tickets here.
Bootleg Theater 
(Info and Tickets)
Dan Croll (Facebook)
Trails and Ways (Facebook)
French production duo (and yes, they’re actually twins) TWINSMATIC grab the official remix credit for Yuna’s breakout hit from last year “Live Your Life”. The two Parisians bring the vibe down a bit from the original, spacing it out, sublimating it; letting the track lift up and out of Yuna’s initial arrangement. The duo also do a superb job of blending an old Theophilus London freestyle of the track seamlessly into the new beat’s fabric. Well done.
TWINSMATIC 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.2
La Musica de Harry Fraud. Fraud cooks up that classic sound on Marvelous, the second single from BK emcee Eddie B’s forthcoming “Horsepower” project. Selecting for a gloomy ’70’s A.M. soul sample, Harry Fraud adeptly picks up Eddie B and assist man on the track Action Bronsonlini who could probably body a beat like this in his sleep.
Eddie B – Marvelous (feat. Action Bronson)Eddie B 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.3
It’s been a little while now since Rafa Alvarez, aka Different Sleep, released an original track. The lead single of Alvarez’s Infinite EP “Be My Center”, was received quite well by the music community and his reworking of California Wives’ “Tokyo” had the internet talking. “Get Ahead” keeps the same aesthetic as “Be My Center” using a simple, sampled-vocal line over what seems to be similar drums but this track is much more chilled and ambient compared to the large swells of synth in “Be My Center”. Different Sleep has shown just some of his talent and I personally can’t wait to see what else he has in store. By Brian Litwin
Different Sleep – Get AheadDifferent Sleep 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
A couple days ago, Ryan Hemsworth posted a preview of this track. The 30 seconds didn’t cut it.
Lana Del Rey has quickly gone from idol per se, to sort of a joke. Hemsworth, however makes everything he touches turn to gold, and that’s no different here. Clicks, and deep effects render the track from boring, really, to what feels like a weird daydream. Hemsworth has mastered the art of covering every detail. By Phoebe Anne Severin
Ryan Hemsworth 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Baths return with the particularly moving and equally pleasing sounds of ‘Miasma Sky’ as a first cut from the 2nd LP, due May 28 . Obsidian is set to take on a darker shade than 2010’s Cerulean – “The mood is shimmering and pitch-black, the lovely blood flow has turned into lava.” – and it has also been constructed with a little more emphasis on live shows, of which there are many to chose from this month and next. By Nathan Hetherington
Baths (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Oxford MS songwriter Sanders Bohlke dials up a folk pop gem with the magnetic “Ghost Boy”, the title track from Bohlke’s just released LP. Spin it below and let us know what you think.
Sanders Bohlke 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
We’re way into The ACBs. The Kansas City guitar band’s delicious and well executed mix of soul-as-inflected-through-an-anglo-lens indie rock and A-1 pop songwriting skill, as exampled here on “Television”, makes for great repeat listening material. The band’s sophomore LP Little Leaves (the follow-up to the excellent Stona Rosa) is out now.
The ACB’s – Record StoreThe ACBs 
(Bandcamp)
The ACBs – Television from Brook Linder on Vimeo.
Rating 8.2
Parisian producer Andrea links us up with the soundtrack to your next 3 A.M. tumblr creep session with new track “Places”. A collaboration with Irish rapper Rejjie Snow, “Places” sounds a bit of what a Tricky record might be like in 2013 if our man were more bummed out and more into drugs. “Places” is really really good and demands your attention below.
Andrea (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
