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Does It Offend You, Yeah?
have been remixed by meself.

Heres you goes...its my first true edit so give me a shout if you like or hate:

mp3: "We Are Rockstars (PSV Edit)"

Fleet Foxes

Every once in a while, a band comes along and your all like:

"I've heard this befo...but I haven't...It's so original and retro... BRAIN ASPLOSION!!!"


Well, thats Fleet Foxes. This band is genius. They have the harmony of Crosby, Stills, and Nash,
with the pop sensibilities to match. Lead singer man Robin Pecknold is riveting with his warbly half falsetto, and the band never overpowers him or the harmonies or the message, a rare thing these days. I've been absolutely in love with their Sun Giant EP for about three days. It is literally on repeat.

I feel Fleet Foxes is going to be a big deal to a lot of people someday. Hopefully the Seattle, Washington natives will make the trek to Dallas so I can partake in the glory. Its kinda funny how you really get transported into a very different time of life when you listen to Fleet Foxes. Certainly, as has been pointed out before, they have much in common with Denton heroes Midlake (whom I have adored since my youth). At a single chord they can conjure up a story you feel you've heard a thousand times, a fable of your childhood that you haven't heard in ages. And so it is that Fleet Foxes gets my highest recommendation.

Look out on the horizon for their new album, tentatively scheduled for release on Sub-Pop on June 3rd.
Keep yo fingas crossed.

Take a gander through the backwoods of the Northwest:

From the Sun Giant EP
mp3: "Mykonos"
mp3: "English House"

From their as-yet-untitled LP release:
mp3: "White Winter Hymnal"

lyrics to "White Winter Hymnal":

I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime..

Sometimes there is beauty within simplicity.

I have found a reason to post about DFA 1979, thus making it a Very, Very, Very Good Day, Also because MSTRKRFT has like 3 new remixes and are awesome

Death From Above 1979 could have been the greatest band ever.
As it stands, they are number four on my list o' greatest ever.





There is a small and very finite amount of DFA 1979 material. Which is saddening. But,
by chance I found what apparently is a Demo version of "Romantic Rights"! I've listened to this song so many times the incongruence between this and the album version seem much larger than they really are but nevertheless...

Listen to this:

mp3: "Romantic Rights (Unknown Demo Version)"

weird, huh?
It's like maybe it's the master track before they put the crazy effects on JFK's bass at the beginning. And it ends differently with that stutter of Sebastien's voice...I did some research on where this came from, and found nothing.
Maybe I'm the only one in the world that has this. I found it on megaupload, and it didn't have that tag on it, it just said "Romantic Rights".

In other related awesome, I found this pretty sweet-ace mash up
of "Romantic Rights" and Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" by British mash-up crazy-man Dave Remix:

mp3: "Romantic Criminal (Dave Remix's DFA 1979 vs. Michael Jackson Edit)"

MSTRKRFT decided that they do work now,
and have put out a slew of things for your enjoyment...
Find them at Panda Toes!


R.I.P DFA 1979.
I still miss you.

OH K

I honestly just kinda stumbled across this.
Shitdisco has been around for a bit now, and I had like...two, three of their songs.
But after (actually before I even finished) watching this video I was downloading Kingdom of Fear as fast as my poor connection would let me...I lava it.

Shitdisco: "OK"


Shit Disco - OK from Jo Apps on Vimeo.

mp3: "OK (Yuksek Remix)"

we do in fact like to be ok.

We Goin' Ovaseas With This...Ovaseas?

MSTRKRFT.

I saw them about 3 weeks ago at the Palladium Loft and they were massive. They dropped this new song "Bounce" at that show, and no-one knew what it was...I just remember everybody burning up the dancefloor and immediately catching the club-ready hook "All I do is Party...HAHAHAHA". I imagine that every single DJ in the world will play this song at least once in their lives.

I'm not going to make a pronouncement on it quite yet...cos I think its kinda generic. But its the KRFT, what you gonna do about it? Nuthin'.

mp3: "Bounce (Feat. N.O.R.E)"

Evidently N.O.R.E is quite sure this track will conquer our neighbours across the waves.
Good luck with that.