Fitz and the Tantrums are back with a brand new mega retro slammer for your downloading pleasure. True to Fitz form,”Don’t Gotta Work It Out” plays on the soul strength of this Los Angeles based group. Add it to your break up playlist and hit the space bar to enter deep space Fitz.
Comin’ in hot, LA based rapper/producer, Alexander Spit, releases his latest project, These Long Strange Nights, and shares it with you for $Free.99 plus tax! The mixtape, Produced entirely by Alexander himself, features guest appearances from Bago CBG, Gilbere Forte, and White Girl Mob’s Lil Debbie among others. Download your copy after the jump.
Next up in the 3 slot is a little ditty by The Strokes called “Under Control.”
“2003 is The Strokes’ “Under Control” which is just the best understated Strokes song. I love that song. It’s so simple. The thing with that song is we thought it might be too straight up if we just played it as is. We got kind of a little bit of a I don’t know what you call it, it’s not reggae it’s like dubby – some sort of another groove going for it.” – David Monks of TPC
Canadian quartet Tokyo Police Club have announced an ambitious and riotous project, recording 10 cover songs from the years 2001-2010 over the course of 10 days. The project will begin at 12pm PST on Tuesday, August 23 at Red Bull Studios Los Angeles when the band enters the studio to rehearse and record a cover song over the next 10 hours, to be premiered the following morning at, 10am PST right here on ChinaShop starting Wednesday, August 24. The final song will be premiered on Saturday, September 3.
Starting next Monday, August 15, three potential songs from each year, between 2001-2010, will be revealed via Polaroid with the final track revealed each night prior to recording. The band will be creating daily Polaroid photo diaries and filming the entire recording process. In addition, each song will have unique artwork created from a Polaroid image shot that day in the studio.
Exclusive media partners include Alternative Press, ARTIST Direct, Entertainment Weekly, FILTER, Mashable, The Onion AV Club, Spinner. At 11am EST the song will be made available via all partner sites. Livestream.com will be offering fans a behind-the-scenes look into the recording process each day between 7pm-8pm PST.
Stay tuned for additional details in the coming weeks on the packaging of all 10-songs with commemorative pieces from the project.
While Tokyo Police Club was busy prepping for the event, singer David Monks spared a few moments to jump on the phone to provide us with some insider info on what we can expect from “10 Covers in 10 Days.”
It’s Mad Lib Monday at ChinaShop, where they fill in the blanks and we make up the rest. Check out our exclusive portraits and listen to some brand new music.
Thrice‘s new album Major/Minor will be released everywhere September 20, 2011 via Vagrant Records… but ChinaShop has a special exclusive treat for all you rabid fans hungry for new music from this seminal band.
It’s Mad Lib Monday at ChinaShop, where they fill in the blanks and we make up the rest. Check out our exclusive portraits and listen to some brand new music.
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It’s Mad Lib Monday at ChinaShop, where they fill in the blanks and we make up the rest. Check out our exclusive portraits and listen to some brand new music.
Everything is sexier in Paris, especially when you start combining the worlds of music and fashion, which is exactly what Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki did back in 2002 when they founded the Kitsuné label. With releases from notables like Alex Gopher, Wolfmother, Hot Chip, Fischerspooner and Phoenix (along with countless others), the Parisian label grown into one of the country’s most eclectic and well-respected culture institutions. One of the biggest reasons? Their compilations.
The latest Kitsuné Maison compendium—#11 in the series if you’re taking notes—seeks to combine sultry house music (what they’re known for) with more indie rock undertones (which they’re slowly become known for). The Indie Dance Issue drops May 16, and you can purchase it from iTunes or your local good music purveyor. In the meantime, label boss Gildas Loaëc waxes poetic about each song on the compilation, three of which are available for download after the jump.
If you dial up your Home Video albums on iTunes, you’re bound to run across a track or two that touches on light sociopolitical discourse. But when singer/guitarist Collin Ruffino became engrossed in the ongoing WikiLeaks drama, he decided a track or two wasn’t enough, and that Home Video wasn’t necessarily the best avenue to deliver the particular message he wanted to communicate in support of the heavily criticized news source. Thus, NiveHive was born. (Download “The Stuffed Men Bristle” after the jump.) We got in touch with Ruffino to pick his brain about why the WikiLeaks drama is something everyone should be paying close attention to, and how he’s helping bolster their message in his own unique way: “WikiLeaks is not an organization, it is a backlash, a mutiny. NiveHive is here to provide the soundtrack.”