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On My Radar: Southern Souls, Jamaica, High Highs

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My Album is called Feet.

I’d buy it. Elsewhere,

–MNDR has done a pretty solid remix of Foster The People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” at RCRD LBL.

–Vote For Southern Souls in CBCR3’s best Canadian music website competition! Anyone that works that hard deserves recognition.

-Really loving this track from Star Slinger called Mornin’. Check out the psych video for it. Thanks Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good.

Star Slinger – Mornin’ Directed by Alan Jensen from Star Slinger on Vimeo.

–The Morning Benders remix Ra Ra Riot’s “Too Dramatic”. A little less dramatic than the original, very nice.

–Jamaica had yesterdays song of the day on KEXP, check out Jericho. Don’t worry it kicks in.

-Listening to a new track from IMF faves High Highs. This one’s called “Horses” and is free to download here or at bandcamp. Glad I found this at Their Bated Breath!

Video: “Too Dramatic” by Ra Ra Riot

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“Too Dramatic” by Ra Ra Riot,the second video from the bands’ sophomore release The Orchard.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

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Trust your friends when they tell you about new bands.

I learned that last week while having a coffee with Amine in Venice. Among our conversations about new bands, she told me about her faves right now, Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.. She’s been championing them before anyone else and assured me that I wouldn’t be let down if I spent some time with their Horse Power EP (which you can streamhere).

Turns out she was totally right. I’d seen the name before on blogs I read and I know I probably took a listen to a track or two, but for some reason, I didn’t make a note to investigate further. This stuff is right up my alley.

Take a listen to the track Nothing But Our Love and enjoy their great video for it. This track in particular reminds me of bands like The Acorn and sombre songs from Ra Ra Riot.

The bands’ debut releaseHorse Power EP mixesfolk, hip-hop inspired drum programming and effervescent pop through a “series of chicanes, straightaways, washboards, and u-turns that when assembled make for quite the interesting ride”. While I was in LA, the band were killing it at CMJ, now deciding to follow up with a remix EP (My Love Is Easy: Remixes Pt. 1). The EP features Deastro,Kasper Bj&#-3757844; Prussia and reworking of “Vocal Chords” by Diego and the Dissidents (below). &#-3757844;Check it out on bandcamp here.

Vocals Chords (Diego and the Dissidents Remix)

Great tip&#-3757844;Amine, I owe you one.

New Absofacto remix for Elsinore

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Jonathan Visger from Mason Proper (aka Absofacto) sent me a note last week that he’d completed a remix for Elsinore; a mashup of 3 or 4 of their songs to create a completely new track. You can download the track for free, along with his remix of Ra Ra Riot‘s ‘Each Year’, his awesome LCD Soundsystem/Kanye mashup of ‘Love Lockdown/Get Innocuous’ and a cover of the Mamas and the Papas ‘California Dreaming’.

Absofacto covers and remixes.

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Video: ‘Boy’ by Ra Ra Riot

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‘Boy’ by Ra Ra Riot off The Orchard. Sorry I didn’t post this earlier, as the video actually hit the net yesterday, but wasn’t available to be viewed to anyone outside the US. Now its up on youtube.

Be sure to get the track off Indie Music Filter v.7.