Happy 4th of July! I hope everyone is having BBQ and beer right now! Feel like getting your pop rock on, check out this new track "W-O-E" from UK band Little Comets. This single comes from their second album Life Is Elsewhere which is out in the UK now, and set to be released in the US in August. There is not much edge here - but it's good solid pop music that makes you feel good - perfect for a holiday daytime party. Little Comets will be playing a show at Cafe Du Nord here in San Francisco on August 25!
NEW MUSIC: LE YOUTH - C O O L EP
CommentToday Los Angeles producer and one of my personal faves, Le Youth, released his C O O L EP - this single is bananas! Each "C O O L" remix is fantastic - this is a must have kids! Bay Area - Le Youth will be at Popscene on July 18 - It's my birthday, we're having cake, come down and get your dance on!
You can pick up C O O L EP on iTunes HERE!
REMIX: HAYDEN JAMES - PERMISSION TO LOVE (TOUCH SENSITIVE REMIX)
CommentI am so looking forward to see seeing this guy in a few weeks! Touch Sensitive kinda rule my life right now! Touch Sensitive is Michael Di Francesco from Aussie dance pop band Van She......we are HUGE Van She fans so naturally Touch Sensitive makes us very happy. Fun fact - "Body Stop" by Touch Sensitive was one of the first tracks released on Future Classic, all the way back in 2004! He will be playing in San Francisco at Popscene on July 18 with Le Youth - which is my birthday...which is amazing! This new remix on "Permission To Love" by Hayden James is awesome - listen and love!
REMIX: MAYER HAWTHORNE - HER FAVORITE SONG (OLIVER REMIX)
CommentHow can I not post a song that is described as "Yacht Club Music" - how can any one not want to hear this? Oliver usually has us moving on the dance floor, head banging and sweating to phat dance beats....but not today kids! It's sexy time..... it's yacht time! This Oliver remix of "Her Favorite Song" by Mayer Hawthorne is going to make you want to be on the open water, with a captains hat on, dressed all in white - oh yeeaaa! Free download kids!
NEW MUSIC: THE VACCINES - MELODY CALLING
CommentThe Vaccines have released a new track in anticipation of their upcoming North American tour dates. “Melody Calling” was recorded in March at Eldorado Studios with producers John Hill (Rihanna, MIA, Santigold) and Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys); the band debuted “Melody Calling” on their recent U.K. Arena tour which included shows at London’s O2 Arena & Leeds Millennium Square.
NEW VIDEO: TRAVIS - MOVING
CommentAhhh....Travis! I have always held a special place in my heart for this band. When I was a kid - I used to stay up late at night to watch Matt Pinfield host 120 Minutes on MTV (which I think came on at like 1 am or something like that) and this is where I saw my first Travis video - "All I Wanna Do Is Rock." It's true, all I wanted to do is rock - it was 1997, the Britpop invasion was in full swing, I had just graduated high school, working in a record store, contemplating college - shit was real and Travis blew my mind! My Good Feeling cassette tape wore out from constant play....man those were good times! Eventually my first job in the music industry was with Sony (Epic/Coloumbia Records) where I ended up working Travis records, and even met the band once in 2003 - I swooned! Matt Pinfield was A&R at Cloumbia Records at that time as well - small small world. ;-)
Travis return after a five year hiatus with an impressive new album Where You Stand - out August 20th - on their own re-launched label Red Telephone Box via Kobalt Label Services. Sounding more invigorated than ever, the multi-million-selling Scottish quartet have delivered a stunning new album full of the cinematic pop and instantly anthemic songs that first caught the attention of critics and music fans on their breakthrough album The Man Who , but by true nature I was one step ahead; always partial to debut album Good Feeling, however pretty much every album Travis has produced has been amazing!
Check out their new video for "Moving" - and I also included the "All I Wanna Do Is Rock" video for good nostalgic measures!
NEW VIDEO: C O L O R - TIME
CommentHere is something brand spanking new for your Saturday! C O L O R - they come from LA, they are a Cult Records new signing, and I think they are pretty great. C O L O R will have a new EP coming out in September, and there will be a fall bay area date...trust me, I know things. Here is something where you can say you heard it first - I predict great things for C O L O R - stay tuned!
REMIX: SMALLPOOLS - DREAMING (THE CHAINSMOKERS REMIX)
CommentThey are at it again - the sweet guys from New York who make boo-tay shaking dance music like animals.... it's pretty hot! The Chainsmokers are making their mark on the dance floor - they want to see you sweat! This new remix of "Dreaming" by Smallpools is awesome, I am totally dancing at the disco home office! They were just in the bay area for a show last week, and we were super bummed to have missed it, but when The Chainsmokers come back - it's on! Grab this new remix as a free download!
NEW VIDEO: SOLAR YEAR - GLOBAL GIRLFIREND
CommentThis week Montreal duo Solar Year release their much anticipated debut record Waverly available now for a limited vinyl run and digitally through Ceremony (US) / Splendour (EU). Labeled as a "re-release" of an album that was quietly released in limited quantities during summer 2012 in Montreal. As an album and a project striving to set itself apart from the status quo, Solar Year returned to Waverly in late 2012 to give the album a new look and fresh perspective they had felt was lacking last summer. The result pushed Solar Year into a new level of artistic freedom and creativity -- Waverly will now be presented as a revamped experience entirely re-mastered, newly mixed, and re-sequenced with updates on several tracks matched with the addition of new material.
Alongside the record release, Solar Year also unleashed their transcendent new video for "Global Girlfriend" single today directed by Allie Avital Tsypin of Brooklyn-based collective BANGS. The band describes the concept behind the video as" essentially a series of “paintings” that explore sacred spaces, death, relaxation, and ideas of paradise" the end result landing in the surreal.
