May 2011
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Joshua McClain
We got put onto Joshua McClain when he was featured on Middle Class White Noise’s Song of the Day recently. We loved the song that they had posted and were impressed by McClain. McClain is a multi-instrumentalist, focusing mainly on cello, singer/songwriter from Indiana. We’ve listened to Princess of the Plains on repeat and we’re loving DaDa too. His debut EP is out now on...
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Foster The People: "Pumped Up Kicks (JaPetto 'n'...
We’re sorry if you’re getting a bit tired of us posting about Foster The People all the time, but maybe if you haven’t already you should check them out cause clearly we’re fans. We just found another remix of Pumped Up Kicks by Japetto and Jessmima and we love love love it. What makes it for us is the beat, not much else is changed to the original save for a synth here...
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Gypsy & The Cat (@gypsyandthecat)
Thinking back, we first heard these guys through the free download of the week of The Piper’s Song from iTunes, and then we heard a remix of the same song and fell in love with that. Another Australian Electro duo, from Melbourne, Gypsy & The Cat are starting to get noticed by the right people. Sure you can compare them to Empire of the Sun very easily but we’d say give them a...
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Chiddy Bang: "Peanut Butter & Swelly" Mixtape
Back with a brand new mixtape for the summer, Chiddy Bang have just dropped the Peanut Butter & Swelly mixtape. Available to download from here at illroots.com. Its everything we expect from Chiddy Bang as always bringing the original and the samples to make a mixtape perfect for rocking this summer. There are some great collaborations on this including one with our favourites The Knocks on...
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Remix, Baby: Adele "Rumour Has It (RASCAL Remix)"
We all know Adele’s new album 21 is good. It’s pretty much a fact right about now. We love Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like You but we think our favourite right now is Rumour Has It. The attitude in this song is something else and we love Adele for it. We were just going to post up the original track but then we found a sweet remix by DJ Rascal so we’re going to throw that...
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disCOVER: Baths "All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem...
We love things like Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Triple J’s Like A Version, The Black Cab Sessions and the Daytrotter Sessions. Basically we love it when artists show off their chops and make brilliant live music. Adding to this list we now have the brilliant The AV Club’s Undercover sessions. The concept behind the Undercover sessions is that fans get in contact and choose 25 songs...
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Hoodie Allen (@hoodieallen)
Hoodie Allen is the kind of artist that we LOVE. Since 2010’s Pep Rally mixtape, Hoodie Allen has blown up all over the music blogosphere, it’s been downloaded 300’000 plus times and track You Are Not A Robot sat atop HypeMachine’s song chart. Basically, Hoodie Allen is one to watch, and definitely one to listen to.
You Are Not A Robot by HoodieAllen
We came across...
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Walter Meego (@waltermeego)
Chicago’s Walter Meego are back with a second album Wonder Valley. Recorded over six months in the Mojave Desert, this synth laden pop rock album sounds great. It reminds us of The Beach Boys, Air, Belle & Sebastian, The Postal Service, 70s glam rock. If you like that kind of sound, you’ll like this and what’s not to love in that mix?
Have a little listen, double dares...
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You Should Own This: #9
This song was everywhere when it came out, rightly so, it’s a great song. Bran Van 3000 from Montreal are still going strong with new album The Garden released in 2010. But here’s the classic Drinking In LA, sit back and enjoy this one preferably with a drink in your hand.
Bran Van 3000: Website//Facebook//Myspace
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Teen Daze (@teendaze): "Surface"
We’ve been following Teen Daze for a while and we’re happy to announce that new official material A Silent Planet EP will be out August 9th. Here’s Surface from the upcoming EP
Teen Daze- “Surface”
You can pre-order A Silent Planet here
Teen Daze: Website//Twitter//Facebook
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The Weeknd
We came across The Weeknd through a tip we saw on twitter from an Australian band that we posted on a while back, Duosseudo. We had been seeing the name The Weekn pop up up a few times over the past weeks so we gave it a click. The tip said indie rock, we’d politely disagree and say it was more sexy indie rnb and we like it. Some are calling House of Balloons as a contender for album of...
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The Belle Brigade (@thebellebrigade)
We came across The Belle Brigade on a friends blog and because we’ve had pretty good recommendations before (Clock Opera) we gave The Belle Brigade the benefit of the doubt. Now we feel bad, cause The Belle Brigade are actually really very good.
The duo made up of brother and sister Ethan and Barbara Gruska come from good music stock, their grandfather is legendary film composer John...
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Remix, Baby: The Temper Trap- "Love Lost (Keljet...
Love Lost is all around the music blogs at the moment due it being sampled by Mac Miller. We think the sample is okay, but it doesn’t shine a light on the original and then we found this remix. For us it still doesn’t quite live up to the original but its still a pretty damn good remix so be sure to check it out.
If you like what you hear from Keljet here’s his soundcloud
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Foster The People: "Pumped Up Kicks (Acoustic)"
To celebrate the release of their debut album Torches, we’ve decided to post up this delightful acoustic performance of Pumped Up Kicks. Enjoy and go get the album here
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jj: "Ice" and "No One Can Touch Us Tonight"
Swedish band jj are back and blazing up the scene with Ice and No One Can Touch Us Tonight, two truly beautiful songs. Enjoy.
jj - Ice by One Thirty BPM
jj - No One Can Touch Us Tonight by TLOBF
For more info on jj visit here. Free downloads are available of Ice and No One Can Touch Us Tonight.
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Lost: "Never Be Lost Again"
It’s a year ago today since the finale of Lost and the lost fan in ITYLTS has revisited this great fanmade hip hop track. For those lost fans who didn’t catch this the first time it came round, here you go, and for those fans who did, well it’s a good time to revisit. And for everyone else, well you can just skip this post and look at all the other great posts on the blog,...
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (@macklemore): "My Oh My"
We first came across Macklemore & Ryan Lewis through their brilliant remix of The National’s Fake Empire. Seattle’s Macklemore, along with his DJ/Producer Ryan Lewis, has released a truly beautiful track My Oh My in memoriam of baseball team Marliner’s announcer Davie Niehaus. Even if you’ve never heard of Niehaus, we hadn’t, you can’t help but be touched...
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Death Cab For Cutie: NPR first listen of "Codes...
NPR are offering the first listen of Death Cab For Cutie’s new album Codes and Keys, released May 31. So go and have a listen here and perk up your Monday.
Visit NPR:music for more exclusive content.
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Theme Park
Excuse the photo with this post, it has nothing to do with the band save for the name (but how much did you love playing Theme Park, right?). We came across Theme Park today on our morning perusal of music blogs and such. We clicked away like we normally do not hoping for much but what we got was a great Talking Heads-esque sound that put a little smile on our face, nice and welcome on a Monday...
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Remix, Baby: Regina Spektor - "Fidelity (TGIK...
Here’s a lovely little remix of Regina Spektor’s Fidelity by TGIK. It doesn’t do that much to the original but adds a fun hip hop beat and cuts and pastes the vocals. Its short and sweet, nice.
Regina Spektor - Fidelity [TGIK Remix] by thisguyiknow
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Mash Ups: The Hood Internet "Billie Wildcat Jean"
We adore Ratatat, we love Michael Jackson. Mash Up impresarios The Hood Internet have put our two loves together and made Billie Wildcat Jean. Hate it or love it, check it out either way.
The Hood Internet “Billie Wildcat Jean”
For more from The Hood Internet go here
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Chiddy Bang: "Heatwave feat. Mac Miller"
Here’s another one for the summer, new from Chiddy Bang Heatwave feat. Mac Miller. Turn this up.
Chiddy Bang featuring Mac Miller - Heatwave by Hypetrak
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Alcoholic Faith Mission (@_afm_)
We’ve become fans of Paper Garden Records and their roster including Little Tybee and this band, Denmark’s Alcoholic Faith Mission. Formed back in 2006 by school friends Thorben and Sune after realising that Alcoholic Faith Mission would be a pretty awesome band name it was six months later that they released their debut Misery Loves Company. Four years later, AFM have three...
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St. Lucia (@stlucianewyork): "The Old House Is...
You know summer is just around the corner when you start thinking about making this years summer mix. Latest member of Heavy Roc Music (The Knocks, Alex Winston) St. Lucia is a must on any summer mix. Hailing from Brooklyn, via South Africa and the UK, St. Lucia has dropped the first taste of things to come The Old House Is Gone. Its a beautiful slice of summer so enjoy and blast it this...
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Bon Iver: "Holocene"
The internet has been buzzing with Bon Iver this week. After a few years of patiently waiting for new material, this week fans have been given Calgary has a free download and Holocene is starting to make its way round the blogs. Excitement for the follow up, Bon Iver, to For Emma, Forever Ago is heating up to say the least.
Here’s Holocene for you, its vintage Bon Iver yet you can hear...
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LIVE: The Antlers (Daytrotter Double Shot)
We have raved about The Antlers and rightly so. The 2009 concept album Hospice was incredible, their recently released follow up Burst Apart squashed any worries that they wouldn’t be able to reach the highs that Hospice got to. We reviewed Burst Apart last month and, again, thought it was incredible. Right now we’re going to give you two live performances from Hospice of our...
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You Should Own This: #8
Atmosphere is one of our favourite hip hop artists. This Minneapolis duo, consisting of rapper Slug and DJ Ant, is one of the best examples of real hip hop we’ve come across in both commercial and underground circles. Bubbling under the surface since the 1990s, those that know about Atmosphere know that this is some of the realest hip hop there is. If you don’t know about...
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1,2,3 (@123theband)
This band came to our attention from our friends over at Listen Before You Buy. They told us not to sleep on this band, that woke us up and we’ve been listening to them all day since.
This Pittsburgh band are making a few significant splashes in the music blog ocean (lets not stretch this metaphor out more than it needs to). People are getting excited about this band and rightly so....
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disCOVER: Chet Faker "No Diggity (Blackstreet...
We just came across this fantastic cover/re-imagining of Blackstreet’s classic No Diggity. Chet Faker is the latest electronic artist to come out of Melbourne, Australia and he is making a helluva splash with this cover. It’s top of Hype Machine’s most popular songs chart at the moment so, you know, it’s probably worth checking this one out.
Chet Faker- “No...
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Little Tybee (@LittleTybee)
All the way through listening to Little Tybee’s latest album Humorous To Bees we were trying to put our finger on who they reminded us of. It took about half way through the album to realise it was North Carolinian’s Annuals that they reminded us of. If you know about the Annuals, then maybe you’ll realise why we’re pretty excited by this band. If you don’t know...
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Available to download FOR FREE new BON IVER
We are eagerly awaiting Bon Iver’s follow up album to For Emma, Forever Ago along with pretty much of the rest of the world who have been transfixed by their debut back in 2007. Tonight Radio 1’s Zane Lowe got the first play of a track off the new album Calgary. We’ve listened to it a few times and no doubt we’re going to listen to it a few times more but what we can say at...
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disCOVER: Airbird "Surfer Girl (Beach Boys Cover)"
Its always a bit hit and miss with the Guardians Band of the Day feature but we always try to have a look at what they throw up. Todays was Airbird (aka Joel Ford). We went to their myspace and liked what we heard, chilled out electro/dance kind of things. We saw that there was a track called Surfer Girl not realising it was a cover of the awesome Beach Boys. It was, and its a great cover.
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Remix, Baby: Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks...
We’re starting to lose count of how many remixes there are of Foster The People’s amazing Pumped Up Kicks. This song is huge and all the remixes we’ve heard have put a different twist on it. It’s definitely worth having a search for them including The Knocks, Gigamesh, TABS, Highweight Remix. We just found this one by RLYNX and we like it a lot. It’s a bit more...
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LIVE: Kanye West @ Coachella 2011
If, like us, you weren’t able to get to Coachella this year now you can pretend you were at one of the biggest performances of the weekend, Kanye Wests. Sure, it’s only the audio and we all know that what he does on stage is as important as his music but still its great this is out there. So download Kanye West LIVE at Coachella 2011 here
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You Should Own This: #7
We could pick a few songs from the Donnie Darko soundtrack to feature in You Should Own This, and you know what, we probably will in the future. Today we bring you a classic and one that everyone should have in their collection. This is what the 1980s did best.
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon by splley
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Teen Daze (@teendaze): "The Bluest Water I'd Ever...
Teen Daze - The Bluest Water I’d Ever Seen from teen daze on Vimeo.
Though he keeps warning us that what he is releasing isn’t anything official, just what he’s been working on, Teen Daze is delivering some great music at the moment. The latest one he’s thrown up on his website is The Bluest Water I’d Ever Seen another great chilled out five minutes. Enjoy.
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Death Cab For Cutie (@dcfc): "You Are A Tourist"
Tracks from the new Death Cab For Cutie album, Codes and Keys (May 31), have been emerging all over the internet over the last few weeks. Along with Some Boys the first song that we heard from the new album, You Are A Tourist makes us very excited for the upcoming album.
Death Cab for Cutie - You Are A Tourist [Album Version] by ATL REC
For more info on release dates and pre-order...
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Theophilus London (@theophilusl): "Last Name...
Mr. London is back with a new one, Last Name London. This electro/funk/dance track starts off minimalist and then building blocks get put together and you get something thats a taster for his album Timez Are Weird These Days that’s dropping this summer, July 19th.
Theophilus London - Last Name London by Nialler9
For more info on the new album visit here
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Official Video for Clock Opera (@clockopera)...
It’s no secret how much we love this song. We love it. Everytime we listen to it, don’t know what it is, but it brings a lump to our throat. Clock Opera have just released the official video for Belongings and, true to form, it brought tears to our eyes.
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Remix, Baby: Adrian Lux "Teenage Crime (Final DJs...
We posted about Adrian Lux’s MONSTER “Teenage Crime” a while back. We LOVE it. So much. We also like the remixes a lot, the Axwell one being the most popular. Now we’ve just come across another remix which we like a lot too, the Final DJs We Are remix. It doesn’t stray too far from the original but adds some extra synths here and there. It’s not quite as good as...
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Tracey Thorn (@traceythorn): "You Are A Lover...
Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn has just released You Are A Lover EP. It’s pretty good. But what we like most of all is our current favourites Clock Opera’s remix of the titular single. It’s everything we expect from them and more.
You Are A Lover (Clock Opera Remix) by New Music
For more info on Tracey Thorn and this EP go here
Follow on twitter @traceythorn
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disCOVER: Barbara (@thebarbaraband) "Pursuit of...
This is going to completely change your perception of the electronic/trance/dance/hip hop track Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi. Electro-folk Barbara have re-imagined Cudi’s original into a beautiful folksy sweet song that transforms the original completely, maybe for the better. Barbara are currently working on their full length album and we’re very excited about what this could...
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The Rosebuds (@therosebuds)
We first heard about The Rosebuds through listening to Bon Iver. This North Carolinian indie rock/dance/folk duo of Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, who met in college, recruit some of the finest musicians and artists in the indie/folk/alternative scene at the moment, including Justin Vernon, to play with them when touring. Howard is also a part of super group GAYNGS which has one of the most...
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Remix, Baby: "Sex & The City Theme (Groove Armada...
Everyone loves a little bit of Groove Armada. Even if you’re not completely familiar with their work there’s no doubt that you will end up recognising one of their songs. There the kind of go-to band for documentaries, holiday programs, films, commericials so you’re bound to have heard something of theirs. For today’s Remix, Baby we’re giving you a little slice of a...
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Malbec: "Answering Machine"
Los Angeles-based group Malbec bring together elements from hip-hop, electronia, pop, dance, funk and everything else in between for a fusioned sound that chills you out. In a space of 5 months, between ‘08 and ‘09 they released 5 eps, called The Answering Machine EPs that grabbed the attention of the music industry.
More often than not they remind ITYLTS of The Eels, since...
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The Phoenix Foundation: "Buffalo" (@phoenixfound)
The Phoenix Foundation have been popping up on our Hypemachine feed for the last couple of days because we subscribe to French band Phoenix. We decided to give them a listen today and Buffalo has since got stuck in our heads. From New Zealand, The Phoenix Foundation have been around since the late 1990s. With songs like Buffalo it feels like they should be a lot bigger than they presently are,...
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disCOVER: The Civil Wars "Billie Jean (Michael...
Through are research for our previous post (right below) on The Civil Wars we found this amazing cover of Billie Jean. Enjoy.
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The Civil Wars (@thecivilwars)
Indie folk duo, The Civil Wars, have been on a slow burner since 2008. Meeting in a singer/songwriter session in Nashville, TN, Joy Williams and John Paul White came together to form The Civil Wars. Gaining national exposure through an opportune placement of Poison and Wine in the maker and breaker of artists, Grey’s Anatomy, they topped plenty of best of lists in 2010. Now it’s...
