(via NPR)

A week before you can get your grubby little mitts on it, NPR have a full stream of the soundtrack to one of the hotly tipped films of 2013. Curated by Jay-Z, snippets and previews of the soundtrack have been emerging all over the place but now we have it in full with songs from Hov himself, Beyonce, Florence Welch, The xx, Emeli Sande, Bryan Ferry, Lana Del Rey, Jack White, Sia and more. 

LISTEN HERE

Out May 7th. 

(via GQ)

Yesterday the sampler for The Great Gatsby soundtrack dropped and a lot of people liked what they heard. Admittedly there are high hopes for this Jay-Z curated album but he seems to have brought in a strong bunch to compliment the hype for the film. Here’s the full version of Florence + The Machine’s contribution “Over The Love”. Written specifically for the film, Florence Welch’s vocals do what they do best over a reverby military beat. Its epic and full sounding and fits everything perfectly.

(via Pigeons and Planes)

I am very excited for the upcoming The Great Gatsby. Every trailer has knocked it out of the park with their music selection (“No Church In The Wild”, “Love Is Blindness”) and the soundtrack promises to be just as good. With executive producer Jay-Z on board, he’s brought together Beyonce, Andre 3000, will.i.am, Q-Tip, Lana Del Rey, Brian Ferry, Florence + The Machine, The xx, Sia, Gotye…and of course the ubiquitious Emeli Sande pops up (I kid…)

(thanks to dochliebchen letting me know about the “Love is Kindness/Blindness” error)

I think this is what falling in love feels like… definitely sounds like. 

Vitamin String Quartet are a group of LA based session musicians who make perfectly arranged string section covers of your favourite songs. (Seriously, the range of songs they cover is astounding from death metal to mainstream pop). I’ve made a playlist of my personal favourite ones… it has 256 tracks.

**Covers range from Florence + The Machine, The Pixies, The Cure, Foster The People, Adele, David Bowie, The Beatles, Coldplay, Tupac, Kelly Clarkson, Kanye West, INXS, Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Semisonic, Robyn, Bon Iver, M83, Joy Division, Gwen Stefani, The Fray, Guns N Roses, New Order, Massive Attack, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, The Roots, Foo Fighters, Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, U2, Spoon, Lykke Li and Celine Dion. (AND SO MANY MANY MORE)**

Vitamin String Quartet: Website…Facebook…Twitter…Spotify

First things first, go get spotify. Because I’m going to start making playlists and that’s how you’re going to be able to listen to them.

We’ve all done it. A big song comes on and suddenly you’re up crazy dancing around your room and you don’t want it to stop. Well now it won’t because here is… 

       ITYLTS’ tried and tested playlist of SONGS TO DANCE AROUND YOUR ROOM TO.

               **(Guaranteed to get you up and dancing with AT LEAST ONE song)**

So the long overdue eagerly awaited debut album,Long.Live.A$AP from A$AP Rocky is pretty nice right. Right.

Along with Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Joey Bada$$ (who all have features on Long.Live.A$AP), A$AP Rocky is taking care of how Hip Hop is gonna be in the next era. A couple years back their were worries that Hip Hop had lost its soul and while there’s a few too many Eurotrash dance beats still hanging around, Hip Hop is in some safe hands with this new generation. Word.

It’s an incredibly strong debut and you can check it out here on spotify and download it here. Here’s the collaboration between A$AP and Florence Welch, “I Come Apart”

ITYLTS’ Best Remixes of 2012 from ITYLTSmusic on 8tracks Radio.

So by now you have checked out the ITYLTS’ 33 Best Songs of 2012. Having done that, here’s the ITYLTS’ 10 Best Remixes of 2012! (plus one extra!)

Dimitri From Paris Remix “Headphones” (Little Boots)

Passion Pit Remix “It’s Time” (Imagine Dragons)

Party Ben & MyKill Remix ”We Are Young” (Fun.)

Bobby Tank Remix “You Know You Like It” (AlunaGeorge)

Cruelty Remix “Blue Jeans” (Lana Del Rey)

Perseus Remix “Night Light” (Jessie Ware)

Djemba Djemba Remix “Every Single Night” (Fiona Apple)

Atlantic Connection Remix “The Morning” (The Weeknd)

Clams Casino “Never Let Me Go” (Florence + The Machine)

Psychemagik Remix “Dreams” (Fleetwood Mac)

+ BONUS TRACK

Penguin Prison “It’s Time” (Imagine Dragons)

Dev Hynes of Blood Orange, Lightspeed Champions and Test Icicles can pretty much do anything with music. Under his current guise as Blood Orange, Hynes is championing the 80s smooth rnb sound and it just sounds amazing whether its his stuff or collaborations with Theophilus London and Solange Knowles. Oh yeah, that’s another thing, he has a few famous mates and this time around he’s put his silky smooth stamp on Florence + The Machine’s “Never Let Me Go” alongside Flo herself. 

Check out the track and interview with Hynes here. (via Interview Magazine)

This needs to happen for real, its no secret that there is a lot of fan love between Drake and Flo, Drizzy even wanted her on his new album but it didn’t happen this time around. Flo and her well oiled machine stopped by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge today to play six tracks from her sophomore album Ceremonials. As per the Live Lounge tradition she also performed a cover and she picked a doozie. She picked the Drizzy remix of the Jamie xx remix of Gil Scott Heron’s I’ll Take Care Of You, still with me? 

Flo sounds awesome doing both RiRi and Drizzy’s parts, and her flows not too bad. I’m gonna say it again, this needs to happen for real. 

Posted about Breaking Down from Ceremonials today. Well, if that wet your appetite for the new album, a chance to stream the album is going to make you really excited. Good thing that Pretty Much Amazing have a stream of Ceremonials then isn’t it. Here it is. Out October 31, pre-order here.