Wendel Patrick’s New York State of Mind

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By Nini Baseema in New Music on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Wendel Patrick is making a name for himself as a producer, fusing different elements of jazz, electronica and Hip Hop to create lush musical collages. In this video, he reworks DJ Premiere’s instrumental track from Nas’ classic Illmatic in his studio without the use of samples. Most brilliant.

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Dream: new music video by French duo Cauboyz for the band Husband

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By Rajeev Basu in Video on Monday 22 April 2013

This is a great music video where the magic comes from the fact they did it for real, when it could so easily have been made in CG. Lightboxes bearing beautiful typography light up in time and sequence to the lyrics of the song. It’s a lovely, simple idea, executed to perfection. A pleasure to [...]

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Shangri LA: the new album by LA buzz band, West Indian Girl

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By Nini Baseema in New Music on Friday 19 April 2013

After what has been reported in European media as the darkest winter for the past seventy years, I feel like every fiber of my body is craving light and warmth. The perfect remedy: the new album from Los Angeles buzz band, West Indian Girl. Shangri La is an ecclectic mix of musical influences, perfectly capturing [...]

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New music by Master Musicians of Bukkake

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By Travis Lawrence in New Music on Friday 12 April 2013

Do not be fooled by the name. Master Musicians of Bukkake are no joke. Coming out of their priceless Totem trilogy, Master Musicians of Bukkake are about to drop their next full length, Far West. The Seattle mystery group is composed of various established artists from the Northwest shrouded behind shamanic garb. Pulling the listener [...]

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Demons: the new music video from The National

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By Darwin Cosico in New Music on Friday 12 April 2013

The National has shared the video for their Trouble Will Find Me opening track, Demons. In the clip, Azar Kazimir, Creative Director at the Michelberger Hotel, paints a mural of the cover artwork on a wall, filmed using time-lapse techniques. The Brooklyn band will release their highly anticipated album on May 20 in Europe and May [...]

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Daft Punk to release their new album at the Annual Wee Waa Show in Australia

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Thursday 11 April 2013

It’s been confirmed: Daft Punk will be debuting their new album Random Access Memories at the Annual Wee Waa Show in rural Australia. Normally, this festival hosts baby shows, dog jumps, and cross cut saw contests, but this year is different. The festival runs May 17-19, and the album will be released on the evening [...]

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Now playing: live LAPD police radio set to ambient music

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Thursday 11 April 2013

Mark this, then bookmark this: You Are Listening To Los Angeles combines live LAPD police radio with ambient music. It all started when Eric Eberhardt saw some tweets about a live police scanner webcast from soma.fm and gave it a listen: ‘Interesting stuff to be sure, but I got bored listening to just the voices [...]

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Brilliant kinetic video by Biting Elbows (NSFW)

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By The Flying Dutchman in Video on Wednesday 10 April 2013

This (rather NSFW) video by Biting Elbows is a brilliantly kinetic showcase of painful stunts and ballsy acrobatics. It is a follow up to The Stampede. I shudder to think what these guys might come up wth given an actual budget. Verité is apparently alive and well and living in Moscow.

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Foals perform their single My Number live at Studio Brussel in Belgium

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By Darwin Cosico in New Music on Tuesday 9 April 2013

Foals recently dropped by Studio Brussel in Belgium, where they performed a mellow version of their second single My Number. The band is currently embarking on a world tour in support of their third studio album, Holy Fire, released in February.

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Whitebate: new music by Joyland

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By Steven Quinn in New Music on Friday 5 April 2013

Joyland’s track Whitebait is pretty sweet. Haunting, hypnotic and atmospheric, with a vocal reminiscent of Frank Black. There’s a nice video to go along with it, too, directed by Tom Skipp.

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Rage Against the Machine’s Killing In The Name: the less angry version

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By Low Lai Chow in New Music on Thursday 4 April 2013

Haha, this is hilarious. LA-based music composer Andy Rrehfeldt arranged, played and recorded a breezy, significantly less angry version of Rage Against the Machine’s angry anthem Killing In The Name. As one YouTube user put it, the band should be fittingly renamed as Slightly Upset With The Machine.

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January: create music with virtual snowflakes

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By Sara Halas in Cool Websites on Tuesday 2 April 2013

January is an online music tool created by Disasterpeace, a musician who creates music mostly for video games. Walk through virtual snow and play the falling snowflakes like an instrument as they drop onto your tongue. You can even change the key, scale and size of the notes as you perform.

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Choking You: new music by Prefuse 78

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By Terrible Spaceship in New Music on Tuesday 2 April 2013

Have you ever seen that trick where somebody flips an alligator upside down and it puts the alligator into a completely blank-eyed frozen state? That’s exactly what happens to our brains every time we hear Prefuse 73′s song Choking You from the album One Word Extinguisher. The ability of that entire album to convey deep [...]

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Japanese Knotweed: retro-styled music by Sea Pinks

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By Steven Quinn in New Music on Tuesday 2 April 2013

This is a retro homemade sound. If you’re suffering from an overdose of X-Factor radio, I advise two helpings of Sea Pinks to relieve symptoms of cover songs and auto-tune. These two tracks, Japanese Knotweed (above) and Fountain Tessarae (below), got me into Sea Pinks, but the man behind the magic, Neil Brogan, is a [...]

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Django Django at Music Hall of Williamsburg

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By Darwin Cosico in New Music on Saturday 30 March 2013

One of the things on my bucket list was to see a gig at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Earlier this month I was able to tick this off my list with the help of Scottish indie rock quartet Django Django. It’s only fitting as their album was one of my favourite albums of 2012. [...]

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