This Is What It Feels Like When Love Cries

(Kieran Hebden presumably checking his Facebook page onstage?)

Here's the new single from Kieran Hebden's Four Tet moniker. I've always felt that anything he remixes turns instantly into gold, but the body of his own work has been a mainstay of originality in electronic style music for 6+ album releases. "Love Cry" is a nine minute, sleek sound-scape of dance, that shows how relevant and fresh Kieran's creativity remains.

"Love Cry" by Four Tet

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Two Treats

If you're in LA and looking for some treats to entertain you, here's some shows if you aren't lucky enough to go see either The Dirty Projectors or Dead Man's Bones in Echo Park.

10.31.09 - Tiger Army @ The Grove in Anaheim
10.31.09 - Bouncing Souls @ The El Rey
10.31.09 - Vampire Weekend @ FYFest Secret Location
10.31.09 - Brother Reade @ Drop Dead Gorgeous in Downtown LA


Here's a few tracks for your Halloween weekend. The first needs no introduction.



"Last Caress" by The Misfits

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Here's a track from West Palm Beach, Florida's Surfer Blood. In age of bad band names, I tip my hat to these youngsters. With open references to professional wrestling in their song titles, these lads keep their brand of pop pretty lighthearted. Check out their MySpace page HERE.




"Anchorage" by Surfer Blood

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Purchase Misfits music at iTunes.

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The DP's

Here's a "B-Side" track from The Dirty Projectors' new "Temecula Sunrise" EP. For now, it seems as if its only available on a UK release. You can get more info about the release at the wonderful Domino Recordings site HERE. Peep the harmonious "Emblem of The World" below. Dirty Projectors will be playing a Halloween show in Echo Park, at the Jensen Rec Center. Take your chances on ticket availability HERE. I'll be down the street at The Echo that night, at the sold out Dead Man's Bones show.


"Emblem of The World" by The Dirty Projectors

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(What once was hipster cohabitation)

Devendra Banhart's music has always had the effect of the first signs of a bright, golden morning on me. This lovable, Natalie Portman courting hippie has always had a special place in my musical heart. His latest offering, "What Will We Be?" offers another slice of that Ravi Shankar/Cat Stevens inflected pie. You can pre-order the record on the heels of tomorrow's release date HERE. Give a listen to "Can't Help But Smiling" below.

"Can't Help But Smiling" by Devendra Banhart

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Wolfgang Amadeus Remix

At the risk of beating the proverbially dead horse to even more death, here's a track from "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix: The Remix Collection". You can purchase the entire album HERE. On the heels of this great release from earlier this year, comes this re-imagining with such great artists involved such as Passion Pit, Yacht, Devendra Banhart, and Animal Collective. Take a peep at "1901" reworked below.

"1901 Bo Flex'd (Passion Pit Remix)" by Phoenix

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Cool Kids Keep Together

Here's a track from Austin, Texas band American Analog Set. Its from a collection of singles record titled, "Hard To Find: Singles and Unreleased 2000-2005". You can get the whole compilation HERE. Clocking in at just over 8 minutes long, "Cool Kids Keep" is a perfect track for all the cool kids throughout the land.


"Cool Kids Keep" by The American Analog Set

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Canadian Melancholy

Here's a track from the forthcoming Tegan & Sara album titled "Sainthood". The album is set to release on October 27th. You can pre-order the album HERE. I took my now wife, then girlfriend, to see the Canadian duo at the Orpheum Theater in downtown LA about two years ago. We had seats two rows from the front of the stage, dead center. While I was the lone male in the sea of the femme mafia that graces their shows, it was easily one of the best shows I've been to, for so many reasons. Guilty pleasures be damned, I like these two.

"Sentimental Tune"

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Tegan & Sara music is available on iTunes.

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