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Dinosaur Juniors Dinosaurs are awesome and so it seems are Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Rather than stomping about like an angry T-Rex, their remix of Hit That Gash bounces and bubbles around a digital dancehall like an impish, waste-talking Velociraptor. Happy Halloween. Foreign Beggars ft Dubbledge & Kyza - Hit That Gash (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 31/10/08 Paint It Black Stricken City - Lost Art In which jumpsuit fan Rebekah Raa enthusiastically paints herself out of the picture. Posted by: Scott 30/10/08 321 : School Of Seven Bells School Of Seven Bells make misty, ethereal dream-pop that hangs in the air like laughter on a cold day. Last night was the trio's (former Secret Machines dude Benjamin Curtis and twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza) first London show and as they played it began snowing outside. Here Benjamin tells us about sleeping on the floor, American Idol and the Nightmare On Elm Street theme. [Continues...] School Of Seven Bells - Connjur [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 29/10/08 Dancer In The Dark If you don't have time to listen to all of Polvo's 1994-but-soon-to-be-re- released Celebrate The New Dark Age EP, our dude Jason Forrest AKA DJ Donna Summer has boiled the whole thing down to five minutes of dense dancefloor tension. Guitars ricochet around Forrest's party beats like a wild west gunfight, which is pretty fitting as his legendary Berlin (BIRTHDAY) parties look like a saloon-smashing riot. Jason Forrest - Dark New Ages (Polvo Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 29/10/08 To Have And Have Not We Have Band - Oh! In which Darren Bancroft eats his (wehave)bandmates. We have love for We Have Band. They have single out 24/11. We Have dark and dubby Micachu remix. They have track on just-released Kitsune 6 comp. We have enjoyed. They have awesome mix on Allez Allez. We have run joke into ground. We Have Band - Oh! (Micachu remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 28/10/08 Big Monday We hear surfing is exciting and fun but we wouldn't know because we are lazy and we live inside The Internets. The nearest we've got to riding giants is this invigorating noise from Wavves. It is Point Break condensed to three-and-a-half minutes and fed through a shitty amp and it has reminded us to start a hardcore band called Special Agent Johnny Utah. Wavves - Beach Demon [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 27/10/08 Lost Art Despite the title, Beautiful Losers is not a film about us. Aaron Rose's sweet-hearted movie documents the ramshackle DIY art collective that sprang from the graffiti and skate scenes of the early 90s. Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Mike Mills and other pals tell serendipitous tales of their adventures in art to a sunny soundtrack provided by Money Mark. Remember him? He was the Beastie Boys' carpenter before he started making records. That makes him the Harrison Ford of Grand Royal. Money Mark - I Don't Play Piano [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/10/08 Je T'aime How To Turn An Indie Dancefloor Anthem Into Sublime Disco Sunshine, Pt 43. Starring Friendly Fires, Aeroplane and Au Revoir Simone. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix ft. Au Revoir Simone) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 23/10/08 Big Pinkin' The Big Pink - Too Young To Love In which it turns out a bird in the hand is worth two dudes in a dark orgy. Posted by: Scott 21/10/08 321 : The Big Pink If you remember the old Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles cartoon then you will remember Krang, the big pink brain who lived inside a giant robot. The Big Pink are like Krang and not just because of their name. They might not be evil or have tentacles, but Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze fortify their fragile songs with fearsome metallic exoskeletons. Cordell, the founder of Merok Records, and Furze, Alec Empire's former guitarist, took time out from constructing drone-pop masterpieces to tell us about Jean Claude Van Damme, models and t.A.T.u. [Continues...] The Big Pink - Too Young To Love [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 21/10/08 Competiton : A Mountain Of One Tickets Last week we interviewed Mo Morris from the incredible A Mountain Of One. We were so busy making stupid jokes about calculators that we forgot to mention they are launching their new album previewing new material at Cargo on Friday 24th October. To make amends we have two pairs of tickets to give away. Email us if you'd like a pair. Winners will be notified on Wednesday. Posted by: Scott 20/10/08 Gleaming The Cube Passion Pit - Sleepyhead In which Michael Angelakos is confined to a spinning cube, like an ecstatic indie version of General Zod. Posted by: Scott 16/10/08 All Dressed Up Like us, Daedelus enjoys dressing like an 18th Century dandy. But what does he look like in other people's clothes? Here is is sporting a beer and vomit-soaked t-shirt from the Death Set and a space helmet courtesy of Mumdance. Daedelus - Fair Weather Friends (The Death Set Reset) [mp3] Daedelus - For Withered Friends (Mumdance & High Rankin Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 16/10/08 Better Things Esau and Ezra Vampire Weekend The o ther day we rambled on about how awesome The Very Best are. To prove their continuing preeminence they (that's Radiclit and Esau Mwamwaya) have released a free mixtape that contains 15 sunny tracks and guest spots from Vampire Weekend, Ruby Suns, Santogold, Akon, MIA (and her babyfather) and our pals BLK JKS. Full tracklisting after the jump. The Very Best - Salota (ft. BLK JKS) [mp3] The Very Best - The Very Best Mixtape [128MB] Posted by: Scott 16/10/08 321 : A Mountain Of One These are trying times at Pinglewood. Since the markets crashed we've been reduced to blogging on a calculator. Thank God A Mountain Of One are here with their epic, proggy krautpop to soothe our troubles away. Mo Morris from AMO1 took time out from being awesome to answer our three little questions. [Continues...] A Mountain Of One - Brown Piano (Remake By Studio) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 14/10/08 Gone Baby Gone Emmy The Great - We Almost Had A Baby In which Bob loses his baby. Posted by: Scott 10/10/08 Breakfast Of Champions It's great that car companies are giving away amazing compilations by heroic underground labels like Fool's Gold, but we wish brands would start embedding cardboard records in the side of breakfast cereal boxes again. This Rusko remix would sound even more amazing if we'd cut it off a Cheerios box because then we could eat ten bowls of Cheerios whilst listening to it. Sweet. Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Rusko Remix) [mp3] RSVP to catch the Fool's Gold Remixed tour at a US city near you. Posted by: Scott 08/10/08 Hand In Hand It must be confusing being Joe Smooth's Promised Land. One minute you're a soulful house classic, then Findlay Brown comes along and transforms you into a blissful campfire fairytale. Just as your adjusting to your folky new surroundings some guy called Pilooski turns up and sends you back into the club. But not that happy gay club you where in before. Now you're less optomistic. Even you don't believe that crap about the angels, but you make your futile plea all the same. Findlay Brown - Promised Land [mp3] Findlay Brown - Promised Land (Pilooski edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 07/10/08 321 : Hockey Wouldn't it be great if Julian Casablancas and James Murphy had met in 80s New York and become inseperable buddies, dragging each other in and out of CBGBs and Studio 54 before sitting down to read William Blake and discuss the human condition? Imagine the infectious, literate, soul-addled music they might make. Now listen to Hockey. After the jump Ben Grubin, singer with this explosive Portland quartet, answers our three little questions. [Continues...] Hockey - Too Fake [mp3] Posted by: Scott 06/10/08 Modesty Blazed (Photo credit: FADER) Here at Pinglewood we are modest people, but then we have much to be modest about. Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are awesome people and as such have crowned themselves, The Very Best. Their forthcoming album- which contains contributions from Vampire Weekend, Santogold, BLK JKS, Ruby Suns and Marina from Bonde Do Role- sounds like it has been assembled with the express purpose of blowing our tiny minds. Here are three good reasons why they rule. [With thanks to GvB.] The Very Best - Get It Up (The Very Best Remix) [mp3] The Very Best - Kamphopo [mp3] The Very Best - Tengazako [mp3] Posted by: Scott 02/10/08 The Beast Within Ratatat - Shempi In which the true horror of Abba is revealed by turning their eyes and mouths upside down. Posted by: Scott 02/10/08