Mystic Mavericks
Chairlift – Planet Health In which another band of blissed-out Brooklyn hippies wave flowers around at a garishly oversaturated VHS orgy while injecting a little Beijing into Berlin.
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Chairlift – Planet Health In which another band of blissed-out Brooklyn hippies wave flowers around at a garishly oversaturated VHS orgy while injecting a little Beijing into Berlin.
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Rainbow Arabia – Let Them Dance In which it becomes clear that crayon bullets are the best thing ever.
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Les Petits Pilous – Wake Up In which video dudes Saturday Fight Never take a dizzying rollercoaster trip through space, into an arse, and beyond. [Thanks to Prince Money for the tip.]
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Amazing Baby – Pump Your Brakes In which a model dunks almost as well as LeBron James.
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An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump – Lights Out In which this artful London trio demonstrate their awesomeness in little more than a minute. [Source]
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We were all set to make hundreds of lame jokes about Gold Panda sounding like a Chinese takeaway (HA!) only for The Google to tell us there are no Chinese takeaways called Gold Panda. There is just a Chinese bullion coin and our favourite new electronic music dude. Here he takes Stricken City on a [...]
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Thanks, America. We asked ex-pat rap hero Ezra Bang for an election day quote to accompany his new Infamous-echoing anthem and all he would say was, “VICTORY.” Ezra Bang & Hot Machine – WE ON TOP A DIS [mp3]
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We can’t wait until January when Obama is crowned President and the space unicorns return to earth spreading joy and tolerance with their pretty rainbow wings. December will be awesome too because we’ll finally get a chance to revel in the feedback and three-part harmonies of Vivian Girls, who begin their first UK tour. Kickball [...]
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Listening to this song, you’d be forgiven for thinking Mayer Hawthorne was a candy-voiced old soul who died in obscurity decades ago (probably from a heroin overdose in the dusty parking lot of a ramshackle southern juke joint), but whose music has been rediscovered by bargain bin-plundering vinyl nerds. The last bit is nearly true, [...]
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Here’s a charming remix that doesn’t just sample the original song, but the sound the band’s name might make. Gold Panda‘s warm, glitchy, dial tone-heavy take on Tin Can Telephone is less spak attack, more affably sweet seizure. Tin Can Telephone – Spak Attack (Gold Panda Remix) [mp3]
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