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The Black Crowes posted a brand new track for free download on their website, BlackCrowes.com. The song, “I Ain’t Hiding” is off the upcoming album, Before The Frost, due September 2009.

MP3: The Black Crowes – “I Ain’t Hiding”

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Little Dragon’s upcoming sophomore album, Berlinmaster, is due in August 2009. I’ve always thought there was something distinctive and impressively original about LIttle Dragon and the singles off the new album (linked below) are testament to their unique sound. On a side note, according to Allmusic.com, “Fortune” and “Blinking Pigs”, the singles off the upcoming album, were released this year, contradictory to iTunes which has the release date as January of 2008. Not sure what’s going on there…

MP3: Little Dragon – “Fortune”
MP3: Little Dragon – “Blinking Pigs”

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“Tell Me It’s Not Over” by Starsailor is a song I’ve been hearing on KCRW a good amount. The song is kind of soft and a little cheesy but it’s an emotional and well executed, pop rock song. At first, I was kind of embarassed that I liked the song but I got over that pretty quickly.

MP3: Starsailor – “Tell Me It’s Not Over”

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After realizing that the original One eskimO track “Given Up” is not called “Givin’ Up” I was finally able to find the song I wanted for so long. Everytime I searched for the song I would get the Don Diablo remix which I posted a couple of months ago. It was spelled “Givin’ Up” for the Don Diablo Remix so I had some trouble… Found it now though and here it is, One eskimO’s “Given Up”

One eskimO – Given Up

Beck is a busy man. Aside from the Record Club project I discussed last week, Beck recently announced another project called “Planned Obsolescence.” According to Beck.com, Planned Obsolescence is a weekly DJ set of “mixes of what we’re listening to, put together by myself or guest DJs.” The first mix he’s posted is 40 minutes long and guess what- Beck is using Soundcloud.com which I love and have posted about a couple of times. I’m happy to see someone like Beck taking advantage of what SoundCloud.com has to offer. I posted the first mix for the Planned Obsolescence project below. And below that are the 2nd and 3rd songs in the Record Club series.

Planned Obsolescence:

Beck – “Autobahn Hologram”

Record Club:

Beck – “Femme Fatal” (Velvet Underground & Nico)

Beck – “Waiting for My Man” (Velvet Underground & Nico)

Weekly Dose (5/9/09)

I wanted to post these tracks about a week ago but I didn’t write this all out until today. My bad for lagging!
About 2 weeks ago, KCRW (89.9 fm) started spinning the attached Don Diablo remix of the One eskimO track “Givin’ Up”. The song has quickly become one of the most popular tracks on the internet/blogosphere. This remix reminds me of some 90’s dance music tracks but it’s much cooler than C&C Music Factory and it’s definitely a lot darker. One eskimO’s lead singer Kristian Leontiou has an incredible voice that really makes each beautiful, melodic song something you want to hear over and over again (the remix is much more hardcore than the rest of One eskimO’s music). You can find “Givin’ Up (Don Diablo remix)” on the band’s myspace page along with their single, “Kandi”.
MP3: One eskimO - Givin’ Up (Don Diablo Remix)
MP3: One eskimO – Kandi

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Tosca’s new album No Hassle was just released about 2 weeks ago. The album is 27 tracks long and it’s $9.99 on iTunes. I’m used to paying 10 bucks for about 10 tracks so it’s really a great deal in my opinion (let alone the fact that the album has some really fantastic, classic Tosca style lounge music) . When is comes to lounge, chill out style beats, Tosca is king. Comprised of Richard Dorfmeister (of one of my personal favorites, Kruder & Dorfmeister) and Rupert Huber, Tosca has been perfecting their craft since 1997’s Opera. I first heard about them from J Ross, who highly recommended the album Suzuki (2000). No Hassle is an awesome album, check out some of the tracks below and in this previous post…
MP3 Link: Tosca – Springer
Hype Machine: Tosca – Joe Si Ha

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J-Live released a new compilation about two weeks ago. The Early Works of J-Live features 40 tracks (most of which can be found on The Best Part (2001) and All of the Above (2002)) that you may not know about if you’ve only discovered J-Live recently. It’s kind of strange that he’s releasing a “best of” compilation like this though. He hasn’t really been around that long. Granted, The Best Part was his first release and it was mainly comprised of individual parts he had been working on over nearly a decade but J-Live’s official debut album, All of the Above came out just 7 years ago. Regardless, J-Live is a great hip hop emcee and, lyrically, maybe even one of the best and the songs on this new release are some of his best tracks. Here are 2 of my favorites…
MP3: J-Live – The Best Part

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Gza is featured on a brand new track from the Black Lips. Lead singer Cole Alexander sounds a little like what you might imagine Bob Dylan would sound like if he was rapping and, to be honest, I didn’t like it at first but it’s kind of grown on me. Gza’s verse is good but the beat drops out when he starts going and at the end of his verse it doesn’t feel very satisfying. The change in pace and consistency kind of takes away from the overall feeling of the song. I still think it’s a really cool track though.
MP3:Black Lips – The Drop I Hold (featuring Gza)

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