It's the ninth day of 2012, you're feeling a little down because you've already broken at least one of your four resolutions. You're at your desk and you're dragging a little bit with a full work week ahead of you. I feel your pain. But I have the anecdote and it comes in the form of Los Angeles band Electric Guest . The band was a breakout winner at CMJ, getting lots of love at the ATG official CMJ showcase . They just released their video for "This Head I Hold". It's a fun, warehouse performance with fantastic [...]
It's been a banner year for Hardly Art. Seemingly back-to-back-to-back-to-back fantastic albums filled out a year capped of by the Gem Club album Breakers, a truly somber bit of orchestration. To celebrate the festive days cluttering up the calender before the inevitable turn towards 2012, the good folk at Hardly Art sent over a list [...]

Word Is Bond kicks off a month of reflection and celebration of all things hip-hop that have transpired over these last 12 months with a series of posts exalting the best of the best from the collective editorial cerebrum here at the blog. The first piece in this presentation is a round-up of our favourite videos. Due to great diversity; these are in no particular order the TOP 10 VIDEOS OF 2010 Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO [...]
Recalling early '80's experimentation of The Futurists, Claps are a three peice Minimal Synth outfit from Minneapolis and have just released their début album 'Wreck'. Robotic beats and droning vintage synth sounds provide a cold and mysterious backing that both supports and juxtaposes catchy lead lines and heartfelt vocals throughout the nine tracks. The early Mute Records-esque rhythms and moody synthesizer tones may conjure thoughts of dark, experimental music, but it would be hard to actually call Claps 'dark', melancholy yes, but their is a strain of optimism shooting through their tracks and the otherworldly melodies [...]
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Artiste britannique originaire d'Oxford, Totatlly Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ou encore TEED , fait de plus en plus parler de lui depuis plusieurs moi déjà. Son EP Prehistory contenant Waulking Song , suivi de la sortie de son single Garden lui ont permis d'établir une certaine notoriété déjà reconnue par beaucoup, et ainsi être invité à de multiples dates et autres festivals. Producteur aux choix musicaux en perpétuelle évolution, TEED s'est vu son morceau Garden remixer par pas moins de 6 artistes, le tout regroupé dans un EP.. de [...]
(out now on Sing Sing Records ) This is the reissue equivalent of finding an untouched cheeseburger atop a trash can at the pier. (Don't act like you'd be too proud.) These super-efficient teenage minds from North Torrance reduced the Rolling Stones to their most valuable basics (cool guitar, deliberately mispronouncing words in interesting ways, hating the unendingly boring and stupid world that surrounds us) and then went nuts 1973-style, with vocals that make Sky Saxon sound like Frank Sinatra and unbelievable lyrics about being tortured (they don't like it), creaming one's jeans (it's a waste of [...]

Mit Musikvideos ist das ja so eine Sache. Am Anfang jeder Bandkarriere träumt man davon, irgendwann einen High-Class Film sein Eigen nennen zu dürfen. In den meisten Fällen bleibt es jedoch bei diesem Wunschgedanken oder bei pixeligen Studio-Aufnahmen, verwackelnden Live-Mitschnitten oder schlecht visualisierte Fetzen. Das Berliner Electro-Pop-Duo Le Clap hat es jedoch ganz anders gemacht. Vor einigen Jahren setzen sie sich mit Filmstudenten des SAE Instituts Berlin zusammen und produzierten das Musikvideo zur Single 'Licht an. Licht aus'. Das Ergebnis ist für einen unsigned Artist äußerst beeindruckend - gerade wenn man bedenkt, dass es [...]
We attended Day 3 and Day 4 of Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Festival. Below is my Day 4 review featuring The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Hypernova and Datarock. We got there at about 5:45 and immediately walked around and just took in all the stuff going on, which including trying out the [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Night of Sweet Relief w/ Royal Thunder, A: The Color, Skin Jobs Saturday, October 15 The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission $8 / Purchase Tickets There are a lot of great opportunities for live music this week — psyche drone trio CAVE tonight at 529 , post-punk pioneer Bob Mould this Friday at Eddie's Attic and This Piano Plays Itself's final show this Sunday (also [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Night of Sweet Relief w/ Royal Thunder, A: The Color, Skin Jobs Saturday, October 15 The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission $8 / Purchase Tickets There are a lot of great opportunities for live music this week — psyche drone trio CAVE tonight at 529 , post-punk pioneer Bob Mould this Friday at Eddie's Attic and This Piano Plays Itself's final show this Sunday (also [...]
Minimalism may be simple, but Claps are able to do a lot with it. Cemented in their belief to play analog instruments without the aid of computers, Minnesota-based Claps are a trio with strong ideals. Channeling the '70s synth sounds of Depeche Mode and Joy Division, they perform minimalist measures with dark, foreboding themes, such as the brooding "Book of Life", on which the singer laments about a relationship gone horribly wrong. "We're burning pages in the book of love / Watch the embers fall / Tomorrow we will...
Directed by D. Gainz. YP's Xtreme-produced single received the visual treatment recently and is now available for your viewing pleasure. Still Awake drops tomorrow.
and check the Shady Shores Medley...
On Tuesday, Atlanta psych rockers, the Clap, released their first 73 featuring a pair of dreamy, lo-fi stompers drenched in reverb, fuzzed-out guitars and slurred pop vocals. In support of the record, the band has unveiled a video for the B-side jam "Lucy 2." If you're a fan of vintage sci-fi footage (who isn't?), retro nudity (boobies!) and JFK (?), then you, my friend, have just struck visual gold. The Clap will celebrate the release of the "The Operation" b/w "Lucy 2″ 73 tonight at Star Bar . Also performing (and celebrating 73 releases of [...]

This post was exhausting. And the thing about it is: there are definitely more records out there that I know I'm missing, including the debut EP from high energy eccentrics Pillage and Plunder , the information for which, unfortunately, I could not track down in time before this needed to go up. But, hey, that's why they make updates. Now, normally this would be the part where I talk about all the rad albums that I missed in last month's ATL Records to Listen For — things like the Back Pockets' Fast [...]

Vindahl - Down (Boom Clap Bachelors Remix) by Dipped in Dollars Love this track via Dipped In Dollars , one of my favorite sites for putting me on cool remix/dance/house/etc. Check out their dope re-design! drink the kool aid:

After falling in love with T he Heart , I was glad to hear that Tokyo Dawn was putting out a second volume. The original was filled with irresistible tracks that were both jazzy and sexy, and the sequel follows closely in its footsteps. For me the standout track is this Boom Clap Bachelors remix of a Vindahl original. Preview the other 15 tracks, and find out how to get your hands on the full compilation here . [...]
CLAPS photo by Paul IrmiterWe've been posting all kinds of SoundTown coverage leading up to this weekend's festival, and today our SoundTown Series moves into the print edition for an interview with