Artist: Manifest

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    Después de hacer muchísimo ruido al principio del año, Friends regresa con el video de su nuevo sencillo "Va Fan Gör Du" de su debut Manifest!.  El video fue dirigido por Sam Urbani la guapa y controversial vocalista de la banda. El concepto detrás del video es "Horror Porn", enjoy.    

Thankfully Friends haven't decided to release videos with a recurring theme or concept, otherwise jumping in right now with "Va Fan Gor Du" being your first taste would be seven shades of fucked up. There's a weird flasher guy, lots of really thick unibrows, a bunch of cross dressing, and all spliced together with what looks like scenes from The Sims video game. Really, though, what more do you want in a music video? Check out "Va Fan Gor Du" below, taken from the band's debut [...]

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myworldmusicfriends.com Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan – Dreamz Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan Dreamz (Music Today, 2011) Dreams are manifestations of our imagination, of our deepest desires and secrets. Taking the natural into the surreal is the aim of this exploratory lounge album, featuring sarod maestros Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan. Showcasing the sound of the sarod against an electronica backdrop, the album has six [...]

Tracklist: 01_ Intro 02_Suicide Run - Manifest, Meth & 2shy - Deception Dub 03_The Brix - Manifest - Dub 04_Alone - Audio & Meth - Program Dub 05_Prang - Mobtactics - Dutty Audio 06_The Host - Ed Rush & Optical - Virus Dub 07_Wrong Premix - Semitone - Offkey Dub 08_Device - Mikal - Dub 09_Untamed Warrior - Manifest, Meth & 2Shy - Deception Dub 10_Suicide feat: SFS (Tech Itch Remix) - Piece Of Horror - Dub 11_Ego Death - Nphonix & Nickbee & - Mindtech 12_Recluse - Audio & Inside Info - Virus [...]

• MANIFEST - DECEPTION PODCAST

In titling his newest album " America ," Dan Deacon, whether he likes it or not, has declared the release an experiment in scope - an all-encompassing, all-enveloping opus that is as much about its epic nature as it is actually about the concept of America. "USA IV. Manifest," with its steady, manic build toward climax, delivers on the promise with an orchestral electricity that feels suited for big stadiums in big cities in big countries. It's that largeness, that grandiosity that evokes America in all of its idiosyncratic beauty and faults.

Since I just posted the new video for Kanye's "Cold," I might as well share M.anifest's take on that track. He got a hold of the instrumental and came up with "Way Too Gold (Enfa me Ho)." Spotted at Jon Jon's excellent Sound Verite blog . M.anifest: "Way Too Gold (Enfa Me Ho)"

So after seeing the majority of The Shins  set, I hopped in a cab back to the Oxford Art Factory to catch the Brooklyn-based Friends  (I missed Zulu Winter  and Howler ). As we speak, Splendour In The Grass  is going on - basically the Australian Coachella  up in Byron Bay. Because so many bands travel so far for this festival, they do these sideshows throughout Oz the [...]

Last year New York band Friends gave us one of the best songs of those 12 months with "I'm His Girl" , and since then they've dropped their debut album Manifest! . This year, London duo AlunaGeorge have released one of the best, most-infectious EPs of the year with You Know You Like It , and today they dropped their own tropical, dubby, muffled mix of Friends ' contagious "I"m His Girl" [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Two new videos from Thought Set's  eNPHANATe  for  YNS  &  No Bang  which are directed by  nPayshint  aka Reggie. Click here to view the embedded video. J. Osceola , Leron Crowder and the Exec Gang's Trek Manifest  team-up over a  Flicc Beats  joint below: MP3: Alley Oop (Prod._By_Fliccs)

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Since LCD Soundsystem first popularized the term “disco-punk” about ten years ago, scores of groups, both affiliated with LCD’s DFA label and otherwise, have infused portions of the disco-punk sound into their own. One of the latest, Brooklyn’s Friends, created a sizable stir with the 2011 release of its singles “Friend Crush” and “I’m His Girl.” Both are featured on the full-length debut of the group, entitled Manifest! Hailed as the “hottest record in the world” upon its release by BBC Radio One, Manifest! invites listeners to the dance floor, and we are only too willing [...]

Friends made things quite difficult for themselves from the off. Calling your band after one of the most popular, long-running TV shows sets quite a hoop to jump through, to gain any kind of brand recognition above the namesake with immense amounts of notoriety. But then again, Friends clearly don't want to be a brand, they just want to have a good time and fight for what's right, if their most notable single and many people's introduction to the band 'I'm His Girl' is to be believed. It was quite a profound statement of intent when it first dropped, [...]

FRIENDS have seriously been doing all the right things in the lead up to the release of their debut album. They've released a couple of incredibly catchy pop tracks, which have gone onto be picked up by a ridiculous number of music blogs as well as a high rotation on Triple J. And if you know anything about anything, that equals success. On top of this, they've also managed to get themselves on massive festival bills across the globe, including our own Splendour In The Grass. No longer is the name, Friends , exclusive to that [...]

Friends - Manifest! By Russell Warfield 2010 single 'I'm Your Girl' sounded exactly as breezily-cool and nonchalant as you would expect of a track from a Brooklyn band with such a resolutely un-googleable name as Friends . Rolling off a loose funk groove, all live drums and unhurried bass, lead singer Samantha Urbani (even her name is trendy as fuck) sounding sassy as hell, warning other chicks off her man in an entirely non-jealous, non-confrontational way. 'Friend Crush' mined similar territories: an unabashedly confident and slinky pop [...]

Whether it be the stale typographic stylisation of their unexplainably underused moniker or the gratuitous exclamation mark tacked onto the name of the debut full-length, Brooklynites Friends seem all too finely attuned to that which they're up to. The explicitly pertinent question, therefore, is how well are they workin' it? The prompt response to such rhetoric is fairly noncommittal. Even regarding the singles previously thrust in our general, tech-savvy direction Manifest! is a distinctly mixed bag – if one bulging with Lesley Hann's bass: there's great stuff (I'm His [...]

" I'm His Girl " was a track of that toyed with retro sonic tropes - the absurdly funky baseline, the background vocal harmonies - in a way that made Friends feel almost kitschy. That might sound like a slight, but it isn't meant to be; "I'm His Girl" was one of our favorite tracks of the year because of its elements of pastiche and Brooklyn campiness. "Mind control" is cut from a similar sonic cloth, but it doesn't have the unabashed attitude. Instead, it works off of a foundation of 802s dance pop, and the rest is [...]

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Friends at The FADER Fort at SXSW 2012 Photo : Chris Becker Jr. Manifest! , the debut LP from Brooklyn's Friends comes out today ( June 5 ) on Fat Possum Records. The album was produced by the band – singer Samantha Urbani, multi-instrumentalists Lesley Hann, Matthew Molnar, and Nikki Shapiro, and drummer Oliver Duncan. They recorded its twelve tracks between last summer and this spring with engineer Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather studios in [...]

“Manifest!” with its ambiguous, ideology-laden shout, is a UFO of an album, harking back to punk rock elements of the past, synthesizers of years gone by and echoing vocals yet in a way only a hipster of Generation Y could do. Friends - Manifest (2012) 8.5/10 Lucky Number The eighties quirky secret agent visuals for « Mind Control » - the closing track on Friends’ debut album - featuring security agents whose heads have been swapped for vintage security cameras, eerie close ups of a neon lit eye and a [...]

In a few days Friends drop their eagerly anticipated debut album Manifest! and in anticipation they've let another track from it see the light of day. 'Home', a taught pop-funk belter, continues the rich vein of form that has made Manifest! so anticipated in the first place. Crossing the grooves of Friendly Fire with early CSS, it will make you want to find the sun and walk with a spring in your step. No bad thing ay? Check out 'Home' below and follow the link for previous single 'Mind [...]