New Music | Boys Noize What happened to the weekend? Posted this over in videos and it's a real grower. Good job he's got long fingers, as there's all sorts of buttons and knobs being twiddled all over the place in this badboy. What? Twiddled's a word.
New Music | Homework We never really followed up our We ♥ Scotland series after We Were Promised Jetpacks , so apologies. To make amends and continue, let us introduce Homework. A pleasing return to good old indie after our little dubstep interlude I think you'll find. Just love the subtle build up, transparent production and, finally, guitars. Like actual guitars, with people playing them. Oh and Sleepless Nights EP just out, so see their Mysplice for more.
New Music | Deadmau5 & Caspa I mean sure, I might regret this. But picture this: It's 1990 and you're in charge of casting Eastenders. The writers have just put a file on your desk with 'Phil Mitchell' written on it, a stream of young enthusiastic skinheads are waiting outside your door keen to fill the shoes of this exciting new role, and in strolls Steve McFadden. Your hearts racing. It's so wrong, but it feels so right. In the interests of polarising absolutely everyone vaguely interested in the musings of [...]
New Music | Citadels SMASH. A definite highlight of Standon Calling last weekend, Citadels released this puppy unto the iTunes world the other day. Now I know we don't normally do this but, well, get over it. Here's a sweet remix for you, now go buy the mp3 . Please. Thanks.
New Music | La Roux (Twleves Remix) Struggled to get on board with the whole 'definitive word in synth pop' AKA La Roux to be honest, but thanks to The Twelves for spicing things up a touch. Not a huge amount, but just enough to draw attention to what is, to be fair, a pretty good hook.
New Music | Yeah Yeah Yeahs When D'Arcy recently phoned in on the q101 request line in the states, how detached from the world she seems to be caught me a little off guard. As a massive fan of the pumpkins, Corgan's obviously always been on another planet, and Jimmy Chamberlain basically on drugs. Fair play. So when this puppy dropped into the NMB playlist I was a little bit excited to learn exactly what little James had to offer unto the world at this point in time. Can't say [...]
New Music | Alex Metric It's been a while since we've had anything absolutely huge on NMB. Dan Deacon was big, that My Toys Like Me remix was pretty big. So... introducing Mr Metric, currently enjoying some exposure off the back of a Phoenix remix from around the same time as the Yuksek mix we recently featured, and his own concoction What Now is just massive. So big that it runs almost seamlessly into a dubstep mix of Bulletproof by La Roux that has somehow infiltrated my new [...]
New Music | Simian Mobile Disco Make way for 6 million remixes. Yep, SMD crawl back out the woodwork and new album Temporary Pleasure will be bringing us some in August this year. Great. Now, do me a favour and suggest some bands that actually remember what a guitar is, please? NO NO NO JASON MRAZ DOES NOT COUNT. Thank you.
New Music | Mothlite Not being of the most stable disposition, I would usually steer clear of music that places me on the edge of a panic attack but Mothlite's music is so immediately arresting and beautiful that it's well worth the risk. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I'd happily have the panic attack, figuratively curled up under the bracken on a damp forest floor, only to emerge a stronger and more attuned individual, probably some kind of druid. Just saying. Comprised of Daniel O'Sullivan (multi-instrument [...]
New Music | The Radio Dept I think I am actually Swedish. I've been trying to pin it down for a while. World > Europe > Scandinavia > now, apparently, Sweden. I am blonde after all, so I guess it makes sense. Maybe I was sent over to England on a shipment of iron ore, all those years ago? 26 to the day in fact. Happy birthday everyone! Oh, everyone, meet Radio Dept; Radio Dept, meet everyone.
New Music | Cut Copy I know, where are the guitars. But somehow this puppy got lost amongst the folds of the NMB playlist somewhere in between that crap new Sonic Youth tune and The Vanish. This, obviously, needs to be rectified. So voila: old tune, old remix, old music blog. :(
New Music | Au Revoir Simone What happened to all the guitars? Been a bit synth heavy on these old NMB pages recently so we're going to ease you out of the habit with some Au Revoir Simone. What do you mean you haven't pre-ordered the album? For god's sake man/woman - do it . Oh, and stay tuned for some good old indie.
New Music | NightWaves Well hello Mr Demo. How are we? Terribly good, my dear, terribly good. Indeed. If you haven't come across Binary before, then check em out , you won't be disappointed, angry, upset or outraged in any way. Just mildly more informed than you were before and might go about the rest of your day with a bigger smile on your face. I did say might. Come on, cheer up.
New Music | Sally Shapiro "Swedish Disco Princess." Swedish. I'll say it again: Swedish. Of course she is, and I'm starting to worry that the NMB scando-global ratio is tipping ever so massively in favour of the scandis, but what can you do? The rest of the planet has some keeping up to do. Expect an on-location scene report soon, that's all I can say. Meanwhile, enjoy some Sally Shapiro.
New Music | Kyle Andrews Right click save as. Do it. You won't regret it. It might bring back some fuzzy memories of Game Boy games to start with but ignore that for one second and try and focus. It is Monday remember? Missed this one (argh) from back in March, but better late than never, no? Youtube mosaic video here , but the whole 'interactive' element is pretty annoying. Just fyi.
New Music | My Toys Like Me Count yourselves lucky. This could've been a drab post about Jonathan Boulet or Bowerbirds. But oh no we've come through strong, heads buried deeply in the electro sand and Friday is Superpowers remix day. Our festival guide will be fully kicking off very soon and these guys will be heading up the Standon Calling offensive so stay interested. In the meantime have a peak at their intro on videos .
New Music | Phoenix vs Yuksek A HUGE remix of the opening track from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, this Yuksek version is doing the rounds at the moment. Has it stumbled its way onto the pages of NMB by pure chance? No. Wait til around 3 minutes and your answer lies right there. Huge. It has all the makings of a 9 minute epic, but alas, we are cut short after a meager 4. Can't win em all, eh?
New Music | Pony Pony Run Run Encore some french boys singing en anglais. Bravo. Hot on the heels of NMB favourites Phoenix (well, not massively to be fair, but still) Pony Pony Run Run have a pony name but an awesome debut track and the video is pretty sweet too. Head over to videos to check it out in all its anglofranglais sexualness.
New Music | Dan Black Thanks to Radar Maker for the heads up on this sexual remix from Passion Pit. Still not seen Dan live? Well you've missed your chance. In a way. In another way, he's literally playing all over the shop this summer. So paniques pas. Parlez-vous le francais? Parlez-vous le francais? Err. Non.
New Music | The Sounds Ah Sweden. Again those Scandinavian scamps rear their opposite of ugly heads. Over 7 million views on myspace is a pretty good effort in my opinion, but then quantity does not always equal quality. Scouting For Girls, for example: 2.3 million. Really? Come on guys. Anywhatever, I'll be sure to bring my bible.
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