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This week's mix is bursting with fresh material - from Arctic Monkeys and Air to Q-Tip, Tiny Vipers, and beyond. The Repeater track from this session is undoubtedly Lupe Fiasco's "Shining Down". For good measure I've sprinkled in some Spiritualized, which I'm strangely addicted to right now for unknown reasons. The intro music is from the oft-overlooked House Of Love, a Creation band who combusted so delightfully in the face of sudden stardom as they hung out the back of their bus, burning 100 pound notes while on tour in the UK. Lovely. That said, "Love V" is a choice [...]
Heartbreak Tango Mix: http://bit.ly/XiEw Massive Attack, Nomo, Bibio, Saint Etienne, Radiohead, Tony Allen, + more. 25 songs, 90+ mins. # Powered by Twitter Tools .
Blur killed at Glastonbury on Sunday evening, around the time (in LA) I was watching the Brasilian team dismantle our halftime hopes so flawlessly. So I kept up with their storming, brilliant set thru a variety of means (some more legitimate than others). The BBC 6 streamed portions of the show; in all, 15 of the 24 songs were aired, but watching it stateside is still out of the question (again, via proper channels, anyway). luckily, i have few scruples, and having now seen the bulk of the band's set I can attest, even from here, that it was an [...]
I received via USPS today a vinyl copy of my favorite record from last year, the EP No Way Down by Air France . Surprisingly, shipping from lovely and scenic (according to my imagination) Goteborg, Sweden's impeccable Sincerely Yours took only one week, and I'm guessing that is probably due to the impossibly adorable stamps. If the music and the government-run Posten are to be believed, everything in Sweden really is made of hearts (in a blissed-out sort of turmoil or otherwise), including swans, ice, clouds, and flowers. That is all. [...]
This week's Heartbreak Tango Mix has all kinds of charms; a thoroughly, deliciously soulful blend of tasty melodies and premium tracks from a host of new LPs. This week, underlying themes of velocity and globetrotting seem to have crept in, perhaps due to the sudden warmth in LA that's making us want to get out. New music from Tony Allen, Nomo, and Summer Cats, as well as great pieces by Radiohead, Joe Strummer, and Massive Attack, all are part of this week's 25 song strong, 90+ minutes of splendor. This week's Repeater tracks are Bibio's "Lover's Carvings" and JJ's "Africa [...]
Going to UCB tonight for the "Soundcheck" show at 9:30. # Phoenix hosts post-show Michael Jackson dance party in denver! http://bit.ly/LGs0l # live recordings of blur's upcoming gigs at hyde park are available for pre-order: http://bit.ly/DRSSj # blur # glastonbury off to a rough start - maximo park's opening gig closed due to too many fans # arcade fire have returned to the studio to record their 3rd LP. # [...]
Phoenix continues to conquer stateside with their gleaming, essential Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Last night's gig at the Bluebird in Denver - mere hours after news of the passing of Michael Jackson was confirmed - concluded in a Day-The-Music-Died style dance party to one of MJ's many masterworks, "Beat It" while the band's road crew went to work. Kinda totally great.
Wilco began a three night, sold-out residency at the Wiltern last night with a marathon set that lasted nearly 2 1/2 hours, covered 29 songs from each of the band's 7 albums, and of course allowed ample room for guitar guru Nels Cline to do that shredding thing that he does so well. Wilco has maneuvered into a spry, loose machine, and with the exception of Radiohead, there's no other band performing now (or in recent memory) made of such talented players who also happen to play exceedingly well together. Where three nights ago, the Wiltern as [...]
Heartbreak Tango begins with a carefully curated mix, featuring 23 tracks both new and classic. Highlights include new music from The Radio Dept,. The Very Best, and Dappled Cities, as well as permanently great songs by Paul Simon, former Hot Chip drummer Grovesnor, and much more. Complete Tracklist after the jump. The Heartbreak Tango Mix is released every Monday. The cover of this week's HKTM was taken in Slieve League, County Donegal, Ireland, in June of 2008. Download Complete Tracklist: [...]
Lily Allen / It's Not Me, It's You / Capitol / February 10, 2009 The pop star Lilly Allen has, like fellow British singer Amy Winehouse, spent more time in tabloids than onstage since releasing her wildly successful debut. While Ms. Winehouse, clearly the more troubled and talented of the two, seems genuinely to careen towards infamy, often appearing quite disconnected from reality, Ms. Allen makes a spectacle of herself at social events and for the cameras. Allen's new LP, It's Not Me, It's You , [...]
The pop star Lilly Allen has, like fellow British singer Amy Winehouse, spent more time in tabloids than onstage since releasing her wildly successful debut. While Ms. Winehouse, clearly the more troubled and talented of the two, seems genuinely to careen towards infamy, often appearing quite disconnected from reality, Ms. Allen makes a spectacle of herself at social events and for the cameras. Allen's new LP, It's Not Me, It's You , out today on Capitol, is being touted by the label as a record of growth and evolution, even as the performer herself seems as chaotic, childish, and conflicted [...]
In the past 12 months, Robyn's released (finally) her self-titled LP in the US to unanimous acclaim, booked the opening slot for a stretch of European dates on Madonna's recent tour, scored a Grammy nod (and lost, although according to her Twitter , she knows the truth), and had 4 LA shows, each to an ever-growing legion of fans. Seriously, girl is happening. Tonight at Borders, she celebrated all of that good fortune, as well as the Borders-exclusive The Cherry Tree Sessions EP (also at iTunes), with a brief, acoustic set of "Bum Like You", "Be [...]
Here at Heartbreak Tango, we've been waiting for something musically invigorating to signal our return from our brief hiatus. Last night's Little Boots show at Spaceland was that galvanizing event. The first proper show for British pixie Victoria Hesketh was introduced by a former DJ of the now-defunct indie 103.1, the same DJ who premiered "Stuck On Repeat" exactly a year ago. In that time, Little Boots has become an internet meteor, and expectations for Little Boots to become something along this year's Robyn are palpable. With but 6 songs in tow, Hesketh is [...]
We had the distinct pleasure of seeing Franz Ferdinand at a beachside bar in San Diego last night, and super-hyped local band The Soft Pack (nee The Muslims) had the opening slot. A heady stew of Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, The Replacements, and youthful arrogance (Hmm, maybe those last two are the same...), The Soft Pack deliver hooky, loud, articulately messy songs that often go nowhere, which works for them, since right where they started is oftentimes a pretty great place to be. "Nightlife" is a deceptively simple tune, anchored by meaty bass and drums until the chorus [...]
Passing on the hyper-literate approach that The Hold Steady have built a small empire upon, New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem deliver a similarly earnest brand of rawk , succeeding where others have tried and failed to properly integrate vintage Bruce Springsteen into an updated version of a standard American sound. Keeping the subject matter staggeringly simple and affecting, and backing it up with shimmering guitars drenched in reverb and a solid rhythm section, The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound (picked recently by emusic.com as the album of the year) is deserving of the multitudes of [...]
A delicious treat and truly compelling listen. Parenthetical Girls is equal parts purposefully clumsy orchestra, pop divining rod, and androgynous vocals. A more energetic and instrumentally varied Grizzly Bear, Parenthetical Girls (which, it should be noted, claims a membership of 22, ought to be instrumentally varied) have crafted a stellar record, Entanglements , that has gone largely unnoticed this year. "A Song For Ellie Greenwich" is hinged on a looped piano pulse and a brassy little phrase, the percussion spits and coughs, and the strings positively soar as dramatically as can be done. Halfway through, the [...]
Melbourne's Subaudible Hum are dead fucking ringers for Radiohead's (circa Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief ) extensive b-sides output. Seriously, it's a little scary, and if it were a bit more inventive, menacing, and unwieldy, I'd swear it was the Oxford quintet themselves. Despite it's utterly awful name, "Tokyo Craigieburn And The Moon" is actually a solid piece of worried post-rock, and it utilizes Thom Yorke's patented song structuring to build slowly from a lonely drumbeat into a fierce, everything-and-everyone-in-the -universe-getting-fucked-up finale. Subaudible Hum stands as proof that Australia (and, for certain, several other countries) has got it [...]
You know that painfully self-aware dance that Chris Martin does, where he bends down real low, and sort of forward-shuffles on one leg like a militarized, injured penguin towards the camera/stage/money? I imagine that doing that dance to this song is a pretty great way to spend 3:45 of any day, especially cos during the chorus you get to kind of explode, and do that pulling-down-the-balloons move that he does. The Sweet Serenades are Sweden's soon-to-be Strokes-ian triumph, and being Swedish, they're more like The Strokes' younger, wiser (?) sibling - way more interested in scoring a girl [...]
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Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead (from Tomorrow's Harvest)
Washed Out - Paracosm (Official Album Trailer)
She & Him- I Could've Been Your Girl
Julia Holter - World (Official Video)
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold us (Major Lazer Remix)
New album: Washed Out
MP3: The Melker Project – “G-Shock Mini Mix”
Get Down Edits Vol 4 + May 2013 Mix
