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An Epic Week at 285 Kent featuring Delorean, Friends, Doldrums, Lasers & Special Guests! Although I just caught Delorean live at SXSW a few weeks ago , I had to catch them playing the NYC area at my favorite venue on April 11th! For this particular show they upped the ante by bringing along a dazzling laser machine with them onstage, so good thing I did.  A few days later I returned to 285 Kent for another great line-up. First up was the Samantha Urbani-fronted  Friends debuting a new line-up (Friends 2.0) and [...]

[Playlist] The Best Albums of 2012

2012 was all-around a solid year for me, matched as always with a great 12 months of music releases. After much internal battling, I have officially selected my top 15 albums of 2012! Here are the first 5 from the list, let me know what you think and stay tuned for the rest. Number 15 Artist:  Santigold Album: Master of My Make-Believe Label:  Downtown / Atlantic Records Released:  April 24, 2012 Peak on UK Charts:  33 [...]

• Azealia Banks - Fierce
• Friends - "Mind Control" (album version)
• Santigold - Disparate Youth
• Tame Impala - 'Elephant' (Todd Rundgren Remix)

This Samantha Urbani-directed video for "VA FAN GOR DU" taps the '80s public access vibe cemented by bygone post-punk-centric shows like "No Wave Theatre" and "TV Party," but it's got enough gross-out humor to feel ... read more �

Lo-fi Brooklyn punk-funkers Friends have devoted themselves to resurrecting a very particular sort of circa-1980 New York sleaze, and their vaguely NSFW new video for "Va Fan Gör Du" looks very much like the sort of zero-budget horror movie that an NYU student would've thrown on public-access TV way back in the day. Directed by frontwoman Samantha Urbani, it sheds light on the eternal bloody struggle between drag queens and unibrowed butchers. Watch it below. Read More...

Now getting back to NXNE 2012 coverage. After seeing DIIV playing a insane set at Lee's Palace. It was Brooklyn's Friends to come up. Hadn't seen them since last November at Raw Sugar Cafe . After that things has changed, they are signed to Fat Possum and finally dropped their debut album Manifest! Let's say things got "friendly" on this set. Let's say they put on a great fun dance show! I [...]

The VPME In December we contacted a number of music bloggers to see if they were interested in compiling an alternative list to the BBC's "Sound Of" predictions. The votes came in thick and fast with  Brooklyn buzz band " Friends" being named as the clear winners by the proverbial  country mile. As they were in town we thought it would be rude not to pop along to Liverpool's Kazimier to see what all the fuss was about. There was of course the added draw of the support bands featuring the wonderful Wet Mouth. [...]

This is certainly a controversial name to utter on an indie music blog, but it's fair to say that Samantha Urbani' s voice in this tune is very much reminding me of Nelly Furtardo 's. But I don't think that's a bad thing – Furtado's vocals are unique and pimping, in my opinion. If I'm being honest. Which I am. FRIENDS are really good at making quality, irresistibly infectious indie-pop. This is the 3 rd song of theirs I've heard, and once again, I'm [...]

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 [...]

An odd occurrence is the 'Metropolitan Festival' and one that's becoming increasingly appealing when sat beneath the cruelest (at least meteorologically) of so-called summers. If today you may one moment be lamenting a lack of ill-advisedly crap-laden tent to trudge back in what you think may as well be the general direction of, as the Heavens open to excrete all watery content you're counting your lucky 'Stars (Mazzy or otherwise) that you've shelter and such stuff as home comforts are construed as waiting at the other end of the Underground. Although it may pour during the set of the Santa [...]

Friends "Mind Control" The third music video from Friends ' album Manifest! which will be releasing June 5th via Fat Possum Records . It's not my favorite from the Brooklyn quintet but I am a heavy supporter of their music and style either way. Plus how do you [...]

Friends gives us a clip for their latest single 'Mind Control' from the forthcoming debut ' Manifest .' This is the kind of music you can expect us to be blasting for the Summer, rooftop parties, cookouts included. Samantha Urbani.... you really are our favorite she-popper at the mo....... album will see daylight on June 4th.

Is "Manifest!" your destiny? You will know soon enough... I just heard this song for the first time very recently, and loved it right away. I know next to nothing about the group, except that they're from Brooklyn and have released a pair of "buzzy" singles over the past year, including this one. I also know that naming your band "Friends" may not really be the best choice, given that it was also the name of an extremely popular television show that comes up first in Google every time. But with an album as good [...]

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Finally there is news on New York's Friends . The funky pop dance fun band who knows how to make a party at their live shows. I happened to see them play in Ottawa on November 24, 2011 . The band dropped a new single. Mind Control has that 1980s new wave pop "Prince" sound. The single is taken from their upcoming album "Manifest" which drops on June 5th on Fat Possum (WOW congrats to them being signed to a great label!!) Have a listen.

• Friends - Mind Control (Radio Mix)

Brooklyn spandex sporters Friends befriended B-listers and the B List alike with I'm His Girl in particular and Mind Control, another glimpse into debut full-length Manifest! (anticipated June 4th via Lucky Number ), seems as though it'll only fortify such bond. Samantha Urbani's yappy vox recall the lackadaisical tones of Tahita Bulmer although slathered atop an irrepressibly percussive funk that immediately recalls fabled fellow New Yorkers Liquid Liquid the track, mixed by Paul Epworth (who coincidentally remixed NYPC's The Bomb way back when), is accredited with a typically sassy seductiveness. Promoting Proto-Funk inclinations and self-sufficiency [...]

Tweet We briefly mentioned Friends  back in October , but allow me to introduce them properly. The latest sticky-sweet girl pop band hails from the unlikely location of Bushwick, an often sketchy and recently-hip area of Brooklyn. In a way, it make sense as girl-pop, as a genre, is often sketchy and recently hip. Fortunately for Friends, the moniker that they finally settled on, their particular brand of electro-dazed pop is verging on excellent. Though they haven't even dropped [...]

Photo via Brooklyn Vegan Friends is a buzzband from Brooklyn that 'got some buzz in 2k11' [ link ], and I'm not sure if that is all the buzz they will ever get, or if their buzz with burst in the buzz bubble because 'the buzz got to their heads' and they forgot how to make MP3s. I think that's what happens to some buzzbands when they think 'they have it all' but really just only got a few bloggyspot headlines. Anyways, the lead singer Samantha Urbani [...]

Photos by Erez Avissar [MP3] Friends Friend Crush Friends has been incubating in the buzzosphere during 2k11, but due to a forgettable name and a generic 'we're from Brooklyn' buzz aesthetic, I chose to ignore them. However, after a closer inspection, it seems clear that they are the destined for such buzzworthy heights. The song 'Friend Crush' has lofi appeal, mnstrm appeal, cutesy female appeal, and buzz appeal. The song makes u yearn for a dark friendship [...]

• Friends - Friend Crush

Samantha Urbani of Brooklyn band Friends stopped by our office yesterday, clutching a big, subway-ready tote bag under her arm. We asked her to empty the contents, and it seemed like she had every essential ... read more �

Friends is a Brooklyn-based independent that blends a wide variety of sounds into dance-ready indie pop music. The band returns with another single after 'Friend Crush.' "I'm His Girl" sounds like New York disco fronted by Feist. Singer Samantha Urbani and Aurora Halal produced the music video. Lucky Number Records has released 'I'm His Girl' as a download and 7 inch. Friends - "Friend Crush" from stereogum on Vimeo . Sample audio. Download music from Friends [...]