It's Friday people! Unlike last week, we actually have a Ten Tracks You Need this week. In fact, we have an expanded mp3 edition of Ten Tracks You Need. Think of it as a little bit of a make up present for not having a post last Friday. It's hard to believe that The POP! Stereo is 300 posts old. What originally started out as a blog designed to promote my DJ night has now sort of taken on a life of it's own. In little under a year it's grown exponentially and thanks to this little thing [...]
Normally I do these on Fridays, but this past week was a nightmare, so the proper amount of time to put this together just wasn't there. Thankfully, today is a holiday so I've finally got the time to sit down and crank this out...and here it is. It's a little late, but hey there's still 12 hours left of your three day weekend to download and enjoy the tunes and there's always the rest of the week as well. So I'm going to quit my yacking and just say, "download away." Oh...and Go Magic!! Happy Bank [...]
It's baaaack. After missing last week, TEN TRACKS YOU NEED has returned with a slightly larger expanded edition with all sorts of stuff attached to it. If you're wondering where this post was last week, quite honestly there just wasn't enough material to do any sort of post with, so rather than doing TWO TRACKS YOU NEED, I figured I'd wait. Anyway, there's enough stuff on here to keep you busy for like an hour or so. And nothing says Friday better than sitting at work and downloading/watching/listening to stuff you shouldn't be! So get to it. [...]
Another week comes to a close with yet another Ten Tracks You Need Post. What more really needs to be said? Well to sum it all up, we've got a few bonus tracks this week that are all zipped up and ready to go. This weeks RCRD LBL selections were kind of slim because there wasn't that much cool stuff that came through over the past week. However, there is a cool DJ Koze podcast from Fairtilizer that should help make up for the lack of tracks. A few videos stumbled in this week as well; they come to us [...]
Someone once asked me what the POP! Stereo was all about. This is what I told him...The POP! Stereo benchmarks customized mindshare in an effort to facilitate end-to-end bandwidth and mesh virtual communities through strategizing visionary users. I feel as though by synergizing impactful portals it allows the blog to e-enable user-centric deliverables and optimize out-of-the-box infrastructures which further ables the blog to exploit enterprise systems. What the hell am I talking about? Well that's corporate speak for: it's Friday and it's time for another installment of Ten Tracks You Need. I've [...]
So here we are...another weekend is upon us and the time for some tunes to kill a weekend by. I've surprised myself to be honest...I've posted stuff every day over the last week or so. It's been nuts over here at POP! Stereo Central but things are starting to fall into place. I've provided you with a load of new and old tuneage that as always covers all the bases and then some. So have fun downloading and enjoy the tunes. If you haven't found The POP! Stereo on Myspace or Twitter yet, you should add [...]
Sikki Nixx has no recollection of anything before the age of 23 when he woke up in a government facility. After a dangerous and lengthy escape, (think Alias) he went to work as a mercenary overseas for a while. That's where he met Sid Licious, an orphan abandoned by his family at age 2, while he was playing buckets and pots in a crowded plaza in Bangkok for donations. Sid, as it happened, also worked part time as a moonshine bootlegger and serviced wealthy debutantes for a steep price. Sikki and Sid quickly became good friends because they [...]
The crazy kids that are Ruby Isle have been going nuts lately covering songs by other artists. They've been taking cues from everyone and everywhere over the last three weeks and have given songs that you would never think of electronically a stroke of electronics to make dreadful things sound better. It's fun to hear what they've come up with, especially since they're a fantastic band to begin with. They've done three covers thus far and I have to say that they're all really really good. Even the Bon Iver cover. Anyway, check out the covers [...]
Normally, when I see the words post-hardcore, I kind of just move on. But every once and a while a band comes along that's a bit more daring then the rest of the pack and demand that you pay attention. Fake Shark Real Zombie is one of those bands. Often called the Canadian Blood Brothers or some other screamo, hard core, black hair dye, skinny jeans wearing band that loves white belts, the band obviously comes from a certain school of thought. But musically, this band isn't too proud to allow others to [...]
What would happen if Boys Noize got really pissed off? Art Whiplash would. You see Mr. Whiplash aka Vincent Jardin creates a whole hell of a bunch of racket that sounds like a pack of T-1ooo's unleashing death upon your stereo. His latest outing, Party Sex and Bullshit is a violent little EP that is a bit Atari Teenage Riot, Revolting Cocks, Justice, and the aforementioned Boys Noize. To say that the combination of those kinds of influences is nearly lethal would be an understatement. It's harsh shit that [...]
Peachcake , the spectacular, incredibly strangely named but positivity-charged audio-protectors from the Planet Awesome, have come to rescue you from the mundane and take you away to a soundtopia of electronic pop extraordinaire, with the their recently released album What Year Will You Have The World? Say what you will about the name...and yeah, it borderlines on being just plain dumb, but Peachcake make up for it with sugary sweet synth pop that will give you cavities. The stuff sounds something like Magnetic Fields if Stephen Merritt ate a lot of [...]
Back in the beginning of April, Fingers On The Pulse announced a contest encouraging all to try their hand at remixing one of the year's best songs, Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead". But in the end, only one rang victorious in eyes of Passion Pit - Oakland, California's Wallpaper. was declared the winner. Wallpaper. is the enigmatic onstage existence of Eric Frederic. In another life, he fronts a prog-rock powerhouse (indie stalwarts Facing New York), but in this one, he's a pop-pushing kingpin as interested in [...]
For its fifth release, Monsta Music is proud to present the debut solo EP from George Cochrane , aka Origami . Though his name may be new to the ears of many, his music has been heard by the dance music community for years through a variety of partnerships, including his work with DJ2, Andrew Phelan & Origami, Cubik & Origami, and The Fingermonsters. The Spencer Spiketail EP has been getting rave reviews, with a perfect 10/10 in iDJ, comparisons to Green Velvet, Freaks, and Classic Recordings, and DJ [...]
Jensen Sportag over the past week has gotten tons of press Fluxblog , MYOKB , Tripwire , etc. In case you're unfamiliar, Jensen Sportag is a Nashville-based artist who creates some laid back housey vibes with a bit of downtempo thrown in for good measure. Their tunes have a bit of an 80's vibe mixed with some Ibiza lite to create a sort of live organic feel that's a bit abstract but still ridiculously catchy. They're releasing a short-player on December 2nd called Sergio . The duo has made fast [...]
Heroes of The Dancefloor will release Torch and the lead single "Same Scandal" on INgrooves over the Thanksgiving holiday. ALL of the proceeds from the sale of Torch will go to two charities working with the homeless in New York: Picture The Homeless ( LINK ) and Coalition For The Homeless ( LINK ). NO money will go to the musicians including any mechanicals, royalties or publishing. Torch features Gary Alesbrook who tours with Kasabian and Scissor Sisters on Trumpet, James Morton on Sax and Dan [...]
Conceived in Detroit and named for the Joy Division song "Day of the Lords," The Bodies Obtained reveal their "art-damaged selves" through timeless electro gloom that could've been conceived in 1978, 1988, 1998 or 2008: it's the sonic documentation of an ongoing project that spans electronica, experimental rock and synth-pop. Listening to these guys is like listening to the Road Warrior soundtrack in a collision with the Blade Runner soundtrack mixed with a healthy dose of Suicide on tons of drugs. It's crazy noisy jittery post punk that will rule your world! [...]
With the January 27th release of The Take Over growing closer by the day, Zion I's AmpLive and Zumbi are fanning the flames of anticipation with the release of The Search and the Seizure Mixtape . In keeping with the title of their forthcoming album, the mixtape finds the Bay Area duo commandeering other artists' tunes. What did you expect? Sinatra covers? The A-side, if you will, features a run of hip-hop classics, complemented with verses from Talib Kweli, Deuce Eclipse and Codany Holiday. The B-side finds Amp [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, The Buffetlibre DJ's are back with a new mixtape: Hit! . Two months after their last mixtape Verbena 5, and one month before the releasing of Rewind Part 2 , Hit! is nothing but a funny experience they compiled from some of the hits that we they've played at their gigs. And if you're lucky enough to live in Europe, you can see them live! Check out the dates... 27 November 2008 - Noise Club (Barcelona) 28 November 2008 - Obbio [...]
The arrival of Little Boots has signalled something of a collective epiphany. Sometimes you don't know what has been missing from your life until it's right there in the room with you, and then you wonder how you ever managed without it. It has been barely a year since her solo project tentatively began, and already Victoria Hesketh is UK pop music's most talked about new star. Ticking off every major piece of next big thing feature press before she had a properly released single to her name, she's a rare instance of mirrored and completely [...]
My Dear Disco's latest full-length, Dancethink LP , features mixes by Grammy-nominated engineer Mark Saunders and his multi-platinum record generating studio in New York, the same people responsible for the sound of Shiny Toy Guns 2007 Warner Brothers release We Are Pilots , Tricky's Maxinquaye , David Byrne's Feelings , and The Cure's Wish . With music featuring electrified Irish Bagpipes, and a line-up including a two-time International Acoustic Music Award winning composer, a three-time Ireland's World Champion instrumentalist, a first place Michigan Idol winning singer, and two first place M-Block Records [...]
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