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Highly acclaimed Helvetic Nerds duo Leventina are back on track to follow-up their City Lights EP with their latest accomplished studio offering for Unreleased Digital. As a delicate fusion of uplifting melodic developments and coordinated peak time digressions, “Hear Me” proves perhaps one of the most durable assets to Leventina’s studio exploits to date. Grab it on Beatport from May 27. You just finished reading Leventina - Hear Me [Preview] ! Consider leaving a comment!

Nicky Romero's orchestral hit "Symphonica" is set to take center stage once again with the release of its official remix package. The strings and synths of the original were given fresh spins by Bare , Suede and Cash Cash , all of whom took the tune from trap to dubstep to electro and back. Truly embracing the creative aspect of remixing, each artist made the track their own, together presenting three very different sounds. Dig one or love them all, the package is due out May 20th on Protocol Recordings . [...]

Sunday's fun: ► Local surf-inspired pop outfit Blue-Eyed Son [that's the main man, Andrew Heilprin, above] celebrate the release of their new EP "Shadows on the Son," their first release since 20042s "West of Lincoln," at the Hotel Café on a night that Freedy Johnston headlines headlines. ► Brooklyn synth-pop duo Holy Ghost! hits southern California for three appearances, headlining the Observatory in O.C. tonight supported by Classixx . (The same two bands headline the Troubadour on Monday, and Holy Ghost! does a DJ set a Dim Mak [...]

A superb Saturday ahead: ► The Rolling Stones are back for another night of their "50 and Counting Tour" at the Honda Center. ► The annual KROQ Weenie Roast goes off at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, featuring the Black Keys, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Vampire Weekend, Of Monsters and Men, Jimmy Eat World, Silversun Pickups, Imagine Dragons, AWOLNATION, Atlas Genius, Fitz & the Tantrums, the Neighbourhood, C2C, Capital Cities, New Politics and Twenty One Pilots. It'll be webcast too . ► Danish duo Quadron [pictured] does 20132s [...]

It seems there is a new ambassador of Dada Land. The mysterious and even anonymous Anybody is the first signee to Dada Life 's So Much Dada imprint, and he's set for his first release this May. Following suit with stamping electro stylings, Anybody takes a melodic route for his inaugural effort, "The First Bass Is The Deepest." Offering his "First Bass," the Dada Land ambassador is bound to make his mark on the electro landscape, and Dada Life will come to aid with their own edit of the single to be released on May 27th. [...]

Dutch maestro and Axis mixer Jordy Dazz is back with a ferocious debut offering for Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike’s Smash The House imprint. As the official anthem to Holland’s 7 th Sunday Festival, “Jumpfold” packs the all the peak time hallmarks we have come to expect from an artist well adept at catering to the globe’s bigger festival crowds. Jordy’s grinding yet well-groomed hallmarks are all in place, adding yet another reason to believe that the ex-record store clerk has consistently mastered the high-end of modern dance music to date. Grab "Jumpfold" on May [...]

Bushstock Festival (1 June '13, London) // Words: Saam Das Bushstock is fast becoming one of the most popular London music festivals, returning for its third edition in June. Taking over four venues in the Shepherd's Bush area, the festival has previously seen the likes of BASTILLE and Daughter play in intimate settings before gaining huge audiences. Indeed, Daughter returned last year to headline, providing a mesmerising performance at St Stephens Church. [...]

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What a start to the weekend: ► Richard Thompson , the 64-year-old legend whose latest album "Electric" solidifies his place in the pantheon of guitar greats, brings his electric trio to the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. ► Seven Saturdays [see our post on "One in 3" ] celebrates the release of their self-titled album by bringing its spectacularly cinematic music to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. Dark Rooms and Little Red Lung support. ► Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti kicks off its U.S. tour with a [...]

We're still reeling from “Bringing You Down” and Sweden’s deep and devious Jonas Rathsman teases the waters with a high-profile remix for Tom Odel’s “Another Love.” In a harrowing turn for an already solemn piece of pop music, Rathsman’s lucid grooves and low-end progressions spark a considerably fluent transition to major label remixes for the Scandinavian asset. Deep house may be verging on the same saturated milestones as its peak time peers across the industry spectrum, but Rasthman shows no signs on culling his creative integrity with this classy turn of mainstream pop manipulation. Out June 16 on [...]

Yet more untamed talent is emerging from Bingo Player s ' Hysteria Records imprint, this time in the form of Dutch longserver Alvaro and Moti for a post summer peak-timer in line with the label’s untamed repertoire. Last found alongside Tiësto and Quintino for Ultra Music Festival anthem “United,” this latest collaboration extends the genre's festival-proof properties in true Dutch style. Bouncing high-end synth word and infectious sample off an inherently low-end canvas, “NaNaNa” is a firm step forward for label and artists alike ahead of the impending summer festival season. Out June 3 on [...]

More of Martin's high-res photos from day 2 can be found on his Flickr. Bands of the day: Concrete Knives, Wolf People, Melody’s Echo Chamber Venue of the day: Screenadelica One not-to-be-underestimated benefit of an event being held in Liverpool is the impressive situational architecture. I chose a hotel based entirely on cost and availability, and yet it boasted a fine view of the Mersey estuary and is continuously watched over by that Liver bird which [...]

Welcome to our weekly round-up of shows happening in the grand concert halls, dimly lit basements, airy cafe’s and grimy sweatboxes across the UK and Ireland. All acts featured come with the Best Fit ‘Seal Of Approval’ so you can be assured that your hard earned cash will be well spent. To tempt your wallets this week we’ve gathered dates from the likes of Empress Of , The Postal Service and Blue Hawaii [...]

Stockholm’s Nause have left few stones unturned amid their global overhaul. With remixes for Kaskade and Eric Turner already behind them, the Scandinavian fast-risers turn their creative yarns to Afrojack’s commercial outing “As Your Friend” to extend their melodic guise to pastures pop heavy. Whichever way you spin it, the vocal assets of Chris Brown were never an ideal asset to maintain. The sugary pop hallmarks remain, but the duo proves up to the task of driving quality peak time sensibilities into the track for yet another finely tuned and melodically refined offering to their well-ornamented trophy cabinet [...]

Our favorite Austrian Dizzy Womack returns to Top Billin with a brand new release. Dizzy Womack is the matured moniker of his formerly known name DJ Dizzy, with which he already gained support from luminaries such as Diplo or Drop The Lime with his backward bass-heavy 4/4 productions. His current metamorphose to a more house-oriented productions don't come as a a shock for anyone who knows what this guy is all about - he's always had a particular slant playing with different genres, ranging from idm to tropical vibes, house, bass music and beyond. As Dizzy Womack it seems like [...]

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In the thick of it on a Thursday: ► Detroit indie-pop band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. plays the El Rey Theatre behind its new EP "Patterns" [that's the new video for "Dark Water," above], with and Bad Suns opening. ► His new album "Mala" having come out in March, Devendra Banhart headlines the Fonda Theatre. ► Two of L.A. most promising indie-rock bands team up at the Troubadour — PAPA headlines and Harriet opens. ► FIDLAR plays and Keith Morris DJs at [...]

Fuck Buttons announce new album, Slow Focus. Official press release: Four years after Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung dropped the second of two of the most unparalleled electronic-driven albums in...

Scottish four-piece Franz Ferdinand have announced their fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. The new album will be released by Domino on August 27th 2013. Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right...

Third day at Sound City 2013 , and I was flagging. Martin made the perfect suggestion that we should check out the Korean bands day showcase, where there would also be free food and booze on offer. Besides, I'd not been to the Kazimier Gardens yet, which both him and John had waxed philosophical on their home brew and laid-back atmosphere. Afternoon sorted then. I didn't photograph any of the bands, as we had Martin with us there, so check out his review of day 3 for those. What I mostly [...]

Frequent collaborators Jus Jack and Oza have taken a break from their acid-tinged tracks for something a little sweeter. The duo took the vocal stems and piano intro from Blessid Union of Souls' 1995 melancholy hit "I Believe" and spun it into an uplifting progressive house ballad with a sweeping melody. The track marks the duo's debut on Tiesto's Musical Freedom Records, and the label head himself gave the tune a mix, putting his own stadium spin on the sound. A big room collision of nineties meets nu teens, both tracks will be available [...]

Now that Daft Punk have introduced him to a new generation of electronic music fans, Giorgio Moroder has decided to stay awhile. The legendary Italian producer today unveiled the first track he produced in partnership with Google's Racer mobile experiment , immediately validating the faith that everyone's favorite French robots showed in essentially dedicating a Random Access Memories track to him. "Racer" conveys an immediate sense of movement by layering an instant classic analog synth line over a stomping throwback bass, navigating through a distant vocoded interlude to an infectiously melodic [...]