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Friday Afternoon Mix Tape ft: Hollis Brown, Emily Wells, Saint Saviour & More

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For your consideration, we’ve got tracks to stream and download and an entire hour-long mixtape to get you started this weekend.

Emily Wells “Passenger” (Kid Koala Remix)

Hollis Brown’s track, “Spoonful” is ridiculously good. Makes me want to drink some bourbon and get my feet stomping. Their  Nothing & The Famous No One EP Drops April 3

Saint Saviour Covers M83 “Midnight City”

Zambri “Places”

I love this Tune In Crew remix of Beyonce’s “End of Time”, it reminds me of El Debarge.

Here’s an hour-long mix  from Rush Hour Records in anticipation of their Nu Groove compilation album coming out next week.

The Jane Doze mashup, “Kids, Set Fire to Someone That I Used to Know” is pretty fucking great.

This last track will usher you into the weekend very happily. Mattie Safer ft. Ninjasonik “That Your Girl” (Skeet Skeet Remix Snippet). Love!

Rode Hard and Put Away Rhye

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I included the band Rhye in one of my columns last week but can’t seem to shake them or their first single, “Open”. Ever since Valentine’s Day – when I heard my morning news anchors talking about how a new study proves the validity of Broken Heart Syndrom as a medical condition – I’ve been having pains in my chest. The feeling isn’t constant, but it hasn’t disappeared.

The only time Ive been able to pin-point the exact moment of a broken-hearted reaction to something was right before bed a few days ago. I turned on a mix to listen to while trying to trick my brain into letting me fall asleep in less than three hours, but about three songs in, “Open” came on.

Rhye Open

The opening strings, followed by the horns, followed by the dipping bass and rounded out with Sade-esque vocals – it was too much. It felt like I had locked my heart in a room for a week with only a  TV-VCR combo, twelve bottles of wine and the only movies to choose from were Boys on the Side, Legends of the Fall, My Girl and Beaches.

But I still can’t stop listening.

The video below is NSFW and so beautiful.

Fell In Love With A Sunday Girl (RAC Remix)

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Sunday Girl

I’m going through a bit of a mid-mid-life crisis at the moment and am in need of a big change so as to not lose whatever is left of my mind. I’m being challenged but unfortunately most of that is finding enough hours in the day to get things done in.

I’m really happy to have been able to stop and smell the roses for at least four minutes and twenty-one seconds. And with that, a big thank you to Sunday Girl and this fantastic RAC remix.

Miike Snow “Black Tin Box” ft. Lykke Li is Dark, Futuristic Magic

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Miike Snow Black Tin BoxThere is an intense darkness in the latest single from Miike Snow, “Black Tin Box”, and it brings to mind (to my mind at least) imagery you might associate with the films  Metropolis or 12 Monkeys. I love it in the same way I love Portishead’s “Machine Gun” and can’t wait to hear what else they’ve got in store for us on their upcoming album.

TOUR DATES

  • 3-13 Austin, TX – SXSW
  • 3-23 Miami, FL – Ultra Music Festival
  • 4-10 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre*
  • 4-11 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater*
  • 4-12 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater*
  • 4-14 Indio, CA – Coachella
  • 4-21 Indio, CA – Coachella
  • 4-24 New York, NY – Terminal 5*
  • 4-27 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory*
  • 4-29 Boston, MA – House Of Blues*
  • 5-01 Toronto, Ontario – Sound Academy*
  • 5-02 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis Theatre*

*Penguin Prison opening

Theresa Andersson “What Comes Next” (mp3)

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New Orleans via Sweden Singer Theresa AnderssonWhile multi-instrumentalist, Theresa Andersson, was born in Sweden, the land of amazing pop artists, you can hear how much her current home, New Orleans, has gotten into her musical blood. “What Comes Next“, the first single from her upcoming album, Street Parade, starts with a drumming march and turns into a lovely mixture of folk, soul and indie-pop.

Look out for Street Parade to be released April 24th and if you’re in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, be on the lookout for the singer to make an enormous parade debut. Not only will she be performing with Krewe of Muses but she’s also working with Arthur Mintz, the creator of “the award-winning theater version of Fantastic Mr. Fox,” and will be led by a puppet-driven float with a forty-piece band backing her up.