LONG DEER IS A W E S O M E AND LONG

If you've yet to experience the majestic, rag-tagness of Manchester's Salford Media City, then you really need to check this video out sharpish. The (occasionally) 8+ strong band are already the city's best kept secret, playing the kind of ramshackle, white-kids doing p-funk wickedness that made the early 'Mondays such an interesting prospect. Long Deer IS Awesome, and long, and this video is both of those things too (*apart from not being very long).

NEW MUSIC // PROPHETS OF SINNERMAN

We don't know much about these Prophets of Sinnerman guys apart from they've got a weird name.. What we do know is they're making some of the raddest dark, psychedelic, trance-pop we've heard so far this year. There's just 4 songs and 2 vids to go at presently and no sign of any gigs but at BV we're hoping we might get to see them play soon...exciting stuff

Cassie X (OXOXOXO)

Hey remember Richard X? That guy who 'invented' (NME) (probably) mash-ups back in the early noughties? Well he's back and he's turned our girl Cassie's King Of Hearts, which was already a sweet RnB groove, into the kind of tune that could really get a dancefloor moving. We've always said at BV that Cassie has lots of untapped potential and should be bigger than she is...maybe this could push her into the spotlight finally. We saw her first though right!

Rocky Ridin Rey!

Well it had to happen; the 2 most hyped and talked about acts of last year were surely bound to collab at some point...and....drum role....here it is...Lana Del Rey and A$AP Rocky have teamed up for New York producers The Kickdrums, new mixtape Follow the Leader which is out today. The track is called Ridin' and you can hear it below....its OK I guess...but its not really making us that excited for the recently mooted LDR and Tyler collab too much. See what ya think anyways...

LIARING AROUND

Happy to report that the long awaited 6th album from our favourite maverick art-rockers LIARS is due out June 5th. Its called WIXIW and if you worried about how to ask for it at your local record shop then watch the handy video below that *hopefully explains it all. Also if you go over to the bands official Facebook page and click "Like", you'll be able to hear a new song from called "No. 1 Against the Rush" which we are already digging.

FUCK YR MIXTAPE // TEARIST

We love TEARIST  and so are buzzing about this aces mix they've just done for Seattle label Actual Pain...the thing is dripping with dirtycool, threatening vibes obviously and also features a stormin collaboration between Tearist front girl, and BV crush of the month, Yasmine Kittles and Lil B. We've got it on right this second (as I type, maybe not as you read, soz) and its amazing. You need to GO HERE and DL it quick fam! Excellent stuff.

Tracklist for FUCK YR MIXTAPE:

Strawberry Amazing - Miguel   

BAD GIRLS - Blood Orange   

We Can Go Down -  LIL B ft. Yasmine Kittles              

A Ganglion of Lightnings - KOOL A.D.   

Water  - The Sugarcubes   

The Things You Said - Depeche Mode  

One In A Million (Klaar remix) - Aaliyah     

Everybody Jones - Jim Jones           

Kälte Kriecht - Grauzone   

Big Empty Field (No.2) - Swell Maps   

Cookies & Apple Juice -  Cam'ron  

Make It Stack -  Lloyd Banks ft ASAP Rocky  

My Whole World's Coming Apart -  John Maus                 

Alone -  Colin Newman   

Thumb -  Dinosaur Jr

JAPANDROIDS // NEW MUSIC

New music out from our favourite good time garage rockers JAPANDROIDS. The House That Heaven Built follows on in a similar vein from 2009s excellent Post Nothing but we arent complaing. If it aint broke right? The song is taken from the new album Celebration Rock which is out this June and also includes last years epic Younger Us. If you havent seen the duo live yet too we suggest you remedy that asap (Soup Kitchen, Manchester in May yo!) as that's really where their noisy but melodic teenage anthems really come into their own.

LISTEN HERE

A$AP ROCKY & araabMUZIK // NEW MUSIC

Who isnt gonna be excited about this first release from Swizz Beatz’s upcoming mixtape - STREET KNOCK not only features a storming verse from unstoppable man of the moment A$AP ROCKY but also features producer de jour araabMUZIK on knobs...happy to say it dont disappoint too. AND we even spent the time soupin up this player so its all ROCKY VSVP GOTH CHIC for you too. 

We spoilin...TRILL!

LIGHT ASYLUM // NEW MUSIC

We've been waiting for ages to hear new stuff from one of our favourite bands from last year, Light Asylum (you need to search out Shallow Tears and A Certain Person if you aint already heard) and now we is bare happy to see that the Brooklyn synth duo are dropping their debut album on 1 May via Mexican Summer. In the meantime though they've just released new track IPC to get us in the mood, which ya can DL in that weird widget thing below.....and hoping there'll be some UK dates coming up soon yes? Please...

NO WAVE AT THE MOVIES

Can't wait to see this new film BLANK CITY....long-lost super-8 footage of the likes of Blondie, Patti Smith and Basquiat, as well as talking heads from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Steve Buscemi and Lydia Lunch, the story of New York in its lawless, chaotic heyday is on display through the work of John Waters, Vivienne Dick and many more.

EXPRESS YOURSELFS

Looks like Diplo is fast on his way to redemption after t h a t body-popping BB ad a while back with this, his own take on New Orleans bounce. Express Yourself comes from ya man's forthcoming Mad Decent EP and interestingly the video was directed and styled by #Seapunk's own @LILINTERNET and @LILGOVERNMENT (yes yes we've read the NY Times and Vice pieces on Seapunk, we know....anyway its all about #SLIMEPUNK now yes?) Anyway check this vid ya'll. C'est cray cray cher! (and a bit NSFW....only a bit mind)

MAXIMUM HEALTH

So we're pretty stoked to hear that we'll be getting not 1 but 2 albums from one of our favourite bands, HEALTH this year. First up will be the soundtrack to new uber-violent game MAX PAYNE 3...which the band say has a particular Brazilian vibe to fit in with the game setting (and we're thinking HEALTH + RIO CARNIVAL = very exciting shiz, no doubt) You can catch a bit of the game plus score below..and if this wasnt enough we've also got the follow up to 2009's GET COLOUR on its way too...as Jake from the band recently stated: 'We've been sitting on these songs for a minute. We had to postpone everything to do Max Payne, but the cool thing about doing the soundtrack is that we were able to upgrade all our studio gear' Expect big things...

REMIX(X)

This new Beat Culture remix of this old(ish) song just dropped this weekend and we're loving it. Making us quite excited about the new The XX album. Definitely worth a check out:

NITE JEWEL / ONE SECOND OF LOVE

LA's Nite Jewel has always been a strong favourite of ours, but in the past we've always felt a little short-changed, that her actual output has never truly lived up to the idea of her (see also NYCs Telepathe) but it seems now, with new album One Second of Love she's finally created that lo-fi electro masterpiece that she always threatened to. Secretly Canadian are releasing the album properly on 5 March but if you get over there quick they're also currently streaming the entire thing on their Soundcloud. Wonderful stuff...

WE DID A MIXXXXX

DOWNLOAD THE MIX ON OUR SOUNDCLOUD NOW HERE>>>>>>HERE!

Tracklisting:

Fuck It None Of Y'all Don't Rap - Evian Christ 

Heartbreaker - No Ceremony 

I Follow Rivers (Dave Sitek Mix) - Lykke Li 

Chrome Lion - Unicorn Kid

Final Form (Cats Hero Remix) - Everything Everything

Real Is A Feeling (Grimes Remix) - Pictureplane

True Romance (Gigamesh Remix) - Citizens!

Midnight City (Who Killed JR Remix) - M83

Wilhelm Scream (Master Rogers Remix) - James Blake

King Of Hearts - Cassie

Video Games (Hanna Fischer Remix) - Lana Del Rey

NO CEREMONY /// HEARTBREAKER /// NEW MUSIC

NO CEREMONY seem to have done it again, dropping another track of sick beats and dark yet uplifting synths that more than transends any yawns from the neysayers regarding whether we need ANOTHER mysterious act from Manchester (clue: probs not, but hey) HEARTBREAKER throbs into life like the evil, cooler twin of AnCos Summertime Clothes with a hauntingly beautiful vocal line holding the whole thing together....you can see the also excellent hanging babies vid below and DL the tune for free over at N///C's site

Also make sure you catch them (him? her? We know - not telling...) at the first UK show with other great bands, Alt-J, PINS, GREAT WAVES and MONEY being put on by the ever brilliant NOW WAVE boys. Coming to an office block near you soon..TIX

GOATBOY LIVES....

Very much digging this today. Dirty psychedelic afro-funk grooves and a hyperbolic press release that shows you how these things should go down:

Goat are a collective who hail from a small and very remote village called Korpolombolo in deepest darkest Sweden.
Legend has it that for centuries, the inhabitants of the village of Korpolombolo were dedicated to the worship and practices of Voodoo.
This strange and seemingly unlikely activity was apparently introduced into the area after a travelling witch doctor and a handful of her disciples were led to Korpolombolo by following a cipher hidden within their most sacred of ancient scriptures.
The reason it led them there is unknown, but their Voodoo influence quickly took hold over the whole village and so they made it their home - there, they were able to practice their craft unnoticed and unbothered for several centuries.
This was until their non-Christian ways were discovered by the Church and they were burned out by the crusaders, the survivors cursing the village over their shoulders as they fled.
To this day, the now picturesque village of Korpolombolo is still haunted by this Voodoo curse; the power of the curse can be felt throughout the grooves of Goat

raad:

NEW PICTUREPLANE MIX

We're pleased to report our boy Travis has once more come up with the goods and dropped a ballin new mixtape (via Gucci Goth - thanks!). Can also report it does not disappoint, we've already had it on twice this morning... 

 

And here's a few words from the man himself: 'I made a new mix exclusively for GG. it is called YOU ARE A TERRORIST, YOU ARE A POET. Made up of using lots of delay and slightly slowed big room and anthemic 120bpm house music. Think of Ibiza in a k hole. But with a light at the end of the tunnel. Everything I do is filled with love. There is no tracklisting because a lot of the tracks are very very different sounding than from what they sound like normally. The title of the mix is a literary reference to the essay “Poetic Terrorism” by Hakim Bey. The mix is meant to give strength to the listener.'

 

Enjoy....

 

DOWNLOAD IT HHHHERREEE :):):):):) 

(essay worth a read too)

SEAPUNK

So SEAPUNK? A new music genre? A new fashion movement? A Barley-esque blog meme? A load of nuffink? One things for sure we've seen the name popping up all over the web this week, its hashtag standing proud for all to see. So wha gwaan?

Well it seems no sooner has Chill Rave been announced than its got a new successor to its 'scene of the moment' crown, and its all about the sea..and wearing blue....more importantly turquoise...

Main instigators seem to be the guys over at Coral Records who have just dropped the sampler you can hear below...its early days but we're liking the vibe, think tropical, euphoric chip beats all hosted by internet v1, intentionally eye-raping websites and youre on your way there....and it wouldnt hurt to give BV fave Unicorn Kid a spin too if you havent already as scenemakers are already tipping him as the UKs greatest SEAPUNK hope! Don...

CLAM BAKED REY

So the lovely lipped Lana has dropped another new tune, meaning that every producer in the world is now scrambling to come up with the definitive take on the internets new/est pop sensation. Well they might as well stop we think cos our boy Clams Casino has done it again with his spooky-glitched up offering below.... pretty damn trill yo til we wait for guys follow up to 'Instrumentals'