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).

EYES // NO CEREMONY & STAY+ // NEW MUSIC

Pretty excited about this - new track from BV faves NO CEREMONY/// a n d STAY+

EYES is exactly what you would expect from these 2 acts...but thats exactly what we were hoping for...reverb drenched, dark and brooding electronica that just makes us mad excited for both acts upcoming Manchester dates...likelikelike

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

AND JUST LIKE THAT...

Well just over 2 hours ago we wrote, about Evian Christ: 'now just gotta hope he does some shows near by to promote it...(12" single)'

And now it seems our wish has been granted! And with the amazing Holy Other as well...Don't need saying - you need tix for this:

Brap! http://futureeverything.org/music/triangle-records-holy-other-the-haxan-cloak/

Well played Future Everything, well played...

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!

PINS // ELEVENTH HOUR // NEW MUSIC

Coming up fast on the last posts tail is this much anticipated debut release from Manchester's youngest and most exciting new band, PINS. Now we could go on about the fact that they're a not too shabby looking all girl band with only a handful of gigs under their belt like we've read elsewhere.....we could tell you how ace we think the limited edition tape of their debut single. looks....we could even tell you that they're playing a gig soon that we are mad excited about.. But we think this 3.15m gem of a tune can speak for itself....

and if thats not enough you can also check the excellent new video....and what we will say is PINS look to be the new stars on the horizon of Manchester music...dont sleep on this yo.

STAR SLINGER - BAD BITCHES (FEAT. STUNNAMAN & LIL B)

This is great. Manchester's own Star Slinger has properly pulled this collab off with Pack members LIL B and STUNNAMAN. Check that beat! Gonna be hammering this hard for the next month or so no doubt...and its available to DL too...makes me want to do another mixtape! Good good vibes. A

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...

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: