[LISTEN UP] KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS - FLYAWAY

"Flyway", the latest single from Keep Shelly in Athens' forthcoming album, is framed around the theme of ascension. Sarah P's vocals are subtle and reflective, creating a sense of aerial delicacy, which are complemented by production that layers effortlessly to glide gently upward. "Flyway" is fading summer light, designed to lift us from heavy things in beautiful ways. At Home is out September 17 on Cascine you can pre-order it HERE. In October, they embark on a cross-country U.S. tour with co-headliner Chad Valley.

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VIDEO: DISAPPEARS - POWER

This week, Disappears unleashed their 4th album Era into the world. Here is the video for the track "Power," noting it "complements the song's severe, guttural groove by focusing on simple geometric shapes that were hand-drawn with a Sharpie. As the black-and-white short wears on, the lines and figures fold in on themselves and explain, moving at a relentless, hypnotic rhythm." Era is available now, via Kranky.

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VIDEO: LA MACHINE - TO BAD

If you like repetitive heavy grooves featuring fried out bass and drum echo-delicacies the you will like La Machine. Here is a really tripping video for the track "Too Bad" from La Machine's Phases & Repetitions which was released on vinyl in a limited run on Castle Face Records earlier this year... Check it out below and if you like it buy it HERE while it's still available! 

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VIDEO: EX COPS - SPRING BREAK (BIRTHDAY SONG)

Brooklyn band Ex Cops‘ new video for “Spring Break (Birthday Song)” documents the July 4 performance at MoMA through the eyes of the band — as well as a New York hipster on a BMX aka Nick Kimball of War Cubs making his way to the show... This is a fun video for a fun song! True Hallucinations is currently available from Other Music Recording Co.

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VIDEO: JESSE WOODS - GOLD IN THE AIR

Lo-Fi folk hero Jessie Woods just released the video for "Gold in the Air" of his new album titled "Get Your Burdens Lifted" which is out now on the Guns In The Sun label. Get Your Burdens Lifted is the debut record from Austin Texas' Jesse Woods. This ghostly folk LP was recorded by Woods in a self-constructed, all analog studio with the help of Austin friends and collaborators Bill Baird, Will Armstrong and Michael Crow. Vogue lauded Burdens as "dreamy, hazy neo-folk", while SPIN declared it "a haunted folk masterpiece" and I could not agree more!

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[LISTEN UP] YACHT - PARTY AT THE NSA

YACHT releases NSA Protest Party Anthem "Party At The NSA" 100% of proceeds from the track will be donated to the EFF, plus the track features Marc Maron on guitar! YACHT believes in a free and open Internet, in transparency, and in collaboration. Please spread the word about "Party at the NSA;" together, we can help the Electronic Frontier Foundation work to protect us from the encroaching surveillance state.  

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[LISTEN UP] DARKSIDE - 11:20

Nicolas Jaar just launched his new label Other People with a free download of the first, 11:20-minute opening track from the new Darkside LP. This will be the only free delivery, so grab it below, and go here to sign up to receive new content from Jaar + Other People every week.

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[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.24.2013

ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM

• Entrance Band / I want You / 7" Single
• Tortoise / Whitewater / 7" Single
• Gang of Four / I Love a Man in a Uniform / 7" Single
• XTC / Life Begins at the Hop / Single
• Angelo Badalementi / The Pink Room / Soundtrack to Twin Peaks
• Pixies / Wild Honey Pie / Hey 7" Single
• Pixies / In Heaven / Hey 7" Single
• Davids / Iranian / 0613 EP
• Nite Jewel / One Second of Love / One Second of Love
• Glasser / Apply / True Panther Sounds
• Desire / If I Can't Hold you Tonight / 7" Single
• Pulp / After You (Remixed by Soulwax) / 12" Single
• Glass Candy / Beatific / Beatbox
• Chandeliers / New Times / Founding Fathers
• Autechere / Pen Expers / Confield
• Panda Bear / Bros / 12" Single
• REM / Stumble / Chronic Town
• Aphex Twin / On / Single
• Glass Candy / Warm in the Winter / 12" Single
• Glass Candy / Beautiful Object / 12" Single

THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.24.2013 by The Minimal Beat on Mixcloud

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VIDEO: PEARL JAM - MIND YOUR MANNERS

Pearl Jam's forthcoming album Lightning Bolt will be released October 15 in the US on Monkeywrench/Republic Records. Pre-Order it HERE

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[LISTEN UP] EJECTA - JEREMIAH (THE DENIER)

The highly anticipated first single from Joel Ford & Leanne Macomber‘s new collaboration project Ejecta, taken from their forthcoming debut LP, out this fall on Driftless Recordings. Listen to the track “Jeremiah (the Denier)” below, and grab it HERE.

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ITALIANS DO IT BETTER RELEASE AFTER DARK 2 INSTRUMENTALS

“Due To Popular Demand From Djs, Designers, Directors, Dancers, & Debutantes…
We’re Posting The Instrumental Version Of “AFTER DARK 2” For Everyone To Cut Up For Their Mixtapes, Runways, Films, Stages, Parties, Etc…”

Download all of the instrumentals from After Dark 2 for free HERE, courtesy of Italians Do It Better.

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[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.17.2010

ARTIST / ALBUM / TRACK

• Peter Gabriel / Intruder / Peter Gabriel
• Keep Shelly in Athens / In Love With Dusk / In Love With Dusk
• Austra / Woodstock / Lose It
• Junior Boys / Last Exit / Last Exit
• John Maus / Do Your Best / Love Is Real
• G / Move / G
• Midnight Juggernauts / Galaxy / Dystopia
• Blood Orange / I'm Sorry We Lied / Coastal Grooves
• Hercules and Love Affair / Athene / Hercules and Love Affair
• Savages / Husbands / Silence Yourself
• Disappears / Power / Era
• Glass Candy / Redheads Feel More Pain / After Dark 2
• La Machine / Rock Crash / Castleface
• u-Ziq / Funky Pipe Cleaner / In Pine Effect
• Sneaky Sound System / Big (Nicolas Jaar Remix) / Big (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
• College / The Zemlya Expedition / Northern Council
• Joe Goddard / Taking Over / Taking Over EP
• Thieves Like Us / Your Heart Feels / Your Heart Feels
• Washed Out / It All Feels Right / Paracosm
• The xx/ VCR / xx
• Isolee / Schrapnell / Famous When Dead 4

Show Coming Soon...

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[LISTEN UP] SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM - BIG (ALWAYS BY YOUR SIDE) NICOLAS JAAR REMIX

Here is Nicolas Jaar's version of "Big (Always By Your Side)" taken from Sneaky Sound System's third album From Here To Anywhere, out now through Modular Recordings.

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[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.10.2013

ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM

• St Lucia / Elevate / When The Night
• Cadillac / Dreams / Cadillac
• Miami Horror / Summersun / Illumination
• Body Language / Well Absolutely / Well Absolutely
• MS MR / Fantasy / Secondhand Rapture
• Goldroom / Only You Can Show Me (The Knocks Remix) / Only You Can Show Me (The Knocks Remix)
• LIZ & Ryan Hemsworth / Day N' Nite
• Chvrches / The Mother We Share / The Bones Of What You Believe
• Parallels / Things Fall Apart / Things Fall Apart EP
• The Cure Live at Lollapalooza / Plainsong - Pictures of You
• Sleater Kinney / Call the Doctor / Call the Doctor
• Fugazi / Sieve Fisted Find / Repeater
• Sonic Youth / Tunic (Song for Karen) / Goo
• Jon Spencer Blue Explosion / Sweat / Orange
• Built to Spill / The Plan / Keep it Like a Secret Up
• Pavement / Harness Your Hopes / Spit on a Stranger EP
• Soul Couging / Blue Eyed Devil / Ruby Vroom
• Folk Imposion / Ball & Chain / Dare to be Surprised
• Quasi / California / Featuring "Birds"
• Guided By Voices / Mother and Son / Delicious Pie and Thank you for Calling
• Dinosaur Jr / Flying Cloud / Green Mind Joyful
• Shellac / Doris / Uranus 7"
• Liz Phair / Mesmerizing / Exile in Guyvile
• Chris Cornell / Seasons / Singles OST
• Pixies / Winterlong / Dig for Fire Single 

THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.10.2013 by The Minimal Beat on Mixcloud

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[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.03.2013

ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM

• Smith Westerns / Cheer Up / Soft Will / Mom 
• The National / Blood Buzz Ohio / High Violet
• The Foals / This Orient / Total Life Forever 
• Father John Misty / I'm Writing a Novel / Fear Fun
• The Cure / All Cats Are Grey / Faith 
• Charles Bradley / The World is Going Up in Flames / No Time for Dreaming 
• Beach House / 10 Mile Radio / Teen Dream 
• Lana Del Rey / Blue Velvet [Paradise Edition] 
• Phoenix / Lisztomania / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 
• Disclosure / Latch Featuring Sam Smith / Single
• Ben Howard - Live from Lollapalooza
• Queens of the Stone Age / Monster in your Parasol / Rated R 
• Band of Horses / The Funeral / Everything All the Time 
• Vampire Weekend / Exit Music for a Film (Radiohead Cover) / Stereogum Sessions 
• Grizzly Bear / Yet Again / Shields 
• Cat Power / Cross Bones Style / Moon Pix
• Court Yard Hounds - Live from Lollapalooza
• Wild Nothing / Bored Games / Gemini 
• Nine Inch Nails / Sanctified / Pretty Hate Machine 
• Hot Chip / Ready for the Floor / Made in the Dark 
• New Order / Dreams Never End / Movement
• Crystal Castles / Courtship Dating / Crystal Castles 
• Siouxsie and the Banshees / Kiss Them for Me / Superstition

THE MINIMAL BEAT 08.03.2013 by The Minimal Beat on Mixcloud

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[LISTEN UP] CUT COPY - LET ME SHOW YOU

Limited edition of 120 copies. Lathe cut on site at the record fair tent at Pitchfork Music Festival 2013. Run-off is hand engraved with the name of the purchaser. Generic white jacket is numbered XXX/120 on the front in marker. White center label is ink stamped with titles in two ink colors. Lathe cut done using traditional laquer coated aluminum blanks, with two center holes visible on the non-label side (one in the center for the spindle, the other off-center). See the whole process below!

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[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 07.27.2013

ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM

• Forget The Times - Romans In Storage - Soul Music
• Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah - Over and Over Again - Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah
• Pixies - Bag Boy - Single
• Cults - Go Outside - Cults 7"
• New Order - Temptation -
• Supreme Cuts - Envision (ft Channy from Polica)
• Smith Westerns - 3AM Spiritual - Soft Will
• Metric - Youth Without Youth - Synthetica
• Daughn Gibson - Phantom Rider - Me Moan
• Holy Ghost! - It Gets Dark - Single
• The Preatures - Is This How You Feel? (Classixx Remix)
• Disclosure - When A Fire Starts To Burn - Settle

Psalm One aka DJ Blunt Girl & DJ Tonic Guest DJ Set

• Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (Bixel Boys Remix)
• Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (DJ Painter Remix)
• Britney Spears - Toxic (Freemanic Paracusia Remix)
• Kanye West - Guilt Trip
• Kanye West - Hold My Liquor
• Kanye West - I am A God
• Milly Mango - GXRLSS
• ProbCause feat. Hologram Kizzie and Sharkula - Calamari Astronaut
• Marijuana Deathsquads - Tamper, Disable, Destroy
• Too Short - Blow The Whistle

THE MINIMAL BEAT 07.27.2013 by The Minimal Beat on Mixcloud

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VIDEO: GLASS CANDY - REDHEADS FEEL MORE PAIN

Italians Do It Better's After Dark 2 is finally available on iTunes still waiting on vinyl, which means we can expect a slow trickle of new videos from Johnny Jewel and his collaborators. The latest is a clip for "Redheads Feel More Pain," the Glass Candy track that closes the compilation. Check it out below!

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[LISTEN UP] KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS - OOSTENDE

Opening with dizzying lights on a dusty morning, the scene surrounding 'Oostende', the 2nd single from Keep Shelly in Athens' debut album, suddenly clears when a signature breakbeat cracks through and Sarah P's etherial voice pierces the track. Set in the Belgium city of Oostende, the band takes listeners on a journey through distant memories wrought with intense joy and deep sadness. 'Oostende' is a warm and reflective piece of pop music. At Home will be released on Sept 17 with Cascine. Stream 'Oostende' via Soundcloud below.

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LOLLAPALOOZA 2013 LIVE STREAM

If you got shut out and did not score a ticket, you're not totally out of luck. Lollapalooza will be streaming certain sets live from Grant Park this weekend. Not all of them, of course, but you can get a taste of the action via YouTube. The full schedule is posted below.


Friday
2:30 p.m. - Smith Westerns
3:30 p.m. - Icona Pop
4:15 p.m. - Crystal Castles
5:15 p.m. - Imagine Dragons
6:15 p.m. - Queens of the Stone Age
7:30 p.m. - Band of Horses
8:30 p.m. - The Killers
10:00 p.m. - Nine Inch Nails

Saturday
2:15 p.m. - Ben Howard
3:00 p.m. - Court Yard Hounds
4:00 p.m. - Local Natives
5:00 p.m. - Ellie Goulding
6:00 p.m. - The National
7:15 p.m. - The Lumineers
8:30 p.m. - The Postal Service
10:00 p.m. - Mumford & Sons

Sunday
2:30 p.m. - Alex Clare
3:45 p.m. - Wild Nothing
4:30 p.m. - Two Door Cinema Club
5:30 p.m. - Alt-J
6:30 p.m. - Steve Aoki
7:00 p.m. - Vampire Weekend
8:15 p.m. - The Cure
10:15 p.m. - Phoenix

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