Correspondant Kei Yamamoto of NYC says: “The Bravery are the hot band in town right now, people are saying they’re the new Strokes. Or the old new Strokes. Or the new Television. Whatever.”
Check out some Bravery mp3s for yourself from their website:
HONEST MISTAKE MP3
FEARLESS MP3
NO BRAKES MP3
Or catch them on tour with Echo and the Bunnymen, whose last hot young opening act was The Stills.
Excellent track from Rogue Wave’s “Out of the Shadows” album, which is reviewed by Ray Hammett, PI, here.
Fans of the lounge scene know engimatic crooner Bertrand Burgalat from his stylish and strange tracks on various compilations or his production work with Ladytron, Air, Depeche Mode and others. For the uninitiated, here’s an audio roundup of his new album, the SSSound Of MMusic thanks to the smooth Mr. Burgalat’s new home, Emperor Norton Records, and mp3 supersite Epitonic.com.
Mp3s:
Sunshine Yellow
Aux Cyclades Electronique (Tommy Hools Remix)
Real Audio
Nonza
Ma Reconte
Windows Media:
(Come Potrei) Scoredare
Aux Cyclades Electronique
This song is a spiritual forebearer to much of the music that lights up the ears of today’s happy branch of the hipster elite, including fans of Air, the Shins, Polyphonic Spree, Daft Punk, the Beta Band, and others who love orchestration, upbeat melodies, and vocoders.
Here’s an mp3 to listen to in your rad 1982 Trans Am on the way to the warm-up bar tonight: u2 live in Mexico City doing New Year’s Day. I like this track because you can blast it at top volume and not have to hear the ladies in the seat next to you, you can just smile at ’em and pump your fist in the air, tangled mane floppin in the wind and built-in bong bubbling along with the beat…
Waking up this morning I was in a fog, a haze from which no amount of chanting and meditation could seem to bring me out of. The last few days were like grains of sand in my eye, as I blinked them out and tried to see.
Reaching into the folds of my voluminous orange robe, I came across a onehitter packed with luxurious orange-haired nodules direct from Geneva. It has been sent to me by a gorgeous young swiss girl (a fan, of course) whose name I had forgotten. Life is suffering, as I have told you many times now. But to that girl I wanted to dedicate this song, because I love her. It’s the ultimate classic slice of 60’/70’s Gallic pop, served up by the magical Mr. Gainsbourg and his beautiful wife, Jane Birkin…
Did Stereolab’s recent Margerine Eclipse album pass you by? Here are some morsels so you can find out if you’re interested…