last ones dancing

Naked and Famous – Young Blood (Skeet Skeet’s MEGA Edit)

Thomas — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:48:42 +0000

The Naked and Famous drop their debut album on Monday. Anticipated. Right? Their blog buzz is growing with international remixes of “young blood” (so good we have to drop it twice) getting plenty of clickage. I’m particularly feeling this skeet skeet remix.

They’re playing Wellington in early October which is all good. That they are playing with the dire Kids of 88 is not. We’ll see you there for one half of the bill people.

Emily Capell – My Dad’s a Smiths fan

Thomas — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:09:15 +0000

Just in time for Father’s Day down-under comes a simply adorable tune and video by one Emily Capell, “My Dad’s a Smiths fan”. All we know is from her MySpace, “an upcoming singer song writer from North West London.” With only a handful of views of the video and fans on MySpace she hasn’t “come up” very far yet but hey, I’m feeling it.

The first song on her playlist is “Reality TV”, which is fitting given we found her song during the ad breaks of X-Factor Australia. Which had some tear-jerker awesome performances for sure.

First Aid Kit – Tangerine

Thomas — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:45:10 +0000

First Aid Kit are coming… to Auckland. Sadface. Luckily they did a Daytrotter live session a couple of weeks ago so at least we get today’s awesome track Tangerine, amongst others, to listen to.

Mendetz – Freed from Desire

Thomas — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:53:43 +0000

We were surfing through a mass of awful remixes of Gala’s classic 90′s anthem Free from Desire when amongst the rubble we found spanish Mendetz‘s cover of the tune from last year. Not only is it faithful to the original but its extra endearing and sincere – not something you can say about a dance song that often.

They also do an adorable cover of Morrisey’s “First of the Gang to Die”, which you can hear on their myspace.

Tommy Ill – Robot (featuring a robot)

Thomas — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:14:21 +0000

Tommy Ill has a new album coming out 23 August. He’s touring the country to support it and winding up in Wellington on 24 September. Can’t wait, the man totally brings it live… but till then we have the video for first single off the album “Robot” to bop along to.

Nice.

Sun Araw – Deep Cover

Jo — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:20:19 +0000

Nicely creepy and quite dubby. I first heard this on Stinky Jim’s radio show. That man has excellent taste – the show is always worth a listen.

DEEP COVER – SUN ARAW from CatCakes on Vimeo.

Sun Araw is playing at Happy in Wellington on October 14th and Whammy in Auckland on the 15th. Definitely looking forward to this one.

Yelawolf – Looking For Alien Love

Thomas — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:35:44 +0000

On the day I get around to listening to the new Big Boi album I come across a track by Yelawolf that reminds me of old Outkast. The former was much less disappointing than those by other artists I have been waiting to drop this year (e.g. B.o.B. – ugh!) and actually kind of good. But this is really fresh – check it! And add Yelawolf to the list of artists with anticipated albums to drop later this year – may it not disappoint.

Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal (w/ Antony Hegarty)

Thomas — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:56:17 +0000

I was _going_ to post the title track off Antony and the Johnsons‘s new five track EP, “Thank You For Your Love”. Which will also be the first single off their forthcoming album “Swanlights”. I look forward to the EP and LP for sure, but then I came across this collaboration between Antony and Oneohtrix Point Never and just had to post it.

The track is a rework of the title track of OPN’s latest full-length album, Returnal. The original is psych-drone awesomeness. This is stripped-back gorgeousness.

Carman – There is a God

Thomas — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:59:19 +0000

Carman is not a fictitious character from a Saturday Night Live skit. I had to double-check this when a friend introduced me to his music. No, he’s a genuine happy-clapping hard-selling entertainer.

This song is like the theist answer to Carl Sagan autoned tune – with its stellar 90′s sci-fi special effects and lines like “The size, position and angle of the earth is a scientific phenomenon to see. A few degrees closer to the sun we’d disintegrate, a few degrees further we’d freeze. The axis of the earth is titled at a perfect 23 degree angle and it’s no mistake that it is.”

But my favourite line has to be, “Atheism has never created an artistic masterpiece, never healed a fatal disease or calmed a fear”. My music collection would beg to differ, but what do I know Carman? Truly entertaining stuff, for all the wrong/right reasons. Disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole with more of his videos, “Witches Invitation” is another favourite – his answer to Michael Jackson’s Thriller it would seen.

Katy Perry – California Gurls (Majestyy Remix)

Thomas — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:39:34 +0000

The only problem with Katy Perry’s summer anthem and duo with Snoop is that it is winter down in this part of the world. To the rescue comes the Majestyy remix which slows it riiiight down and makes it suitable for listening to while lazing in front of the heater.