Pill, “Thoughts” MP3

Pill utilizes the immediacy of the internet (aka Twitter) and unleashes the first pretty raw track from his upcoming mixtape 1140: The Overdose.



Download: Pill, “Thoughts”

NYC: Restless People and MNDR at Brooklyn Bowl

By now you’re probably pretty familiar with our FADER Bowl series at the massive, cavernous Brooklyn Bowl. And if not, tomorrow night’s edition with Restless People and MNDR is a pretty good place to start. Just like always, it’s completely free to get in, but thanks to the folks at Diesel we’re also offering you free drinks (while they last) and a chance for free bowling. All you have to do is wear the free shirt they give you while you bowl. Also: the whole thing is free.

No Age’s Daytrotter Session MP3s

Did you ever read that book Our Band Could be Your Life? We did. And when we finished it, our first thought was: Hey, these bands totally could have been us! If only it wasn’t any year after downloading music changed the whole game forever. That said, every encounter with No Age keeps us inspired—you might even say they keep the dream alive. It’s why we put them on the cover, why we gave them a feature and a smaller story before. They’re enthusiastic about what they do and about what’s going on around them and also what came before. They can roll through the Daytrotter studio, play a bunch of unreleased jams with as much energy as a motley crew of 16-year-old skate punks and they can say things like “We have been playing this live for almost a year, it’s a great punk jam. Very Husker to me, which is never a bad thing, this version shreds.” And not only do they sound psyched, they’re also right. Excuse us while we go listen to these, tighten the trucks on our skateboards and discover gin.

Download: No Age’s Daytrotter Session

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Busy Signal, “Sound of Siren (f. MIA),” “Bare Gal” & “Jafrican Ting”

Last Thursday the EME awards—Jamaican music’s answer to the Grammys—took place in Kingston, and while Vybz Kartel strolled away to the ching-ching-ching sound of gold-plated metal statues in his pocket (including one for Recording Artist of the Year), Busy Signal was somewhere else in the world being “busy wid business as usual”—or at least that’s what his Twitter told us. We’re not mad at Vybz getting so much award play because dude had a seriously prolific year, but no doubt Busy Signal’s scarcity at home base is setting him on a path of global conquest. With a recent leak of his collaboration with M.I.A. circulating the dancehall lines (below), and now two new tracks, “Bare Gal” and “Jafrican Ting,” giving us a more guttural Busy over the ting ting of cowbell and a heavy tribal thump, it appears Busy has indeed been busy sponging up sounds from “world music” and beyond. Busy Signal’s visited this road before with his tracks “Up In Her Belly” and “Dah Style Deh”—two of our favorite tracks for daggering—but here he’s returned to being more controlled and focused, flexing his vocals to the bounce bounce of something undeniably danceable with even more swagger then before.



Download: Busy Signal f. MIA, “Sound of Siren”



Download: Busy Signal, “Bare Gal”



Download: Busy Signal, “Jafrican Ting”

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Kites Sail High, “Climbing Trees” MP3

Considering the malleability of shoegaze—how it’s really just a bunch of tones and layered textural effects—you’d think there’d be more experimentation with it beyond the My Bloody Valentine school of bowl-rumbling beautiful noise. But most people like to travel in that same vein, and we really can’t even be very mad at that. As long as it sounds good, right? Kites Sail High deviate just enough to catch our attention, drawing out warbled effects and an acoustic guitar loop until the whole thing crosses some imaginary line in the sand between a Jay Dilla beat tape and an entire generation of dudes who collect guitar pedals like they were baseball cards.



Download: Kites Sail High, “Climbing Trees” (via Don’t Die Wondering)

Video: Wiley f. Emeli Sande, “Never Be Your Woman”

Admittedly, when our friend Catchdini told us last week that Wiley had redone a version of White Town’s “Never Be Your Woman” (a welcome staple in Catch’s ’90s sets), our first reaction was: Blaaaaaarrrgh. Cause like… What’s the point? We’ve been feeling apprehensive of some of Wiley’s poppier tracks as of late. Perhaps we had too much hater juice that day though, because now that we’re giving it a chance, it is in fact the best hip-house track we’ve heard since the ’90s. Emeli Sande’s voice is exactly the right shade of sultry and resigned, and Wiley’s dropping honest rhymes about being a man-ho and how it totally bums him out but there’s nothing he’s really doing about it. Such a classic genre and yet still feels so fresh. And def. Ha. (via Discobelle)

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Stream: DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson f. Dama S, “Dama s Salon”

French funky house purveyor DJ Gregory traveled to Luanda not long ago and recorded vocals with Kuduro Sound System’s Dama S for a rather nasty confluence of house sensibilities with kuduro fire. This is the kind of cross-convo joint you play at like 3 am in a club OR on your treadmill headphones—Dama S has the vocal scratch and urgency of a motivational speaker, even though we have no idea what she is saying. We’re gonna pretend she’s talking about how after we run these five miles real quick we can TOTALLY smoke something. JUST PUSH IT THROUGH PEOPLE!

Stream: DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson f. Dama S, “Dama s Salon” (via Generation Bass)

Egyptian Hip Hop, “Round Pot” (This is Horseflesh’s Radd Pitt Reincarnation) MP3

This is Horseflesh is actually Egyptian Hip Hop’s Alex Pierce, which means that he went ahead and remixed his own song into something virtually unrecognizable. Although we really dug the original’s ultra sadsack vocals, this alternate version works as the sort of digital only b-side you’d find on an obscure white label bootleg of the single. That said, we’re totally into the fact that dude remixed his own song. Was he like, Yeah the original is cool, but check out my version that’s exactly the way I want it. Kind of like that scene in Home Alone when Kevin realizes he can ball out while his family is gone, and orders an entire cheese pizza for himself. Only Pierce probably didn’t get sick to his stomach when he made this. Excuse us while we remix our office into a private waterpark made out of gold.

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Flying Lotus, “Quakes” MP3

Not sure exactly what you’re supposed to do with a song like this, except drive around somewhere it’s actually warm with the top down on the convertible you hopefully have, and think about how awesome it is that Flying Lotus‘ aunt is Alice Coltrane. “Quakes” is not from Flying Lotus’ upcoming album, but it’s worth checking anyway.



Download: Flying Lotus, “Quakes” (via GvsB)

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Video: Ghetts, “Artillery”

We’ve been super impressed with all the new grimey rappy talent coming out of the UK lately, and interested in how some of it sounds like it’s been influenced by ATL shit (i.e. Giggs talking about the “trap”). Ghetts aka “Lex Luther” goes super hard on “Artillery,” and also proves he is comfortable around welding equipment and/or steel sparks (the thing not the malt booze). He is also fully unafraid of you and all your friends. (via Semtex)

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