AC/DC - Rock ‘n’ Roll Train

It comes to this: In a further attempt to alienate our loyal readership I’m going to heap a self indulgent love upon injury. I could have sat back on my laurels having successfully implied that you aren’t cool,  but that’s not how things around here work.

I need to send mixed signals, the corner stone to any long term relationship. (Even that sentence is alienating more readers still!) And the cherry to top this sundae of patronising and slightly sarcastic amateur (and getting more so) prolix?

The new AC/DC single - Rock ‘n’ Roll Train!

ROCK!

_heads_up - Bon Iver Live!

Those crazy kids over at daytrotter have done it again - they’ve managed to jag another beautiful recording from an artiste du jour (certaintly round these parts).

Bon Iver deliver 4 tracks from the haunting For Emma, Forever Ago, with some extra percussion and additional guitar work fleshing out the tracks nicely.

You can get them ( and heaps of other cool stuff ) here.
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Occasionally a band comes along that is the perfect antidote to the bloated sportz metal, emo-laden, booty grinding airwaves that seem inescapable. Flobots are such a band. Although their debut full length album ‘Fight With Tools’ was recorded in ’07, I’ve just come across them.

I suppose that they are a hip hop band, with two emcees rapping over live instruments. Yawn? Violin and Trumpet, bolstered with drums and bass rhythm section, and guitar. How about now?

Forward thinking, socially conscious musicians are so often drawn to hip hop’s flexibility, where lyrics like ‘U.S. is not us, and us is not we, and we are not satisfied’ can be delivered with maximum effect.  There will be obvious RATM and Linkin Park comparisons, and it could be argued that Flobots are indeed the Rage for Gen Y. (And that is a big call, if you didn’t know)

Flobots tackle racial, environmental, social and financial issues on ‘Fight With Tools’. On the track ‘Anne Braden’ (featuring audio of the lady in question) they recount the life of the famous activist in such a way that you can’t help but question your own commitment to important issues.   

Flobots make exciting music. Intelligent and piercing lyrics are delivered over genre hopping virtuosity from the mission statement ‘There’s a war going on for your mind’ to a call for action in ‘Rise’. The world is a better place with bands like Flobots in it.

THINK: Ambassadors of informed, educated angst
READ: Flobots web comic
READ SOME MORE: Fight With Tools
WATCH: Vid for ‘Handlebars’.
BUY: Fight With Tools on iTunes.

Stu Kelly - Set the mood

TWO choice cuts of prime beefy beats are on offer at the moment folks. The first is the latest mix by Sydney Superstar Stu Kelly - ‘Set the mood’. A mix heavy on cool-as-phuque basslines and phat ass beats. Check it out here.

Diplo - Fuzzy Peach Mix 

UK remixer du jour Diplo drops a genre hopping journey from five minutes ago to the mid nineties, keeping it fresh all the while. Check it here.

Don’t say I do nothing for you.
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Coldplay release their new single ‘Violet Hill’ on-line tomorrow, and for a limited time it’s free! Get it here.