Posted by: Jay

Bonjour mes amis! Je suis très heureux aujourd’hui parce que… Yelle is coming to town!! Yelle (pronounced “yell”) is a bite sized explosion of French electro-pop that I had never heard of until she come out with her most recent album, Safari Disco Club early this year.

Being smitten with her super spunky electro-swag I checked out her back catalog and turns out she’s been banging out the synth-pop jams for years! Here are a few of my favorites and the show details. See you there? I can’t imagine she’d disappoint live.

Yelle at The Regency Ballroom - Thursday, May 19th, 2011

GET TICKETS HERE ($22 plus an OUTRAGEOUS “Convenience Charge” of $9.70)

Yelle - “Safari Disco Club”

Yelle - “Ce Jeu” - The Twelves Remix

Yelle - “Je Veux Te Voir”

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Safari Disco Club / Que veux-tu
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Posted by: Matt

San Francisco/Seattle-based production duo Blue Sky Black Death just dropped a new album full of lush, instrumental beats and chilled grooves. I could totally get down to this on a lazy Saturday afternoon, especially now that it’s warming up and summer is on the way. In the meantime though, it’s summer in my head whenever this is on! Great for fans of Hudson Mohawke, Pretty Lights, RJD2, Boards of Canada, Washed Out, and Bonobo.

Our Hearts of Ruin

Where the Sun Beats

Sky With Hand

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Posted by: Jay

A big whassup from Brazil my peoples! I’ve been traveling for a little over a month now (well, if you don’t count the year I was living in La Paz as “traveling”) and have a major itching to share some dope new music with all of you. Expect a bunch of posts coming up, which could possibly include any of the following:

• The new Holy Fuck
• The new Tobacco
• Wu-Tang Clan vs. The Beatles (It’s good!  Really!)
• The new RJD2

See I always stock up on new music before a long trip, especially if I’m traveling by myself.  I’m never alone if my fav artists are keeping me company (^-^)v  I’m at the point now where I’ve giving this new batch of music a good listening to, and there’s one album I keep coming back to, over and over: Lazerproof.  I just can’t get enough.
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Posted by: Cor

The Scissor Sisters are back, and by back I mean back from that strange diversion through vaudeville they took with their last album, Tah-Dah. Back to the glitzy, polished, retro-but-fresh synth-pop that put them on the map in 2003. It’s good to have them back. Here’s the title song from their new album Night Work plus a couple more of my current favorite tracks. And because this is technically a dance music blog, I’ll throw in a Siriusmo remix of Invisible Light, the album’s final track. If you want to hear the original version, hit up the amazon link and buy this album. It’s a return to form.


Night Work

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Scissor Sisters’ Night Work on Amazon.

Posted by: Matt

I’ve had the new album from Spanish Dance-Pop group Delorean in my iTunes library for a few months now but I never gave it a fair shake until just this morning. They have a sound that is about as out-of-time as their namesake, and all my casual skimming revealed was chintzy electric pianos and drum loops that remind me exactly why I can’t stand most dance music from the 80’s, especially the European variety. Primal Scream? Happy Mondays? Ugh. I’d rather listen to nothing than those tambourines.

And yet, when allowed to make their case, Delorean transcends their retro foundation and manages to crank out some really catchy, sunny, modern pop songs. They’d fit well in a playlist of gauzy electro groups like M83, Hot Chip, and Ulrich Schnauss.

Grow

Stay Close

Warmer Places

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Delorean on Myspace