Win tickets to Two Door Cinema Club & get a Passion Pit remix

The buzz for Two Door Cinema Club is growing and this Saturday they return to Dublin to play a show in The Button Factory. Tickets are €13 but we have two pairs of tickets to give to readers. Support on the night is by Kowalski. Just answer this question:
What French label are Two…

New Operator Please video & MP3 for ‘Logic’

Funky little track and video from Australian former-teen garage pop band (they’re not really teens anymore) Operator Please who will release a second album Gloves later this year.
The track ‘Logic’ is available as an MP3 download right here. It will be available 7″ vinyl from 8th March.
MP3: Operator Please – Logic
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MP3s & streams: Major Lazer, The Futureheads, Joanna Newsom, Editors, BRMC

A roundup of new music on the web today: New video (non-embeddable) from Editors for You Don’t Know Love along with a remix by Caged Baby. Asmathic Kitty signing Jookabox has a free 10-track remix album of their recent album Dead Zone Boys available for download.

Faces of 2010 Mixtape

We spent all last week telling you our top fresh Irish bands and artists to watch out for. This week it’s the show part of the “show and tell” where you get to hear all 20 bands for yourselves.
Our Faces of 2010 mixtape will get you acquainted with the best new Irish talent…

Hear David Byrne, Fatboy Slim & Santigold collaboration

More details on the David Byrne/Fatboy Slim concept album Here Lies Love about Imelda Marcos were revealed today by Byrne via his mailing list.

The Santigold-fronted ‘Please Don’t’ was offered as a download and you can hear it below. Byrne says

Beach House – Free MP3

Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally aka Beach House are set to release their third LP, ‘Teen Dream’, on January 22nd on Bella Union records and by all accounts we are in for something of a treat.
Lead single Norway has been floating around since last November but in anticipation of the album…

Diplo Presents Free Gucci

Here we have it, Diplo’s favourite remixes of Gucci Mane’s ‘Cold War Trilogy’ all on one mixtape and best of all, its free. You may need to be a bit patient though as heavy traffic caused some hassle on the site yesterday.
You can grab by filling in a form here http://maddecent.com/freegucci/ and if…

MP3: Shout Out Louds – Walls

Swedish indie-popsters Shout Out Louds release Work, their eagerly awaited third album, in February 2010.
The band are offering ‘Walls’, the first single from the LP, as a free download from their website. But be quick off the mark it’s only free for a fortnight, starting today. You can grab it here and check…

Muchuu – New Single & Free MP3

English brother and sister duo Muchuu release their debut single ‘Somebody Tell Me’ today on iTunes. The track was featured in They Might Be Giants a couple of weeks back, you can check out the video below or listen to the track here.
“It’s a joyous ode to youthful escapism, brimming with feel good-ness.…

Beach House announce Dublin date

This week has seen a load of justified gush over Beach House’s new material; firstly ‘Norway’ and then the subsequent album leak of Teen Dream. Perfectly timed into that ever-growing hype is the announcement that the band have announced a slew of European dates in 2010 including Dublin on the 13th of February in…

Le Galaxie – Victory

Tonight sees the Le Galaxie boys headline Whelan’s after the match so let’s hope it’s a celebration rather than a damp desolate heart-crushingly ball-numbing result we’d rather forget. Either way, Le Galaxie will be bringing their own ‘Victory’ and joining them from 10.30pm tonight will be The Ambience Affair and Neosupervital so it’s a…

Stream: LCD Soundsystem – Bye Bye Bayou

Following one of the defining records of the decade is no easy task, so LCD Soundsystem’s follow-up to the 2007masterpiece Sound of Silver has big dancing shoes to fill. Album number three from James Murphy might be some months away, but he’s just dropped the tantalising new single ‘Bye Bye Bayou’.

Mogwai remixes Soulsavers

Soulsavers‘ forthcoming third LP Broken is dominated by the voice of Mark Lanegan ahead of other collaborators Jason Pierce, Mike Patton, and Richard Hawley. The original of ‘Death Bells’ features the standard and brutally effective Lanegan scowl surrounded in howls in scores of feedback and guitar noise so it’s hard to imagine exactly what…

Jay Reatard Irish show / new album taster

It’s a case of second time lucky for Jay Reatard as Aiken have announced the Memphis short-attention span rocker is due to play Whelan’s on November 16th after his cancelled appearance last year. Tickets €16 on sale from Wednesday.
On August 18, Matador will be releasing the long-anticipated new LP/CD/digital album from Jay Reatard,…