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Watch the video for “I Walked Alone” from YACHT.

Danish electronic musician Jens Lindahl creates a noir landscape that has all the energy to make me walk a little faster, but also a calmness that sedates and mellows the boring calamity that can plague so much drug-addled house music…

Listen to The Ting Tings‘ song “Silence” remixed by Bag Raiders below. Two years is a long time in the music world – so much so that I actually needed to go back and listen to The Ting Tings‘ debut album in comparing it to their recent singles on their upcoming album.  Their new sound [...]

Spank Rock is not an artist known for restraint. Since his 2006 masterwork “Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo”, Rock, real name Naeem Juwan, has mixed sociopolitical metaphors with aggressive sexual come-ons, Bmore booty-shaking, and XXXchange’s speaker-destroying production. On his newest album, the immaculately titled “Everything Is Boring And Everybody Is A Fucking Liar”, Spank [...]

Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD I’m going to start off this post by being completely honest.  I had no idea who Apparat was before listening to this album. As in, I hadn’t even heard Sascha Ring’s alias in passing. I actually had to Wikipedia him. And when I did, [...]

This is one of those rare occasions where I can’t draw from a bag of artists to compare to because this one happens to be a cannonball of everything that embodies the now, which ironically means a unique composite of nostalgia and digital manipulation. Ladies and gents, the Mozart of bedroom synths and electro, I [...]

“Re-Introducing”? This is a new feature to fill a little niche on LBYB, bringing some more attention to artists that we thought would explode but haven’t quite yet, or just throwing the limelight on an act that hasn’t had any recent releases that we just love too damn much not to write about. The Octopus [...]

Listen to The Whip – “Wired Together” below.  Sign up for eMusic and download 25 songs for free! I often judge an album, particularly a dance or a pop album, by how well I can cook to it. This may sound like a weird standard, but just bear with me. See, much like zoning out [...]

Yesterday evening DOM, the guys who brought us the party summer hit of 2010 “Living In America” dropped two new tracks. “Crazy Girl” has been played live numerous times before and you might’ve seen some of the live versions of it kicking around online, but this time we have the studio version. With a rumbling, [...]

I’ve been on an electronic and synthesizing kick, recently, after seeing Com Truise, and producer Daniel “Skit” Bruin fits perfectly into that.  I won’t hold his record label’s silly name against Skit, but “Rankadank”?  Really?  I’m tempted to just call them “badonkadonk.”  But I digress. The tracks, “Capoeira” and “Atlantis” are definitely easy to listen to [...]

On Sept 13  ANR (A New Republic) will be re-releasing the highly enjoyable “Stay Kids” album from earlier this year. Sometimes re-releases are nothing more than irritating but since the boys from Miami are strapping on four additional tracks, and its message is worth repeating, the new pressing seems worth the effort. “New Armor” is [...]

As anticipation builds for the release of Zola Jesus‘ fourth album “Conatus”, we’re beginning to hear more and more from her. The last we heard was when she guested on M83′s latest song “Intro”, before that we had “Avalanche” which she recorded as part of her excellent Daytrotter session, and before that came “Vessel”, but [...]

As we leave Summer and make our way into Autumn we have a bumper couple of months lined up, not just with some amazing albums in the pipeline but also some great shows too. September especially has some huge albums coming out, with St. Vincent, CANT, Laura Marling, Wild Flag, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, [...]

Trying to follow up an album like Justice‘s debut “† (Cross)” is a huge feat, something even Justice would have difficulty doing. Apparently that seems to be the case because the two or three tracks that we’ve heard from the follow-up second album have been nowhere near as good as some of the tracks on [...]

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