Audrianna Cole is a indie pop artist out of Salem, Oregon who recently collaborated with Andrew Boss. Audrianna’s new single “Misplaced” was produced by HighJAC and tells a heartbreaking tale of a person’s refusal to give up on love.

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Oxford, UK brings us a new single out of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs entitled “Household Goods”. Yes, this is a mouth full… but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t wish there were more artists and songs with ridiculously long names.

Can you imagine if he was dead set on the name “Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs” and came to find out it had been taken? I guess it would be one of those, “OMFG, REALLY?” moments… followed by 15 minutes of staring at the screen in disbelief.

Or maybe there were other names in the mix before finally settling with T.E.E.D?

The Zombie Mailbox Takeover?

High Fiving Retro Robots?

Guess we’ll never know… Scholars maintain that the answers to these questions were lost many years ago.

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Bright Eyes have announced a new album. “The People’s Key” will be released on February 15th of 2011 on Saddle Creek. Below is a track entitled “A Perfect Sonnet” off his November 1999 released EP.

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Random Fact: Oberst is one of founding members of “The Faint”. back when they were known as Norman Bailer.

Full track list for The People’s Key:

1 Firewall
2 Shell Games
3 Jejune Stars
4 Approximate Sunlight
5 Haile Selassie
6 A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)
7 Triple Spiral
8 Beginner’s Mind
9 Ladder Song
10 One For You, One For Me

In support of the album Oberst announced a couple shows for next year:

New York City: Radio City Music Hall -March 9th
London: Royal Albert Hall – June 23rd.

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In mid 2007 until late 2008, Martin Bonventre toured with RATATAT on keys. Fast forward to present day and we have the debut album out of his new band, The French Kings. I enjoy that “Ladies and Gentlemen” doesn’t elude to the obvious influence from his time on the road with RATATAT.

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I couldn’t help but LOL at Owl City when he said in an interview, “I’ve never heard of The Postal Service.” Then a few months later, guess who he unintentionally admitted was his number one influence.

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So thank you Martin, this is a great album out of your new band The French Kings and your not playing us for chumps. A tip of the hat to you sir.

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Before I dive into this great new band I need to talk about a dream I just woke up from.

In this dream, I was at the premier of the new Twilight movie… Don’t ask me why, I’m just as confused as you at this point.

Anyways, I’m at this red carpet event and I have a sign with me that I’m carrying around in protest.

I look up to read this sign and it reads, “Out with Pattinson, In with Heder.”

Jon Heder is the dude who played Napoleon Dynamite.

So now I’m awake and confuzzled…

Is someone trying to extract information from my dreams?

…or trying to plant ideas in my head for a greater purpose?

Am I still dreaming? DUN DUN DUN!

Any theories? I’m all ears.

On to the music. I was lookin feelin’ like a million bucks, I stumbled upon this next song and now I’m fresh dressed. The Cassette Kids hail from Sydney. They recently returned to the studio after a massive tour circuit in which they played along side of The Ting Things, Crystal Castles and the Presets.

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Their upcoming album “Nothing on TV” is set to release in early 2011 and includes collaborations from the likes of Richard Wilkinson (Hot Chip) and Van She.

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It was late. The road seemed never ending, white stripes leading nowhere. He knew he had to stop soon for his eyes were becoming weary. The flickering neon sign of the Calisto Hotel seemed to be the answer to his prayer.

Not knowing what would become of the rest his night, he parked the car in the lot. The place looked vacant, abandoned almost. He treaded up the steps and smirked at a dingy grey welcome doormat. He opened the heavy door, a stale scent in the air. He tapped the bell. It rang out with a terrible cry…

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Without a beat, an old man appeared in the lobby. His vest was moth eaten, but at this point it didn’t matter. “I need a room”, he muttered, handing blindly his ID and credit card. In what seemed a moment, he was sinking into his bed for the night. “Finally some rest”, he thought.

Suddenly, a blaring siren echoed in the silence of the night. Panicked the man sprung to his feet and raced to the door. He peeked out from the peep hole. Nothing…

As quickly as the siren had screamed out in what seemed to him as agony, it disappeared.

He was awake. He couldn’t help but think, “Had it be a dream? Had he made the entire thing up? No one else seemed to have noticed…”

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He turned back around to a room with no furniture, not even a bed. He stood there in a daze of complete confusion. In a reluctance to stay around long enough to figure out what’s going on, he reached back for the door and fell to the concrete with a loud *thud*. The door was gone…

The breeze of the cold night rushed by his face. It made his hair stand straight up and he let out a great shudder. He closed his eyes in order to escape this nightmare.

He heard a car door slam and then the sirens came rushing back. His eyes opened…

A police car drove past him and he was sitting in the back seat.

Inspired by:

Sulk Station, on Myspace.

Br’er, on Myspace and Fo’ Sale.

…and that crazy ass skeleton from “Tales of the Crypt”.

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Last month we were introduced to the next chapter in music from Chromeo. “Don’t Turn The Lights On” is the second single on their LP set for release on September 14th entitled Business Casual. They are currently on a tour until the end of August in support of the upcoming release. We got a chance to chat with Dave on the phone before his set last night in Boston about the album, the state of music, and cultivating their brand of imagery.

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You guys have a new album coming out soon, “Business Casual”. What can we expect and do you have any personal favorites on the album?

In both our cases, our personal favorite is “J’ai Claque la Porte”, which is the french ballad on the album. It’s sort of a new “Momma’s Boy” if you will, being something different from our more traditional sound that we’re really proud of and happy with.

I could tell from the video it had more of an upper class feel to it.

Yea, exactly. We just put out another video yesterday, we’re just trying to go somewhere we haven’t gone before. There’s something a little more darker and sexier about it. The last record was really bubbly and fun.

Is dancing a big part of you or was it something you learned for the video?

My friend, I’m going to disappoint you greatly and if you hang up the phone I completely understand but there’s a dance double in that video. He’s also 1 foot and a half shorter than me and when we finished the video, Pete and I were convienced that everyone was going to be able to tell. Sure enough, nobody was.

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What’s the wierdest thing that’s happened to you guys while on tour?

Recently, we went to Serbia and played an amazing festival over there, it was one of our favorite gigs. But the whole experience of getting into that country, our crew waiting at the border in the middle of the night for hours and having to bribe people to get in. This wierd hotel which was really chic but in a very sorta soviet post communist era way with the hookers in the lobby.

That was slightly surreal. A little David Lynch meets Soviet block. Not to mention the fact that you couldn’t get ketchup at the restaurants.

What gear and do you guys use for recording and live setups?

A bunch of 80′s and late 70′s analog equipment. Anything from the Moog and even more modern emulators of those vintage synths. We definately try to keep everything vintage.

Chromeo has a very defined artistic style. What are the main inspirations behind the visuals of the band?

All the 80′s and 70′s iconography. We would sit and look at record covers for hours and obviously in the 70′s and 80′s they had different technologies. Something that would be more on an arcahic technologoy of creating album covers where you would have to actually do some collages, manually cut, superimpose stuff and get really striking results.

There’s a design company called Hypnosis and they did a bunch of really classic early 80′s album covers. That’s a huge influence on our aesthetic. Anything from that all the way to Classic ZZ top, Micheal Jackson, Robert Palmer movies, to 90′s Hip hop actually.

Anyone recently you would say you grab influence from?

No, I think we admire other comtemporary bands that are equally as stylized as we are even though there style is different. That could be anyone from Daft Punk, to Kayne, to Justice, to Vampire Weekend. They all have really defined styles and make strong stylistic choices even though it looks nothing like us. That’s what we really respect.

What kind of animal are you and why?

A girraffe cause I’m tall and skinny.

Today with electronic music, just about anyone is able to produce a track in his or her room and throw it up online. Do you think with music being so available, it has decreased the shelf life of singles, albums, and the artist’s overall time spent in the lime light?

No, I don’t think so. I think it’s great from up and coming musicians to make their stuff available and heard. I think we all benefit from it because we hear stuff that we never had access to before. I don’t think it really hurts established artists because first of all, they have a bigger promotional machine behind them for better or worse so they can afford to stay in the lime light longer. Obviously there is a huge amount of information out there but I think it’s up to us to learn how to filter through it and select the stuff we deem the most interesting.

Where did the name Chromeo come from?

I came up with it one morning quite a few years ago and it’s a mix between Chrome and Romeo.

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Other than getting Lindsay Lohan out of jail, what is the most important thing we need to fix as a society?

Education system and Health Care.

Is there sense of a brotherly rivalry between you and A-trak? Has it been a driving factor for your career choice?

No, there’s no rivarly, we’re extremely close and we work together on everything.

What is the best advice you an offer to upcoming musicians?

Perseverance and integrity. I don’t want to get preachy but if there’s anything that anyone can learn from the career we’ve had is that if you keep doing what you do long enough people might not take you seriously at first but then there’s an enormous amount of respect that comes with that perserverance and continuity.

Favorite Saturday morning cartoon as a kid?

I didn’t watch alot of them. I guess Roadrunner.

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These guys look like they would show up somewhere in your dreams…
Would you run?
Have a conversation?
Play a game of monopoly?
Invite them to a party?
What kind of music do you think they listen to?
What are their names?
Have you seen Inception yet?

I’m pretty damn excited for today’ss post. Why?

Well click the play button…

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I know, great stuff right? Mikky Ekko is a post-pop solo artist out of Nashville, TN who released their debut album in 2009. It’s refreshing to get some music in with such an organic sound. Keep your eyes peeled for his second studio album which will debut in the near future.

Moving right along, we’ve got a Jose Gonzalez remix out of Don E to kick back to. I’ve always been a huge fan of UK garage and was sold the moment the drums were introduced in this track. With similar ambient elements in his music, it’s easy to see why Don notes Circa Survive as his biggest music influence.

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I mentioned earlier this week about what great things I’ve been getting through the pipeline. Every once in awhile you come across an act that has the complete package. Kamp! is one of those groups that just get it. The music, the visual, and the performance aspects are all present.

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Kamp! is a electro pop trio that hails from Poland. They are a perfect fit between the electro pop of today and the inspiring sounds of the 80′s. I’ve had these guys on repeat for the past couple days. Look for their debut album in Autumn of 2010.

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Yes, we are always running for the thrill of it. Go Go Bizkitt! is a house producer named Tom Nelson out of the UK. With an electro funk vibe similar to Ed Banger’s Breakbot, it’s easy to let yourself go when listening to his “Fuck it, let’s dance” style of music.

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Next up we have The Sweaters. This indie pop trio out of Nashville, TN takes a non traditional approach by combining live drums with a drum machine which makes for pleasing layers in their music. The vocals in their music seems to soar abpve the instrumentation and I have to say that I’m very much in love with the organ in “All for Sun”. You can purchase their music here.

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