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When it came time to meet Vancouver’s dance-rock makers, Young Liars (no using “the” please!), we agreed to do the interview at the band’s practice space (located mysteriously somewhere in east van). Night of the meet, the band would only give me two cross streets. When I got to the intersection, two members of the band came out and escorted me into the secret lair of Young Liars. I was either going to be murdered or have a funny conversation with one of Vancouver’s up-and-coming talents.

the interivew show with Young Liars

Young Liars “Colours” (Teen Daze remix) Internet phenomenon and friend of the band TeenDaze did this remix for his buds. Teen Daze actually grew up in the same town as YL’s lead Jordan. It’s a really great remix.

Young Liars “Homesick Future” I get Young Liars to explain the meaning to this song and it’s a great story.

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All right, this is pretty cool.  On June 9, Little Mountain Galley will be hosting the “Music Paste Poster Show”, presented by Music Waste, lindsaysdiet.com, and Pink Kloud Creative.

This one night only event will feature artwork from ten local artists, including Nicholas Goebel and Ariel Hitchcock. Their artwork will showcase posters of concerts that occurred between 1985 and 2005 - concerts that the artists either saw or wished they could have attended.  The event will also include a live musical performance by Hallow Moon at 9:00pm.

The official after party will be hosted by Glory Days at The Biltmore Cabaret from 11pm - 3am. Music Paste attendees will receive vouchers to attend Glory Days for free.

Tickets are only $5.00 and it’s open to all ages. Doors at 7:30pm.

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The beat on this joint is all kinds of crazy and the visuals aren’t half bad either.

“Karma” is off G-Scott’s “Weekend in Los Vegas”  mixtape, which was released in late April.

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Pretty sure you’re gunna wanna cop tickets for their Vancouver performance on September 7 after watching this.

Purity Ring’s debut album “Shrines” is in stores July 24.

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Winnie really does love HUMANS, especially when they jam out with some of the best musicians Vancouver has to offer (Mother Mother’s Ali Siadat, James Calvin Thompson, and Tom Heuckendorff)… enjoy Pt. 2 of The DDG Sessions w/ Das HUMANS.

From Vancouver w/ love.

Hyped by John

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It’s possible El-P has been all over your radar the last few weeks. He’s got a new LP in ‘Cancer For Cure’, he produced Killer Mike’s ‘R.A.P. Music’ which came out earlier this month, and he was even on Letterman.

Now watch him recreate ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, only ditch Nevada for Brooklyn and his side kick is the puppet from that Mr Oizo video from the late 90’s.

El-P - The Full Retard

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Way back I posted a sick track paired with a groovy music video. You might remember… “Here With you”? Well get this — Say hello to Camouflage Lodge by Tubetops’ Kevin Bendis.

For fans of: Cut Copy, Grizzly Bear, MGMT

Introduced to the net by John

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Today just got a whole lot better.

“We wanted to do a big pop song and wrote it in my bedroom in a night. I played the track later that week at a Blood Diamonds show with Claire as the secret guest. It was ridiculous. We wore LED glasses and projected the PS2 game “Rez” onto a mise-en-scène of “Twin Peaks”, whilst performing on a slippery stage due to the opening act (ice skaters on fake ice dancing to a David Lynch cover orchestra). Later that month, I reproduced “Phone Sex” with halo drums and we re-wrote the lyrics together. When Claire came over to work on those, I didn’t have my phone on me and she slept on my complex’s porch for half an hour, I still feel bad about it. The song was mixed down in Kansas City on a board which was also used on Thriller (mostly did this for laughs).” - Blood Diamonds

The Phone Sex EP will be released on July 24th in the US.

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Trails and Ways record out of a bedroom studio in Oakland, CA but their newest single Nuca was “inspired by a hot June day in São Paulo listening to Drake and Jorge Ben.”

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LA kids? Yup, I know you can tell. These guys got some bumping’ show up in Vegas sometime or recently. Anyways, they done doin’ real good for a couple o’ twerps.

Keep it up. Download their single “Float” free here.

Quickie hype by John

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