Polymorphic Raises Some Hell

As the days get darker so shall the music, and it's with that in mind, that note we welcome back the fold Moscow's own Polymorphic with the ever turbulent Rock On EP. This time out Polymorphic delivers the goods with 3 new tracks, 'Rock On', 'Scream' & 'Move Faster'. The EP also features a remix of the title track by Marseille who also had a hand it turning
out Proxy's Raven last year.

Repetitive to the point where your head might explode, this EP is not for the feint at heart. With a bit of old school rave coursing through the tunes as well as some decidedly brutal synths, the tunes here are heavy as hell and insist on causing as much damage as possible.

Polymorphic gets what he asks for as pretty much everything that stands in the way of this EP gets crushed in a fearless display of electronic aggression. Brutally brilliant!

Download: Rock On
Download: Scream

The Bravery Are Nothing But Spectators

It looks like the Bravery are making a full on assault on the world prior to their new album release. The new album, Stir The Blood, comes out on December 1 and it looks like they'll be firing warning shots until then. With the album's first single "Slow Poison" being played on radio stations throughout the land, the song "The Spectator," which will be on Stir The Blood, will also be released tomorrow on the Vampire Diaries soundtrack and we all know what that means tomorrow...PANIC!!

As for the song itself, it seems as though The Bravery have left their little feud with the Killers so far behind them it's not even a blip on the radar and have now totally embraced their inner Interpol.

The tune is good. It's a dark little ditty that I'm sure the goths (and vampire freaks) will fall in love with and pack out dry ice filled dance floors. Hopefully, the rest of the album is as consistent and good.

Until then, enjoy being a "Spectator."

Download: The Spectator

Ten Tracks You Need #43

So as fate would have it, there were absolutely no Comcast outages today and as promised here is the third installment of this weekend's Ten Tracks You Need. Rather than babble on I'm just going to suggest you get to work. (I'm out of material).

Enjoy...see you on Monday.

Ten Tracks You Need
1) Relation - Your Tiny Mind (Lifelike Radio Edit)

2) Sambassadeur - Days

3) Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear

4) Dragonette - Easy (Buffet Libre Remix)

5) Mercury Program - Arrived / Departed

6) Trash Yourself - Forget It (DJ Loli This Kiss Remix)

7) Straaatch - We Got (Trash Yourself Remix)

8) Dave Wrangler - Money (NASA Vs. YACHT)

9) Headlights - Get Going

10) Almight Defenders - Cone of Light

Bonus Zips
Zombies Can't Dance...a rock opera full album download!

Sole and the Skywriters - Black via Mediafire

DATA - Rapture (KidVid & BBop Remix) via Zshare

Vetiver - More of This (Neighbors Remix)

Shy Child - Criss Cross

Videos
Nickeleye - You and Everyone Else

Titiyo & Moto Boy -If Only Your Bed Could Cry

Lawrence of Araba - The Beautiful Young Crew

Ten Tracks You Need #42

The first rule of show and tell is that the second you're ready to show someone something that you've been talking about it NEVER works. That is essentially the story of today. If you remember yesterday, I went on about consistency and how I was going to do three posts this weekend. Well as fate would have it I woke up to absolutely NO Internet connectivity! This obviously made it difficult to uphold my promise. While I was frustrated I couldn't help but laugh.

So here were are late Saturday night, with a post that should have been up 12 hours earlier. Anyway, the third part of this weekends triple threat should be up tomorrow afternoon...barring unforeseen Comcast outages.

That's about it for now, check back tomorrow for more tracks.

Enjoy...

Ten Tracks You Need
1) Max Justus - Seven website

2) Capybara - The Wimp (Sam Billen Remix) website

3) New Villager - Rich Doors website

4) GA & DU - I Like KK

5) Little Girls - Growing website

6) Stricken City - Small Things website

7) The Cinematics - New Mexico website

8) Hungry Kids of Hungary - Let You Down website

9) The River Phoenix - 5 Wheel Drive website

10) The Sun - Don't Let Your Baby Have All The Fun website

Bonus Zips
The Record Machine 2009 Sampler

Jedi Nemesis - Eureka Mixtape via Mediafire

Merdan Taplak - Metisse (Kill Frenzy Remix) via Mediafire

CJ Milli - Finally Los Angeles via Mediafire...you'll know this tune!

The Vibes - Sizzla Tale via Sendspace

RCRD LBL (opens in seperate window)
Apache Beat - Your Powers Are Magic (Cubic Zirconia Remix)

The Glass - Superhero(Bit Thief Remix)

Major Lazer -Jump Up (Laza Beam Remix)

VHS or Beta - Feel It When You Know (LA Riots Remix)

Rob - Femme Et Enfant

Videos
Hotel St. George - Apples and Pears

Tracy Shedd - City At Night

High Places - I Was Born

Cracked Latin - My Hallucination

Ten Tracks You Need #41

One of the hardest things about doing a blog, I believe, is staying consistent. It's one thing to say you do a blog, it's another thing to actually do it and do it day in and day out. As of late I've been struggling with that very concept. Not because I don't enjoy doing this, because trust me I love this, but simply because I've been buried in work.

If you read POP! Stereo regularly you'll know that I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago. Upon my return I was greeted with over 1100 emails. That's ALOT of email to respond to and seeing as though most had a track or zip file attached that's a ton of music to sort through as well. As a result of that, it's taken me FOREVER to sort through it all. I've been home for about three weeks now and I JUST finished reading and downloading it.

I know you don't really care about all that, but because of the sheer volume of email my posting on the site, as of late, has been lackluster at best. Until now. As a result of all this email and music and lack of posting, I've got not one, not two, but three TEN TRACKS YOU NEED posts for you this weekend.

This is the first of the bunch and there will be two more over the course of the weekend. So, clear out some hard drive space, grab a beer and have fun. And just so you know, things will resume normality from this point forward and you can expect to see posts on a regular basis once again (I'm out of vacation time). On a side note, thanks to all who frequent this blog and download the tracks I highlight and thanks to everyone who sends so much killer music I've filled three hard drives in under a year! You guys all rock.

Ten Tracks You Need
1) Housewives - Dirty Dancing website

2) Tahiti 80 - Unpredictable website

3) Crystal Vision - Rhythm Is A Dancer website

4) B. - Imperial March website

5) Alan Singley & Pants Machine - Today Is A Postcard website

6)Citay - Eye on the Dollar (White Rainbow Remix) website

7) Xiu Xiu - Volcana website

8) Mixhell x Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls (edit)

9) Cold Cave - Life Magazine website

10) Headlights - Get Going website

Bonus Zips
Right On Dynamite - Alright via Yousendit

Shmu - Fester via Zshare

Wake Up! - Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - We Will Ball (Remix) via MediaFire

NASA - Tanning on the Moon Mixtape via Mediafire

Nana Grizol - For Things That Have Come Yet via Mediafire

RCRD LBL (opens in another window)
Aural Exciters - Spooks In Space (Luke Howard Felix Dickson Filthy Foolish Edit)

Amanda Blank - Shame On Me (Jacknife Lee Extended Remix)

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

Datarock - The Pretender (Holy Ghost Remix Radio Edit)

Little Boots - Earthquake (Treasure Fingers Epicwave Mix)

Pylon - Beep

The Soft Pack - Fences

Bodycode - Imitation Lover

Andrew WK - Hoboken Toffee

Videos
3OH3 - Starstrukk (guilty pleasure!)

Peter Squires - Witch

The Clean - In The Afterlife You Need A Rubber Soul

Fan Death - Reunited

Yippee It's Lee and Willbee

Lee & Willbee began as a collaboration between Lee Chameleon and Markus Willbee. In the beginning they formed a strong bond as the rhythm section for La Makita Soma, criss-crossing the country playing rock clubs, raves and music festivals showcasing their energetic blend of psychedelic rock and electronic dance music. La Makita Soma made multiple appearances at SXSW and after both of their releases charted in the CMJ Top 100, the band also played the annual CMJ festival. After La Makita Soma, the musical bond and friendship formed by years of forging rhythms together continued.

Both were eager to venture outside their previous musical roles and decided to start a new project, hiding away with their instruments and recording songs that had thematic and melodic integrity and sounded sweet like candy. A tonic for troubled souls who are not afraid of a catchy melody. The two spent many hours their Chicago studio crafting the songs until one fateful day Markus was called away to the mountains of Utah.

Lee & Willbee continued their endeavor via the web and during these long months of isolation an able bodied soul came to the aid and assistance of the hermits. Seattle’s Patrick Roche joined the boys and delivered a breath of fresh air to the project. Manning his guitar and savvy attention to detail he coaxed the two young men from their solitary existences and encouraged them to reassert themselves and peddle their musical elixir. It didn’t take long till the three were thick as thieves. North Carolina is the threesome’s debut album on its own Lost In The Woods label.

Download: Love's Not Worth It
Download: Day of Sunshine

Happy Hollowseen

The Happy Hollows' catchy yet dissonant sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90's college rock, garage punk, art rock, and 80's pop. The band combines innovative song structures, surreal lyrics, and fiercely adept instrumentation to recreate reality into a jagged panorama of vibrant, kaleidoscopic collage. Listening to their music, one cannot help but see visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious.

The young group's infectious and irreverent noise-pop has earned considerable following up and down the west coast, with their energetic and charismatic performances. Vocalist/guitarist Sarah Negahdari wields ominous riffs and finger-tapped arpeggios while singing with a cherubic-yet-mischievous grin. Meanwhile, the agile rhythm section of Charles Mahoney (bass/vocals) and Chris Hernandez (drums/vocals) vault and lunge with precision.

It's classic stuff that's not like most of the stuff coming out of California and that should be no surprise seeing as though the band worked with former Mighty Lemon Drop David Newton. It's like early to mid-90's British pop run through the Valley and the Galleria and then coerced into sounding American. Good stuff to say the least.

Download: Faces
Download: High Wire
Download: Monster Room