Hot 97 just dropped the premiere of Donald’s much anticipated “Bonfire” track. Big beat.
Childish Gambino – Bonfire (Radio Rip)Childish Gambino 
(Blog) (Official)
Rating 8.5
Hot 97 just dropped the premiere of Donald’s much anticipated “Bonfire” track. Big beat.
Childish Gambino – Bonfire (Radio Rip)Childish Gambino (Blog) (Official)
Rating 8.5
An essential tune for your weekend mix. Turn it way up.
Migari – One More ChanceMigari (Soundcloud) (Myspace)
Rating 8.2
Pet Scenes continue to piss people off everywhere with the release of their forthcoming EP, Idle Children. Fav track “Melt” evokes the sort of madness/mayhem that other bands can only have wet dreams about.
Pet Scenes – MeltPet Scenes 
(Info) (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.2
Last night, James Blake became the latest artist to air a set inside BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix. The mix played out much like a palette, an insight into some corners of JB’s sort musical universe. There were darker, sparer songs, more soulful even uplifting songs and there were new James Blake songs too. One song in the set that especially stuck us was this mix of Blake’s “Half Heat Full” and YM’s “Up All Night”. The mix sort of fits in a sound lane with Clams Casino or other similar Future Garage Hop productions. Get into it.
James Blake x Drake – Half Heat Full x Up All NightJames Blake : (Official) (Label) (Myspace)
Rating 8.3
Yes! We love The Social! Ever wanted to hear what The Smiths would sound like fronted by Ian Curtis? That would be an awesome collaboration for sure. So The Social kind of sound like that. On “UK Gothic” you’ll hear refs to a greatest hits of early to mid 80’s UK guitar bands (Smiths, JD, New Order, Cure, Bunnymen, etc). Listen.
The Social – UK GothicThe Social (Myspace)
Rating 8.3
Works of great critical acclaim often suffer from a backlash against their popularity, not through any fault of the creative enterprise but rather the whims and caprices of the general public. For example, we’ve become sick of hearing that The Beatles released five of arguably the top ten albums of all time (Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s, White Album, Abbey Road), or that Dylan released three of the top twenty over a period of less than eighteen months (Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde). Especially with the proliferation of information, hearsay via the opinions of others provides a sustainable mode of expression. Why restate the opinion of 1,000 others to change an adjective or preposition?
Lovers of “alternative rock music” are understandably sick of hearing about In the Aeroplane over the Sea, which has been lauded unconditionally for as long as there’s been rock journalism on the internet. We’ve grown to take the combo of feedback and irony for granted, but Jeff Magnum is one of the best exporters of the style, on full display during all 39 minutes of his 1998 magnum opus. Become best friends with that tortured writer across the hall if you live in Boston and they have tickets to Magnum’s concert at Jordan Hall on Sept. 10th. Tracks 1-4 of In the Aeroplane are sublime, but the rest of the album is the glue which gives the LP its infinite replay value. Contributed by Christopher Gedos – Chris performs tonight @ The Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA. 7pm.
Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Neutral Milk Hotel – The Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 Neutral Milk Hotel – UntitledNeutral Milk Hotel 
(Official)
Rating: 9.7
Here’s our latest Virgin Mobile Live broadcast because we’ve been straight drooling to recap the week’s choice tunes. Tracklist is after the jump. GET INTO IT!
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In the world of electronic music High Contrast is kind of a big deal. Back after a three hiatus, HC rallies two other names from EM you may have heard of TIESTO and UNDERWORLD. That’s an impact lineup for a returning release! Annie Mac had the premiere last night and now you can sample the massive “The First Note Is Silent” below.
Track Removed By Request
High Contrast – The First Note Is Silent (Feat. Tiesto & Underworld)
High Contrast 
(Official) (Myspace)
Rating 8.4
“Jackie Blue” by 70’s band Ozark Mountain Devils is one of those great classic rock radio staples. Those moments of one hit wonder transcendence that your local classic rock DJ bro sandwiches between triple play sets from Pink Floyd and AC/DC. Check out AM & Shawn Lee’s cool spin on the tune below.
AM & Shawn Lee (Tumblr) (Facebook)
Rating 8.0
“I Need” is UK artist Maverick Sabre’s follow up to his massive breakout single “Let Me Go”. “I Need” treads in a similarly soulful buttery territory. “I Need”‘s melody is the true star here though, it’s one of those melodies that grabs you instantly and won’t let go well after you’ve played through the track, once, twice, ten times. It’s that good.
Maverick Sabre – I NeedMaverick Sabre (Official) (Twitter)
Rating 8.4
The b3sci family traveled this past weekend to suburban Baltimore to check out the Virgin Mobile Freefest. Here’s a little “photojournal” on our experience!
Favs Alberta Cross kicked shit off with a serviceable set of Anglo-American rock.
The handsome half of Bombay Bicycle Club sat down with us for a post-set interview.
In between some weird Drake-lite ballad non-jams Big Sean otherwise wrecked it.
Running into Sir Richard Branson and his shimmering CEO mullet backstage was some surreal shit.
Calvin Harris got Freefest moving with a sharp DJ Set.
So many bees.
Grace Potter is a powerhouse.
Ms. Potter gave easily the best interview of the Festival.
Someone forgot to clean up.
NE Ohio bros 4 life.
Deadmau5.
MMG’s man in the ATL, Pill, does the damn thing on top an Isley Brothers sample in tribute to his hometown. 1996 Summer Games ref of the year: “Jumpin out the GM 96 Olympics, Dominique Dawes on my balls.”
Pill – Atlanta (Feat. Phil Daniels)Pill 
(Myspace)
Rating 8.0
