Oh yes. Nu-wave R&B girls start taking notes, new Mad Decent signee LIZ blows the nascent genre’s script out the box w/ her Picard Brothers-produced gem “U Over Them”. You need this track in your life right now.
LIZ 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Oh yes. Nu-wave R&B girls start taking notes, new Mad Decent signee LIZ blows the nascent genre’s script out the box w/ her Picard Brothers-produced gem “U Over Them”. You need this track in your life right now.
LIZ (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Saa are great. If you’re unfamiliar, the darkly melodic track and video “Against Interpretation” should serve as an appropriate introduction to the b3 fave Anglo-Nordic duo. Saa’s s/t debut EP is due July 8th on UK label Left Blank.
Saa 
(Tumblr)
Rating 8.2
In. love. “When” is the breezy new single from Italian duo M+A. The first announced track from M+A’s sophomore LP These Days, is sleek, sophisticated and infinitely catchy. In 2013, we need more tracks like “When”.
M+A 
(Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.3
Husky Beats’ cannot be stopped. The R&B-leaning “Let Me Know” is just the latest in the Detroit beatmaker’s recent run of excellent material.
Husky 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
The Chainsmokers continue to stand out among their genre’s peers as they persist to find always new and engaging ways to push the Pop EDM sound. The NYC duo’s new remix for ASTR is crazy good and demands your attention right now.
The Chainsmokers 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
Member of the (awesome) Brooklyn soul-synth pop act Body Language, Matthew Young releases a new solo EP “Churn” under the moniker Seafloor. Marrying elements of classic house and jungle to more contemporary trends in indie dance music, “Churn’s” three tracks do an adept job at covering a lengthy C.V. of genres and sounds while maintaining excellent dynamics, cohesion and pacing; all that and the EP is really really good. “I Won’t Love You” is our pick.
Seafloor (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
The Arctics have released a single just ahead of their Glastonbury gig the final weekend of June. They have told us they expect to head back to the harder, darker sound of their “Humbug” album. For my personal taste, that was their least appealing effort to date. “Do I Wanna” know does have a heavy guitar, but it’s a slower, fairly melodic track. It may or may not be an indication of what’s to come, but it’s a win in my book. By Bruce Rave
Arctic Monkeys 
(Official) (Facebook)
* Links and playlists from Rave’s weekly new music show can be found on his blog and be sure follow Bruce on Twitter too!
The soulful dark pop of Glass Animals continues to fascinate Team B3. New track, “Exxus” (Double-A w/ the also phenomenal “Black Mambo”) is one of the finest executions of the current trend twoard minimalist beat-driven R&B-informed gloom pop we’ve heard. The potential and promise of Glass Animals seems exponential.
Glass Animals (Facebook)
Rating 8.6
L.A.-based producer David Dann captures an excellent bit of mood and after hours club atmosphere with his latest remix for The xx.
David Dann (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
S.F.-based dream pop act Yassou Benedict release new single “The Cloisters”. Excerpted from the band’s forthcoming (July 2) “In Fits In Dreams” EP, “The Cloisters” dynamically builds across the track’s 3:48 duration with syrupy counter harmony and swells of clean melodic guitar lines adding panache. Of maybe most note though is the quality and conviction of singer Lilie Bytheway-Hoy’s vocal choices and performance.
Yassou Benedict (Facebook)
Rating 8.9
Texan synthpop crew Night Drive is releasing a new Remix EP for their latest single “Drones”. It’s a safe bet that you’ve already been (or at least should be) non-stop jamming to Bit-Funk’s stellar version of the track for the past week. Here’s your first chance to check out the full collection of dance floor bangers including additional remixes from Glasnost and Crystal Vision.
Also, below we’ve got the premiere for the superbly cut and visually stimulating music video for “Drones”. As the band puts it about their filming experience for the video, “We shot tons of footage over the course of 2 days, and at the end of the last day we were all pretty delirious. Rodney and I were lying down on a green screen and the crew started dropping pieces of paper on our faces. Jim filmed it and we ended up really liking it. Now we have all of this unused footage we plan to turn into a silent detective film.”
Night Drive (Soundcloud)
NIGHT DRIVE – DRONES (Official Music Video) from nightdrivemusic on Vimeo.
Rating 8.3
Love. Love. Love. Brotherly love by way of electronic production duo Love Thy Brother on this new remix of John Newman’s “Love Me Again”. The sample textures and vocal hook arranging make for a welcome sunny reinterpretation of this already stellar track. Lovely, isn’t it?
Love Thy Brother 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
