Indie-gazers The Horrors go in on Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary” from her forthcoming Born This Way: The Remix LP . And…..surprise! It’s actually really good. Cheers, chaps. (SG)
Lady Gaga – Bloody Mary (The Horrors Remix)The Horrors 
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Lady Gaga 
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Rating 8.4
GRMLN, a project by an Orange County college student named Yoodoo, is the perfect music to pass that interminable afternoon in the library or cubicle. These sunny melodies will be most assuredly stuck in your head at the end of a brief listening session. The breathy vocals are more atmospheric than anything, but I do hear a catchy line or two steal the music’s soft thunder. It would be cool to have some elaborate beats counter the melodies- it’s really the only thing keeping me from going gaga. But fans of Seapony through Beach House now have a new love for the weekend. Contributed by Chris Gedos
GRMLN – Relax Yourself (Dolphin Cry)GRMLN 
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RATING: 7.88
Little Boots is back with the new single for “Shake”. On the track, great pop melodies/hooks frame classic-sounding dance pop with a 2011 feel. Very good, Ms. Boots.
Little Boots – ShakeLittle Boots 
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Rating 8.2
“What Tomorrow Brings” is featured off of E-TRAINS forthcoming WRATH OF ROXANE + release. The deluxe reissue of his debut by the same name [-] is expected later this November, of which will also include a collection of unreleased bonus tracks. More new material expected before 2012 leading up to the debut of his new “Glow So Hard” video.
E-TRAIN – What Tomorrow Brings *E-TRAIN – Animal (Remix ft. Switch X Ke$ha)E-TRAIN (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Crushed Beaks are a sharp duo out of London that play noisy melodic rock and roll. They’ve got a single for “Close-Ups” out next week on Too Pure. Visceral, urgent, raw in all the best ways “Close-Ups” is an exciting jam that’s rhythmic and kinetic enough that it might even make you move a little bit.
Crushed Beaks – Close-UpsCrushed Beaks (Facebook) (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
San Fran sunman Giraffage flips a Slow Magic track for the second time. The result is yet another step to the next level for the track, it’s broader, it’s grander, it’s more harmonious. It’s big.
Slow Magic – Feel Flows (Giraffage Remix)Giraffage (Official) (Facebook)
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Rating 8.3
The Milk have all the ingredients to be the next great UK guitar band. A “back to basics” yet still modern referencing sound, great songs, a great frontman, the support of UK radio (including spins from Zane Lowe, and an evening playlist slot on XFM). “B Roads”, the band’s latest single, is the sort good time/feel good shit that the indie rock and roll genre seems sorely short on in the year 2011. Catch a little good time below.
The Milk – B RoadsThe Milk (Official)
Rating 8.1
Loving lots to do with Slothbear’s new LP. Beginning with the fact that it’s a five song full length. Canter On is the perfect balance of post rock and popular music. Almost as polarizing for indie rock today as say something like Pet Sounds in the 60’s. And a personal preference, the band indulges with the perfect touch of naiveté hinting at so much left to say. The creativity is flowing and Canter’s second track and 10 minute long “Goodnight, Retrograde” serves a worthy indicator by many standards. Canter On explores ideas left by some iconic pioneers of pop, post rock, experimental, math, jazz.. and why stop there? I might as well have already burned through several copies of “Ex-teen” at some point in the last 20 years.
Slothbear – Wide Berth Slothbear – Ex-teenSlothbear (Facebook) (Grab the LP)
Rating 9
Las Vegas-based production duo Personal Touch drop a new remix for Poolside’s “Do You Believe”?. The mix is an uptempo nu-disco number with enough nods to 70’s R&B to have even the most discerning soulbrother on the floor in no time.
Poolside -Do You Believe? (Personal Touch Remix)Personal Touch 
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Rating 8.4
The dude Mayer Hawthorne takes PB&J all the way back 1970 on this new remix for “Dig a Little Deeper”. It’s a jangly, well-harmonized joint that would be right at home smack in the middle of an all-request triple play on your local Oldies station.
Peter Bjorn and John – Dig a Little Deeper (Mayer Hawthorne Remix)Peter Bjorn & John 
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Rating 8.0
We are PSYCHED to present the WORLD PREMIERE of LA based collective Y LUV’s single for “Earthquakes”. It’s an ace indie pop track with great melodies AND great hooks for days. Frontman Freddy Janney had this to say about some of the inspiration for the track, “Sam and Evan were talking about earthquakes and the ‘big one’ on the way to a show once and I realized I had been living here for awhile and had never really thought about that possibility. It scared me. It made me realize how fragile life is. It got me thinking about what really matters. Also, while I was freaking out about an earthquake, my sister and her friends were looking at a magazine and freaking out (as much or more) about how amazing someones body was and how they would never look like that and never be as happy as that person . . . I guess it’s all relative. It’s a song that recognizes the world might fall but celebrates that it hasn’t.” Stream “Earthquakes” below and pick it up now at the band’s Bandcamp page.
Y LUV – EathquakesRating 8.4
