Wow. Is this beautiful. Gorgeous. Mesmerizing. Breathtaking! Shlohmo just let loose this lush Burial remix a few hours ago. And must say this is easily one of our favorite remixes of the year. What a track. Have listen for yourself below.
Burial – Shell of Light (Shlohmo Remix)
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Rating: 8.8
Stevie? Sharon Jones? Janelle Monae? Sharing the same stage? Are you as psyched as we are?!?!?? Those amazing artists and many more will pay tribute to great soul music from around the world (including a 40th anniversary tribute to Marvin’s classic What’s Going On record…Stevie doing Marvin! so awesome!) next Sunday night (Jul 24) at the Hollywood Bowl. b3sci has a pair of tickets to giveaway to this super cool show and if you wanna go, all you go to do is hit our email telling us your top 5 favorite Stevie songs. We draw our winner Friday morning. OK, get to it!
Info about Global Soul and Tickets: (Here)
A new heater from the Portuguese, as the Lusophonic homem strike back strong with “Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs)”. (We’ll be counting “Hallelujahs” if somebody can hook us up with an advance copy of the rest of the new album.) “Everything” is triumphant, epic, all those chest-full-of-air, fists-raised-to-the-air, sort of adjectives. It’s got a big sing-a-long chorus, it’s got big instrumentation (HORNS, we’re talking some serious horns), and most of it all, the track just feels great to listen to. It’s empowering. So come on, get a little empowered now with us, won’t you? We’re talking heaters not haters.
Portugal. The Man – Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs)Portugal. The Man 
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Rating: 7.8
We like this track by Twin Cities-native and recent S-Curve Records signee Nikki Jean. But reading the lineup and finding out Black Thought was spitting on a track like this, we were kinda like “uhhhhhh”. But it turns out Nikki was a member of Nouveau Riche, who were based out of The Roots’ home hood of Philly and collaborated with them. So knowing that, that Black Thought isn’t the new Atlantic Records 16-bar-on-a-wack-ass track stooge, we’re cool. And then there’s Lupe.
Nikki Jean – Million Star Motel (Feat. Lupe Fiasco & Black Thought)Nikki Jean 
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Rating 7.999992387
Nick Diamonds is former Unicorns and Islands members Nick Thorburn. The Diamond man releases today, I Am an Attic, an 11-song digital LP available on Bandcamp for whatever price you see fit. Expect a lot of the same “serious absurdity” and “measured goofiness” you’ve come to expect from Thorburn’s releases with Unicorns and Islands. Attic is most defnitely cut from a similar sort of cloth. The whimsical lead track “Attic” is the standout of the set. You can get more info on Nick and I Am an Attic here
Nick Diamonds – AtticNick Diamonds 
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Rating: 7.8
New track from We Were Promised Jetpacks. Not sure we expected this. The band seems keen on walking the crevasse between hooky pop songwriting and notes of “ambition”, like big delay pedal guitars and non-VCV song arrangements. Will this step prove fruitful for the band? The band’s sophomore release In the Pit of the Stomach is due Oct. 4.
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Act On ImpulseWe Were Promised Jetpacks 
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Rating 8.2
Oh yes. The Ghost/Doom collab is real and it’s fire. Get familiar with this sneak peak.
DoomStarks – Victory Laps (Madvillainz Remix)DoomStarks (Info)
Rating: 8.333333
As promised here’s an exclusive look at the video that a select number of our lucky readers (you guys!) put together + Sir Richard Branson! Presenting the 2011 Virgin Mobile FreeFest line up:
We’re psyched!
Interested? Here’s some more info on the festival:
• Virgin Mobile FreeFest will be held late this summer at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD.
• FreeFest has always been about giving back. In 2009, the festival started as a way lighten things up in the face of a rough economy while drawing more attention to The RE*Generation, the company’s platform to address youth homelessness.
• In the past two years, the Festival has raised nearly $300,000 and generated more than 55,000 hours of volunteer time.
• Since Virgin Mobile picks up the cost of tickets, they ask that everyone donate $10 or their time to volunteer for RE*Generation. People who volunteer at the Festival are “FreeIPs” and automatically receive a ticket, a hard to come by commodity as tickets normally “free-out” quickly.
Check out VML here to learn more about FreeFest and RE*Generation
Not only did Pete Tong premiere yesterday a new Calvin Harris track, “Feel So Close”, he closed out the show with this megatron bomb of a remix, it’s Swedish House Mafia and it’s Coldplay, it’s live on b3sci. Go!
Coldplay Vs Swedish House Mafia – Every Teardrop is a WaterfallSwedish House Mafia 
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Rating 8.3
Consider this review a work in progress, for information is scant on “I Will Never Love Another”, the only Motown A-side from FIVE SMOOTH STONES, released in 1969. I think they were a Philly gospel group – I wouldn’t be surprised if this had been written several years before – it recalls a more innocent time, before the irreparable political realities of The Sixties had done their damage. So many of the lost singles could be inserted into the OBG master Rolodex without radio listeners blinking twice. In the ministry, The Five Smooth Stones are faith, obedience, service, prayer, and the holy ghost! The B-side, Love Unto Me, is more standard pop despite the title’s more spiritual syntax. Contributed by Christopher Gedos
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RATING: 9.1
Word has it the chi-town collective has been spending some time in Los Angeles as of late, and if “Swimsuits” featuring the LA based crooner isn’t indication… then we don’t know what is. It’s Saturday, it’s sunny, turn this fucker up! Stream their new album When Fish Ride Bicycles at SKOA. Get into it!
The Cool Kids – Swimsuits (Feat. Mayer Hawthorne)The Cool Kids 
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Rating 8
Definitely our favorite thus far from Skying. “You Said” is just the right mix of shoegaze-y atmosphere and power pop hooks to be a big Radio 1 track. “You Said” should be the next single. “Still Life” is good but “You Said” is better.
The Horrors – You Said
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Rating 8.4
