Daily MPfree: Compilation

Snipe Likes: The Jim Jones Revue

Here’s a particularly frenzied slice of psychobilly from The Jim Jones Revue. See them live if you can, they’re incendiary in the same way The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion once were.

The Jim Jones Revue – Big Len by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Future Islands

We’ve a good one for you today: Future Islands‘ “melodramatic popular song”. This is the opening track from their brilliant 2010 album “In Evening Air”, which is out now on Thrill Jockey. They hit the UK in late September: watch the next issue for more.

Future Islands – Walking Through That Door by snipelondon

Snipe Likes: Summer Camp

Issue #3 cover stars Summer Camp have put up a new video. Something to do with Paddy Power, weirdly. But hey! Summer Camp video! The single release follows on Sept 13th.

Daily MPfree: Babe Rainbow

Babe Rainbow is our friend Cameron Reed from Vancouver. Having just played the Warm Up Sessions at PS1 in Brooklyn with Animal Collective and CFCF he’s released this Screwed Mixtape, featuring a load of Babe Rainbow tunes and assorted remixes of tracks you might recognise such as Comanechi and Zomby. There’s also a brilliant “The Descent” style video for Shaved at the bottom there. Enjoy.

Babe Rainbow – Popcommon (Rico Uno’s Fast Blend)
Babe Rainbow – Shaved
Midnight Juggernauts – The New Technology (Babe Rainbow Dark & Dubby Remix)
Babe Rainbow – Mexico (Rico Uno’s Drifter Blend)
Babe Rainbow – Tummy Sticks (Rico Uno’s Got To Be Strong Blend)
Demarco – True Friend (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Fine Mist – In The Mountains (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Comanechi – On & On (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Zomby – Aquafresh (Babe Rainbow Stilettos Blend)
Basketball – Lightning Lip
Wavves – Weed Demon (Babe Rainbow Surf-Step Edit)
DOOM – Gazzillion Ear (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Babe Rainbow & Basketball – Proper (Rico Uno This Feeling Blend)

Daily MPfree: Tim & Sam vs Foreign Office

Well, this is all very nice. Rosy-cheeked chamber-pop muffins Tim & Sam (pictured above) have remixed Hackney’s Foreign Office (pictured below), turning their bangin’ post-punk into a sun-dappled indie jaunt; Foreign Office respond by putting a donk on a Tim & Sam number. Both bands are finding their feet and finding fans – hear the results of their remix face-off below.

Tim & Sam – Finders Keepers (Foreign Office remix) by snipelondon

Foreign Office – Leaving the House (Tim and Sam Remix) by snipelondon

Snipe Likes: Cats In Paris

Super-interesting Mancunian indie 3-piece Cats In Paris are playing the news every day in August. It’s times like this when you think their sickening talented frontman Michael probably parps bum symphonies in his sleep.

8th August 2010 by catsinparis

This is a new video I spotted on their website. new Cats In Paris = yay!

And here’s one of their pop hits for the uninitiated. It’s called “The One” and it has an awesome DANCE. You can get it on 7”, too.

The One by catsinparis

Snipe Likes: Peter Broderick

A creative way to use photobooth 3446 times from the Berlin-based singer and songwriter, who apparently made this whilst recuperating from an operation. The song is typically beautiful; a sparse arrangement on just piano and voice. A new release, “How They Are”, is coming in September on Bella Union.

Daily MPfree: Anthony & The Johnsons

Anthony Heggarty is back with his Johnsons. “Thank You For Your Love” is a gentle soul ballad with his familiar wavering falsetto and a nice arrangement on piano, strings and brass. Even though this one is a little more upbeat than some of his more funereal prior work, it still sounds like heartbreak in motion. That voice is so loaded with pathos, even celebrations sound endlessly tearful.

Anthony & The Johnsons – Thank You For Your Love by snipelondon

Snipe Likes: Jónsi

Here’s a new video from the Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi’s brilliant debut solo album, “Go”.