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The Scissor Sisters give us a little tease of their new sound with the dancehall inspired ‘Shady Love’. The track is a dramatic sonic shift from their Night Work LP. It’s an exciting new twist for the Scissor Sisters sound.
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What better way to round out the holiday season and kick off the new year than to launch Kick Kick Snare’s first mixtape of 2012. Yes, it’s that bloody good time of the month. And just because I said that with a British accent doesn’t mean we’re crass or putting on airs…for it really is an awesome time for me every month to see the handpicked collection of songs selected by our four writers in four different cities. I always love seeing the variety between Kent, Wes, Ed and me. For the five months or so we’ve been posting mixtapes, not once have we even encountered a duplicate, yet our disparate selections always seem to mix smoothly and inseparably together, thankyouverymuch. So if I find our collections every month to be a highlight of my music going experiences, I know our readers do, too. A bloody good time it is, and without further ado, KKS’s first mixtape of the year.
Click here to download! (110.2MB)
MP3: Design by Little Tybee
Little Tybee Official/Muxtape
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MP3: Every Night I Dream by James Pants
James Pants & His Record Collection
James Pants on Facebook
James Pants via Stones Throw Records
MP3: California Sunrise by Dirty Gold
Dirty Gold Official
Dirty Gold on Facebook
Launching Kick Kick Snare and being able to share my daily musical observations, and experiences has changed my life entirely. Best decision I’ve ever made. Just within this last year, I welcomed three stellar contributing writers to the platform, I was chosen by GRAMMY to be the official electronica and dance blogger for the 54th award season, traveled the U.S. attending more concerts and festivals then Craig can count, hosted KKS’s first string of industry showcases, booked over 20 acts and interviews, started the 8 year process that is the redesign of the site, printed the first KKS t-shirt, and was knocked on my side by an artist I’m going to start managing in 2012. And those are just some of the highlights.
2012 is going to be a kick ass year to say in the least. From the image above you can see I’ve highlighted a few albums I’m looking forward to, including Die Antwoord’s Ten$ion, Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die and Alex Boyd’s debut. And if the GRAMMY’s in February isn’t enough to make us hyperventilate, I’m thrilled to announce that KKS will very much have a presence at SXSW in March. And of course there’s the Live in the Vineyard festival in April… I’m getting excited just started to think about everything on our plate and just in the first quarter! And as I mentioned above, an artist came into my life a couple months back and changed the game. Never thought I could imagine dedicating the majority of my time to one artist. Now I can’t imagine otherwise. More on that in 2012!
Hope everyone’s as excited as we are! Be part of the action! Purchasing a KKS t-shirt (Click here!) is a great way to show your support for the effort we put into the site. And of course liking us on facebook, following us on Twitter and sharing our site with your friends is the best holiday gift we could ask for! We wish you a happy and safe New Years and promise to continue stepping things up in 2012. Resolutions? In Jessie J’s words, “Just be true to who you are!”
MP3: Who You Are (Exemen Remix) by Jessie J
BY Brent IN Downloads, Miscellaneous, On Tour, Remix
Penguin Prison is something very special in the musical world and his debut album is a masterpiece of musical storytelling that is both thought evoking and dance inducing. Penguin Prison has worked hard to create sounds that are truly unique and completely unlike anything else in music, yet at the same time evoke deep feelings and emotional triggers that are tied to timeless sounds. The album fuses disco, soul, funk and rock – drawing on a range of inspiration from Wu Tang to Nat King Cole – creating genre defying sounds in each song. The unique sounds are blended with powerful lyrics that are able to explain the complexity of many emotions in easily relatable prose. A huge part of this is his ability to pull lyrical inspiration for his own life and others around him has enabled him to create songs that tie into feelings and stories are universal to us all.
Penguin Prison is in short – an album I cannot live without.
‘Multi-Millionaire’
‘The Worse It Gets’
‘Something I’m Not’
‘Don’t F*** With My Money’
Get The Album
Penguin Prison Official
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On almost every level, The War On Drugs have crafted the perfect follow up to ‘Wagonwheel Blues’, their 2008 debut album. An undeniable treasure of expansive rock, ‘Slave Ambient’ melds the sound of the past, present and future into a 47 minute sprawl that’s as euphoric as it is multifaceted and runs steady as my favorite album of the year, pedal pushed to the floor.
MP3: BabyMissiles by The War On Drugs
BY Ed IN Award Winning, Downloads
Album, Mixtape, same thing, right? Whichever, Hoodie Allen‘s Leap Year (which is available for direct download here) is my favorite of 2011. Undoubtedly, one of the most exciting and fulfilling moment’s his musical career, and rightfully so.
Hoodie began writing Leap Year when he decided to leave his job at Google to follow his passion. The thirteen track album is a look into his world and what it means to step out of one’s comfort zone. He wanted Leap Year to mirror his life and experiences–it’s fun, crazy, sarcastic, and introspective– its him growing up on record.
When I first posted about Leap Year, I received this note from Hoodie which after you read, you’ll understand the smile I’m still wearing: “I want to quickly emphasize how important having the support of Kick Kick Snare has meant to me. I mean you’ve been a real friend to me man that’s the truth. Any attention I have ever received has been because of the blogs that support me and spread my music all over the world. It’s because of your support that I’ve been able to be this person and that’s why to this day I won’t ever stop personally emailing you all my new projects.”
Be sure to grab your copy here! Tracklisting after the jump…
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We are obviously living in a world that proves the age old fable that everything is cyclical, hence, we are back where we started when it comes to music distribution: singles are the name of the game. This had a bit to do with my choice for album of the year, but I’ve got to say, that singles also drive us (as music fans) to dive into the full album full force. After consuming that crap out of “I Need A Doctor” and “Money” (listen to both below), I dove into the full album and was impressed and white-guy-spasm-dancing fo’ DAYS. Great tunes, coupled with a religious theme and badass cover art, to quote a classic video game, Boomshakalakalaka.
MP3: Money by The Drums
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BY Kent IN New Videos, Reviews
