When I first heard Active Child’s “When Your Love Is Safe” it was a race to figure out where I could get it. Turns out Active Child is the project of Los Angeles based Pat Grossi. A wonderful mix of 80’s synth pop, with haunting and beautiful chorale vocals creating a temporary escape within an ephemeral space.
This song was released on the Sun Rooms cassette tape which came out on Mirror Universe earlier this year (which has since sold out.) Active Child just released a new 7″ single called She Was A Vision that you can check out here and I’m told there are more releases on the way.
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You can listen to more at Myspace and see him live March 9th at El Rey with Big Pink in Los Angeles and he’s performing at SxSw (probably more than once.)
We first introduced you to Kansas City, MO’s Capybara in our Sound Advice: The Worlds Best Ever mixtape (it was one of our favorite songs in that mix.) If you didn’t catch them in that here’s another tune to get you familiar with them. Their record Try Brother was one of my most played records of 2009 and I hope you enjoy it.
Most recently they scored the movie One Too Many Mornings that premiered at this years Sundance. You can hear those the songs and pick it up for yourself by going here.
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Thanks to our friends at Pitchfork.TV for one week only you can watch Spike’s entire 2003 documentary of the strange and wonderful tale of Fatlip of The Pharcyde.
Today marks the release of the beautiful soundtrack to Where The Wild Things Are. Just like the feeling of the movie, this soundtrack by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and co-produced with Tom Biller of the Afternoons is all about friends who all collaborated together to make something wonderful.
Karen O collaborated with many talented musicians known as “The Kids” in the making of this. The list: Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase who are bandmates in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska) and an amazing childrens choir.
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You can pick up the soundtrack now at iTunes and Amazon and stream the whole thing over at imeem.
This is the new video for “Phones Don’t Feud” from Holiday Shores‘ debut album Columbus’d The Whim which hits stores in August. I don’t know how they do it but Twosyllable Records keeps putting out great things one after the next -New Villager, Bell, and now this. Fantastic!
LA based band Fool’s Gold has made the instant summer jam with that guitar line in “Suprise Hotel” which will be released at the end of September. Made up of members from Foreign Born, We Are Scientists, Glasser and The Fall, they play an interesting mix of African rhythms and 80’s pop and from the looks of this video, you should go see them live.
This week marked the release of the new Dirty Projectors album Bitte Orca, the album that will be on repeat all summer long and is as beautiful as it’s cover. Their last release was in 2007 in where they re-wote the Black Flag record Rise Above, all from memory and was really the spark that made us need to own everything they touch.
Side note: If you haven’t heard their song “Knotty Pine” (w/ David Bryne) from the Dark Was The Night comp you should watch it live here.
Listen to “Stillness Is The Move” off of Bitte Orca and be sure to check out the limited tape version of the album that you can get here.
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“Heaven” is a beautiful beast of a track off Unkle’s most recent studio album “End Titles – Stories for Film.” If you skate, then you will easily recognize the above footage from “Fully Flared” (Directed by Spike and Ty Evans.) If you don’t skate, maybe this video will make you want to start.
Loving this record. Brooklyn based band, Suckers just released their self titled EP this week on IAMSOUND records. The EP was produced by Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder along with Chris Moore (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which is probably why I like the sound automatically.)
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Loving this record. Brooklyn based band, 
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