Head over to the LA Dodgers fan page where Ozomatli recorded a high-energy song to keep fans hyped! While you groove to the band’s uplifting sounds, grab some tickets and create your own Dodgers billboard. Ozomatli’s new album, Fire Away, is out April 20th.

 

From ColdWarKids.com - "Maybe you’ve heard about 826LA. It’s an incredible educational nonprofit that helps Los Angeles-area students ages 6-18 with everything from reading skills to college prep. They also help students of all ages publish books, make movies, and, once a year, write songs to be recorded and performed by an L.A. band. 

This year, we’re recording one of the student-written songs. It’s called Mamacita and it was written by 12 year old, Edgar and 11 year old, Jennifer . We love it.

To help keep 826LA alive for another year, so they can help students in Los Angeles with their homework and writing projects and create awesome songs like Mamacita, please go online and VOTE for our song with a tax-deductible donation. A bunch of other students wrote songs that are pretty good, and you might like them too, so you can vote for them, but vote for ours the most.

This is the biggest fundraiser of the season for 826LA and it starts right now. They’re an incredible organization, we’re doing this for free to help them, so if you like us, like the song, and want to help the kids of Los Angeles, please VOTE all the time and as much as you can. Thank you.

Also there’s a show March 6th at the Echoplex at 1pm where some of the bands will be playing."

Cold War Kids Behave Yourself EP is out now on CD, Vinyl, Mp3 or Music Tee!

Check out Major Lazer’s official Lazers Never Die Tour widget where you can stream music, watch videos, cop their debut album and find out where Major Lazer’s Diplo & Switch are playing next!

Ozomatli's brand new single, "It's Only Paper," is currently featured on AOL Music's Spinner.com. With an upcoming album entitled 'Fire Away' due for an April 2010 release, the song gives us a taste of the bands flavor, transmitting a "socially-conscious message with a dance-heavy sonic mosaic of hip-hop, funk and Latin grooves." Add some additional vocals by Jack Johnson and you've got a sure fire hit! More on Ozomatli's website.

White Denim, the virtuosic Texan garage-rock trio have put out "YoYo," a song previously only available on a UK 7-inch, as a free download on MySpace/RCRD LBL's new RCRD Of The Day!

White Denim's newest album, Fits, is out now through Downtown

Major Lazer – Bruk Out (Destructo Remix) Major Lazer – Bruk Out (Foamo Remix) I think Major Lazer is gonna be easily the most remixed project of our time… but the thing is most are really great…Destructo just flowed us this WAV (!!!) of his Bruk Out remix that bannggggzzz and we also have an equally amazing [...]
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Unsung Heroes of Black History. In light of the controversy surrounding my ‘Niggas’ column from a few weeks back, and also because it is Black History Month, I’ve decided to use this week’s column to highlight the achievement of a hitherto overlooked hero of Black History. Many aeons ago, a time so far in the past that [...]
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YO! one day after the new Snoop & Cudi track (Prod by Diplo) leaked all over the internuts we’ve got the proper INSTRUMENTAL and ACAPELLA exclusively for download here. Also here is the original dirty version for good measure. Snoop feat Cudi ‘That Tree’ Instrumental Snoop feat Cudi ‘That Tree’ Acapella (Dirty) Snoop feat Cudi ‘That Tree’ [...]
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last week the franks dropped their new EP, DUH, and so far the reviews have been rave, duh. mp3s are available for free download and 7″ vinyl is ready for sale HERE. for you cheap tricks, we’ve got a giveaway going on today at saymayday. The Franks – Ray Gunn Radio The Franks – Health Sciences
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Everyone’s favorite French electro zombie Kavinsky returns from his grave with the new Nightcall EP. Preview the tracks on these Soundcloud players (more after the jump) and check out the Record Makers store for info on the guests (Lovefoxx from CSS, Guy-Man from some DJ duo or something…) and the limited vinyl release. [...]
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This week at Food Gold I’m gonna teach you a thing or two about making coffee.  I really DO mean just a thing or two, because there are more sides to this topic than Gucci mixtape cuts and AVH aliases.  For the sake of this post we’re talking about the 4-minute French Press method. These [...]
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Download this great new Jokers Of The Scene mix the boys whipped up for Happy Please, a new site from the folks who brought you the excellent Curb Crawlers blog for the past few years. Tracklist after the jump. Jokers of the Scene - Bombs Over Belleville Jokers of the Scene - Joking Victim B.D.I. - City [...]
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FG’s own Catchdini and pal Proper Villains funked-up Kidz In The Hall’s “Flickin,” and you can download it for free thanks to RCRD LBL. Grab Kidz’ new album Land Of Make Believe, in stores today.Their single “Jukebox” is new track of the day on 106 And Park too. Clap for em!
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Greenmoney sent over this new podcast promo-ing their upcoming party at Plan B in Brixton this Friday. Their pals Seiji and Redlight are among the guests, so it’s only natural they contribute sections of the mix as well! Download and check the tracklist here.
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“Salvation Remix EP”
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“Christmas Vendetta… Spares of Romborama”
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Vol.1: “Evolution”
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We are want to give The Bloody Beetroots fans a chance to create their version of a teaser for The Bloody Beetroots debut full length album “Romborama” that hits stores on Tues. Aug. 25th, 2009! Download the ZIP file HERE that has live video clips, logos, and everything you need to create the most amazing album [...]
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“Awesome” Feat. The Cool Kids
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David Gray speaks to Live Daily about preparation for his March US tour, reworking set lists to include classic gems as well as new hits from his latest release, Draw The Line, available now on iTunes. Head over to David’s website for tour dates, tix and more!

Polyrhythmic LA band Ozomatli has been selected as an Artist to Watch in honor of Clear Channel’s March NEW! program, live on 350+ radio station websites. Listen to the new single, “It’s Only Paper” ft. Jack Johnson here.

Head over to the LA Dodgers fan page where Ozomatli recorded a high-energy song to keep fans hyped! While you groove to the band’s uplifting sounds, grab some tickets and create your own Dodgers billboard. Ozomatli’s new album, Fire Away, is out April 20th.

Celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli are set to release their new album, Fire Away, April 20th on Mercer Street Records. Fire Away is the Grammy Award-winning band’s fifth studio full length, produced by acclaimed producer Tony Berg, and featuring eleven new Ozo songs including the first single “It’s Only Paper.” Click here for full details including 2010 tour dates.

Ozomatli sheds some light on why we shouldn’t hate The Grammys and how they actually boost sales and open doors. Read more on how Ozomatli, with their blend of hip-hop, salsa, cumbia, and other worldly sounds, really benefited from having won an often criticized Grammy award trophy, on NPR.org.

Califone is a band that makes makes fun, folksy, Chicagoan post-rock. Califone is a band that makes a film that looks all screwy and artsy and hilarious and ends up being kind of a big deal at Sundance. Califone is a band that celebrates this by touring with Wilco. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is out through Dead Oceans now and below we have two mpfrees showcasing why we're into these guys and all their sweeping, strumming, twitched-out glory.

Califone - Funeral Singers

Califone - Ape-like

There’s an intellectual way to describe Eternal Summers, one rife with pop-punk-surf-psych witticisms, but we awoke this morning with a massive cold and therefore we can’t think straight. It’s better this way, because the Virginian duo’s “Able To” went in and out like a warm and stinging saline solution, quickly clearing the gunk from our brains with a bright wash of guitars, properly primitive drums and straightforward melodies. Eternal Summers’ eponymous debut EP drops on Chimney Sweep Records March 13th and we’re dousing early below.

Eternal Summers - Able To

And so, after remixes and un-PC song titles, it was "Ain't That Cold" that clarified for us that Boston's Bodega Girls are basically (awesomely) dancefloor scions of the Afghan Whigs, a band doing soul music as smutty warehouse disco. We're releasing the song today through our in-house digital label, just as the band Fung Wah it down to New York this week for CMJ. Those dates and others, including a headlining show in Brooklyn at the end of the month, after the break.

Bodega Girls - Ain't That Cold

Previously:

Bodega Girls - She's Into Black Guys

Bodega Girls' RCRD LBL Page

Tour Dates For Bodega Girls:

10/21 - New York, NY - Piano's (CMJ)
10/22 - New York, NY - Crash Mansion (Beyond Race Magazine Party) (CMJ)
10/22 - New York, NY - Home Sweet Home (CMJ)
10/28 - Cambridge, MA - Middlesex (w/ Wallpaper)
10/30 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands (w/ Bad Rabbits and Naked Heroes)

If this new Spectre Folk jam was dropped into the next Michel Gondry film, it could cure millions. As it is, “Falling Off the Map” is the first blurt from Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo, the new album coming ’round the end of the month (on Arbitrary Signs) by this side/solo project from Pete Nolan, drummer-skater of Magik Markers and one of NYC’s raddest. The honeyed song drifts along on gentle, trippy impulse power; it makes your heart feel psychedelic. Grab the track below, and check out a lysergic video directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon for another song from the album here. And — stay mellow.

Spectre Folk - Falling Off the Map

Spectre Folk's RCRD LBL Page

Our friends in Psychic Powers have a new single out through the boutique label Geographic North, fourth in a series of colored 7-inches they're doing called "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever" (this one is "bubblegum pink," which is, you know, pretty rad). The a-side–a beaming track called "Wellington" that sounds like DIY Depeche Mode–is below, as is the band's Frozen EP that we put out last spring.

Psychic Powers - Wellington

Previously:

Psychic Powers - Frozen

Psychic Powers - Special Boy

Psychic Powers - Running

Psychic Powers - Perfect

Psychic Powers' RCRD LBL Page