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Song of the Day! Walk The Moon – Anna Sun

Walk The Moon rattle this house apart from Cincinnati, Ohio

Music Video: Walk The Moon – Anna Sun

The amount of passion Walk The Moon puts into their music is just so immense. You can hear this dedicated intensity in their single Anna Sun. What starts off as a slow ballad of calling out quickly turns into a full-on indie rock dance scene, complete with a Keytar and everything! This song entrances my imagination and makes me want to go out and celebrate being alive with a smile, and any band that can do that has me sold. Walk The Moon independently put out their debut album I Want! I Want! last November and have expressed intentions of putting out another record soon. From what I’ve listened to from I Want! I Want! I can tell you its full of a variety of different song pacing, but the major reoccurring theme you can look forward to is beautiful synth driven dance rock. Believe me when I tell you Walk The Moon is pretty much my favorite discovery this month.


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Song of the Day! The Ting Tings – Hands


The Ting Tings hold up two hands(x2) from the UK

Ever since The Ting Tings initial success from their debut album We Started Nothing it has been a nonstop journey of touring and promotion across the world. So it was quite liberating for The Ting Tings to find time in their busy schedule last year to record Hands, the first single from their upcoming album. Hands is a great example of how well the band blends the pop we love so much and elements of dance and electronic music to create infectious beats alongside lead singer Katie White’s commanding vocals. Another reason Hands is just that much more awesome is it was mixed by British electro-house artist Calvin Harris, of whom I am very much a fan. It seems this will the trend on the upcoming album that is not set to be released until August 1, 2011. The album will be produced with help from some big names like Jay-Z and Rihanna so who knows the interesting things that will come from these collaborations. If the new album stays the same course as Hands then we’ll be sure to bring our sweatbands and dancing shoes to release party because it’s going to be a hell of a banger!


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Song of the Day! Miami Horror – I Look To You ft. Kimbra

Miami Horror bring us the funk from Melbourne, Australia

There is something super special going on with Miami Horror’s album Illumination. It has a certain disco house style that you just don’t see very much in today’s music. The album is full of the grooviest of beats and pulls off some funky-ass feats. I Look To You is my second favorite off the album, only bested by the amazing Sometimes. I Look To You is a great example of that retro house feel that Miami Horror is so damn good at portraying in their music. New Zealand’s own singer/songwriter Kimbra’s vocals add that final perfect element to the track that just brings it all the way home for me. Honestly Illumination is packed full of songs that will make you want to get up and out of your seat and attempt to get your groove on. The album may have been released late August of last year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to commemorate one of the best indie electro albums of 2010.


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Song of the Day! Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill


Sleigh Bells keep it loud from Brooklyn, New York

It’s not very often I go from being puzzled by a band to loving pretty much everything they are about. At first I just didn’t get Sleigh Bells and pretty much thought their music was made to destroy speakers with ridiculously loud instrument and vocal distortion. But it didn’t take long for me to realize the Sleighs Bells is all about standing up and out from the rest, to take your voice and cause and raise it up high to be heard by all. Rill Rill is actually their most repressed song, but I love it all the more for its it’s laid back and drifting along attitude. If you want the true loud and in your face Sleigh Bells I suggest you look to their album Treats, it’s full of amazing tracks you’ll wonder how you ever made it this long without.


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Song of the Day! The Kissaway Trail – New Lipstick

The Kissaway Trail deliver indie bliss from Denmark

Nice upbeat ambiant indie pop, these are all adjectives I would use to describe the song New Lipstick. The build up brings you in and then it takes off like a hand-glider leaping from a cliff, slowly flying down as everything around you is breathtaking. Ok, so maybe I’m being a little over descriptive of the song, but it is just something that takes you by surprise. All I know about The Kissaway Trail is that they are from Denmark and that New Lipstick is on their 2010 album Sleep Mountain. If the rest of the tracks are as blissful as this one them I’m down for journey around Sleep Mountain.