Broken Bells - The High Road (Video)

Hot Chip - One Life Stand mp3

The 'new' Hot Chip track, from the album of the same name, due in February.

Previously on eb: One Life Stand (Video)

Broken Bells - October mp3

The Broken Bells album is coming in March. I have it now, and I'm trying to get into it now. For those who don't know, Broken Bells is DJ Dangermouse and the dude from The Shins.

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Here is an album track called 'October'. It starts off slow and epic, but gets going pretty quickly. It's kind of a polished American indie-pop vibe, which Dangermouse can do in his sleep.

Update: mp3 removed due to the below:

"On behalf of Columbia Records, Monotone and Broken Bells, we would kindly ask you not to post copies of the "Broken Bells" / eponymous album on your site (or any non-preview tracks from Broken Bells’ new album - street date 9th March).We do appreciate that you are fans of / are promoting Broken Bells, but the label, management and artists would greatly appreciate your co-operation in removing your links to the pirate files in question."

Midlake - Children of the Grounds mp3

New Midlake, from their forthcoming new album, 'The Courage of Others', due for release in the UK on 1st February.
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I'm working my way through a promo-copy of the album now, and whilst there is nothing as immediate as 'Roscoe', the general feel of the music is the same. It conjures an image of that M. Night Shyamalan film 'The Village' for me. I imagine these guys recording this album whilst wearing brown smocks and standing around a camp fire. They themselves have acknowledged that Olde English Folk music has been a continuing influence on their music, so I'm on the right path... enjoy...

Blakroc - What You Do To Me mp3

Blakroc is The Black Keys + an array of emcee's that Damon Dash pulled together. This track features Jim Jones (who is dog-shit), and Billy Danze from MOP, above (who is a fierce).

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The album is out on Monday (I've been spinning it for a week, and it's not your average rock/rap hybrid nonsense... this is GOOD.)

Vampire Weekend - Horchata mp3

New Vampire Weekend track, from the forthcoming album 'Contra' (Jan 11th release date for the UK). This track is called Horchata. It's stupidly silly, and ludicrously catchy. Very much business as usual for these fellas, then.

You can download this track in a .zip file HERE, which even comes with a pretty pdf of the cover and a lyric sheet.

Burial - Fostercare

New Burial. Enough Said.

Arctic Monkeys - My Propeller mp3

One of the standout tracks from the Arctic's forthcoming album 'Humbug', available from Monday. Listening to the lyrics, I think he's talking about his dinkle.

Jay-Z's rock & roll cover art

Jay has gone all Coldplay for the cover of his new album.

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Some eagle-eyed music bloggers have suggested that this is effectively an amalgamation of a cover by the Secret Machines and some imagery from U2's last album. Click the links and see what you think.

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For what it's worth, I like it a alot. It's a darn sight more creative than most Hip Hop album covers, and without question it's 100 times better than a close up of Mr. Z wearing a Yankees baseball hat. Track list below. I'm keen to hear Jay and MGMT on the same track, although form the 'additional production' credit, I imagine that Kanye has sampled a huge chunk of one of their tracks and been forced to include them as assistant producers.

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1. What We Talking About (Produced by Kanye West)

2. D.O.A. (Produced by No I.D.)

3. Weigh Me Down Feat. Kid Cudi (Produced by Kanye West)

4. Unforgiven (Produced by Kanye West, Additional Production: MGMT)

5. Run This Town Feat. Rihanna & Kanye West (Produced by Kanye West)

6. Empire State Of Mind Feat. Nas (Produced by Kanye West & No I.D.)

7. When It Comes To This (Produced by Timbaland)

8. Always Feat. Drake (Produced by Kanye West)

9. Scenes From The Past (Produced by No I.D., Co-produced by Kanye West)

10. Everyday A Star Is Born Feat. Mr. Hudson (Produced by Kanye West)

11. Already Home (Produced by Kanye West)

12. Forever Young Feat. Mr. Hudson (Produced by Kanye West)

13. Thank You (Produced by No I.D.)

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Bonus Tracks:

14. Sound Of The 70s (Produced by Kanye West)

15. We Made History (Produced by Kanye West)

Beastie Boys - New Album Cover, Track List & mp3

New album from the Beasties, Hot Sauce Committe Part 1, coming September 15th. Is that really Ad-Rock on the right? Looks nothing like him...

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Tadlock's Glasses
B-Boys In The Cut
Make Some Noise
Nonstop Disco Powerpack
OK
Too Many Rappers (featuring Nas)
Say It
The Bill Harper Collection
Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)
Long Burn The Fire
Bundt Cake
Funky Donkey
Lee Majors Come Again
Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Pop Your Balloon
Crazy Ass Shit
Here's A Little Something For Ya

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Too Many Rappers mp3 courtesy of nahright

Arctic Monkeys - Album Cover & Track List

The cover and track list for their forthcoming album, 'Humbug', on which they have gone "full-on Black Sabbath" with the help of producers Josh Homme (QoTSA) and James Ford (Klaxons, Last Shadow Puppets).

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01. My Propeller

02. Crying Lightning

03. Dangerous Animals

04. Secret Door

05. Potion Approaching

06. Fire & The Thud

07. Cornerstone

08. Dance Little Liar

09. Pretty Visitors

10. The Jeweller's Hands

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Due on 24th August. At the moment, I'm indifferent. I'm too into the Bombay Bicycle Club's album to care about this. That will all change next month, I'm sure.

Stream the Arctic Monkeys new single

'Crying Lightning' is it's name. See what you think, thanks to Zane Lowe's pretty decent BBC radio show.

Wale - Um Ricka (feat. K'Naan) mp3

Produced by Mark Ronson (the horns are unmistakable) and featuring K'Naan (straight out of Compton Mogadishu, Somalia).

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Wale is one of the hot new properties in US Hip Hop. You may remember his debut mixtape built around vocal snippets and themes inspired from the TV show Seinfeld (called Mixtape About Nothing... and featuring this cover). This is taken from his new mixtape with 9th Wonder 'Back To The Feature', which dropped last night.

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This track has a fittingly tribal beat, and obviously, the horns are grrrrreat.

Jay-Z - D.O.A. mp3 / Funk Flex & Mister Cee @ Hot97

Death of Autotune. It needed saying...

'Get back to rap, you're T-Paining too much!'

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From the forthcoming album 'Blueprint 3', produced by No I.D. (Kanye West's mentor). The guitar sample is superb. The horn break is amazing.

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And the release of this is a BIG DEAL. For Jay-Z fans obviously, but also for Hip Hop fans who hate the way the music/culture is going. If you need to understand how much of a big deal this is, check out the footage below of Flex and Cee on Hot97 in NYC. When they hear their namecheck around the 3:27 mark, Cee gets so excited he starts shaking. Funny.

And when Jay takes a pop at rival station Z100 (at 6:40), Flex has some fun at their expense.

U2 - Breathe mp3

A track from the above, their new album 'No Line On The Horizon', out on Monday next week.

Dan Auerbach - When I Left The Room mp3

From the debut solo album from The Black Keys' guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach, which comes out on 23rd February (buy it HERE).
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This is a noirish, western-tinged track that would fit in neatly on a Tarantino soundtrack.

Enjoy.

The Prodigy feat. Dave Grohl - Run With The Wolves mp3

I've just burnt The Prodigy's new album to a disc, and I'm going to give it the once over. I'm sure I'll feed back on its merits at some point in the next few days.

I thought I'd swiftly zShare this one track with you before I hit the hospital, purely because it has Dave Grohl doing some actual drumming on it, just like the good old days.

Enjoy, and buy The Prodigy's 'Invaders Must Die' when it comes out in a couple of weeks time.

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Run With The Wolves mp3

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MF DOOM - Ballskin mp3

New DOOM!!! Odd title though...

(I love that pic... the mask and the Rod Lavers...)

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Ballskin mp3

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Sharebee links courtesy of 2dopeboyz. Go and see them for more new stuff.

Mikkey Halstead - Karma mp3 & video

Up & coming (pause) Chicago emcee Mikkey Halsted's latest single, produced by Kanye West's mentor and regular Common collaborator No I.D.

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Karma mp3

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mp3 pinched from eskay at Nah. Go visit him for the video to the track.

Daniel Merriweather - Change (Video)

Australian Daniel Merriweather's first single from his Mark Ronson-helmed debut album 'Love & War', out next year. Features labelmate and fellow Ronson buddy Wale.