Check out this rad new Serena Maneesh video directed by friends Neon & Sons + Rockadee. Beautifully done.

Words of advice for those who live in Philly…

{MP3} Cults – “Go Outside”

Download more awesome self-released, free music from Cults HERE.

And tonight should be just as nice, so why not make it more pleasant by checking out a FREE live show from the multi-talented Matias Aguayo @ SNACKS (Facebook event page).

{MP3} Matias Aguayo – “Rollerskate” (Radio Edit)

I caught this on Dangerous Minds this weekend and wasted no time in watching it. It’s an interesting, and sometimes hard to understand (heavy heavy accents) peek into this Northern British music subculture in the ’70s, known as Northern Soul, which centered around obscure American Soul. For those in Philly who attend the ongoing Turnaround/Immediate/Ten Commandments parties, this was where it all started.

Read about it from first hand experience on In Dangerous Rhythm.

Check it out — some dark shit. The first in a series. Download it below:

{MP3} The Walrus Mix Series Vol. 1 (via Mediafire – limited time only).

Tracklist:

Solid Space – “A Darkness In My Soul”
Cosmetics – “Soft Skin”
Led Er Est – “Laredo’
Xynn – “Isolated Brain”
Dark Day – “Hands in the Dark”
Land of Giants – “Cannibal Dolls”
White Car – “Not Right”
Portishead – “Chase the Tear”
Fan Death – “Reunited”
Coldreams – “Morning Rain”
Active Child – “Wilderness”
Talk Normal – “In a Strangeland”
Fontan – “Early Morning”
Tantra – “The Hills of Katmandu”

“Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie.” – Kraftwerk

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Cheers to the legendary frontman! 53 and still “totally wired”!

Paul Gardner’s portfolio on Behance.

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New Orleans band Generationals performed two songs at the Philly store — including this gem of a pop song. Snag a free mp3 of the studio version below.

{MP3} Generationals – “When They Fight, They Fight”

Catch another video from the session on the Art in the Age blog. The band’s debut, Con Law, is available now.

American figure skater Scott Williams doesn’t go for the gold…he goes for the grunge…as he figure skates to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. In the immortal words of the brilliant and beautiful Atousa Farahani…this is “Punk as fuck.”

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I am a huge fan of music documentaries and this one looks like it’s going to be a great one! Not only is the music of Sly Stone inspiring but so is his attitude (then and now). One of the highlights of the above trailer comes at 1:35 when Sly shares his thoughts on sampling. Love it!

No official release date has been set for the film, but hopefully it will be this year…

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For those who are drawn to the cold wave/minimalist synth-pop sound (like me), this new Captured Tracks band Cosmetics is for you. “Soft Skin”, from their latest 7″, is both brooding and ethereal…

{MP3} Cosmetics – “Soft Skin”

Check out this exclusive video from Wired where “The Knife’s Olof and Karin Dreijer conduct an illuminating round-table discussion with Rostron and Sims (who are more famously known as Planningtorock and Mt. Sims, respectively) on the making of Tomorrow, In a Year — A challenging 90-minute epic based on Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

Goddamn, I love this band!

Read more about it on Wired. The album is out 3/9.