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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr play the ATP End Of An Era Part 1 festival in November. More info www.atpfestival.com

Dinosaur Jr - Pierce The Morning Rain

Official Tone of Arc Remix of 'Blackbird Blackbird - Rare Candy' 

from Architects & Waves compilation(Out 10/7 on https://soundcloud.com/omrecords)

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World premiere of the amazing remix of Blackbird Blackbird by fellow indie dance San Franciscans Tone of Arc.  Their take on the track leaves the pop behind and takes a plunge into a darker domain complete with backing vocals and lush instrumentation.

Rare Candy (Tone Of Arc Remix)

Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven

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A cover of a track originally written by the hero Townes Van Zandt.

Nothin'

Froggie is the first song on my upcoming album, Hilo. Hilo is the soundtrack to a story of dying while being alive, transforming, and becoming reborn while trying to hold dearly to whom one has been. 

3 years ago, my life changed when I learned I had been adopted. In an instant, nothing seemed real. What I knew about my background was based on a fabrication. In a way, my life had been an illusion. 

I began to distrust reality itself, at the very time I would be forced to recreate an identity. I needed to throw away everything I thought I knew and start over. It was necessary not only to forge a new identity, but also to survive psychologically. In turn, I emerged with a new life perspective and, essentially, a new life. 

From moments of levity over the absurdity of the situation, to deep despair and emotional prolapse, as an artist, I was inspired to work on new music. But toward what end I didn't then know. Without consciously realizing it at the time, I began working on this album.

Hilo is a dialogue of dichotomies: anxiety and adventure, ecstasy and terror, free fall and uplift. Each low answered by a high. The album is informed by the holy trinity of house, techno, and disco, speaking to fans of each, but not beholden to a single genre. Equal parts rave and sofa, dance tracks and indie songs; music to take drugs to, music to fall in love to, music to exercise to, music to exhale to, music to rage to, music to chill to. Music about birth and destruction and the ways we hurt ourselves and others. Songs about yearning and satiation, loss and wealth of spirit. About loving someone more than oneself. The graceful way a simple gesture can save someone's life. The ways we can burn every ounce of energy we have yet keep going. Forever. 

Froggie is named for the raining frogs in the book of Exodus, one of the plagues visited upon Egypt by God to compel Pharaoh to release the Israelites from enslavement. The Hilo story begins with me learning the truth--my truth--a truth so strange and unexpected it was like frogs raining from the sky. Afterward, nothing would be the same. 

This is my story, but it is also a narrative--as old as Greek mythology--of anyone or group who has faced crisis and survived, emerging galvanized and more spiritually complete. 

Allow me to take you on a ride.


iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/froggie-single/id1171913350
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/track/froggie-original-mix/8569168
Juno: http://www.junodownload.com/products/will-eastman-froggie/3256709-02/
Traxsource: http://www.traxsource.com/track/3825591/froggie

Froggie

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"Watch The Corners" from Dinosaur Jr.'s "I Bet On Sky" to be released on September 18th, 2012 via Jagjaguwar. 

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I Bet On Sky

Watch the Corners

Dinosaur Jr. - "Watch the Corners"

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Gold Dayzz (Maribou State remix)

Almost Ready

The Lung

Rat-A-Tat-Tat!

I'll Never Say

J.T.

Ain't Glad I'm Leaving

There are few artists making seriously great music while not taking themselves too seriously; that difficult feat is one rarely attempted and even less often successfully carried out. Benoit & Sergio have seemingly effortlessly managed to pull off that contradictory trick, producing songs that sometimes seem like musical open letters: editorials narrated in the voices of unidentified, yet totally recognizable colorful characters, read aloud against a backdrop of beautifully lush, warm and sensuous electronic pop music. The unexpected juxtaposition of such pristine production and playful lyricism -- first exhibited on 2009's highly praised <i>What I've Lost</i> EP, which included the brilliantly sardonic single "Full Grown Man"  -- exemplifies why Benoit & Sergio are one of the most unique and interesting outfits in dance music. It's good news, then, that the Washington, D.C./Berlin-based outfit's eagerly expected DFA debut maintains both the charm and expert craftsmanship of its predecessors. 

Single "Boy Trouble" (the titular counterpoint to "Full Grown Man") launches the EP with all manner of reasons to take to the dancefloor: An exigent beat, a beckoning synthline, a bassline of understated funk. Sergio lethargically sings about girls, making note of both their ups and the downsides, without the hindrance of subtlety. "I love girls/With legs like a Ferrari" he states before noting (bemoaning?) the fact that "You need poetry to turn these girls on." It's a song for the best part of the night, full of compulsive rhythms and a climax that builds on sparkly synths. The accompanying remix from Visionquest -- the Detroit-bred, Berlin-based label led by producers Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves -- amps things up, making the beat a more prominent, driving and club banging force. The flipside features "Full Grown Man" and "What I've Lost," which reveal themselves to be worth more than a few revisits. 

Benoit and Sergio Giorgini -- originally from Paris and Chicago, respectively -- have previously released music on producer Bruno Pronsato's thesongsays label and Ghostly International's Spectral Sound. Sergio also makes music as one half of both Birds & Souls and NDF.

- Kali Holloway


I Ain't

Dinosaur Jr.