Bear Hands' new album, You'll Pay For This, out now

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Giants

Tunes to Jam to while hanging home on a Friday night.

Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry

Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better (RAC Mix)

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Remix by André Allen Anjos.
Original by https://soundcloud.com/bleachers
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RAC ON TOUR - smarturl.it/RACTOUR
SEP15 - Neumos, Seattle, WA
SEP16 - Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
SEP17 - The Imperial, Vancouver, BC
SEP20 - The Fonda, Los Angeles, CA
SEP22 - Life Is Beautiful Festival, Las Vegas, NV
SEP24 - Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO
SEP26 - Trees, Dallas, TX
SEP27 - Mohawk, Austin, TX
SEP29 - The Republic, New Orleans, LA
SEP30 - The Basement East, Nashville, TN
OCT1 - Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
OCT2 - Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
OCT4 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
OCT5 - Black Cat, Washington DC
OCT7 - Coda, Philadelphia, PA
OCT8 - Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY
OCT11 - Mod Club, Toronto, ON
OCT12 - Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
OCT13 - Metro, Chicago, IL

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Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better (RAC Mix)

Anya Marina - Notice Me   press.atlanticrecords.com/anyamarina 
Cee Lo Green - Bright Lights, Bigger City    press.atlanticrecords.com/ceelogreen 
Christina Perri - Arms   press.atlanticrecords.com/christinaperri 
Cobra Starship - You Make Me Feel...   www.cobrastarship.com 
Death Cab for Cutie - You Are A Tourist   press.atlanticrecords.com/deathcabforcutie 
Estelle - Break My Heart   press.atlanticrecords.com/estelle 
Grouplove – Colours    press.atlanticrecords.com/grouplove 
Kitten - Kill The Light   www.kittentheband.com/ 
Lupe Fiasco - Out Of My Head (feat. Trey Songz)   press.atlanticrecords.com/lupefiasco  Marc Broussard - Only Everything   press.atlanticrecords.com/marcbroussard 
Martin Solveig – Hello   www.martinsolveig.com/   
Musiq Soulchild – Yes   www.musiqsoulchild.com/   
Panic! At the Disco - Ready To Go   www.panicatthedisco.com    
Plan B - She Said   press.atlanticrecords.com/planb        
Portugal. The Man - Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now)   press.atlanticrecords.com/portugaltheman   
Ricky Blaze - Love Right Now   www.mynameisrickyblaze.com 
Robert Francis - Dangerous Neighborhood   press.atlanticrecords.com/robertfrancis  
Rumer - Aretha    www.rumer.co.uk/ 
Scars on 45 - Give Me Something   www.scarson45.com 
Simple Plan - Jet Lag   press.atlanticrecords.com/simpleplan 
Skrillex - Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites   press.atlanticrecords.com/skrillex 
Sublime With Rome - Panic  www.sublimewithrome.com 
The Swellers - Best I Ever Had    theswellers.com 
Wiz Khalifa - No Sleep   press.atlanticrecords.com/wizkhalifa          
Wolf Gang - Lions In Cages   atlanticrecords.co.uk/artists,wolfgang_72.htm  
Wynter Gordon - Til Death   press.atlanticrecords.com/wyntergordon       


Codes and Keys

Death Cab for Cutie - You Are A Tourist

Sidewalks

Block After Block (Single Version)

"The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive" is from Death Cab for Cutie's new album 'Kintsugi' out now.

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Kintsugi

The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive

Death Cab For Cutie - The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive

New Metric single "The Shade" out now. Stay tuned for our latest full length studio album coming soon! 

The Shade

re_imagined version of hip hop happy ending 

Happy Ending

Remastered from it's original version. 
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I'll Believe In Anything

A party anthem. (Off of our 2nd album, Brain Thrust Mastery.)

After Hours

from the album Get Sharp, now available on Dangerbird Records

See the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5tSmOY_iM

The Limousines - Internet Killed The Video Star

For many bands, making music is all about the routine of recording an annual album, or being able to tour in progressively bigger venues.  Not Matt and Kim.  "Our goal is to make music we want to hear," says Matt Johnson, who co-founded the band with Kim Schifino. "When it comes time to make a new album, I'm just so excited, since I know we have all these ideas and I just want to get them out there."  As for the band's extra-emphatic live shows, which these days happen in large venues, he explains, "We've always just really enjoyed playing music, and things have kept growing." 
 
Matt and Kim's enthusiasm comes across loud and clear on the band's last album, Lightning, its most diverse and developed to date.  From the relentless drive of “Now” to the dance-fueled beat of “Let’s Go” to the more contemplative “Ten Dollars I Found,” Lightning is the strongest distillation yet of Matt and Kim’s unique sound: a spunky hybrid of indelible songs, an emphatic beat and almost tangible energy, mixed with the duo’s influence of listening nonstop to Top 40 Hip-Hop and pop-punk.
 
To make the album, Matt and Kim spent six months working in their home studio in Brooklyn, producing the record themselves. Lightning is a touch more minimal than their earlier work – with layers taken away, instead of added, enabling its intense performances and memorable tunes to really come to the forefront. “What’s made the songs on this album really strong is we’ve been able to pull a lot off – to not have so much going on – and still have a strong song,” Kim explains.
 
“It’s easier to make a song with a lot going on,” Matt adds. “It feels very safe. It’s like putting on a lot of clothes: you feel all covered up so no one can judge just one aspect of it, but when you try to break it down to be as simple as can be, you’re really baring it all.  When you can see clearly what’s going on, those are the times that the songs are easiest to connect to.”
 
Connecting with their audience is certainly a key focus for Matt and Kim.  The indie dance duo’s live shows – which are legendary for constant, in-your-face exuberance – feel more like vibrant, sweaty loft parties than traditional concerts, for both audiences and the band. “I think we’ve managed to continue to make them feel intimate,” says Matt. “When we first started playing venues instead of playing on the floor at parties, we tried hard to keep the vibe of ‘we’re all doing this together and having a wild time’ going.  The show is not just the two of us: it’s the 3002 of us, or however big the venue is.”  Or, as in the words of Rolling Stone: “Matt and Kim’s reputation as a live act precedes them – and justifiably so. Simply put, they are a two-person dynamo, frantic, tightly wound, and full of good cheer. Their performances are as physical as they are musical. . . . For sheer adrenaline-per-second, no other band comes close.”

The band started in 2004, essentially by accident when Matt and Kim were art students at the prestigious Pratt Institute, where they studied film and illustration, respectively.  When Kim wanted to learn to play drums and Matt (who'd been in bands before) was getting his head around a new keyboard, the band was born. Since then, they have earned a Gold Record for the upbeat, stick-in-your-head track "Daylight," played festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, along with international festivals like V (U.K), Pukkelpop (Belgium), Fuji (Japan), Big Day Out (Australia), Primavera (Spain), Oya (Norway), SWU (Brazil), as well as hundreds of shows. They have won 3 MTV awards: a Breakthrough Video Music Award and mtvU Best Video Woodie Award for “Lessons Learned”, as well as a 2011 award for Best Live Band. Lightning is the band's fourth album, following Sidewalks, Grand, and their self-titled debut.
 
Matt and Kim have always been inspired by Brooklyn’s general urban din as well as the area’s artists, yet Matt points out, “I don’t think a place can define a person. We simply write songs about us and our life so that’s why where we live comes up.”
 
Indeed, there’s something universal about a song with a beat that grabs you, with a great melody, played by a band that simply loves to play music.  And that, in Williamsburg and way beyond, is the key to the universal appeal of Matt and Kim.