While home in Houston this summer, I’ve spent many hours in the car (no such thing as trains or buses out in the hinterlands) with the radio on scan, mostly just trying to see how many stations I can catch playing “Hotel California” at the same time. But this habit had unforeseen consequences: in addition to discovering Delilah (who definitely did save my life, just for the record), I also became a dedicated fan of “Que calor” by the band Super Mer Ka 2. It’s the kind of song that causes you to nearly veer off the road in your fevered attempts to stop the scan before it switches the station, so excited are you for its manic keyboards and infectious chorus. YouTube links after the jump, but I’m warning you: your life may never be the same once you’ve entered its insidious melody zone. MORE »
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“Que Calor” Is So Hot Right Now
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The Shackeltons Give Us A Break
One new band I’ve been digging a lot lately is the Pennsylvania quintet The Shackeltons, perhaps because their music posesses a sturdy spine and enough hip-swagger to make indie’s sweatered set quake in their deck shoes. MORE »
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Stuck On Repeat: The Seedy Seeds, Heck Yes!
While I don’t particularly enjoy coming up with cute names for music styles, The Seedy Seeds have the market cornered on Appalachitronica. The duo decided to build a collection of instruments that, they admit, they don’t really know how to play, then recorded the results. MORE »
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Stuck On Repeat: Superfamily Really Could Be A Winner
Oslo, Norway’s Superfamily released their second album Warszawa in May, and the second single from the record, “I Could Be a Real Winner,” is, so far, unjustly trapped inside the confines of the Norwegian charts. It’s far too good a song to be kept secret from the rest of the world, however. MORE »
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Stuck on Repeat: Miss Fairchild’s Newer Jack Swing
If a band is going to list Sly and the Family Stone, the Time, and Bell Biv DeVoe as influences, it’s a safe bet their music will get at least one play on the Idolator guesthouse’s stereo. Fortunately, Miss Fairchild don’t bring embarrassment to the sum of their inspirations. MORE »
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Stuck On Repeat, Part II: We Keep Reachin’ For The New Nicole Willis Album
Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigator’s Keep Reachin’ Up would be a sure-fire year-end-list contender for one of your Idolators–except for the fact that Reachin’ was actually released overseas last year (apparently, a retro-soul record as good as this doesn’t go unnoticed in the U.K. and Japan). MORE »
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Listening Station: Going Back to the Old Skool
As much fun as the new French disco-rawk has been–not least for the way it’s set off right-thinking purist-dance music cognoscenti–it’s hardly new. MORE »
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Stuck On Repeat: Dr. Kinsey Gets Singer All Hot and Bothered
There may be no more entertaining reissue this year than the British label Jasmine’s Griddle Greasin’ Daddies and Dirty Cowboys, a collection of smutty ’50s country featuring loads of silly double-entendres and endings of the “you thought this song was about cooch but it’s really about dancing, you… MORE »
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Stuck On Repeat: Apples In Stereo Stare At The Sun
We realize that the Apples In Stereo’s New Magnetic Wonder came out in February, which is a half-millennium in music-blogland. MORE »
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Stuck On Repeat: The Cutting Sound Of FM Knives
We rescued FM Knives’ 2001 debut Useless and Modern from a used-CD bin a while back, years after our original copy got lost in some inter-office move. MORE »
