Hey all – please find attached a crystal clear 320 of the long-awaited Laidback Luke remix of Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette’s “Boys & Girls.”
Luke’s bringing bleepy fire on this one, with a tweaked out peaktime wonder of a breakdown included in the bargain.
Get BANDROOM’s first ever free download HERE
“This is a masterclass in modern electronic music, finessed by innovation and emotional depth” NME – 8/10
As the days draw closer to the Australian release of Things Are What They Used To Be, some amazing reviews are flowing through for Zoot Woman’s new album. Get it from all good Australian Record Stores and itunes from 25th September!
Preorder the album at JB Hi Fi – http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/pop-rock/things-are-what-they-used-to-be/457407
Born from his collaboration with the french designer Jean Paul Gaultier, Martin Solveig offers you his new single ‘Boys & Girls’ featuring Martina from the canadian band Dragonette! Download the original version and 2 exclusive remixes for free on the website www.ma-dame.com
Hurry up, downloads are limited (50.000 for France, Belgium, Switzerland and TheNetherlands / 100.000 for the rest of the world)!
Watch the video of ‘Boys & Girls’ on www.martinsolveig.com and YouTube
INFECTED MUSHROOM “Legend Of The Black Shawarma”
Released 11th September 2009
Check out the nerw video here with special guest Dj Von Douche!
The lead single “SMASHING THE OPPONENT” features Jonathan Davis (Korn) and he has directed the video as well!
Afetr destroying crowds at Stereosonic 07 & 08, they are back with their 7th album “Legend Of The Black Shawarma” on September 11th.
More to follow
Things are busy here at Dragonette HQ! We have finally finished our album, and are quite excited to share it with you this fall.While we make you wait (we’re mean like that!) here’s three things that we hope will make you happy.
FIRST OF ALL
Do you love Travolta? Cowboy hats? Dragonette? together?
Well you’re in luck people, because our friend Lo (she with the digital scissor hands) mixed up this little cocktail of our new song “Gone Too Far” and one of the finest moments in cinema history. Cause she crazy like that. And she effing LOVES Travolta.
You can find it here:
And this is the good old embed code:
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We’re planning a little road trip across North America this fall, and we’d love you to join us. Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees will be joining us as we head West through Canada, and we’ll be on our lonesome heading back East through some of the best parties in America. Expect lots of new songs and old chestnuts, flashing llights, lewd jokes and general merriment.
Here are the tour dates (all dates are on-sale now or will be by this Friday (August 7th):
Canadian Tour Dates
Friday, October 2nd – PETERBOROUGH, ON @ Red Dog
Saturday, October 3rd – MONTREAL, PQ @ POP MONTREAL / LE Cabaret
Monday, October 5th – HAMILTON, ON @ casbah
Tuesday, October 6th – LONDON, ON @ Call the Office
Wednesday, October 7th – WATERLOO, ON @ The Starlight
Thursday, October 8th – TORONTO, ON @ The Mod Club
Monday, October 12th – WINNIPEG, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
Wednesday, October 14th – CALGARY, AB @ The Whisky
Thursday, October 15th – EDMONTON, AB @ Starlite
Saturday, October 17th – VANCOUVER, BC @ Venue
Sunday, October 18th – VICTORIA, BC @ Sugar
U.S. Tour dates
Monday, October 19th – SEATTLE, WA @ Vera Project
Tuesday, October 20th – PORTLAND, OR @ Doug fir
Thursday, October 22nd – SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ Popscene / 330
Friday, October 23rd – LOS ANGELES, CA @ The Echo
Saturday, October 24th – COSTA MESA, CA @ Detroit Bar
Monday, October 26th – DENVER, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Wednesday, October 28th – KANSAS CITY, MO @ Czar Bar
Friday, October 30th – SPRINGFIELD, MO @ Outland
Saturday, October 31st – CHICAGO, IL @ Sonotheque
Wednesday, November 4th – BOSTON, MA @ Great Scott
Thursday, November 5th – NEW YORK CITY, NY @ Santos
Friday, November 6th – WASHINGTON DC @ DC9
AND FINALLY!
To round out the trifecta, here is a mix of “Fixin To Thrill” that we found on the internet, and we love. It’s by a fellow named Jocks (who used to be in Good Books and was nice enough to let us include it in this mailer) and it makes us recall the dreamiest goodness of Orbital and everything else that makes you want to float on. For some reason it got a little overlooked by the more bangin’ mixes and it makes us sad. Help us out in changing that.
Here is a zshare link to it:
“Fixin To Thrill (Jock’s Dub)”
http://www.zshare.net/audio/63583519c995f851/
The Villains remix of Fixin To Thrill hit the cyber streets last week causing a ruckus, and ended up the week at #2 on the hype machine charts!
Things are really blowing up for Dragonette in little old Australia!
Not only are the radio folks loving Fixin To Thrill, but even the folks over at the footy show are loving it too! FTT was used in the ad break last Thursday night!
Dragonette’s new album “Fixin To Thrill” is out in October on Bandroom Records!
Fresh off his number 1 remix for Sneaky Sound System and production duties for The Killers and Frankmusik records, the man of a million monikers (including Thin White Duke, Paper Faces, Les Rythmes and Jacques Lu Cont among others), Stuart Price, is back with his band Zoot Woman.
Inactive since the electroclash band’s 2003 self-titled LP, the return of Zoot Woman has been a long time coming, with scattered bits of material here and there hinting at their imminent return. Fans will get the Zoot Woman experience when the new incarnation of the group (Price’s role has become strictly production-based) debuts its new album, Things Are What They Used To Be, this September through US!
Check out the video for the album’s lead single, We Won’t Break, in the clip below.
More details to follow.
To chime in the new release of Valerie & Friends, British DJ/producer Russ Chimes heads down under on a national tour (of the same name) in August.
Blending eighties synth hooks with lush composition, Russ Chimes is sure to set the mood on the dance floor. Enjoying significant blog attention for his own tracks including ‘Daytona’ featured on the Valerie & Friends LP, Chimes has also knocked out stellar remixes for the likes of Sam Sparro, Chromeo, The Golden Filter and Heads We Dance as well as Frankmusik (Confusion Girl) recently touted as Alex Metric’s current favourite track on Pete Tong’s BBC1 radio show (12/06/09).
Don’t miss Russ Chimes as he celebrates the release of French retro-futuristic brat pack’s LP, Valerie & Friends.
FREMANTLE: Friday 7th August Limelite
SYDNEY: Saturday 8th August Tank
ADELAIDE: Friday 14th August Electric Circus
MELBOURNE: Saturday 15th August Prince Bandroom
www.myspace.com/russchimes
Dragonette are back with their new single “Fixin To Thrill”. After a year in hibernation Dragonette return with this cut from their new album of the same name. The album is due September, and all here at Bandroom Records are very excited by the release.
For those int he know check out the Don Diablo remix circling the globe!
Stay tuned for more news!
WHO IS VALERIE?
The woman that Amy Winehouse sings about? A French artist collective? A blog? Or all three …
WHO ARE VALERIE?
VALERIE consists of a group of like-minded musicians from Nantes, France, who run a blog founded and run by Collage. Their members: ANORAAK, COLLEGE, MAETHELVIN, MINITEL ROSE, THE OUTRUNNERS, and RUSS CHIMES. Each artist develop its own thing, follows his own path as Valerie sees itself as a free creative platform and not a label. Together and separately, they pay homage to the dreamier aspects of eighties music, digging up forgotten synth-pop classics, and making a few new ones themselves. They combine the streetwise edge of Ed Banger with the nü-disco stylings of Institubes and the classic production values of the first wave of ‘French touch.’
WHO ARE VALERIE’S FRIENDS?
VALERIE have been running their blog for over two years, the aim here is not to find the latest unreleased track from the latest hype, but to bring into the light musicians who share the same artistic vision and define the boundaries of a new emerging scene. During that time, Valerie has helped expose new music from exciting artists such as DVAS, FUTURECOP!, JUPITER, LOOSE SHUS, NARCTRAX, and STEVE MOORE. Whilst these artists are not part of VALERIE, they’ve helped make VALERIE the tastemakers they are today.
WHAT DO THEY SOUND LIKE?
Like JOHN CARPENTER on a disco rampage, setting his monsters onto unsuspecting dancefloors. Like TANGERINE DREAM with an electro twist to get the kids dancing. Like M83 stripped of feedback and shoegaze pretension. Like ALAN BRAXE & FRED FALKE with a nasty twist. Like the soundtrack to every so-bad-it’s-good eighties teen movie you ever saw, only better …
GET TO KNOW VALERIE
You can get to know VALERIE through their blog, http://valeriecherie.blogspot.com.
VALERIE AND FRIENDS, the collective’s first compilation, is released on ESR and BANDROOM RECORDS on MAY 29, 2009.
This compilation features exclusive tracks from all the official members of the crew as well as a selection of guest artists from around the world who they have met and befriended along the way.