IAMSOUND artists hit NYC for CMJ week!

Here at the DN headquarters, we are uber excited for next's week craziness that is CMJ week and we will try to hit up as many events/showcases as we possibly can!!!

Cut Off Your Hands


Cut Off Your Hands hailing from New Zealand are currently on tour with DN faves, Foals in the UK. Their Shaky Hands EP was just released this week by IAMSOUND. Take a listen to the album streaming on Spinner.com

So Cut Off Your Hands are coming to CMJ week, but you want to know who else is?
The BLACK GHOSTS!!! We can't wait to catch out The Black Ghosts. COYH will be playing live sets and Black Ghosts will be doing DJ sets with live vocals from singer Simon Lord (ex-Simian).

The Black Ghosts

IAMSOUND is having their showcase on Wednesday, 10/17 with Magnum PR and Dim Mak Records!

The Black Ghosts:
10/15 – Conflict of Interest/Syndicate Party, Rebel 11 pm
10/17 – BrooklynVegan, Pianos 4 pm
10/17 – IAMSOUND showcase, Delancey 11 pm
10/18 – I Heart showcase, BGs (Salmagundi Art Club) 9 pm

Cut Off Your Hands:
10/16 – Indaba Music/Underrated Magazine Party, Indaba Music 5 pm
10/17 - BrooklynVegan party, 12 pm
10/17 – Gothamist, White Rabbit 2 pm
10/17 - NZ On Air 4 pm
10/17 – IAMSOUND showcase, Delancey 9 pm
10/18 – Frenchkiss Showcase, Pianos 8:30 pm
10/18 – Fader, Fader Sideshow 4:30 pm

We Interviewed the Black Ghosts And It Made Our Lives Better

We recently interviewed The Black Ghosts for 'Sup Magazine, and a little pee came out. Click here to cold check that scene. We're kind of in love with them, moustache or no moustache. Actually, moustache.

And no, we're not exaggerating about "The Repetition Kills You". It's on some "Umbrella" shit.

Even more Black Ghosts, As If That Were Possible

This just in: panties still wet.

The wonderful electrolads over at Headphone Sex posted this 30-minute Black Ghosts mp3 mix earlier this week, and boy, is it fucking ace. Not only that, but it ends with the BG remix of "New Ideas" the current smashng single from previously creamed-upon DN faves The Dykeenies.

Let's take a look at the tracklisting, shall we?

Harco Pront "Night"
Emperor Machine "Rimramramrim"
Clinic "The Second Line"
Soul Savers "Rumble Fish" (Simian Mix)
Supercollider "Darn Cold Way Of Loving"
Electrelane "The Valleys"
The Jonzun Crew" "Space Is The Place"
Good Books "Leni (Crystal Castles Mix)
Heaven And Earth "Feel The Spirit"
The Firebirds "Soul Sonata"
Blowfly "Sesame Street"
Silver Apples "Lovefingers"
Gianfranco Reverberi "Nel Cimitero Di Tucson"
Metronomy "Trick Or Treatz"
Milton Hamilton "My Love Supreme"
101 Strings "Karma Sitar"
Can "Vitamin C" (Ghost 1 And Ghost 4 Edit)"
Zongamin "Spiral"
Brian Eno "Sky Saw"
Frankie Valli "Beggin" (Pilooski Edit)
The Whip "Muzzle #1" (The Black Ghosts Mix)
Beck "Sexx Laws" (The Wiseguys Mix)
The Black Ghosts "Amyway You Choose To Give It" (Fake Blood Mix)
The Dykeenies "New Ideas" (The Black Ghosts Mix)

Click here to download.

PS: Gotta love, once again, the animated "gifs".
PPS: We also finally got an AMAZINGLY PACKAGED promo copy of the Calvin Harris record, but we'll talk about that LATER.

The Black Ghosts Continue Their Reign On Our Hearts

Oh my. After seizing and conquering our helpless ears with their indie-disco pulp and Best Song Of The Summer™ "The Repetition Kills You", The Black Ghosts have now taken to remixing so-so Gossip single "Listen Up!" and making it AMAZING. That's right, AMAZING. Take a moment out of your Monday and cold check it:

The Gossip - Listen Up! (The Black Ghosts Remix) [streaming via Myspace]

Is there anything these guys can't do? God, we fucking love them. We can't wait until the album comes out and kills everything. EVERYTHING!!

Yes, Another One Of Those Indie Dance Bands

It seems like DNHQ just keeps getting gayer and gayer. There was a time where we loved what young people call "rock and roll music", but frankly we are so disenchanted with bearded men playing guitars that we've immersed ourselves completely in electro-pop and are not looking back. There's a certain level of :( attached to this predicament, but we prefer to blame The State of Music and not any sort of Personal Crisis we may be going through.

Anyway.

We fucking love The Black Ghosts, who have joined Shiny Toy Guns and Chungking in out pantheon of awesome pop bands with dubious names. We just got a copy of their still-untitled debut album, and can we just say that track #4, entitled "The Repetition Kills You", is FUCKING ACE and will kill everything upon its release. Black Ghosts, if you are listening, please make this your second single and film a really slick, high-budget video to go with it. YOU'VE BEEN APPROVED. The song sounds like Gorillaz gone completely dance, with Damon Albarn being beaten senseless with a synthesizer. Unfortunately I don't think we can link to it because of THE LAW, but you'll have to trust us on this one. So. Good.

Here is The Black Ghosts' video for their current single, "Anyway You Choose To Give It".



They wear skeleton hoodies--what more can be said, really.