I know this is a million blog-years old, but fuck me I'm obsessed with this song.

OBSESSED.

Check out this live footage of HSB's good friends Local Natives on France's La Blogotheque, filmed during their recent French excursion.

As the singer of British UK band Guillemots, Fyfe Dangerfield was always a criminally underrated frontman for a criminally underrated band (at least in the States). While I'm not so sure on the current status of Guillemots, I do know that Fyfe has released his first solo record, Fly Yellow Moon, this year, of which I've become a big fan. It's definitely one of my favorite new releases of this year (along with Four Tet, Pantha du Prince and a handful of others), and any Guillemots fan will surely appreciate this.

As with Guillemots, no one in America really cares about this release (I'm not actually sure if it was even released in the States [EDIT: Just heard that the album will be out in America on March 16th!]), so I'll take a second to come as close to forcing you to listen to this as I can. Check out the first song on the record as well as the excellent remix of "She Needs Me" by Monarchy.

Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk In The Room

Fyfe Dangerfield - She Needs Me (Monarchy Remix)

From one of my most anticipated albums of the year (after hearing this song, I mean). So good.

Sorry I've been fairly absent from HSB. I blame it on my current sinus infection, which does not make staring at a computer for 10 hours a day any easier than it normally is. Anyway, lately I've been learning the tricks of the DJing trade a bit, and I'm djing this Friday at PYT at Temporary Spaces 2 in LA, with Chris Holmes, Dan Terndrup, and the amazing band NewVillager. RSVP here.

Hopefully I'll be back to 100% by then.

Over the past several months, I (through my day job, IAMSOUND Records) have been working together with quite a few LA bands to quietly put together what is now coming together as The LA Collection. A lot of hard work has been put into this and I'm very excited to finally be able to tell everyone about it! The LA Collection is a series of limited edition 7-inch split singles to be released this year, starting from February to August, in collaboration with one of our favorite UK record stores, Pure Groove Records.

All artists are LA acts hand-picked by IAMSOUND that represent the true talent and diversity that we believe LA has to offer. LA is one of the world's largest and most vibrant cities and yet our music scene is wholly underrated whenever compared to other artistic hotbeds such as NYC and London. We wanted this series of releases to help bring together an LA scene and showcase the depth of talent that exists in this city. All of the artwork is done by local artists Ingrid Allen and Elisa Saether, with typesetting by designer Aaron Rose.

We are also partnering up with our favorite radio station, KCRW. Be sure to listen to Morning Becomes Eclectic with Jason Bentley to exclusively hear some of the tracks, starting the first week of March, as well as visit KCRW's music blog for exclusive streams, downloads, and other info on future events tied into The LA Collection.

We kick off the LA Collection with a 7" from LA eclectic dance purveyors We Are The World, out February 16th (this one is not a split though).

Artists include:
We Are The World
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
Fool's Gold
Local Natives
Dead Man's Bones
Rainbow Arabia
Nosaj Thing
IO Echo
Pocahaunted
Signals
Actually
Moonrats
Imaad Wasif

Here's a great new mixtape that I've been playing a lot, from the mind of Edinburgh's Craig Smith, aka one half of production duo 6th Borough Project, who I've written about before. This came out a couple of weeks ago, for internet radio station Cyberjamz, and features lots of great disco and house edits perfect to relax to.

1. Sweetest Change - MomTom
2. Wake Up - Bobby Burton
3. Paddlin' (Version 2) - Tornado Wallace
4. Seventh Disco - Greymatter
5. Fresh Noodles - Mr Scruff & Kaidi Tatham
6. Look What Your Doing To Me (MCDE Remix) - Jazzanova feat Phonte
7. Never Gonna (Superbreak Dub) - Crazy P
8. Falling - I:Cube
9.Call Me (The Revenge 1-800- Remix) - Illya Rudman
10. The Girls Say (Greg Wilson Edit) - Groove Armada
11. Roller Skating (DJ Butcher Get Down Dub) - Vaughan Mason
12. Ride Into The Redzone - Ooft
13. If There's A Cure (Kenny's Ride) - Jeep Style
14. Reckless With Your Love - Azari & III
15. Sometimes I Cry (Radio Slave Mix) - Mr G
16. From Here To Eternity - G Dubs
17. Livin' In The Music - Rainer Trueby
18. Got It - Motor City Drum Ensemble
19. Give You Up (Chez A Little Bit More Mix) - Willie Graff & Tuccilo
20. No Compromise - Blak N Spanish
21. Remember Me (Demo Mix) - Soul Renegades
22. Let Them Come - Dan Electro

Craig Smith - Cyberjamz Radio 01/25/10

One of the best albums this year so far is Pantha du Prince's Black Noise. Stream it below for some great minimal techno goodness.

Friends of HSB Telepathe did a short Asian/Pacific tour in December and the beginning of January, hitting up Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and several other places out there. When they were in Singapore, HSB's relocated photographer Akmal Naim attended the show and snapped a bunch of pictures. You can see some of them below.

Telepathe - Devil's Trident (The Big Pink Reality)

Here's the new video from one of my favorite LA bands and friends of HSB Local Natives. One of the strongest songs on their record, out February 16th.

Airplanes

Local Natives | MySpace Music Videos