#skoaradio 10/24/2015 liner notes

artist rendition of my convo with Alex from Kingswood after I shut the mic off post-interview.lol

Hey fam!

Things refuse to slow down in SKOA HQ, but I'm not complaining! I wrapped up CMJ with a day in Aussie Heaven where we interviewed KINGSWOOD prior to watching them totally kill it. I can't believe how much fun I had. Kinda wish it had never ended tbh. Oh well. Time to prep for Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, which is coming up super fast. I've got a couple of new tracks on this week's show. As always would love to hear your thoughts so @ me bb if you liked what you heard!

See you next week!

<3

kibbe!

• Battle Tapes - "Valkyrie"
  • Debut album Polygon drops on November 20th!
• BOOTS - "Bombs Away"
  • New track "C.U.R.E." out now
  • Debut full length Aquaria drops November 23th!
  • BOOTS is playing Rough Trade for his release show! You've officially missed your chance to get tix :(
• Good Morning - "You"
  • Official writeup of my interview with them from last week's CMJ show coming soon!
• Car Seat Headrest - "Times To Die"
  • New album Teens of Style drops October 30th!
  • Shows coming up in the UK & US.
• Weaves - "Motorcycle"
  • Did you know that THE NEW YORK TIMES reviewed one of their CMJ shows!?! AMAZING!!
• Monarchy - "Black Widow"
  • These guys just wrapped up their final shows for 2015 (</3).
  • Have you picked up Abnocto or ReVision yet!?
• Sam Sparro - "Hands Up"
  • Sam's new EP Quantum Physical Vol 2 is out now! GO GET IT!
• Kenna - "Sleep When We Die"
  • Dude just finished up 35 days of traveling to shoot his "Sleep When We Die" video. The NYC Core got some hugs with him while he was here.
  • Go help fund Songs For Flight!
• JR JR - "Gone"
  • JR JR available now.
• Slum Sociable - "All Night"
  • Go grab TQ now
  • You can also see pitchas of these guys from my CMJ coverage. I may or may not have seen them three times :)
• Little May - "Boardwalks"
  • Caught these little darlings this week at Mercury Lounge. Show review coming soon!
  • Go grab their album For The Company asap okay
• Don Diablo & Matt Nash - "Starlight (Could You Be Mine)"
  • Don Diablo moved up like a gazillion slots to NUMBER 30 IN DJ MAG'S TOP 100 DJS LIST OMG YAYYYY!!
• Interpol - "All Fired Up"
  • If you don't have their latest record, El Pintor well then shame on you (this track is from Our Love To Admire tho)
• The Dead Weather - "I Feel Love(Every Million Miles)"
  • Dodge and Burn is good fam, you needs it.
• KINGSWOOD  Interview!
• KINGSWOOD - "Ohio"
  • Hope you enjoyed this interview. Don't worry, imma pull out the good bits to write up all official :)
• Mr. Hudson - "Dancing Thru It"
  • I'M. SO. HAPPY. HE'S. BACK!!!!!!!!!
  • Can't be too mad considering he was off working on the new Duran Duran album, which is great tbh.
  • Also the Souncloud page for this says MORE MUSIC COMING. YES YES YES YES YES.
• Magic Sword - "Battlefield"
  • Have you read the comic for this btw? Pretty cool stuff.
  • Official write up for this interview is coming soon too. :)
• Sami Switch - "Self Destruct"
  • This guy's story is so cool. You have to watch this mini docu about his trajectory in the past few years. He's gone from homeless to selling out shows in London. Good for him.
• Wrabel - "I Want You"
  • Still tryna figure out why "bae-bel" still hasn't upped this to iTunes/Spotify/Whatever yet. It's on YouTube and Soundcloud at least? And you can haz for $FREE.99
  • Anyway you can grab his first EP Sideways to show love. I think that's fair right?

THINGS I TALKED ABOUT ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK INCLUDE:

• Spotify pulled all of Victory Records catalog (oof).
• Not Convinced That Spotify Is A Music Discovery Platform? Check Out These Mercury Prize Streaming Bumps
• Apple has a third as many paying subscribers as Spotify

[Watch] Sam Sparro - "I Wish I Never Met You" (Video)

After four long years Sam Sparro is back! He's dropped a few tracks in the past few months (not in the US though, unfortunately) as we all anticipate his forthcoming sophomore album Return To Paradise, which follows up his 2008 self-titled release. Today we have the video for his latest single, "I Wish I Never Met You", which looks something straight out of Boardwalk Empire with its Prohibition-esque scenes directed by Mike Rosenthal.

Just this past weekend I ended my Record Store Day catching Mr. Sparro over at Highline Ballroom where he played a ton of the new material including this song. He intro'd a lot of songs explaining that he went through a really nasty breakup and wrote his way out of the bad place it had put him in. "I Wish I Never Met You" resonated well in the room and from the looks that the crowd was giving Sparro they had all felt the same way he did when he wrote this song.

Return To Paradise is slated for a June 11th release in the UK. No word on a US release yet. More on that in the coming months.

Also, please be patient with this video while it loads in all of it's non-geo-locking glory.

[Watch] Lyrics Born - "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda (feat. Sam Sparro)"

Check out this funky little number from Lyrics Born featuring vocal stylings courtesy of the super talented Sam Sparro. "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" is from Lyrics Born's As U Were, which dropped late last year.

I love how this video makes me think of Soul Train, am I right?

[Listen] Lyrics Born - "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" Feat. Sam Sparro

At the start of the week Lyrics Born released his new album As U Were and we have a funky as funk track for you to give a good listening to below. It features Sam Sparro who last night tweeted that he was finishing up the last track on his new record... Something else to look out for in the coming months. This track is really nice, check it out for yourself down below. You can pick up Lyrics Born's new album over here.

Lyrics Born - "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" Feat. Sam Sparro by Some Kind of Awesome

[Download] Ok Go - "White Knuckles (Boys Like Us Remix) & (Sam Sparro Remix) "This Too Shall Pass (Ra Ra Riot Remix)"

Here's a fun little treat for you! There's an Ok Go promo disc floating around called Twelve Remixes Of Four Songs and because we love you guys we're going to toss a few of the remixes your way.

Two remixes are of "White Knuckles", one from Boys Like Us (aka Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend fame) and the other is from the well loved Sam Sparro, who is currently working with Theophilus London and Mark Ronson on a project called Chauffeur. The other track, "This Too Shall Pass" was remixed by Ra Ra Riot, whose album The Orchard drops tomorrow. 

Enjoy!

OK GO - Twelve Remixes Of Four Songs by Some Kind of Awesome