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Well, so much for naming our band The Amazing. As with everything else, from really safe cars shaped like piles of cardboard boxes and eating pickled fish for breakfast, the Swedes have beaten us to the punch. This The Amazing includes Reine Fisk and Fredrik Björling from FADER favorites Dungen and their broders from The Guild and Granada, both of which are, well, there's a reason people know about Dungen, let's just leave it at that. "Dragon" though is ideal for days like this—easy on the nerves—especially if you can manage some grass. Grass in a field. For you to sit on. (via It's A Trap!)


Download: The Amazing, "Dragon"

First they put their entire album up on the internet for free download and now they’ve made the video for “House of Cards” without cameras and boy are we excited to talk about this at parties for the next couple years. This video has been internetted to death already, but here: It was made by capturing the shapes and relative distances of physical objects by shooting lasers at them from a scanner mounted on something that looks like a steady-cam. Scanner! Lasers! What?! This shit is crazy. We watched the "making of" video too but still really don’t understand how one can “remake geometry” or how this process works at all. And of course Yorke had to get all deep on us, saying some stuff about how the transformation of people into mathematical points is “strangely emotional," like, the collision of the mechanical and the human reveals the true depth of the soul when not touched by technology, or something. Just don't watch too closely, you could go as blind as a Russian raver.

Strangely, of the numerous "Rollin" remixes that have come out since we went nuts over the original's melancholy ecstasy (it, along with Paper Route's many other inventive tracks, resulted in a feature in FADER #51 and a Mad Decent signing), none have captured the tone of Mali-Boi's production. But Ayres utilizes the choir/synth fuzz of French melodramatist M83 to take it to another level of ridiculousness that Paper Route, never to be outdone, will probably top with a Celine Dion sample.


Download: Jackie Chain f. Jhi Ali, "Rollin" (DJ Ayres Remix)

Watching a bobblehead CGI Prodigy get braided in "Pangea" with Noam Chomsky talking about national ID cards is similar to the experience of falling down and cutting your arm up and then staring at it like it isn't really your arm. It's a kind of disembodied wonder for a couple of seconds, like "Hey weird, this doesn't hurt" and then the endorphins wear off and you cry.

There was a time when it was rare to get a song with an actual chorus/verse structure out of Gang Gang Dance. And we loved them for it. We're not sure if the original version of "House Jam" is as poppy as this, but if GGD or XXXchange remixing GGD want to go ahead and throw Cure guitar riffs and Timbaland synths into a song, we're not going to try and stop them. Also, we are not going to stop them because "House Jam" is from the album that we wrote about in FADER 44, and that was forever ago (March 2007) and this album is still not out. Members of Gang Gang Dance, know this: we are waiting for this with a patience we pretty much only reserve for the next Outkast album.


Download: Gang Gang Dance, "House Jam" (XXXchange Remix)

Over the weekend we witnessed the East Coast ding sling revival on Brighton Beach, a recent FADER-featured band play a show in the apartment of one of our editors, a bunch of recent FADER-featured bands at The Yard, the first episode of David Simon's Generation Kill and the most bananas drum parade in Prospect Park, which meant we didn't even pause (pause) when we saw this tagless version of Cam'ron's new joint on our Blackberry. And that folks is a sad day in hip hop. But it's Monday morning, so we're going to give it another look, and it turns out we were probably right in putting it off. (thanks to Young Sav though)


Download: Cam'ron, "Let The Beat Build Freestyle"

The last time "music" and "Olympics" were used in the same sentence, Tiësto was DJing the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens games (as we were trying to keep down our souvlaki). Fortunately, the tunes for this year's Bejing games are looking a lot more FADER-y, if this moody new Mavado joint (and its behind-the-scenes video) exclusively recorded for JA sprinter Asafa Powell's Nike+ training mix is any indication. We movin like di light/ Jamaica have di fastest man inna life/ Faster than car or bike... It's so good we'll refrain from ending with a Cool Runnings joke. Sike - it's bobsled time!

Before you check them out live, read Matthew Schnipper's feature story from our Summer Music issue after the jump. more...

We didn’t go see FADER 55ers Abe Vigoda in Baltimore on Wednesday. We almost did, but couldn’t and were burned pretty bad by it. Instead we sat in our apartment and angrily housed Chinese delivery and thought about what we would be doing if we were there and it sucked. But thanks to some guy named Jeff Mewbourn and Aural States, their whole set is available online, so we can go home and put it on real loud and maybe invite some people over and pretend it’s three days ago and we’re in Baltimore. Or not, because that would be really pathetic and we can just go see them for real tonight at South Street Seaport (with No Age and Telepathe) or tomorrow at The Yard (with High Places and basically every other band ever) or Sunday at Mercury Lounge and it’ll be way more awesome.

Stream or Download: Abe Vigoda Live in Baltimore

Tonight on the Let Out, our weekly East Village Radio show (made possible by Dewars) we are back! The last time we came to you was like June 27—JUNE 27TH!—But we're back now, with lots of music and banter all stored up. Listen live at eastvillageradio.com from 6-8 EST, and if you miss it, you can always grab the podcast afterwards.

To paraphrase el jefe Phife Dawg, whether you're "brown, yellow, Puerto Rican and Haitian" (and also a bunch of other people from all diasporas back to the Cro-Mags, we don't discrimihate), you need to go to this party. Peace / love around the world forever. The Chicanas among us expect to rep (and wreck) fully this Latin 'splosion tonight at Santo's Playhouse in beeeyootiful downtown New York, as a hot sidebar jump to the Latin Alternative Music Conference. DJs include Toy Selectah (pictured above), from Monterrey, MX's dope hip-hop crew Control Machete, possibly dropping some cumbia? Maybe not. Also Stereotyp from Vienna doing dub time and LA-via-Monterrey turntable bruiser Mexican Dubwiser. Go celebrate the fact that Luis Miguel and Aracely Arambula are expecting again! Oh don't front you know you read ¡Hola! So it's supposed to be super packed but show up, maybe you can pretend to be part of the house band and carry in a bongo like Marc Antony in El Cantate.

Pitbull's Free Agent mixtape is predictably chocked full of party jams, money jams, and jams about partying with a lot of money, but not so predictably, remixes of songs by FADER Gen Fers B.O.B. and Kid Cudi. Another gem has Señor 305 riding out over issue 55 covergirl Estelle's "American Boy." Albeit about seven and a half years late, between channeling Edwin Starr and Kanye's disco electrolysis, Pitbull has managed to turn a song about cross continental crushing into a call for political reform. Think of it as a MoveOn blast for the summer season.


Pitbull, "American War" (from Free Agent Mixtape)

Download: Pitbull's Free Agent Mixtape

One time we stumbled upon a Chemical Brothers 12" in the office kitchen free pile, and we had to level an accusatory "Bro...bro!" to no one in particular. Sure, the guys are responsible for some head-scratching artistic decisions as of late, but dammit, when you see them in your kitchen show them some respect. They made Dig Your Own Hole! Does that count for nothing? Tom and Ed channel their 1997 LP pretty heavily (and appropriately) on this new Oasis remix, managing to take Noel Gallagher rhyming "We live a dying dream" with "D'you know what I mean?" and still make it sound kind of epic. Or at the very least, Buzz Bin-worthy. Who else is gonna buy orange lens sunglasses over the weekend?


Download: Oasis, "Falling Down (Chemical Brothers Remix)"