New Music Monday: Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

From Adelaide, South Australia, comes Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! Citing everyone from DFA 1979 to Daft Punk as influences, the group uses rapid and fierce guitar riffs along with the voice of new addition, Caitlin Duff, to form their own brand of electro-pop. Performing with the likes of Midnight Juggernauts at Big Day Out '07, these guys are on the up and up and show a lot of promise. Theres something to be said for the simplicity with these guys in terms of the rhythm, and then adding the off time guitars to complete the sound. Check it.

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward

Remix Sunday: HAUNTS REMIX

HAUNTS, or 'The Haunts' (they don't seem to care much) are an up and coming four-piece London band whose new wave style is fueled by some heavy guitar riff action and some catchy synth. After being picked up by Black Records they released an album this summer, and have steadily been gaining a following on their home turf ever since.

Warning : Do not go to their website unless you want to enjoy a small epileptic fit today. But you're going to go to it now anyways, aren't you?

That's fine, I'll wait................

Told you.

Anyway, aside from inducing seizures the guys have been pumping out a slew of dance tracks, remixing the likes of Midnight Juggernauts, CSS and Late of the Pier (Check these guys out) through their side-project, Haunts Remix, . BTA received some tracks from them a little while back, and their remix of 'The Bears are Coming' always got me bouncing when it crept up on the playlist. Have a listen and if you like what you hear, you can download a whole bunch more tracks from their myspace. Or if you're across the pond, check out HAUNTS live all over England starting this week.

Late of the Pier - The bears are coming (HAUNTS Remix)
The Music - Drugs (HAUNTS Remix)

May Mix

Here's a few of our favorite tracks of late, strung together in a shoddy mix. What it lacks in fluidity it makes up for in substance, and riboflavin. Tracklist below.

Walter Meego - Forever
Ratatat - Shempi
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
Ninjasonik - Tight Pants
Hot Chip - Hold On
Bloc Party - Flux (JFK Remix)

- BA

And Justice was served en francais.

Justice absolutely beat up a capacity-crowd at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom this past Saturday night. Lucky for us we had tickets because the line of people trying to get in will-call was down the street. The last show I saw was Daft Punk in the summer and this was a totally different type of show. Don't get me wrong, people were going crazy for both sets and I understand the comparisons being thrown around about the two. Justice is just a little more rough, with those massive Marshall stacks replacing Daft Punk's orchestrated triangles. While Daft had Montreal bopping and dancing to their pop-py melodies, Justice blew smoke in Vancity's face and kicked us into the ground with their grittier, pounding beats. It was incredible. And they actually did smoke on-stage for the whole set - so French of them. So much for those non-smoking rules across Canada.

The French duo brought along Australia's Midnight Juggernauts for a spacey dance rock opening set. Good stuff, definitely BTA-recommended, and the singer even sounds a little like Bowie (check out 'Into The Galaxy' below and tell me I'm wrong). I was right up front for the whole set and didn't stand a chance at releasing the amateur photographer in me, but I tried. Here's a clip of how Justice kicked off their set and got us hooked on religious iconography.

Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy

Justice - Stress

-AW