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Brazil is so easy to looooooove. I wanna move there… now. Database is another great example of Brazilian party jamms lighting up our inbox… Good stuff. “How I Wish A Better Mix” is like a perfect little party starter to get the kids going:

database - “how i wish a better mix” (mp3)

Ya’ll know Bo$$ In Drama is a new-ish favorite of ours. We’ve posted the original a couple times before so why not bring you Database’s remix? This mix gets excellent midway through. Shake, shake and bounce:

Bo$$ in Drama - “Shake” (database remix) (mp3)

Ah, NRKOTB must know the same Vivian that we know… bolt shit down cuz she gets around:

New Rave Kids on the Block - “Vivian the Whore Next Door” (database remix) (mp3)

We've seen magic walls in videos before -- courtesy of Brooklyn's Parts & Labor -- however the self-animating stop-motioned magic of this white room comes via Swedish indie pop duo the LK. "Stop Being Perfect" pits the pair in a blank space and captures them on film that flips to negative, while patterns and pictures project themselves in tidy quadrants. It's a very smoothed and melodic tune, sort of reminds us of Erlend Øye's Whitest Boy Alive project, just more buoyant, with more forward momentum. The electronic accents, the background whirls and whirrrs, and the shuffling, brushed drums set a sweet scene for the lyrics of "frozen cloud"s and "sticky black tongues." Nice tune for a wispy wintry night.

We like Sally Shapiro. We do. Good for us, then, on 4/15 Paper Bag's releasing Remix Romance Vol. 1, a collection of 10 remixed Shapiro tunes by folks/crews like the Juan MacClean, Holy Fuck, Skatebård, Junior Boys, Lindstrøm, and the Cansecos, who've gone and posted their take on "Hold Me So Tight" at MySpace. The new wave-y Torontonians do a good job bolstering, not stripping bare. It feels as warm as the original, but with added accouterments. Also if you have a moment, please look at their top friends after the first line of their label and band pals. Did we just enter a Fall Out Boy convention? Well, who can blame the ladies ... the dudes do have such a nice living room.

This guy's doing everybody these days. Clearly not keeping a low profile since his less-than-flattering and still NSFW sextape flopped across our computer screens, Gene Simmons recently did some TV with Rachael Ray and Anderson Cooper. Normally, we wouldn't think a visit to the hyperactive cook's crib was worth mentioning, but after the commenter outpouring indicated some kinda collective RR lust, we figured we'd provide you with more fuel for your ardor. We don't get it but hey, here's Gene sticking his tongue out with Rachael.

According to Gene's site, his Rachael episode airs 3/11. We also have a pic where Rachael gets in on the tongue action. He gives Anderson tongue, too.

We don't know much about Portugal's Buraka Som Sistema, aside from the fact that they have a MySpace page, and that last night our friends at Discobelle posted a video that we wound up watching/dancing to on a loop for twenty minutes. In part because within are body moves like you've never seen, but mostly because this track is disgustingly good and should really just be made into a forty minute mix and then put on repeat all weekend. "Sound Of Kudoro" features DJ Znobia, M.I.A, Subarosa, and Puto Prata and is in the words of Discobelle "the epitomy of a banger!" We'll go with that.

Buraka Som Sistema promise a full length called Black Diamond this summer, which we imagine will be released via Enchufada. Suddenly we're very interested.

We haven't heard much from Rook, the follow-up to Shearwater's Palo Santo. In fact, all we've heard is one tune, "Rooks" ... but what a great start! We also know the album's ten tracks were recorded by Matthew Barnhart at Echo Lab and produced by frontman Jonathan Meiburg. Or, as JM put it at the band's site, "We recorded it in November at the Echo Lab in Argyle, Texas, among barred owls, pet donkeys, coyotes, and the ominous sounds of gas wells being drilled in the near distance; rural north Texas retreats as Dallas approaches." Some of that owl-y mojo made it into both the lovely, crow-heavy promotional and album art and this hushed, particularly feathered and lovely tune.

[Photo by Steven Dewall]

We were all over the video for "Grounds For Divorce," the excellently breezy, ballsy, percussive, first single from Elbow's fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid. It felt like vintage Greg Dulli, if the Whigs had been from Manchester, not Ohio. Guy Garvey & Co. soften the corners for "Mirrorball," the song that falls immediately before "Grounds" on the new one, and it's an altogether dreamier, less beer glass-crashing ballad. Garvey's tunes generally have at least one line suitable for framing. This time it's "we kiss like we invented it." And then everything that comes after it.

People Don't Dance No More is back at 205 Club in the basement on Thursday March 13th.

Me and David have got guest DJs Escort and Liv Spencer (Manthraxx, Still Going - DFA) playing with us all night... should be tons o' fun, and it is FREE-E-E-E!

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We admit we're impressed by the level of discourse in the comments on Stereogum: mostly you guys are funny, knowledgeable, and collectively perfect at playing our fact checking cuz. Also you guys are excellent anonymous comment writers -- that's where your questionable displays of taste, rampant vulgarity, and misplaced aggression really shine. Although we aim to elevate discourse here, we also wanted to memorialize our appreciation for said moments of anonymous absurdity ... and for that we called on the most absurd friends we have: Aziz, Paul, and Rob. The guys took a few minutes to respond to some of your finer postings between takes on set filming Human Giant's second season (hence Aziz and Rob's old man makeup) which premieres one week from today on MTV. In addition, we have HG's latest short about a homicidal carpet monkey, and how said short involves both Will Ferrell and Summer Roberts. Now, let's see if your comment made the cut.

There's a great point here to be made for future political campaigns: If you're going to have a band perform some 11th hour concerts in support of your candidate, make sure the internet loves that band like it does Arcade Fire. Because while most blogs and music news sites want to steer clear of endorsing a particular political candidate either expressly or via peripheral coverage ... if Arcade Fire covers Bowie and Lennon at a rock for Barack show in Ohio we are powerless as mere bloggers to resist the post. As they did on Saturday, Win & Co. played two sets last night in Cleveland to accommodate the swell of Obama/Fire fans. Stereogum reader Logan was there and delivers us this photo and the setlist, while some other youngster passionate about politics and/or seeing Arcade Fire live delivers the YouTube.