Bastille - Laura Palmer (RAC remix)

Summer evening breezes blue
Drawing voices deep from you
Lead by a beating heart
What's the air and what's the night
What terrifying final sights
Put out your beating heart

Happy Bastille Day, France and happy birthday to Dan Smith, lead singer/songwriter for Bastille!! The band has a new single out you may have heard by now, Good Grief, but I chose this track for TMIS because the lyrics really drew me in, 3+ years ago when almost no one in the U.S. had heard of Bastille, and then I found out it was about Twin Peaks, and then they came out with this chilled out remix by a fairly small time producer/musician, RAC, whom I was already a fan of. So, hope this suits your mid-week, mid-summer, non-U.S.-holiday mood this evening as well as it does mine.

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Chvrches feat. Haley Williams - Bury It

Cover up, cover up
Cover up that you're ruthless
Nobody, nobody
Nobody's ever gonna notice
And I am catching up
And I am seeing red
How about I prove I'm right
And raise it overhead?

I wanted to keep on dancing this weekend, and keep on theme-ish. It's nearly impossible to tell the difference between Lauren's voice and Hayley's, and nothing remotely associated with rap, but I'm in charge here (sorta) so I'm saying it counts! This version of the song came out just a couple weeks ago, though the non-Hayley version was on Chvrches 2015 album Every Eye Open, and the danciest track from that album is probably "Clearest Blue." Check out the video below to see Lauren wearing some plated armor, and a bit of a dance party at the end.

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Banks & Steelz - Giant

Fuck CNN, this is ghetto editorial
See me like milk and Oreos
Dipped inside the audio
Platinum plaques in my portfolio
My lines are fine as wine
And blow your mind like coco

I know yesterday I disregarded a fairly cool collaboration of alt rock and rap, but I'm making up for that with a much cooler one today. Paul Banks, from Interpol, and RZA, leader and emcee in the Wu Tang Clan - also filmmaker and actor - who hang out and play chess (!) one day decided "If we put our [musical] sandwich together, it will be great" and it is.  I'm really looking forward to the full album, out in August, especially the track that features Florence Welch, and to seeing this surely intense act perform live at ACL in October.

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