Our monthly club night, Popshop, has been patiently picking up steam in London and Paris and almost all corners of the North American diamond. And now, it's time for the next puzzle piece, Popshop South in the musical homestead of Nashville. Our starchild St. Lucia will headline The High Watt with sterling support from the lovely HAERTS and local party mavens, Future Unlimited. It's a guaranteed synth-filled night, and it's all going down next Monday at 8:30 sharp, with tix available HERE. It's history in the making, y'all.
HAERTS have been our new favorite NYC band for a minute now, so we're very excited to announce their addition to the Neon Gold / Columbia family today as we ready their immaculate debut single "Wings" for release on Neon Gold next month. Featuring members hailing from Germany, England and the United States, HAERTS are a veritable United Nations of pop supremacy, with an irresistibly international sound that's impossible to pin down on any map. 
SXSW is coming in hot this week, so let's do this. The 2013 installment of our annual official SX showcase is our biggest yet, as we take over the main stage at Empire Autos on Friday night. On the bill, we've got Lovelife, Ghost Beach and Sir Sly, before HAERTS, Foxes and St. Lucia close out the night in style. On the decks, captain Xaphoon Jones will be keeping the night alive in the late night slot alongside open bar cocktails from 12:30-1:30, courtesy of Western Spirits. It's all popping off at 7pm, Friday March 15th at Empire Autos, conveniently located on the corner of Red River and E 7th Street. Let's go, Austin.
CHVRCHES and St. Lucia, two of the finest practitioners of electronic pop in the western world, come together at last in holy remix matrimony as the Scottish power trio elevate St. L's "Before The Dive" to the glistening heavens and pack it full of angelfire fury, filtered echoes, and supercharged bass surges. Be sure to catch both acts stealing headlines at SXSW next week, and tide yourselves over with this oven fresh remix in the meantime.
Well guys, this is it, quite possibly our favorite bill we've ever thrown. All Things Gold is sending 2012 out like Queen Latifah in Set It Off, just going hammer with the talent on this one. Our prodigal son, St. Lucia, NYC's Black Light Dinner Party, and Aussies Gold Fields shine in the live slots and then tying it all together with a fluoro ribbon and neon bow it's Alex Fucking Metric bringing the club warfare in the DJ headline. It's the perfect pre-holiday treat, the ravey mistletoe looming over your head, and it's all going down at U Street Music Hall at 9pm with advance tickets still available for a limited time HERE.
With the success of Popshop NYC, Brooklyn, and more recently, West, we're now breaking out our passports, heading north, and storming the Canadian border. That's right, we're thrilled to present the very first installment of Popshop North. For the inaugural kickoff next Tuesday in Toronto, we've got - who else - St. Lucia headlining with Gold Fields in the support slot. It's a double whammy of golden age pop and it's already on the verge of sell out , so consider this a warning. We repeat, THIS WILL SELL OUT. It's all going down at the Drake Hotel at 8:00pm, with tix available HERE. If you're lucky enough to be in the area, you really don't wanna miss this.
Okay, so we know that our favorite son St. Lucia has been on everyone's mind as of late, what with their major league Victoria's Secret placement, Pitchfork music video premiere, and upcoming SOLD OUT Music Hall of Williamsburg headline show this Saturday. But when it rains, it pours, as today we've got a super fresh Pacific Air remix of "All Eyes On You", arriving just in time for the west coast duo's LA headline debut at Popshop West this Thursday (tickets HERE). The remix is everything we've come to expect and more from Pacific Air (formerly KO KO) boys, as Jean's vocals boom with the same unrepentant fervor of the original but now over a newly balearic rhythm that feels like a yacht joyride through your favorite holiday memories.
We're doing a little something special for our next Popshop Brooklyn, coming in hot Saturday, December 8th. To celebrate St. Lucia's SOLD OUT headline show at Music Hall of Williamsburg earlier that very night, we're keeping the magic going straight into Popshop Brooklyn, as we bring the official St. Lucia afterparty to Brooklyn Bowl. Find us dreaming out loud with our favorite local boy-girl duo Savoir Adore in the headline slot, along with London's kid dynamite Willy Moon bringing the energy early. It's all popping off December 8th with doors at 11:30pm and $10 tickets available HERE, plus $5 cheap entry with a ticket stub from St. Lucia's Music Hall show. BIG night.
Our knight in shining armor, St. Lucia, will be in LA this week after wrapping up his west coast run with Two Door Cinema Club (remember to come out to the official afterparty for their Palladium show with us TOMORROW), which is obviously headline news. Warming up the stage before St. L are two of our favorite new Cali bands, the worldly mystery-pop of Night Terrors of 1927 and the upbeat ruggedness of Beat Club. It's all happening this Friday at The Satellite, with doors at 8pm and $10 advance tickets available HERE. Make moves, bring your fall looks, and let's do this up big, autumn style.
Meet Haerts, a brand new boy-girl duo hailing from Brooklyn (via Germany), and the latest addition to the HeavyRoc Music family. Debut single "Wings" certainly lives up to its name, as Nini Fabi's love-laced vocals float dreamily above the clouds and waxing moonlit synths dance amongst waning guitar licks far below. Better yet, it's produced by none other than St. Lucia himself, his undeniable Midas touch guiding their rippling stream of gold through a classic St. Lucian guitar groove. Enjoy the exclusive premiere of "Wings" below and be sure to keep an eye on this lot, as there's much more to come in the months ahead. HOLD ONTO YOUR HAERTS.
Xaphoon Jones is having a MOMENT. After killing 'em all summer long with more insane remixes than even we knew what to do with, Yung Xaph returns to the mixtape game with XJV3, the third and final installment in his mixtape trilogy. Fully loaded with more hits than a blotter sheet, it's the perfect curtain call to his illustrious remix career and an incredibly promising taste of things to come for the young beat architect. While you'll have to wait just a little bit longer for the whole thing, we're here to premiere our favorite cut for you today, as Xaph turns in what is quite possibly his finest remix to date on St. Lucia's "Closer Than This". Stripping the original down to its skivvies 'til it's just topless synths and bottomless beats, it's a tranquil starlit nightswim before the ocean-sized chorus comes crashing down without warning in a torrential downpour of space horns and lunar guitars. Swim at your own risk.
Well friends, the wait is over. After teasing audiences for months as the epic finale to his live sets, St. Lucia's "September" arrives today, available NOW on iTunes and Beatport. The biggest and baddest track in his increasingly amazing repertoire, it's an all-consuming dancefloor behemoth backed by some equally massive remixes from the likes of Alex Metric, Punks Jump Up, Leo Zero and dance music legend Neil McLellan. Alex Metric's got his remix - one of his best ever if you ask us - streaming over on his Soundcloud page, and you can download the Punks Jump Up remix for free from St. L's Facebook page. But with a track this ambitious and masterful, it's always going to be about the original. Don't take our word for it though, dive into it headfirst below and cop the full EP at iTunes HERE.
Don't miss St. Lucia's dazzling warp-drive lovedrug throwback of a Passion Pit remix. Oh, and he's also playing Popshop BK this weekend (tix still available HERE).
Xaphoon Jones is about to take your whole summer over with his forthcoming mixtape, XJV3, and we've got your first taste right here. Bringing together two of the biggest superstars of tomorrow in St. Lucia and Madeon, Xaph delivers a worthy successor to last year's instant classic, "The Jackson Pit", on an anthemic disco smash that'll be setting rooftop parties off all summer along.
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