DYC’s Fave Instant Crush Jams

Well it is officially the end of the Summer, the last hurrah is here. Well I feel more than anything it is that go big or go home time of the year since my irresponsible adulthood for the last two months is coming to a close. Well back to work and back to reality had to happen some time and I’m glad I’ve got the right music to help me enter September with great dance moves. I’ve had an amazing Summer and I hope you guys have too!

But enough of this sentimental shiz ha let’s get to the jams. This week Say Lou Lou and Avec Sans proved yet again they are amazing acts and oh yes they can cover anyone. Covering Daft Punk and Kate Bush are no easy feats! We also got great new tracks from Cold War Kids, Generationals, The Preatures, Broods and Young Summer.

Basically okay yeah Summer is over but this Fall the stellar music is still sooooo on the way. Have a great Labor Day weekend and I hope you find at least one new jam to obsess over! Go ahead do it, stream this week’s delightful as fuck playlist below:

Cold War Kids/First

Stream “First” the latest jam from CWK‘s upcoming album Hold My Home, available 10/21 below:

The Preatures/Somebody’s Talking

Stream The Preatures brand new damn great track Somebody’s Talking below:

Stream: TOPS/Picture You Staring

Avec Sans/Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover)

Omg I just can’t with all the feels I get from anything Avec Sans touches.  Covers, original songs…it doesn’t matter it is all pure magic.  Do yourself a favor and hear the latest cover of Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill” below:

Say Lou Lou/Instant Crush (Daft Punk cover)

These amazing sisters do it again…oh they do!

Young Summer/Blood Love

Young Summer‘s album Siren is out now.  Stream yet another great track Blood Love from the LP below:

Generationals/Black Lemon

Generationals continue to bust out the great jams and they have me now even more excited for their new LP Alix which drops 9/16.  Stream a damn good jam off of it Black Lemon below:

Broods/Four Walls

Stream another stellar track from Broods called Four Walls below:

Arcade Fire Night 3 in Brooklyn ft David Byrne

 

Well this has not been my first time at the rodeo with Arcade Fire…but holy shit it just might have been the best concert I’ve been to…well at least the best concert to date I’ve been to in 2014.  AF are just a band that know how to own an arena.  All of Barclays was on their feet for the 2 hour set.  I don’t think I’ve ever danced this much at a show at Barclays before…like ever.  From The Suburbs to Reflektor to Sprawl II to Ready To Start to Afterlife to Hey Orpheus to No Cars Go to My Body Is A Cage etc to David Byrne being night three’s special guest to cover Suicide‘s “Dream Baby Dream” to Wake Up to end the set I have never felt so alive at a show.  It was like being in some Arcade Fire cult and hey I’d like to be in this for life if I could always feel this way.  Win Butler, Regine and company proved why they are now more than ever one of the best if not best band in the business now.  They thanked Mr. Byrne for paving the way for them to make music and I thank AF for being a band I would spend any price to see in concert.  I joked before the show that maybe James Murphy would be the special guest and sure we did get a bit of “All My Friends” but if it wasn’t gonna be James out there like I couldn’t ask for a better person than David Byrne.  I think the fangirling I did when Win announced his name reached new levels for me ha.  I screamed oh I did.  I just honestly want to go back and relive this night over and over again.  But as Arcade Fire would have us know with Hey Orpheus it is never over.  And with Arcade Fire I never want it to be over!