Winter is here and there's nothing you can do about it...Wrong.

Put that flannel to use, go cut down some wood around the neighborhood and get a big ol' fire going. Then, put this on and enjoy your home brewed Four Loko because you might as well get used to it. Kudos to Dafe for the update.

Anyhoo, Labyrinth Ear are just a guy and a girl from London making sweet, sweet music together. Maybe it helps that they are romantically in cahoots with each other? Whatever it is, it seems to be working. They dropped a FREE EP recently and it has been described as a less harsh Crystal Castles. Whoever you want to compare them to, it's some good synth pop that has been oozing out of my headphones as of late. Check out there Soundcloud for a whole lotta good shiit from these.

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To keep the winter vibe going, check out some remixes by Joe Goddard and Cookin Soul, along with some new songs from jj where she covers T.I.'s "Let Them Talk" over a sample of my boy Akon's "I Wanna Make Love", plus her track "I'm The One/Money On My Mind" where she samples The XX's "Intro".

jj - Let Them

jj - I'm The One/Money On My Mind

Dels - Trumpalump (Joe Goddard Remix)

Wiz Khalifa - Black & Yellow (Cookin Soul Remix)

Teen Daze for days

So after the shitshow that was last weekend, this here guy has needed some mellower music. Well while perusing hypem I ran across some more music by Teen Daze, a very mellow "chillwave" artist (I feel using that term is already looked down upon) with some fantastic remixes. As it turns out, Teen Daze has some great original material as well.

From what I can gather, its a guy from Vancouver who is quickly picking up some buzz. And for good reason. I hadn't heard a ONE remix that I was particularly fond of... but the energy that builds up into the swirling, ethereal climax is just nuts. I mean it really makes you want the beat to drop.

Yeasayer - ONE (Teen Daze Remix)

Teen Daze also did two great remixes of indie wonderkids Local Natives. Same thing: he knows how to build up a song. Here's one of 'em.

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Teen Daze Remix)

And here's something original.

Teen Daze - Gone for the Summer (Part Two)

Go check out the Teen Daze myspace and look up their other stuff on hypem. It was hard to pick and choose what to share here, its all worth listening to.

And for anyone in San Francisco: There will be a Teen Daze record release party at Milk on Haight Street on Aug. 12th. And from what I've heard from the other bands' myspaces, it should be a damn enjoyable show. And I'ma be there.

Here are some of the other dudes playing with Teen Daze on August 12th. I'm rather fond of them.

blackbird blackbird myspace

Kites Sail High myspace