Introducing....Fast Years– Young Heart

Fast Years– Young Heart

Brooklyn four-piece Fast Years formed in the Spring of 2011. The band plays a mix of 80's Punk, Surf Pop, and Indie Garage, with influences ranging from The Sonics to The Exploding Hearts.

They’ve had an online presence for all of 3 weeks now, including a free Bandcamp giveaway of lead track ‘Young Heart’, but their impact has been immediate. The band played their first ever live show on Friday to a full house alongside the white-hot Howler and St. Lucia in Brooklyn, crept in to the Hype Machine’s top 15 list, featured on last week's New to Q, as well as having picked up the following praise:

“The track goes near polar-throwback in it’s tendencies towards nostalgic Garage and Pop. Especially for those letting a renaissance of bands like The Vaccines still sink in” – blahblahblahscience
“sufficient bark to their garage stomp to merit a listen” – NME Radar Tip Of The Day
“Young Heart is a mile-a-minute, hook-a-plenty, good time jam that’s got us hot under the collar just now.” – Laissez Faire Club
"along the lines of Japandroids meets The Stroked meets The Vaccines – which we might broadly describe as a brilliant lo-fi sound...No doubt they will be here, there and everything sooner rather than later, but with tunes like these we’re sure as shit not complaining about it." - Killing Moon 

Their debut EP is due out this spring, and until then you can hear and see more at:

Bandcamp or Facebook

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Nathaniel feat I-20 - Left For Dead

Brooklyn based singer / songwriter Nathaniel begins 2012 with 'Left For Dead', a bluesy themed collaboration with Disturbing tha Peace rapper I-20. Taken from the forthcoming mixtape 'BORN', the Dirty Dunnz produced track sees Nathaniel breaking down his feelings to an ex-lover who has called quits on their relationship.

The track below has already been shared by Ludacris himself on Twitter and is set to be a massive online smash in anticipation of Nathaniel's forthcoming mixtape 'BORN', which is set to drop on the 25th Jan.

CLICK HERE TO STREAM

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MusicMafiauk presents....Fort Lean

It's January 2011. There's two feet of snow on the ground. Just blocks from Brooklyn's largest garbage dump, a group of guys are huddled around a space heater in a wasted apartment above a metal shop. It looks like a place where things go to die. The view out the window reveals a strip club and a poultry slaughterhouse. Even by the standards of a city not known for its aesthetic prowess, it's a hole. It's in this primordial ooze that Fort Lean was born. Five old friends tired of the grind. This is the very beginning, but it feels like the last chance.

Having been holed up in their bunker, writing and rehearsing for the first two months of 2011, they played their early March debut in front of a sold out crowd. "Beach Holiday," "Dreams (Never Come True)," "High Definition," and "Perfect" are the band's first recordings. The results of a weekend recording session, the four songs were released for free through Bandcamp on April 13. Encapsulating both the light and dark, the songs bounce along with a frenetic energy, but the world they reference is often a place of pain and disillusion.

Since unleashing their music on the world they've been featured on top-tier blogs such as Stereogum, RCRB LBL, I Guess I’m Floating, and My Old Kentucky Blog, and have shared the stage with the likes of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Male Bonding, Violens, Fang Island and Shark?.

They've been hard at work recording new material, sharing production duties with Ayad Al-Adhamy of Passion Pit. The band is also affiliated with Greedhead Entertainment - the label, management company, and group of dudes that hang out with each other, helmed by Himanshu Suri of Das Racist (“like Odd Future except older, fatter, and less controversial,” says guitarist Zach Fried). Additionally, the band brings a great deal of outside musical experience to the project. Bassist Jake Aron is a talented producer and audio engineer.

Frequently collaborating with Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, Jake has worked with such bands as Yeasayer, Twin Shadow, CANT, and Jamie Lidell. He also plays as Lidell's touring bassist.

Drummer Sam Ubl is a former writer for popular music website Pitchfork, as well as an array of other major publications. He currently works as an elementary school teacher. The group is rounded out by frontman Keenan Mitchell, synth man/guitarist Will Runge, and guitarist Fried, who is a former touring member of Bear Hands.

Listen and download the EP for free at http://fortlean.bandcamp.com/
Watch the new video for High Definition here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSmsw4wsmUAnd for further info - http://www.facebook.com/fortlean and http://twitter.com/fortlean

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