You Fucking Crashed Me!

So it's been a while since the last post, thanks to the fact that too many people downloaded songs the other week. Like, 100 fucking GB worth of people within five days(that's a lot). While this surge in popularity is good for the site, it also means my fileden account is dunzo until my bandwidth resets in 16 days. In the meantime, there may be major hiccups with previewing songs directly on Shark Party, but rest assured you can still download them all the same. You just have to click DIRECTLY on the link now, preview the song @ Z-Share, then download from there.

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Chiddy Bang - "Kids"





Right off the bat, here's the song of the week, from 4 Philly college FRESHMEN named Chiddy Bang (already after my heart with that title), with a re-working of the MGMT smash that's obvious on paper, but absolute genius in execution. I could describe it further, but best to let the guys speak for themselves:


Chiddy Bang Video Podcast #1 from Chiddy Bang on Vimeo.


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Wale feat Lady Gaga - "Chillin"







Yes, I know that's not Lady Gaga with him, but at this point, is there a difference (besides talent)?. Plus it's just fucking hilarious. Anyway......next up is Wale, a rapper from DC who's been making some moves on the underground hip-hop scene for the past 3 years. The sample he uses is a bit more traditional than an MGMT track, but it's one I'm flat out shocked hasn't been used to this degree before. Hopefully the suddenly-high-profile guest he got will help push Wale to the next level, because he's talented enough to deserve some new fans.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Adult Friction"






Well it took a few months, but we finally have the year's first bona-fide breakthrough band in New York's Pains of Being Pure At Heart. Sounding like The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, Black Tambourine and even Jesus & Mary Chain slapped together and put in a blender with extra fuzz, the band's self-titled debut has been out since February, and already lit up radio and the blogs in a fiery frenzy. The sound isn't particularly new (especially to the West Coast, where noise-pop acts like Deerhoof have been going strong for a while), but the melodies are beautiful, and all the elements combine in a lovely, unexpected kind of way. If they keep up at this rate, they may well find themselves crossing over to the mainstream, as indie mainstays Grizzly Bear and Phoenix finally seem to be doing. This is good, since considering the state of pop music (that new Black Eyed Peas atrocity; that Keri Hilson song that won't fucking die; whoever the hell is sampling Eifel 65 and vomiting that "lips like sugar" chorus on top of it), the mainstream could definitely use more bands like this one.