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If you’re not the type of person with a half dozen or so electro/blog-house sites in your RSS feed, you might not know about Ladyhawke (not to be confused with Ladyhawk), but she’s the hot new business with the shutter-shades kids. Her regular stuff is OK, if a little samey, but the Canyons remix of her track “Dusk to Dawn” is a nasty blend of disco and harshed-out garage rock that no one else is messing with right now. If a band got together just to rip off that sound I’d go see them every week.
Right now, Vein’s “Get Up Stand Up” tops my list of most slept-on singles of 2008. People love robot voices, and people love songs that reference songs they already know, so I can’t guess what the deal is with this not being a monster summer jam. Maybe Pitbull’s cameo is scaring off the reggaetonphobes?
