Ministry - Everyday is Halloween (Retro 006)

The classic alternative/industrial track from 1985 and a timely posting to the blog. Happy Halloween from the IKDK crew.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtX9u7_6F8

Carter Tanton - Fake Pretend [ft. Marissa Nadler] (Hype 0140)

Nice downtempo indie duet from Carter Tanton.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2R9lx_uEt8

City Reign - Making Plans (Hype 0139)

Nice catchy indierock track from City Reign on Car Boot Records.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obwqnJ24rCs

Pop Will Eat Itself Chaos and Mayhem

Is this really the same Pop Will Eat Itself from the eighties?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3KWNWNOGrc

Class Actress Mod Club Toronto October 26th, 2011

Class Actress in Toronto for the second time in the last couple of months and opening for Metronomy at the Mod Club. She is out promoting her fantastic new wave downtempo club beat album Rapprocher out on Carpark Records in the USA. Nice!.

This is what the crowd said:

@culturespotting: Dying for the first act! I wish the Mod Club had beds. A bar in London called boudoir had beds #MillionDollarIdea @shuttergrl (IKDK: That's Class Actress...get ready!!!)

@culturespotting: Digging opening act: Class Actress. Dynasty shoulder pads, 80s synth and I think she meowed that chorus line. #sold

@JRileyd: It's concentrated awesome on @kdhx right now... Class Actress was phenomenal... (IKDK: Not sure what that means but yeah!!!)

@DHWizzo: Haven't been this impressed by an opening band since Friendly Fires opened for Franz Ferdinand at Lee's Palace. Class Actress - nice.

@thatbrendagirl: Class Actress! So beautiful. @ The Mod Club Theatre

@panicmanual: crowd is packed at mod club for metronomy, where did they come from (IKDK: They were there to see Class Actress....gold!!)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSOWYyy693k

Terry Malts - Something About You (Hype 0138)

Indiebuzzpop track from Slumberland Records artist Tery Malts.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiW63hNW7r8

Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand (Hype 0137)

Brand new single from indie rock band Los Campesinos. Buzz

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ku_ZMPJ5M0

Carter Tanton - Horrorscope (Hype 0136)

Another fiery track from Carter Tanton taken from the forthcoming album Freeclouds on Western Vinyl

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtlSspEjP3w

Girls Names - Black Saturday (Hype 0135)

Dark sinister alternative pop ala the eighties from Girls Names. Nice!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxJ8cSJuDM

Sunless 97 - Illuminations (Hype 0134)

Downtempo glimmering pop from a Sunless 97 taken from their Making Waves EP

Nous Non Plus - J'en Ai Marre (Had Enough) (Hype 0133)

Quirky french pop from Nous Non Plus. Ace! Taken from Freudian Slip.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZcnKkaOT70

Triffids - Goodbye Little Boy (Retro 005)

Just discovered this nice late eighties track taken from the band's final album The Triffids Present The Black Swan (1989). Have one Triffids record that I picked up in a dollar bin in the nineties but I've never really given it a listen. Really didn't know much about the Triffids before this. The band was out of Australia. Great track!!!!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMohzKH1zyM

My Tiger My Timing - Written In Red (Hype 0132)

My Tiger My Timing scores the 1000 post on Indie Kid Vs Dance Kid. New single with the pop sensibility of a futureBananarama. Nice!!

Boy - Little Numbers (Hype 0131)

Nice dreamy pop single from Boy with lots of woho woho wohos.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyjS_vJfkw

Sandro Perri Love & Light (Hype 0130)

Lush new track from Canadian Peter Perri. Nice!!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AC3FgI1Aw

Small Pyramids - I Want Blood (Goldroom Remix) (Hype 0129R)

Funky little downtempo groover reworked for maximum effect by Goldroom. As the saying goes, anything that Goldroom touches turns to gold.

Customs - Harlequins (Hype 0128)

Jangily dark guitar pop from the Customs out of Belgium. Nice!!

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNS0hrIe1UY

Death In Vegas - Your Loft My Acid (Hype 0127)

Deep, Dark and eerie bleep blonk klonk music from Death in Vegas featuring the vocals of Austra’s Katie Stelmanis. Nice!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHQObWf6J8

Big Troubles - Sad Girls (Hype 0126)

Lush pop guitar track from Big Troubles off the Slumberland Label.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXjY-6gpr_U

Kele ft. Lucy Taylor - What Did I Do (Hype 0125)

Nice electro dubstep glider club track from Kele featuring vocals from Lucy Taylor. Wind!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFBxZaWZy-k

Craft Spells - Your Tomb (Hype 0124)

Brand new video for single Your Tomb taken from the super spectacular album Idle Labor. Currently sitting in the top 5 albums of the year for IKDK.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG6VF-B082o

The Smiths - The Smiths (Reissue 003)

In 1984, an English Band called the Smiths dropped their first album on the world. The record was simply self-titled The Smiths. Mainstream britpop was born.

The Smiths are about to reissue their old material in a super limited edition box set (3000 copies worldwide). It will be followed by 8 CD and 8 Vinyl box sets of their albums and compilations. If you have 300-400 dollars lying around you can pick up the super limited edition version.

The set, titled The Smiths Complete - Deluxe Collectors Box Set, features remastered versions of eight albums (on CD and vinyl), as well as reproduced versions of 25 7" singles, and all sorts of other stuff. Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright remastered all the music from its original tape sources. The set includes all four of the band's studio albums (1984's The Smiths, 1985's Meat Is Murder, 1986's The Queen Is Dead, 1987's Strangeways, Here We Come) alongside the 1988 live LP Rank and the compilations Hatful of Hollow (1984), The World Won't Listen (1987), and Louder Than Bombs (1987). All are included on mini-LP gatefold-style CDs and 180-gram vinyl.

It also contains 25 7" singles. And as if that wasn't enough, there's also a 36" x 24" poster of the band's album and single cover art, The Complete Picture DVD of their music videos, an eight-page 12" booklet of expanded liner notes, 12" prints of the cover art for all eight albums, and a code to digitally download everything.

7 Inches include:

7” Singles (only available in the Deluxe Collectors Boxset)
1. Hand In Glove b/w Handsome Devil (Live)
2. Reel Around The Fountain b/w Jeane
3. This Charming Man b/w Jeane
4. What Difference Does It Make? b/w Back To The Old House
5. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children
6. William, It Was Really Nothing b/w Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
7. How Soon Is Now b/w Well I Wonder
8. Shakespeare’s Sister b/w What She Said
9. The Headmaster Ritual b/w Oscillate Wildly
10. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore b/w Meat Is Murder (Live)
11. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side b/w Asleep
12. Bigmouth Strikes Again b/w Money Changes Everything
13. Panicb/w Vicar In A Tutu
14. Ask b/w Cemetry Gates
15. Shoplifters Of The World Unite b/w Half A Person
16. Sheila Take A Bow b/w Is It Really So Strange?
17. Girlfriend In A Coma b/w Work Is a Four Letter Word
18. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish b/w Pretty Girls Make Graves
19. Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me b/w Rusholme Ruffians
20. Sweet And Tender Hooligan b/w I Keep Mine Hidden
21. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out b/w Half A Person
22. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others b/w The Draize Train
23. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before b/w Girlfriend In A Coma
24. Hand In Glove b/w I Don’t Owe You Anything
25. William, It Was Really Nothing b/w How Soon Is Now

Hand In Glove taken from the album The Smiths

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2bonnjv70

Pomplamoose - Monster Mask (Hype 0123)

Catchy twee track from Pomplamoose.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBJLAFTlGKg

Deniz Koyu - Tung! (Hype 0122)

Massive!!!! energetic club anthem from Deniz Koyu. Saturday Night. Nuit Blanche. Toronto. This is a promo video with snippet of the track.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7HeZjvtWM&ob=av2n