NOT READY TO LOSE TODAY.

The newest members of our Neon Gold family, Magic Man, passed their first remix test with flying colors when they carried Pacific Air's "Lose My Mind" away on a cooling Atlantic breeze a few weeks back. Today the favor is returned in kind, as the Brothers Lawhon take the black and white French new wave of Magic Man's "Paris" and dunk it in vibrant modern tropics. It's the sound of a bicoastal love affair in glorious technicolor and the perfect kickstarter to your holiday weekend.

STREAM: "Paris" (Pacific Air Remix) - Magic Man

POPSHOP028: WE ARE SCIENTISTS

With our June Popshop already quickly approaching sell out, it's time to keep this glorious summer of Popshop bliss rolling with the announcement of our July installment. Starting things off, everyone's favorite snowboard icon Shaun White makes his NYC live debut alongside Bad Things, who blew us away in their live debut at Popshop West last month. Then keeping things rolling we've got the ocean-sized stadium sounds of X Ambassadors up next, before local legends We Are Scientists close out the night in the headline slot. It's all going down at Santos Party House on July 11th at 9PM, with advance tix now available HERE. Do. Not. Sleep.

STREAM: "Rules Don't Stop" - We Are Scientists

STREAM: "Unconsolable" - X Ambassadors

STREAM: "Caught Inside" - Bad Things

NEON FROST ON THE SUNSET.

We have endless love for HAERTS here at Neon Gold, but of course you already knew that. It's hard to believe it's been over six months since the international collective first unveiled "Wings" (officially released last month on Neon Gold / Columbia), and the Brooklyn five piece have since soared to impossible heights on the back of that one debut single.

Today, they arrive at long last with their hotly-anticipated follow up in "All The Days", the first HAERTS demo that St. Lucia ever sent to us in late 2011 and the one that started this whole whirlwind love affair in the first place. As the vindictive bassline grooves its way into your heart, Nini's celestial voice captivates like a powerful hypnosis, while the iridescent keys shimmer like a hot-wired synesthesia of summer steam and stormy electrics. Already shining on the road as the rousing finale of their live set, it's quite possibly our favorite HAERTS track in existence, and it's with boundless excitement that we share it with you today.

STREAM: "All The Days" - HAERTS

LIVING ON THE HIGHEST SHELF.

On paper, Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy isn't really our thing. But thank fuck we don't listen to music on paper, because Joy's debut single is one of the best things to happen to us all year. Hooking you from the get-go with its wistful opening strums and unwaveringly fatalist vocals, "Riptide" is a stunner from start to finish (those lyrics! that bridge! literally everything!). With shades of everything from Mumford & Sons to Eugene McGuinness and sure, probably the Lumineers too, it's a masterful debut with an even better video to accompany it, coming off like something straight from CANADA's oeuvre as envisaged through a Wes Anderson moodboard. Already smashing it in his native Australia, he's just been picked up by Atlantic in the states and hits our shores on tour with Lissie next month. Expect big things.

STREAM: "Riptide" - Vance Joy

A WORLD AWAY FROM WHO I AM.

It's no secret Clare Maguire's had a tough go of it, but with her new material, it feels like she's finally making music on her own terms and for no one else but herself. Last month's Joni Mitchell cover of "The Last Time I Saw Richard" was a jaw-dropping thing of beauty, and today she returns with a new original demo "Changing Faces" that sounds like her very own "Hallelujah". Bright skies ahead.

STREAM: "Changing Faces" (Demo) - Clare Maguire

WILL WE BE HAPPY.

We haven't heard the name Francis Farewell Starlite in a long minute, but yesterday Francis & The Lights returned to the scene with a comeback single so phenomenal it's like he never left. As the bedroom vocals of "ETC" snuggle up with the dreamy '80s instrumental, it sounds like Pharrell and Prince trading vocals over a meditative Radiohead backbeat. It's a three and a half minute swoon song aphrodisiac, and yet another reminder of why Francis is one of the most special talents this town has ever seen. Keep an eye out for his triumphant NYC live return, he's still one of the most gifted performers we've seen to date. This should be stop-the-presses headline news for anyone who's ever had the chance to see him tear up a stage.

DOWNLOAD: "ETC" - Francis & The Lights

SAY IT WITH ME TONIGHT.

With the dust only just settling on their monstrous debut single "Masters of the Sun", Kids of the Apocalypse return this week with a bone-crushing rework of the UK's best-and-brightest, London Grammar. Juxtaposing the youthful innocence of the original against a nefarious mindsweep of horn-riddled bravado and midnight angst, it's possibly the most grandiose track to grace our ears this year, like a funeral march into the future with Woodkid and Florence leading the parade. Epic is an understatement.

STREAM: "Wasting My Young Years (KOTA Remix)" - London Grammar

MAYBE WE COULD LAST FOREVER.

This just in: Smallpools are about to take your whole summer over. Arriving on the scene like the perfect middle point between the sunny electronics of Foster The People and the solar-powered vocals of Fun, their debut single "Dreaming" offers synths straight out of Passion Pit's playbook and hooks that would make Dr. Luke jealous. "Dreaming" is alt radio gold with extreme crossover potential, the kind of song that only comes along a few times a year, and rarely on a debut single.

They're from LA because of course they are - songwriting like this doesn't occur naturally anywhere else - and are produced by none other than our dudes Captain Cuts, who we've been saying are only one hit away from global pop domination for about 18 months now. Well, all we can say is it looks like they found their hit. Catch Smallpools making their live debut on the Popshop West stage soon, more details to follow.

DOWNLOAD: "Dreaming" - Smallpools [exclusive]

WISH I COULD SHOUT YOU OUT.

X Ambassadors should sound somewhat familiar, as we had some pretty nice things to say about their debut offering "Unconsolable" a while back, when we first predicted big things for the Brooklyn four piece a few summers ago. Now after emerging unscathed from a major label bidding war (hate to say we told you so) that took the better part of last year with a new name and new label, the X men look set to dominate the alt radio landscape in the months to come. And it all starts back where it all began, with a new supercharged version of "Unconsolable" that comes in hot with twice the restless severity of the original. You can stream the track below or cop a free download direct from Interscope HERE, and be sure to keep an eye out for them on a Popshop stage near you soon.

STREAM: "Unconsolable" - X Ambassadors