POPSHOP022: GHOST BEACH + HAERTS

The first Popshop of 2013 marks the two year anniversary of our flagship club night, and you better believe we're going supernova to celebrate such a glowing hallmark in Neon Gold history. Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, Sky Ferreira has had to cancel her headline performance with us, but we'll be offering full refunds on all tickets purchased and any ticket holders should receive a refund email shortly. Helping us get over that SKYFALL will be a star-studded cast of local Popshop all-stars Ghost Beach and K.Flay, plus west coast alt radio sensations Blondfire and the international live debut of St. Lucian disciples HAERTS jumpstarting the night early.

Best of all: we're taking it back to where it all began and doing this one FREE ENTRY with RSVP to rsvp@neongoldrecords.com. Just consider it a jumping high five from us to you, to say thanks for all your support these past two years. It's all going down Thursday January 10th Santos Party House, and if this one's anything like the last time we did Popshop free entry, you're going to want to get down nice and early. Oh, and did we mention we've got complimentary Cutty Sark whiskey flowing for the first hour? Because there's that too. No no New York, happy birthday to YOU.

STREAM: "Been There Before" - Ghost Beach

STREAM: "Where the Kids Are" - Blondfire

STREAM: "So Fast, So Maybe" - K.Flay

STREAM: "Wings" - HAERTS

ALL MY TEARS ARE BEING USED UP.

Piano-based singer-songwriter types are less and less our speed these days, but then every so often a talent like Tom Odell comes along and changes everything with a track like "Another Lover". As volatile piano chords fall with heavy wrists, emotional fortitude builds and builds throughout before crashing down in a deluge of overpowering harmonies and visceral sadness in the final stanza. Odell sits comfortably between Fyfe Dangerfield and Conor Oberst in Jeff Buckley's chair, so it's easy to see why he's on all the right tips lists heading into the new year. Definitely one to watch for 2013, cop the demo of "Another Love" below and watch the video for the real deal here.

MP3: "Another Love" (Demo) - Tom Odell

ALL THINGS GOLD 016: ALEX METRIC + ST. LUCIA

Well guys, this is it, quite possibly our favorite bill we've ever thrown. All Things Gold is sending 2012 out like Queen Latifah in Set It Off, just going hammer with the talent on this one. Our prodigal son, St. Lucia, NYC's Black Light Dinner Party, and Aussies Gold Fields shine in the live slots and then tying it all together with a fluoro ribbon and neon bow it's Alex Fucking Metric bringing the club warfare in the DJ headline. It's the perfect pre-holiday treat, the ravey mistletoe looming over your head, and it's all going down at U Street Music Hall at 9pm with advance tickets still available for a limited time HERE.

STREAM: "September (Alex Metric Remix)" - St. Lucia
STREAM: "Closer Than This" - St. Lucia
STREAM: "Gold Chain" - Black Light Dinner Party
STREAM: "Dark Again" - Gold Fields

POPSHOP NORTH 001: ST. LUCIA + GOLD FIELDS

With the success of Popshop NYC, Brooklyn, and more recently, West, we're now breaking out our passports, heading north, and storming the Canadian border. That's right, we're thrilled to present the very first installment of Popshop North. For the inaugural kickoff next Tuesday in Toronto, we've got - who else - St. Lucia headlining with Gold Fields in the support slot. It's a double whammy of golden age pop and it's already on the verge of sell out , so consider this a warning. We repeat, THIS WILL SELL OUT. It's all going down at the Drake Hotel at 8:00pm, with tix available HERE. If you're lucky enough to be in the area, you really don't wanna miss this.

STREAM: "September" - St. Lucia

STREAM: "Dark Again" - Gold Fields

ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOU.

Okay, so we know that our favorite son St. Lucia has been on everyone's mind as of late, what with their major league Victoria's Secret placement, Pitchfork music video premiere, and upcoming SOLD OUT Music Hall of Williamsburg headline show this Saturday. But when it rains, it pours, as today we've got a super fresh Pacific Air remix of "All Eyes On You", arriving just in time for the west coast duo's LA headline debut at Popshop West this Thursday (tickets HERE). The remix is everything we've come to expect and more from Pacific Air (formerly KO KO) boys, as Jean's vocals boom with the same unrepentant fervor of the original but now over a newly balearic rhythm that feels like a yacht joyride through your favorite holiday memories.

DOWNLOAD: "All Eyes On You" (Pacific Air Remix) - St. Lucia

TEACH ME ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE.

We first premiered Swiss Lips almost a year ago to the day, but it's been time well spent, as the Manchester boys have seriously grown into themselves as they ready their debut album for release on Sony Epic in the UK next year. New single "Carolyn" already sounds like Strange Talk on a future kick, tearing down the pop freeway like Speed Racer with the brakes cut. Each refrain is an effortless finish line that pampers you with bejeweled synths, oh-oh vox, and the perfect getaway from the quotidian. Best of all, it's just the tip of the iceberg if some of the other tracks that have found their way to us through the grapevine are any indication. Now these are some Swiss beats we can fuck with.

DOWNLOAD: "Carolyn" - Swiss Lips

POPSHOP BK 007: SAVOIR ADORE

We're doing a little something special for our next Popshop Brooklyn, coming in hot Saturday, December 8th. To celebrate St. Lucia's SOLD OUT headline show at Music Hall of Williamsburg earlier that very night, we're keeping the magic going straight into Popshop Brooklyn, as we bring the official St. Lucia afterparty to Brooklyn Bowl. Find us dreaming out loud with our favorite local boy-girl duo Savoir Adore in the headline slot, along with London's kid dynamite Willy Moon bringing the energy early. It's all popping off December 8th with doors at 11:30pm and $10 tickets available HERE, plus $5 cheap entry with a ticket stub from St. Lucia's Music Hall show. BIG night.

STREAM: "Dreamers" - Savoir Adore

STREAM: "Yeah Yeah" - Willy Moon

STRAIGHT TO YR HEART.

INK are a new London duo making a technicolor splash with their vibrant time-bending pop. Debut single "Ink Goes On" first brought our speakers to life a few months ago via All Things Go, and today ATG are back with a brand new exclusive from the UK newcomers. Picking up where the promise of "Ink Goes On" left off, they've taken an already caramel-smooth 80's pop tune - Twin Shadow's "Five Seconds" - and dunked it in a sugar-dusted '90s glaze of Sixpence None the Richer and The Cranberries, mixed with a pinch of Pains of Being Pure At Heart to make the pace. Pop this in and you've got a VHS daydream on fast forward.

STREAM: "Five Seconds" (Twin Shadow Cover) - INK

GOLD040: HAIM

The sisters HAIM have taken both sides of the Atlantic by storm this year, and the buzz looks set to reach critical mass with the release of their new AA-side single "Don't Save Me" / "Send Me Down", out December 10th on Neon Gold and available in the UK via our friends at National Anthem.

From the opening drum kick on "Don't Save Me", you're swept away by a coastal groove that sparks and skylarks on a wave of pure emotion. Then the vocals drop in piping hot, melting on your tongue with the vicissitude of a thousand addictions, and the rest is history. On the flip, "Send Me Down" is a dropkick to the face of unbridled estrogen and adrenaline in the same master rush, all criss-crossing hopscotch acoustics and butterscotch melodies, not to mention a healthy dose of space horns that thrusts the otherwise timeless songwriting headfirst into the future.

Almost impervious to hyperbole as one of those rare bands that actually lives up to the hype, HAIM is the kind of act that ticks all the boxes and then some. Their latest offering - produced by the brilliant James Ford - marks their boldest statement of intent to date and hints at the impossibly massive things to come on their full length Columbia debut next year, arriving just in time for their stateside homecoming at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on December 15th (tickets available HERE). Limited to only 300 copies in the US, this one will go fast, so get your preorder in HERE while you still can. There's hope in the world, you guys, and it's spelled H-A-I-M .

STREAM: "Don't Save Me" - HAIM

STREAM: "Send Me Down" - HAIM