dope beats to step to

As Timbaland once said,

"It’s been a long time, long time
I shouldn’t have left you, left you
Without a dope beat to step to
Step to, step to, step to
Step to, step to
Freaky-freaky"

Here are five songs I think you should hear.

Morning Benders - Why Don't They Let Us Fall in Love? (Ronettes Cover) (Buy their orig' stuff): My personal favorite off their free new album, The Bedroom Covers, which can be found here, among other places. I LOVE MOTOWN.

Arms - Shitty Little Disco (Buy): Try not judge this song on it's title before you listen. It sounds a bit like the National if the singer preferred dance clubs to dive bars.

Starfucker - German Love (Buy): This band is really fucking good. They are from Portland; they play a really pleasurable species of upbeat glitchy pop with lots of samples and vocals with pretty harmonies. If you download one song from this post make it this one. They are also coming up the East Coast in mid-October; tour dates are on their myspace.

Volcano! - Africa Just Wants To Have Fun (Buy): Sounds like a mix of Dirty Projectors and Ted Leo with some Sunset Rubdown and Animal Collective in there. They just put a new album out called Paperwork. I haven't heard the rest of it yet but if the first single is any indication, it is worth the effort/money it'll take to obtain.

Mirah - Slighted (Buy): Off an album that came out in July, taking its content from, to quote Amazon's description, "a variety of sources, home recordings, hard to find foreign compilations, out-of-print releases, alternate versions or previously unreleased tracks." These songs are all so pretty you wish they weren't 2 minutes long.