Approved: Nite Jewel – One Second Of Love (Peaking Lights remix)
So, 'One Second Of Love' is at first glance the most uncompromisingly 'pop' moment (and title track) of Ramona Gonzalez aka synthsmith Nite Jewel's debut album.
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So, 'One Second Of Love' is at first glance the most uncompromisingly 'pop' moment (and title track) of Ramona Gonzalez aka synthsmith Nite Jewel's debut album.
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If there's two electronic acts we're excited by this year, they're probably Nite Jewel and Peaking Lights , so we're excited that the psych-dub duo have taken on Nite Jewel's irresistible single "One Second of Love" as remix fodder.
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After Peaking Lights did a bit of a Beyonce and Jay-Z yesterday and posted a track featuring the blubbering murmurs of their very own child, now they've followed it up with a less openly experimental but nonetheless pretty stellar remix of Nite Jewel 's 'One Second Of Love'.
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Everything the group touches gets transformed with a golden hazy glow.
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Peaking Lights put their magic touch on one of our favorite singles of the year, draping some of their unmistakable dub-psych haze over Nite Jewel 's " One Second of Love." Nite Jewel headlines an outstanding bill at the Bowery next week (also featuring Mac DeMarco + Sophia Knapp ), and Peaking Lights play a free show tonight at Lincoln Center as part of the 2012 unsound festival.
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We are psyched to present the bi-coastal pairing of Brooklyn's Chairlift + L.A.'s Nite Jewel — a couple of bands who happen to be responsible for two of the best pop records of 2012 so far — on Monday, April 16 , live at Club Dada in Deep Ellum here in Dallas.
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The London-based, Toronto-bred hopped on our radar last week when he got Nite Jewel to churn out a deep house remix of " Because It's Wrong."
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The original version of "Because It's Wrong" by London-by-way-of-Toronto electronic artist Digits is a dark, cold journey driven by a pulsing beat and lonesome vocals.
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Once upon a time, when The Playlist was a fledgling blog, we had a semi-regular column called Videodrome, which looked at the world of music videos.
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Now, we like the Joan Collins-does-disco adult pop of Sophie Ellis-Bextor , and we like the slightly cyclonic confessional grown-up pop of Sophie B Hawkins , but which one's best?
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On Nite Jewel 's second LP 'One Second of Love,' released on Tuesday (March 6), Ramona Gonzalez refined her lo-fi synth pop into a polished singer-songwriter style, still steeped in melancholy, with flashes of '90's R&B and electronica.
Read MoreRamona Gonzalez's gauzy retro pop as Nite Jewel has been a guilty pleasure for a number of years, and has generally been swathed in so much hissing analog static that more than a few times I've caught myself leaning inwards, just to discern the sounds within the mix.
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The excellent series of mixes produced by FACT just got a new entry, this time from Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel.
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The title track from Nite Jewel 's – a.k.a. Ramona Gonzalez – recently released album, 'One Second Of Love' has a brand new video courtesy of Delaney Bishop.
Read More3) L.A.'s Nite Jewel 's new electropopy video for "One Second of Love" appears to depict a sort of dance contest performed by three identically dressed girls, for three not identically dressed girls sitting on a couch.
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On One Second Of Love , the latest album from the Angeleno pop-nouveaux composer Nite Jewel , there are echoes bouncing off music's past and music's future.
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"I'm a broken record/you have heard this before," goes the first line of "This Story," the opening track of One Second Of Love, Ramona Gonzalez's second album as Nite Jewel.
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Ramona Gonzales, under the moniker Nite Jewel , has found herself on the radar of blogs and magazines a lot over the past two years.
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It makes a certain kind of sense that Nite Jewel's music sprung from the underbelly of L.A.
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Nite Jewel is the alias of L.A. artist, musician, singer-songwriter Ramona Gonzalez.
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The pair are friends and occasional collaborators but their music diverges slightly; the former delivers artful electro music, while the latter deals in experimental chamber pop.
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The video for Nite Jewel's "One Second of Love" reminds me of those old videos in Web 1.0 that people would trick you into watching but which always ended grossly.
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One Second Of Love , the new album from Californian murk-pop queen Nite Jewel, is imminent; we've posted the title track , " She's Always Watching You ," and " In The Dark." And now, we've got the whole LP streaming below.
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As Ramona Gonzalez hinted on preview tracks " She's Always Watching You " and " One Second of Love " (not to mention that gorgeous Stevie Wonder cover ), gone are the beloved lo-fi 8-track bedroom recordings that elicited all of those " Debbie Deb on cough syrup" comparisons 4 years ago: this is some evolved/grown-up shit.
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Quickies rounds up new can't-miss covers.
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Nite Jewel are streaming new cut 'In The Dark' - the first taster from their upcoming album 'One Second of Love'.
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The last thing we heard from LA electro songstress Ramona Gonzalez aka Nite Jewel was her hyper-minimalist, intimately confessional cover of Stevie Wonder's "Visions," but she's back to her chilly, synth-driven M.O. on the latest single from her second LP One Second of Love , "In the Dark."
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The winter months are apt for dark and seductive synth-pop, even from artists on the West Coast that don't have to endure the blistering chill.
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"Visions" , a non-single from Stevie Wonder's 1973 Grammy-winning opus Innervisions , may not be one of the musical genius' most oft-referenced cuts, but like nearly everything else Stevie put to tape in that decade, its hard to argue against its status as a classic with everything from its gorgeous R&B simmer to Wonder's still-poignant pondering over whether the idyllic, hate-free utopia that exists in his dreams could ever be achieved in real life helping rank it high as one of his many great creations.
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Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel recorded this starkly beautiful and touching version of one of the best Stevie songs , in honor of our good friend Yourstru.ly 's beloved sister Lauren.
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Something is the upcoming album from Brooklyn electro-pop duo Chairlift , out January 23 in the UK via Young Turks and the following day through Columbia in the U.S. In support of the new record, the band has announced a massive tour that includes dates in North America, Australia, Singapore, Europe, and the UK.
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Real name Ramona Gonzalez, Nite Jewel's music has been seeping out of California for a few years now.
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When Nite Jewel announced her then-latest single, "She's Always Watching You," in October, she also revealed that she had signed with Secretly Canadian to drop her sophomore album.
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Following the crisp clarity Nite Jewel (aka L.A.-based DIY pop-funk chanteuse Ramona Gonzalez) somewhat shockingly brought forth on the highlight title track of the act's 2010 Am I Real?
Read MoreAustralians Ryan Grieve and Leo Thomsen, also known as production duo Canyons , have remixed everyone from Ladyhawke to The Juan MacLean, but they're just now finally getting around to releasing a debut LP of original music.
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On December 13, Nite Jewel will release a new 7", She's Always Watching You , via Yours Truly 's Love Letters Ink label.
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On the dusky, melancholy " Sister ," Cole MGN's softly lilting bassline anchors what is probably Ramona Gonzalez's most fragile and emotionally exposed song to date, a direction that she'll hopefully explore further on her forthcoming Secretly Canadian LP , due in 2012.
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Perpetually cool-as-ice Dam-Funk is the latest act to make his way to Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space headquarters to play his very own radio mix.
Read MoreMay's Director's Cut, which reappropriated material from two of her previous albums.
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