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hey welcome to crossfade TV I'm Peter Gavin and these are our pics taken straight from our site music download com angie is out today so i figured it's my chance to pick an electronica artist so my pick this week is crystal castles like groups like Hot Chip and justice crystal castles fit into what i like to call dance music for hipsters it's an edgier style of electronica that's influenced by punk indie rock sometimes goth and even old school video game music check out their song untrust us which uses an eerie vocal sample from the band death from above 1979 so you might find them closer to Moby at the record store but backstage you're more likely to see them hanging out with bands like block party we have a few tracks on our site so just search for Crystal Castles hey this is Mike towel my pick for this week is devin the dude who's got a new album out smoke sessions vol 1 on starz music sessions his first album since leaving rap-a-lot records which was his home for over 15 years but don't expect to hear anything different as the title of his album suggests expect to hear more o's to a certain herbal stimulant and women like the downloadable track on our site making it hard most sessions vol 1 is in stores now and he's also touring in select cities with his crew the coffee brothers so look for him to be in the hood near you soon hey this is Kurt and my pic this week is the new album mark pick roll called CODIS dreams Justin duties marching to play drums with a Seattle band the Screaming Trees but he's now releasing records under his own name they're dark murky and moody and the style similar to that of nick cave lee hazlewood ian more or even pick roles old bandmate mark lanegan Figueroa says the inspiration for Cody's dream came during a road trip through the south with no car stereo I have no idea if that was by choice or not but it doesn't matter because the result is great it's a series of swampy southern gothic songs about spooky small towns and weird characters to drift in and out let's right in the middle comes a cool Dorjee cover of bob dylan's one more copper car one month Cody's dream is out now in bloodshot records and we have a full album stream posted on download music to find it just go to music download calm and search on the name mark pickerel that's p I cker TL