Friday 6 pack, Galileo is a punk edition

(model: Armando birthday boy and Brent Durrand. Photo: Brittany Oldham)

This Friday's 6 pack goes out to everyone who's getting a little younger at heart every time the sun passes around the Earth. (What? Galileo what? Fuck 'em, we're Copernicusts here.)

DOWNLOAD: Galileo is a punk.zip

TRACKLISTING:

"Green Eyed Love (Classix Remix)" - Mayer Hawthorne (HT: Maxwell)
Classix does these amazing disco-ish, glitter sparkly remixes. HypeM to find more. I was playing this the other night and our assistant editor asked me if it was gay house music time. I consider that a strong endorsement of this song.

"Let Love Rule (Justice Remix)" - Lenny Kravitz
Do all Justice remixes sound alike? Yes. Does that fact make this any less duh-ope? Nope.

"Island, IS" - Volcano Choir
Justin Bon Iver's side project. A little more syncopated but no less lovely.

"Yalira" - The Very Best
We've been pimping 'The Warm Heart of Africa' to anybody who'll listen. (No, really go listen now.) This is amazing afro-pop goodness. The Very Best is playing at the Echoplex this Saturday night.

"New Moon Rising (YACHT remix)" - Wolfmother
There's a wonderful tension between Wolfmother's inherent FWHAAAAA! and YACHT's poppy disco vibe that is pure cognitive dissonant madness. In the best way possible.

"Down by the Water(The Soundmen Remix)" - The Drums
Opens with a bunch of whales squealing then opens the floodgates to a filthy synth line. Epic and slightly forlorn. I don't know what tv show this soundtracks but I bet it's on Showtime after Californication.

"Ocean Rain (live)" - Echo & the Bunnymen
The Bunnymen bring a full orchestra (Hazelrigg: just strings, really) to the Nokia on Saturday night. This song is beautiful and hushed, amazing in the way that Ian Mac can sing "Screaming from beneath the waves" as the picture of restraint, until two verses and one Will Seargent guitar solo later it's tragic in the most full-throated, widescreen way imaginable. Stunning still after 25 years.