Yesterday we posted a stream of the single “Go Go Wine,” off the forthcoming Dre Skull-produced Vybz Kartel LP, Kingston Story. Now Dre Skull’s Mixpak label is offering up the track for download for the meager price of an email address, so gwaan grab dat!

Kai Campos and Dom Maker—the prolific London duo known as Mount Kimbie—have announced news of their next EP, Carbonated, to be released June 27 on Hotflush. Among the tunes featured on Carbonated are the title track, and previously unreleased numbers “Bave’s Chords” and “Flux,” along with remixes from Airhead, Peter Van Hoesen, and Klaus. Check out their performance on UK program Abbey Road Debutshere, drop in your email address below to download or stream “Bave’s Chords,” and then be sure to catch them live at one of the tour dates below.

Tour Dates
Wed 27 April -Thekla, Bristol
Thurs 28 April -Heaven, London
Fri 29 April – Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sat 30 April – Bergen Festival, Norway
Thu 12 May – AB, Brussels
Fri 13 May – Metropool, Hengelo, Netherlands
Sat 14 May – Walk the Line Festival, Den Hague, Netherlands
Sun 15 May – Effenaar, Breda, Netherlands
Tues 17 May – FZW, Dortmund, Germany
Wed 18 May – Zwischenbau, Rostock, Germany
Thurs 19 May – Festaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
Fri 20 May – Pop UP, Leipzig, Germany
Sat 21 May – Museum of Contemporary Art, Katowice, Poland
Tue 24 May – Meetfactory, Prague
Wed 25 May – Atomic Café, Munich
Thurs 26 May – Keller Club, Stuttgart, Germany
Fri 27 May – Bad Bonn Klibi Festival
Sat 28 May – Freshtival, Istanbul
Thurs 2 June – Rockhouse, Salzburg, Austria
Fri 3 June – Springeleven Festival, Graz, Austria
Sat 4 June – Flex, Vienna, Austria
22 – 26 June – Glastonbury Festival, Somerset
6-10 July – Gilles Peterson World Wide Festival, Sete, France
6 August – Field Day, London
26-28 – August – Reading & Leeds Festival

The Brooklyn duo of producer Bruno Coviello and vocalist Shannon Funchess (a.k.a. Light Asylum) has been in a label limbo of sorts since self-releasing the excellent In Tension EP last year. Well, consider the label-less period of the Light Asylum saga finished as fellow Brooklynites Mexican Summer have penned a deal with the group, which is said to include a proper release of the aforementioned EP and—the big news—an eventual full-length to come in 2012. All this comes whilst the pair are taking their brand of shadowy, ’80s-influenced productions around the US with electro-hybrid rockers Yacht. You’ll find the remaining tour dates, along with In Tension‘s intense new cover art, and a video for the EP’s closing track, “Dark Allies,” below.

In Tension Cover:

Light Asylum Tour Dates:
4/27 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
4/29 Pawtucket, RI @ The Met Café
4/30 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
5/01 Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Du Mile End
5/02 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
5/04 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Chuck Helm (Ohio State University)
5/05 Chicago, IL @ Metro
5/06 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
5/07 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
5/09 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
5/10 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
5/12 Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
5/13 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
5/14 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
5/18 San Francisco, CA @ Public Works

Weee love us some skweee over at XLR8R, as you may already know, so we’re pleased to announce a few new releases from some of the scene’s biggest players. First up, Portland music hub LoDubs just hipped us to what they’re calling the first-ever skweee mixed cassette, entitled Mega?-?Plaskweeebo, helmed by label head Jon AD (but released by Grand Cooley, technically) and featuring the likes of Pavan, Rigas den Andre, Randy Barracuda, and plenty more. The limited-to-100 C-60 cassette is available for pre-order, and to stream, here.

But that’s not all: The main who gave skweee its name, Daniel Savio (pictured above), has just put up a free-to-the-masses album, SKW3FRGR8R, available to download here, and his Stockholm neighbor, Rigas den Andre, just dropped this little gem, “Dead Ponies,” which you can check out below, as a teaser for his upcoming full-length, Speed Run, due out in May.