PICK OF THE WEEK: JUNGLE LION plus our new FRANZ FERDINAND WIDGET!

Back in ye olde 2004, there was Volume, to date one of the best New York City clubs of the 00s. This was when Williamsburg was still sort of cutting edge; Volume was a vacant warehouse transformed into the sweatiest pretense-free dancing paradise, featuring amazing DJ parties like a pre-trendy acid house jam with a pre-Runaway Marcos Cabral. There were also notable gigs, like Dizzee Rascal’s first U.S. appearance and a sweaty bottle breaking wall banger from a then new Franz Ferdinand.

After scanning the internet, I sadly could not find any photos of this night; though I did uncover a Volume album from Cowboy Mark who luckily included a picture of me while I still had my baby teeth. (You have to be on Facebook to see these ones.) But it did remind me of the excitement of Ferdinand’s first single release Take Me Out- roaring in with that unforgettable guitar riff at a time when the indie airwaves were painfully oversaturated with soggy synth electroclash. Guitars! Who knew we would want them so bad?

This month Loudcrowd teamed up with Franz Ferdinand to feature a few tracks from Blood, a dub remix album of their recent full-length production, Tonight (released January 2009). Produced by Lee Scratch Perry, its little wonder that Ferdinand’s material is so easily transferable to dub. To give you a sample, I’ve included a link to our Franz Ferdinand Widget, where you can play a mini-dance game to Die on the Floor, a dubbed out interpretation of Can’t Stop Feeling. Plus, for song of the week check out Perry’s Jungle Lion , a heated dub classic.

-Fucci