Enjoy today’s feature below. His stellar new album, One Of Us, is out now.

MP3: Young Love – Black Boots

6/2 @ Bowery Ballroom.

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A winner will be randomly chosen on 5/30 @ NOON.

One Of Us is out now.

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MP3: Young Love – Black Boots

Young Love – 1979

A stellar take on the Smashing Pumpkins classic.

Catch Young Love on 3/18 @ TMS’s joint SXSW gig with Hype Machine!

One Of Us is out on 4/28.

MP3: Young Love – 1979

One Of Us will see daylight on 4/28.

Visit Young Love on MySpace.

MP3: Justice Vs. DFA 1979 Vs. Young Love Vs. Shiny Toy Guns – Find…

Enjoy ‘Underground’ below, as featured on The Green Owl Compilation (a benefit for the Energy Action Coalition). Learn more about Young Love at his official MySpace page.

MP3: Young Love – Find A New Way [alt link]

‘Find A Sexy Way To D.A.N.C.E.’

Justice & Death From Above 1979

VERSUS

Shiny Toy Guns & Young Love

MP3: ‘Find A Sexy Way To D.A.N.C.E.’

It’s been just over six weeks since I last saw Erasure, on the surprisingly entertaining True Colors tour stop at Radio City Music Hall (mini-review here). Last night, the British synth-pop duo brought along three back-up singers, a dazzling (if not superfluous and/or trite) stage set-up, multiple outfit changes, and a healthy mix of new tracks intertwined with Erasure classics. All in all, a lovely Brooklyn summer evening.

It’s been twenty-two years since Erasure first broke into the mainstream, and nineteen years since they topped international charts with a series of mega-singles: ‘Chains Of Love’, ‘A Little Respect’ & ‘Ship Of Fools’. Thankfully, all of the aforementioned tracks were included in last night’s crowd-friendly 90-minute setlist (see below). You have to appreciate an epic band that knows what its fans want to hear.

One personal highlight was the beautiful live interpretation of current single, ‘I Could Fall In Love With You’. Other ditties from their latest LP, Light At The End Of The World, shone extraordinarily brightly throughout the entire hot & humid soiree.

Erasure ends their North American tour tonight at Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ. For all forthcoming European dates, head to Erasure’s official MySpace page here.

Setlist: Sunday Girl/Blue Savannah/I Could Fall In Love With You/Fly Away/Breathe/Storm In A Teacup/Chains Of Love/Breath Of Life/Love To Hate You/Sucker For Love/Victim/When A Lover Leaves/Ship Of Fools/Chorus/Sometimes/A Little Respect/Oh L’Amour/Glass Angel//Stop!

MP3: Erasure – Oh L’Amour

Opening last night’s show was Brooklyn’s very own (Def Jam recording artist), Young Love. It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen Dan Keyes and I’m happy to report that in spite of a slightly lackluster full-length (read Jen’s review here), his live shows are still positively engaging. Performing a variety of tracks from his debut, Too Young To Fight It, he may have been the ideal support act for Erasure.

MP3: Young Love – Find A New Way

It seems to have worked for Young Love. If you remember correctly, we enjoyed his live show last October opening up for Lady Sov, but were very disappointed with his recorded work featured on Young Love’s debut LP, Too Young To Fight It, released earlier this year.

Well, seems like Mr. Young Love himself, Dan Keyes, has gone ahead and bared his uber-skinny body for his new video, ‘Find A New Way’ – which is actually one of the better tracks on the lackluster album. Desperate plea to sell some records or was it just unbearably hot on the set? You decide.

(video link via Spinner)

Who are you pulling for?

The full details below.

AOL Music’s Breakers competition to select the hottest new artists has been separated into four categories, with winners in each being selected by the public starting Feb. 16. Winners to be announced on March 30th.

#1: Don’t Give a F#@!: Amy Winehouse, Mims and Rich Boy
#2: Mr. Sensitive: James Morrison, Landon Pigg and Secondhand Serenade
#3: As Heard on TV: Mika, Corbin Bleu and Young Love
#4: Not Your Usual Rock: Gym Class Heroes, Hellogoodbye and Dropping Daylight. (source: HITS)

What does the winner get? We have no clue. Although we gather it’s airplay during an episode of the latest season of Real World or something ridiculous like that.

Young Love will be at Bowery Ballroom on February 28th; tickets on sale now. It also happens to be the last date on his month-long tour. He’s pictured with Ice-T on the right, I have no idea how or why, where or when but it’s a fantastic shot!

I was pretty darn thrilled to find Young Love’s new cd, Too Young To Fight It, in my mailbox a couple of weeks ago. Upon receiving the album, I immediately went to my room, popped it in the cd player and turned up the volume. Out blasted ‘Discotech’ and I couldn’t help but get up and dance. Dan Keyes-style around the room (if you haven’t seem the lead singer of Young Love’s moves, then you are missing out, he revolutionized my repetoire). I had been listening to the free EP I received at a Young Love show for ages and to have my hands finally on the album made me a bit giddy. That is until I heard the rest of the songs.

The EP sampler I nearly wore a hole in included singles ‘Discotech’ and ‘Find a new way,’ both great, poppy, dance tracks that defy anybody to not love them for their instant likeability (when I am looking for a song to pump me up before I go out, those have recently been the first two I play). Surprisingly though, for the most part, the rest of Too Young to Fight is very emo, on par with My Chemical Romance or the slower songs of Blink 182. Emo is certainly a genre which I have no grudges against, but if you aim to make a dance record and sell your first two singles as such, having the rest of the album constantly repeat the theme of a heart broken by a narcissistic girl in an unoriginal “I should be wearing black eyeliner” manner, then it is bit misleading. I was similarly duped by Shiny Toy Guns last year with the song ‘Le Disko’ off of their skater/ Evanescence-like album, We Are Pilots.

There are a couple of additional tracks that make this album a worthwhile purchase for the New Year. ‘Too young to fight it’ is another upbeat dance song as is similarly, ‘Underneath the Night Sky.’ What all of these songs have in common is that they superbly paint an idealized, sweeping picture of going out in New York City. They are songs that give you hope of a night dancing, drinking, making out and roaming the streets of a city that never sleeps- the sort of nights you watch attractive 20 year olds have in movies. The tracks scream of being written by an idealistic young man whose good looks and talent have swept him into NYC, providing him the sort of story book city life that many young people coming to the city only dream of. You may find the string of clichés, well, cliché, such as in the chorus to ‘Discotech’ “Do what you believe, stand up break free bright lights big city”, but even so, you are able to forgive all of that with one look at the handsome young man who dresses like a model and dances like how you only wish you could.