• 2012

    “Impregnable Question” is one of the sweetest songs on Dirty Projectors’ last record, 2012’s Swing Lo, Magellan. And now, it has a weirdly sweet music video. Featuring long takes of a man running on a highway–alongside gorgeous natural imagery–and a woman carrying big buckets of Mountain Dew,

  • 2013

    After releasing one of the last year’s most criminally underrated and overlooked records, the melancholy and intelligent A Church That Fits Our Needs, orchestral folk group Lost in the Trees are gearing up for their third album, Past Life. They’ve now released the first single from it, “Rites,

  • apollo

    The UK-based house duo Disclosure drops a hard-hitting house banger with “Apollo.” Stream it above, and check a review for the duo’s number-one album, Settle, below. /via/

  • apollo

    The UK-based house duo Disclosure drops a hard-hitting house banger with “Apollo.” Stream it above, and check a review for the duo’s number-one album, Settle, below. /via/

  • 2013

    Stream: Swearin’ – Surfing Strange NPR is streaming the sophomore LP from Brooklyn garage rock outfit Swearin’. Surfing Strange marks both the refinement and the amplification of the incredibly raw and muddy, but often earwormy esthetic the quartet was working with on its self-titled debut.  Perhaps the greatest change from album

  • [CRES_040] Sadsic – Sadsic by Sadsic Beatmusic producer Sadsic psychedelically blends elements of drum ‘n’ bass, hip hop, wonky, IDM, and more into this menagerie of tracks from the self-titled album embedded in the widget above. It’s a pretty dizzying group of songs, and are loaded with nutty samples,

  • 2013

    Famed post-rock outfit Mogwai has been undergoing some pretty big changes on their last few albums, and it’s lead to some hits and some misses. However, I’ve never known a band like Mogwai to fold under the pressure of critical reception, and the band’s next album could

  • Singer-songwriter Julia Holter releases some visuals for one of the odder tracks on her latest album, Loud City Song, which is out now on Domino Records. It’s a tense, emotive piece of dream pop that’s now accompanied by some eerie cinematography. Enjoy! Also, catch a review for Loud

  • 2013

    Los Angeles-based rockers Warpaint have been way too quiet since the release of their stellar debut, The Fool, back in 2010. Now they’ve released a brand new track in anticipation of their sophomore self-titled record. The track, “Love is to Die,” is not too far removed from the tricks

  • 2013

    You’ll be forgiven for not remembering who Throwing Muses are. A group of young alternative rockers that released a few pretty good albums in the 80s and 90s on 4AD–the first U.S. band to be signed to that label, in fact)–today they are much less active.