new music
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MP3 New MP3 from the forthcoming Shivers album, More–no it’s not a Beach House cover. Stylistically, the Shivers love using their LPs to jump all over the place. “Used to Be” is a keyboard-driven piece of garage pop, but some quiet and tormented acoustic ballads are sure to
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MP3 It’s time for some brash, roughly recorded pop, my friends. On April 26th, Times New Viking will release its fifth album, Dancer Equired, on Merge Recs. The lo-fi sound might seem like it’s dead and gone these days, but remember Times was toying with this sound before
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Fucked Up is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario. The band won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for their album The Chemistry of Common Life. Their third LP, David Comes to Life–according to the Matablog–should be more melodic than the band’s prior work. The heavy female
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Balkans are an up-and-coming Atlanta outfit with some serious guts. Their new single for “Edita V” calls out to both the Strokes and the Walkmen, but doesn’t follow their footsteps too closely. Without resorting to screaming or distortion, the music bleeds aggravation. I’m really loving the thin, crunchy
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After a bit of confusion over my review of the song “Party Boy,” Boris has officially released a track from their forthcoming album, Attention Please. I’m sorry to say that this song confirms what I most feared: The next song I heard from this album would be a plainly
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After a bit of confusion over my review of the song “Party Boy,” Boris has officially released a track from their forthcoming album, Attention Please. I’m sorry to say that this song confirms what I most feared: The next song I heard from this album would be a plainly
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Coral is a collection of old and new sample-based ocean spray beats from Monster Rally, taken from their first 3 EP’s: EP, Palm Reader, and Color Sky. It includes new material as well. Influenced by the African highlife, Bahamian calypso and Tahitian nightlife, this LP is like sitting on
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Last year, the comments sections of my videos were lightly peppered with suggestions of the latest Seabear album, We Built a Fire. Sorry dudes and dudettes. I guess I was busy or something. Just didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. Well, the band’s frontman,
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Scope the babe with the cool shades and the pet snake. she looks like someone I can relate to, or at least get some pet care advice from. This retro, bike-riding beauty isn’t the subject at hand here, though. This is just the cover for the new Natural Child
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New track from New York’s Vivian Girls. “I Heard You Say” comes from the trio’s upcoming album, Share the Joy, which is set for a 4/12 release on Polyvinyl. Get the track for the price of an e-mail address through the link below. MP3: Vivian Girls- I
