new music
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More so than on the previous teaser track, The Mountain Goats live up to the title of their forthcoming album Goths here on the opener “Rain in Soho.” This song actually finds the band on some gothic, post-punky shit and it should set the tone for the album quite nicely.
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Ready to follow up their awesome self-titled debut, industrial gospel outfit Algiers have unleashed the title track of their sophomore effort The Underside of Power. Peep the ecstatically dark and rebellious video for it above and look forward to the album dropping June 23 via Matador!
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Big Boi, Killer Mike, and Jeezy go full-on weeb with “Kill Jill.” No, your ears do not deceive you; featured on the beat is motherfuckin Miku-chan herself…but somehow it works really well. The track will appear on Big Boi’s new album Boomiverse, which should be out sometime in
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Tanami by Tunnelvisions Dutch production duo Tunnelvisions come through with sprawling, psychedelic, and vaguely exotic breed of house music that I’m digging a lot. Looking forward to whatever else they’re slated to drop later in the year.
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White Suns – Psychic Drift by White Suns The ear-scorching trio returns with a monolithic single from their forthcoming album Psychic Drift, out June 16 via The Flenser!
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Fava Bean Pepsi has contributed to Mondo Boy’s soundtrack for the film Shangri-La Suite with a cover of “Who Loves the Sun,” the opener of The Velvet Underground’s final (shut up) album Loaded. His rendition is spot-on and turns up at the 2:59 mark of the above
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Future Islands‘ second single off their forthcoming album The Far Field is yet another synthpop tune from the trio that just exudes a shit-ton of passion. And fittingly enough, the song’s accompanied by what must be the most emotive lyric video ever made. The Far Field‘s out April
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Foxygen contributes a song inspired by ’70s TV show themes to Amazon’s upcoming American Girl special. As should be expected from the duo, notwithstanding Star Power, “Be Yourself” offers a bit of lavish psych pop and the best kind of nostalgia trip.
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My boy Mike Hadreas is back with a stirring single about breaking away from the world’s hate, set to the most primal (though still elegant) instrumental I’ve heard him take on yet! It’s off the album No Shape, which drops May 5 via Matador.
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Mar A Lago by Tim Heidecker Tim Heidecker’s series of satirical songs about Donald Trump continues with the tropical “Mar A Lago.” As always, the proceeds go toward charity, this time the Everglades Foundation, so buy this shit if you wanna support that cause or want to have purchased
