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What an insane video for one of my favorite tracks from Theophilus London’s new LP, Lover’s Holiday. I reviewed that bad boy a little while ago. Watch it here. Believe it or not, this video actually reminds me of when I was in high school. At least once
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The Drums finally drop a track from that new album the band teased us about just a little while ago. The band hasn’t exactly renovated their sound, but it does seem refined. The instrumentation is tighter, and the vocals–while they do hit a nice falsetto–feel much more
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From New York via New Zealand, Lips is the solo project of Stephanie Brown. Back in her homeland, she played keyboards in numerous groups, but came to the U.S. in ’07 to make a name for herself as a solo musician. She’s got an EP that she dropped
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MP3 Hot of the release of two EPs in the past year, L.A.’s Superhumanoids have a new 7″ record out on White Iris. “Mikelah” is a slow-burning electronic jam with a hazy melody capturing that current mid-summer feel. The distant male vocals of the verse’s are counterbalanced
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50’s by House of Wolves When I was first introduced to House of Wolves, I was confused. According to his facebook page, House of Wolves is a solo project of Rey Villalobos, a singer-songwriter from California. Although he’s a man, I could have sworn that the vocals I
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While it certainly doesn’t seem as official as John Maus’ video for “Head for the Country,” the eerie and sci-fi movie footage strung together in this video seems pretty appropriate for the track “Cop Killer”–admittedly, one of my favs from Maus’ latest LP, which we’ve got an
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MP3 Coming out July 5th on Mexican Summer, Part Time’s debut album, What Would You Say?. Fronted by singer-songwriter David Speck, this release should lovingly seduce the ear drums of anybody who is into the nostalgic hip swaying of Ariel Pink or John Maus. Dig on a video for
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A new video for the Beach Fossils track, which comes from the band’s latest EP, What a Pleasure. I even audio reviewed that bad boy right here. If you’re digging on this, look for this release on Captured Tracks. /via/
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We’ve been blogging about it, well, basically everybody has: The new Washed Out album Within and Without. The entire LP is up for streaming right now via NPR, so click right here to hear it. Look for this album via Sub Pop on July 12th, and stay awesome.
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On the first track to drop from Bjork’s forthcoming album, Biophilia, the Icelandic singer-songwriter just doesn’t do a lot for me, honestly. I was pretty excited about this track, too. It’s certainly got all the makings of a great Bjork track–some strong vocals and personality, ear-grabbing
