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Stream: First Aid Kit- The Lion’s Roar Thanks to the good people at NPR Music, listen to the new First Aid Kit album, the Lion’s Roar, a week before it drops. Just follow the link above! Check out a video for the album’s second single below:
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Soap&Skin is the musical project of Austria singer-songwriter Anja Franziska Plaschg. She’s got a new EP on the way titled Narrow. The track above, “Board Turns Toward The Port,” is the first one to drop from the EP, and it’s absolutely chilling. The combination of Anja’
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First track to drop from the forthcoming Perfume Genius album, Put Your Back N 2 It. It’ll be out in Feb. 2012 via Turnstile.
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MP3 Here’s the title track track from Kentucky rapper Nemo Achida, which comes off his latest LP, Nemotional. Like the title suggests, this is one of the sadder songs on the album, which is heavily enforced by the dreary vocal samples moaning away in the background. In the foreground,
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The Black Bull is singer-songwriter Matt Perri, and this video is the latest to come from his Toronto-based project. Though Matt isn’t reinventing the wheel there, he does come across very captivating with a strong, emotional lead vocal and some airy synths. The background vocals are cute, too. Hear
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On her latest album, singer-songwriter Kate Bush creates a winter wonderland loaded with metaphors dealing in love, loss, and age. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Nick Zammuto, one half of the experimental music duo the Books, is releasing some solo material this December via a new single on Make Mine. The Books’ late album, which was one of my favorite albums of 2010, was a surprising turn for the duo considering the increased use in
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A warm acoustic track from J Mascis, which comes off the dude’s forthcoming single on Sub Pop records. the a-side is an Edie Brickell cover, and this track–though not a cover–reminds me a lot of Bob Dylan’s “I Want You.” Overall, a pretty soothing track.
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A video for the final track on King Krule’s new EP, which it out now on True Panther Sounds. This project is spearheaded by a UK singer-songwriter who was getting some buzz last year while putting music out under the name “Zoo Kid.” His style hasn’t exactly changed
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Tom Waits’ latest album, rather than showing a new side to the eccentric singer-songwriter, it somewhat of a retrospective, revisiting the numerous sounds that have made this guy so “bad” for all these years. WATCH THE REVIEW
