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Canadian rapper Shad comes through with a new single featuring a snappy beat from Skratch Bastid and a soaring hook from Saukrates. As usual, Shad comes through with clever, self-aware lyrics that are thought-provoking and hilarious. This guy continues to be one of independent hip hops most class acts.
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Odd, repetitive, quirky, and playful is the new MGMT single! “Your Life Is A Lie” features a guitar riff drum beat that skips like a broken record, and is topped with lyrics that take a hilarious approach to existentialism. What’s even weirder is the video attached to this thing,
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Oneohtrix Point Never has shared another track from his upcoming Warp Records debut R Plus Seven. The serene and pristine “Problem Areas” is accompanied by a Salvador Dalí-esque music video comprised of surreal, CGI household items. Choice imagery includes an alarm clock bursting with gummy worms and a model ship
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Canadian electronic musician Michael Silver, a.k.a. CFCF, has made a new single titled “Jump Out of the Train” available to stream on Soundcloud. The song is taken from his upcoming sophomore LP, Outside, and is a nearly seven-minute-long new age odyssey. It also features what sounds to be
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Ariel Pink and Jorge Elbrecht drop a smokey, psychedelic video for their recently released “Hang On To Life” single, which you might already know I love. The single is out now via Mexican Summer, and you can now stream the b-side below, “No Real Friend”:
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Brooklyn synthpop duo Holy Ghost! is back with a new song and music video taken from its upcoming sophomore LP Dynamics. “Teenagers in Heat” is a bouncy and catchy enough offering from the duo, accompanied by a neat take on the lyric music video. Cards inscribed with the song’s
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Is Survived By will be the third full-length LP from California’s Touché Amoré, and it’s currently looking at a September 24th release date on Deathwish. “Just Exist” is the first track to drop from the forthcoming album, and it features all of the band’s best qualities: tight
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Famed electronic music producer Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet, has a new album on the way titled Beautiful Rewind, and “Kool FM” is the first single to drop from it. Like Tet’s Pink compilation forecast, “Kool FM” sees Hebden’s productions heading further into the worlds of
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It would seem that ex-The Books member Nick Zammuto has a second album–huh?–on the way. Not only does this video note that, but the single above is essentially all the proof you need. “Need Some Sun” is one of Zammuto’s smoothest tracks yet, not really showcasing a
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New York indie rock outfit TV On the Radio has a brand new single out, and it’s much punchier than many of the tracks from the very smooth Nine Types of Light they dropped a few years ago. Actually, I’d call “Mercy” an incredibly driving song, fueled by
