Australia's the Preatures are releasing their debut EP Is This How You Feel? today and have introduced "Manic Baby" to coincide with the release. "Manic Baby" is a straight-forward, bass-driven dancehall rock number that has had me bobbing my head since I first pressed play. The quintet easily...
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L.A. artist Banks introduced herself a couple of months ago with debut single "Warm Water" and now has returned with "Waiting Game." The former was produced by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and this newest offering by up-and-comer SOHN (his song "Bloodflows" is definitely worth a...
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AlunaGeorge have garnered a lot of attention over the past year, having teamed up with Disclosure on "White Noise," receiving 'Best New Music' honors for single "Your Drums, Your Love," and releasing debut LP Body Music to positive reviews. Yet, the song of 'theirs' I have...
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What is that?! New Cut Copy?! This morning, Cut Copy returned with their first single since 2011's Zonoscope titled "Let Me Show You." At last month's Pitchfork Music Festival, the band released the song through freshly pressed vinyls - which resulted in low quality youtube videos of the...
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Right now I am in a rather introspective mood. I am not sure if it's all the David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo I've been reading, the rainy weather, the Marc Maron podcasts I've been listening to, or what...
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Kavinsky is probably best known for having a track featured on the '80s-tastic soundtrack for the movie Drive, which if you've ever heard, pretty much sums up the sound of his entire body of work. Earlier this year the Frenchman put out an LP named Outrun and has...
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POLIÇA released "Tiff", featuring Justin Vernon, about 3 months ago in anticipation of new album Shulamith (due out on October 22.) Now, they have teamed up with Canadian producer, Doc McKinney, who has tried his hand at remixing "Tiff". The result is a bit darker and...
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LA duo Classixx have released the video (with help from Urban Outfitters) for Hanging Gardens standout "All You're Waiting For," which features Nancy Whang (of LCD Soundsystem) living it up on an '80's inspired yacht. The video is almost as catchy as the song and helps...
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Belgium isn't necessarily the first place I think of for glistening summery pop music, but that is where new artists LA PLAGE (french for 'the beach') call home. To date, they have two releases, a cover of Phoenix's "Trying to be Cool" and "Redez-Vous." Maybe...
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To be honest, I was going to post about London Grammar's most recent release, "Strong" and the debut single, "Hey Now," which first got me into them. Then, when searching for the soundcloud links, I stumbled across a song I remembered getting really excited about...
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