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LISTEN: The Field, “It’s Up There (Blondes Mix)”
The Field’s Looping State of Mind Remixe EP is available now through Kompakt. Download it via iTunes, and check out more from Blondes here.
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Michna, “Wanted Exotic”
It’s not quite the album he’s been threatening to drop for years but we’ll take it: Moving Mountains, four new tracks from Michna that are due out on September 18th through Ghostly. Watch this page for a pre-order to the EP’s 10” pressing soon, and check out a trailer for the entire thing below…
LISTEN: Ikonika, ‘I Make Lists’ EP
I Make Lists is available now through Ikonika’s own Hum + Buzz imprint. Sample its six impossible-to-pin-down sounds below…
LISTEN: Desaparecidos Return With New 7-Inch Single, Tour Dates
[Pitchfork] Say what you will about Conor Oberst’s work with Bright Eyes. It does nothing to diminish the scorched riffs and vicious vocal spasms 0f Desaparecidos and its long-overlooked LP, 2002’s Read Music/Speak Spanish. A disasterpiece of middle class malaise, money hungry fat cats, and street-swallowing chain stores, it captures Oberst’s prickly politics better than any Bright […]
LISTEN: Teengirl Fantasy + Kelela, “EFX”
Teengirl Fantasy will release their latest album, Tracer, through R&S Records/True Panther Sounds on August 21st. Pre-order your copy–including a highly limited Lenticular pressing–here.
Kindness Challenges Self-Titled Readers to a Scrabble Match
Photo by Trent McMinn As you may have read in our new issue, Adam Bainbridge (a.k.a. Kindness) is a major Scrabble fan. And as such, he’s agreed to block out three hours of his time (3-6 p.m. EST) next Tuesday, August 7th, to play self-titled readers on the only online forum for serious gamers: the […]
PREMIERE: Peaking Lights Share a Mix of Their Son’s Favorite Songs
Photos by Caroline Mort Interview by Arye Dworken Most musicians would consider a newborn baby a reason to pursue a more stable profession than rock stardom. Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, on the other hand, take their 1-year-old son, Mikko, on tour so often that many fans consider him Peaking Lights’ third member. As Dunis […]
VIDEO: The xx, “Swept Away (Live)”
[FACT] The live footage above is from the xx’s recent L.A. show at the Fonda Theatre. Unlike the drowsy direction of “Angels,” “Swept Away” benefits from a bank of subtle dance beats that hint at the strands of techno and house in the trio’s upcoming album, Coexist. Pre-order that September 11th release here.