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LISTEN: Hot Chip, “Don’t Deny Your Heart”

Hot Chip have shared another track from their new album, In Our Heads, which is set to hit stores next Tuesday through Domino. Check out “Don’t Deny Your Heart” in the above player, and the band’s upcoming tour dates below…

LISTEN: Holy Other, “Love Some1”

After a relatively quiet spring release schedule, Tri Angle Records are set to close off the summer with the debut album of Holy Other. Due out August 28th, Held is the polar opposite of the producer’s With U EP conceptually, charting the course of a relationship–chain links and all–rather than the death of one. It’s […]
Matt Pike performs with Sleep at Brooklyn Masonic Temple

High on Fire Cancels Rockstar Festival Run, Matt Pike Enters Rehab

High on Fire have been forced to drop out of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival due to frontman Matt Pike’s decision to receive treatment at an alcohol rehab facility. “High on Fire would like to thank everyone involved with the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival for the opportunity to be a part of this […]

LISTEN: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Grafitti + Dam-Funk, “Baby”

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have announced their new album. Due out August 21st through 4AD, Mature Themes is reportedly the record Pink “wanted to make back when I made Before Today, but couldn’t due to pressures and different factors.” In other words, it’s a bit more twisted than the band’s soft focus pop tracks last […]
Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum

NEEDLE EXCHANGE 103: An Exclusive Mix By … Mount Eerie

Words and Mix by Phil Elverum This playlist is what I would have playing in my house all the time if I wanted to have music playing all the time, which I don’t. There is maybe no cohesive theme other than that they are all my favorite song. Some songs are not songs–just fragments from […]
Wymond Miles (Photo: James Cromwell Holden)

FROM THE STACKS: Wymond Miles

While it’s nearly impossible to make sense of all the music that floods our mailbox, inbox, and various Web browsers every day–not to mention the shelves at self-titled‘s favorite record stores–we’re constantly looking for artists who make us stop what we’re doing and actually listen. Here’s one of them: