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VIDEO: Austra, “Lose It”
Austra‘s debut album, Feel It Break—easily an early candidate for our Best of 2011 list—arrives on May 17th through Domino.
TEST PRESSING: Stream a Sampler From Blank Dogs’ Rarities LP
[FACT] Check out more from Blank Dogs here, or simply head below for a sampler pack from the new rarities collection Collected By Itself: 2006-2009, available now through Captured Tracks…
PRIMER: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart On … Suzanne Vega
Photo by Alexander Wagner Words by Peggy Wang Suzanne Vega was a huge influence on my 11-year-old self; namely in that she inspired me to learn guitar finger-picking and wear giant men’s pants with suspenders to school. Her songs certainly still hold up, but they also take me back to a time when my English […]
NOW PLAYING: Julian Lynch, ‘Terra’
The Artist/Album: Julian Lynch, Terra (Underwater Peoples, 2011) A Short Review: Springtime melodies tailor made for magic mushroom mornings, with enough classically trained curve balls and subterranean synth lines to keep things interesting. A few parts even remind us of Elliott Smith without the emotional baggage. Available At: Amazon · Insound · iTunes · Other […]
VIDEO: Watch Salem’s Twisted, Sizzurp-y Take On Britney Spears
In case you’re concerned, yes this Salem ‘remix’/video is real. We’re pretty sure Britney doesn’t endorse it, but it’s not a blog-baiting prank like this track.
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Cut Off Your Hands’ First Single In Forever
And from out of nowhere with little fanfare, New Zealand indie rockers Cut Off Your Hands releases a new single off its forthcoming album Hollow. “You Should Do Better” doesn’t have an official release date, nor does the sophomore release it’s plucked from (Wikipedia says “TBA – 2011”), but the band itself claims that the […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: 12 Odd Future Records, From Tyler, the Creator To Frank Ocean
Photo by Nick Helderman When Odd Future‘s de facto frontman told Twitter to download all of their DIY releases before they take them down the other day, we went one step further. Wading through a slower-than-molasses server, we snagged every last mixtape and re-uploaded the entire lot to Soundcloud for the rest of you. You […]