February 2012
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[Flashback] - The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles...
A lot of bands manage one good album. Some manage a couple of good albums; others even manage a couple in a row. But it’s a pretty unusual thing for a band to deliver three knockouts back to back. This of course (of course!) brings me neatly to The Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” - the third instalment of what I like to call their Trilogy Of Awesome,...
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[Listen] - Regina Spektor - "All The Rowboats"
Listen to Regina Spektor’s new song “All The Rowboats” from her upcoming album “What We Saw From The Cheap Seats”.
Announced last November, Regina Spektor makes her return to studio recorded album territory this May with “What We Saw From The Cheap Seats”, and now we can hear the first taste of what we can expect from the quirky songstress.
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[Video] - Bear In Heaven - "Reflection Of You"
Watch the new video for Bear In Heaven’s song “Reflection Of You” below, taken from the album “I Love You, It’s Cool”.
Connect With Bear In Heaven – Facebook | Official Site | Twitter
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[Listen/Download] - Slow Animal - "Slow Animal"...
Listen to and download the new Slow Animal album for free below.
Where some of the more exposed lo-fi garage rock bands have come and gone in the last couple of years, Slow Animal have stuck it out and continued to release gem after gem, like the previously posted “Bliss Brain” and debut 7” single “theFUNsun”.
After running into problems with their self-titled debut...
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[Video] - Cheyenne Marie Mize - "Keep It" (Live)
Check out the fantastic Cheyenne Marie Mize performing “Keep It”, one of the standout tracks from her recent EP “We Don’t Need”.
Connect with Cheyenne Marie Mize: Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp
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[Video] - Girls - "My Ma"
Watch the video for “My Ma” from Girls below, from their album “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”.
Connect with Girls - Facebook | Twitter | Last.fm
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[Video] - Gorillaz ft. Andre 3000 and James Murphy...
Watch the new video for Gorillaz song “DoYaThing” featuring Andre 3000 and James Murphy.
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[Video] - Bon Iver - "Towers"
Watch the video for “Towers”, from Bon Iver’s sophomore effort “Bon Iver, Bon Iver”, out now on Jagjaguwar.
Recently named “Best New Artist” at The Grammys, Bon Iver dropped a gorgeous new video for his latest single, “Towers”. Like the video for “Holocene”, it features beautiful scenery and follows its protagonist on his...
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[Introducing] - LA Font
In 2001 The Strokes changed the rock game up with their debut album “Is This It” which to this day remains one of my favorite albums of all time and was placed on the great majority of “decade’s best” lists that were released a couple years ago. It’s been almost eleven years since that, though, and rock has evolved and come and gone, and it’s...
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[Video] - Arctic Monkeys - "R U Mine?" (New Song)
Watch the video for Arctic Monkeys’ new song “R U Mine?”. Premiered on KROQ this evening this new song….well, it’s new, and not a b-side, or an album track that we know of, so for now just enjoy it as it is.
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[Video] - School Of Seven Bells - "Lafaye"
Watch the new video for School Of Seven Bells‘ song “Lafaye”, taken from the album “Ghostory”.
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[Introducing] - The Sugarettes
Full disclosure: I was fooled into listening to The Sugarettes. Anyone that knows me (though I think I’ve gushed about it in writing a few times too) knows that the 60’s are my favorite musical period thanks to the wonderful melodies (and harmonies, for that matter) that characterized pop music at the time. Girl groups are a particular highlight, and I’ve spent many hours...
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[Review/Listen] - Cursive - "I Am Gemini"
“I Am Gemini” is a divisive release, even among Cursive fans: some think it’s Cursive at their very best, others couldn’t be more disappointed. Hopefully you’ll find yourself in the former group, but unfortunately our reviewer is squarely in the latter.
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[Listen] - Spiritualized - "Hey Jane"
Spiritualized are back with their first new album in four years and a great new track!
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[Listen] - Michael Kiwanuka & Dan Auerbach (Of The...
Michael Kiwanuka and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys get together for a song!
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[Video] - Bleeding Knees Club - "Nothing To Do"
Bleeding Knees Club, not ones take themselves too seriously, have made a video that begs the question: Da fuuuuck?
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[Introducing] - Kodacrome
Kodacrome’s EP, “Perla”, is actually quite hard to pin down. At times it leans heavily on danceable electronics; at others it’s rough-and-ready rock; at others still it has a light and acoustic feel. What’s impressive is that the blend still manages to make sense.
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[Listen] - Real Estate - "In My Car"
Real Estate debut another new track, this time for Domino Records’ new original art, music, and prose zine.
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[Video] - Islands - "Hallways"
Islands have only gone and made one of the best videos of the year, to go along with one of the best songs of the year.
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[Review/Listen] - Shearwater - "Animal Joy"
Shearwater’s new album “Animal Joy” is a hard album to listen to. Not because it’s too experimental or anything like that, but because it is extremely cringe worthy. A lot of the band’s songs have always boarded on being a little corny but never took it too far and that’s what I loved about their musical style. “The Golden Archipelago” is a hard record to follow; it is a minimal...
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[Listen] - 2:54 - "You're Early"
Listen to 2:54’s new song “You’re Early”.
Over the last few months we’ve heard (and seen) 2:54 continually make deliberately driving shoegaze tracks, with standouts like “Scarlet” and “Got A Hold”.
We tagged them as Ones To Watch for 2012 and new track “You’re Early” solidifies that status as it melts and works its way...
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[Video] - Boy Friend - "Egyptian Wrinkle"
Watch the new video for Boy Friend’s song “Egyptian Wrinkle”, taken from the album “Egyptian Wrinkle”.
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[Video] - Beirut - "Vagabond"
Watch the new video for Beirut’s song “Vagabond”, taken from the album “The Rip Tide”.
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[Video] - Willis Earl Beal - "Evening's Kiss"
Watch the new video for Willis Earl Beal’s song “Evening’s Kiss”, taken from the album “Acousmatic Sorcery”.
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[Introducing] - Dare Dukes →
A distinctive voice that wraps tales about these characters around and through some great and quirky indie folk…
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[Listen] - Real Estate - "Exactly Nothing" (New...
Check out this brand new track by Real Estate!
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[Listen/Download] - Reptar - "Sebastian"
Listen to and download the new Reptar song “Sebastian” below, from their new album “Body Faucet”.
Even though they’ve been a touring band since 2008, Reptar are only now just getting around to releasing their debut album “Body Faucet” on May 1st.
Last year they released an EP called “Oblangle Fizz Y’all” as well as an official video...
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[Video] - Blondes - "Amber"
Watch the new video for Blondes‘ song “Amber”, taken from the album “Blondes”.
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[Listen] - Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes -...
Listen to the new song by Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes singer) below.
Over the last week or so Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold has been going through a bit of a public breakup, with long-term girlfriend Olivia.
He posted to his Twitter account a few times, all of which have been since deleted, about the breakup. With tweets like how weird it is to be single after 10 years, about how tough it...
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[Review/Listen] - Tall Tall Trees - "moment"
Tall Tall Trees’ self-titled debut album was phenomenal. The NYC quartet seamlessly blended banjo-plunking bluegrass, moody folk, and driving indie rock into one ceaselessly interesting and fun album…
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[Listen] - Gorillaz - "DoYaThing" ft. Andre 3000...
Listen to Gorillaz’s new song “DoYaThing” below, featuring Andre 3000 from Outkast and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem.
As has been reported over the last few weeks, Gorillaz have teamed up with Outkast’s Andre 3000 and LCD Soundystem’s main dude James Murphy for one of the most anticipated collaborations in a while. The collab is to promote their work with Converse...
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[Video] - Fitz & The Tantrums - "LOV"
Watch the new video for Fitz & The Tantrums‘ song “LOV”, taken from the album “Pickin’ Up The Pieces”.
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[Listen/Download] - Violens - "Unfolding Black...
Listen to and download the new Violens song “Unfolding Black Wings”.
Brooklyn Indie-Synth-Pop trio Violens have returned our musical hemisphere with the announcement that they’ll be releasing their second album “True” on May 15th…
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[Video] - NZCA/LINES - "Okinawa Channels"
Watch the new video for NZCA/LINES‘ song “Okinawa Channel”, taken from the album “NZCA/LINES”.
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[Introducing] - Of Monsters And Men
With a charming penchant for anthemic chants, Icelandic based self-dubbed “six pack” Of Monsters And Men are bursting onto the worldwide music scene with a joyousness that’s hard to resist…
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[Listen/Download] - Colleen Green - "Goldmine"
Listen to and download the new Colleen Green song “Goldmine”, from her new album “Milo Goes To Compton”.
We’ve been a fan of Colleen Green for almost two years here and after a few years of dropping songs and singles and EPs, she’s finally embarking on a full length album…
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[Video] - The Shins - "Simple Song"
Watch the new video for The Shins‘ song “Simple Song”, taken from the album “Port Of Morrow”.
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[Video] - The Machine Room - "Your Head On The...
Watch the new video for The Machine Room’s song “Your Head On The Floor”, taken from the EP “Love From A Distance”.
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[Listen] - Grimes - "Angel"
Listen to the new Grimes song below, a bonus track from her latest album “Visions”.
Yesterday Grimes spent the majority of her day in charge of Gorilla Vs Bear, posting whatever content she saw fit. There were a couple of misses, but for the most part she knocked it out of the fucking park, enlightening us all to a host of music new and old, from a variety of genres…
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[Video] - Niteflights - "I'm Glad You're Here"
Watch the new video for Niteflights’ song “I’m Glad You’re Here”, taken from the EP “I’m Glad You’re Here”.
Never ones to rest on their laurels, the boys of London-based Niteflights are back with a new batch of joyful, roots-based power pop! After spending the majority of their Christmas “holidays” (their quotation marks) laying...
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[Video] - Blur Perform Live At The Brit Awards
For the first time in three years all four members of Blur were together on stage, this time to perform at The Brit Awards to commemorate their Outstanding Contribution To Music award. They played five songs in total, “This Is A Low”, “Tender”, and for the closing ceremony they did “Boys & Girls”, “Song 2”, and “Parklife”, joined...
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[Listen/Download] - Crystal Castles - "Violent...
This post is a “QuickPick”.
QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome!), out into the dubya dots, picked quickly. Less for you to read, more for you to hear.
Artist: Joneses Genre: Mashup, Remix Links: Soundcloud | Tumblr
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[Video] - Crystal Castles - "Suffocation"...
As Crystal Castles mentioned last week they’d be releasing the new video for their track “Suffocation” today via Vs. Magazine’s site and Facebook page.
The band have been releasing stills from the video since as far back as September last year, and have also promised remixes of the song by HEALTH and Vitalic as well as a demo version of the song, and it premiered over at...
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[Review/Listen] - Errors - "Have Some Faith in...
Several years back, Errors, a four-piece band from Glasgow, Scotland, made the music industry hungry with anticipation when they were signed on by Mogwai’s label, Rock Action Imprint. The band has come a long way since the days of their humble beginnings when these lads started recording and experimenting with music in frontman Simon Ward’s bedroom. With the promisingly titled “Have Some...
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[Listen/Download] - NO CEREMONY/// -...
Listen to and download the new NO CEREMONY/// song “HEARTBREAKER” and check out its b-side “BREAKINGHEARTS”.
When NO CEREMONY arrived on the scene late last summer they pretty much blew anyone with a taste for the more eclectic side of electronic music away, “HURTLOVE” being the best example of this.
Today they’re back with a new single...
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[Introducing] - Joyland →
Joyland have been together for less than a year but have a sound that belongs to a band with a longer history than that. Having listened to both the tracks they’ve got featured on their Soundcloud page it’s easy to see why they were picked up by 140dB shortly after their first gig…
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[Video] - Glass Vaults - "Gold Star"
Watch the new video for Glass Vaults‘ song “Gold Star” below, taken from the EP “Into The Clear”.
Connect with Glass Vaults – Facebook | Bandcamp | Website
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[Video] - Aaron Embry - "Your Heart And Mine"
Watch the new video for Aaron Embry’s song “Your Heart And Mine”.
Thanks to Josh from 1,2,3 who has now firmly planted Aaron Embry square in the middle of my musical radar with this charmingly exquisite unplugged video of his song “Your Heart And Mine”…
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[Video] - Lower Dens - "Brains"
Watch the new video for Lower Dens‘ song “Brains”, taken from the album “Nootropics”.
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[Video] - Crystal Castles - "Suffocation"
As Crystal Castles mentioned last week they’d be releasing the new video for their track “Suffocation” today via Vs. Magazine’s site and Facebook page.
Thanks to the eagle eye of Over Muziek though you can already check it out on Vs. Magazine’s site. The band have been releasing stills from the video since as far back as September last year, and have also promised...