Title: Us Artist: Movement Album: Us – Single Year: 2013 Genre: Contemporary R&B, Electronic, Post-Dubstep, Microhouse, Italo-Disco Sydney trio Movement inhabit a shadowy subspace where R&B and dance music begin to blur together and blend. Their new single on Modular, “Us”, transcends standard lyrical structures, advancing onto more troubling terrain. The vocal take is light and controlled, but it […]
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September
13
CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share (Blood Diamonds Remix)
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Title: The Mother We Share (Blood Diamonds Remix) Artist: CHVRCHES Album: SIngle Year: 2013 Genre: Electronic, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Aquacrunk, Synthpop If you haven’t heard the excellent original check it out here. Now here comes Canadian producer Blood Diamonds and puts in a little twist. A little tropical thunder there with a dash of drum ‘n’ bass. CHVRCHES have never sounded […]
September
12
Cass McCombs – There Can Be Only One
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Title: There Can Be Only One Artist: Cass McCombs Album: Big Wheel And Others Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock I’ve never understood a Cass McCombs song, even the ones I’ve listened to hundreds of hundreds of times. They always seem to take the simplest matter and turn them into philosophical queries. “Who owns my heart? There can be […]
September
12
Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Day
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Title: Wakin on a Pretty Day Artist: Kurt Vile Album: Wakin on a Pretty Daze Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock Exactly like the title suggests, this song i a mood changer, and more specifically, one you’d like as a soundtrack for your morning routine (and might even convince you to take the day off). What’s amazing about […]
September
07
Jagwar Ma – The Throw
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Title: The Throw Artist: Jagwar Ma Album: Howlin’ Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock I don’t necessarily want to call Australian duo Jagwar Ma clairvoyant, but they have some great timing dropping their latest single. The baggy-ness of it all, from the hip-hop rhythms to the extended outro. The song’s the purest piece of Madchester revivalism to come around […]
September
06
Cat Power – Manhattan (feat. Angel Haze) [Ryan Hemsworth Remix]
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Title: Manhattan (feat. Angel Haze) [Ryan Hemsworth Remix] Artist: Cat Power Album: Single Year: 2013 Genre: Rap, Progressive Hip Hop, Indie The first surprise was the fact that I saw genre-hopping and ambitious female rapper Angel Haze on Cat Power‘s astounding opening. How would they even sound like together anyway? Then, we have Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth coming […]
September
05
Blue Hawaii – Try to Be
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Title: Try to Be Artist: Blue Hawaii Album: Untogether Year: 2013 Genre: Ambient, Ethereal Wave, Dream Pop, Future-Pop I like a group that’s true to its name. In this case, Montreal duo Blue Hawaii, through their tropically infused songs always find a way to bring me warmth. This song’s vibe is chill, sleaky and feels like the […]
September
04
Youth Lagoon – Dropla
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Title: Dropla Artist: Youth Lagoon Album: Wondrous Bughouse Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock, Dream Pop “Dropla” is the first single from Wondrous Bughouse. Though Trevor Powers’ voice doesn’t have that ghostly echoey feeling it usually does it’s as tender as ever. “I reach my arm across the bed and hold your hand,” he sings before noting that somebody’s […]
September
03
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – So Good At Being In Trouble
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Title: So Good At Being In Trouble Artist: Unknown Mortal Orchestra Album: II Year: 2013 Genre: Lo-Fi, Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock From the moment that guitar starts, you know that Unknown Mortal Orchestra are stepping on hollowed ground and have just produced a great track. Ruba Nielson sings “So good at being in trouble/ So bad at being in […]
September
03
Jon Hopkins & Natasha Khan – Garden’s Heart
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Title: Garden’s Heart Artist: Jon Hopkins & Natasha Khan Album: How I Live Now OST Year: 2013 Genre: Indie, Ambient, Ethereal Wave, Dream Pop, Soundtrack Jon Hopkins is behind the score for the upcoming film How I Live Now, and today, he’s shared a cut from the movie’s soundtrack. It’s called “Garden’s Heart”, and it’s a collaboration between Bat for […]
September
02
OFF Festival 2013 Photos
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The OFF Festival took place in Katowice, Poland over the weekend. Featured sets by My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Pumpkins, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Deerhunter, The Walkmen, Japandroids, and many more. Photos: Tom Spray.
August
29
Foxygen – No Destruction
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Title: No Destruction Artist: Foxygen Album: We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock “There’s no need to be an asshole/ You’re not in Brooklyn anymore”. Well that escalated quickly. What I have to say about this is that Bob Dylan + Velvet Underground + Pavement +(not that […]
August
28
David Bowie – Where Are We Now?
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Title: Where Are We Now? Artist: David Bowie Album: The Next Day Year: 2013 Genre: Rock David Bowie sang about time changing him when he was still in his early 20s but you never really thought about him growing old. He’s dabbled in just about every major form of popular music and, when later in his career […]
August
28
Angel Haze – Echelon (It’s My Way)
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Title: Echelon (It’s My Way) Artist: Angel Haze Album: Dirty Gold Year: 2013 Genre: Progressive Hip Hop, Electronic, Hip Hop, Rap Until now Angel’s biggest asset has been her undeniable aggressive hunger. Or to put it even better in her words: “a bitch in the music industry”. This is definetely an Angel Haze track, you can tell, […]
August
27
Torres – Honey
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Title: Honey Artist: Torres Album: TORRES Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock For her astounding debut single Torres didn’t really do much. She plugged in a Gibson guitar, opened her mouth and sang an arena-rock anthem. “Honey, while you were ashing in your coffee/I was thinking of telling you’ve what you done to me,” she murmurs. Both the organ […]
August
26
David Bowie – Sound and Vision
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Title: Sound and Vision Artist: David Bowie Album: Low Year: 1977 Genre: Art Rock, Electronic Released in January 1977, Low was the most potent and encompassing hybridization of pop music’s many modes to that point, an album that continues to resonate as a syncretic masterpiece three decades later.
August
26
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
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Title: Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) Artist: Kate Bush Album: Hounds of Love Year: 1985 Genre: Art Rock, New Wave Discovered in 1975 by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Kate Bush began and ended her career with sappy sentimentality bathed in new age-isms and unicorn fantasies. Yet, at the heart of her discography lies this […]
August
26
Sigur Rós – Brennisteinn
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Title: Brennisteinn Artist: Sigur Rós Album: Kveikur Year: 2013 Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient There’s an initial shock from hearing Sigur Rós, now a trio, reciprocating with the incorporation of fractious time signatures, clanking percussion and detuned, tremor-inducing guitars that more typically serve as a backdrop for scorched black-metal howls rather than Jonsi’s typically glistening, ascendant vocals. Ian Cohen, […]
August
26
Toro y Moi – Say That
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Title: Say That Artist: Toro y Moi Album: Anything in Return Year: 2013 Genre: House, Synthpop, Electronic Indie, Psychedelic Pop Chaz Bundick can take on many different personas. Beatmaker in Causers of This, a serious songwriter-producer in Underneath the Pine and a dancefloor expert on sexy music under the moniker Les Sins. On “Say That” he does the perfect […]
August
26
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
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Released: August 20, 2013 Label: Domino Producer: Julia Shammas Holter Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Avante-Garde Tracklist: 01 World 02 Maxim’s I 03 Horns Surrounding Me 04 In the Green Wild 05 Hello Stranger 06 Maxim’s II 07 He’s Running Through My Eyes 08 This Is a True Heart 09 City Appearing Holter: Yeah. The way this happened is that I was working on Ekstasis, my […]
August
24
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
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Title: Seven Nation Army Artist: The White Stripes Album: Elephant Year: 2003 Genre: Garage Rock I don’t have to say much about this song. Everyone knows about it. From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell. Ehem…*cough* copyright *cough*. According to White, “Seven Nation Army” is what he used to call the Salvation Army as a […]
August
24
Death Grips – Birds
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Title: Birds Artist: Death Grips Album: Free Download Year: 2013 Genre: Experimental Hip Hop I think a free download was due to arrive since they did not. And by that I mean them being a no show in all their previous gigs. What’s amazing about this song is it’s surreal lyrics that keep burrowing and borrowing […]
August
23
Glasser – Shape
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Title: Shape Artist: Glasser Album: Interiors Year: 2013 Genre: Indie, Experimental, Avante-Garde, Dream Pop Cameron Mesirow aka Glasser, has announced details of her second album release. The yet unnamed LP will be released sometime in October via True Panther.
August
23
Glasser – Apply
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Title: Apply Artist: Glasser Album: Ring Year: 2009 Genre: Indie, Experimental, Avante-Garde, Dream Pop Cameron Mesirow clearly had her ideas worked out long before she roped in Fever Ray co-producers Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid for Ring, her debut album as Glasser. Compare the album version of “Apply” to the one she did a year before (on […]
August
23
Escort – Cabaret
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Title: Cabaret Artist: Escort Album: Cabaret – Single Year: 2013 Genre: Dance, Nu Disco, Disco, Funk Well, Brooklyn-based disco outfit Escort have always been nostalgic for those funky and glamorous New York 80s days they thought it was about time they released their secret desires. Not as catchy as their greatest hit “Starlight” but definitely more glamorous.
August
22
Herbert and Dani Siciliano – So Now…
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Title: So Now… Artist: Herbert and Dani Siciliano Album: Around The House Year: 1998 Genre: Microhouse A bulbous bass-line reduced to a suggestive murmur, tap-happy rhythm lines threaded into a stringy beat, breathy wisps of singing by Dani Siciliano.
August
22
Pavement – Gold Soundz
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Title: Gold Soundz Artist: Pavement Album: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Year: 1994 Genre: Indie Rock There are a lot of ways to think about the music of a decade. Sometimes when you sit down to make a list like this, you think about songs that seemed important– maybe they changed music or were emblematic of prevailing […]
August
22
Jai Paul – Jasmine
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Title: Jasmine Artist: Jai Paul Album: Jasmine (Demo) Year: 2012 Genre: Electronic Indie, Post-Dubstep, Future-Pop, Neo Soul “Jai is a wizard…the way he’s going about things is, I think for many, baffling. But…he’s going about things in the most Jai Paul way you could possibly go about things. And who knows where that may lead.” […]
August
22
“Six Hundred Bucks Well Spent”
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Do you know whats this is? Sub Pop has scanned and uploaded to their Tumblr a copy of Nirvana‘s initial record contract, an endearingly simple little piece of paper. The two-year agreement, for three full albums, gets especially good when you see how much money Sub Pop had to pay for Nirvana for its initial one-year term advance: a […]
August
21
Sleigh Bells – Comeback Kid
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Title: Comeback Kid Artist: Sleigh Bells Album: Reign of Terror Year: 2012 Genre: Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Psychedelic If you watch this then you won’t mess with comeback kid i assure you!
August
21
John Legend – Rolling in the Deep (Adele Cover)
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Title: Rolling in the Deep (Adele Cover) Artist: John Legend Album: Unnoficial YouTube Cover Year: 2011 Genre: Soul, Gospel A perfect gospel/a capella cover. It even sounds better than the original sometimes. John Legend’s amazing voice at its finest and most polished.
August
21
Frank Ocean – Pink Matter
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Title: Pink Matter Artist: Frank Ocean feat. André 3000 Album: Channel Orange Year: 2012 Genre: Contemporary R&B, Neo Soul This is one of those songs where I can’t say anything. You have to listen to this lying on your bed, dimming your lights and listening to the lyrics: And the peaches and the mangos That you […]
August
21
Chelsea Wolfe – The Waves Have Come
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Title: The Waves Have Come Artist: Clelsea Wolfe Album: Pain Is Beauty Year: 2013 Genre: Ethereal Wave, Post-Rock, Experimental “The Waves Have Come” is the first single off Chealsea Wolfe‘s new album Pain Is Beauty (out September 3 via Sargent House) . Chealsea’s over-the-top vocals, the instrumental melodrama that hovers throughout out the eight and a half […]
August
21
Aphex Twin – Vordhosbn
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Title: Vordhosbn Artist: Aphex Twin Album: Drukqs Year: 2001 Genre: Electronic, IDM, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Ambient I am not sure if the video is official or not but it’s pretty good.
August
21
Juana Molina – Eras
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Title: Eras Artist: Juana Molina Album: Wed21 Year: 2013 Genre: Folktronica, Avante-Garde At one point in the 1990s, the Argentina native canceled her wildly popular comedy show to dedicate herself to music. It’s not an uncommon transition, but over the span of three albums she became the first comedian ever to successfully lose the jokes […]
August
19
Cassie – Me & U
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Title: Me & U Artist: Cassie Album: Me & U – Single Year: 2005 Genre: Modern R&B
August
19
DJ Shadow – Organ Donor
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Title: Organ Donor Artist: DJ Shadow Album: Endtroducing….. Year: 1996 Genre: Hip Hop, Instrumental Hip Hop, Breakbeat
August
19
Air – Playground Love
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Title: Playground Love Artist: Air Album: The Virgin Suicides Year: 2000 Genre: Downtempo, Soundtrack
August
19
Ratatat – Seventeen Years
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Title: Seventeen Years Artist: Ratatat Album: Ratatat Year: 2004 Genre: Psychedelic, Experimental Rock
August
17
Björk – New World
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Title: New World Artist: Björk Album: Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Dancer in the Dark Year: 2000 Genre: Trip Hop, Soundtrack
August
16
Crystal Castles – Alice Practice
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Title: Alice Practice Artist: Crystal Castles Album: Alice Practice EP Year: 2006 Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Chiptune
August
16
Ricardo Villalobos – Enfants (Chants)
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Title: Enfants (Chants) Artist: Ricardo Villalobos Album: Enfants Year: 2008 Genre: Minimal Techno, Microhouse
August
15
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
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Title: All My Friends Artist: LCD Soundsystem Album: Sound of Silver Year: 2007 Genre: Dance-Punk, Electronic Indie
August
15
Volcano Choir – Comrade
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Title: Comrade Artist: Volcano Choir Album: Repave Year: 2013 Genre: Indie, Dream Pop, Ambient, Post-Rock Justin Vernon has worked very hard to prove he’s having too much fun with his friends to work on a third Bon Iver album, and the new Volcano Choir album, Reprave (out out September 3 in the U.S. and September 2 internationally via Jagjaguwar), […]
August
15
These New Puritans – Organ Eternal
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Title: Organ Eternal Artist: These New Puritans Album: Field of Reeds Year: 2013 Genre: Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Neo-Classical British art-rock act These New Puritans have shared another video to accompany their latest record, Field of Reeds, released in June of this year. The “Organ Eternal” clip pairs the drama of the song with natural […]
August
15
Neko Case – Night Still Comes
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Title: Night Still Comes Artist: Neko Case Album: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You Year: 2013 Genre: Indie Rock Case always manages to reveal some new topographical feature in this terrain, and so “Night Still Comes” features not only a parallax layering of voices but […]
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