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Catch Dead Stars LIVE in NYC: 5/9: Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent 5/16: New York, NY @ Pianos 6/7: Brooklyn, NY @ Grand Victory (CD Release Party) 7/11: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn trio Dead Stars is a sonic throwback to the ‘90s with a modern twist. Blending elements of rock, pop, [...]

La Musique Numérique contains an ambitious rendition of Joe Jackson’s 1982 hit “Steppin’ Out”– a version that sees the new wave classic taken deeper into the cosmos. Closing out the album with a bang. Album opener “Two Times” introduces the record with a tip of the hat to Sleng Teng Riddim’s technological origin: the Casio [...]

Caveman Available Today The new self-titled album is out today! Pick it up on iTunes or your favorite indie record store. iTunes – http://bit.ly/11dr6EJ They also have CD and Vinyl copies available here: http://www.shopbenchmark.com/caveman

Mick Harvey is excited to share with you his NEW solo album FOUR (Acts of Love), out on Mute on June 11th, 2013. FOUR (Acts of Love) is the former Bad Seed and PJ Harvey collaborator’s sixth solo studio album, and the follow up to 2011’s Sketches from the Book of the Dead, follow the [...]

Touché aka Alex Lilly and Bram Inscore are sweeping in with their debut LP It’s Fate set to release May 1, 2013. The dreamy duo will kick off a west coast tour this Spring with several support slots for Twin Shadow. Having already received accolades from XLR8R to ELLE, Touché’s two halves touch upon hallucinogenic [...]

Darwin Deez has premiered the Is Tropical remix of his new single “You Can’t Be My Girl” on URB today. Like Deez himself, Kitsune’s Is Tropical are known for blurring the boundaries between band and beat culture. Here they mix slo-mo house, classic Shep Pettibone style vocal-pitching techniques and a few mad keyboards with an [...]

We all know the type: Prolific bands who commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands who pay no attention to little inconveniences like “release cycles” or “self-editing,” and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and – ultimately – exhausting than the cast of [...]

Two years after releasing their debut album, Mega Rama, Radical Dads have emerged from Brooklyn’s sludgy Gowanus Canal to announce their second effort, Rapid Reality, due out Today on Uninhabitable Mansions. To preview the forthcoming record, the three-piece have let loose “Mountain Town”, a ferocious new track that seems born out of a musty garage, [...]

Pony Boy is Marchelle Bradanini, a sultry songwriter with seductive vocals who isn’t afraid to explore her dark side. With twangy guitars and smoky melodies, her music calls to mind the desolate landscapes of the old west, littered with danger and mystery. Having won over audiences and critics alike last year with her single “Not [...]

Black Books – Favorite Place from DaBrainkilla on Vimeo. The Dream Pop Outfit from Austin Texas. Check it out

Chaperone Records/ Funk-It Records/ Boutique Farm Present… The Ultimate SXSW Showcase! at East Avenue Lounge March 14, 12PM – 2AM – No Cover Chaperone Stage 10:45PM BNLX 10PM Charlie Parr 9:15PM West of Aldine 8:30 Ol Yeller w/ Germaine Gemberling 7:45PM Southwire 7PM Actual Wolf 6:15PM Nobody’s Darlings 5:30PM Mark Kroos 4:45PM Cait Leary 4PM [...]

Gold Fields’ debut album Black Sun is armed with pop hooks, tribal beats, danceable rhythms, and plenty of emotion. The result of relentless work and playful experimentation, the album is released TODAY via Astralwerks at iTunes and all digital and physical retailers! In addition to kicking off the MTV “Artist To Watch” campaign this week, [...]

Doldrums’ highly anticipated debut record, Lesser Evil, is out today on Arbutus Records in North America. The 23 year old Montreal-based artist has received international acclaim for his unique approach to electronic music, characterized by a transfixing, futuristic, industrial meets pop sound with Doldrums’ androgynous vocals. Click Below for The Full Album Stream Of Doldrums’ [...]

Photo Ops, the dream-pop project from Terry Price, is pleased to release How To Say Goodbye LP. In honor of the release, the entire record is streaming for your listening pleasure. The album as a whole shows Price’s knack for an infectious hook coupled with poignant lyrics, all framed by the lush arrangements and melodies. [...]

Dead Leaf Echo. The words are rich literature. Nabokov. Conjured images of drugged passions fading into nihilistic apprehension. An Art Project blossomed in 2006, DLE has matured rapidly since it’s birth now unveiling their unique style of Nouveau Wave. DLE has released numerous EP’s, Singles and Remixes in addition to their noir film videos and [...]

Isaac Delusion, a Parisian group with a pop-laced electronic sound are set to release a stunning new EP tomorrow on Cracki Records, Early Morning. The whole EP can be heard now on Noisey, who write the band “perfectly defines the contours of airy indie-electro, elevating it to something far more nuanced and deeply therapeutic…it easily [...]

Creating novelty—“something new, not previously experienced, unusual, or unfamiliar”—is nothing new for Faith Harding, aka Novelty Daughter, an integral member of the Stereocure family since day one. Her new self-produced single “American Dreams” arrives as new direction in her multi-faceted musical career, which has included formal piano training, folk songwriting, and singing in many different [...]

Tune In this morning or record for later. Les Fradkin (born 15th, January, 1951 in New York City, New York) is a successful songwriter/composer from the 1970′s, lead guitarist, and one of the original members of the hit Broadway show “Beatlemania”. He was a Guitar Synthesizer pioneer of the 1980′s, a neoclassical guitar trendsetter in [...]

Debut of Seth Freeman’s Apollo Thirteen on T&B this morning. From Manhattan to Santa Fe to Baton Rouge to Teaneck, New Jersey, Seth Freeman had been all over the country before middle school. He started singing and writing songs as a kid, and never stopped. He has written songs in dreams, on walks with dogs, [...]

This time of year young teens are thinking about taking tests, thinking about finals and Proms, seventeen year-old Justine Dorsey, who tested out of high school at sixteen and is currently in college, is thinking about spreading the word of her EP Unsaid. Then there is a career in music and a tour to plan. [...]