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Hot new act Victory will release his new single ‘Play It’ On January 17th. The video, directed by Victory himself, is a neon soaked VHS celebration of the anthemic single. Victory’s debut LP ‘Victory is Music’ will be out April 23rd and will only be available on limited edition clear blue vinyl and digitally via [...]

Brighton-based duo You love Her Coz She’s Dead will release their debut self-titled album on Glasstone Records on October 31st. The band’s album release follows an iTunes featured ‘Hot Picks’ debut EP, singles, remixes & compilations on Kitsuné, EMI & Glasstone, and music appearing on films (Teen Wolf) and TV Shows (Skins). The album is [...]

Toronto dream pop outfit Ohbijou are pleased to unveil their video for “Niagara.” Director Jared Raab used human bodies and objects to capture the feeling of falling water. “Not only is the resulting video incredibly beautiful and something that we as a band are very proud to be a part of, but the entire process was made a joy [...]

  Brooklyn-based lonesome pop lovers We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves  are premiering their latest single, “Your Darkest Thoughts Will Shine,” courtesy of Interview Magazine. It’s the first tune from their upcoming album “Never Listen To The Ones You Love” being released on 4:3 Records. We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves make music that draws comparisons to Morrissey, Beirut, and Belle & [...]

Lana Del Rey has confirmed new North American dates, including headlining shows Nov. 30 at Toronto’s Mod Club, Dec. 5 at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, and Dec. 7 at LA’s Troubadour. For those who purchased tickets to Lana’s September shows at The Box and Hotel Cafe, Bowery Ballroom and Troubadour will be in contact directly to [...]

Psychic Dancehall, the project recently unveiled as Crocodiles’ Charles Rowell and The Slits’ Hollie Cook in an exclusive interview with Interview Magazine, are pleased to release their debut LPDreamers, available today on Art Fag Recordings. The project has been shrouded in mystery until now, with the two going by the monikers of Dorian Wartime and Sylvia Innocent. [...]

“Night In The Ocean” b/w “Slip Time” is the next sonic move by Young Magic. The band’s second 7″ to drop in the world is another intimate, lushed-out affair – continuing on the tingly wide-screen journey that “You With Air” b/w “Sparkly” began earlier this year. Equal parts head-noddingly heavy and beautifully delicate, this series [...]

By: Jacob Weis Louise Burns is fun to look at.  But does the Zooey Deschanel-looking songstress make music as fun to listen to when she isn’t around to sing it to you personally?  That depends. Her debut solo album, Mellow Drama is as dynamic as it is complicated: its tracks crowd around you with what [...]

Is Tropical are set to release a new single on KITSUNÉ /CO-OP on the 31st of October 2011. ‘Lies’ is the follow up to the recent ‘The Greeks’ single with its now legendary video and is the third single to be lifted from the band’s debut album ‘Native to’, which was released in June this year. Watch [...]

By Kristen Brunelli “It was a black night….” – Ash Black Bufflo I listened to Ash Black Bufflo’s album Andasol while painting the kitchen of my Lower East Side apartment. My much older roommate had left for China for a month and I’d decided, without “permission,” to spruce the place up a bit while he [...]

Canadian indie forerunners, Light Organ Records, are pleased to announce that the debut full-length from Vancouver fuzz-rock outfit Sun Wizard, Positively 4th Avenue, is now available everywhere. You can stream the record in its entirety courtesy of Spinner here. James Younger (guitar/vox), Malcolm Jack (guitar/vox) and Francesco Lyon (bass) started playing together casually, drinking and playing [...]

By: Jacob Weis Mathieu Santos: Massachusetts 2010 (Barsuk Records) Some albums want you to believe, whether you’re interested or not.  Well now I do believe, thanks to Mathieu Santos’s Northern Mentality.  Only thing is, I don’t know exactly what I’m believing in.  Mostly because I don’t understand about 90% of the words this dude’s singing. [...]

Brit-rock duo The Big Pink made a splash with their 2009 smashing debut A Brief History of Love. Fans have been eagerly waiting their next release and in January 2012 the band will release their second long awaited album Future This. The first single off of the album is “Stay Gold”. The single was inspired [...]

“It Ain’t Hard to Tell” the upcoming autobiography by hip-hop artist Nas discusses some pretty interesting details of the rapper’s life, including the infamous feud between him and Jay-Z. The rapper has been writing the book with music journalist Touré. Touré wrote on Twitter, “This is hip-hop history. I’ve been talking to Nas about writing [...]

Experimental shoegaze outfit Sleeping Bags are pleased to announce their debut self-titled LP, available today from boutique Los Angeles record label Easter Everywhere. In celebration of the release the band will be performing a hometown show at The Bootleg Theater, as well as offering an exclusive stream of the album in its entirety. Hear it [...]

Toronto’s Diamond Rings is pleased to reveal the video for “You and Me” from his debut Special Affections, available now on Astralwerks. Directed by Jeff Scheven, who also collaborated on Diamond Rings’ “It’s Not My Party” video, the clip depicts two kids joining forces to take on the world, and all the bullies and monsters that come with it. Watch “You & [...]

San Francisco based Extra Classic is the all analog, dub-inspired project of Adrianne Verhoeven and Alex deLanda. The duo has been busy readying their debut LP for Manimal Vinyl, Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like A Laser Beam, available September 27th on cd, digital, and gatefold vinyl. The album’s stand-out hit “You Can’t Bring Me Down” is the [...]

Everyone’s favorite stoner from Oakland, CA Colleen Green is pleased to unveil “Rabid Love,” the first single from her highly-anticipated six-song EP, Cujo, which will be available October 4, 2011 on Art Fag Recordings,with a limited edition vinyl pressing to follow later in the month. This fall Green will embark on a national tour supporting Dum Dum Girls and [...]

It might seem odd for a band without a full-length to enjoy this sort of praise. But ESCORT is definitely not your typical band. Escort is big. Literally. The seventeen-member “disco orchestra”, founded by producers Eugene Cho and Dan Balis, and fronted by lead singer Adeline Michèle, features an incredible cast of musicians who have [...]

Light Organ Recordsis proud to unveil the debut full-length from Vancouver-based songbird Louise Burns. Mellow Drama is available today and you can stream the full record here courtesy of PureVolume. With a warm, strong, clear voice-like Patsy Cline’s almost, but with less sadness-Louise Burns writes songs about love, loneliness and most importantly, her own experience. [...]