August 2011
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Steel Phantoms - Bedouin
Guitar rock has...
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Sims - Wildlife (Free Download) →
Sims has released a follow up EP to the critically-lauded Bad Time Zoo as he prepares to embark on his first solo headlining tour alongside Lazerbeak and Cecil Otter. The five track Wildlife EP, produced entirely by Lazerbeak, is available for free download over at bandcamp.
<a href=”http://sims.bandcamp.com/album/wildlife”...
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Commune @ Whistlestop 8/31 →
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Watch“Soft Feet” premiered last friday at CMJ and the video is an incredible example of what the Lightman sisters, Sari and Romy, do best. They’ve toured the US as the backing singers in Austra and will return in November with the band and also perform as Tasseomancy as the support act throughout the entire tour. Ulalume comes out tomorrow, August 30th, on Out of This Spark, and was...
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URB Premieres "Orca" by Paranoid Castle (Kirby... →
Stuey Kubrick, the same director who made Factor & Ceschi’s “The Fall of Captain E.O.” and Common Grackle’s “The Great Depression” swell like a ribcage out of breath is back with more Fake Four cinema. The sonic backdrop this go around is “Orca,” the absorbing lead single from Paranoid Castle’s new record Champagne Nightmares. The group, which consists of the Bay Area’s Kirby Dominant on...
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Raleigh Moncrief - I Just Saw
If you can ignore...
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Death Cab for Cutie @ Rimac (Live Review) →
08.16.11
While the acoustics of Rimac strived for mediocrity, Death Cab for Cutie found a way to stretch their sound over a Division II basketball court on a brisk August night. A mellow, mid-tempo outfit at their core, DCFC knows how to expand their recorded material to its outer limits under flashing neon lights.
DCFC opened with “I Will Possess Your Heart” and made sure hit...
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The Morning Clouds - The Wrong Things
Life has...
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Eskmo Announces New Welder Album →
Brendan Angelides, aka Welder, is a California based artist more widely known in the music community as Eskmo. With releases under the latter guise on the labels of Ninja Tune, Warp and Planet Mu, he has gained notable transatlantic recognition from the likes of BBC Music (“mind-melting invention…”), URB (“Simply destroys the soundsystem..”) and FACT...
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WatchMatt Bauer recently finished a two and a half month tour accompanied by Dana Falconberry which saw them performing in nearly every one of the 48 contiguous. His new album, The Jessamine County Book of the Living, is out now on Crossbill Records and yesterday Under The Radar premiered the brand new video for ”TICS 1979.” Bauer is currently wrapping up the final touches on his soon to be...
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PreOrder My New Album →
astronautalis:
I wrote “This is Our Science” about the last 7 years of my life touring, traveling, drifting, and working. About the friends I’ve made, the lessons I’ve learned, and the stories I’ve lived on this endless exploration into my art, my mind, and the world at large. Throughout this adventure, there has always been a place that I kept my stuff while I was gone; sometimes in boxes...
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“It takes about a month to recover physically from a collapse of that magnitude,...”
– HST
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Jealov - Translations (Free EP Download) →
Translations, the free bootleg EP from Belgium’s mysterious Jealov, uses a nearly-unrecognizable palette of pieces from chart-toppers Sean Paul, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Jay Z, and Aaliyah to create a layered landscape of skewed, corrupted crunk. The life of pop songs is often tragic - forgettable today and forgotten tomorrow. Translations, however, charts the shadows cast by Top 40....
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The Caseworker - National Runner
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B. Dolan – “The Hunter” (Mux Mool Remix) →
The long, strange journey of B. Dolan continues with his second installment in the House of Bees mixtape series set to drop in the very near future. Mux Mool of Ghostly International is responsible for this banger of a remix to “The Hunter,” one of the standout tracks from last year’s Fallen House, Sunken City record. As anyone who witnessed the mind expansion circus of Dolan’s recent Church...
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Robin Bacior - Man Before Me
Two years ago,...
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Pomegranates - Softness
Most of you are well...
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Beirut - The Rip Tide (Review) →
On Beirut’s third full-length, the seasoned vocal cords of Zach Condon sing of longing and wandering in a pixilated world out of reach. The Baroque instrumentation that has defined the band’s sound remains, but here it is buoyed by dynamic shifts and surges that propel Condon’s lonely croon. While always capable of conjuring a potpourri of emotion and imagery, the 25-year-old...
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The Clap - Lucy 2
The Clap was formed in the...
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Sage Francis + Buck 65 - "Slow Man Stance" →
Another demo has kicked its way out of the SFR vault. This here is the original version of “Slow Man” which was completely reworked and re-recorded over different music for the LI(F)E album. This version is more aggressive andincludes an additional verse. The legendary Buck 65 produced the beat.
“When the world moves at breakneck speed, I hold the pause button halfway and make the tapedeck...
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WatchThe Brooklyn-based folk-pop group known as The Go Round began its life three years ago, the product of a chance meeting between Brandon Whightsel and Richard Duke, two bespectacled singer-songwriters who have spent the majority of their lives giving into an inherited sense of wanderlust.
The son of an etymologist and an Alpine nurse, Brandon was born at the base camp of the third highest mountain...
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Elba - Statues and Shipyards
Named after the...
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WatchFirst gaining recognition through Gilles Peterson’s BBC1 WorldWide radio show with their 2008 track “Combiner,” the Danish collective Boom Clap Bachelors have quickly made a name for themselves through their soulful sounds infused with subtle synth and pop influences. Both Robin Hannibal and Coco O. of Quadron are a part of the Boom Clap Bachelors collective, in addition to Ronni...
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Ganglians - Drop The Act
“Drop The...
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Watchazizisbored:
Watch the video for “Otis” by Kanye West and Jay-Z featuring a tiny Aziz cameo!
Directed by Spike Jonze.
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Big Spider’s Back - Secret Chiefs
After a...
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Metermaids - "Graveyard Shift" →
Metermaids, a Brooklyn-based duo consisting of emcees Sentence and Swell, often refer to themselves as “the Bad News Bears of hip-hop.” However, after teaming up with the X-Ecutioners DJ Rob Swift, receiving production from Grammy Award Winner 9th Wonder, and pulling in vocal contributions from indie-hop legends Sage Francis & Buck 65, their Rooftop Shake LP is set to turn that...
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WatchDownload “Quiet America”
On Tour:
Sep 02 Lee’s Palace, Toronto, Canada
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Sep 03 Lee’s Palace, Toronto, Canada *
Sep 05 La Tulipe, MONTRÉAL, Canada
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Sep 07 House of Blues, Boston, MA *
Sep 09 9:30 Club, Washington, DC *
Sep 10 The Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA *
Sep 12 Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY *
Nov 03 Fitzgeralds (TX), Houston, TX $
Nov 04 Club Dada, Dallas, TX $
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Beirut - "Santa Fe" + Tour Dates →
Santa Fe - The Rip Tide by PompeiiRecordingco
Wed. Aug. 10 — Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
Fri. Aug. 12 — Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Sun. Aug. 14 — San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
Fri. Sep. 2 — Dorset, UK @ End of Road Festival
Sun. Sep. 4 — Stradbally, Ireland @ Electric Picnic
Tue. Sep. 6 — Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy
Thu. Sep. 8 — Amsterdamn, Netherlands @ Paradiso
Mon....
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WatchSeregenti’s tale of Gary “The Whip” Worsh humanizes the brutal life of a fictional UFC fighter, placing the wounded Octogon grappler in a quiet existence in the Southwest. This is not your average rap song by any means. Geti’s narrative has its redemption clause, but the build-up is riddled with life’s cruel “what-ifs” of “if he’d just notched...
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Alias - "Phony Hatin" (Fever Dream B-Side) →
Raised by a church organist / hobby store clerk and a fire-fighting jazz drummer on six acres in rural Hollis, Maine, Brendon Whitney didn’t have cable growing up. With only three stores in town, the musical pickings were slim, so he’d stay up late and fuss with the TV antenna until he picked up NBC’s now defunct Friday Night Videos. During one episode, Cosby kid...
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DJ Nu-Mark Remixes J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science →
J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science is back with his upcoming album Undercover dropping October 4th via OM Records. The San Francisco representative is respected world-wide as one of the most diverse DJs in the game who has also been releasing full length albums for almost 10 years.
Click here to download J5 alum DJ Nu-Mark’s remix of the title track and/or stream it below.
Undercover feat....
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