February 2012
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WatchLilacs & Champagne - Everywhere, Everyone
As the producing-team behind’Grails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various culture’s versions of psych music over the past decade. With their new project Lilacs and Champagne, they’ve created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70′s film-soundtracks with their lysergic...
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Palmz - Summer Dreamzzz
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January 2012
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WatchAd Hoc
is also a quarterly zine— available in electronic and paper formats, and full of original art work and long-form features. Resurrecting the curatorial logic of zine culture, Ad Hoc will paint a dynamic, living landscape of the underground music world at large, setting the reflections of professional journalists and critics alongside artists, promoters, and other music-world...
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WatchOrgans of Love - Let’s Talk to Bobby (demo)
I shamelessly just stumbled on to these kids while browsing Norman Records because I was immediately intrigued by the intense blurry topless chick LP art. A little investigation yields that they do indeed make some excellent minimal synth new wave, filled with the gasping semi-orgasmic sexual moans, and heavy vocals that remind me of Karen O. ...
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WatchLabyrinth Ear - Humble Bones Music by Labyrinth Ear. Directed, shot and edited by Brendan Canty of Feel Good Lost. Track Humble Bones is off the Apparitions EP which will be released on February 7th on BndCmP
I just emerged from a major dive into the newish Animoog, where I’ve been lost in a cave creating sounds for the past couple of hours to find this one in my inbox. The light from...
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Wikipedia Shuts down in Protest of SOPA Bill
To Naysayers abound, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)and Protect IP (PIPA) are seriously scary shit. Not everyday Wikipedia shuts down for any reason, or did you notice the censored blackout on Google?
Why is this Happening?
Visit americancensorship.org and call your senators. The time is now.
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Lucky Dragons - Existers
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This teaser is ages old, but its the first I saw and I kinda dig it for comedys sake. Much as I love Sleigh Bells and am psyched for the new LP to drop, I do think the basic theme of this trailer is pretty hilarious. Flashing forward and back from cheesey homevideos & clips of the two stars before they were big in gritty less than glamorous style to super hi-res majorly diva combing by...
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WatchThe Babies - Trouble
For fans abound of The Babies: a collection of six acoustic demos recorded in 2010 and 2011 from Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls and Kevin Morby of Woods. Released on Mattthew Mondanile’s New Images imprint. Basically its a sweet little EPs worth of bedroom recordings for you to feast your ears on :)
The Babies - Cry Along With The Babies 12” LP is available...
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WatchBoy Friend - Egyptian Wrinkle
Boy Friend is Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown, ex-members of Sleep ∞ Over. I saw s∞o play during Pop Montreal this past year without the later, and while it was a good show, I was a little disappointed. BF stands out completely on its own, and with the caliper of this single I believe it will blow past the s∞o release. The questionable faults with s∞o Forever...
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WatchUseless Eaters :: New years eve 2011 at the Zombie Shop in Nashville, TN.
One of my fellow dj buddies with the sickest wax collection (can you image a house with 10,000+ LPs…exactly) turned me on to these rough pop punk dudes toward the end of the year when I picked up their OOP Zulu cassette, Ltd to 125 copies. They’re from the Memphis scene, putting out a continuous stream of...
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WatchThe Proper Ornaments - Who Thought
I picked the first 7” single from The Proper Ornaments last year when I was riffling through the Pure Groove distro (RIP) totally randomly, without having heard them whatsoever. Between a thoughtful description and awesome collage cover art, I figured the extra dough for one 7” was well worth it. I think thats the beauty of an inexpensive...
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Watch Zac Nelson - Cloud Mine
New video for my favorite track from the LP Sound A Sleep Sound on Bathetic Records, BATH51. Video by Shane Skogberg.
Most Bathetic LPs sell out super quick and I feel like this newcomer from Zac Nelson was a little overlooked. Very creepy and unsettling synth waves that make me think of Black Moth Super Rainbow in a darker light.
Zac Nelson - Sound A Sleep Sound...
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WatchModern Witch - In Your Eyes
So bummed I missed this Modern Witch release. Major sad kittens. I was all about their last vinyl 7” split with Os Ovni (still available here), but somehow this one drifted under my radar. Unfortunate cause both tracks are by far their best. More dynamic and refined with the same dark goth synths you crave…Check you the other track also streamin on...
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WatchLabyrinth Ear - Humble Bones
Convenient when I posted literally 3 days ago hoping for a new release from Labyrinth Ear, that my wish would be granted almost immediately! This is the first track from their new digital 4-tracker, Apparitions EP coming out Feb. 7th.
They’re sounding tasty as ever, I just wish they’d move some tunes to vinyl. Digital downloads don’t do them...
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Cheaper than Free: why BitTorrent promotes music...
A few months ago, we began tracking the starting point of every sale that happens on Bandcamp. In the course of looking at the data (which we’re using to help us plan out what to do next), we’ve noticed something awesome: every day, fans are buying music that they specifically set out to get for free.
For example, just this morning someone paid $10 for an album after Googling “lelia...
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WatchGrass Widow - Disappearing Industries
Latest single to be released by the fabulous Grass Widow girls, coming out as a Ltd 7” split w/ Nature (another great band same label) on M’Lady’s Records. The 7” will be 1000 press, but the 300 come in hand-marbleized and letterpressed sleeves (see Polaroid above ^^^, marbleizing done by Grass Widow, letterpressing by Iris...
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WatchYOURS0178 Vi allting nu överallt underbart
Absolutely stunning. Things it kickin at 2:15 so stick around.
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Labyrinth Ear - Amber
Just a little over a...