Indie rock psych group Unknown Mortal Orchestra are back with a brand new album, Multi-Love, due out May 26 via Jagjaguwar. If you keep close eyes on our Best Of Lists for the end of the year, then you know this one has been highly anticipated. The album serves as a follow-up to 2013’s II. They […]
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announce New Album ‘Multi-Love’ and Tour, Share New Track
February 5th, 2015 
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Deafheaven Side Project Creepers Share “Vanishing” Music Video
February 3rd, 2015 Nina Corcoran Deafheaven side project Creepers are back with a brand new video for “Vanishing” off of their debut LP, Lush, which dropped in October of last year. You can order it here. Directed by Drew Pearson, the short clip matches bright, faded images of planes and passed-out people with the dark riffs of “Vanishing,” one of their seven new songs from last year’s […]
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Dick Diver Share New Single “Tearing the Posters Down”
February 3rd, 2015 Nina Corcoran With the music world falling in love with Twerps and Real Estate’s casually cool riffs, it’s pretty evident college rock is making a return. Indie rock act Dick Diver are no exception to the new rule. The four piece dropped “Waste The Alphabet” last year from their upcoming third full-length, Melbourne, Florida, due out March 10 via […]
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Stream American Wrestlers’ Incredibly Catchy Track “Kelly”
February 3rd, 2015 Nina Corcoran If you’re looking for a pause from all the winter snow, then make way for American Wrestlers. The indie rock Scotland-via-Missouri act will drop his self-titled debut LP on April 7 via Fat Possum. His lead single “Kelly” will single-handedly brighten up your whole day, if not week. “Kelly” operates by avoiding cliche pitfalls and twisting the usual […]
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Hear Uncovered 1950s Folk Track “Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains)” from Connie Converse
February 2nd, 2015 Nina Corcoran Six years ago, boutique label Squirrel Thing put out an album of unearthed folk songs by the mysterious singer-songwriter Connie Converse. The album, How Sad, How Lovely, features back-to-back lo-fi recordings of intimate folk from the 1950s that Converse recorded in her Greenwich Village apartment. It’s available on vinyl for the first time on March […]
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Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney Just Dropped a New Song Called “FourFiveSeconds”
January 24th, 2015 Nina Corcoran Out of nowhere, Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney just dropped a new song. The track, called “FourFiveSeconds,” is three minutes of inter-tangled talent that sounds like a stripped-down studio recording, much of which is dominated by Rihanna’s soulful return to the music world. If this is the song Kanye played for radio programmers, we […]
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Watch Run the Jewels’ Hilarious Campaign Video for the NME Awards
January 23rd, 2015 Nina Corcoran Rap duo Run the Jewels are back with another video. After giving teenage girls love advice, the two have taken to YouTube to film themselves asking for your help to make Run The Jewels 2 NME’s Album of the Year. El-P tweeted an understated preface that this is just “a message from run the jewels,” but things […]
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Watch Run The Jewels Give Teenage Girls Advice on Love
January 20th, 2015 Nina Corcoran By now, it’s pretty much common knowledge that Run The Jewels are the best. With two fantastic albums in their pockets, plenty of excellent solo work, and their upheld promise to re-make their album using entirely cat sounds, El-P and Killer Mike are two of the best rappers in the game at the moment. Now […]
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Nina Corcoran’s ‘Best of 2014’ in Music
January 19th, 2015 Nina Corcoran If there’s anything to be certain of when it comes to music, it’s that you can’t control when it strikes you. In a year filled with violence, racism, disease, and political stumblings, our brains were in overdrive trying to do the right thing. For most, music serves as an escape. It articulates emotions and brings […]
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Wake Up With Two Gorgeous Dream Pop Songs by Carmen Villain
January 17th, 2015 Nina Corcoran It’s not often that dream pop hits our ears and we feel like we haven’t heard anything like it before. Thankfully that’s the case for Carmen Villain. The US-born, half-Norwegian, half-Mexican musician is releasing a brand new “Quietly/Let Go” 7-inch on January 20 digitally and February 10 physically via Smalltown Supersound. Let out one last […]
Hear In Tall Buildings’ Melodic ’70s Pop on “Unmistakable”
January 14th, 2015 Nina Corcoran On February 17, indie rock solo project In Tall Buildings will drop his sophomore album, Driver. It’s a moody record of intimate vocals and quiet funk based off what we’ve heard so far, and now with his newest single, “Unmistakable,” streaming online, we can go ahead and tell you it’s one of our most anticipated […]
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Sufjan Stevens Announces New Album ‘Carrie & Lowell’
January 12th, 2015 Nina Corcoran If you were let down by Sufjan Stevens‘ deeper venture into electro pop with Age of Adz, cheer up. The indie folk god has just announced a brand new album titled Carrie & Lowell and it’s described as a return to his “folk roots.” The album is out March 31 via Asthmatic Kitty Records. The […]
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