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Dum Dum Girls Release New Video For “Too True To Be Good”

Dum Dum Girls released an album we were quite taken with earlier this year in Too True. “Too True To Be Good,” a track off that album of similar name, has now been given a video to accompany. The video is flush flowers, which are bathed in by warm and cool colors in turn. Fireworks, lava, […]

Album Stream: Dum Dum Girls – ‘Too True’

Capability and consistency aren’t the most exciting descriptors, but we attach them to the delightful Dum Dum Girls without meaning anything back-handed. The California quartet has been releasing material regularly since forming in 2009, though their output dipped a bit in 2013, and it never fails to be thoroughly enjoyable. Too True, set to be released […]

Mogwai Announce New Album ‘Rave Tapes’ With New Song

If it looks like Mogwai, and it sounds like Mogwai… Mogwai are pretty much a post rock establishment at this point, the consistent everyman to Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s cultishly adored artist. The band recently announced the followup to 2011’s thunderously good (and immaculately titled) Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. The album is called Rave Tapes, a […]

Girl Writes Letter To Sub Pop Asking Nirvana To Make A Video For Her School

A letter that a Virginia Tech homecoming candidate wrote to Sub Pop (record label) has been making its rounds on the internet today. Apparently she wrote them a letter, asking that Nirvana make a personal video for her school. Might I add that 1. she doesn’t seem to realize Nirvana isn’t a band anymore and […]

Mudhoney Will Perform on Seattle’s Space Needle

Seattle grunge rockers Mudhoney will be the next in line to perform atop a building, Beatles’ style. To kick off the 25th anniversary celebration of Sub Pop (their label), they will perform on the Space Needle in Seattle on July 11 for the whole city to hear. Get ready for grunge to fly high all the […]

Washed Out Release New Single, “Don’t Give Up”

After unleashing a new track a week ago, Washed Out and Sub Pop Records have taken to the internet to reveal his newest single entitled, “Don’t Give Up.” The single is to be featured on his sophomore album, Parascosm, due out this August. Ernest Greene, also known as Washed Out, has been notoriously known for creating summer […]

MUSIC VIDEO: Shabazz Palaces – “An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum”

Just shy of two years since the release of their debut album, Black Up, Seattle’s experimental hip-hop duo, Shabazz Palaces, have just gotten around to releasing the visuals for my favorite track off the album, “An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum.” In a fitting black and white video directed by Joris Grelet, the […]

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Funny Or Die Releases “Never Before Seen” Postal Service Band Auditions

The return of The Postal Service has excited millions of music fans all over the world, but what many may not know is that back in 2002 the group held auditions to find additional band members. Those tryout tapes, which until this morning had never been spoken of, have now been available to everyone thanks […]

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LISTEN: The Postal Service – “A Tattered Line Of String”

There’s a good reason return of indie bleepy bloopersters The Postal Service has been so widely heralded. In case you didn’t spend your formative years listening to the band – and there’s a good chance you didn’t, considering their debut release Give Up is turning 10 this year – you might not fully appreciate the […]

The Thermals Sign To Saddle Creek, Announce New Album ‘Desperate Ground’

Unlike The Strokes, who are going to tease out every detail about their comeback/highly anticipated/buzzy new album, The Thermals don’t play coy. It’s already been a big 2013 for The Thermals. Pitchfork reported that Sub Pop, the first label home to the Portland, OR based group, is repressing and reissuing the band’s first three albums, colored vinyl […]

The Helio Sequence Announce New Album

Indie rock duo The Helio Sequence have announced the details for their fifth full-length album Negotiations which is set for a release of September 11 via Sub Pop. It’s been over four years since the band’s last full-length, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, so I personally am very much looking forward to their forthcoming release. If […]

REVIEW: Beach House – Bloom

Artist: Beach House Album: Bloom Genre: Indie Label: Sub-Pop Most of the time when I think about high school my mind drifts to one specific girl. She was an extremely quiet, church going type who couldn’t have been more opposite on me. Her words would sneak out in whispers, lingering so close to her body […]