LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE

Most people — let’s call them The Lucky Ones — live in blissful ignorance of Lana Del Rey and the insufferable debate she has ignited. If you know her name, you’ve already entered the fray, however unwittingly.

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WILD NOTHING

Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum has graduated out of the bedroom and into a real recording studio. Our first taste of the new Wild Nothing sound came this morning with “Nowhere,”…

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MEMORYHOUSE SIDESHOW EFFECT

Memoryhouse’s debut album, The Slideshow Effect isn’t out until February 28th, but the band keep it fresh on our minds every time they drop an MP3. After their Zombies cover,…

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AZEALIA BANKS

Universal’s latest signee Azealia Banks debuts a new track in a strange place, even for her: the runway at Mugler’s show at Paris Fashion Week (remember her standout “212″ lyric,…

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MIIKE SNOW

Swedish pop trio Miike Snow are releasing their sophomore album, Happy To You at the end of March and are celebrating that with a string of dates in April and…

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WHITE DENIM

Texas’ great White Denim have announced a string of April dates, to add onto their ongoing Winter tour. Listen to this fcking epic live recording of “Street Joy” while you…

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LANA DEL REY

We just got through sharing our thoughts on Lana Del Rey’s massively hyped Born To Die LP, and now we’re hearing that LDR is planning to re-release her 2010 album,…

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AZEALIA BANKS

New York’s up and comer Azelia Banks seems to have struck a chord with the Fashion community. Last week, Azealia provided a new song called “Bambi” for Mugler’s menswear runway…

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TENNIS YOUNG + OLD

Young & Old, the sophomore outing from husband and wife duo, Tennis, has positioned itself as the album to gift to your Valentine this year. After sharing the stellar first…

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FLORENCE + THE MACHINE

Florence + The Machine have released a new video for “Lover To Lover,” the next single from their excellent 2011 LP, Ceremonials. It’s a live clip that offers a compelling…

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OF MONTREAL PARALYTIC STALKS

On February 7, of Montreal will release Paralytic Stalks on Polyvinyl. You can stream the album in its entirety before its out, below: You can still grab an mp3 for…

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ODD FUTURE

A couple weeks ago we reported on Odd Future’s forthcoming compilation album, The OF Tape, Vol. 2, and how the collective was going to promote the album with a string…

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THE POLYPHONIC SPREE

Everyone’s favorite Texas musical pseudo-cult The Polyphonic Spree are back after a brief hiatus, and their video announcement, cut with performance footage, boasts a list of February 2012 tour dates…

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BATTLES GLOSS DROP

Battles are following up their massively acclaimed, jam-laden 2011 art-math opus Gloss Drop with an appropriately titled, four-part remix album series called Dross Glop. In advance of the release of…

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PORCELAIN RAFT

Porcelain Raft’s jockeying between maximalist, synthesized chamber indie, hazy dance music, borderline art-dubstep chopped-and-screwed beats and drones, and mixtape-closing reverby guitar pop make Strange Weekend endlessly compelling, fascinatingly layered, and never predictable.

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JUSTICE

That’s the official title for Rick Rubin’s remix of Justice’s groovy new single, “On’n’On,” though we’d hardly agree with it. Mr. Rubin, being a ridiculously successful superproducer, doesn’t do this…

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MIA

Word is that next week, January 31st, M.I.A. will officially release a revamped version of “Bad Girls,” that seriously bright highlight from Maya’s seriously good Vicki Leekx mixtape. Check out…

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DR DOG BE THE VOID

Philly’s finest purveyors of ramshackle pop-Americana Dr. Dog are back to their old ways with “Lonesome,” a brand new drunk-on-the-back-porch rollicking slow-burner that serves as the first single for their…

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ARCTIC MONKEYS

Arctic Monkeys stopped by BBC Radio 1 and delivered this sweet cover of one of last year’s best dance floor jams, Katy B’s “Katy On A Mission.” Ch-ch-check it out.

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PORCELAIN RAFT3

Yesterday, Secretly Canadian released Porcelain Raft’s Strange Weekend. We’ve already shared our thoughts about it (spoiler: we liked it!), and now you can catch the brand new visuals for album…

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