SCHLOMO VACATION

The LA producer Shlohmo has been dropping records with some pretty So-Cal titles since he started attracting attention last summer – first Bad Vibes, now an EP called Vacation. Our…

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THE WAR ON DRUGS

On January 24th, Secretly Canadian will release “Come To The City”, the latest single from The War on Drugs’ excellent 2011 album, Slave Ambient. That single’s b-side track, the previously…

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ITAL

Ital heavily samples the opening line from Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and then mixes in Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” on “Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him),”…

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BIG PINK FUTURE THIS

After nearly three years we finally get a taste of what’s next from The Big Pink, and it sounds like they’re stuck in neutral behind the very formidable Mack truck they thrust in motion with their masterful debut.

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JAY-Z

New father Jay-Z just posted this new Neptunes-produced song, “Glory”, dedicated to his infant daughter Ivy Blue Carter. Our favorite couplet: You’re my child with the child from Destiny Child…

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BLOOD DIAMONDS

We’re not talking about the conflict minerals or the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, we’re talking about the Vancouver producer Blood Diamonds, a.k.a. Michael Tucker, who makes what can probably best be…

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GRIMES VISIONS

Grimes’ Claire Boucher dropped two albums on niche Montreal label Arbutus in 2010, but she considers Visions, her debut with the storied 4AD, to be her first real release. Based…

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AMADOU + MARIAM

Malian married couple and collaborators Amadou & Mariam will drop their tenth (that’s right!) record, Folila, in late March, and it features notable collaborators of all musical backgrounds – TV…

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TRUST

TRUST is the project of Austra’s brilliantly bespectacled drummer Maya Postepski and her friend Robert Alfons; together, the Toronto duo make a kind of dark, seething synth-pop, all freezing-cold, heartbeat-driven,…

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BEBETUNESSS

As if James Ferraro wasn’t racking up enough attention for the complex soundscapes he releases under his own name, he’s now dropping gamelan-driven (you read that right) bangers under the…

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MR FOGG

Mr Fogg is English electronic musician Phil Barry, who derived the name of his project from Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and his echoey, confessional electro from…

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PLANNINGTOROCK

New Build, the new project of Hot Chip’s Felix Martin and Al Doyle and their frequent producer and collaborator, Tom Hopkins, planning to release their debut record this year, and…

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ODD FUTURE

Three 6 Mafia member and Oscar winner, Juicy J jumped on a dope, appropriately light-as-air track called “LIFT” with Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All cohorts Hodgy Beats, Domo…

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TIME WHARP

Boston-via-Atlanta dream-electro wonder Time Wharp has been prolifically churning out his considered, minimalist songs via his Bandcamp for a while, and he’s gearing up to drop another EP, BLK (it…

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RICK ROSS RICH FOREVER

In lieu of the release of his new album, God Forgives, I Don’t, the Don has offered up a mixtape full of new material for free. The mixtape is titled,…

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LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE

Another day, another sample track from Lana Del Rey’s debut album, Born To Die. “This Is What Makes Us Girls,” apparently the album’s closing track, was recorded before “Video Games”,…

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SBTRKT

Last fall, anonymous London producer SBTRKT disclosed plans to collaborate with Hertfordshire indie dance outfit Friendly Fires on his second album. Sounds great, but with a second album not really…

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BIG PINK FUTURE THIS

The Big Pink, who dazzled us in 2009 with A Brief History of Love, their maelstrom of reverb guitars, lazer beam synths and galloping drums, are returning very soon with…

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ZOLA JESUS

Goth-pop siren Zola Jesus has rejected every remix offer that’s come her way – that is, until the filmmaker and musician David Lynch offered to do whatever his thing is…

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THE WEEKND

The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye had a banner year, dropping a trilogy of hyper-acclaimed mixtapes (House of Balloons, Thursday, and brand-newbie Echoes of Silence) and dropping a few buttery-smooth verses of…

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