THOM + JONNY

Last year, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (who only a few weeks ago produced a killer track for DOOM) produced some new tunes for Rag & Bones’ runway event…

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OF MONTREAL

Schizophrenic indie-pop veterans, of Montreal have shared a second track from their forthcoming LP, Paralytic Stalks. The new tune, “Dour Percentage,” is a joyous slice of Kevin Barnes’ flavor of…

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FRANK OCEAN

In an interview with BBC, Frank Ocean, who was runner-up on the publication’s Sound of 2012 list, disclosed that his long-awaited follow-up to Nostalgia, ULTRA. was indeed coming soon. 

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PORTLANDIA S2

The second season of IFC’s Portlandia, the hilarious brain child of Sleater-Kinney/Wildflag’s Carrie Brownstein and SNL‘s Fred Armisen, returns tonight at 10pm eastern with a Battlestar Galactica-inspired, Washed Out-featuring, Eddie…

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PMACAST

It’s been a while. Kick things off with what’s got to be the best jam of 2012 already. Enjoy.

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LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE

The middle track from Lana Del Rey’s debut album, Born To Die – which won’t stop unravelling itself – has made its way online.

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STAY+

Stay+ (read that “stay positive”), the “fictional dance” project of young Englishmen Matt Farthing and Christopher Poole, has a hypnotic new single and video called “Dandelion” available digitally and on…

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EVIAN CHRIST

Whoever the inscrutably named Evian Christ is (and we’re assuming not the second coming of artisan water), he or she joined YouTube about two weeks ago and, since then, has…

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THE-DREAM

Following up his jam-packed free mixtape, 1977, The-Dream is planning, well, quite a few albums, depending on which sources you believe.

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WILLIS  EARL BEAL

XL’s latest signee is the golden-voiced Chicago acoustic psych/folk musician Willis Earl Beale, who racked up lots of attention in his hometown with his hyper-accessible personality, not to mention his…

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EXPENSIVE LOOKS

When you think about it, Expensive Looks isn’t really too much of an erroneous name for the production project of the very young New Yorker Alec Feld – think of…

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THE TWILIGHT SAD

Scottish trio The Twilight Sad have been making straight-up anthemic jams since 2003, and “Another Bed,” the first single from their upcoming third record No One Can Ever Know, is…

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GRIMES VISIONS

Newly signed to the storied 4AD label, Grimes has unleashed “Genesis”, a next-level jam from her long-awaited debut album, Visions, which will finally arrive February 21st. It’s just as immediate…

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MELLOWHYPE

Odd Future MC Hodgy Beats and star beatsmith Left Brain return with "45," a toned-down, almost pretty new joint from Mellowhype's just announced sophomore album, Numbers.

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AIR LE VOYAGE LA LUNE

We know about the French electro duo Air’s latest ambitious project – writing a score for a remastered and recolored version of Georges Melies’ innovative Le Voyage Dans La Lune,…

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FRANKIE ROSE

Brooklyn’s Frankie Rose got her start in Crystal Stilts, the Dum Dum Girls, and Vivian Girls, but since her signing to Slumberland in 2010, she’s been cultivating a sound all…

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CLOCK OPERA

The four dapper Londoners behind Clock Opera dropped their single “Once and For All” late in 2010, but you probably haven’t heard it like this. In advance of their upcoming…

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BON IVER TOWERS

On January 23rd in the Uk and March 6th in the US, Bon Iver sill release their third single from their thinkpiece-inspiring, year-end-list-topping, Grammy-nominated self-titled 2011 record, and he’s chosen…

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YOUTH LAGOON

Today arrives a brand new clip for “July”, a clear highlight from one of your favorite albums of 2011 (and ours as well), Youth Lagoon’s The Year of Hibernation. The…

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ACTIVE CHILD CFCF

CFCF, the prolific production and remix project of Montreal native Michael Silver, brings his magic touch to a track from one of our understated favorite albums of 2011, Active Child’s…

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