balloontrilogy

I tend to bristle at the indie blogosphere’s obsession with taxonomy, the impulse to create ridiculous subgenres that group artists under arbitrary categories. But Eric Harvey got it right when he coined the term “PBR&B.”

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TEEN DAZE

Just a few days too late to bump at your New Years’ party, here we have Vancouver-native Teen Daze’s disco-house fist pumper to end all fist pumpers, the electric, elastic…

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MIDI MATILDA

San Francisco’s Midi Matilda specialize in straight-up pop gems, and damn, are they good at what they do.

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SCHOOLBOY Q

L.A. rapper Schoolboy Q and his frequent collaborator Kendrick Lamar are back with another joint track, the minimalist, hyper-chill “Blessed.”

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A$AP ROCKY

A$AP Rocky had a banner 2011, what with his (excellent) mixtape LiveLoveA$AP dropping to huge acclaim, and we’re expecting even bigger things in 2012 – his as-yet-untitled full length record…

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DIZZEE RASCAL DIRTEE TV

Dizzee Rascal is back! Download his free New Years mixtape, Dirtee TV, by signing up to his mailing list at his website. You’ll instantly be rewarded with 25 new tracks…

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SCISSOR SISTERS

In Unexpected Collaborations That Make Perfect Sense news, New York City pop vets Scissor Sisters have teamed up with up-and-coming Harlem rapper Azealia Banks for their brand new single “Shady…

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NEW ORDER POWER CORRUPTION LIES

The Golden Filter, S.C.U.M. and Destroyer are among the 13 bands MOJO magazine has commissioned to cover New Order for a compilation accompanying their latest issue honoring the band. Below…

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123 DREAMLAND

Pittsburgh’s 1,2,3 make the kind of effortlessly catchy pop that’ll earworm its way into your heart in under five seconds, but their New Years’ gift to their listeners has them…

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MEMORYHOUSE SIDESHOW EFFECT

We can’t wait for Toronto dream-pop duo Memoryhouse to put out their first full-length record The Slideshow Effect via Sub Pop on February 28, and even though their latest big…

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RAEKWON UNEXPECTED VICTORY

We’re letting you know now, we have quite a few New Years’ mixtapes to share today – you can start 2012 off right by checking out Raekwon’s free release, Unexpected…

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TI FUCK DA CITY UP

For all the 2012 cataclysm theorists out there, T.I.’s got you covered – in advance of his appropriately titled upcoming full-length Trouble Man, he’s dropping a nineteen-track (yes!), free, and…

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PORTLANDIA S2

Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen and WILD FLAG and Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein return this Friday, January 6, at 10pm with the Season 2 premiere of their shorts-based IFC Channel series,…

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THE WEEKND

Congratulations; you made it to 2012. Make sure you get off to a good start and check out the fifty most popular MP3 posts of the last year. 

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FAVORITE REMIXES 2011

You’re bound to hear dozens of remixes this New Years Eve. Here’s our humble attempt at getting in there first. Below are our 20 favorite remixes of the year, in order…

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COCKNBULLKID

As we close in on New Years Eve, a must-download collection of totally free, infectious jams from Anita Blay’s CocknBullKid project has landed. Following up this summer’s Adulthood, Anita was…

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BEST ALBUMS 2011

This time of year is perfect to catch up and reflect on the music that has released throughout the past 11 and a half months. We started our annual year-end…

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PMABESTSONGS_2011

We’ve been at it all year long, and here we have our 100 favorite songs of 2011.

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HOUSE OF BALLOONS

A few weeks ago we asked you all what your favorite albums of 2011 were, and now that we’ve shared our lists, we’ve tallied up the results.

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BEYONCE 2011

Beyonce, who released our favorite song of 2011, offered up a list of own on her website. We decided to make a mix of her 10 favorites and enter them…

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