You know how every Hold Steady song begins with frontman Craig Finn telling a story over slowly building guitar riffs, before the band explodes into an epic, sing-along hook? Now imagine that minus the epic explosion. That’s Finn’s solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes in a nutshell.
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Releasing their sophmore album, The Lion’s Roar, this sister duo from Sweden grabs attention quickly with plucky guitar and standard folk harmonies, but it is their vocals that isolate themselves and ultimately demand attention.
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Arctic Monkeys dropped the horrendously titled but otherwise pretty good Suck It and See in 2011 and it’s still yielding singles – next up is “Black Treacle,” b/w the brand…
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Ambient-leaning electro composer Elephant & Castle (aka David Vincent Reep) is gearing up to drop his first full-length LP Transitions soon, and he’s warming up his audience with an album…
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On his 2011 self-titled record and the assorted non-album tracks he’s been dropping left and right since then, anonymous, genre-busting London producer SBTRKT is giving the UK’s art-dubstep trend a…
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UK pop rockers Django Django may take their name from the French jazz musician Django Reinhardt, but they get their dizzyingly hyper-rhythmic, electro-pervaded indie pop from the school of Franz…
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Class Actress, the Brooklyn-based project of Los Angelean songwriter Elizabeth Harper and actual doctor of psychology Mark Richardson, are befittingly a class act – their smooth, bass-heavy electropop is irresistibly…
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Nearly two decades in the game, Nada Surf have proven that they’re solid pop songwriters, and these are truly, undeniably solid pop songs.
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The french electro duo just dropped this NSFW video for the latest Audio Video Disco single, “On’n’On,” directed by Alexandre Courtes.
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This jam has been on constant rotation at casa de PMA since ScHoolboy Q dropped his Habits and Contradictions LP last Friday. This JeromeD-directed clip is our latest excuse for…
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Here is a colorful new video from Nicki Minaj’s eccentric “Stupid Hoe.” Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is out February 14 April 3rd on Young Money.
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The thirty-eighth installment of our semi-regular podcast, including new and recent favorites.
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Miike Snow’s prepping for a banner 2012: confirming a Coachella appearance, announcing a new record, dropping catchy singles: now they’re countering the alpine imagery in their name with a new…
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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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We have to admit we were a little nervous when we found out Brad Oberhofer, the 21-year-old Brooklyn-via-Tacoma pop alchemist who makes catchy, schizophrenic songs under his last name, was…
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We’re really into Trust, the chilly electro project of Austra drummer Maya Postepski and Robert Alfons (see: our obsession with their early single “Bulbform”), so we’re psyched about the release…
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely heard about South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord’s upcoming second LP Ten$ion. Until its release they’re building up Internet hype the…
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Hard Mix is 21-year-old Noah Smith’s name for his hypnotic, homespun electronic experiments, which just happen to be so good he’s already premiering new tracks via mixes for SiriusXM Chill.…
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Brooklyn native Frankie Rose has drummed in three of the best reverb-soaked lo-fi bands her borough has to offer, but now she’s taking frontwoman duties and cleaning up her act…
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Review: Die Antwoord - TEN$ION
Two Playlists for Valentine's Day
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Bon Iver Does SNL; Kristen Wiig Does Lana Del Rey
PMA's 100 Best Songs of 2011
MP3: The Knocks - "Midnight City" (M83 Cover)
MP3: New Wild Nothing - "Nowhere" f/ Twin Sister
PMACAST No.038
MP3: Oberhofer - "HEART"
REC'D: Rhye - "Open"
REC'D: Willis Earl Beal - "Take Me Away"
REC'D: Fucked Up - "Year of the Tiger"
New: M.I.A. - "Bad Girls"
REC'D: Zebra Katz - "Ima Read" f/ Njena Reddd Foxxx
Album Review: ScHoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
Album Review: Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
PMACAST No.037
PMACAST No.036 | Coachella 2011
PMACAST No.035 by HARD MIX
PMACAST No.034 | Everyone's Fucked and They Don't Even Know
Album Review: Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester
PMA’s Best Albums of 2010
PMA’s Best Songs of 2010
Best Songs of the 2000s
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