CHAIRLIFT SOMETHING

Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly explore new ideas without losing their identity, crafting a lovely album in the process.

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THEESATISFACTION

New Sub Pop signees, THEESatisfaction popped up on our radar in early 2011 with their smooth, soulful DIY throwbacks. Since then, the ladies of THEESatisfaction, Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White…

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DANIEL ROSSEN

Daniel Rossen has an absolute gift for crafting strange and beautiful chamber pop (case in point: his two bands, Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles, and his staggering songwriting and…

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SANTIGOLD

It’s been too long since we’ve heard new material from Brooklyn-via-Philly electro-R&B princess Santi White, so we were so psyched last week when she confirmed to V Magazine that her…

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BON IVER

Irish folk band the Chieftains have been around for literally fifty years, and to celebrate they’re releasing an aptly titled record, Voice of Ages, which includes collaborations with folk artists…

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ISLANDS A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING

After collaborating with approximately nine hundred other projects, Nick Thorburn is back with Islands and a new album, A Sleep and A Forgetting, coming in February, and after “This Is…

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YOUTH LAGOON

Youth Lagoon, who released one of your favorite albums of 2011 has been touring long and hard and has just announced some Spring dates with fellow dreamy up-and-comer, Porcelain Raft,…

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PERFUME GENIUS

Seattle’s Mike Hadreas is prepping his upcoming album as Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It with a stream of great tracks: first the breathtaking, expansive “All Waters,” now…

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LOWER DENS

Baltimorean songwriter Jana Hunter and her band of the haze-bending bearded dudes in Lower Dens are back after their fantastic 2010 record Twin Hand Movement and a well-deserved break with…

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CSLSX

Secretive, maybe-Philly-based international collective CSLSX have been making multidisciplinary art for a while, and their newest release “Aeromancer” is a delicious introduction to their electric synth-pop.

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THE OF TAPE VOL2

Frank Ocean’s debut album is expected this Spring. Tyler, The Creator will follow up Goblin with Wolf, also in Spring. Mellowhype has a new one called Numbers out “soon”, too.…

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LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE

Left-field hip-hop producer Clams Casino — who has recently churned out massive tracks for mixtapes by The Weeknd and A$AP Rocky — has remixed the blogosphere’s favorite punching bag, Lana…

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MNDR

We haven’t heard original material from our favorite bespectacled electro-pop singer Amanda Warner, who goes by MNDR, in a while, and we’ve missed her gift for bending chilly layers of…

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TYLER THE CREATOR

It’s 2012, and we’re sure a lot of voting citizens out there are feeling some pretty venomous sentiments toward the choices being offered in the upcoming election, so it’s about…

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MOS DEF

The artist formerly known as Mos Def (he goes by his Muslim name Yasiin Bey now) is embarking on the massive undertaking that is his Top 40 Underdog project, quasi-covering…

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MATTHEW DEAR

Matthew Dear’s glossy, chilly R&B has been making waves thanks to 2010’s Black City, and in 2012 he’s back with new material – a record called Headcage and its electrifying…

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LEONARD COHEN

After teasing the slow jam of the moment, “Darkness” on the internet, Leonard Cohen’s turning to a different form of media to build buzz for his upcoming record Old Ideas…

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FRIENDS

Brooklyn’s Friends caught our attention in 2011 with the effortlessly cool, hyper-catchy girl-group sass of “I’m His Girl,” and, in a recent session with BBC’s Radio 1, they proved they’re…

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LEONARD FRIEND

Alex Feder used to play in Brooklyn’s the XYZ Affair before he moved to LA in 2010 to start a solo project and decided to reinvent himself as an R&B…

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TRAILER TRASH TRACYS

With their debut Ester, Trailer Trash Tracys find that invisible median between analog and digital. How do they do it?

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