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