SLEIGH BELLS

Finally some new music from Sleigh Bells’ delayed sophomore LP, Reign of Terror. We were beginning to the album didn’t really exist. It’s real and “Comeback Kid” is classically Sleigh…

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AZEALIA BANKS

Hip hop’s next it girl, the theatrical and incredibly deft Azealia Banks — who wowed last year with the jam to end all jams, “212″ — has uploaded her second…

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SCHOOLBOY Q

It’s a mark of how awesome Schoolboy Q’s new record Habits & Contradictions is that “Hands on the Wheel,” the A$AP Rocky-featuring, Lissie cover of Kid Cudi-sampling banger that we…

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ARAABMUZIK

Fast-fingered beatmaker extraordinaire Abraham Orellana, better known as araabMUZIK, is following in the footsteps of Clams Casino and releasing a mixtape of the insane instrumentals he’s made for everyone from…

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LANA DEL REY

Lana Del Rey made her US debut on weekly late-night staple Saturday Night Live last night. It was… pretty painful to watch. We aren’t sure why she tries to hit…

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THE INTERNET PURPLE NAKED LADIES

A sound engineer with an ear for an eclectic mix, Syd tha Kid takes a complex network of rhythms and intonations and breaks them down to bite-sized nuggets of lush sonic chocolate.

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SANTIGOLD

It’s 2012 and Santigold (formally known as Santogold), has yet to follow up on her beloved 2008 self-titled debut. We’ve seen her appear on several one-off tracks since then, sure,…

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GRIMES

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been on a bit of a Grimes bender lately. Her “official” debut album, Visions is out February 21st and after sharing a couple of excellent…

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RAPTURE SAIL AWAY

“Sail Away,” a highlight from The Rapture’s jam-heavy third full-length album, In The Grace of Your Love, has been remixed by Australia’s premiere electro-rock duo, Cut Copy (who also released…

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SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS GHOSTORY

School of Seven Bells’ upcoming third LP Ghostory will be their first recorded without singer and founding member Claudia Deheza, but based on the tracks we’ve heard so far, Benjamin…

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BEAR IN HEAVEN

Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven have done three absolutely genius things leading up to the release of their sophomore album – title that record I Love You, It’s Cool, stream it…

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WAVVES

Nathan Williams of Wavves took to twitter last night to post a new track, a cover of the Misfits classic “Hybrid Moments.” It’s admittedly rough (Williams later tweeted “I didn’t…

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GRIMES

It should be no surprise to you that we can’t get enough of Grimes’ crazy flawless “Genesis,” the second single from her upcoming debut-ish record Visions, so we’re psyched as…

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TANLINES

It’s hard to believe the upcoming Mixed Emotions is Brooklyn production duo Tanlines’ first real album – it seems to us that their world-inspired electro jams have been around for…

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AUSTRA

Feel It Break, the record of glossy, dark goth-pop Toronto songwriter Katie Stelmanis released last year as Austra, was one of our favorite records of 2011, and its chilly, hypnotic…

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THIEVES LIKE US

Swedish-American trio Thieves Like Us are back with another cold, tense slice of clubby electropop nostalgia, “Marie Marie,” a dark, knife-sharp series of demands directed at that titular, “cold as…

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POLICA

Bon Iver and GAYNGS member Mike Noyce’s appearance on one of the singles from Minneapolis’s Poliça’s upcoming debut LP has spurred a six-degrees-of-separation domino effect: from Poliça, to Noyce, to…

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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

Even if you caught snippets of the four hour YouTube video of LCD Soundsystem’s final concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on April 2 before it was taken down,…

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NICOLAS JAAR

You should know this already, but we love Nicolas Jaar, the 22-year-old musician and label owner whose forays into both Kraut-y rock (as Darkside) and hyper-minimalist electro (under his own…

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NADA SURF THE STARS

Nada Surf were a Brooklyn indie band before that was a thing – since their inception in 1992, the band have released six albums; their 2010 record, If I Had…

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