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PMA Premiere. Pop punk as a genre has been kind of maligned in recent years – an overwhelming association of the term with Hot Topic mall-rock acts like Fall Out…

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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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The mysterious Swedish electronic artiste iamamiwhoami has contributed to Moby’s new remix EP for Destroyed third single, “After”. iamamiwhoami’s reimagining maintains the original’s dark, lonely melancholy, but makes things far…

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Beatsmith Xaphoon Jones, one half of Chiddy Bang, just sent us this remix he did of “Break It Down”, the latest jam from college rappers Kidz In The Hall. Xaphoon’s…

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Under-appreciated psych-rockers Pepper Rabbit have a new album coming out on August 9 called Red Velvet Snow Ball. To promote the album’s release, Pepper Rabbit, with help from yours truly…

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Last summer, My Old Kentucky Blog‘s new label Roaring Colonel Records signed their first band, the Burnt Ones and released their debut Black Teeth & Golden Tongues. The record is…

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Remix artist and producer Andre Allen Anjos aka RAC has been under our radar for quite some time now, since he revamped Radiohead’s “Nude” from In Rainbows. If you check…

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13164956[/vimeo] Almost six months ago we introduced you to Louisville, KY’s the Pass and their brand of indie pop hat marries Manner‘s synthesized fervor and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix‘s endearing warmth.…

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R.E.M.’s classic 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction will be remastered and reissued on July 13th via Capitol/I.R.S. The 25th Anniversary edition of Fables of the Reconstruction will include remastered…

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Here is the latest music video from PMA favorites Chiddy Bang. You may remember “Sooner Or Later” as one of the first Chiddy Bang songs we ever posted back in…

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Andre Allen Anjos, better known as RAC, had some big news to share with us recently — he had signed on to score the upcoming Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland and Zombieland)…

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Suckers’ long waited debut album, Wild Smile is out June 8 on Frenchkiss. To promote their upcoming LP, the band has embarked on a month-long tour with labelmates Local Natives.…

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Hailing from North Wales, the Joy Formidable are a seething art-rock trio with a killer live act. The band’s EP, A Balloon Called Moaning was released stateside, today on Black…

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Hailing from Louisville, KY and sounding like the spot where Phoenix and Starfucker go to have their babies, The Pass are making us dance with their mad catchy quasi-single “Crosswalk…