Favorite Songs

Amazing: Florence + The Machine & Dev Hynes – “Never Let Me Go”

Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange aka Lightspeed Champion) offers this damn near breathtaking rendition of Florence + The Machine‘s “Never Let Me Go”.

Check Out: Kirin J Callinan: “WIIW (Way to War)”

Australian artist Kirin J Callinan delivers the creepiest, weirdest, best video of 2012.

Check Out: MS MR – “Hurricane”

While fellow New York indie pop duo Cults looks to the 60s for inspiration, upstarts MS MR have firmly planted themselves in the heart of 90s chick pop. Their debut…

Sleep Over – “Romantic Streams” (CFCF Remix)

Montreal producer CFCF offers this haunting and smoldering remix of Sleep ∞ Over’s excellent “Romantic Streams” single. We’ve more or less grown accustomed to fantastic remix work from CFCF, but…

Download: Meek Mill – Dreamchasers 2 Mixtape

Rising Maybach Music Group rapper Meek Mill explodes off in the best way on his latest mixtape Dreamchasers 2. The most immediate example is “Amen,” a cut featuring Drake and…

New DIIV (formerly Dive): “Doused”

We’re okay with the fact that the Beach Fossils offshoot formerly known as Dive are going by DIIV now – it’s pronounced the same, it’s way easier to Google, and…

Listen to Passion Pit Side Project TEAM SPIRIT: “Fuck the Beach”

In the interim between Passion Pit’s 2009 record Manners and its just-announced upcoming follow-up Gossamer, the band’s members have been keeping pretty busy, what with remixes, side projects, their own…

The Irresistible and Strange Pop of Foxes

The misleadingly plural Foxes is actually just London’s Louisa Rose Allen, a 22-year-old music school dropout who crafts completely irresistible and compellingly strange pop music all on her own.

Rec’d: Hot Panda – “Future Markets”

We’re not sure what to say about the Vancouver quartet Hot Panda that you can’t infer from the first single from their upcoming LP Go Outside, “Future Markets” – funky…

Check Out: School of Seven Bells – “Kiss Them For Me”

School of Seven Bells’ Record Store Day release took a little longer finding its way to the internet, but we’ve got the a-side for you now – it’s a cover…

Check Out: Electric Guest – “Awake” p/ Danger Mouse

L.A.’s Electric Guest make a lot of noise for two people (and producer Danger Mouse) – a highlight from their debut record Mondo, “Awake,” is intricately and maximally layered, what…

Rec’d MP3: Purity Ring – “Obedear”

Purity Ring have, to date, released three songs; we’d be mad if those three songs weren’t so damn good. Their stingy perfectionism is also a kind of exciting hint –…

Check Out: Face + Heel – “No Stars” / “One Hundred Years Deep”

You’ve got to be doing something right when you have the founders of Boiler Room calling you the next big thing in UK bass music. In fact, Cardiff duo Face…

Rec’d: St. Vincent – “Krokodil” and “Grot”

Nothing is better than when St. Vincent gets really fucking heavy, right? Nothing is better than when Annie Clark, she of the birdlike bone structure and mad guitar skills, gets…

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