Favorite Songs

Tracks of the Week: Jack White goes solo, Air’s best song in 14 years

Also: Willis Earl Beal makes us bleed, F*cked Up melt our faces and Dr. Dog possibly achieve pop perfection.

REC’D: Rhye – “Open”

We don’t know much about L.A. duo (at least we think it’s a duo) Rhye yet – they’re being purposefully sneaky about their identities, preferring to allow their music to…

Shabazz Palaces x Battles – “White Electric”

The second part of Battles’ four-part 12” vinyl remix series Dross Glop drops soon (say that five times fast), and it features updated versions of Gloss Drop tracks from artists…

REC’D: Willis Earl Beal – “Take Me Away”

We’re psyched on brand new XL signee Willis Earl Beal’s knack for bringing a lo-fi, DIY aesthetic to back-porch soul Americana, and we’re psyched on the latest offering from his…

REC’D: F*cked Up – “Year of the Tiger”

Toronto punk vets Fcked Up released a new single today called “Year of the Tiger.” The fifteen-and-a-half minute epic is the latest in a series of singles celebrating the Chinese…

New: M.I.A. – “Bad Girls”

As expected, M.I.A’s new single “Bad Girls” premiered online this morning. An early version of the track was originally included in Maya’s Vicki Leekx mixtape last year. The single will…

REC’D: Zebra Katz – “Ima Read” f/ Njena Reddd Foxxx

Watch the creepy and compelling video for Zebra Katz’s ultra-catchy debut single, “Ima Read,” released through Mad Decent’s Jeffree’s imprint.

REC’D: New Santigold – “Big Mouth”

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…

Check Out: 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…

REC’D: Schoolboy Q & A$AP Rocky – “Hands on the Wheel”

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…

REC’D: Porcelain Raft – “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”

Porcelain Raft’s Mauro Remiddi is on a hot streak with his woozy, reverb-drenched electropop jams. The latest track to see daylight from his debut record Strange Weekend, “Unless You Speak…

Check Out: Houndmouth – “Penitentiary”

New Albany, Indiana might not be a musical mecca, and its latest prodigal sons (and daughter) Houndmouth might not have the greatest band name of all time, but press play…

REC’D: The Shins – “Simple Song”

After a five-year hiatus and plenty of side projects, seminal Portland indie rockers The Shins are back with a new record Port of Morrow, their first on frontman James Mercer’s…

REC’D: Amadou & Mariam f/ Santigold & Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner

Malian married couple and collaborators Amadou & Mariam will drop their tenth (that’s right!) record, Folila, in late March, and it features notable collaborators of all musical backgrounds – TV…

REC’D: TRUST – “Bulbform”

TRUST is the project of Austra’s brilliantly bespectacled drummer Maya Postepski and her friend Robert Alfons; together, the Toronto duo make a kind of dark, seething synth-pop, all freezing-cold, heartbeat-driven,…

REC’D: Zola Jesus – “In Your Nature” (David Lynch Remix)

Goth-pop siren Zola Jesus has rejected every remix offer that’s come her way – that is, until the filmmaker and musician David Lynch offered to do whatever his thing is…

REC’D: Stay+ – “Dandelion”

Stay+ (read that “stay positive”), the “fictional dance” project of young Englishmen Matt Farthing and Christopher Poole, has a hypnotic new single and video called “Dandelion” available digitally and on…

REC’D MP3: Grimes – “Genesis”

Newly signed to the storied 4AD label, Grimes has unleashed “Genesis”, a next-level jam from her long-awaited debut album, Visions, which will finally arrive February 21st. It’s just as immediate…

REC’D MP3: Midi Matilda – “Day Dreams”

San Francisco’s Midi Matilda specialize in straight-up pop gems, and damn, are they good at what they do.

REC’D MP3: Memoryhouse – “The Kids Were Wrong”

Sub Pop will put out Memoryhouse’s first full-length album The Slideshow Effect on February 28, and in the meantime you can listen to “The Kids Were Wrong,” an awesome new…

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