Music

New: Leonard Cohen – “Going Home”

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…

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…

New: Sleigh Bells – “Comeback Kid”

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…

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…

MP3: Grimes x Pictureplane

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…

Cut Copy Remix The Rapture

“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…

New: School of Seven Bells – “Lafaye”

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…

New: Bear in Heaven – “The Reflection of You”

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…

MP3: WAVVES – “Hybrid Moments” (Misfits Cover)

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…

New: Thieves Like Us – “Marie Marie”

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…

New: Magnetic Fields – “Andrew In Drag”

Like Stephen Merritt said it would, The Magnetic Fields’ new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea is returning to the synth-pop sound you probably fell in love with…

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…

New: Xiu Xiu – “Hi,” New Album

Xiu Xiu’s back with the promise of a new record and a single to promise it’ll be just as dark, cold, and synth-y as you’ve come to expect – we’re…

The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn – “New Friend Jesus” & “Honolulu Blues”

The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn is going solo, and he has an album called Clear Heart Full Eyes full of his classic story-songs and jammy folk-rock guitar interplay to prove…

New: Leonard Cohen – “Darkness”

Leonard Cohen is a man who needs no introduction, but we’ll remind you his upcoming record Old Ideas, out January 31, is his twelfth since 1967 and his first since…

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…

Check Out: Shlohmo – “wen uuu”

The LA producer Shlohmo has been dropping records with some pretty So-Cal titles since he started attracting attention last summer – first Bad Vibes, now an EP called Vacation. Our…

New: The War on Drugs – “Don’t Fear The Ghost”

On January 24th, Secretly Canadian will release “Come To The City”, the latest single from The War on Drugs’ excellent 2011 album, Slave Ambient. That single’s b-side track, the previously…

Ital – “Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him)” f/ Lady Gaga

Ital heavily samples the opening line from Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and then mixes in Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” on “Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him),”…

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