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YOU WONT

Boston’s You Won’t might have a resolutely un-Googleable band name, but their percussive, ramshackle approach to hyper-lo-fi bedroom folk-pop is something a little more unique. Take, for example, “Ten Years…

EXPENSIVE LOOKS

When you think about it, Expensive Looks isn’t really too much of an erroneous name for the production project of the very young New Yorker Alec Feld – think of…

NIKI + THE DOVE

Niki & The Dove played this very short, very sweet cover of Holiday standard, “The Christmas Song” for BBC Radio 1 the other night. It’s lovely and we only wish…

TENNIS

Tennis are gearing up to release their full-length record, Young and Old, in February, and in the meantime they’re dropping teaser tracks left and right. Their latest offering (following album…

Put Those White Earbuds Down

Still listening to music on the white earbuds your iPod came with? Here, we’ll do you a solid.

TI

Everyone’s favorite Atlanta jailbird T.I. finally gave us an album title to go along with the tracks he’s been dropping since his release from prison, and it fits his M.O.…

WASHED OUT AMOR FATI

We’re continually impressed by what the game-changing North Jersey beatmaker Clams Casino brings to the production table and his original material, as well as to remixes, and his total overhaul…

MAJOR LAZER

We already heard the original cut of Major Lazer’s comeback track “Original Don” – you likely remember its insane, complex amalgamation of about ten different beats – but remixer Dexter…

REM

You and your dad were probably equally upset when R.E.M. announced their breakup, but the band’s upcoming greatest hits package Part Lies, Part Truth, Part Heart, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 includes…

CUT COPY

Cut Copy have just released this “Where I’m Going” cover from Lotus Plaza — or Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter. This sprawling acoustic cover of the Zonoscope highlight appears on the…

HOW TO DRESS WELL

The newest from How To Dress Well is a cover of “Here, In Heaven”, or as Elite Gymnastics call it, “h e r e,  i n  h e a v…

SIGUR ROS INNI

Icelandic post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós are releasing a concert film and double live album called Inni soon, and you can download a piece of the magic even if you don’t…

GOLD PANDA DJ KICKS

Gold Panda’s latest is compellingly titled “An Iceberg Hurtled Northwards Through Clouds,” and, at first, it will likely make you want to write weird poetry (it’s the gong!) before it…

BEIRUT

The just released music video for Beirut’s sunny, Magnetic Fields-indebted single “Santa Fe” is sad and funny and odd, like something out of a Fellini movie. Watch the curious clip…