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The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
❤ Everybody Taste New York quartet The Drums are a wildly addictive group fascinated by the surf culture of the 1950s and the late 70s/early 80s Factory Records sound. Combining harmonies and whistling… Read full post »
Spoon - Got Nuffin
❤ Quick, Before It Melts. (photo: Myspace) There’s not much to say, but what I have to say is more than enough get the weekend going. Spoon are back with a brand new EP, Got… Read full post »
Mew - Repeaterbeater
❤ ZYRDUR RJOMI - explore & enjoy Var í útileguham undanfarið og því ekki verið í einhverju daglegu tölvusambandi. Nú eru eftirkippir legunnar farnir að segja til sín. Og hér er það sem ég hef verið frekar… Read full post »
Highlife - F KENYA RIP
❤ Pinglewood F KENYA RIP is the work of Highlife, AKA Sleepy Dough Shaw from White Magic. You can read about the awesome genesis of this great song at the NME blog.… Read full post »
tiny vipers - dreamer
❤ anyone's guess it was a lovely day today, here in berkeley, and productive too. but this flight of songs seemed to scratch an itch. j. tillman - when i light your darkened… Read full post »
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
❤ BANANASPAM! Our peeps in London turned us on to this band a while ago. Why do the best bands from the states consistently fare better abroad than on their own turf?… Read full post »
Lights On - John And Anne
❤ mp3hugger Makes your ventricles bulge doesn’t it? Funny really as ‘John And Anne’ is taken from an EP called ‘Waiting For The Heart To Beat’. The band are Lights On from… Read full post »
There Will Be Fireworks - Foreign Thoughts
❤ Song, by Toad I recently mentioned on one of the many threads on this blog that Sparrow and the Workshop fuck me up in so many positive ways. Well here’s another bunch from Glasgow… Read full post »
Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
❤ Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good Two albums that I’ve been spinning this week are Bowerbirds sophomore album, Upper Air , and the debut of American Analogue Set / Broken Social Scene’s Andrew Kenny’s new project, The Wooden Birds… Read full post »
Sunset Rubdown - You Go on Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)
❤ the notes Sunset Rubdown — “You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)” — Dragonslayer Sunset Rubdown may just be the rich man’s Vampire Weekend. They’ve got the wiry, herky-jerk frames in common,… Read full post »
Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart
❤ Quick, Before It Melts. (photo: David Horvitz) It has surprised me how much I have increasingly liked each Sunset Rubdown album, seeing as that, Wolf Parade-edly speaking–I like Dan Boeckner more than Spencer Krug. … Read full post »
Sparklehorse - Little Girl (feat. Julian Casablancas)
❤ Stereopathic By now, you’ve probably heard that, due to problems with EMI, David Lynch’s/Danger Mouse’s/Mark Linkous’s Dark Night of the Soul has no physical release date. We’re quite sad, it’s true,… Read full post »
Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
❤ The Swill Merchant I have an awful habit of forming opinions of things without ever experiencing them - my most fatal flaw. I do it all the time, and I know it's not… Read full post »
This Is Ivy League - London Bridges
❤ FensePost Written by Fense The year is over. We have a new president about to take office, a failing economy, and out of control weather. The good news is that last… Read full post »
This Is Ivy League - Crown of Love
❤ speed of dark Agnes at It All Started With Carbon Monoxide is complaining about the heat…What??? Yes, the heat, because it’s the middle of summer Down Under. Read her stern warning about goat-ownership.… Read full post »
Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
❤ The Rawking Refuses To Stop! Like a hot knife through bloggers, Japandroids ‘ Post-Nothing might single-handedly make the recent glut of fresh-from-Guitar Center lo-fi/garage acts worthwhile. They’ve been compared to the Constantines, and while there’s… Read full post »
Clipse & Kanye West - Kinda Like A Big Deal
❤ CreamTeam After one listen, the new single from Clipse , featuring none other than Kanye West , doesn’t sound like the “big deal” that everyone expected. That’s after one listen. I… Read full post »
Camera Obscura - French Navy
❤ The Yellow Stereo Lots of great releases to be had this week, with a few in particular that I personally recommend, which are Camera Obscura’s My Maudlin Career , Cryptacize’s Mythomania , and… Read full post »
The Field - The More That I Do
❤ Stark Online [MP3] The Field: The More That I Do We've been waiting a bit now for an mp3 premiere from the new Field record Yesterday and Today , and today Pitchfork… Read full post »
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move
❤ Music Fan's Mic TRACK REVIEW: Dirty Projectors -Â Stillness Is The Move words: Jamie Milton Diverse instrumentation, verging on the point of showing-off, is the consistently taken route on ‘Bitte Orca’, an album… Read full post »
