Stars Like Fleas MP3: Stars Like Fleas – “I Was Only Dancing” Bio: After quietly releasing a number of highly-praised, mostly hand-traded cult releases over several years, Stars Like Fleas…
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The Dead Science “School of Villainy (The Digga Crates Real Deal)” Mixtape While artist-driven mixtapes have been a decisive factor in the ascendancy of Hip Hop stars like Young Jeezy…
Adventure MP3: Adventure – “Battle Cat” Adventure is 24 year-old North Carolina native and recent Baltimore transplant Benny Boeldt. His ultra-melodic synth compositions pull from his earliest exposure to the…
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez MP3: Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez – “Mostly A Friend” Wham City’s Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez will release his debut solo album Why Is Bear Billowing? on Sept. 9, last…
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp MP3: The Good Players – “David’s Lamentation” MP3: Holy Springs Sacred Harp Convention – “Stratfield” Stream: Sam Amidon – “Kedron” Film…
Baltimore Round Robin Tour BALTIMORE ROUND ROBIN TOUR 10/02 Boston, MA Mass Arts * 10/03 Boston, MA Mass Arts # 10/04 Montreal, QC Église Saint-Enfant Jésus / Pop Montreal *…
Ida MP3: Ida – “Road To Ruin” On the heels of Lovers Prayers, Ida has prepared My Fair, My Dark EP – just released by Polyvinyl on August 5th. Seven…
caUSE co-MOTION! MP3: caUSE co-MOTION! – “I Lie Awake” Take A Look caUSE co-MOTION! have spent the last three years releasing a series of increasingly rad singles on What’s Yr…
Beach House The very first Beach House seven inch single! Carpark and Beach House present a limited edition single featuring the new song “Used To Be” from the Baltimore duo….
Bat For Lashes Manimal Vinyl set to release album to benefit Invisible Children MP3: Bat For Lashes – “A Forest” Perfect As Cats: a tribute to The Cure will be…
Chandeliers MP3: Chandeliers – “Mr. Electric” Video: Chandeliers – “Mr. Electric” Electronic art-funk band Chandeliers, residents at the Shape Shoppe loft/recording studio in Chicago, will release their debut LP, The…
Crystal Stilts MP3: Crystal Stilts – “Crystal Stilts” It’s no big secret that Brooklyn has been the home for some mighty happening music lately, but there are few bands with…
The Dead Science MP3: The Dead Science – “Make Mine Marvel” Seattle-based The Dead Science has created a majestic, ornate and soaring collection of postpunk avantpop on this, their third…
Pop Levi MP3: Pop Levi – “Never Never Love” Fri. Aug. 01 Los Angeles, CA The Echo / Club Underground w/ Friendly Fires Fri. Aug. 08 Los Angeles, CA The…
Vivian Girls MP3: Vivian Girls – “Where Do You Run To” As recounted in songs by Comet Gain and Walker Kong, the Vivian girls are the seven sisters who featured…
Au It’s flanked at one of its ends by the blissful bombast of a 20-plus person vocal chorus, and concludes some forty minutes later in the hushed strains of a…
TOBACCO MP3: TOBACCO – “Truck Sweat” On F***ed Up Friends, his first solo album, TOBACCO explores a darker, starker and altogether more badass dimension of his complex vision. With his…
The Physics of Meaning MP3: The Physics of Meaning – “Aeroplanes and Hurricanes” The Physics of Meaning is a chamber rock band from North Carolina, spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist songwriter Daniel…
Faunts MP3: Faunts – “M4 (Part II)” Hauntingly beautiful and defiantly hopeful, Faunts create perfect music for the twilight hour between wake and sleep. High Expectations/Low Results, their remarkably assured…
Fight Bite MP3: Fight Bite – “Widow’s Peak” Fight Bite formed in late 2007, as the necessary conclusion that founding member Leanne Macomber arrived at while brokenheartedly searching for an…
These United States MP3: These United States – “West Won” Sick, tired, torn, and frayed, These United States let no dust settle under their soles this spring as they made…
Grampall Jookabox MP3: “The Girl Ain’t Preggers” Asthmatic Kitty Records is pleased to announce the signing of Indianapolis-based artist Grampall Jookabox. The label will release his second album, Ropechain on…
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire The music of Mount Eerie has taken many forms (see: The Microphones) but it is always made by Phil Elverum. Lost Wisdom…
Willoughby Willoughby’s debut album I Know What You’re Up To is the product of LA’s Gus Seyffert. All songs on the album were performed and produced by Seyffert, with a…
Restiform Bodies MP3: “Bobby Trendy Addendum” Seven years later, the beast stirs. In the gap that followed Restiform Bodies’ genre-crushing self-titled LP (and companion piece, SunHopFlat), much did happen, and…
Parenthetical Girls MP3: Parenthetical Girls – “A Song For Ellie Greenwich” When we last updated you on Parenthetical Girls, they had just signed to Tomlab, were about to tour with…
Alexander Tucker MP3: “Veins To The Sky” On Sept. 16th ATP Recordings will release the third album from Alexander Tucker, Portal. The album is available on CD and LP, featuring…
WHY? Mount Eerie, TOBACCO and Tussle to open select dates MP3: “The Hollows” It’s been a busy and interesting year for WHY?, since the release of their acclaimed album Alopecia…
Podington Bear After just releasing 10-CD box set, incredibly prolific Bear gives away two new albums for FREE to celebrate Download the Lost Album and Remixes, Vol. 1 for FREE…
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez MP3: “Mostly A Friend” Wham City’s Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez will release his debut solo album Why Is Bear Billowing? on Aug. 19, after playing a few solo…
Donovan Quinn MP3: “Holy Agent” Donovan Quinn has been surrounded by music his entire life. The son of Dave Carter, bassist & vocalist for legendary 60’s psychedelic group Country Weather…
Duchess Says Please pay attention, fans of: The Gossip, Glass Candy, X Ray Spex, YYYs, Be Your Own Pet, The Kills, Delta 5, Mika Miko MP3: “Ccut Up” Montreal’s Duchess…
Pop Levi MP3: “Never Never Love” Video: “Never Never Love” Also check out this unique two-part YouTube live video of the song “Semi-Babe”, open each of these in separate windows,…
Willoughby “Frankenstein” MP3: “Story” Willoughby’s debut album I Know What You’re Up To is the product of Gus Seyffert, a Los Angeles based musician who has performed around the world…
Imaad Wasif MP3: “Oceanic” “Oceanic” Imaad Wasif’s new album is Strange Hexes and his new band is Two Part Beast. The songs that came to form Strange Hexes were written…
Alias MP3: “Well Water Black” (Feat. Yoni Wolf of WHY?) In August of 2007, after 8 years of innovating in Oakland, Alias went home. To snow and real seasons, to…