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New Julianna Barwick Album, Nepenthe, Out in August

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:53:33 +0000

Julianna Barwick's new album, Nepenthe, will be released August 20. It's her first album for new label Dead Oceans, and the follow-up to the magical The Magic Place, which was ...

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Austra Unveil "Home" Video and Remixes, New Tour Dates

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:00:48 +0000

With the June release of Austra's awesome second album Olympia moving ever-closer, the first single from the LP, "Home," has now spawned a video and remixes.

Domino is releasing a 12-inch ...

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Album of the Week: The National, Trouble Will Find Me

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:35:53 +0000

Band: The National
Album: Trouble Will Find Me
Label: 4AD
Release Date: May 21, 2013

Whilst the Dessner brothers strip back the atmospherics of High Violet, its successor still finds singer Matt Berninger gripped with anxieties, fixated on death......

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Free Music Monday: Wintercoats, Heartful

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:34 +0000

Artist: Wintercoats
What: Heartful EP
Label: Yes Please
Released: April 18, 2013

Heartful marks the third EP for Wintercoats —young Australian multi-instrumentalist James Wallace— after 2010's Cathedral and 2012's Sketches. On stage, bowing a ...

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Savages Prep World Tour

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:21 +0000

Savages entered the year as one of 2013's most likely breakout acts, and they've hardly disappointed with their debut album, Silence Yourself.

Silence Yourself has delivered on all the advanced hype, ...

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Toro y Moi Announces More 2013 Tour Dates

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:04 +0000

Back in January, Chaz Bundick turned out this third Toro y Moi LP, Anything In Return. Bundick and band are still peddling it far-and-wide, with a brand new slate of ...

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The National Schedule Vast Trouble Will Find Me Tour

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:03 +0000

In a recent interview with guitarist Aaron Dessner, he described The National's great new album Trouble Will Find Me as being "a fun record about dying."

The fun comes in the ...

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Deerhunter Line Up Tour Dates for Monomania

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:30 +0000

Deerhunter's new LP Monomania came out this week to a chorus of praise and puzzlement; the band's swerve into noisy, abrasive "nocturnal garage" both pleasing and provocative. To these ears, ...

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Neutral Milk Hotel Add More Reunion Tour Dates

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:00:18 +0000

With last week's surprising —and exciting!— news that Neutral Milk Hotel are reforming came with the promise that further tour dates were soon to be announced.

And here they are! The ...

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Introducing: Dungeonesse

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:00:41 +0000

Name: Dungeonesse
From: Baltimore, Maryland
Story: Wye Oak/White Life cross-bred into bubblegum pop
Sound: Bright, fizzy, luminously (luridly?) melodic

In 2012, Wye Oak's Jenn Wassner debuted a solo project, Flock of Dimes, that swiftly ...

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