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TweetShare Yaeasyer’s sophomore album “Odd Blood” drops on February 8th and as a taster they’ve released the track “O.N.E” as a free download. Listen to it below and download it for yourself from their website. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (via PrettyMuchAmazing)

TweetShareHalf-ghost, half-20′s era actress, Karen O floats above a foggy graveyard with bandmates Nick Zinner and Brian Chase not far behind, with lights and eyes (yes, eyes) in the sky. Check it out here: And the making of here:

TweetShareAn excellent live performance by Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison of “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” from their upcoming album “The Winter Of Mixed Drinks”, due out March 10th. Performed in a 17th century style garden, the video is done by Off The Beaten Tracks, an Edinburgh ensemble who arrange to have bands and [...]

TweetShareBroken Bells is a side project by Danger Mouse of Gnarls Barkley and Danger Mouse fame, and James Mercer of The Shins.  Sound like a strange combination?  The music is anything but. In the video the pair are walking down a badly-lit road at night with flashlights, shining their little lights on various things they [...]

TweetShareMassive Attack’s eagerly awaited fifth studio album “Heligoland” is due out in about two weeks now (Feb 8th/9th, UK/US respectively) and there’s now a YouTube stream of “Saturday Come Slow” featuring Damon Albarn on vocals, with this just being one of many collaborations with well known musicians on “Heligoland”. (via Stereogum)

TweetShare01:49.  That’s the length of the opening song “For You” on tUnE YaRdS’ debut album “BiRd BrAiNs, an album that featured on many a “Best Of” list at the end of 2009.  The song starts with an acoustic guitar, plucking a simple refrain that repeats throughout, and ends with a conversation about Blueberries between a [...]

TweetShareA few hours ago a song called “Beginning Of The End” allegedly by French electro-dance geniuses Justice was sent out to the blogospheres via email.  The email was marked as being from Ed Banger (Justice’s record label) but upon further investigation by keen-eyed Twitterers and late-night bloggers it appears that it’s a fake.  It’s just [...]

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