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Chairlift bring a little more sonic muscle, as well many more nods to the 80s, to their latest album and it’s pretty much a dance-fest from start to finish.

Chairlift’s spectacular new album “Something” is more than worth 41 minutes of your time. In fact, it’s probably worth 328,974 minutes of your time.

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TweetShare Photo © Olivia Themudo It took me all of about five seconds of listening to Star Commander to be sold. Their debut album “The World Was Sinking & I Was Hardly Surprised” opens with one of the nicer guitar riffs I’ve heard recently, but don’t let your guard down: this isn’t bland vanilla rock. Sure, “Leave [...]

TweetShare Washed Out‘s new album has been receiving praise almost across the board, including from us where Austin described it as sounding “like a guy who just drank his entire codeine syrup prescription all at once, singing and playing a synth through a delay pedal over a drum machine, all while spelunking in a magnificent [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD Washed Out has done it again, folks. This time it’s a full-length follow up to 2009′s sibling EPs, “Life of Leisure” and “High Times”. If you haven’t heard Washed Out yet, I can say one of two things with much certainty: you either [...]

TweetShare In an effort to try to become more relevant, not necessarily to their name but just towards music in general, MTV have launched (March 16th) a new site called MTV Hive which is aimed at music discovery with a slant towards the indie side of things. Just looking at their homepage you’ll see artists [...]

TweetShare Subscribing to a new band’s Bandcamp RSS feed sometimes has its benefits. Usually they’re dormant, or at least the ones I subscribe too, but every now and again you’ll see them update and boom, an entire new album or EP to listen to for free and you’re one of the first to hear it. [...]

TweetShare Guards have been one of those acts to get genuinely excited about this year, popping up outta nowhere back in July and then people went nuts for them, mainly because it was so fucking solid. Well “them” is actually just one dude, Richie Follin, who’s the brother of Madeline Follin, the other half of [...]

TweetShare I know next to nothing about this band, other than Cults made a tweet late last night/early this morning saying they were featured on the new EP by a band called Guards and they linked to their Bandcamp page. So check it out I did and I’m glad I did, because it’s pretty fucking [...]

TweetShare Love it or hate it, the term “chillwave” looks like it’s here to stay. Personally I don’t mind it but it’s also only a matter of time before it starts becoming mainstream and is applied to artists that aren’t “chillwave” or will start spawning manufactured artists cashing in on the huge cash cow that [...]