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Intermittently over the last few months you’ve seen me post about Porcelain Raft, the London-based Italian who’s been riding on that untethered downbeat Lo-Chill Electro-Wave tip. My first taste of Mauro Remiddi was as part of the 7″ split single with Yuck back in December where they each covered a song of each other’s, Yuck opting [...]

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Thinking it was one giant song that lasted for a week or so, I literally just listened to this new Memory Tapes song four times in a row before even realising. You know a Memory Tapes song from one to the next because they all seem to have that smooth, ethereal kick with Postal Service-type [...]

Washed Out‘s album opener “Eyes Be Closed” is just as lusciously moist as their debut tracks from two years ago… yet Ernest Greene ‘s waited two years to attack that tricky first album hype.  He’s been biding his time and he’s definitely found his moment, the first full LP “Within And Without” releases July 12th, [...]

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Baltimore-based Ricky Eat Acid was a tumblr find I was fortunate enough to catch through the rebloggers and animated gifs. Along with the majority of the content on tumblr, his music also proved to be addicting. Recently signed onto Chill Mega Chill Records, his first full length album, “Haunt You Forever” has been circling the [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

You can hear traces of summer with the opening whirling guitar riffs, effectively creating the season of my dreams. While the strumming layers create a wonderful rippling effect, the vocals echo as if you’re being slowly submerged. Released today on Prefix Magazine, this new song from San Fran’s Blackbird Blackbird “Overboard” seems to give us [...]

It’s difficult to find iconic talent in a genre popular for spawning Feist-wannabes; however, Steffaloo approaches this problem by not channeling her influences, but rather taking example of them by channeling herself. Thus, she gains an audience willing to listen to her heart. Steffaloo – “Meet Me In Montauk” “Meet Me In Montauk”‘s simple strumming [...]

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LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. Alright, I’ve posted about them before and it’d be nothing but my pleasure to post about them forever. Polarsets have nothing but a seriously successful future in their near time; I can’t help but continue to hype them until it gets old. Sure I’m a bit of a Kitsune whore, but [...]

Don’t you just love it when you think that you’re going to have a normal, run of the mill evening and something so astonishing happens that it lifts its way out of the ordinary? That’s what happened the other night when I clicked on the link in the email that I received about this guy, [...]

Remember when Animal Collective was shiny and new? Remember how you felt… confused, intrigued, but ultimately starving for more? This is the kind of tingly feeling I got when I listened to Old Arc. Old Arc is Austin Lee and Stefan Lazer of Santa Cruz, California. These guys are a duo of another world; trip-inspired, [...]

I was reading an article earlier that was asking the question of whether pop music could be linked to depression. As is usual with this kind of scare mongering there was no answer, but I think that if it is, I could very possibly have found a cure for you. Welcome to Airlines, a fairly [...]