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The first part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, The Beach Boys, Beach House, Fanfarlo, Frank Ocean, Grizzly Bear, Janelle Monaé, The Killers, Marques Toliver, The Miracals, Memoryhouse, MGMT, Michael Kiwanuka, Miike Snow, MIKA and the morning benders!

TweetShareWatch the new video for MGMT‘s cover of the Bauhaus song “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything” below, taken from their Late Night Tales compilation.

TweetShare Búfalo is a Brazilian duet formed by Felipe Mattos and Renan Pamplona. The members, who live in Santa Catarina (a beautiful southern state), found each other online. Felipe was looking for people on MySpace because he wanted to form a band. Well, so did Renan. But that wasn’t the only coincidence: they found out [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Pepper Rabbit, the New Orleans-born but Los Angeles-based duo that consists of Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, are a dreamy yet cerebral outfit.  Their sound and image is almost avant-garde, and their last record and debut LP, “Beauregard,” was a lo-fi, multi-instrumentalist wonder, [...]

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TweetShare I think you can file the new band, League, under the catchiest band of 2011.  They first grabbed the indie-blog world with their ridiculously infectious track, “Golden Maps,” which has it all – a synthetic loop, fun vocals (think Passion Pit collides with MGMT), and a catchy beat that builds, making it impossible not to [...]

TweetShare They may be coming soon to a big-time near you. Or they may be heading to the hospital with salmonella, if their latest video is anything to go by. Sooner or later, though, expect to be hearing more from London-based Tiger Love, a.k.a. New York-bred brothers Roy and Gigi, and drummer Loral. Take a [...]

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TweetShare Seeing as how The Pass is originally from Louisville, KY, it seemed only natural that they’d play at the Kentucky Derby this past weekend.  There, they debuted a new track, which has a harder rock and roll edge than their previous stuff.  The guitar trill effect in the beginning, I assume and hope, will [...]

TweetShare Chances are you have already heard some of Wolf Gang’s songs and didn’t even realize it.  Wolf Gang’s self-titled EP has only been out for a few months, but it has caught on fire fast and the songs are just as intoxicating and hot.  Wolf Gang, not actually a “gang,” is a solo act [...]

TweetShare So far it seems like the first few months of 2011 have been dominated either by atrociously hilarious pop (you know who I’m talking about), unbelievably awesome comebacks (Beastie Boys), or soul-crushing mixtapes. A recurring theme on the those mixtapes is the mixtaper’s ability to make trite and once-enjoyable-but-now-just-a-parody-of-themselves music, listenable again.  OFWGKTA‘s Frank Ocean released [...]

TweetShare The deep synth beginnings only hints at the amount of sensuality emitted from this limited edition EP. It contains different approaches to the same goal with equal amounts of honesty. “Black Hills” conveys this as a folky synthpop piece with the pulsing keyboards awash with falsetto vocals that doesn’t abandon it’s relaxed California influence. [...]

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TweetShare Ahh yes, the good ol’ tactic of sampling a popular and catchy indie track and coupling it with some hip hop; I call this wonderful phenomena “white frat boy rap”. All joking aside, there’s something to it; though there’s a fine line, but Chiddy Bang struts that shit. Chiddy Bang consists of Chidera “Chiddy” [...]

TweetShare Zane Lowe must have a pretty good life, huh? I remember watching him on MTV2 when I lived back in Scotland in the late 90′s and early 2000′s.  He was the only guy that I knew of who had an unbridled and unmatched passion for music with impeccable taste, and he knew exactly what [...]