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The new video for Miike Snow’s “The Wave” is a visual continuation of sorts to their excellent one for “Paddling Out”.

Miike Snow premieres “Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)” a new song from their upcoming album “Happy To You” out on March 26.

Check out Jacques Lu Cont’s remix of Miike Snow’s “Paddling Out”.

Miike Snow have just released a candidate for video of the year with “Paddling Out”.

A new mashup from Joneses takes on Miike Snow’s track “In Search Of”.

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!

Listen to a new song by Miike Snow “Black Tin Box”, which features Lykke Li, taken from their sophomore album “Happy To You”.

Listen to another new Miike Snow song “Paddling Out” from their new album “Happy To You”.

New music from Miike Snow!

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 his [...]

How rad is that picture? Really though, I love it… let’s kick it, Smokey Robotic; I think we could be besties if you gave me a chance. Smokey Robotic is comprised of !llmind, Konrad, Father Dude, and Seer. These guys are the all inclusive package; writers, singers, rapper, engineer, graphic artist, you name it they [...]

It’s been a couple of months since I had Torontonian duo Freedom Or Death on the site, the last time when I posted their video for “Lost In Dances” and now they’re back with an original take on Nas’ “classic” Hip-Hop anthem “If I Ruled The World” featuring Lauryn Hill. The reason the title is [...]

Back in July I introduced you to Freedom Or Death, a duo from Toronto who “have made an EP that scale the walls of dark and haunting electronic music, creating a modern-day Joy Division-esque atmosphere with Miike Snow beats and the bite of Handsome Furs.”. Up until now there were no public pictures of the [...]

If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]

QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like, out into the wide web world (or dubya dots). Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later.  If it’s still as [...]

On their MySpace page Freedom Or Death so eloquently sum up the entire premise behind their motivation for making music. Its the way I want to live my life Having the freedom to make my own decisions and not adhere to the rules of others To make art for my own well being, not for [...]