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New Passion Pit: Take a Walk

May 8, 2012
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New Passion Pit: Take a Walk Stream it for free. Passion Pit are gearing up to release Gossamer, but in advance of the album’s July 24 drop date, the electro-indie-rock outfit have released the album’s first single. Take a Walk can now be streamed via the band’s SoundCloud page, or, would you look at...
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Stream the new Beach House album

May 8, 2012
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Stream the new Beach House album Bloom will be out on May 15. Oh, NPR, how I love you. The NPR website has recently made dream-rockers Beach House‘s upcoming album Bloom available for streaming online. I was a huge fan of the album’s single Lazuli when it was released, and now I can say...
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Stream two new Animal Collective tracks

May 8, 2012
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Stream two new Animal Collective tracks “Honeycomb” and “Gotham” are both available online. Animal Collective have released two new songs via their website, and you can listen to both for free. After their artsy previous projects, it’s nice to see some songs from the band that are, you know, songs and not projects. I...
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Hear the new Silversun Pickups “Neck Of The Woods” Album Stream

May 7, 2012
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Hear the new Silversun Pickups “Neck Of The Woods” Album Stream: The Silversun Pickups are back with new music.  It’s been a long time since the band who made the breakout track “Lazy Eye” have come back with new music.  Silversun Pickups are one of those bands we liked immediately (back in the days...
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New No Doubt album coming this fall

May 7, 2012
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New No Doubt album coming this fall The as-yet untitled record will hit stores this September. I can’t be the only person excited about Gwen Stefani‘s return to No Doubt, the band that launched her into the music industry. Hopefully her return will also mean she will never, ever again release a song based...
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The Shins perform on Morning Becomes Eclectic

May 5, 2012
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The Shins perform on Morning Becomes Eclectic Watch the full performance right here. Recently, The Shins performed a pretty beefy set on KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Eclectic show, chock full of tracks both new and old. Below, watch James Mercer and company thrill a packed house. The set’s an hour long, but it’s totally solid....
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Stream The Cribs’ upcoming album!

May 4, 2012
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Stream The Cribs’ upcoming album! Get your daily dose of British indie goodness. The Cribs will be releasing their fifth studio album this Monday, but fans can get a sense of the album right now, thanks to Hype Machine. The band themselves say of the record: “Conceived in a basement in Portland, a garage...
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Kimbra Releases New Song: “Come Into My Head”

May 4, 2012
Kimbra Releases New Song: “Come Into My Head”

Kimbra Releases “Come Into My Head” Of course, most of us know here as the girl singing with Gotye on “Somebody That I Used To Know” . New Zealand native Kimbra has just released “Come Into My Head” as the next new track off her debut album, Vows.  It is one of the 6...
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The Go! Team remix Frankie Rose

May 2, 2012
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The Go! Team remix Frankie Rose Listen to their take on the Interstellar cut “Apples for the Sun” Everybody’s favorite British band with an exclamation mark in their name have lent their hand in remixing a track from Frankie Rose‘s recent solo debut. The former Dum Dum Girls drummer’s solo track Apples for the...
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Watch Lykke Li play a brand new song

May 2, 2012
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Watch Lykke Li play a brand new song The title’s unknown as of yet. At the launch of the new label Ingrid, Lykke Li found time to perform a brand new, as-of-yet unheard and unleaked song at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. The occasion merited something special though, this label is brand new, and founded...
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