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Jun 4, 2016

Faithless Town - Empires - 2016

Their sophomore release Empires draws inspiration from The Smiths and David Bowie, incorporating elements of 80's pop, grunge, and noir-rock while holding onto their folk-riddled roots.

"Faithless Town sounds like if Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, and old Kings of Leon had a bastard child and nobody knows who the father is." - 99X Radio

“...punk-style guitar riffs, and excellent vocals and choruses,” - Indie Rock Cafe

"...a revival of earnest early '90s Athens..." - Stomp and Stammer

“Entertaining, enduring and highly addictive." - When The Music Is Over

Sun Dagger - Invisible World - 2016

Melt into your day with this psych jam band… Spacey Saturday awaits!

Ear-busting instrumental loud rockers from New Haven, CT. These masters of reality kick out the fractal vibes, tunneling from slow burn to freak out with the incense burning at both ends. For those who have ever been experienced.

Arrotzak - 2016

Dark alt-punk rock out of Spain… Pretty raw.

Jun 3, 2016

Stanley Brinks and The Kaniks - Turtle Dove - 2016

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Following the albums Gin and My Ass recorded with The Wave Pictures in un-gentrified East London, Stanley Brinks (aka André Herman Dune) returns with a new collaborative album, this time with the Norwegian folk collective The Kaniks as his backing band.

Eschewing a traditional recording studio, André took The Kaniks to a remote island outside the small town of Egersund in south west Norway. Over the course of week of midnight sun, midnight swims and midnight beers on their isolated rocky island, living and recording in the only building on the island, the (now un-manned) mid 19th century Vibberodden lighthouse, Stanley Brinks and The Kaniks recorded three albums of material; Turtle Dove is the first of those three to be released.

Brinks is renowned for his unique antifolk style: both playful and suggestive, insightful and entertaining. His fondness for calypso and the unusual provide the perfect foil to The Kaniks’, whose folk instrumentation and country and bluegrass influences take these 12 songs to a joyous place Brinks hasn’t been before in his extensive back catalogue.

Tancred - Out of the Garden - 2016

Though technically the band’s third full-length, Out of the Garden is Tancred’s first truly cohesive record: a mission statement that underscores the “power” in power-pop and is punctuated by lyrics as razor-sharp as the hooks.

Written over a two-year period during a break from touring, the album’s emphasis on re-defining feminine expectations was shaped by primary songwriter Jess Abbott’s experiences living in Minneapolis and working at a liquor store in a rough part of town.

Home Lives - All The Dogs You've Ever Known - 2016

DIY indie pop driven by some nice female/male vocal combo.

Blue Jeans - Songs Are Easy - 2016

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Once known as Santa Monica Swim And Dive Club, Blue Jeans are led by Tim Sendra, who elder indiepoppers will recognize as the one of the forces behind Veronica Lake in the early 90s. Whereas that band was known for their songs being shrouded in layers of fuzz, Blue Jeans are a much cleaner affair, with relatively straightforward pop songs that occasionally border on bubblegum. In addition to the songwriting of Tim, we also have the production and general hands-on-ness of Fred Thomas from the very like-minded Saturday Looks Good To Me, giving things a perfect pop polish. These ten exciting songs may only last about half an hour, but they will likely fuel your entire summer!

Courtney Barnett in Montreal

Preformed this new track - amazing show!

Jun 2, 2016

Awesome Machines

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Hours and hours of staring pleasure await...

Mitski - Puberty 2 - 2016

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In terms of message though, the 25-year-old cuts the same defiant, feminist figure on 'Puberty 2' that won her acclaim last time around (her hero is MIA, for her politics as much as her music). Born in Japan, Mitski grew up surrounded by her father's Smithsonian folk recordings and mother's 1970s Japanese pop CDs in a family that moved frequently: she spent stints in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, China and Turkey among other countries before coming to New York to study composition at SUNY Purchase. She reflects now on feeling “half Japanese, half American but not fully either” – a feeling she confronts on the clever 'Your Best American Girl' – a super-sized punk-rock hit she “hammed up the tropes” on to deconstruct and poke fun at that genre's surplus of white males. “I wanted to use those white-American-guy stereotypes as a Japanese girl who can't fit in, who can never be an American girl,” she explains.

Hater - Radius [EP] - 2016

Led by Landahl's impressive vocals, Hater offers up a sound equally influenced by current day indie pop stalwarts like Alvvays, The Radio Dept. and Melody's Echo Chamber as by classic acts like Violent Femmes, Neil Young and The Pretenders. The debut EP Radius is due on July 8 via Stockholm's PNKSLM Recordings with the band set to head into the studio this summer to record the debut LP, which is due later this year.

of Montreal - Innocence Reaches - 2016

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The most immediate surprise is the sound. Innocence Reaches is touched by contemporary electronica, indie pop, and EDM. For the first time in his career, Barnes tuned into now. "Forever I've been detached from current music," he says. "I got into this bubble of only being in some other time period. I came up picking apart the Beach Boys, The Beatles, and symphonic pieces. But last year, I was hearing Jack Ü, Chairlift, Arca, and others, thinking about low end and sound collage. It was an extra layer to geek out on."

Darren Hayman - Thankful Villages Volume 1 - 2016

A Thankful Village is a village where every soldier returned alive from World War I. The writer, journalist and educator Arthur Mee coined the term ‘Thankful Village’ in his series of guidebooks, The King’s England in the 1930s. Darren Hayman visited each of the 54 Thankful Villages and, focussing on village life, made a piece of music and a short film for every one. Some take the form of instrumentals inspired by the location, some are interviews with village residents set to music, others are new songs with lyrics or found local traditional songs.

May 28, 2016

mock orange - Put The Kid On The Sleepy Horse - 2016

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Having been a band for over two decades, Evansville, IN’s Mock Orange have seen and done quite a bit throughout the years. Despite releasing a handful of ever-evolving albums and EPs, touring the world over, and slowly amassing a devoted fanbase, there was bound to be a hiccup at some point. It arrived upon the culmination of the band’s most recent recording sessions when a hard drive failure meant all of their recordings were in jeopardy. Fast forward a couple years — and several hard drive specialists later — and the recordings were finally recovered safely.

VA - Dreams Never End, A Tribute To New Order - 2015

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Conceived by TBTCI Records with the contribution of all bands present in this project.

We are dedicated this tribute to Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris.

VA - Soft as Fire in The House of Love - 2016

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The House of Love are one of the greatest, most underrated British guitar bands. Hailing from London in the late 80’s, their detailed psychedelic guitar work marked a new era in guitar renaissance. The House of Love’s music is filled with melancholic splendor. Clear, shimmering electric guitars, warm sonic acoustics, along with Guy Chadwick’s tormented, joyful and florid tone and lyrics remind us of their songwriting brilliance. The House of Love stand on their own. From their unparalleled produced studio albums to their powerful live performances, their music transcends the test of time.

- Victor MA Nash (Appeal to Heaven)