Washed Out “Feel It All Around” & “You’ll See It”

Two excellent new tracks from Washed Out have entered the free-MP3-economy since my recent blog-post on Ernest Greene’s musical project.  Washed Out has been getting coverage from all over the blogosphere lately, including the previously mentioned story from No Pain In Pop, a Forkcast MP3-premiere & Track Review from Pitchfork, an MP3 debut at Gorilla [...]

Neon Indian

Neon Indian is one of Alan Palomo’s musical projects, and it’s his best.  Ghosthustler was entertaining, VEGA was fun, and Neon Indian is downright awesome.  If you like any of Palomo’s work, you’re destined to love this, and if you weren’t previously a fan of the man, you’re likely to become one now.  Of all [...]

Wavves “Mickey Mouse”

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Nathan Williams is missing a skateboard benefit concert for surgery on the arm he broke skateboarding, but he posted a new demo to his Ghost Ramp blog for us to “jam on” until he’s back.
“Mickey Mouse” is reportedly not going past ‘demo’ stage, but this song is great: lo-fi Wavves adds sampled-loops to his [...]

Thom Yorke “The Present Tense” (live.debut)

Stereogum pointed out that Thom Yorke played a new song during his solo-set at Latitude, and they recommended that we “go for a piss,” so I did… I think.
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Washed Out

Washed Out is a South Carolinian no-fi (one-man?) band that has been glazed by synthesizers, blessed by elegantly non-intrusive vocals, and mired by delightfully down-beat-yet-blissful electronic percussion.  Washed Up is going to make you want to get up and dance and get down and chill at the same time — sort of an uppers-meets-downers synth-cocktail, [...]

Atlas Sound & Panda Bear “Walkabout”

Bradford Cox & Noah Lennox seriously need to make more music together.  Their first collaboration is a fantastic sample-and-loop piece called “Walkabout” that will appear on Atlas Sound’s forthcoming album — the previously leaked in an unfinished state — Logos.
“Walkabout” is instantly one of my favorite songs of the year; it’s catchy sample-riff, looping lead-vocals, [...]

Kurt Vile

By this point you’ve probably been introduced to the indie-circa-now influenced classic-radio-transmissions of one of the years many new-ish (see Night Control, Wavves, Pearl Harbour, Ducktails, Real Estate, the Smith Westerns, etc.) contemporary lo-fi-basement child-ish prodigies: Kurt Vile — and if you haven’t, you can start with the new “Overnite Religion” from his forthcoming Matador [...]

Javelin

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Alright, I’ve got to thank Pitchfork for this one.  Somehow I’ve managed to go X-number of days without encountering Javelin (singular, fyi).  Javelin is crazy.  I know I’m not the first person to drop this comparison, but my first thought was that Javelin makes some damn-groovy tunes that are (somewhat) in vein of the Avalanches.
“Vibrationz” [...]

Pearl Harbour

Pearl Harbour are inspired young-blond Californian-sisters that create timeless fuzzy-beach-pop.  If the current lo-fi-beach trend is your thing, you’re going to love Pearl Harbour.
Definitely not to be confused with the forgettable Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, these new Pearl’s have a good portion of the sun-bleached indie-blogosphere eating out of their hands.
The girls are offering [...]

Wallpaper.

Arguably one of 2009’s greatest indie-relevant memesters, Wallpaper. are only a daily-meme away from becoming the musical equivalent of Carles.
While it seems that Wallpaper’s attention has (thus far) been limited to a relativity niche-market (judging mainly by their limited YouTube views), there’s little denying that their meme-choice has potential for mainstream crossover appeal.
Here’s the 3 [...]