Blog: Stereogum

R.I.P. Chuck Brown

May 16, 5:06pm Stereogum

ABC reports that Chuck Brown, the musician who basically invented the Washington, D.C. percussive funk subgenre go-go, died today in Washington, where he'd recently been hospitalized for pneumonia. He was 75. Read More...

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Coachella 2013 Lineup Leak :P

May 16, 4:32pm Stereogum

How many of these can we take? Ok, one more (via Funny Or Die ). What, no reunions this year?

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Sunglasses – "Swim" (Stereogum Premiere)

May 16, 4:22pm Stereogum

Two years ago, we made the Savannah sunburst-pop duo Sunglasses a Band To Watch . And now, an internet eternity later, they finally have a record coming out. Lefse will release their Namesake/Swim cassette EP later this summer. And below, we've got a download of their seven-minute track "Swim." Read More...

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Artist:	Sunglasses
Title:	Swim
Link Text:	Sunglasses - “Swim”
File Name:	Sunglasses-Swim.mp3
Bitrate:	320 kbps

Here We Go Magic Just Picked Up A Hitchhiking John Waters

May 16, 4:21pm Stereogum

This really happened, earlier today, "in the middle of Ohio," according to @HereWeGoMagic : Iconic eccentric filmmaker John Waters hopped in the Here We Go Magic band van after sticking his thumb out on an interstate highway. Here's the tweetstream: Just picked up John Waters hitchhiking in the middle of Ohio.. No joke.Waters in the van. — Here We Go Magic (@herewegomagic) May 16, 2012 I wasn't kidding. We really picked up John Waters hitchhiking. instagr.am/p/KsgDuDHCPm/ [...]

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Doldrums – "Jump Up"

May 16, 3:54pm Stereogum

Canuck electroclashers Doldrums will put out a new 12" this summer, and recently they dropped the lead single from that release. It's called "Jump Up," and it's a ravey romp that rides an irregular, off-kilter pulse. Download it below. Read More...

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Artist:	Doldrums
Title:	Jump up
Link Text:	Doldrums - “Jump Up”
File Name:	Doldrums - Jump Up.mp3

Stream Simian Mobile Disco Unpatterns

May 16, 3:50pm Stereogum

This week, British dance duo Simian Mobile Disco return with their new album Unpatterns . Years removed from the blog-house zeitgeist that birthed them, SMD are now all-in on near-minimal instrumental electro blips and bleeps. We've already posted videos for " Seraphim " and " Put Your Hands Together ," and now we've got a stream of the entire album below. Also below, we've got the video for "Pareidolia," directed by Hans Lo and Kate Moross . Like the previous two videos, it's all pulsating, hypnotic geometric abstraction, except this time with lasers! Read [...]

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Fat Tony & Tom Cruz – "Bad Habits" (Feat. Bun B & Nick Diamonds)

May 16, 3:16pm Stereogum

Today, the brand new Brooklyn-based label Young One announced its formation , and it's already got a small but seriously impressive roster: Bay Area cloud-rap pioneers Main Attrakionz, wide-eyed Queens trio Children Of The Night, and buzzy young Houston MC Fat Tony. Next month, Tony will link with the rapper/producer Tom Cruz to release a new collaborative mixtape called Double Dragon . And below, we've got a download of their track "Bad Habits," which features Texas rap elder Bun B and Islands frontman Nick Diamonds. (Impossibly, this is the second Nick Diamonds rap post we've done [...]

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Artist:	Fat Tony & Tom Cruz
Link Text:	Fat Tony & Tom Cruz - “Bad Habits” (Feat. Bun B & Nick Diamonds)
File Name:	Bad-Habits-Feat.-Bun-B-Nick-Di amonds.mp3
Genre:	Rap
Year:	2012

Physical Therapy – "Record Sales"

May 16, 2:47pm Stereogum

Working as Physical Therapy, the New Jersey producer Daniel Fisher has lately done remixes for people like Pictureplane and Elite Gymnastics . Now he's gearing up to release his debut EP Safety Net . And below, we've got the sunny, euphoric house track "Record Sales" for you to download. Read More...

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Artist:	Physical Therapy
Title:	Record Sales
Link Text:	Physical Therapy - “Record Sales”
File Name:	Physical-Therapy-Record-Sales. mp3
Year:	2012

POP ETC – "Keep It For Your Own"

May 16, 2:40pm Stereogum

A few more details have emerged regarding POP ETC's (FKA the morning benders) new one, including the D'Angelo-shading video for " Live It Up ." Now, the group has posted a snippet of another new song, a sunny groove called "Keep It For Your Own." Watch the companion video, a time-lapse clip of a highway worker putting up a POP ETC billboard, below. Read More...

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Feist – "Cicadas And Gulls" Video

May 16, 2:14pm Stereogum

Feist's video for the Metals track "Cicadas And Gulls" isn't exactly a music video; it's more of a conceptual live performance. In the clip, Feist, with the members of Mountain Man on backing harmonies, croons the song while strumming an acoustic guitar on a street corner while two members of the Oakland dance crew Turf Feinz perform a few deliriously awesome moves around her. The best parts revolve around air-guitar, which has never, in the history of the universe, looked so cool. Watch it below. Read More...

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The Soft Moon vs. John Foxx & The Maths – "Evidence"

May 16, 2:04pm Stereogum

Melancholy San Franciscans the Soft Moon posted a new track a little earlier, a collaboration with Ultravox singer John Foxx and his band, the Maths. Download the spectral "Evidence" below. Read More...

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Artist:	The Soft Moon and John Foxx
Title:	Evidence
Link Text:	The Soft Moon vs John Foxx And The Maths - “Evidence”
File Name:	The Soft Moon vs John Foxx And The Maths - Evidence.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps

Jack White Pissed At Guinness Book Of World Records

May 16, 1:20pm Stereogum

In this month's Interview Magazine , Buzz Aldrin (interesting pairings are kind of their M.O. ) and Dimitri Ehrlich interviewed Jack White, and it appears White has a few bones to pick with Guinness Book Of World Records and their "elitist" policies. An excerpt: Read More...

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Shintaro Sakamoto – "In A Phantom Mood"

May 16, 1:08pm Stereogum

For a couple of decades, Shintaro Sakamoto led the Japanese psych band Yura Yura Teikoku, a band whose entire existence was little more than a rumor on this side of the world but who were reportedly massive, otherworldly stars in their homeland. But How To Live With A Phantom , his first solo album, goes a different direction, exploring the different ideas of folk-pop that emerged around the world in the '70s. The song "In A Phantom Mood" is a breezy bossanova lilt, and it's streaming below. Read More...

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Mixtape Of The Week: Fiend & Cookin Soul Iron Chef

May 16, 12:47pm Stereogum

Iron Chef came out a couple of weeks ago, and it hasn't appeared in this column yet because I was initially drawn to a couple of more immediate tapes: DJ Paul's bleary-eyed hardhead marathon For I Have Sinned and Meek Mill's insta-blockbuster Dreamchasers 2 . At this point, though, the new Fiend tape has more plays in my iTunes than either of those. (Mouse & Killa Kyleon's great Welcome To The Fish Fry still reigns supreme.) And it makes sense. Iron [...]

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Let's Caption Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan Cover

May 16, 12:13pm Stereogum

In about a month, Dirty Projectors will release their first LP since their 2009 breakthrough Bitte Orca . It's called Swing Lo Magellan , and it already has B-sides that are better than most bands' A-sides. (Incidentally, It also has A-sides that are better than most bands' A-sides.) Today they've revealed its cover art, pictured above, featuring principal Projector Dave Longstreth and his partner Projector Amber Coffman in conversation with someone, somewhere, about something. There is literally no way to know what it is going on there, but there is at least one way [...]

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Watch Best Coast Play "Last Year" Unplugged For Rhapsody

May 16, 11:59am Stereogum

Despite insisting that they usually don't do this kind of thing, Best Coast recently sat down to do an acoustic version of "Last Year," a heartbroken song from their new album The Only Place , for Rhapsody's South Park Sessions video series, which has nothing to do with Eric or Stan or Kyle. I like how the drummer sits in and just plays tambourine. Watch it below. Read More...

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JEFF The Brotherhood – "Sixpack"

May 16, 11:56am Stereogum

Nashville rippers JEFF The Brotherhood linked up with Dan Auerbach for their new EP, Hypnotic Knights , and having the Black Key behind the boards certainly lends to a little more controlled approach to the usual Brotherhood fury. According to the first track from that release, "Sixpack," that's a really good thing, as the ode to getting wasted definitely has some shades of Pinkerton , at least structurally. Listen to it below. Read More...

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Fang Island – "Asunder"

May 16, 11:44am Stereogum

The Brooklyn party-rock trio Fang Island are about to return with their new album Major , the follow-up to their self-titled 2010 breakout. And "Asunder," the first track we've heard from the album, is a triumphant riff-rocker that sounds like a pure sugar-rush rendered in musical form. Download it and check out the album's tracklist below. Read More...

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Artist:	Fang Island
Title:	Asunder
Link Text:	Fang Island - “Asunder”
File Name:	Fang-Island-Asunder.mp3

Summer Camp – "Life" (Stereogum Premiere)

May 16, 11:27am Stereogum

UK indie pop outfit Summer Camp will put out a new EP this summer called Always , and today we have the first offering from that release. It's called "Life," and it's a big, swirling dancehall jam processed through an indie-pop filter. Hear it below. Read More...

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Mystery Jets – "Greatest Hits"

May 16, 11:20am Stereogum

The British band Mystery Jets are about to return with the new album called Radlands , and the first single, confusingly enough, is called "Greatest Hits." It's a bouncy acoustic jam that packs in a ton of shoutouts to the band's favorite albums, almost like a Britpop version of those early namedroppy Game tracks. Listen to it below. Read More...

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