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Shouts to Whitney : mp3: Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa (Elite Gymnastics Remix)
Directed by Shawn Brackbill . Memoryhouse's The Slideshow Effect is out today on Sub Pop . The group's tour starts tonight in Chicago, check all the dates here .
The Kingdoms 123 is out March 6 on 100% Silk . Video by Benjamin Shearn . Download a new mix from Fort Romeau here . _________ previously : mp3: Fort Romeau :: Jack Rollin'

As Ramona Gonzalez hinted on preview tracks " She's Always Watching You " and " One Second of Love " (not to mention that gorgeous Stevie Wonder cover ), gone are the beloved lo-fi 8-track bedroom recordings that elicited all of those " Debbie Deb on cough syrup" comparisons 4 years ago: this is some evolved/grown-up shit. Nite Jewel's One Second Of Love is out March 6 via Secretly Canadian . Get it on limited "Lovers Frost" white haze vinyl here .

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Listen to Julia Holter 's excellent new full-length Ekstasis in full over at NPR . Ekstasis is out on March 8 on RVNG Intl .

Mirrorring is the new dream collaboration between Liz Harris of Grouper + Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers , two artists whose respective solo works have been among the most haunting and affecting releases of the last few years. Their pensive, often devastating new record Foreign Body was born of a songwriting session in Harris' hometown of Portland sometime last year, and has subsequently become our go-to late night/dream soundtrack over the past month or so. The beautifully murky, spectral album opener " Fell Sound " is, [...]

Eternal thanks/love to Grimes for holding it down here all day today , coming through with a world record 16 posts about some of her favorite people currently making music + videos (and one of the best gifs of all time ). Here's another lovely new track to end the night, taken from the " bonus track version " of Visions , which dropped today in North America on 4AD / Arbutus : Grimes :: Angel [...]

All I can say is that it doesn't get much cooler than Phedre , and this is one catchy fucking song. -Grimes

Devon is my best friend in the whole world, and perhaps the most secretly prolific song-writer I know. I think this song is about me being a shitty girlfriend, but I still think it's really good. - Grimes mp3: Majical Cloudz :: Mountain Eyes

David Carriere is a genius savant song-writer and a lunatic that lives down the block from me. I want to write about his entire body of music, which everyone should check out (the Silly Kissers discography can be downloaded for free off the Arbutus Records website - so is Paula's Relaxed Fit), but this is some newer material from his solo project. David taught me to love pop music. I make pop music because of David. - Grimes mp3: Paula :: Susan and Linda
There have been few people who have been as formative to my understanding of what live music should feel like as Tim Lafontaine , aka Cop Car Bonfire aka the coolest live show in Montreal. It's really hard to translate this music into recordings, but Tim busks noise music for a living and i really don't think it gets much better than that. - Grimes

Doldrums has been many things to me; lover, friend, inspiration, internet pioneer, all around genius, and permanent teenager. I don't think I've ever seen a human being who exudes more raw energy. Airick is gonna hate me for writing this, but he once described himself as the "Michael Jackson of DIY music culture," and I couldn't agree more. - Grimes
This is some Lynchian horror anxiety music by the coolest person I have ever met, and the guy who lays out all my album artwork; Jasper Baydala . Emily Kai Bock and Evan Prosofsky came together to make this video which to me sounds like one of the most daunting tasks I can imagine - its fucking cold in Niagara Falls and the 35mm camera is so heavy I can't pick it up so I imagine Evan's back was hurting a lot after he shot this. Jasper rode the motorcycle the whole way from [...]
Two things of note - It takes a lot to make me like music that isn't electronic, and there are a bunch of geniuses coming out of Halifax (I have to shout out d'Eon and Matt Samways - who runs Electric Voices), but perhaps lesser known is Fascism which is Denis and Jennica, and I don't know either of their last names for some reason. But anyway, this song is really emotional for me. And of course Duffy often dances for Grimes and is one of my best friends. - Grimes

You guys liked Altered Zones right? Well Ric and Emilie who ran that are trying to start a new website that will do the same thing called Ad Hoc . This will be a website, like AZ, that will support stuff that can't or has not yet made it to Pitchfork. It's really important that a cohesive source of alternative music info exists - so me and Dev from Majical Cloudz made this song for E&R's Kickstarter so he can raise some money for Ad Hoc . Check out the song and [...]
Seeing this song live and acoustic in someone's bedroom is one of the single most beautiful musical performances I've ever witnessed, but the recording is pretty heartbreaking too. Raf from Braids and Blue Hawaii occasionally writes music for herself and calls it indiensoci , should definitely be checked out. Emily Kai Bock also made this video too. - Grimes