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Team Clermont is happy to announce our SXSW 2013 Showcase! Join us Friday, March 15 at Palm Door for performances from Cy Dune (Seth Olinsky of Akron/Family ), Roadkill Ghost Choir , KaiL Baxley , Fol Chen , Eric Pulido (of Midlake ) & Friends, and Helado Negro . RSVP on Facebook and Eventbrite . See you in Austin!

The Consulate of Argentina in Houston, TX is pleased to present their official SXSW showcase, Sounds of Argentina! Come join Argentinian artists showcasing at SXSW for a night of music, wine, and empanadas! When: Friday, March 13 8PM Where: The Whiskey Room (503 E. 6th Street) Entry: 21+, SXSW badge & wristband or cover charge ( TBA ) Press inquiries: publicity at teamclermont dot com The lineup: Pedro Menendez Fusion Ensemble 8:30 [...]

Experimental synth pop outfit VYIE just released their debut effort, Nightingale , via Post-Echo and saw the newly launched Made of Chalk debut the stand-out cut "Johnny". Check out the song here and purchase the record here .

Loveskills and No Shame want to wish you a happy Valentine's Day with the release of the Multiplicity EP, out today digitally and on limited edition 12" vinyl. The brand new video for "Flash in the Dark" debuted this morning on The Deli NYC and you can catch Loveskills live tomorrow night at Mercury Lounge for his record release show!

Atlanta's dark electro-pop outfit VYIE are on the road in support of their debut EP, Nightingale (Feb 19, Post-Echo). If you're in the D.C. area this week, make sure to swing by the Georgetown Urban Outfitters to catch their live in-store Wednesday, February 13! Check out the Facebook page here !

Listen to the glittering New Australian Nuggets Collection from Fire Records: A Golden Opportunity for Blank Realm, Lower Plenty and Scott & Charlene's Wedding The prospectors at Fire Records have hit gold after the discovery of some rare and precious musical gems from Down Under. Being aficionados of highly collectable treasures, Fire have mined Australia's vibrant underground music scene, to uncover nugget after nugget of premium talent. From the likes of scuzzy psych rockers Blank Realm , the subtle suburban country of Lower Plenty and the slacker-pop [...]

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On today's installment of NPR 's World Cafe: Next , you can hear two tracks from singer/songwriter KaiL Baxley's debut double EP. "Don't Matter To Me" and "Heatstroke" made the playlist, and you can download "Say Goodbye to the Night" from NPR here. Heatstroke / The Wind and the War will be released March 19 on Forty Below and you can catch him playing in LA at Hotel Cafe on February 7.

Today, we're happy to share the DJ Self Help reworking of "God Is The Loneliest Of Lovers" from Dolfish 's debut LP, I'd Rather Disappear Than Stay The Same . Have a listen where it premiered at Baeble Music !

Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas, Vol. 6-10 is out on Asthmatic Kitty on November 13th!

Gangi's latest album, gesture is , is out now via Office Of Analogue & Digital!

VIDEO : M83’s “Steve McQueen” via Pitchfork ! They’re headlining Pitchfork Music Festival Paris next week too!

If you missed the summer premiere of this fantastic story tale music video for "Gold Morning Mend," directed by Ben Stamper, off Ian McGlynn's latest full-length, Now We're Golden , check it out now on MTV !

Fresh off of their performance at the New West Records showcase in NYC for this year's CMJ Music Marathon, Here is Ponderosa's brand new video for the single "Navajo"! The track is from their amazing 2012 release, Pool Party !

The new video for "I'd Rather Disappear Than Stay the Same" off Dolfish's new record of the same title, saw it's premiere on American Songwriter last Friday. The record comes out October 30 on Afternoon Records, but you can listen in it's entirety now via the album stream on Paste Magazine .

Identical twin brothers Gibb and Clint Cockrum, reared in western Maryland and relocated to Virginia Beach, utilize a variety of acoustic instruments and rely heavily on vocal harmonies to create their unique folk-rock sound. Listen to "The Dark Haired Queen" from their debut self-titled record on American Songwriter . The record comes out Tuesday, October 23 on Good Soil Records.

Paste Magazine premiered the video for The Casket Girls’ “Sleepwalking”, the title track from their debut album on "Graveface Records" http://graveface.com. The Casket Girls is comprised of Ryan Graveface of Black Moth Super Rainbow and Dreamend , as well as the debut for vocalists Elsa & Phaedra Greene. Check the full article on Paste for their upcoming tour dates with Black Moth Super Rainbow & The Faint .

Join us at Union Pool in Brooklyn (484 Union Ave) on from 7PM-12AM on Wednesday, October 17th for our Official 2012 CMJ Showcase! Performances by: Matthew E. White ( Spacebomb + Hometapes ) 11PM Opossom ( Fire Records ) 10PM Twin Tigers ( Old Flame Records ) 9PM Grape Soda ( Kindercore Records ) 8PM [...]

See Matthew E. White and his 30 piece backing band perform "Brazos" from his new album Big Inner (out now via Spacebomb Record & Hometapes ). Be sure to check Spin.com for the entire piece and his tour dates with The Mountain Goats!

The Old Ceremony's video for “Sink Or Swim” premiered on Blurt Magazine! Get their new album, Fairytales & Other Forms Of Suicide , via Yep Roc Records.

Devereaux's debut Cacti Pace EP comes out next Tuesday on Post-Echo . To hold you over until then, check out the video for " NYXT " which just premiered at Under the Radar .